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Hmm, 2018 mass shootings at concerts....

Nope, there weren't any. Closest was a series of shootings at Mardi Gras.

Let's not count Thousand Oaks, because that music was pre-recorded...

Let's not count San Diego's attempted shooting, because the concert hadn't started and only the gunman died...

Let's not count threats against concerts, because that concert was cancelled...

Yep. No problems in 2018.

Except that is wrong. And people have died form this addiction. The business of video games is as unscrupulous as all gambling houses throughout history. They really don't care what the games do to you, as long as they get paid.

While I agree with almost all of your points, choosing a height requirement for being successful in the NBA was a bad one....

https://www.complex.com/sports...

Of the new United Training Film.

But seriously, the weather, let's see how they compete against Delta. Maybe we can make this an Olympic event

In that case, people fly United because Delta was the other choice. The weird thing is that in both cases there are more than two choices.

to try to steer it while AutoPilot makes you believe you're safe in it's control.

If AutoPilot is engaged and I'm hanging onto the wheel, I won't be making any steering corrections. Because the car is probably holding the lane better than I can. What it might be sensing is some resistance that my hanging on is creating to its steering. So to fool it, bungee cord tied to door handle and wheel.

A way will be figured out how to fool it. The ingenuity of stupidity knows no bounds.

Foreseeing uses for technology - you make it sound so simple... Let me leave a few quotes you may be joining soon:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

A misquote

"Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
Darryl Zanuck, executive at 20th Century Fox, 1946

This one seems legit.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

He admitted saying it, but seems to have had different computers in mind.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 1981

You are not even trying, this is probably the most questioned attribution on the web

I am surprised you did not misquote Henry Ford here, would be a perfect fit.

Have you seen this: http://ca.complex.com/pop-cult... Sony had a bad rep for batteries a few years ago. You can only manufacture so many batteries before it becomes clear someone is cutting corners. You could say nobody "plans" for batteries to be bad, but seriously, when you have a bad track record like Sony did (and I'm not saying Toshiba is necessarily the same but...), you can only say "I didn't know" so many times before it becomes clear one is gambling with the customer's safety. It's easy to play games with other people's lives for profit when you at a distance. We have enough experience in ion-lithium battery manufacturing and management by now to minimize these numbers and it's been quiet for awhile. I could be wrong, but when I see spikes, it usually means someone changed something, usually for the worse.

Fiorina frequently has been ranked as one of the worst CEOs of all time.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/am...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/3050209...

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

http://ca.complex.com/pop-cult...

Oh... and this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Let the Meme Galleries grow into movie punchlines! http://www.complex.com/pop-cul...

Feelless Reader Reaps Streisand Effect http://www.complex.com/pop-cul...

You can find a selection of pretty good movies they offer here. I ended up watching Dredd and was blown away - something I wouldn't have done if not for word of mouth. (So you're trying to tell me someone made another movie on Judge Dredd that's actually good?) And of course, sometimes the movies you at first don't recognize end up being the ones you love the most.

http://www.businessweek.com/st...
http://www.groklaw.net/article...
http://www.basicallytech.com/b...
http://www.digitalresearch.biz...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
"The PC world might have looked very different today had Kildall's Digital Research prevailed as the operating system of choice for personal computers. DRI offered manufacturers the same low-cost licensing model which Bill Gates is today credited with inventing by sloppy journalists - only with far superior technology. DRI's roadmap showed a smooth migration to reliable multi-tasking, and in GEM, a portable graphical environment which would undoubtedly have brought the GUI to the low-cost PC desktop years before Microsoft's Windows finally emerged as a standard. But then Kildall was motivated by technical excellence, not by the need to dominate his fellow man."

Yet, consider what came from Chuck Moore of pre-Bayh-Dole true academic traditions of MIT & Stanford and then internal support in manufacturing and then supporting government-funded Astronomical research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
http://www.colorforth.com/HOPL...
"NRAO, 1971 ... NRAO appreciated what I had wrought. They had an arrangement with a consulting firm to identify spin-off technology. The issue of patenting Forth was discussed at length. But since software patents were controversial and might involve the Supreme Court, NRAO declined to pursue the matter. Whereupon, rights reverted to me. I don't think ideas should be patentable. Hindsight agrees that Forth's only chance lay in the public domain. Where it has flourished."

Forth still can be a great BIOS and command line system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

Although IBM deserves credit for popularizing the VM idea with System 360 and then VM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...

Smalltalk by Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls and others was a another great option.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

Kildall, Moore, and Kay/Ingalls all got the idea of virtual machines (with their own ways). Lisp-ers may have got a bit of that too.

We had choices as a society. I saw some of them first hand in the 1970s and 1980s when I started in computing. I bought Forth cartridges for the Commodore VIC and C64. I worked very briefly on a computer with CP/M (although using Forth on it though). The OS choice pushed by the person born with a million dollar trust fund who "dumpster dived" for OS listings won (who did little of the development work himself) -- with an empire built on QDOS which has shaky legal standing as a clone of CP/M which is probably why IBM did not buy it itself. And we were the worse for it as a society IMHO.
http://philip.greenspun.com/bg...
http://www.complex.com/tech/20...

But that problematical path would not have been possible without political and legal decisions to base the development of computing around the idea of "artificial scarcity" via copyright

I don't think you're "wrong" for not wanting an Ouya. And I'm not "wrong" for not wanting a PS3.

Let me explain my side of it, hopefully better.

I see those tablet/phone style games as "mostly inferior" to the ones available on the PS3. Even Minecraft PE isn't as good as the PS3 version.

Now if you're on a phone/tablet without your PS3 around, that's a different story, you're stuck with mostly-crappy phone/tablet games...unless you got a DSfoo/PSP/Vita

But the Ouya is intended to sit in the living room next to the TV. And frankly, as a gaming machine, the PS3 is utterly superior to that Ouya. Maybe if all you want is the sort of cheap shovelware games available on phones/tablets that's okay, but when folks such as I consider them inferior...it's not.

And considering that one of the "big tips" for making Ouya a better gaming platform is connecting up a PS3's DualShock 3, installing emulators and playing Nintendo games on it...well you might forgive me for considering the thing a bad buy, even for cheap indie 2D games, compared to a PS3. And yes, there are cheap indie 2D games on the PS3.

Compare this:

https://www.ouya.tv/ouyas-best...

to this:

http://www.complex.com/video-g...

Some will take pictures of their lattes; some will make art. We old codgers will just have to learn to ignore the hipster dreck because Eternal September will always be upon us.

Do you have a source? According to Business Insider, the mantle is held by World of Warcraft (> $10 billion), but that may be unfair since it is a subscription model at $15 a month, on top of the inital $50-$100 dollar purchase (look at original WoW at $50, then 4 expansions at $40 a piece, worst case). Take a step back to console/pc single purchase, and it's CoD: Black Ops at $1.5 Billion. Or maybe the crown goes to GTA 5, which topped $1 Billion in sales in 3 days.

Or you could mean total sales. I see on wikipedia Wii Sports as the best with almost 83 million copies sold. Unless you look at the numbers released by Amazon.co.uk, which has the CoD franchise taking the cake. Or you could mean fastest selling, which was CoD: Black Ops. Though sales numbers don't really mean a whole lot, since they don't take development cost into account, or the fact that Wii Sports was bundled (i.e. how many were independant purchases? how many could have been?).

No one likes a hipster. Just the other day in my town someone - possibly God - put one component of a binary nerve agent in the Pabst Blue Ribbon and the other in various products that real white trash don't buy. Like The Mountain T shirts

http://www.complex.com/style/2013/02/15-brands-hipsters-love/the-mountain#galleryS

They had to close down the Punk/Hard Core venue within a week because no one turned up. Not a single person with a blue collar job died, so the police decided to mislay the evidence.

http://m.complex.com/tech/2012/10/steve-jobs-quotes/because-im-the-ceo "Because I'm the CEO, and I think it can be done." - when engineer after engineer told him the iMac was not feasible.

I'm tired of the way taglines from the Simpsons get abused. This is not a mob of ignorant Springfielders demanding that we set up a Bear Patrol. This is an attempt to do something about child abuse, That is, as you may have heard, a real problem.

Now, you may not care for the argument that depictions of a sexual act cause people to rush out and perform that sexual act. I myself think that it's not very credible. But a lot of people believe it's true. And it's not because they're stupid or hysterical. They simply interpret the evidence differently from you and me.

We desperately need to squash the idea that anybody who disagrees with you is an idiot who needs to be shouted down. It's distorting everything we do, from the way comments are moderated on Slashdot to the viability of pizza making. Oh yeah, and it's making political debate just a little incoherent.

No, thick. It'll be obsolete by the time you hear about it.

..., that's right, despite the fact that Apple did not officially attend.

Gotta get those patent suits started early.

..., that's right, despite the fact that Apple did not officially attend.

http://www.complex.com/blogs/2009/07/27/wake-n-watch-tron-legacy-teaser-trailer/