Owned one. Sold it. Bought an android. Much happier.

As such, I'd /really/ like to see them succeed. I watched them grow from a little company on Shoemaker Dr in Kitchener to the conglomerate they are now. They employ many of my friends.

That said, I don't think they can. They've been waaaay behind the curve and resting on their laurels for a really long time now. And it's bit them in the ass.

The Playbook is still a disaster. Their current phone offerings suck. And this device has ditched hardware keyboard, which was one of the things RIM really did right.

Pass.

Y'know, I should know better than to respond to a trolling dickhat who doesn't even have the balls to post as anyone other than AC, but here I go.

Newsflash, putz: there're two ways to work with my list. #1: a game like angry birds or minecraft with a storyline that's good -- they can be merged. #2: One or the other. I'm not saying every game has to have all three of the things I asked for; I was merely pointing out these are things I've noticed/care about.

Now stop using IRC actions on a fucking message board, and try adding something constructive to a conversation, mmmk?

But I can't hate them for this -- every single corporation in existence does this, and until the laws are changed to better handle it, I don't fault companies for doing whatever they can to take advantage of them.

- Make the story good. I still go back and play my SNES RPGs. Why? Good stories.
- Let me skip cut scenes. Always always always. If I'm going back through the game, or redoing a part, etc, and you make me watch the scene, you're pissing me off.
- Look at what people get addicted to these days: draw something, angry birds, minecraft... it doesn't have to be some super beautiful in-depth game.

Now how can we convince Adobe to stop making software entirely?

On what planet? The computer in my house that takes the longest to boot is my wife's Intel Atom. It goes from power button to useable in 30s.

My laptop is an i3, it goes from power button to useable in ~11s.

You'd think with all the advances we'd made in technology, someone would have figured out emacs sucks by now.

Yea, this post is just out and out wrong and shows a visible misunderstanding of how registrars (and subsequently, the Internet) work.

I don't even know how those clowns are in business. Reprehensibly evil company, shitty customer service, run by morons, idiotic ad campaigns....

Wait, and you believe for a second that they change anything?

They can't make donations, but they can let politicians into their swanky dinner parties for free.

And they can let the politicians and their families borrow their stately manor in the Muskokas.

And so on and so forth. Don't think for a second our corrupt collection of assholes in parliament aren't still benefitting HUGELY from these corporations.

Language evolves. Everyone knows what he meant. Shut the fuck up.

Ugh. I thought people on /. were smarter than this pig-headed bullshit.

And now I'm realising I've responded to two of your posts. Depressing.

existEnt. Damn it.

Stick to computers, because your knowledge of cars is visibly non-existant.