To further your thoughts, it has been my experience that many older DVD titles, when played on a Blu-Ray player and on a large HD television, still look better than watching them on a smaller screen. And, the BluRay version of the same title might not show much if any improvement. So why start a new video collection when the old still works? This isn't like moving up from VHS to DVD format where you see (and often hear) a major difference in quality.

Totally agree. I use my iPhone for gaming, but only when I'm not at home where I have access to a gaming console (or my PC) plus a nice huge screen and sound system to accompany it. The only time I bother gaming on my phone is when I'm waiting for an appointment and don't want to read 5 year old magazines or if I'm sitting around waiting for 5 minutes.

I find it hard to believe that the gaming industry would get all shaken up over that kind of usage.

I disagree with your statement that users only care if it works. At my previous employer, the users didn't mind if it worked or not, so long as it was new and shiny. One user that requested to be moved to a new (at that time) flat panel LCD (15") rather than staying with her older CRT (21"). Another user wanted to be the only user on Windows Vista so that she could claim she was the only one with the latest OS. It didn't matter to her that the software she was using to perform her job duties was using a modified DOS shell which didn't run properly on Windows Vista.

I've worked for a number of companies that would respond to your 'happy hacking' by simply terminating your employment. Happy hunting (a new job)!

Whoa, timeout. You can seriously go for the weekend without charging? I'm lucky if I go the day, so I'm fairly envious at the moment. Please explain how you manage to go a couple days without charging (other than in Airplane mode!).

I don't even use the Push feature (or whatever its called to get email from my Yahoo account without connecting first).

I remember this exact argument when Windows XP came out, and the majority of businesses were using Windows 2000. Why change? What's the benefit?

And then one day we looked up and everyone had shifted from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.

What would you expect from a public school education?

You don't know what goatse is? Hi, and welcome to /.

I thought that was his current gig already...

My first guess is that the gal ordered Ubuntu simply by choosing the cheaper computer.

I disagree that 'competitive types' want to make the game close. I have played against too many 'competitive types' that want to win by the largest possible margin, even if that includes cheating. I have no problem losing (repetitively even) to the same person if the margin is slim and I feel like I could win if I just do that one thing.... But losing to the same person who consistently wins by a huge margin only because they are familiar with a game that I am not is a waste of my time. Would that 'competitive type' enjoy losing at a game they knew nothing about? Definitely not, and they would not be willing to play until they knew enough about the game to make it at least a 50/50 chance of winning.

I agree completely with Mystery00's comment about it being a cheap way to making a game 'difficult' by forcing a player to restart huge segments at the smallest error.

That was one of my main complaints with the old Sierra games (King's Quest, etc). I cannot fathom how many times that I reached a point in one of the games and realized I would need to start over from scratch due to failing to pick up an item or not talking to the correct NPC.

I ended up deciding the only way I would ever be able to complete the game would be by picking up one of Sierra's 'help' books that required you to use the special marker to reveal the answers.

I hate Sierra and Roberta for that.