Aww crap; showing my age here. I saw the discussion about Sim and EA, and thought Sim City. Oh well...

And if you really don't like DRM but want to play Sim City again, shell out 6 bucks and buy SimCity 2000 from GOG (http://www.gog.com/game/simcity_2000_special_edition). No DRM there...

This.

I'm short-sighted, but for the last two years I've needed reading glasses as well as the normal glasses.

I'd just as rather have good night vision with glasses at this stage.

Tinkering is all well and good; and many times quite relaxing and enjoyable in it's own right.

If I've got time for a game, though, I'd rather be blasting Nazi's (or whatever floats your boat) than tinkering to get there. I still remember when I upgraded my video card to a Savage S4 and Half Life broke, requiring much tinkering, downloading, reconfiguring, rebooting, some more tweaking and finally a reboot to get back into the game. Then it isn't relaxing or fun; it's stopping me from the fun.

So a couple of bucks to GOG for their efforts to make thing run is a great investment, IMO. Plus it great to be able to get all the old titles again, long after the disks have been lost and the patches much harder to find...

Do you have a source for that?

I only ask because Singapore Airlines said right after the shootdown that:

(https://twitter.com/SingaporeAir/status/489851215941861376)

There's a false comparison being made here... who says the Nokia engineer or the Xbox content maker being laid off has the same skills as the programmer they are wanting to hire?

Probably because alarmists say things like "Children just aren't going to know what snow is" and " winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event".
(David Viner, senior research scientist, Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,2000)

http://www.independent.co.uk/e...

Well, it's a pretty cheap mission at $650 million over 15 years.

But the most exciting thing about the mission is the clues it gives to the early history of the solar system.

You're right: Europa and Io are very interesting places to visit, especially considering the possibility for life there, and no doubt those missions are being planned. But for now, we're a year out from Pluto and about to discover what we're yet to discover.

That was you? You bastard; I wasted so many quarters trying get in touch with her as I followed her around the country!

Designed & wrote VMX and Windows NT 3.1.

I guess lists like this are always a matter of opinion.

Don't forget Pioneer 10 and 11...

That's certainly true now; my new BB Curve has all those features too.

But I'm talking a few years ago; in the Bold 9000 era. BBOS at that time (4 point something or other) could only do email via BES; one account only and no POP3 / IMAP (unless you had a 3rd party client; even then it got messy because of no unified inbox and increased battery drain). The iPhone with iOS4 and most Android phones at the time could do unlimited email accounts - and iPhone could have multiple Exchange accounts, which was quite unique for the day.

As to all you other unquoted but acknowledged points (communications, security, VPN, ...) I am in total agreement.

I've seen that too; the mass exodus from BB to iPhone/Android. The full touchscreen was probably the shiny reason to move away; connecting to multiple email accounts (multiple Exchange account at that) and having a consolidated inbox was probably the major reason for the switch, however. From an IT Administration standpoint, the elimination of the BES because EAS (Exchange ActiveSync) is good enough for maybe 90% of organizations was a primary factor: no more buying extra BES licenses when someone new comes on board.

This particular phone was well along the development schedule when the MS-Nokia deal came along. Sure, it's been Microsoft'd in terms of UI, but whoopty-do.

The bigger question is what happens with future generations of the Nokia X: Will it continue as an Android phone, or transition to a Windows Phone?