Yes there is. If someone in a police uniform ask you something, you are more inclined to do it. After all, it is an official law enforcer. I'd say this is abuse of power.
5.Its my stuff nobody should be dictating to me how I protect it or don't as a matter of principle. Just as with my house its my right to leave the door unlocked
Are you sure? Even if your "house" contains tons of privacy or otherwise sensitive data and you just know that it will be stolen within a day? The internet is not a local neighbourhood anymore and leaky systems can publish data you never want to be published.
And do a lot of programming. For instance, I cannot remove those stupid facebook, twitter, etc "features" from my N900 because they are in the basic part of it. I am not sure if I even could remove them with a half year dedicated study of the OS and development documentation.
Not anymore. Oh, you can buy them over the web, but I would never do that. A few years ago, netbooks with Linux were for sale in the shops. That was when I bought an Acer Aspire One (with the worst possible Linux distribution, but that was easily fixed). Alas, no Linux-based computers are sold anymore in regular shops.
With all this corporate support, I doubt that Meego is heading for a disaster. As I see it now, the worst thing it can encounter is "design by committee". But that can happen with any open source project. And freedom is not something bad. If you can develop in quite a number of ways, you can always encourage a "preferred" one. That is, if the other ways are harmful in any way. I think the whole point of a widget library is to standardize the look-and-feel of a system, so using one (like Qt) will give the power to adapt existing software for a mobile platform without having to rewrite it. I know this is over-simplified, but that is basically the idea. And it works with Maemo (I have no experience with Meego yet), even though with some applications you can "feel" they originated as desktop applications.
My phone almost IS a desktop. It has a keyboard, a reasonable screen and, like my desktop, a stylus as input device (I use a tablet instead of a mouse). So why could we not run Linux on it?
The US has already declared war on (their NATO partner) The Netherlands for housing the International Court of Justice. In the US, declaring war is a national sport.
The earliest computers had non-volatile memory, but that is where the booting process originates from!
The word "booting" comes from the word "bootstrap" which was the tiny program you had to toggle in (with binary switches for the register and the address) into memory, which you could start and which would then load the OS from punch cards.
The memory was still filled, but you did not know what with. So the computer's memory was basically a swamp, and it had to pull itself out with its own bootstraps, like Baron von Münchhausen. Hence the name.
Absolutely not. Apart from what you read about them in the news, this company is way too big for me to a happy worker. I see myself as a craftsman, and craftsmen work best in small companies. I have worked in too many companies where at least 3 people re-formulated the clients wishes without asking him what he wanted to accomplish before it was thrown over the wall. I am much more happy now.
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Yes there is. If someone in a police uniform ask you something, you are more inclined to do it. After all, it is an official law enforcer. I'd say this is abuse of power.
It's getting warm.
Shall we play a game?
Indeed. Like:
Initial: All Connections Are Equal.
Later: But Some Connections Are More Equal Than Others.
5.Its my stuff nobody should be dictating to me how I protect it or don't as a matter of principle. Just as with my house its my right to leave the door unlocked
Are you sure? Even if your "house" contains tons of privacy or otherwise sensitive data and you just know that it will be stolen within a day? The internet is not a local neighbourhood anymore and leaky systems can publish data you never want to be published.
And do a lot of programming. For instance, I cannot remove those stupid facebook, twitter, etc "features" from my N900 because they are in the basic part of it. I am not sure if I even could remove them with a half year dedicated study of the OS and development documentation.
You don't, but when had a customer anything to say about what was a standard feature on his cell phone?
The other word you could use for committee is team!
Not really. A team is actively developing, whereas a committee is "above" that.
To say it bluntly: committees make sure all the buzzwords get incorporated, while team members make sure all the features get built.
Not anymore. Oh, you can buy them over the web, but I would never do that. A few years ago, netbooks with Linux were for sale in the shops. That was when I bought an Acer Aspire One (with the worst possible Linux distribution, but that was easily fixed). Alas, no Linux-based computers are sold anymore in regular shops.
And a few thousand private lunatics at least.
With all this corporate support, I doubt that Meego is heading for a disaster. As I see it now, the worst thing it can encounter is "design by committee". But that can happen with any open source project. And freedom is not something bad. If you can develop in quite a number of ways, you can always encourage a "preferred" one. That is, if the other ways are harmful in any way. I think the whole point of a widget library is to standardize the look-and-feel of a system, so using one (like Qt) will give the power to adapt existing software for a mobile platform without having to rewrite it. I know this is over-simplified, but that is basically the idea. And it works with Maemo (I have no experience with Meego yet), even though with some applications you can "feel" they originated as desktop applications.
My phone almost IS a desktop. It has a keyboard, a reasonable screen and, like my desktop, a stylus as input device (I use a tablet instead of a mouse). So why could we not run Linux on it?
Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use
I knew no one in their right mind would use facebook.
It seems you cannot start early enough with contraceptives...
Windows is right when it says it is safe to turn off your computer.
That blonde couldn't even measure a correct heart rate.
It gets your feet warm and saves your future generation!
Yes, it is good to live in a completely reversible world.
Terrorist = Person <=> Person = Terrorist.
Are you aware this movie is being shown in feel-o-rama?
... that you can now pwn an entire generation?
"the needs of the money, outweigh the needs of the few"
The US has already declared war on (their NATO partner) The Netherlands for housing the International Court of Justice. In the US, declaring war is a national sport.
By approximately 0.7
Seriously though, companies are sometimes fooled by the looks of the numbers. 3.0 sounds like a whole new shiny redesign, while 2.3 does not.
Corporatocracy is just an evolved form of Feudalism.
There, fixed that for you.
The earliest computers had non-volatile memory, but that is where the booting process originates from!
The word "booting" comes from the word "bootstrap" which was the tiny program you had to toggle in (with binary switches for the register and the address) into memory, which you could start and which would then load the OS from punch cards.
The memory was still filled, but you did not know what with. So the computer's memory was basically a swamp, and it had to pull itself out with its own bootstraps, like Baron von Münchhausen. Hence the name.
Absolutely not. Apart from what you read about them in the news, this company is way too big for me to a happy worker. I see myself as a craftsman, and craftsmen work best in small companies. I have worked in too many companies where at least 3 people re-formulated the clients wishes without asking him what he wanted to accomplish before it was thrown over the wall. I am much more happy now.