Do note one thing: people with your state of mind are essentially never allowed near sensitive material. There are numerous tests and criteria aimed specifically at purging people with your ethics from such positions.
This is why the "random guy who wants to do something good" is important to scare. He's the real risk. Not the "ethical citizen" such as yourself, as these don't get to be in positions to compromise the material in the first place.
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You're missing the point. Investor wanted to prop the company regardless. But with this, he was allowed to prop the company while terminating ownership of all other owners.
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Uncontrolled free market causes power focus into the hands of few powerful at the expense of many powerless. In this case, the manoeuvre allowed a big investor to essentially throw all small investors out of the company with minimal additional investment. If he had to play it fair and prop the company financially in return for additional relative share in the company, smaller investors would have gotten to keep at least a portion of their investment.
It's a pretty good example of how uncontrolled free market capitalism works on basic level, and why big publicly traded companies tend to include rules that deny or resist such manipulation to gain trust (and money) from small and medium sized investors (i.e. limit free market capitalism with regulation).
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I do believe this is one of the biggest red herrings I've seen in slashdot comments this year. It really assumes anyone reading this is incredibly ignorant of reality to buy it.
Not in the current financial climate. Banks are really tight with loans right now, and getting sums like this quickly is not easy without financing. If the guy had funds prepared, he essentially had the deal in the pocket.
Sweden is arguably more of a "US lapdog" in some aspects for a number of reasons. First of all, the massive financial pressure on politicians from piratebay case that has been on for years from US side has inherently made Swedish authorities easier to pressure. Then there's the technological and military cooperation, where Swedish national pride of having its own fighter jet is completely dependent on US goodwill - US licenses a lot of tech needed to build Gripen.
There are several other impacts as well, such as the pressure that came from "war on terror" and massively negative view Bush took on countries that chose to keep on being neutral, which made Sweden cave on several policies badly, one of them extraordinary rendition. In many ways GB has been protected by its sheer size from these, as while Downing Street has generally been keep on pleasing US, GB as a country is still big enough to resist significant amounts of financial and political pressure. Sweden's capacity to do the same is unfortunately much smaller.
Finally there's a matter of Sweden's own internal problems with rising wave of extremist feminism, which in this case was cleverly exploited by US.
N950 was the successor of N900. Essentially N9 with keyboard making it actually usable as a workhorse a la N900 rather then a tricked out pony that was N9.
I blame "image over usefulness" trend more then any individual company, through you could argue that apple is largely to blame for the trend.
Torrent users are emotionally invested in one product in a very competitive field. Product makers figured they could screw torrent users over as if they had a monopoly. Torrent users reminded product makers that there are many competing products that are on par or better then their product, and that the only reason they're staying with their product is because of sentimental value. Product makers chickened out.
Not entirely sure how you went from "vigilant customers" to "spoiled and ungrateful customers". Unless you're a type to whom these two are synonyms.
Not quite. Vast majority of these androids are absolutely terrible. You're looking at extremely slow and unresponsive phone that has a battery that won't last you a day and build quality that won't last a year.
It's a cumulative effect of android simply not being designed to work well on extreme low end hardware combined with use of cheapest of the cheapest design decisions and materials not to mention assembly.
Not "felt" but "is". Remember, symbian is an OS that runs native applications and is designed for mobile use from ground up. Android and iOS, no matter how you dress them, are still desktop OSs that got jury-rigged to work on resource-starved systems. Android even runs all its installed applications in a virtual machine to add insult to the injury.
It's pretty obvious that symbian will run better on weak systems. It's designed to, and it's probably one of the reasons it also won't scale well to a fast one.
How does taking a hard stance on people who aren't doing anything illegal help? Most of the pirates we're talking about lived in countries where pirating OS wasn't illegal back then.
The only thing you'll do is piss off entire large countries, which will become interested in providing government-level funding for your competitors. That's suicide.
I would argue that with Skype, microsoft's dominance over telephony and conferencing software is even tighter then that over productivity suites with office. Essentially whatever they say, goes.
Google already tried to tackle skype with google talk. Its installed base is less then a rounding error in comparison to skype numbers.
So if microsoft makes their own standard and google/mozilla don't adapt it, people will be pissed at google/mozilla for skype not working in their browser but working fine in IE.
Worth noting that "hacked" drivers are based on real drivers. They only offer a different front end that can access features that exist in drivers but removed from front end.
Unless you're talking about something I don't know, which is unlikely as I spent days researching driver issues for my audigy2 and win7.
I want to chime in here. I am still using SB Audigy2 that I got back in 2000. I've changed computers three times during this time period. It outlived all of them and still works wonderfully. The way it works, I wouldn't be surprised to still be using it in ten years. My parents have my hand-downs and they're still using my older system that is using an even older SB Live! card. That one is still alive and works just as well.
Worth noting that onboard audio is pretty terrible for me because I have Logitech Z-5500 set hooked in, and of all onboard audio I tried, all of them sound terrible on it.
It certainly is an online game in the same way that the first Assassin's Creed was. You have to be online to play because otherwise DRM will stop you from playing. But multiplayer elements are completely optional, as the core game is solo still player vs environment. I.e. single player game.
Same reason they haven't stopped any of iphones or android phones from doing the same thing. Lack of monopoly on the market.
There are many things that you can do that limit competition legally. Many of these options vanish when you become a monopoly. Windows has a near monopoly in desktop market (judged to be monopoly by EU). As a result, demands to not lock down the system on x86/amd64 PC are backed by anti-monopoly legislation. Demands for the same on ARM are not.
I do understand what you're talking about. You're erecting an effigy, defeating it, and claiming that the effigy is in fact the reason for N95's failure in the specific aspect.
I'm simply pointing out that in effort to find out why the room smells, pointing an telescope at the fly on the wall and proceeding to ignore the elephant shitting in the middle of the room is not that good of a solution.
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Do note one thing: people with your state of mind are essentially never allowed near sensitive material. There are numerous tests and criteria aimed specifically at purging people with your ethics from such positions.
This is why the "random guy who wants to do something good" is important to scare. He's the real risk. Not the "ethical citizen" such as yourself, as these don't get to be in positions to compromise the material in the first place.
You're missing the point. Investor wanted to prop the company regardless. But with this, he was allowed to prop the company while terminating ownership of all other owners.
Uncontrolled free market causes power focus into the hands of few powerful at the expense of many powerless. In this case, the manoeuvre allowed a big investor to essentially throw all small investors out of the company with minimal additional investment. If he had to play it fair and prop the company financially in return for additional relative share in the company, smaller investors would have gotten to keep at least a portion of their investment.
It's a pretty good example of how uncontrolled free market capitalism works on basic level, and why big publicly traded companies tend to include rules that deny or resist such manipulation to gain trust (and money) from small and medium sized investors (i.e. limit free market capitalism with regulation).
I do believe this is one of the biggest red herrings I've seen in slashdot comments this year. It really assumes anyone reading this is incredibly ignorant of reality to buy it.
Not in the current financial climate. Banks are really tight with loans right now, and getting sums like this quickly is not easy without financing. If the guy had funds prepared, he essentially had the deal in the pocket.
Sweden is arguably more of a "US lapdog" in some aspects for a number of reasons. First of all, the massive financial pressure on politicians from piratebay case that has been on for years from US side has inherently made Swedish authorities easier to pressure. Then there's the technological and military cooperation, where Swedish national pride of having its own fighter jet is completely dependent on US goodwill - US licenses a lot of tech needed to build Gripen.
There are several other impacts as well, such as the pressure that came from "war on terror" and massively negative view Bush took on countries that chose to keep on being neutral, which made Sweden cave on several policies badly, one of them extraordinary rendition. In many ways GB has been protected by its sheer size from these, as while Downing Street has generally been keep on pleasing US, GB as a country is still big enough to resist significant amounts of financial and political pressure. Sweden's capacity to do the same is unfortunately much smaller.
Finally there's a matter of Sweden's own internal problems with rising wave of extremist feminism, which in this case was cleverly exploited by US.
N950 was the successor of N900. Essentially N9 with keyboard making it actually usable as a workhorse a la N900 rather then a tricked out pony that was N9.
I blame "image over usefulness" trend more then any individual company, through you could argue that apple is largely to blame for the trend.
Torrent users are emotionally invested in one product in a very competitive field. Product makers figured they could screw torrent users over as if they had a monopoly. Torrent users reminded product makers that there are many competing products that are on par or better then their product, and that the only reason they're staying with their product is because of sentimental value. Product makers chickened out.
Not entirely sure how you went from "vigilant customers" to "spoiled and ungrateful customers". Unless you're a type to whom these two are synonyms.
While true, that is because of level of life of average citizen as well as significant amount of people living in extreme poverty in China.
Pollution per production would be a far more fair assessment here, and in that regard China is unfortunately off-scale.
Look at OS cores, what they were based on. Understand the difference.
Not quite. Vast majority of these androids are absolutely terrible. You're looking at extremely slow and unresponsive phone that has a battery that won't last you a day and build quality that won't last a year.
It's a cumulative effect of android simply not being designed to work well on extreme low end hardware combined with use of cheapest of the cheapest design decisions and materials not to mention assembly.
Not really. Inertial guidance is what military used to use before GPS. It sucks HARD even with extremely accurate military grade accelerometers.
There is. OS itself. It requires a lot more hardware resources then S40.
Not "felt" but "is". Remember, symbian is an OS that runs native applications and is designed for mobile use from ground up. Android and iOS, no matter how you dress them, are still desktop OSs that got jury-rigged to work on resource-starved systems. Android even runs all its installed applications in a virtual machine to add insult to the injury.
It's pretty obvious that symbian will run better on weak systems. It's designed to, and it's probably one of the reasons it also won't scale well to a fast one.
Asha will not be sold in US beyond random imports. Too good of a phone for its price, and has dual sim models on top of it.
How does taking a hard stance on people who aren't doing anything illegal help? Most of the pirates we're talking about lived in countries where pirating OS wasn't illegal back then.
The only thing you'll do is piss off entire large countries, which will become interested in providing government-level funding for your competitors. That's suicide.
I would argue that with Skype, microsoft's dominance over telephony and conferencing software is even tighter then that over productivity suites with office. Essentially whatever they say, goes.
Google already tried to tackle skype with google talk. Its installed base is less then a rounding error in comparison to skype numbers.
So if microsoft makes their own standard and google/mozilla don't adapt it, people will be pissed at google/mozilla for skype not working in their browser but working fine in IE.
You can force many EAX features in drivers, but they will go system wide.
Worth noting that "hacked" drivers are based on real drivers. They only offer a different front end that can access features that exist in drivers but removed from front end.
Unless you're talking about something I don't know, which is unlikely as I spent days researching driver issues for my audigy2 and win7.
I want to chime in here. I am still using SB Audigy2 that I got back in 2000. I've changed computers three times during this time period. It outlived all of them and still works wonderfully. The way it works, I wouldn't be surprised to still be using it in ten years.
My parents have my hand-downs and they're still using my older system that is using an even older SB Live! card. That one is still alive and works just as well.
Worth noting that onboard audio is pretty terrible for me because I have Logitech Z-5500 set hooked in, and of all onboard audio I tried, all of them sound terrible on it.
It certainly is an online game in the same way that the first Assassin's Creed was. You have to be online to play because otherwise DRM will stop you from playing. But multiplayer elements are completely optional, as the core game is solo still player vs environment. I.e. single player game.
When they do it's because they want to monetize these people without losing them - hence the dualistic approach.
Using logic is indeed not hard. Parroting silly press releases without engaging in any critical thinking is easier though, as your post shows.
Same reason they haven't stopped any of iphones or android phones from doing the same thing. Lack of monopoly on the market.
There are many things that you can do that limit competition legally. Many of these options vanish when you become a monopoly. Windows has a near monopoly in desktop market (judged to be monopoly by EU). As a result, demands to not lock down the system on x86/amd64 PC are backed by anti-monopoly legislation. Demands for the same on ARM are not.
They already do so on many linux (android) phones. The entire thing is old news in ARM world.
I do understand what you're talking about. You're erecting an effigy, defeating it, and claiming that the effigy is in fact the reason for N95's failure in the specific aspect.
I'm simply pointing out that in effort to find out why the room smells, pointing an telescope at the fly on the wall and proceeding to ignore the elephant shitting in the middle of the room is not that good of a solution.