They removed all of the sharing features and tried to replace it with a half-hearted Google+ integration. All of the people I know who used it stopped using it shortly afterwards.
At this point, Nokia is just tossing stuff out there as they think of it. "Oh man, we pissed off a massive chunk of our developer base. How do we make them less furious at us?...besides scrapping the Windows Phone thing, I mean."
The really nice part about their strategy is a unified development platform between the two operating systems. Applications I write for MeeGo will run on Symbian with few to no changes. Since Symbian has a 41% global market share as of Q2 2010 (numbers from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system) it doesn't make any sense for them to drop it, especially with Qt able to target both platforms trivially.
Well, the US is out; living in Canada gets you used to decent health care, and they're not much better off than we are in terms of ISPs. Someplace in Europe like Norway might be nice, if a tad quiet.
I know there's been a lot of dialogue between the authors of SOMA, which predates this, and the Mozilla team; it might provide some interesting context.
To be fair, GCC doesn't *need* to support as many architectures as it does, and the team should probably switch focus to improving performance on its most popular platforms if they want to remain relevant...
So say I want to play Half-Life 2 with this thing. When I'm setting controls and it asks me to press forward, do I think "forward" and it'll give the game a keystroke? Is this actually supported by any games at all right now?
I tend to use http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php more than the w3schools stats, they're usually more accurate since w3schools has a very specific audience.
I've got two computers running Vista Business with this problem. They used to hibernate fine, and boot back up in seconds... then arbitrarily one day they started taking 2 minutes to wake up, and were slow enough once they had that I was forced to just disable hibernation entirely. I know at least one other person who's had this happen. I don't know how widespread it is but it's happened to me twice and it's annoying as hell.
I'm a professional graphic artist. I've been doing it for three years professionally. Note: Professionally. Real job.
I'm also an amateur guitarist, and I use my PC to record my music with my band. We've got a neat little studio set up around it.
I'm currently going back to school for a computational mathematics degree.
I use my PC to do all of these things more than adequately. It's not beige; it's bright green, with cool little LEDs on the inside. It's actually pretty cool, I get comments quite a bit.
It fulfills me in ways a cookie cutter Mac never could.
I fit all of the stereotypes you apply to Mac users, yet I absolutely prefer PCs. I don't fit with your theory of the world.
Am I a square, in the dark all this time as to my true nature?
These issues you raise haunt me to my very core.
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They removed all of the sharing features and tried to replace it with a half-hearted Google+ integration. All of the people I know who used it stopped using it shortly afterwards.
I don't mean to trivialize your concern, but for a moment I was certain you were parodying this: http://www.theonion.com/video/millions-irrationally-feared-dead-in-minor-train-a,20901/ "After a small train derailment in Delaware, Americans all across the nation are senselessly fearing for their loved ones' lives."
At this point, Nokia is just tossing stuff out there as they think of it. "Oh man, we pissed off a massive chunk of our developer base. How do we make them less furious at us? ...besides scrapping the Windows Phone thing, I mean."
The really nice part about their strategy is a unified development platform between the two operating systems. Applications I write for MeeGo will run on Symbian with few to no changes. Since Symbian has a 41% global market share as of Q2 2010 (numbers from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system) it doesn't make any sense for them to drop it, especially with Qt able to target both platforms trivially.
Well, the US is out; living in Canada gets you used to decent health care, and they're not much better off than we are in terms of ISPs. Someplace in Europe like Norway might be nice, if a tad quiet.
...and don't call me Frances.
I know there's been a lot of dialogue between the authors of SOMA, which predates this, and the Mozilla team; it might provide some interesting context.
To be fair, GCC doesn't *need* to support as many architectures as it does, and the team should probably switch focus to improving performance on its most popular platforms if they want to remain relevant...
So say I want to play Half-Life 2 with this thing. When I'm setting controls and it asks me to press forward, do I think "forward" and it'll give the game a keystroke? Is this actually supported by any games at all right now?
Now we can throw a rootkit into memory and have it chill there forever!
I tend to use http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php more than the w3schools stats, they're usually more accurate since w3schools has a very specific audience.
I've got two computers running Vista Business with this problem. They used to hibernate fine, and boot back up in seconds... then arbitrarily one day they started taking 2 minutes to wake up, and were slow enough once they had that I was forced to just disable hibernation entirely. I know at least one other person who's had this happen. I don't know how widespread it is but it's happened to me twice and it's annoying as hell.
"Can we pay you to manufacture this?" "Yes." Bastards sold out. Apparently the correct answer was: "No, foreign devils."
I'm a professional graphic artist. I've been doing it for three years professionally. Note: Professionally. Real job. I'm also an amateur guitarist, and I use my PC to record my music with my band. We've got a neat little studio set up around it. I'm currently going back to school for a computational mathematics degree. I use my PC to do all of these things more than adequately. It's not beige; it's bright green, with cool little LEDs on the inside. It's actually pretty cool, I get comments quite a bit. It fulfills me in ways a cookie cutter Mac never could. I fit all of the stereotypes you apply to Mac users, yet I absolutely prefer PCs. I don't fit with your theory of the world. Am I a square, in the dark all this time as to my true nature? These issues you raise haunt me to my very core.