Blackberry was killed by their failure to upgrade their infrastructure.

Do you guys remember when they lost all emails, not once but TWICE in a matter of a week? That was what got businesses to say "oh shit, this isn't something we can depend on" and get other phones working. I'll bet that they're still running all their services through that same fucked up server in Ontario, despite the failure they've had on the unit.

Once that seed of doubt got planted, compounded by the fact that people could start using their personal phones (i.e. free to corporate) for business, that was it. Stick a fork in them, they're done. The one thing they said they were good for they couldn't do anymore.

Of course, given that they were hilariously spied-on and infiltrated (not as much, but almost as badly as Nortel), who's to say if those failures were accidents or if they were pushed?

I've had great link with Swype.

Sometimes you get the wiring wood but it works out in the end if your friends know you'd on your pigging.

This might as well be how Blackberry, Nokia, and Palm blew it. And I'm probably leaving off a few companies.

IMO it all comes down to arrogance about your own platform. In Nokia's case that was Symbian.

Ooh, we're on to something. Cohesive Beam Carbine -- how about CHarbine? Carbeam?

Indeed, my friends and I have wondered what the term for rifle-sized lasers will be, since they don't actually have any rifling.

Probably rifle, the same way we still use a 3.5" disk for the save icon and the rotary handset icon for "make a call".

Jarvis and the reactor were the two most under-rated bits of tech Tony put together.

The reactor would have ended war.

But Jarvis... a real AI? That's far beyond anything else we've ever built.

I preordered Iron Man 3 on BR. It wasn't shipping yet, so I downloaded a copy.

What the fuck was their problem with making me wait to watch a movie I enjoyed with my kids?

They could just as easily sell the movies at the theatre. But they don't. It's still all about the buggy whips.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE RECIPE

It was a nice break from the usual trolling. The recipe was legit, too.

I've wanted to ask you where that sig comes from. Is it a comic?

I enjoyed the hell out of Myst, and even found all three ways to die.

It was a great game, it was fun, but it sure as hell wasn't open-ended exploration.

Well, it's clear that they never played "Myst".

Myst was basically a "click on things until you figure out what the puzzle was" game. Its legacy is the Flash game variant of "escape the room".

I tell my kids "different houses have different rules". Works great.

That sounds fucking awesome.

If the kids did the fucking dishes they could play a decent game.