Problem is that "players" aren't actually the main deciding factor in how trade rules are made. They are an important one, but not major. Major factors are interests of exchanges themselves who benefit from HFT financially and major traders who run HFTs.
This leaves the small and medium traders who are basically exploited.
So, microsoft is a huge megacorporation that does all those things, and the "frat boys" are people who are involved with but a single aspect of the company and therefore hype up their own division?
No one said entirely. It's definitely a VERY important, likely a core part of "apple experience". But it's far from being the only one, there are several others, such as certain expected level of functionality out of the box, ease of use within certain parameters and so on.
You've essentially turned argument "toyota is a car" into "it's not true that all cars are toyotas".
You mean like the current maps fiasco? C'mon, at least try to be realistic with your arguments. Apple's products in the end are just as much of checklists with often worse implementations of checklisted stuff then wintel gets. And it loses plenty of those quality matches. But as usual, apple has a much better marketing and very loyal fanbase that will shout over anyone criticising their products, so you rarely get stuff in proper proportion as compared to stuff on competitor platforms that lack such following and marketing.
Highly unlikely. Nokia is most likely tightly bound with contractual obligations towards MS specifically aimed to poison any such attempt at merger/buyout.
Oh, apple is the devil we know as well. It's just that it's the kind of a devil that would make microsoft look like baby jesus in comparison if it was in the similar monopolist position on desktop.
On the other hand I see windows embedded everywhere now. From cashier station as local supermarkets to bill paying machines (Finland, birthplace of linux). It's really getting into places where it never really was before.
It seems more that MS is becomes somewhat less relevant from customer point of view with their failure in phones market, but more important in business point of view with their ever expanding range of software and devices that are embedded with MS software.
It's a bit of a weird place in the market. This isn't something that "one size fits all" apple model has any chance of ever getting into and where google with its emphasis on collecting data on everything in the world has real problems making connect with their real revenue streams. The competition is more on the end of the likes of IBM. And that business is more and more important for MS.
It is actually. Considering how much of world's infrastructure and baseline business runs on various microsoft software, MS is probably far more dangerous if suddenly failing then most big banks. You'd need an orderly and slow replacement process.
Strange, considering that it always sold licenses to old maps. Perhaps you have some sort of a bundle? I recall some operators sold offline navigation software from third parties, like garmin or tomtom. Flashing your phone could potentially kill the license and terminate navigation.
Again, the free navigation only came long after n95, and they touted it as a "game changer" because it was - no one was offering free maps back then. Not even themselves. It was a very surprising move.
The MAPS were free always. The NAVIGATION was pay to use.
If you got NAVIGATION free with initial phone, it was likely some kind of a time limited offer which expired or lost license in the firmware update. I know quite a few people who got a few months free navigation with initial purchase, such as myself (I was lucky though, as just as my license expired nokia changed policy to lifetime free navigation for my phone, but they never offered this for n95 afaik).
Weird, considering what they did was exact opposite. Maps were a paid feature for a long time after Nokia purchased NavTeq. Then they started to feel the squeeze in smartphone market and did their "gamechanger" press release in which they announced all maps for most smart phones going fully free with free lifetime updates.
Sweden is the last place on earth after New Zealand to try to claim this. The officials have fewer problems then those in New Zealand playing obvious lapdogs for US. From Piratebay, which used to be legal in Sweden, to IPRED to spy on russian outbound internet traffic to the West, to case Assange which perverted justice and extradition rules in extremely obvious and very post-9/11 USA-way, transparency at high levels of government is absolutely the last thing that currently exists in Sweden for meaningful cases when foreign powers are involved.
There is some meaningful transparency on low level. There is little to none on high level, and that's frankly a Nordic problem in general. We're a bit too closed of a society with old boys clubs forming too easily. That's our kind of corruption, where no money changes hands, just favours.
By that measuring stick, all the "pros" have been long outcompeted by "amateurs" and are now gone from all industries.
Well, there may still be some in Africa or poor Asian regions. I wouldn't know, but I'm quite certain that when "amateurs" actually judge the region to be financially viable to operate in, the "pros" will be outcompeted again..
A bit offtopic, but how did you get bluetooth to work fast? I only get BT v1.2 speeds on my 5230 to PC transfers, so USB tether is pretty much a must for any heavy transferring. ~80KB/sec isn't a stellar transfer speed when I am limited by memory card's read/write speed over USB.
The phone does support 3G so OTA updates of map suite are easy, but I still prefer updating through PC because of much better network speed at home.
Also the whole "phone identifies itself as an external memory or a modem to a PC" makes me cringe. This used to be industry standard just a few years ago until apple perverted it. Nowadays me hooking my 5230 to a young friend's PC when visiting to toss him a couple of files gets me a look of astonishment "doesn't it need some sort of itunes to work?". Ugh. At least android can is still decent in this regard.
They already signed into a contract where their survival is dependent on microsoft. When you are already walking on the edge, who cares if the chasm gets twice as deep?
Judges are actually quite often people with "common sense" because that's essentially half of their job. They must combine legislation and reality to produce verdicts.
Problem lies in legislative branch which has been empowered by our political system inherited from French revolution and corrupted over the course of last hundred years or so. Essentially the problem is that it hasn't withstood the test of time all that well, as various corrupting influences discovered more and more holes through which they could affect legislative process for their advantage and to harm of general populace who's supposed to be choosing legislators to represent themselves. As a result we ended up with a system where legislators are essentially elected by a few corrupting elements and do not represent the society as a whole as is the point of democracy.
So we get the situations where judges are pressed into dilemmas where reality and common sense are in direct conflict with legislation which started off with good intentions, but got massively corrupted over time. Copyright legislation in USA is an excellent example of such legislation.
Klystron radars and expensiveness of short range radar coupled with lack of computer systems kind of sucked. Humans lack the accuracy of a modern CIWS weapon.
What do you think CIWS like Phalanx or Kashtan, or more mobile russian ZSU models. You can look at how well that worked for US when they tried to assault Baghdad with low flying slow Apaches instead of making an anti air clearing sweep first due to being oversaturated with targets in 2003. Apaches couldn't even get close to targets due to massive amount of anti air fire put out by AAA and while this wasn't really advertised due for obvious propaganda reasons, various sources that sourced info from mechanics and pilots quoted that over half of apaches got damaged in some way when they tried to breach the AAA perimeter.
Slow loitering weapons systems like modern attack drones work very well when there is no AAA or SAM defences covering the area. They're about as useless as an Apache in flat desert against targets covered by such weapon systems however. You need a proper anti-air strike that destroys any such installations and mobile units before you deploy your "drone swarm" because modern AAA can essentially swat drones out of the sky as fast and as long as its ammo stores hold.
There's no question about drone being better suited for dog fighting. Modern fighters have long been limited in maneuverability by human acceleration tolerance limits rather then airframe ones. Eurofighter could probably pull enough g-forces to cause significant permanent damage to its pilot while remaining intact and airworthy. Problem is that human body simply can't handle the associated stress, so there's no point at pushing aircraft design over these limits.
Remove the organic control center and replace it with a silicon chip and you can conceivably push your aircraft as far as airframe can handle. This would be a game changer - your current acceleration limiter essentially gets removed.
I'm not talking about control systems. These can actually be reduced. I'm talking about command and control computers, which refers to systems that are in charge of computing the complex actions needed by the plane (essentially role of the pilot), because in combat scenario you're not going to be getting any kind of a control signal from outside - it will be jammed. Actual movement of control surfaces and throttle can be indeed handled by flight control systems, essentially fly-by-wire, which will actually be less important because of both computing speed likely available in the computer running the complex algorithms responsible for behaviour (which is why we need fly-by-wire now - human to machine interface and human brain are not efficient enough to handle the control actions needed by modern aerodynamically unstable airframes).
Do what Iranians did to the drone they got intact. Jam it's ability to detect where it is, confuse it with fake signal and let it have fun murdering it's own masters while you don't fire a single missile.
There is a reason why people making drones are REAAAAAAALLY careful about just how autonomous armed drones are.
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Problem is that "players" aren't actually the main deciding factor in how trade rules are made. They are an important one, but not major. Major factors are interests of exchanges themselves who benefit from HFT financially and major traders who run HFTs.
This leaves the small and medium traders who are basically exploited.
So, microsoft is a huge megacorporation that does all those things, and the "frat boys" are people who are involved with but a single aspect of the company and therefore hype up their own division?
No one said entirely. It's definitely a VERY important, likely a core part of "apple experience". But it's far from being the only one, there are several others, such as certain expected level of functionality out of the box, ease of use within certain parameters and so on.
You've essentially turned argument "toyota is a car" into "it's not true that all cars are toyotas".
You mean like the current maps fiasco? C'mon, at least try to be realistic with your arguments. Apple's products in the end are just as much of checklists with often worse implementations of checklisted stuff then wintel gets. And it loses plenty of those quality matches. But as usual, apple has a much better marketing and very loyal fanbase that will shout over anyone criticising their products, so you rarely get stuff in proper proportion as compared to stuff on competitor platforms that lack such following and marketing.
Highly unlikely. Nokia is most likely tightly bound with contractual obligations towards MS specifically aimed to poison any such attempt at merger/buyout.
If by "damned close" you mean around 20-30% difference then yes, damned close.
Most of the world calls it "huge difference" though. Especially when those 20-30% scale to fortune500 size.
Oh, apple is the devil we know as well. It's just that it's the kind of a devil that would make microsoft look like baby jesus in comparison if it was in the similar monopolist position on desktop.
On the other hand I see windows embedded everywhere now. From cashier station as local supermarkets to bill paying machines (Finland, birthplace of linux). It's really getting into places where it never really was before.
It seems more that MS is becomes somewhat less relevant from customer point of view with their failure in phones market, but more important in business point of view with their ever expanding range of software and devices that are embedded with MS software.
It's a bit of a weird place in the market. This isn't something that "one size fits all" apple model has any chance of ever getting into and where google with its emphasis on collecting data on everything in the world has real problems making connect with their real revenue streams. The competition is more on the end of the likes of IBM. And that business is more and more important for MS.
It is actually. Considering how much of world's infrastructure and baseline business runs on various microsoft software, MS is probably far more dangerous if suddenly failing then most big banks. You'd need an orderly and slow replacement process.
Strange, considering that it always sold licenses to old maps. Perhaps you have some sort of a bundle? I recall some operators sold offline navigation software from third parties, like garmin or tomtom. Flashing your phone could potentially kill the license and terminate navigation.
Again, the free navigation only came long after n95, and they touted it as a "game changer" because it was - no one was offering free maps back then. Not even themselves. It was a very surprising move.
The MAPS were free always. The NAVIGATION was pay to use.
If you got NAVIGATION free with initial phone, it was likely some kind of a time limited offer which expired or lost license in the firmware update. I know quite a few people who got a few months free navigation with initial purchase, such as myself (I was lucky though, as just as my license expired nokia changed policy to lifetime free navigation for my phone, but they never offered this for n95 afaik).
So you're basing your opinion not on the facts of the case, but on your personal feelings towards the person making the complaint.
I wonder if you even realise that you demolished your own credibility completely all by yourself?
Did you just compare maps lacking data to company being forced to remove data due to the longest standing internal NATO conflict?
Weird, considering what they did was exact opposite. Maps were a paid feature for a long time after Nokia purchased NavTeq. Then they started to feel the squeeze in smartphone market and did their "gamechanger" press release in which they announced all maps for most smart phones going fully free with free lifetime updates.
Perhaps it was some sort of an operator thing?
Sweden is the last place on earth after New Zealand to try to claim this. The officials have fewer problems then those in New Zealand playing obvious lapdogs for US. From Piratebay, which used to be legal in Sweden, to IPRED to spy on russian outbound internet traffic to the West, to case Assange which perverted justice and extradition rules in extremely obvious and very post-9/11 USA-way, transparency at high levels of government is absolutely the last thing that currently exists in Sweden for meaningful cases when foreign powers are involved.
There is some meaningful transparency on low level. There is little to none on high level, and that's frankly a Nordic problem in general. We're a bit too closed of a society with old boys clubs forming too easily. That's our kind of corruption, where no money changes hands, just favours.
By that measuring stick, all the "pros" have been long outcompeted by "amateurs" and are now gone from all industries.
Well, there may still be some in Africa or poor Asian regions. I wouldn't know, but I'm quite certain that when "amateurs" actually judge the region to be financially viable to operate in, the "pros" will be outcompeted again..
A bit offtopic, but how did you get bluetooth to work fast? I only get BT v1.2 speeds on my 5230 to PC transfers, so USB tether is pretty much a must for any heavy transferring. ~80KB/sec isn't a stellar transfer speed when I am limited by memory card's read/write speed over USB.
The phone does support 3G so OTA updates of map suite are easy, but I still prefer updating through PC because of much better network speed at home.
Also the whole "phone identifies itself as an external memory or a modem to a PC" makes me cringe. This used to be industry standard just a few years ago until apple perverted it. Nowadays me hooking my 5230 to a young friend's PC when visiting to toss him a couple of files gets me a look of astonishment "doesn't it need some sort of itunes to work?". Ugh. At least android can is still decent in this regard.
They already signed into a contract where their survival is dependent on microsoft. When you are already walking on the edge, who cares if the chasm gets twice as deep?
Judges are actually quite often people with "common sense" because that's essentially half of their job. They must combine legislation and reality to produce verdicts.
Problem lies in legislative branch which has been empowered by our political system inherited from French revolution and corrupted over the course of last hundred years or so. Essentially the problem is that it hasn't withstood the test of time all that well, as various corrupting influences discovered more and more holes through which they could affect legislative process for their advantage and to harm of general populace who's supposed to be choosing legislators to represent themselves. As a result we ended up with a system where legislators are essentially elected by a few corrupting elements and do not represent the society as a whole as is the point of democracy.
So we get the situations where judges are pressed into dilemmas where reality and common sense are in direct conflict with legislation which started off with good intentions, but got massively corrupted over time. Copyright legislation in USA is an excellent example of such legislation.
The answer to that one is "not really" at the moment. At least at presentations. "Thou shall not touch the phone!"
Klystron radars and expensiveness of short range radar coupled with lack of computer systems kind of sucked. Humans lack the accuracy of a modern CIWS weapon.
What do you think CIWS like Phalanx or Kashtan, or more mobile russian ZSU models. You can look at how well that worked for US when they tried to assault Baghdad with low flying slow Apaches instead of making an anti air clearing sweep first due to being oversaturated with targets in 2003. Apaches couldn't even get close to targets due to massive amount of anti air fire put out by AAA and while this wasn't really advertised due for obvious propaganda reasons, various sources that sourced info from mechanics and pilots quoted that over half of apaches got damaged in some way when they tried to breach the AAA perimeter.
Slow loitering weapons systems like modern attack drones work very well when there is no AAA or SAM defences covering the area. They're about as useless as an Apache in flat desert against targets covered by such weapon systems however. You need a proper anti-air strike that destroys any such installations and mobile units before you deploy your "drone swarm" because modern AAA can essentially swat drones out of the sky as fast and as long as its ammo stores hold.
There's no question about drone being better suited for dog fighting. Modern fighters have long been limited in maneuverability by human acceleration tolerance limits rather then airframe ones. Eurofighter could probably pull enough g-forces to cause significant permanent damage to its pilot while remaining intact and airworthy. Problem is that human body simply can't handle the associated stress, so there's no point at pushing aircraft design over these limits.
Remove the organic control center and replace it with a silicon chip and you can conceivably push your aircraft as far as airframe can handle. This would be a game changer - your current acceleration limiter essentially gets removed.
I'm not talking about control systems. These can actually be reduced. I'm talking about command and control computers, which refers to systems that are in charge of computing the complex actions needed by the plane (essentially role of the pilot), because in combat scenario you're not going to be getting any kind of a control signal from outside - it will be jammed.
Actual movement of control surfaces and throttle can be indeed handled by flight control systems, essentially fly-by-wire, which will actually be less important because of both computing speed likely available in the computer running the complex algorithms responsible for behaviour (which is why we need fly-by-wire now - human to machine interface and human brain are not efficient enough to handle the control actions needed by modern aerodynamically unstable airframes).
You can notice it if you read my post to the end.
Do what Iranians did to the drone they got intact. Jam it's ability to detect where it is, confuse it with fake signal and let it have fun murdering it's own masters while you don't fire a single missile.
There is a reason why people making drones are REAAAAAAALLY careful about just how autonomous armed drones are.
The guy who jams the control signal after they're in the air wins faster with less resources spent.