The entire summary, and many people here, are using PowerPoint and presentations interchangeably. So what do they REALLY mean, do they hate PowerPoint itself, the tool, or do they hate the idea of a presentation or slides, a concept used for many decades, or do they hate the person who does a lousy job at making and performing a presentation?

I don't like PowerPoint, as it's painful to use and oozes Microsoft out of every pore, but I don't hate presentation software as a general concept.

They used to be called engineers in the UK, in the early days, then the term fell out of use. The original term was "engine-man". BBC articles are so helpful.

You sound offended. Need a hug?

But we don't want to get to know the person better. This is about news and information, not warm fuzzy feelings. I could read a reasonable summary in 20 seconds and move on, without every worry about what the writer looked like or what the facial expressions were while writing.

People get rich, other people think they must be a true genius.

I got recruiter spam to work for a company. It pointed out in parentheses that the CEO was the cousin of Elon Musk. Just raw name dropping, because no one could be so stupid as to think someone's relatives say anything about him. Just more celebrity worship.

You can skip this add in 10, 9, 8, 7...

It's basically just a baby monitor, inside a teddy bear. Not sure what's so creepy about it, it's not for google to spy, but for parents and homeowners. I swear I've heard of something just like this before, and not just in a movie. I've definitely heard of less fuzzy things that people use to monitor their house while at work, and remotely yell at the cat to get off the table.

Not true anymore. Just come up with the idea, then threaten to sue. The patent office no longer requires a working or scale model before granting a patent.

Not how I remember it. IBM was still big and the big name, not Microsoft. The home market was split between a lot of choices, it was the small to medium business market where PC was more dominant. The PC was falling behind too in the microcomputer world. Windows may have been catching up, but 3.0 did not make it caught up.

The problem was that the microcomputer market was reinventing the wheel all the time. Existing workstations, minis, and mainframes did so much more. But people who grew up on PC or Macs would naively ask "what's the point of multitasking?" That's one of the reasons IBM flubbed the market as they thought it wasn't ever going to be that big except as a front-end for major back office applications or localized spreadsheet type stuff.

So when Amiga, Atari ST, Apple IIGS came out they all had so much better graphics and sound than even a higher quality PC had at the time. It really took a while for the PC to catch up, and I think Windows pushed it along by being a resource hog and wanting graphics. Amiga beat those other systems out quite well by having a decent modern operating system too, not just another DOS type thing to run apps.

At the time of windows 3.0, windows jobs were scarce too. Bigger market for some other systems at the time. Huge market for people not even on microcomputers, which was sort of a joke at the time.

I think a major flaw with Maxis is that they thought they had a must-buy title. As in Too Big To Fail. If a company thinks they can do anything, then they'll do things to screw with customers without them leaving. Ie, start to "monetize" things more. Horse armor, no one can bitch about that can they?

Thing is, it sort of works for awhile. There is a class of game buyers who just don't care. If the game is new they will buy it. Three months later they're on to something else and don't care about how they got screwed, and the price doesn't matter since they probably snuck the card of of mom's purse. Or they're the idiot on the forums who says "dude, lighten up, it's only the cost of 4 family size pizzas".

But they don't last half as long.

Smart phones with a huge battery charge? Which are those?

Third parties have won in the past. Not often of course, but it should mean the odds are above "no chance".