They're complaining about a shady, user-harming tactic no longer working thanks to Google's malevolence. It would be analogous to the Drunk Drivers' Forum complaining about roadside checks penalizing those who had trained themselves to drive in a straight line while drunk.
Something like Ars Technica, which is way meatier than the hyperbole and cheerleading that the PandoLemonCrunch school of venture journalism is capable of.
Wouldn't happen. Abandoning user choice and configurability seems to be in vogue with designers these days. We're just slouching our way toward our future as passive appliance users.
(I totally agree - either turn it into a keyboard shortcut, or a reserved 16x16px spyglass icon in the upper right hand corner of the menu bar...)
We techies know it is but RIM is very profitable and growing, the trade volume on the stock indicates that a lot of people think that they could be undervalued at the moment. They may even be under book value.
So techies know RIM is in trouble, and Wall Street is pricing RIM as though it is in trouble... The only people who think it isn't in trouble are inside RIM.
RIM is very profitable and growing
Actually the opposite is true: RIM profit drops 27 percent; shipments seen down[1], The Waterloo, Ontario, company said fiscal third-quarter earnings tumbled 71% on a charge related to a disastrous launch of a tablet competitor to Apple's iPad. And it forecast weak smartphone shipments in the current quarter. [2], etc, etc
They had recently been increasing volume (and to an extent profit) by cutting prices, of course there is only so far you can cut into prices before profit suffers.
Gruber referenced something about this not so long ago - someone had written an article showing that historically companies that do this appear good in the short term, but in the long term it is a huge danger sign.
Hence the person to whom you were replying may have been aware of the "profits are up" song RIM has been singing for a while now, but not aware of the most recent results which indicate a rude awakening is imminent.
I wouldn't mind moving the articles whose discussions have completely gone to seed into a separate subforum.
My favorite forums are ones that don't allow the discussion of politics or religion. The same is true for real-life discussions with acquaintances that you don't thoroughly know yet. There is nothing to be gained from a discussion when everybody's emotions are fully inflamed.
I used to frequent a forum that had a "Flame" section that would automatically adopt threads that got out of hand. While I like the idea for a few reasons, one my favorite aspects of HN is its simplicity.
This is SOP for negotiation. Candidates do this shit too, trying to claim some sort of inflated salary boost for every thing they give up from their previous employer. It's a game and the lesser negotiator loses out.
