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during which ancient egyptian month will blackberry die?
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RIM'S GONNA KEEP GOING BABY!!!
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Sep 12, 2006

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Mister Macys posted:

What's it worth now? :haw:

a nice tax loss harvest

e: (depending on when they bought it I think 65-80M)

Subjunctive fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Mar 30, 2015

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Sep 12, 2006

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

clearly you visited in summer

but not August, if Toronto

fall and spring are the best seasons east of the Rockies and west of NB

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Sep 12, 2006

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Kenny Logins posted:

pro-TO or anti-TO or whatever else, i think we can all agree that the Lunney meltdown is spectacular and that's what really unites canada as a people

quote:

Maybe because I have Irish in me and I do not like to be bullied.

perfect

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Sep 12, 2006

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young dude in business class on this YYZ-SFO flight is using a blackberry, I think unironically.

maybe there's hope for BBY yet no

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Sep 12, 2006

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Thanks Ants posted:

was he Getting Work Done?

one assumes so

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Sep 12, 2006

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that's like the only non-offensive use of "retard" possible. well played.

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Sep 12, 2006

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rim put some servers in Saudi and under Saudi security's jurisdiction to get a ban on blackberry lifted

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Sep 12, 2006

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Mr. Apollo posted:

it was very boring. lazardis cancelled at the last minute because "it's still difficult to talk about" so it was just silly-balls

:laffo:

Balsillie gave a commencement address at a college I know, and was quite possibly high.

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Sep 12, 2006

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I unironically miss my physical blackberry 950 keyboard, but I wouldn't give up the last 15 years of phone improvements to get it back

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Sep 12, 2006

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Apple's deal with AT&T was a pretty huge change from how those deals had been structured in the past. if you'd asked a handset manufacturer a week before if that sort of deal was even possible they'd have laughed in your face.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Kenny Logins posted:

should of been called the stockholm

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Sep 12, 2006

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fishmech usually has true facts and often has wrong opinions based on them

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Sep 12, 2006

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~Coxy posted:

my point is that so did a RAZR

was the RAZR around when the 957 was?

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Sep 12, 2006

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Nintendo Kid posted:

but the 2011 ipad (ipad 2) also had 1024x768?? there wasn't a ~retina~ ipad til 2012

1024x600 on a much smaller screen (7 inch vs 9.7 inch) was one of the few things the playbook was not hosed up in.

I think Apple's much better text rendering probably made a difference in how those screens were perceived too.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Nintendo Kid posted:

no, the playbook's text looked great too, in no small part then because the ppi was a lot higher. just again, there was no reason to be looking at text on it because it was so useless, though.

I remember commenting that text looked weird on the Playbook, but I don't remember the details. I wasn't an iPad user at the time, though, so it's not much of a comparison.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Blackula69 posted:

apparently the toronto party is just people drinking around the city, after a decade in ottawa that's kind of a let-down

what, really? I figured there'd be something down by harbourfront at the least

but yeah, ottawa is the better party on canada day

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Sep 12, 2006

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we did for a couple of years in the 90's

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Sep 12, 2006

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Pinterest Mom posted:

montreal or bust imo

for st jean baptiste sure, but lol at canada day in quebec just lol

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Sep 12, 2006

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or walk around and help people move their couches up the stairs for a beer

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Sep 12, 2006

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buttcrackmenace posted:

9:00 am. one of my co workers popped in to request administrative assistance installing the bb manager app onto his work PC

reason? he needed to finish setting up his brand-new passport

which he just bought yesterday

it is now after 5pm

the initial device configure has not completed yet.

he has had a sprint rep on the phone all day walking him through the the install.

total cost of owned

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Sep 12, 2006

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QNX used to be king poo poo of RTOS. I dunno if it's kept up, since I now realize that it's been 20 years since I used it seriously.

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Sep 12, 2006

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The Management posted:

but the outcome would have been exactly the same whether they used linux or any other modern kernel.

at the time, wasn't Linux too non-real-time enough to do their low power radio trickery? I remember arguing about that with my mom of all people

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Sep 12, 2006

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Fuzzy Mammal posted:

i carried around one of these and still got laid. 2003 was a wonderful time.

:hf:

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Sep 12, 2006

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

the "pager" models were shortlived and nobody remembers them.

I had one (950 Mobitex), and remember it fondly. developing for it was real, real bad though.

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Sep 12, 2006

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fishmech posted:

developing for it? was that like, building custom email clients to interface with ancient corporate email systems so the executives could use their blackberries or something?

I did hack on a free software email client of the time (I forget the name), but mostly it was building e-cash prototypes based on expensive math and questionable storage behaviour. I remember the development environment rebooting the host computer, until a printf in another part of the code was removed.

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Sep 12, 2006

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fishmech posted:

honestly thats more intense development than i thought those devices were capable of handling.

it was not a great experience

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Sep 12, 2006

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Thanks Ants posted:

nice original case design you got there



who did do that rounded case design first?

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Sep 12, 2006

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Notorious b.s.d. posted:

a "thank you," a solid "gently caress you," whatever

why split hairs

"thank you for letting us gently caress you"

standard second date conversation

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