Sort of. Some of it was to dazzle the audience, some of it was because Michael Bay doesn't understand the mass-shifting abilities of the first gen Transformers was actually part of their abilities and not just a cheat.

Um, no. The original ones had far fewer steps than the ones built today. Without spending too much time you could go from one mode to the other and keep playing. The newer ones take nearly four times as long, making them somewhat brittle. I have a bunch of the 2007 era toys and recently acquired a couple first…

I'd really like to know if that's true, it'll make me reconsider which company I use.

You're saying your insurance company will replace your window after you told them you broke it after leaving your keys in the car?

I'd recommend against lying to your insurance company over something like that, especially after posting in public about it.

It is really sad that you'd prefer to think that I was bragging instead of seeing just how silly your approach to the problem was. And this is coming from somebody who appreciates people learning new skills.

I would have learned better habits to prevent me from locking my keys in the car...

A lot of people really don't understand that having a character in a game doesn't mean it's a rehash. Super Mario Galaxy, for example, is not like Super Mario 3D Land. That's why Super Mario 3D Land is not called Super Mario Galaxy 3. Oh well.

Just more proof that the metric system is overrated!

Yes, my phone is my alarm clock. However, I do have DnD on so I don't get any other noise.

.. please stick to the pirates and the frigates that you're used to.

No... I'm talking about the entire paragraph you posted while you're only talking about the first sentence. He didn't, for example, say there weren't tens of millions of Smartphone OS's pre-2006.

No, it isn't. It's a pretty apt description. None of those platforms had a significant market, especially in comparison to how it works now. The numbers easily prove that, no matter what color of glasses you're wearing.

Marketshare is not a measurement of how many people have or don't have a device.

You think the 5s came out six months after the 5 and only included a fingerprint sensor...?

This statement actually is true. Yes, there were plenty of apps for Palm and WinCE, virtually none of them attained anything close to the popularity that today's mediocre apps do.

1. Actually there is an exception: DRM is great for rental models, like Netflix. The key reason why it's NOT good is that most of the time (i.e. Steam) DRM is being used for something priced to own permanently. Phone apps fall into the "not-good' category, but are priced low enough to not cause too much of an…

Cos it looks cool when you see it at Cosco.

I use my Smartphone's built-in clock app to wake me up. I like it because if I find out something like: "Oh, you need to come in on Sunday", I can set the alarm the moment I hear it and not have to worry about it. Plus the phone will survive power interruption.

This is an Ad for IE? I thought it was a sensationalist head-line designed to mak the ad-counter spin.