Wait, Meego was a "platform"? You mean there was more than just the N900?:-)
It is still a platform even if it never really catches on. I still think both Maemo and Meego could've been real hits if Nokia had had the courage to see things through and management didn't try to screw everything up twice a month, but...
But seriously, try Android or iOS, both are great, anything else is utter crap in 2011.
I personally enjoy my Maemo thoroughly and I see both Android and iOS as inferior. Sooner or later I will have to get a newer phone but that won't be for a long time still, and it'll likely be Android because I really dislike anything Apple and I don't think Win7 Phone will ever truly catch on.
Why would he be involved? Holtz is becoming a useless keyword to generate 'news'.
Stop pulling these stories off the hose just because there's nothing else interesting.
Some people who love to blame others are claiming that Hotz was somehow behind all this. Obviously it's total bull, but you know how some people are.
As for the Slashdot article: It's just plain and simple a means of getting attention, but I really, really feel ashamed for anyone here who somehow thought Hotz was in any way involved. Anyone with half a brain cell should know better.
"We are now aware that the police have used traffic information that you have helped to create to place speed cameras at dangerous locations where the average speed is higher than the legally allowed speed limit," he says.
cough *BS* cough They are using it to make more money and just place the cameras where the probability is higher to make money! Thanks TOM TOM your company was going downhill, but it will REALLY go downhill now!
Personally I think it's just great what they're doing. People are speeding like crazy, often talking on the phone at the same time, and then every now and then someone dies. Just a month or two ago my friend's uncle got killed in an accident where someone thought he was a real speed demon and ended up crashing on the aforementioned uncle's car. My car has been crashed into too, just two weeks ago, and just today a 15-year old girl got killed because of someone speeding.
Now, I know you'll come up and say "But I can drive faster than the limits say and stil be perfectly safe" but guess what? That's what all the others are saying too! I only wish TomTom would directly report speeders to the police, atleast that'd take them out of the roads for a while.
Vote this article down - it's misleading flamebait in the extreme. In particular, it fails to mention that the software was designed to facilitate anonymous filesharing, which would most certainly be used for copyright infringement and illegal purposes. And, the whole thing goes against Dropbox's TOS, even if it isn't used for dubious file sharing purposes.
Agreed. The TOS is pretty darn clear on this and as such there is no reason to complain, they are fully in their rights to do this.
What does the age of the technique have to do with anything? Hell, wheels were invented and used thousands of years ago and they're still in use even today.
zzz...256 colors...zzzzzzz....
Limitations in color representation again doesn't really say anything negative. Those GIFs look just great, and it tells about the skills of those who created them that you cannot spot any definite miscolourings in any of those images.
Please. Wake me up when we've invented animated PNGs.
I personally think those two are harder to learn than Finnish, but I did say Finnish is _one of_ the hardest languages in the world, not that it is _the_ hardest one.
I don't know many swedes and the ones I've met have been total boneheads. But I believe I've just met some really bad examples of swedes, not that all (or even majority) of you guys are like that. But the thing that I notice the most is how you guys are a monarchy whereas we ain't; it sets a certain kind of a cultural stigma that somehow seems to stick to you guys and your view of things. I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing, it's just.. different.
If I had to choose one, specific term to describe us Finns I'd choose "down-to-earth."
You are partly confirming my idea that Finland wouldn't be a bad choice. Any idea what their immigration laws are like? Do you know if they would welcome an American who would like to naturalize and become Finnish?
There's many good things going on here compared to the US, like for example everyone is guaranteed medical aid should they need it, regardless of having an insurance or not, or the fact that mega corporations aren't allowed to trump on consumer rights or laws like they do in the US. But there's also the downsides, like for example having really long and cold winters. There are many immigrants who first believe they'll love the winters, but then eventually when the cold and dark sets in they get depressed very easily. Also the language barrier... well, you will REALLY be struggling with Finnish, especially if you don't have any natural knack for languages.
As for immigration laws: AFAIK you just need to take this short course that briefly goes over the most important laws and customs around here. I atleast am not aware of them requiring much more than that. An American would be just as welcome as anyone else, I s'spose, but as I said, you yourself need to know if you like cold, dark winters or not.
Meh, an 80 year old in my town just got her first third level degree. The human mind is capable of absolutely stunnng feats on a routine basis.
Tbh, a degree doesn't really prove anything in this regard. If you knew Finnish you'd know that it's so damn difficult because there's a gazillion different ways of saying the same things AND almost every single damn city has their own dialect. That really makes it hard for a foreigner to learn it all. If the oldtimer you mentioned really has a knack for languages then good for him/her, but the fact remains that Finnish is indeed considered one of the world's toughest languages for a foreigner to learn by any major linguist.
OtherOS was used for making images of Blu-Ray movies which you can accomplish with nothing more than dd on a ps3 because of the way the drivers worked, but for which you need to use more complicated programs on other systems. Or so I have read in multiple fora
OP claimed the issue was backups of games, and those cannot be copied with a simple dd. The Blu-Ray drive doesn't allow any access to itself if there is a game disc inside.
It was used for hacking the console, making it possible to run your own software, hacked games and backups of games.
That's a downright lie right there: OtherOS NEVER allowed for playing backups or hacking games. First of all, the PS3's own filesystem is encrypted and on a separate partition from the OtherOS partition, so there was no access to the files there in the first place. Secondly, there was no access to GameOS functions whatsoever. OtherOS was absolutely not used for running PS3 games, not then and not now.
sony sells the ps3 at a loss, gambling that game purchases will give profit.
Actually PS3 hasn't been sold at a loss for a long time now. At first it was, yes, but as time passed the parts needed for production of PS3 fat model became cheaper and that's when they weren't no longer sold at a loss. The slim model hasn't been sold at a loss at all.
I too got really tempted by this thing. It's got sufficiently large screen, HDMI-out, enough storage, and I really love how they've done the keyboard accessory. This seems a lot like a Tablet Done Right (TM) so far. I just don't know where in Finland one can get these things, it's quite difficult to find any good tablets here.
I am looking forward to games like The Witcher 2, Elder Scrolls Skyrim, and other single player games.
You ain't alone there, mate!:) Witcher 2 is coming out soon, and Skyrim ain't coming out soon enough!:D I just really hope it's better than Oblivion. I still think Morrowind was far superior to Oblivion in every single thing except graphics, and graphics alone ain't enough to make a game good. I think I played Morrowind for half a year, just exploring everything, collecting myself a library of all the books in the game in my Telvanni mushroom castle.. Good times.
Only multiplayer games worth 60? Well, this just shows that not everyone likes the same things. I would DEFINITELY be more likely to buy a $60 single-player game if it featured a good story than a $30 multiplayer game with no story. Multiplayer games are boring, they're all the same sh*t with just different colors, and I have absolutely no effing interest whatsoever to be playing with a bunch of retarded monkeys from the other side of the world.
And how do we know that they're not simply joining up to see what others have there, to make it easier for them to win IP lawsuits?
The members of OIN are not allowed to use their patents against other members. Similarly, if a member joins OIN and then leaves OIN, they will still be fighting against thousands of patents and would only assure their own destruction by going to court. Ie. your scenario simply doesn't fly.
- Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning - Art of the Saber - Big Buck Bunny - Bounty Trail - Broken Allegiance - The Dark Redemption - Duality - Elephants Dream - Fanimatrix - The Formula - Machinima, such as Red vs Blue - The Phantom Edit - Pink Five - Reciprocity
Of those ones I've seen on that list none were really memorable in any way or even good enough that I'd recommend them to any of my friends or family. Some, like for example Big Buck Bunny, are very pretty but.. that simply ain't enough, you know. It's more like a tech demo and/or an ad for Blender. I still stand by my opinion that these free movies cannot and will not stand up to scrutiny when compared against the better Hollywood movies.
Right, because money is the _only_ incentive for people to create./sarcasm.
Why don't you actually talk to people who create in their spare time.
How many TV series for example do you see that people create in their spare time? Hmm? Or let's say movies?
Or how about the argument about the QUALITY of stuff done in spare time: I am personally a F/OSS proponent, but even I admit that most F/OSS software is really poor compared to their closed-source competitors, even so much as being completely unusable cr*p. GIMP and Firefox are great, but even there Photoshop trumps GIMP. Every single F/OSS game I've tried is simply downright horrible, with horrible graphics, really buggy gameplay, poor story if there is any story at all, and so on. On the other hand there plenty of downright awesome games that are NOT created in 'spare time.'
Hell, there would be nothing worth watching or playing if everything was created in 'spare time' by hobbyists.
"Angered at Righthaven’s behavior, a Las Vegas federal judge unsealed the company’s heretofore confidential agreement [...]"
Not that I'm complaining, but... what did Righthaven do to anger the judge? Were their lawyers being dicks? Was the contract itself what angered the judge? Truly, I'd like to know.
The whole point of trying to run a business with the sole purpose of making income by suing people is probably quite angering to judges. After all, courts are not meant to be used for business, they're meant for solving actual real problems.
I dunno, I get the feeling 'transgender' is a wrong term to use here. They look just plain old transvestites, transgender refers to deeper personality issues with gender relations.
As an aside, damn that is an odd way of trying to get people to pay their taxes.
Just as well transsexual people will be hard for these things: hormonal medication does not change skeletal features,
Even so quite a few transsexuals undergo various forms of plastic surgery that certainly can change a lot of skeletal features. This can range from rhinoplasty, forehead contouring, chin reductions etc...
Only rich ones do, those cost helluva lot of money. I have one FtM and one MtF friend, neither of whom can afford such and are only on hormones, and belonging to a sexual minority group myself I hang out a lot in one of the local forums for HLGBTI people and so far I have not met anyone else either who would have had anything else done than hormone therapy.
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Wait, Meego was a "platform"? You mean there was more than just the N900? :-)
It is still a platform even if it never really catches on. I still think both Maemo and Meego could've been real hits if Nokia had had the courage to see things through and management didn't try to screw everything up twice a month, but...
But seriously, try Android or iOS, both are great, anything else is utter crap in 2011.
I personally enjoy my Maemo thoroughly and I see both Android and iOS as inferior. Sooner or later I will have to get a newer phone but that won't be for a long time still, and it'll likely be Android because I really dislike anything Apple and I don't think Win7 Phone will ever truly catch on.
Why would he be involved? Holtz is becoming a useless keyword to generate 'news'.
Stop pulling these stories off the hose just because there's nothing else interesting.
Some people who love to blame others are claiming that Hotz was somehow behind all this. Obviously it's total bull, but you know how some people are.
As for the Slashdot article: It's just plain and simple a means of getting attention, but I really, really feel ashamed for anyone here who somehow thought Hotz was in any way involved. Anyone with half a brain cell should know better.
"We are now aware that the police have used traffic information that you have helped to create to place speed cameras at dangerous locations where the average speed is higher than the legally allowed speed limit," he says.
Read more: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/cartech/tomtom-admits-to-sending-your-routes-and-speed-information-to-the-police-50003618/#ixzz1KqGfyhmm
cough *BS* cough They are using it to make more money and just place the cameras where the probability is higher to make money! Thanks TOM TOM your company was going downhill, but it will REALLY go downhill now!
Personally I think it's just great what they're doing. People are speeding like crazy, often talking on the phone at the same time, and then every now and then someone dies. Just a month or two ago my friend's uncle got killed in an accident where someone thought he was a real speed demon and ended up crashing on the aforementioned uncle's car. My car has been crashed into too, just two weeks ago, and just today a 15-year old girl got killed because of someone speeding.
Now, I know you'll come up and say "But I can drive faster than the limits say and stil be perfectly safe" but guess what? That's what all the others are saying too! I only wish TomTom would directly report speeders to the police, atleast that'd take them out of the roads for a while.
Vote this article down - it's misleading flamebait in the extreme. In particular, it fails to mention that the software was designed to facilitate anonymous filesharing, which would most certainly be used for copyright infringement and illegal purposes. And, the whole thing goes against Dropbox's TOS, even if it isn't used for dubious file sharing purposes.
Agreed. The TOS is pretty darn clear on this and as such there is no reason to complain, they are fully in their rights to do this.
zzz...1997...
What does the age of the technique have to do with anything? Hell, wheels were invented and used thousands of years ago and they're still in use even today.
zzz...256 colors...zzzzzzz....
Limitations in color representation again doesn't really say anything negative. Those GIFs look just great, and it tells about the skills of those who created them that you cannot spot any definite miscolourings in any of those images.
Please. Wake me up when we've invented animated PNGs.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/APNG
I found quite many of them too loopy to make them all that awesome :/ There were a few that were really good, though. Especially the creepy ones.
When information is made illegal only outlaws will have information.
That makes many high-profile government employees, ministers and presidents outlaws... Hmm.
Tougher than Japanese, or Chinese?
I personally think those two are harder to learn than Finnish, but I did say Finnish is _one of_ the hardest languages in the world, not that it is _the_ hardest one.
I don't know many swedes and the ones I've met have been total boneheads. But I believe I've just met some really bad examples of swedes, not that all (or even majority) of you guys are like that. But the thing that I notice the most is how you guys are a monarchy whereas we ain't; it sets a certain kind of a cultural stigma that somehow seems to stick to you guys and your view of things. I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing, it's just.. different.
If I had to choose one, specific term to describe us Finns I'd choose "down-to-earth."
You are partly confirming my idea that Finland wouldn't be a bad choice. Any idea what their immigration laws are like? Do you know if they would welcome an American who would like to naturalize and become Finnish?
There's many good things going on here compared to the US, like for example everyone is guaranteed medical aid should they need it, regardless of having an insurance or not, or the fact that mega corporations aren't allowed to trump on consumer rights or laws like they do in the US. But there's also the downsides, like for example having really long and cold winters. There are many immigrants who first believe they'll love the winters, but then eventually when the cold and dark sets in they get depressed very easily. Also the language barrier... well, you will REALLY be struggling with Finnish, especially if you don't have any natural knack for languages.
As for immigration laws: AFAIK you just need to take this short course that briefly goes over the most important laws and customs around here. I atleast am not aware of them requiring much more than that. An American would be just as welcome as anyone else, I s'spose, but as I said, you yourself need to know if you like cold, dark winters or not.
Meh, an 80 year old in my town just got her first third level degree. The human mind is capable of absolutely stunnng feats on a routine basis.
Tbh, a degree doesn't really prove anything in this regard. If you knew Finnish you'd know that it's so damn difficult because there's a gazillion different ways of saying the same things AND almost every single damn city has their own dialect. That really makes it hard for a foreigner to learn it all. If the oldtimer you mentioned really has a knack for languages then good for him/her, but the fact remains that Finnish is indeed considered one of the world's toughest languages for a foreigner to learn by any major linguist.
OtherOS was used for making images of Blu-Ray movies which you can accomplish with nothing more than dd on a ps3 because of the way the drivers worked, but for which you need to use more complicated programs on other systems. Or so I have read in multiple fora
OP claimed the issue was backups of games, and those cannot be copied with a simple dd. The Blu-Ray drive doesn't allow any access to itself if there is a game disc inside.
It was used for hacking the console, making it possible to run your own software, hacked games and backups of games.
That's a downright lie right there: OtherOS NEVER allowed for playing backups or hacking games. First of all, the PS3's own filesystem is encrypted and on a separate partition from the OtherOS partition, so there was no access to the files there in the first place. Secondly, there was no access to GameOS functions whatsoever. OtherOS was absolutely not used for running PS3 games, not then and not now.
sony sells the ps3 at a loss, gambling that game purchases will give profit.
Actually PS3 hasn't been sold at a loss for a long time now. At first it was, yes, but as time passed the parts needed for production of PS3 fat model became cheaper and that's when they weren't no longer sold at a loss. The slim model hasn't been sold at a loss at all.
I too got really tempted by this thing. It's got sufficiently large screen, HDMI-out, enough storage, and I really love how they've done the keyboard accessory. This seems a lot like a Tablet Done Right (TM) so far. I just don't know where in Finland one can get these things, it's quite difficult to find any good tablets here.
I am looking forward to games like The Witcher 2, Elder Scrolls Skyrim, and other single player games.
You ain't alone there, mate! :) Witcher 2 is coming out soon, and Skyrim ain't coming out soon enough! :D I just really hope it's better than Oblivion. I still think Morrowind was far superior to Oblivion in every single thing except graphics, and graphics alone ain't enough to make a game good. I think I played Morrowind for half a year, just exploring everything, collecting myself a library of all the books in the game in my Telvanni mushroom castle.. Good times.
Only multiplayer games worth 60? Well, this just shows that not everyone likes the same things. I would DEFINITELY be more likely to buy a $60 single-player game if it featured a good story than a $30 multiplayer game with no story. Multiplayer games are boring, they're all the same sh*t with just different colors, and I have absolutely no effing interest whatsoever to be playing with a bunch of retarded monkeys from the other side of the world.
And how do we know that they're not simply joining up to see what others have there, to make it easier for them to win IP lawsuits?
The members of OIN are not allowed to use their patents against other members. Similarly, if a member joins OIN and then leaves OIN, they will still be fighting against thousands of patents and would only assure their own destruction by going to court. Ie. your scenario simply doesn't fly.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/crony
crony
(krn)
n. pl. cronies
A longtime close friend or companion.
These artists would probably beg to differ...
- Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
- Art of the Saber
- Big Buck Bunny
- Bounty Trail
- Broken Allegiance
- The Dark Redemption
- Duality
- Elephants Dream
- Fanimatrix
- The Formula
- Machinima, such as Red vs Blue
- The Phantom Edit
- Pink Five
- Reciprocity
Of those ones I've seen on that list none were really memorable in any way or even good enough that I'd recommend them to any of my friends or family. Some, like for example Big Buck Bunny, are very pretty but.. that simply ain't enough, you know. It's more like a tech demo and/or an ad for Blender. I still stand by my opinion that these free movies cannot and will not stand up to scrutiny when compared against the better Hollywood movies.
Right, because money is the _only_ incentive for people to create. /sarcasm.
Why don't you actually talk to people who create in their spare time.
How many TV series for example do you see that people create in their spare time? Hmm? Or let's say movies?
Or how about the argument about the QUALITY of stuff done in spare time: I am personally a F/OSS proponent, but even I admit that most F/OSS software is really poor compared to their closed-source competitors, even so much as being completely unusable cr*p. GIMP and Firefox are great, but even there Photoshop trumps GIMP. Every single F/OSS game I've tried is simply downright horrible, with horrible graphics, really buggy gameplay, poor story if there is any story at all, and so on. On the other hand there plenty of downright awesome games that are NOT created in 'spare time.'
Hell, there would be nothing worth watching or playing if everything was created in 'spare time' by hobbyists.
Just Google your name..
I only get my Facebook account with a small selection of what interests me and who I have befriended publicly. Hardly my "entire life." :S
"Angered at Righthaven’s behavior, a Las Vegas federal judge unsealed the company’s heretofore confidential agreement [...]"
Not that I'm complaining, but... what did Righthaven do to anger the judge? Were their lawyers being dicks? Was the contract itself what angered the judge? Truly, I'd like to know.
The whole point of trying to run a business with the sole purpose of making income by suing people is probably quite angering to judges. After all, courts are not meant to be used for business, they're meant for solving actual real problems.
I dunno, I get the feeling 'transgender' is a wrong term to use here. They look just plain old transvestites, transgender refers to deeper personality issues with gender relations.
As an aside, damn that is an odd way of trying to get people to pay their taxes.
Even so quite a few transsexuals undergo various forms of plastic surgery that certainly can change a lot of skeletal features. This can range from rhinoplasty, forehead contouring, chin reductions etc...
Only rich ones do, those cost helluva lot of money. I have one FtM and one MtF friend, neither of whom can afford such and are only on hormones, and belonging to a sexual minority group myself I hang out a lot in one of the local forums for HLGBTI people and so far I have not met anyone else either who would have had anything else done than hormone therapy.