CorporalKlinger, don't listen to losers who ask you to give up. Someone has to stand up to these motherfuckers. Pursue it till death, I say. All the best.
Truly amazing that this post got modded 5, I thought the Slashdot community were the ones in the know. GM is more about patents, lawsuits (making many farmers broke), proprietary seeds (with lock-in) and terminator genes than about benefits to the end user. Considering the ignorance of the people it's not even worth explaining more, they were supposed to know that when discussing this thread.
Really? I have two facebook profiles. One with my real name, with very limited details, and one with a fake name where all my RL friends can find me. A google search brings up nothing about me, even though I was convicted of a felony 23 years ago, there are no pictures of me on the internet that I can find, and I use my real name for nothing, including my WoW account. My phone, cable and power bill are all in fake names, and I rent for cash from a former employer. My vehicles are registered to me, at a 10 year old address and my DL shows the same address. Which the banks also have as my permanent address. I use a PO box in the same county as my "official" address shows. Not everyone is willing to let the government or corporations track their where abouts and doings with ease.
You're right, in the initial iteration, HDBaseT will bring nothing great as far as technological advances go. It will probably come into the picture later because they claim it scales well. I read that ethernet is capped at just 100Mbps initially, and power at just 70W- barely enough for a 40" TV.
Free OSes are now comparable in terms of usability to commercial ones, and in technical terms are years AHEAD of commercial OSes.
I really don't agree with that. Usability constitutes many things including UI, graphics and even device support. On the desktop, Linux is lacking in all departments. It is inconsistent between programs, and within the user interface itself. Device support is shaky and unreliable. OS updates to some distributions like Ubuntu nuke the whole system sometimes. Many things don't even have a UI. And lastly, none of the desktop environments look modern and cool. There are many many other issues with free software that have caused it to fail for home environments; unless they are accepted and worked on, free software will continue to be for nerds and not the masses.
... to see what it was about. It launched 60 friend requests from fake sluts, in 60 different taskbar windows. And then I terminated the process and uninstalled it.
I have an Intel T8100 and a 8600M GT in my laptop. I tried badaboom (GPU) and Any Video Converter (CPU, multithreaded). The CPU based software encodes x264 faster, and has more features than badaboom. So what you say is not true for mid level GPUs. Also, I am more comfortable running my CPUs at 95C than my GPU, due to better reliability.
Great, I was blocked from responding for 24 hours because this thread took my karma to terrible (Nokia fans are crazy motherfuckers, apparently).
I was referring to the N900. The 5800 is hardly competition for Android or iPhone.
Many people come back to overall market share point and claim Nokia is selling a lot. But Nokia is no more a contender in the top end and it does not make the best phones any more. That's the point I have been trying to make. As for your last part unless you're a brochure shopper anyone will tell you that Apple/ Android phones does a lot more than "one thing" better than Nokia.
And fwiw where did I "tout" Apple? iOS or almost any Android device 1.6 onwards is a far better than anything from Nokia. The other manufacturers accepted it and adopted Apple. Nokia screwed themselves. That's all I have to say on this matter.
yep, that's what I was telling the other guy too. Nokia used to be great, ever since the iphone was launched, (and later android) they have been overtaken by practically everyone else.
Sounds like a lot of excuses on the behalf of a product that doesn't cut it. Just cause root is unlocked doesn't make the product great.
Your point about specialized phones would be valid if nokia had some other mass market maemo devices (in addition to N900), which it does not.
BTW, the n900 has sold far from 1 mil, more like 100,000. Even the geeks have jailbroken iPhones and Android phones- why? Cause they're better, more complete products with a thriving eco system around them.
There's no app store because it's a new platform. This will in all probability change when Symbian becomes mid-range and Meego becomes top-range and both use QT for the GUI.
It's unpolished because it's a new platform yet the nerds still wanted to beta test it in their thousands and the platform was later tidied up for mass consumption. I assume we've forgotten Android 1.0?
Android 1.0 failed cause it was not good. Just like the N900.
You seem to be a particularly blinded nokia fan so ok, I'll humor you by replying. Nokia used to be the leader in smart phones till the iphone was launched. If you wanted the best OR most expensive phone, it was a nokia. Now, every manufacturer makes better phones than nokia. They are pushed into the poor man's smart phone segment, and for the past 3 years, they have done nothing to respond. Releasing a 180g brick that doesn't even have UI in portrait mode and barely sold doesn't count. So now, everyone knows Nokia is a smart phone you got cause you couldn't afford better- simple as that.
You talk a lot about history, but it doesn't count in the technology industry. People change their phones every 1-2 yrs and Nokia has done nothing good in the last 3.
It does not seem to be having any impact currently even if it gets built in. Youtube still asks for flash unless you explicitly ask for the webm or H264 version. It would be trivial to detect the browser agent and accordingly send in H264/webm if supported, but no, flash is still used.
This problem is only getting worse with chrome integrating flash and even pdf. With such behavior can you realistically tell me that browsers are the reason why google is not ditching flash? No, there are other factors involved.
The question is- why do you need that stuff on a phone? Being unpolished, incompetent and difficult to use isn't cool. It just shows well.. incompetence. There is no app store because the developers know this phone environment is not worth their time.
Nokia's adamant refusal to phase out the S40/S60 Symbian crap is the reason why they are fucked in the high profit smart phone market. They are now far from a technology leader, everyone knows that they are just selling cheap stuff that does less. Smart phones no longer imply Nokia's stuff.
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So it should be fine if I came to your house and stole your HDTV right? I mean, it's less than $1000 so no one should care. And we should all do that.
Restore from backups and call it a day.
CorporalKlinger, don't listen to losers who ask you to give up. Someone has to stand up to these motherfuckers. Pursue it till death, I say. All the best.
The CEO of Activision who's primary goal is to milk as much money from computer games as possible by any means necessary.
'Who is primary goal'? Fail.
Truly amazing that this post got modded 5, I thought the Slashdot community were the ones in the know. GM is more about patents, lawsuits (making many farmers broke), proprietary seeds (with lock-in) and terminator genes than about benefits to the end user. Considering the ignorance of the people it's not even worth explaining more, they were supposed to know that when discussing this thread.
Really? I have two facebook profiles. One with my real name, with very limited details, and one with a fake name where all my RL friends can find me. A google search brings up nothing about me, even though I was convicted of a felony 23 years ago, there are no pictures of me on the internet that I can find, and I use my real name for nothing, including my WoW account. My phone, cable and power bill are all in fake names, and I rent for cash from a former employer. My vehicles are registered to me, at a 10 year old address and my DL shows the same address. Which the banks also have as my permanent address. I use a PO box in the same county as my "official" address shows. Not everyone is willing to let the government or corporations track their where abouts and doings with ease.
How did you manage that?
You're right, in the initial iteration, HDBaseT will bring nothing great as far as technological advances go. It will probably come into the picture later because they claim it scales well. I read that ethernet is capped at just 100Mbps initially, and power at just 70W- barely enough for a 40" TV.
And torrents do it even better.
Free OSes are now comparable in terms of usability to commercial ones, and in technical terms are years AHEAD of commercial OSes.
I really don't agree with that. Usability constitutes many things including UI, graphics and even device support. On the desktop, Linux is lacking in all departments. It is inconsistent between programs, and within the user interface itself. Device support is shaky and unreliable. OS updates to some distributions like Ubuntu nuke the whole system sometimes. Many things don't even have a UI. And lastly, none of the desktop environments look modern and cool. There are many many other issues with free software that have caused it to fail for home environments; unless they are accepted and worked on, free software will continue to be for nerds and not the masses.
... to see what it was about. It launched 60 friend requests from fake sluts, in 60 different taskbar windows. And then I terminated the process and uninstalled it.
I have an Intel T8100 and a 8600M GT in my laptop. I tried badaboom (GPU) and Any Video Converter (CPU, multithreaded). The CPU based software encodes x264 faster, and has more features than badaboom. So what you say is not true for mid level GPUs. Also, I am more comfortable running my CPUs at 95C than my GPU, due to better reliability.
it should read "adopted Android".
Great, I was blocked from responding for 24 hours because this thread took my karma to terrible (Nokia fans are crazy motherfuckers, apparently).
I was referring to the N900. The 5800 is hardly competition for Android or iPhone.
Many people come back to overall market share point and claim Nokia is selling a lot. But Nokia is no more a contender in the top end and it does not make the best phones any more. That's the point I have been trying to make. As for your last part unless you're a brochure shopper anyone will tell you that Apple/ Android phones does a lot more than "one thing" better than Nokia.
And fwiw where did I "tout" Apple? iOS or almost any Android device 1.6 onwards is a far better than anything from Nokia. The other manufacturers accepted it and adopted Apple. Nokia screwed themselves. That's all I have to say on this matter.
So advanced that it doesn't have call type separation? That it has an unresponsive touch screen? that it had to include a stylus?
The *only* good thing I see in the n900 is support for xvid/divx.
BTW there are many slide out keyboard phones, none weigh 180g. N900 is just linux plus phone. Not really usable unless you jack off to terminal.
yep, that's what I was telling the other guy too. Nokia used to be great, ever since the iphone was launched, (and later android) they have been overtaken by practically everyone else.
You have a reading comprehension problem..
And about the portrait mode http://nokiamobileblog.com/nokia-n900-portrait-mode-n900-update-to-bring-portrait-mode/
Nokia has not made complete UIs for portrait mode. Certain screens have been designed only in landscape
Sounds like a lot of excuses on the behalf of a product that doesn't cut it. Just cause root is unlocked doesn't make the product great.
Your point about specialized phones would be valid if nokia had some other mass market maemo devices (in addition to N900), which it does not.
BTW, the n900 has sold far from 1 mil, more like 100,000. Even the geeks have jailbroken iPhones and Android phones- why? Cause they're better, more complete products with a thriving eco system around them.
You spend way too much time on slashdot. Whenever I open a story I see a post from you.
There's no app store because it's a new platform. This will in all probability change when Symbian becomes mid-range and Meego becomes top-range and both use QT for the GUI.
It's unpolished because it's a new platform yet the nerds still wanted to beta test it in their thousands and the platform was later tidied up for mass consumption. I assume we've forgotten Android 1.0?
Android 1.0 failed cause it was not good. Just like the N900.
You seem to be a particularly blinded nokia fan so ok, I'll humor you by replying. Nokia used to be the leader in smart phones till the iphone was launched. If you wanted the best OR most expensive phone, it was a nokia. Now, every manufacturer makes better phones than nokia. They are pushed into the poor man's smart phone segment, and for the past 3 years, they have done nothing to respond. Releasing a 180g brick that doesn't even have UI in portrait mode and barely sold doesn't count. So now, everyone knows Nokia is a smart phone you got cause you couldn't afford better- simple as that.
You talk a lot about history, but it doesn't count in the technology industry. People change their phones every 1-2 yrs and Nokia has done nothing good in the last 3.
It does not seem to be having any impact currently even if it gets built in. Youtube still asks for flash unless you explicitly ask for the webm or H264 version. It would be trivial to detect the browser agent and accordingly send in H264/webm if supported, but no, flash is still used.
This problem is only getting worse with chrome integrating flash and even pdf. With such behavior can you realistically tell me that browsers are the reason why google is not ditching flash? No, there are other factors involved.
It's because of people like you that we have willingly given away so many freedoms we used to enjoy.
The question is- why do you need that stuff on a phone? Being unpolished, incompetent and difficult to use isn't cool. It just shows well.. incompetence. There is no app store because the developers know this phone environment is not worth their time.
And that's coming from someone who's been a steady Nokia customer since the late 90's.
It's never a good idea to get attached to any tech company. Things change fast and you might miss out on something great for no good reason
Nokia's adamant refusal to phase out the S40/S60 Symbian crap is the reason why they are fucked in the high profit smart phone market. They are now far from a technology leader, everyone knows that they are just selling cheap stuff that does less. Smart phones no longer imply Nokia's stuff.