I can't believe this, a company as big as Nokia making mistake as stupid as this ?
I can. The mobile phone manufactures in general and Nokia in particular is very much focused on time-to-market. That means that their phones are not always finished when they hit the shelves. To be fair, neither was my Ericsson R520m phone when I first got it.
and the less said about the endowment of those who drive Hummers, the better
Au contraire. In fact it reminds me about the semi-old fable about the mouse and the elephant.
One day when the mouse and the elephant was out walking, the elephant fell into a trap. "Help me" it cried to the mouse, who said "hang on" and raced home to get his Hummer. Once he was back, he backed the Hummer up to the trap, threw a rope to the elephant and hauled him up.
A couple of days later, the roles were reversed: the mouse fell into a trap and yelled "Help me." The elephant lowered his p**** down and the mouse crawled up and was safe. Which just goes to show that if you have a big p****, you don't need a Hummer.
Throwing money and lots of members at something does not make it innovative. Advanced Technology doesn't mean that the robot is any good.
This was demonstrated over a hundred years ago by Samuel Pierpont Langley. He had everything: the education, the money, the resources and he used them all to try to create a flying machine - only to be beaten by two bicycle makers.
I bought a Hitachi CM751 19" monitor when it came out here in Denmark (late 1997, I think). It was the first monitor larger than 17 inches that didn't cost more than $3000. It is still my main monitor and I expect it to last at least a couple more years.
Of course nowadays I can get a 19" flat-screen for about half of what I paid back then - but I have something that works very well so I'll wait for the prices to come down a bit more.
But in the US, phone prices were deemed too high to make good inroads, so providers subsidised the cost of the phones. So you buy your service and it comes with a "free" phone, or a "$30" phone.
Subsidies are very well known here in Denmark. When the phone companies are in a price war, you can quite often get a brand new GSM phone for DKK 1, that is around USD 0.16. The catch is of course that with it you have to buy a phone plan. But since the maximum duration of any phone plan in Denmark is six months (mandated by law) this is not that much of a problem.
You can even get discounts from your service provider if you want to buy a new phone but keep them as providers. They do it because the alternative is that they loose you as customer. And all this has not exactly lessened since we got number portability.
Nope. Most schoolchildren in Scandinavia can do that too. They have even evolved a special language much like the internet codes (e.g. IMHO, YMMV etc.)
The UN does not dictate to the United States because we are a sovereign country. It would unconstitutional for President Bush to allow the UN to dictate to USA.
I'd be perfectly happy with this if the United States would reprocicate by not dictating to anybody else. However, they don't. The United States is a superpower and it uses its power in ways that influences the lives of most people on Earth. I'm not against everything US. The United States is a great country and have done lot more good things for the World than bad. It's just that with so much power that the United States have, comes an equally great responsibility. And when the United States don't live up to that, the consequences are felt worldwide. And that is why we from the rest of the World are not always happy about the actions of the United States.
The US does not detain "prisoners" without charges. We do, however, place into detention terrorists that have attacked or are plotting to attack the US or its military.
Excuse me, but I can't for the life of me see the difference. These people have been locked up for over two years without a trial. Yes, they were in wrong place at the wrong time and probably carried arms when they were there. Well, there was a reason for detaining them so what is the problem? Put them before a court and have them convicted if they are guilty. Anything else is unworthy of a democratic country.
We do believe in democracy in America and brought it to many nations around the world. Two shining examples are Germany and Japan.
Except that that there are far too many more recent examples of the opposite. The other day I saw an old TV clip where a smiling Donald Rumsfeld shook hands with Saddam Hussein. In those days, the United States supported Iraq and Saddam Hussein. And don't tell me that they didn't know then what kind of regime they were supporting.
That being said, I was glad to hear president Bush say recently in London that "yes, we have supported un-democratic regimes in the past but we will stop doing that". I'm looking forward to his words become action.
In fact, I HATE bicycle helmets. Their sole purpose is to show all the people driving around that the person on the bike is middle class, etc. etc.
Each to his own. Personally I'd rather look a little stupid all the time I'm riding with my helmet on than feeling outrageously stupid in the split second I realise that right now I need the helmet lying on a shelf at home.
Then Sony Ericsson might think about moving from Symbian to Linux with Qt/Embedded.
Which would mean no more smartphones from Sony Ericsson for a long time.
Why?
Because Symbian is there, it works as a phone OS and has done so for a couple of years. Linux/Qt is not there as a phone OS. It needs a lot of work to become as functional and polished as Symbian is now.
But Nokia would of course love such a decision. Having their main competitor leave the market for a year or so would be absoulute wonderful for them.
why can you not simply use a low-power Wifi for a headset?
The problem as I understand it is that the WiFi protocol requires much more contineous transmission, i.e. the transmitter must be turned on for much longer periods. This means bigger current-drain and hence lower time of usage for a given output power/battery size combination.
<sarcasm> ...which is why the market is now overflowing with WiFi-enabled mobile phones, WiFi headsets, WiFi-enabled GPS receivers etc. etc.
</sarcasm>
Bluetooth and WiFi are complementary technologies. Bluetooth headsets make perfect sense whereas a WiFi headset would have its battery life measured in minutes. Likewise, using Bluetooth for wireless networking is something you do only when you have no other alternative.
I usually carry the following devices with me:
Ericsson R520m GSM mobile phone with Bluetooth
Sony-Ericsson HBH-30 Bluetooth headset
Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox 600 Pocket PC with Bluetooth
Fortuna GPSmart BT GPS receiver with Bluetooth
Yes, I can get a WiFi-enabled PDA. Show me where to get WiFi versions of the other devices.
EPOC comes with a tool chain that doesn't even support global variables
You obviously have no clue at all on what you are talking about.
Using global variables in a true multitasking OS such as EPOC is a sure way to disaster. And yes, I've been there, done that, I have the scars - and I'd love a an API that prevents me and anybody else from doing such idiotic things.
but saying this, I am looking forward to a initiative from our very quiet IT-minister
Don't hold your breath while waiting. It will take a while before the IT-minister grasps what this is all about. Not that his predecessor was much better...
And I have a sinking feeling that this problem is not confined to Denmark...
But I garantee you that the yellowish one is as safe as the other one. However, you may choose freely either one of them. Are you going to go with the yellowish water? You would be crazy.
I've seen a few truck on car accidents, and the truck almost always ends up on top (literally) of the car...
...unless the other car is another truck. In that case the stiff chassis of the vehicles makes the accident much worse for the occupants.
In Sweden (where they are very safety concious, it is forbidden for private persons to buy large four-wheel drive vehicles unless they can prove that they need them for their dsily work.
..we first seal the heat-generating components inside a closed case, then start worrying about heat dispersal, and then have to use huge and noisy fans to bring some cool air in and hot air out.
A computer radiates RF big time. The higher the clock frequency, the worse it gets. The metal case keeps the RF in.
Why not solve the problem from the beginning, rather than patching up existing designs?
Price. It is much cheaper to use fans than to build a computer with passive cooling or water cooling etc.
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At least a Toyota Corolla will get you somewhere. The V8 won't unless you wrap a car around it.
I can. The mobile phone manufactures in general and Nokia in particular is very much focused on time-to-market. That means that their phones are not always finished when they hit the shelves. To be fair, neither was my Ericsson R520m phone when I first got it.
Au contraire. In fact it reminds me about the semi-old fable about the mouse and the elephant.
One day when the mouse and the elephant was out walking, the elephant fell into a trap. "Help me" it cried to the mouse, who said "hang on" and raced home to get his Hummer. Once he was back, he backed the Hummer up to the trap, threw a rope to the elephant and hauled him up.
A couple of days later, the roles were reversed: the mouse fell into a trap and yelled "Help me." The elephant lowered his p**** down and the mouse crawled up and was safe. Which just goes to show that if you have a big p****, you don't need a Hummer.
I'm talking US$ all right. What I didn't mention was that I paid around US$ 1200 for the Hitachi back in 1997.
This was demonstrated over a hundred years ago by Samuel Pierpont Langley. He had everything: the education, the money, the resources and he used them all to try to create a flying machine - only to be beaten by two bicycle makers.
Of course nowadays I can get a 19" flat-screen for about half of what I paid back then - but I have something that works very well so I'll wait for the prices to come down a bit more.
As in this?
The Register sets the record straight here.
The two hours includes the time spent downloading the .iso file.
Assuming that you will be in charge, here are some pointers on how it can be done
Subsidies are very well known here in Denmark. When the phone companies are in a price war, you can quite often get a brand new GSM phone for DKK 1, that is around USD 0.16. The catch is of course that with it you have to buy a phone plan. But since the maximum duration of any phone plan in Denmark is six months (mandated by law) this is not that much of a problem.
You can even get discounts from your service provider if you want to buy a new phone but keep them as providers. They do it because the alternative is that they loose you as customer. And all this has not exactly lessened since we got number portability.
Nope. Most schoolchildren in Scandinavia can do that too. They have even evolved a special language much like the internet codes (e.g. IMHO, YMMV etc.)
I'd be perfectly happy with this if the United States would reprocicate by not dictating to anybody else. However, they don't. The United States is a superpower and it uses its power in ways that influences the lives of most people on Earth. I'm not against everything US. The United States is a great country and have done lot more good things for the World than bad. It's just that with so much power that the United States have, comes an equally great responsibility. And when the United States don't live up to that, the consequences are felt worldwide. And that is why we from the rest of the World are not always happy about the actions of the United States.
The US does not detain "prisoners" without charges. We do, however, place into detention terrorists that have attacked or are plotting to attack the US or its military.
Excuse me, but I can't for the life of me see the difference. These people have been locked up for over two years without a trial. Yes, they were in wrong place at the wrong time and probably carried arms when they were there. Well, there was a reason for detaining them so what is the problem? Put them before a court and have them convicted if they are guilty. Anything else is unworthy of a democratic country.
We do believe in democracy in America and brought it to many nations around the world. Two shining examples are Germany and Japan.
Except that that there are far too many more recent examples of the opposite. The other day I saw an old TV clip where a smiling Donald Rumsfeld shook hands with Saddam Hussein. In those days, the United States supported Iraq and Saddam Hussein. And don't tell me that they didn't know then what kind of regime they were supporting.
That being said, I was glad to hear president Bush say recently in London that "yes, we have supported un-democratic regimes in the past but we will stop doing that". I'm looking forward to his words become action.
One of which is surely A rational design process - how and why to fake it
Each to his own. Personally I'd rather look a little stupid all the time I'm riding with my helmet on than feeling outrageously stupid in the split second I realise that right now I need the helmet lying on a shelf at home.
Which would mean no more smartphones from Sony Ericsson for a long time.
Why?
Because Symbian is there, it works as a phone OS and has done so for a couple of years. Linux/Qt is not there as a phone OS. It needs a lot of work to become as functional and polished as Symbian is now.
But Nokia would of course love such a decision. Having their main competitor leave the market for a year or so would be absoulute wonderful for them.
The problem as I understand it is that the WiFi protocol requires much more contineous transmission, i.e. the transmitter must be turned on for much longer periods. This means bigger current-drain and hence lower time of usage for a given output power/battery size combination.
However, I'm no expert either so I may be wrong.
<sarcasm>
...which is why the market is now overflowing with WiFi-enabled mobile phones, WiFi headsets, WiFi-enabled GPS receivers etc. etc.
</sarcasm>
Bluetooth and WiFi are complementary technologies. Bluetooth headsets make perfect sense whereas a WiFi headset would have its battery life measured in minutes. Likewise, using Bluetooth for wireless networking is something you do only when you have no other alternative.
I usually carry the following devices with me:
- Ericsson R520m GSM mobile phone with Bluetooth
- Sony-Ericsson HBH-30 Bluetooth headset
- Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox 600 Pocket PC with Bluetooth
- Fortuna GPSmart BT GPS receiver with Bluetooth
Yes, I can get a WiFi-enabled PDA. Show me where to get WiFi versions of the other devices.You obviously have no clue at all on what you are talking about.
Using global variables in a true multitasking OS such as EPOC is a sure way to disaster. And yes, I've been there, done that, I have the scars - and I'd love a an API that prevents me and anybody else from doing such idiotic things.
Don't hold your breath while waiting. It will take a while before the IT-minister grasps what this is all about. Not that his predecessor was much better...
And I have a sinking feeling that this problem is not confined to Denmark...
Maybe not. The yellowish water might be beer.
...Such as this
A Maglite and a Niteize headband.
A computer radiates RF big time. The higher the clock frequency, the worse it gets. The metal case keeps the RF in.
Why not solve the problem from the beginning, rather than patching up existing designs?
Price. It is much cheaper to use fans than to build a computer with passive cooling or water cooling etc.