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"Damning words:

Nokia‘s new superphones will offer a superior user interface and a better, cloud-enabled experience than its chief competitors, the company’s top U.S executive told VentureBeat.

The reliance by Apple and Android phones on the “app” as the central metaphor is “outdated,” he said.

The rest of what he said [venturebeat.com]

He doesn't get it. The board should sack him now and save time."

Unfortunately, it would be too little too late.

They already committed probably a billion or more on Windows 7 mobile development, plus they have a contract they need to honor with Microsoft. Similarly, look at how the HP shareholders reacted with a sudden change in direction with a new CEO? 40% share price loss and a sacking of the CEO who changed direction. I hope in an ideal world the new HP CEO would decide to stick with HPs expensive assets and go back to its strengths, but the new CEO would be canned too and so would the share price if they all of the sudden wanted WebOS and its consumer PCs.

Nokia would have a similar fate, and now be another year behind its rivals. They can't just go with WebOS (I wish they could buy it), or go with Android and risk being sued by Apple and be indistinguishable between 5 other makers, or decide to waste another year transitioning Mego, etc.

On the positive side, Windows phone 7 has great reviews! I know this is slashdot and we all want to hate it and set it on fire and burn it, but it is a redesign from the ground up from Windows Phone 6.5 and the ill fated Windows CE. Mago now has multitasking since it is a redesign and non anti-ms sites like www.arstechnica.com have some details and interesting reviews. If there products suck less then it is better. Its at least improving.

One thing I do wonder is does Nokia make money off the Windows app store for its phones? Owning your own OS does have its benefits and the CEO did say he wanted his products to not be clones and be unique, but if Windows phones catches on then he is another clone maker who has just a different OS from the Andriod players out there now. The apps for Windows 7 will come as it gains popularity thanks to Visual Studio.

Yeah.

I suppose you're in full support of monopoly cable providers like Comcrap to block off all sites like this from their subscriber base.

And you're of course in full support of monopoly cable providers like Comcrap or TW deciding to try to extort companies like Google or Hulu to "pay for more access" merely because a large segment of their subscribers access Google or Hulu services.

Just think - every cable provider, every DNS provider, could be just as fucking locked off as people behind the "great firewall of china" are now, and you'd probably love it, huh?

Are you kidding? Just do a little reading - Pulseaudio has been an epic disaster for Linux. I myself have had so many problems with it that I try to purge it from my systems now.

http://blog.neogeny.org/2010/04/07/pulseaudio-sucks/
http://guide.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1546926
http://amplicate.com/hate/pulseaudio

That's three - I can give you THOUSANDS. Forums with hundreds of people posting about Pulseaudio problems and asking how to remove it.

Pretending Pulse is OK is sticking your head so far in the sand that you probably can't get it back out again.

the month i have had to work on a drupal site has been the most horrible month in my web development career. if there is any more developer hostile code than drupal code, it is probably magento.

to change a single form's design, you had to install a module. or, you need to go through core files of the mess that is called drupal, and change them. supposedly, it has a template system. but, some elements are still hardcoded. not to mention that, there are css items that are defined in the core modules of drupal, forcing you to go mess with them instead of doing changes just in the template css. this is just one of the examples of horror while developing on drupal.

i cant think that anyone development-sane would want to take on doing a serious ecommerce store with this pile of crap. of course, fans and zealots, aside.

http://amplicate.com/hate/drupal

yes learn drupal, and enter a world of shit. developer hostile, development hostile code.

http://amplicate.com/hate/drupal

I thought I heard the last of Kickstarter with the facebook clone Diaspora raising $200k but no! They're back for revenge. If anyone wants to remember why Kickstarter sucks a simple google search of "kickstarter sucks" brings you to this page:

"Hi James, Thanks for taking the time to share your idea. We look for projects that have a well-developed, creative focus. We wish you the best of luck, but this isn’t right for Kickstarter. Thanks again for writing and good luck! Best, Cindy"
So to rehash:
facebook clone = right for Kickstarter
crowdsourcing jobs = wrong for Kickstarter

Or kickstarter staff, because they get 5% so it's in their best interest to keep their cash cow Diaspora golden.

But all is not well in the Kickstarter camp as you can see from the Kickstarter Sucks page: "Thanks for taking the time to share your idea. We look for projects that have a well-developed, creative focus. We wish you the best of luck, but this isn’t right for Kickstarter. Thanks again for writing and good luck!

Best,
Cindy"

whole story available here. I understand their need to be selective, but I don't see Diaspora to be any more developed or creative than that site.