Nope, sorry, I was wrong. We (Norway) just pulled off being the best country in the world on the HDI index. Four years in a row. It is small potatoes, I know. I only measures things like basic education, GDP per capita etc. But that neutral index doesn't compare at all to the opinion page of a rightist USA newspaper. So I'll just discard that thought.
I think Nokia is not losing due to trends, but to quality. On short reflection, I can think of five persons that have changed away from nokia, due to the lack of quality. Me: Ex Nokia 2110, 3210, 6110, 6150 owner. A steady celine in quality, bought a Ericsson t68i, it has lasted longer than the 3210, 6110 and 6150 combined. The 6110, for example, has a shitty printboard that makes the copper that is on the screen contacts disappear. The t68i hasn't even dropped in battery time over some three years. It was actually a t68, but was firmware upgraded to a t68i. Incredible.
GF: Has had an array of phones, and is a phone abuser of the third degree. No Nokia has lasted more than 5 months before breaking in some way (vibrattion stops, microphone cuts out, battery breaks etc). Her much, much more feminine Samsung S300M (i think) is going on 8 months, without problems. Note, I hnk the clamshell desing for this it is MUCH,MUCH more robust ironically
Friend 1: Bicycle messenger. Gave up Nokia and bought a basic Ericsson for use in work, happy as a clam.
Friend 2: Business man. Changed from Nokia due to the camera in the t600. He isn't very happy, actually. He claimed the phone hung upon bootsometimes. I asked him to demonstrate what he did. Dure: To turn off, rip off he battery. (This essentially crashes the phoen and require a long boot process on the next boot). He turns it on, it takes a while, and he screams SEE? SEE? FUCKING SHIT PHONE!! And slams it onto the table where the battery loosens and needs a ne reboot. I explain that if he turn off the phone the proper way, and refrain from slamming the phone into he wall or table it will function better. I'm impressed by the ammount of abuse that camera phone has withstanded...
What is the main advantage to having a bluetooth enaabled phone?
Combined w a Mac, the bigges advantage is probably seeing you friends' jaw drop to the floor after seeing the following: iTunes is blasting out some audiotrack (Like Lovage "Book of the month"), suddenly, the music fades down and the text "Incoming call: Christina is calling", with the picture of the caller automagically lifted from the adressbook onto the screen. When you pick up, iTunes pauses, and when you hang up, iTunes plays and fades in. Everything in almost zero-config, thanks to Salling Clicker.
Simply amazing.It has actually automated one of the small processes in the office, and eliminated the need of locating the phone to see if you want the call or not.
Wow. The main negative thing I had to say about the UN before I read your post was their lack of will to kick the US' balls until they cooperated with the world. Now I have one more gripe. They have som many acronyms, I thought our witty southern state "UNSCAM" joke was an actual acronym. Now I understand that it is just a joke an a play on the UNSCOM, but being an European I don't have the mental capability to understand those witty people from Arkansas.
Yeah, well, the DPRK embassy in Oslo (Norway, Europe) was closed in the 70ies. Reason? The diplomats were kicked out for selling illegal booze from the embassy and other places. They denied the whole thing, of course. Their credidentials were retracted they were booted out. Probably for the death sentence in DPRK, they had after all embarrased their country.
That's why they were all kinds of confused when my boss said that he would not hesitate one second on publishing a sincere apology for a mistake, something negative about the owners or refrain from mudslinging towards the competition.
I object! While the press in DPRK is 100% unfree, the south Korean pess is not free at all. My boss went there on a press convention for new media, and the SK journalists were absolutely flabergasted by the ammount of freedom the press we are used to here. Not only can you be arrested (and frequently people do) for saying certain things in the press, but the media is tightly controlled by a consotrium of owners. The only really free media is an online newssite where hundreds of persons, journalists and non-journalists alike, contribute and 20-some persons edit and publish.
As for money, DPRK was actually richer than SK for a long time after the Korean war. They were bypassed in the eraly to mid 80ies since the USSR gave DPRK al lot of aid and trade. So did China.
If using a Mac means servers in Russia are less likely to harvest my passwords and offer my identity to the highest bidder, I think that's an offer I'd like to hear more about.
I talked to the marketing head of Apple in Norway about why they did not use the awful track record of Microsoft as an advertisment opportunity. He stated that it is not that easy, and if a similar problem was to surface in MacOS X, they'd lose any credibility they had harvested from the PC community.
A friend works as a manager at a cleaning services ran an experiment with toiletpaper in businesses. The boss of a finance company asked what they could do to reduce cleaning and maintenance cost. "Install locks on toilet paper dispensers and keep the new rolls in a locked closet" was the answser. Toilet paper use was down 70% the week after, makes you think a bit about your cow-workers doesn't it?
It seems like most of these features were explained at Jobs' keynote address at WWDC. The automatic knowledgebase search in Help was new tho. Can't wait until I get my hands on my developer copy.
Sounds like your problem is with a disfunctional IT department, not with Windows XP.
That is true. But I get paid to write articles. Not to wrestle with XP. All I know is that my Mac worked out of the box, whereas my work XP setup has cost my employer just under two work days in half a year. I know what the error is (Broken HP JetDirect driver in the image), but I don't touch the settings since it is not my job. I have told them what it is, and as long as they don't want to listen, I'll just go on and be productive. Easy.
...who the hell recieved them? My cellphone can hold something like 200 SMS before rejecting (making the telco retry after a while) the messages. Also, this is up to 12801920 bytes of text, excluding control bytes...
Little over a year ago, there was an MMS war between the telcos here in Norway and all MMS messages were free of charge. The price war continued for half a year and I save a lot on using MMS to send text instead of SMS.
Well I cry BULLSHIT! That fucking "Autoformat is not installed, do you want to install it now?" dialouge box pops up EVERY FUCKING TIME I use Word, but only after a couple of weeks. I'v Googled a lot after this problem, but never found any solution except install the shit. The box pops up no matter what I disable, and that function does FUCK-ALL for me in Word since it is not installed. And just try to get IS down so they can pop the CD in and install the function. They did once and the month after, we switched to XP and the problem appeared again.
So to me Office blows, BUT I love Office for Mac. Much more than the piece of shit AppleWorks. The Mac Office is a totally different beast, well worth my hard-earend cash to go on the PowerBook.
Does anyone really believe it's faster for a new user to get on the internet with a Mac vs. a new PC in 2004? That's ridiculous.
Not only do I believe it. I've seen it. The information required by the Mac matched the info given by the ISP in a much more dynamic way. The whole setup was less "frightening" to the user (Mom), and thus she set up her Jaguar iBook all by herself. When she tried to start XP from a newly bough computer, not only did it skip the Internet questions, but after digging around to find the wizard, it was less appealing and more of a chore. She ended up giving away the XP machine and just use her iBook.
As a child, I saw the Cray supercomputer at NTH in Trondheim. I was twice fascinated. First by the awesome raw computational power behind the very, very, very futuristic design. Second by the fact that it listed directory filse slower than my 8088 PC at home...
It did one thing (Certain mathematical computations), and it did it extremely well.
Because it had a substandard coil in a switching regulator it produced highly anoying noise. A replacement switch had the same problem.
We have one of those exact same switches here at the office. Needless to say, it has been demoted to emergency use only, for connection to a spare SDSL line when the GigEth is down. I has a remarkably irritating whine, and is usually disconnected from power except for emergency situations.
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Er... Do you know that USD 12 000 000 is more than the one year turnover for Opera? This little settlement gave them ONE YEAR IN TURNOVER FOR FREE, a torrent of bad publicity for their nemesis and a lot of goodwill from anyone not a giant software vendor. This is very, very smart of Opera, since it gives them bonus capital to pursue their objectives without having to worry a lot about mone in a couple of years.
So, even if it is hush money, it is free hush money to a company already kicking the balls (albeit very silently) of the company that paid it to keep mum. (See 12^3 comments on this page about Opera superiority in Mobile phones and embedded devices.)
Some people do, you know. Brian Springers "Spin" is an excellent example of DIY documentary, using only satellite-snached newsfeeds. It is a truly priceless piece of illegal video art, that show what the talking heads and politicians do when the satellite feed is in standby (i.e. before they come on or during commercial). It even sheds some light on how the spin-doctors give on-the-fly advice to the politicians / activists etc during commercial. A must see-film if there ever was one.
You do know what the Palm d'Or is, do you? You see, it's not one of those ad-driven 78% bought "awards" that the Actors Union gives away (although he won one of those as well). The Golden Palm is most likely the biggest honor a film can recieve, and is given to films that matter, not just sell.
Even though it is widely broadcast here in Europe, the Academy Awards are viewd as funny, but not a stamp of quality. The movie producers proudly presents that the movie has "4 Oscars!!", bu as we all know the AA is an American award excluding most of the quality films in the world. Except for 5 or so that get the funny-looking-pic-with-subs-award.
The Palm goes to quality films like Taxi Driver, Underground, Pelle Erobreren, films that show creativity and changes lives. The Oscar goes to the largest ad budget.
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Bullshit. It's around 350 See for example Apple Spain
As for salaries, maybe in Greece or Poland.
Bitch.
Nope, sorry, I was wrong. We (Norway) just pulled off being the best country in the world on the HDI index. Four years in a row. It is small potatoes, I know. I only measures things like basic education, GDP per capita etc. But that neutral index doesn't compare at all to the opinion page of a rightist USA newspaper. So I'll just discard that thought.
GF: Has had an array of phones, and is a phone abuser of the third degree. No Nokia has lasted more than 5 months before breaking in some way (vibrattion stops, microphone cuts out, battery breaks etc). Her much, much more feminine Samsung S300M (i think) is going on 8 months, without problems. Note, I hnk the clamshell desing for this it is MUCH,MUCH more robust ironically
Friend 1: Bicycle messenger. Gave up Nokia and bought a basic Ericsson for use in work, happy as a clam.
Friend 2: Business man. Changed from Nokia due to the camera in the t600. He isn't very happy, actually. He claimed the phone hung upon bootsometimes. I asked him to demonstrate what he did. Dure: To turn off, rip off he battery. (This essentially crashes the phoen and require a long boot process on the next boot). He turns it on, it takes a while, and he screams SEE? SEE? FUCKING SHIT PHONE!! And slams it onto the table where the battery loosens and needs a ne reboot. I explain that if he turn off the phone the proper way, and refrain from slamming the phone into he wall or table it will function better. I'm impressed by the ammount of abuse that camera phone has withstanded...
Combined w a Mac, the bigges advantage is probably seeing you friends' jaw drop to the floor after seeing the following: iTunes is blasting out some audiotrack (Like Lovage "Book of the month"), suddenly, the music fades down and the text "Incoming call: Christina is calling", with the picture of the caller automagically lifted from the adressbook onto the screen. When you pick up, iTunes pauses, and when you hang up, iTunes plays and fades in. Everything in almost zero-config, thanks to Salling Clicker.
Simply amazing.It has actually automated one of the small processes in the office, and eliminated the need of locating the phone to see if you want the call or not.
Wow. The main negative thing I had to say about the UN before I read your post was their lack of will to kick the US' balls until they cooperated with the world. Now I have one more gripe. They have som many acronyms, I thought our witty southern state "UNSCAM" joke was an actual acronym. Now I understand that it is just a joke an a play on the UNSCOM, but being an European I don't have the mental capability to understand those witty people from Arkansas.
Yeah, well, the DPRK embassy in Oslo (Norway, Europe) was closed in the 70ies. Reason? The diplomats were kicked out for selling illegal booze from the embassy and other places. They denied the whole thing, of course. Their credidentials were retracted they were booted out. Probably for the death sentence in DPRK, they had after all embarrased their country.
That's why they were all kinds of confused when my boss said that he would not hesitate one second on publishing a sincere apology for a mistake, something negative about the owners or refrain from mudslinging towards the competition.
I object! While the press in DPRK is 100% unfree, the south Korean pess is not free at all. My boss went there on a press convention for new media, and the SK journalists were absolutely flabergasted by the ammount of freedom the press we are used to here. Not only can you be arrested (and frequently people do) for saying certain things in the press, but the media is tightly controlled by a consotrium of owners. The only really free media is an online newssite where hundreds of persons, journalists and non-journalists alike, contribute and 20-some persons edit and publish.
As for money, DPRK was actually richer than SK for a long time after the Korean war. They were bypassed in the eraly to mid 80ies since the USSR gave DPRK al lot of aid and trade. So did China.
KCNA, the NK "news" agensy has had a website for years in Japan. It is under the JP TLD, and the new one is under the NET TLD.
KCNA functions as the spokesperson for the DPKR, the state of North Korea. Probably the least independent news agency in the world, Fox News included.
True, but the number of students is more like 30. At least in the film. I have both the t-shirts from Airside... ;)
I talked to the marketing head of Apple in Norway about why they did not use the awful track record of Microsoft as an advertisment opportunity. He stated that it is not that easy, and if a similar problem was to surface in MacOS X, they'd lose any credibility they had harvested from the PC community.
A friend works as a manager at a cleaning services ran an experiment with toiletpaper in businesses. The boss of a finance company asked what they could do to reduce cleaning and maintenance cost. "Install locks on toilet paper dispensers and keep the new rolls in a locked closet" was the answser. Toilet paper use was down 70% the week after, makes you think a bit about your cow-workers doesn't it?
It seems like most of these features were explained at Jobs' keynote address at WWDC. The automatic knowledgebase search in Help was new tho. Can't wait until I get my hands on my developer copy.
That is true. But I get paid to write articles. Not to wrestle with XP. All I know is that my Mac worked out of the box, whereas my work XP setup has cost my employer just under two work days in half a year. I know what the error is (Broken HP JetDirect driver in the image), but I don't touch the settings since it is not my job. I have told them what it is, and as long as they don't want to listen, I'll just go on and be productive. Easy.
Listen. It is dead easy:
This is my reality. I'm sure yours is fine for you, but I have to live in mine.
1) IT'S THE GODDAMN GHOST IMAGE STUPID!!!
Little over a year ago, there was an MMS war between the telcos here in Norway and all MMS messages were free of charge. The price war continued for half a year and I save a lot on using MMS to send text instead of SMS.
Well I cry BULLSHIT! That fucking "Autoformat is not installed, do you want to install it now?" dialouge box pops up EVERY FUCKING TIME I use Word, but only after a couple of weeks. I'v Googled a lot after this problem, but never found any solution except install the shit. The box pops up no matter what I disable, and that function does FUCK-ALL for me in Word since it is not installed. And just try to get IS down so they can pop the CD in and install the function. They did once and the month after, we switched to XP and the problem appeared again.
So to me Office blows, BUT I love Office for Mac. Much more than the piece of shit AppleWorks. The Mac Office is a totally different beast, well worth my hard-earend cash to go on the PowerBook.
Not only do I believe it. I've seen it. The information required by the Mac matched the info given by the ISP in a much more dynamic way. The whole setup was less "frightening" to the user (Mom), and thus she set up her Jaguar iBook all by herself. When she tried to start XP from a newly bough computer, not only did it skip the Internet questions, but after digging around to find the wizard, it was less appealing and more of a chore. She ended up giving away the XP machine and just use her iBook.
It did one thing (Certain mathematical computations), and it did it extremely well.
We have one of those exact same switches here at the office. Needless to say, it has been demoted to emergency use only, for connection to a spare SDSL line when the GigEth is down. I has a remarkably irritating whine, and is usually disconnected from power except for emergency situations.
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Er... Do you know that USD 12 000 000 is more than the one year turnover for Opera? This little settlement gave them ONE YEAR IN TURNOVER FOR FREE, a torrent of bad publicity for their nemesis and a lot of goodwill from anyone not a giant software vendor. This is very, very smart of Opera, since it gives them bonus capital to pursue their objectives without having to worry a lot about mone in a couple of years.
So, even if it is hush money, it is free hush money to a company already kicking the balls (albeit very silently) of the company that paid it to keep mum. (See 12^3 comments on this page about Opera superiority in Mobile phones and embedded devices.)
Disclaimer: I don't work for them, but the t-shirt rocks, so I bought one. Excellent!
Some people do, you know. Brian Springers "Spin" is an excellent example of DIY documentary, using only satellite-snached newsfeeds. It is a truly priceless piece of illegal video art, that show what the talking heads and politicians do when the satellite feed is in standby (i.e. before they come on or during commercial). It even sheds some light on how the spin-doctors give on-the-fly advice to the politicians / activists etc during commercial. A must see-film if there ever was one.
You do know what the Palm d'Or is, do you? You see, it's not one of those ad-driven 78% bought "awards" that the Actors Union gives away (although he won one of those as well). The Golden Palm is most likely the biggest honor a film can recieve, and is given to films that matter, not just sell.
Even though it is widely broadcast here in Europe, the Academy Awards are viewd as funny, but not a stamp of quality. The movie producers proudly presents that the movie has "4 Oscars!!", bu as we all know the AA is an American award excluding most of the quality films in the world. Except for 5 or so that get the funny-looking-pic-with-subs-award.
The Palm goes to quality films like Taxi Driver, Underground, Pelle Erobreren, films that show creativity and changes lives. The Oscar goes to the largest ad budget.