They tried pretty hard to kill off Windows Phone by orphaning their existing WP7 users and apps with the switch to WP8. It still seems to be limping along somehow though.
I'd like to see those sysadmin having a problem with their checks and being told "no no, you can't talk to anyone in HR or the payroll department directly, are you crazy?
I think that's the case in lots of big companies? It certainly is where I work, there's a big central HR helpdesk ticket system.
There are different levels of a game 'working' though. As you say, playing with a controller is very different to playing with a touchscreen. A single player Android FPS with dificulty tuned for touchscreen is going to be much easier with a controller or a mouse plugged in.
Are all those Android game developers going to tune for controller and/or Keyboard&Mouse when the market size is so much smaller? It's not just a matter of "it's Android so the games all work".
More likely they'd realise that for anything beyond the simplest IT jobs there's very little long term productivity increase beyond 40 hours a week and everyone would be much happier all round.
You can actually watch the Streisand effect happening in real time as the hit counter at the bottom of her page shoots up. Heading for 3 million pretty quickly:-)
Sure, I'm not suggesting the NOTW shouldn't be held responsible. But it just seems a little hypocritical for tabloid readers to spend years avidly reading the kind of intrusive stories described by the OP, only to then turn round and act horrified when they discover they were created using dodgy practices.
As I understand it, Nokia has maintained their numerical share by selling low-end smartphones, especially in emerging markets, while completely ceding the high end 'proper' smartphone market to iOS and Android (ie. the part of the market that buys apps and actually uses the 'smart' bit of a smartphone).
Hence their massive drop in profit share and the fact that (in my experience at least) commuter trains are now a sea of iPhones, Blackberries and Android phones with only a few Nokia low-end phones around.
I have here as evidence, a SOny Ericson P1i, which is a wonderful phone...
Wow, somebody actually liked the P1i? That thing was horrible: slow, buggy, appalling UI design. Even my awful Windows Mobile Samsung i600 felt like an upgrade after that. UIQ died off for a lot of reasons, I don't think Signed by Symbian was one of them.
Don't most GPS devices do that? My base model TomTom (in the UK) does all of that - I'm not sure about the last one, but when I used it in the US it gave me directions out of a giant mall parking lot.
Indeed. And the best way to stop the H264 guys exploiting their huge market share with high royalties is to have one or more "good enough" free alternatives widely available.
It's relatively common in the UK. This story is the most recent one I remember - young photo journalist prevented from taking photos of army cadets in public by a policeman who says something like "I don't need a law to be able to stop you". I've seen plenty of other similar stories.
If it is known that I have a boy, there is 1/3 probability that the other is also a boy.
I'm confused. Say we took 900 families with two children, one of whom is a boy. Are you saying that we would expect 300 of them to be (boy,boy) and 600 would be (boy, girl)?
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They tried pretty hard to kill off Windows Phone by orphaning their existing WP7 users and apps with the switch to WP8. It still seems to be limping along somehow though.
And when did core count replace MHz as the standard marketing-speak meaningless processor comparison?
Every train I sit on these days is full of commuters using iPads and assorted 7" Android tablets for reading, video and games.
I'd like to see those sysadmin having a problem with their checks and being told "no no, you can't talk to anyone in HR or the payroll department directly, are you crazy?
I think that's the case in lots of big companies? It certainly is where I work, there's a big central HR helpdesk ticket system.
the BBC doesn't want to get into the business of running a time server
They already are - see the Pips. I guess that's the reason for the original complaint - people expected "BBC time" to be exact?
There are different levels of a game 'working' though. As you say, playing with a controller is very different to playing with a touchscreen. A single player Android FPS with dificulty tuned for touchscreen is going to be much easier with a controller or a mouse plugged in.
Are all those Android game developers going to tune for controller and/or Keyboard&Mouse when the market size is so much smaller? It's not just a matter of "it's Android so the games all work".
That's 800,000 apps designed for touchscreens, isn't it? How many work on a non-touchscreen TV with a controller?
Where do you think the carbon in the CO2 you breathe out comes from?
More likely they'd realise that for anything beyond the simplest IT jobs there's very little long term productivity increase beyond 40 hours a week and everyone would be much happier all round.
They're actually converting Drax to burn wood instead of coal. We're going backwards!
http://www.draxgroup.plc.uk/biomass/
G-cluster’s Games Machine is a new contender in the game streaming space currently dominated by the likes of OnLive.
That's the OnLive that nearly went bankrupt and apparently only ever had 1,800 concurrent users?
You can actually watch the Streisand effect happening in real time as the hit counter at the bottom of her page shoots up. Heading for 3 million pretty quickly :-)
Sure, I'm not suggesting the NOTW shouldn't be held responsible. But it just seems a little hypocritical for tabloid readers to spend years avidly reading the kind of intrusive stories described by the OP, only to then turn round and act horrified when they discover they were created using dodgy practices.
What about the morons who kept buying the paper every Sunday to read those kind of idiotic stories?
Perhaps it's a case of getting the newspapers we deserve?
Palm had OnBoardC as well, a full C compiler and editor. . I wrote the prototype for a PalmOS text editor in it.
As I understand it, Nokia has maintained their numerical share by selling low-end smartphones, especially in emerging markets, while completely ceding the high end 'proper' smartphone market to iOS and Android (ie. the part of the market that buys apps and actually uses the 'smart' bit of a smartphone).
Hence their massive drop in profit share and the fact that (in my experience at least) commuter trains are now a sea of iPhones, Blackberries and Android phones with only a few Nokia low-end phones around.
I have here as evidence, a SOny Ericson P1i, which is a wonderful phone... Wow, somebody actually liked the P1i? That thing was horrible: slow, buggy, appalling UI design. Even my awful Windows Mobile Samsung i600 felt like an upgrade after that. UIQ died off for a lot of reasons, I don't think Signed by Symbian was one of them.
Don't most GPS devices do that? My base model TomTom (in the UK) does all of that - I'm not sure about the last one, but when I used it in the US it gave me directions out of a giant mall parking lot.
Indeed. And the best way to stop the H264 guys exploiting their huge market share with high royalties is to have one or more "good enough" free alternatives widely available.
It's relatively common in the UK. This story is the most recent one I remember - young photo journalist prevented from taking photos of army cadets in public by a policeman who says something like "I don't need a law to be able to stop you". I've seen plenty of other similar stories.
If it is known that I have a boy, there is 1/3 probability that the other is also a boy.
I'm confused. Say we took 900 families with two children, one of whom is a boy. Are you saying that we would expect 300 of them to be (boy,boy) and 600 would be (boy, girl)?
Also (here in the UK at least), authors get something like 2p every time one of their books is borrowed from a library.
I think 2p per download on the Pirate Bay would be a lot of money :-)
And then the boundaries for vehicle tax are defined in g/CO2 per Km, just to further confuse things.
Does that Symbian figure include all S60 devices? I don't think I'd refer to something like the Nokia 5800 as a true 'smartphone'.
Flash performance on Maemo is pretty poor in my experience. BBC iPlayer worked at about 2 frames/second when I tried it.