What does Chinese GLF have to do with 5 year plans? Which "some" historians have found to be highly exaggerated, mind you. Soviet Economy was regressing in end of 70th according to the official statistics. But 1925-1960 there was rapid growth, with Sputniks, nuclear power plants, even computers and what not.
It's remarkable, how you have to jump 50 years forward to demonstrate yet another "failure". Mostly agricultural land was turned into nuclear superpower by mid 50th, with economic growth rates twice as much as in the West. It was 30 years of conservative stalemate under Brezhnev rule, that eventually ruined USSR.
On Nokia C6-00, Symbian smartphone with keyboard with GPS and what not bought for about 200 Euros (I guess it translates into 200$) I can send my emails just fine, heck, it's actually quite comfortable with hardware keyboard.
Didn't know that Opera Mobile was that bad or made by Nokia.
The most notable thing missing on C6 and visible on on more expensive smartphones is: animations. Everywhere. Now I understand where the "dual core mobile CPU" thing comes from, mobiles are made for smoothly animating menus, it seems. Having to recharge your mobile every 4 days or less is now a norm. Oh well...
Why did Nokia have to compete with Android, is beyond me.
There are people, like me, for whom not being able to freely copy whatever I want from/to device from my PCs/Notebooks is simply not acceptable. Doesn't iPad have this "feature"?
Now what turns me into "hater" is the fact that majority of reviewers (if not all of them) "overlook" this "feature" in their reviews. I do feel angry about that.
As far as "X vs Apple goes" I don't know where the myth about "killer" comes from. I find it obvious that majority of Apple customers will continue to buy Apple products no matter what, hence "killing" it is simply impossible.
It's not a reason, it's a cover to rip more off paying customers or sheer stupidity. Or I may be too old and you could name a game that stopped "evil pirates" from "pirating"? Or maybe we could start talking about how reasonable it is, 100 years until a song becomes public domain (was 50 in EU, now it is 100 as in US). Why do you have to pay for an electronic copy of Lord of the Rings (written more than 50 years ago)? And why is it only 10-15 years when it comes down to R&D stuff. (patents)
I wouldn't call EU a "3rd world". In 2008 Nokia sold about 60 million smartphones, when the next competitor, RIM, sold 23 million. Numbers changed but not drastically
Please stop bashing the company you know so little about...
Where people earn like 200-400 buck per month? Exactly how do those evil "would never buy it if I had to pay for it" "pirates" harm Sony please? Oh, and by the way, try to find out how many of the hackers out there have actually payed for IDA license. Someone on #ps3test already tried, quite fun to read:
Cheat code eh? ON XBOX 360 EH? Seriously? Guess what, xbox 360 OS, even though it's pirated like there is no tomorrow, isn't really compromised. You can't run homebrew, you can't patch stuff. Only thing you can do is patch your drive to accept pirated (cogh "backup") disk copies.
This is a myth. Before geohot's mem glitch there was simply nothing to reverse. PS3 would have been secure (even despite utter incompetence of Sony's engineers) if there was no Linux from the very beginning.
What Kakaroto was completely useless, it only allowed to install retail pkgs, and keys for those were missing. The first real CFW that does allow homebrew was that from Geohot.
It's a known myth, but actually it was broken because Sony allowed Linux to run in it. Geohot's mem glitch exploit would not work, if not OtherOS (Linux). And all existing hacks used dumps made using mentioned exploit.
Not long before that, they've forced mobile providers to drop roaming costs to 70 cent max. Now tell me how bad the government imposed competition and "regulation in general" is.
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To get somewhere you have to start moving. If 39 year plan is "too far" for you, please tell us how much faster we could have achieved that.
What does Chinese GLF have to do with 5 year plans?
Which "some" historians have found to be highly exaggerated, mind you.
Soviet Economy was regressing in end of 70th according to the official statistics. But 1925-1960 there was rapid growth, with Sputniks, nuclear power plants, even computers and what not.
It's remarkable, how you have to jump 50 years forward to demonstrate yet another "failure".
Mostly agricultural land was turned into nuclear superpower by mid 50th, with economic growth rates twice as much as in the West.
It was 30 years of conservative stalemate under Brezhnev rule, that eventually ruined USSR.
On Nokia C6-00, Symbian smartphone with keyboard with GPS and what not bought for about 200 Euros (I guess it translates into 200$) I can send my emails just fine, heck, it's actually quite comfortable with hardware keyboard.
Didn't know that Opera Mobile was that bad or made by Nokia.
The most notable thing missing on C6 and visible on on more expensive smartphones is: animations. Everywhere. Now I understand where the "dual core mobile CPU" thing comes from, mobiles are made for smoothly animating menus, it seems. Having to recharge your mobile every 4 days or less is now a norm. Oh well...
Why did Nokia have to compete with Android, is beyond me.
There are people, like me, for whom not being able to freely copy whatever I want from/to device from my PCs/Notebooks is simply not acceptable. Doesn't iPad have this "feature"?
Now what turns me into "hater" is the fact that majority of reviewers (if not all of them) "overlook" this "feature" in their reviews. I do feel angry about that.
As far as "X vs Apple goes" I don't know where the myth about "killer" comes from. I find it obvious that majority of Apple customers will continue to buy Apple products no matter what, hence "killing" it is simply impossible.
Huh? Doesn't apple's parental control work like transparent proxy that intercepts all traffic?
It's not a reason, it's a cover to rip more off paying customers or sheer stupidity.
Or I may be too old and you could name a game that stopped "evil pirates" from "pirating"?
Or maybe we could start talking about how reasonable it is, 100 years until a song becomes public domain (was 50 in EU, now it is 100 as in US).
Why do you have to pay for an electronic copy of Lord of the Rings (written more than 50 years ago)?
And why is it only 10-15 years when it comes down to R&D stuff. (patents)
I wouldn't call EU a "3rd world".
In 2008 Nokia sold about 60 million smartphones, when the next competitor, RIM, sold 23 million. Numbers changed but not drastically
Please stop bashing the company you know so little about...
Do you realize, that Sony CEO is an american?
Right. Tell me how you copy stuff from both your PC and notebook to the same iThing. And how you could copy stuff from iThing to your other devices.
Now apply this to selling apps that run on Microsoft Windows "platform", genius. Why not let Microsoft have X% of whatever can run on their OS, eh?
Where people earn like 200-400 buck per month? Exactly how do those evil "would never buy it if I had to pay for it" "pirates" harm Sony please?
Oh, and by the way, try to find out how many of the hackers out there have actually payed for IDA license. Someone on #ps3test already tried, quite fun to read:
http://pastie.org/1476525
Cheat code eh? ON XBOX 360 EH? Seriously?
Guess what, xbox 360 OS, even though it's pirated like there is no tomorrow, isn't really compromised. You can't run homebrew, you can't patch stuff.
Only thing you can do is patch your drive to accept pirated (cogh "backup") disk copies.
Making up history you are...
This "20 feet is focused as infinity" idea contradicts my own experience, sorry, and I don't think I have extraordinary eyes. Try it yourself please.
GeoHot contributed nothing to "the scene".
Seriously? And who else, beside him, had metld keys?
This is a myth. Before geohot's mem glitch there was simply nothing to reverse.
PS3 would have been secure (even despite utter incompetence of Sony's engineers) if there was no Linux from the very beginning.
What Kakaroto was completely useless, it only allowed to install retail pkgs, and keys for those were missing.
The first real CFW that does allow homebrew was that from Geohot.
Linux was removed only after glorious mem glitch by Geohot, so it's obvious what's the egg here.
It's a known myth, but actually it was broken because Sony allowed Linux to run in it.
Geohot's mem glitch exploit would not work, if not OtherOS (Linux).
And all existing hacks used dumps made using mentioned exploit.
Sony could still whitelist existing games and sign new ones with new key. Not sure if it is worth the effort though.
Bet one eurocrat got angry about the roaming charges because he used his private phone in Brussels.
Bet one eurocrat got angry about the roaming charges because he used his private phone in Brussels.
Good theory, except why would they use private phones.
Have a look:
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/06/10-companies-agree-to-standardized-mobile-phone-charger-in-eu.ars
Not long before that, they've forced mobile providers to drop roaming costs to 70 cent max. Now tell me how bad the government imposed competition and "regulation in general" is.
Wouldn't Tolkien write his book if his grandchildren wouldn't have right to get millions by selling right to make a movie based on it?
Why does this right last for a hundred years? Wouldn't 10-15 years (typical patent lasts that long) suffice?
Public consumption of art? Did you mean "money made on selling it"?