Nokias store fails all around. Apps and music smashed all together. Searching for things is near impossible. Allowing apps to be released for only certain phones is dumb, there is no reason the 5800 and 5530 phone cant run the same apps except for the GPS they are identical... yet you cant get the Facebook app on any phone less than the 5800 to "entice" you to get the better phone. My daughter whined big time over that.
Plus nokia pissed off their developer base. requiring everything to be signed basically flipped a big "F YOU" to all the devs. They used to have the largest app selection of any phone os. now it's all old outdated stuff or half ready items you have to try and sign yourself.
The nokia N8 is the great features of the driod and the love of the "dream" all put together. Honestly the slide out keyboard is a MUST HAVE on a business smartphone. I hate the on screen keyboards.
HTC has been releasing rehashes of phones, under the hood it's only incremental changes to keep up with the ever fragmenting android os. (Even the latest HTC Flash on it is insanely dog slow.. Why anyone would want flash on their phone still boggled my mind.)
dont get me wrong, I think HTC is a strong company, but Nokia will start releasing some stuff that really rocks. Too bad it's going to have S60 or maemo on it.
I honestly wish they would simply offer their smartphones with either their OS or android on it. and see what the masses really want instead of guessing.
Buy the right hardware and run M0n0wall or pfsense. If you can audit the code of your firewall it's the only way to be sure there are no backdoors in it.
I have had a M0n0Wall running for well over 6 years with no problems. Granted it's for a very small company with only a few thousand users.... but there are some out there doing the work for fortune 500 companies.
Actually a 5 minute delay. I only would transmit every 5 minutes to keep the battery life nearly the same as it was without the script running. and 2.5 minutes is less than the time it took for me to do what I needed in the driveway to get off the bike, etc.. worked great and was highly practical. Some days it all happened as I turned into the drive, others it would take about 3 minutes. I almost never had to wait for it. (except when the internet was down at home and it did not get updates.)
if I did an update every 2.5 seconds my cellphone battery would be dead in 3 hours as it would be in a constant data transfer mode.
Plus my trigger radius is somewhat large. IT's easy from the data to detect if I am headed home by position updates and location. so making smarter decisions on the data I can extrapolate my intentions and make the trigger radius bigger thus minimizing the delay when I get to the garage.
Although I am a laid back guy. Waiting a minute is nothing to me, some people freak out and go on a rampage when they have to wait 1 second. A buddy of mine is like that.. I love torturing him by making him wait all the time.
The answer is to find a Phone giant (Nokia) and take the best of both worlds and make an OS that utterly kicks arse.
Nokia hardware rocks. Nokia's software as of late (S60) is buggy to hell and back. If they both got together they could make it big. Nokia making their superior phone hardware, Microsoft ditching the joke that is their mobile OS and starting over with a REAL os that has potential (and design it so carriers cant cripple it) they could give the other two a real run for their money.
S60 has potential if it was fixed up with a os company behind it.. WM7-Whatever it is has no chance at all. It's a mess.
I just wished the iPhone and Android let me have a background easy scripting language like python.
It's what I missed when I finally had to switch away from the Nokia platform. Being able to write a small script that sent a position update to MY SERVER every 5 minutes.
It was cool to see the lights come on and the garage door open when I pulled in the driveway and got off the bike. It was typically a 2.5 minute delay from when I pulled in the driveway and when the system detected I was home from the gps reporting to activate everything. Perfect timing as I then had my helmet off, took off the jacket and unstrapped the backpack from the seat.
Come on Google and Apple, let us do cool stuff with our phones!
Did you ask for a contract on a sim card only? Because I can get the same for $40.00 from T-mobile without a phone Sim card only.
Then I buy the phone I want full price and unlocked.
Did this for my daughter. She has a great nokia smartphone that is unlocked so all the features are there and had a $40.00 a month plan. It was easy I called them and talked to a rep. You did actually shop for your service right?
All it does is give a couple of rich jerks some "attaboys" for fighting crime when they are really doing nothing but harming businesses and freedom in general. (Note: dont try to compare USA shooting crimes to the UK unless you multiply the UK number by the population disparity.)
you say lan play is dead, yet a LOT of gaming shops offer it. Honestly there is nothing like fragging a friend and then standing up and nerf darting him from across the room. It's far more fun to be all in the same room. Those that say it adds nothing has never been to a real lan party.
I do buy games, but only ones that I can find a complete crack for first. I download the cracks, keygens and no-cd patches and then go out to buy the game.
When fighting a tiger, you never lose eye contact. If they do something that surprises you and makes you let your guard down... "aww kitty is purring" it's then when you are in the most danger.
I read his statement as "DRM is expensive in licensing fees, We are going to instead give that money to our lawyers to sue the pants off of everyone we can think of."
I'll bet you that he is thinking that the RIAA tactics are a better route to take.
Exchange is the de facto standard for communication in WINDOWS BASED businesses.
Fixed that for you.
Google and IBM are far bigger companies than you ever worked for and they don't use exchange. I can also name many more big ones that don't use exchange. They are hardly the "de-facto standard".
Actually Kerosene + Lox can do this. Problem is they are having problems with the exhaust temperatures are high enough to melt most aircraft components.
It's not simple anymore. VB6 was the last "simple" vb.
Honestly, he should just jump to a real language as it will take the same amount of effort to get up to speed in C++ as it does to get up to speed in a inferior language like VB.net
Actually for rapid development right now Delphi is the new king in Rapid and easy design for simple apps like this. I was a VB6 guru, when VB.net and C#.net came out I started learning it and started dabbling in delphi. I was up to speed in delphi way faster than VB.net...
Less effort spent getting things going if he looks at delphi instead.
you were lucky. 7 out of 7 pc's I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 had this problem. All did use HP printer drivers... This could be a cause. All I know is that there is a LOT of people on the net that have the same problem. and it's a brain dead simple fix.. force a reinstall of Cups.
Car = GM and nope, Delphi does not source sony chips. In fact sony does not have any chips for engine management or automotive systems.
Crestron gear - i doubt it. Coffee maker has no chips. Stove, Fridge... not a chance.
Sony really is not a massive chip maker anymore. It's rare to have a sony chip anymore unless it's a specific sony technology or device... Blu Ray players... They have a sony parts...
I will not buy a blu ray player. It's a dumb thing to own IMO. I use an AppleTV and a roku box for my HD movies.
yes it's focused for their view out the cockpit. Helicopter and jet pilots look at everything that is far away. When they look at the instruments it's out of focus.
Walking around we use our entire focus range. Pilots use near and extreme far only. If they focus on something tat is 500-1000 feet away it's usually only to start screaming just before they die from the impact.
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Nokias store fails all around. Apps and music smashed all together. Searching for things is near impossible. Allowing apps to be released for only certain phones is dumb, there is no reason the 5800 and 5530 phone cant run the same apps except for the GPS they are identical... yet you cant get the Facebook app on any phone less than the 5800 to "entice" you to get the better phone. My daughter whined big time over that.
Plus nokia pissed off their developer base. requiring everything to be signed basically flipped a big "F YOU" to all the devs. They used to have the largest app selection of any phone os. now it's all old outdated stuff or half ready items you have to try and sign yourself.
The nokia N8 is the great features of the driod and the love of the "dream" all put together. Honestly the slide out keyboard is a MUST HAVE on a business smartphone. I hate the on screen keyboards.
HTC has been releasing rehashes of phones, under the hood it's only incremental changes to keep up with the ever fragmenting android os. (Even the latest HTC Flash on it is insanely dog slow.. Why anyone would want flash on their phone still boggled my mind.)
dont get me wrong, I think HTC is a strong company, but Nokia will start releasing some stuff that really rocks. Too bad it's going to have S60 or maemo on it.
I honestly wish they would simply offer their smartphones with either their OS or android on it. and see what the masses really want instead of guessing.
Buy the right hardware and run M0n0wall or pfsense. If you can audit the code of your firewall it's the only way to be sure there are no backdoors in it.
I have had a M0n0Wall running for well over 6 years with no problems. Granted it's for a very small company with only a few thousand users.... but there are some out there doing the work for fortune 500 companies.
Actually a 5 minute delay. I only would transmit every 5 minutes to keep the battery life nearly the same as it was without the script running. and 2.5 minutes is less than the time it took for me to do what I needed in the driveway to get off the bike, etc.. worked great and was highly practical. Some days it all happened as I turned into the drive, others it would take about 3 minutes. I almost never had to wait for it. (except when the internet was down at home and it did not get updates.)
if I did an update every 2.5 seconds my cellphone battery would be dead in 3 hours as it would be in a constant data transfer mode.
Plus my trigger radius is somewhat large. IT's easy from the data to detect if I am headed home by position updates and location. so making smarter decisions on the data I can extrapolate my intentions and make the trigger radius bigger thus minimizing the delay when I get to the garage.
Although I am a laid back guy. Waiting a minute is nothing to me, some people freak out and go on a rampage when they have to wait 1 second. A buddy of mine is like that.. I love torturing him by making him wait all the time.
Nope.
The answer is to find a Phone giant (Nokia) and take the best of both worlds and make an OS that utterly kicks arse.
Nokia hardware rocks. Nokia's software as of late (S60) is buggy to hell and back. If they both got together they could make it big. Nokia making their superior phone hardware, Microsoft ditching the joke that is their mobile OS and starting over with a REAL os that has potential (and design it so carriers cant cripple it) they could give the other two a real run for their money.
S60 has potential if it was fixed up with a os company behind it.. WM7-Whatever it is has no chance at all. It's a mess.
Ahh, so their coverage is even more sucky than I knew...
Which is too bad, they are the least scumbaggy of all the Cellphone carriers.
I just wished the iPhone and Android let me have a background easy scripting language like python.
It's what I missed when I finally had to switch away from the Nokia platform. Being able to write a small script that sent a position update to MY SERVER every 5 minutes.
It was cool to see the lights come on and the garage door open when I pulled in the driveway and got off the bike. It was typically a 2.5 minute delay from when I pulled in the driveway and when the system detected I was home from the gps reporting to activate everything. Perfect timing as I then had my helmet off, took off the jacket and unstrapped the backpack from the seat.
Come on Google and Apple, let us do cool stuff with our phones!
Did you ask for a contract on a sim card only? Because I can get the same for $40.00 from T-mobile without a phone Sim card only.
Then I buy the phone I want full price and unlocked.
Did this for my daughter. She has a great nokia smartphone that is unlocked so all the features are there and had a $40.00 a month plan. It was easy I called them and talked to a rep. You did actually shop for your service right?
too bad T-mobile has almost no coverage...
no it does not. It's the same as "gun control" you cant buy a gun in the USA if you are a criminal. yet criminals have guns. In the UK guns are flat out illegal, yet criminals have guns. http://articles.courant.com/2010-03-03/community/hc-new-london-shooting-fatal-0303_1_private-vehicle-police-suspect
All it does is give a couple of rich jerks some "attaboys" for fighting crime when they are really doing nothing but harming businesses and freedom in general. (Note: dont try to compare USA shooting crimes to the UK unless you multiply the UK number by the population disparity.)
you say lan play is dead, yet a LOT of gaming shops offer it. Honestly there is nothing like fragging a friend and then standing up and nerf darting him from across the room. It's far more fun to be all in the same room. Those that say it adds nothing has never been to a real lan party.
Like Halo 2 for example...
I do buy games, but only ones that I can find a complete crack for first. I download the cracks, keygens and no-cd patches and then go out to buy the game.
When fighting a tiger, you never lose eye contact. If they do something that surprises you and makes you let your guard down... "aww kitty is purring" it's then when you are in the most danger.
I read his statement as "DRM is expensive in licensing fees, We are going to instead give that money to our lawyers to sue the pants off of everyone we can think of."
I'll bet you that he is thinking that the RIAA tactics are a better route to take.
It's more insidious than that. Who buys the prepaids? poor people.
So it's all about tracking the poor.
Ok. This new "law" would simply create a new black market for thieves. Increasing their profit streams.
Now instead of a walmart tracphone. you buy a "clean" prepaid phone from vito that is registered to a 14 year old cheerleader in the hamptons.
Honestly, are out lawmakers simply a bunch of retarded old idiots? Did they not think of this?
Exchange is the de facto standard for communication in WINDOWS BASED businesses.
Fixed that for you.
Google and IBM are far bigger companies than you ever worked for and they don't use exchange. I can also name many more big ones that don't use exchange. They are hardly the "de-facto standard".
Just wait, Glenn Beck will come on and redeem the Fox news stupid award.
I agree, I cant understand why they released a Windows and OSX version of their browser.
It's called market share.
You just gotta keep pushing down on the stick..
Actually Kerosene + Lox can do this. Problem is they are having problems with the exhaust temperatures are high enough to melt most aircraft components.
Have you looked at VB.net or C#.net?
It's not simple anymore. VB6 was the last "simple" vb.
Honestly, he should just jump to a real language as it will take the same amount of effort to get up to speed in C++ as it does to get up to speed in a inferior language like VB.net
Actually for rapid development right now Delphi is the new king in Rapid and easy design for simple apps like this. I was a VB6 guru, when VB.net and C#.net came out I started learning it and started dabbling in delphi. I was up to speed in delphi way faster than VB.net...
Less effort spent getting things going if he looks at delphi instead.
you were lucky. 7 out of 7 pc's I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 had this problem. All did use HP printer drivers... This could be a cause. All I know is that there is a LOT of people on the net that have the same problem. and it's a brain dead simple fix.. force a reinstall of Cups.
Cellphone = iPhone and no sony chips.
Car = GM and nope, Delphi does not source sony chips. In fact sony does not have any chips for engine management or automotive systems.
Crestron gear - i doubt it. Coffee maker has no chips. Stove, Fridge... not a chance.
Sony really is not a massive chip maker anymore. It's rare to have a sony chip anymore unless it's a specific sony technology or device... Blu Ray players... They have a sony parts...
I will not buy a blu ray player. It's a dumb thing to own IMO. I use an AppleTV and a roku box for my HD movies.
United states has one of the highest infant mortality rate in the world. Sounds like our Best medicine money can buy, actually sucks pretty bad.
Several of the iPad frothing at the mouth haters would either have their heads explode, or they would take their own lives...
Either way it would be a net positive for the world.
yes it's focused for their view out the cockpit. Helicopter and jet pilots look at everything that is far away. When they look at the instruments it's out of focus.
Walking around we use our entire focus range. Pilots use near and extreme far only. If they focus on something tat is 500-1000 feet away it's usually only to start screaming just before they die from the impact.