Absolutely not necessary, this is total fear mongering at its finest (I suspect you have been successfully brainwashed on the issue by your local providers who want to keep their monopoly). We have a great example of this in almost all if not all Nordic countries. You can change providers while keeping your number, unlocked phones available essentially everywhere (and even contracted phones are often unlocked, because you're still bound by contract if you want a subsidy).
This works because infrastructure costs are paid for by customers. Company maintaining the infrastructure is legally required to lease the infrastructure to smaller companies at REASONABLE costs. Reasonable costs mean (legally) what it actually costs to maintain and expand/upgrade the network (as necessary). Company that's leasing is also not allowed to prioritize its own traffic over that of competitors leasing the network. As a result, everyone including the company maintaining the network pays (or more accurately charges its clients) for network maintenance and then their own margin and potential value-adding services come on top of those costs.
This results in actually working competition, very cheap prices and good infrastructure, all at the same time, as essentially any small company can enter the market and compete on margins or value-adding products, while paying the same infrastructure costs (per usage) as everyone else, including the infrastructure owner. Infrastructure owner obviously has a small competitive advantage as it can still price network lease slightly higher then what it actually costs to maintain, but pushing for profit here is risky. If you start getting noticeable profits out of network lease overpricing, you risk significant penalties which are just not worth the marginal advantage this would give (before it gets noticeable).
It's worth noting that Nordics are among the least densely populated countries on the planet so infrastructure costs here are generally higher then in the rest of the world.
Pick your favorite slaughter group then. Almost every single major slaughter in history of mankind has been done by "patriots", with remaining ones being done by religious fanatics.
It's not just microsoft. Nokia collets around 10USD per iphone sold, as it holds several key touchscreen patents that apple is licensing in addition to actual GSM/3G connectivity ones.
You can give person freedom, and he may kill himself by being stupid. You can put the person in a straightacket into a padded room and not be as worried.
Or you can find middle ground rather then painting everything black and white.
Then by your definition of "dropped", nokia did not drop symbian. They keep releasing new versions of OS and will do so for years to come. They are also constantly releasing new phones, including smartphones on symbian. They keep releasing new applications for symbian, and keep supporting developers developing for symbian actively. Their tentative roadplan had penned new symbian smartphones to be designed and released at LEAST until 2016 last time I checked.
In the same way google hasn't dropped android "yet". Actually even less so, considering that my several years old s60v5 phone is still getting updates, long after support for phones of same age from apple and google is gone.
And while Elop claims that symbian will be fully phased out in favor of WP some time in far away future, that's unlikely to happen before 2016 or so, which gives you at least four more years of active support. Looking at current support models, iphone4 iterations and 2.x android support will be long gone by then.
You missed my point. I meant that "garage hacker" crowd, regardless of their line of business is going after discovering the new low hanging fruit. They have nothing to do in internal combustion engine for car fuel efficiency business anymore, as all easy improvements to the engine have been done and current advances require extreme levels of investment and expertise.
Similar thing will happen in the application stores in near future. All of the apps that are easy to make, provide a new and useful utility and haven't been done yet will be done. And then the revolution phase turns into evolution phase, where improvement takes place from inventing. At this point, "garage hacker" crowd goes looking for a new low hanging fruit, and larger commercial entities invest into improving the already existing pool of technology in the field.
Thing is though, the reason why "garage hackers" are so important now is that this is a new field (applications for everyday mobile use), so people who make new stuff for other people are important.
Give it a few years to a decade and you'll see the same thing that happened to PCs, only worsened by limited access of appstore model. Most of the low hanging fruit applications will be discovered (invented, innovated, pick your favorite word here), and then the big shops will produce bigger and better versions of these applications and small developers will become the fringe, again.
There is a pretty major difference between a PR agent working solo, and a medical company that only sells to other companies in terms of caring about its reputation among geeks.
Not even close. The problem in both is failure in making companies follow the laws that are in place, not making laws. At least a third of countries in the world has worse product standards and safety laws then China and Russia.
In SEPA zone (Western Europe) you almost always pay via your bank account. Typical bill sent home on paper contains bank account to pay to, sum to pay, last date by which bill must be paid and your identification number for payment. Electronic bill contains same information and is paid in same way, except that it either uses fully automated electronic means or just sends you the same bill via email. There is no extra party added in comparison to sending a paper bill.
In US, many in fact charge bills to their credit card, and then just pay the credit card bill, especially in case of mobile transactions. This may incur extra charge for one issuing the bill.
You will never convince me that extra charge is even in the ballpark of 2USD per bill though. It's a very obvious money grab.
You can find countless sources through google, ranging from the (in)famous study on hormesis, to multiple researches done in 50s and 60s on low level radiation which was hushed because "low level radiation is either harmless or beneficial" didn't win big grants - "radiation mutates, kills and destroys" on the other hand... As several scientists were quoted back then, "the best way to get funding in 50s and 60s was to scare the pants off congress". Which is what they did.
Take the study on mice they did in 50s. They put two mouse groups in cages, test group and control group. Test group got constant low level gamma irradiation, while control group didn't. They measured that mice (and their descendants) in the irradiated group constantly lived LONGER (hormesis) then control group while having no statistically visible difference in things like cancer and birth defects. After tests with active irradiation were over, they continued to monitor the mice and noted that the only difference was that longevity benefits went away along with radiation. Test group mice lived and bred just as well as control group ones. No long-term defects or harm was noted to have come to test group mice.
If you want an example of human "testing", take a look at Mexico City. Background radiation in there is at least twice as high every day as it was in Tokyo on the worst day after Fukushima. No visible spike in birth defects, cancer and other problems associated with high doses of radiation in comparison to other large cities of same level of wealth.
And I urge you to try and find a single peer reviewed study that proves that low level radiation is harmful. There are several that hypothesize this, but none (that I know of) that could present proof that stood the test of peer reviews. What we know is that HIGH doses of radiation are harmful and that the level of irradiation is related to way you're irradiated, with internally sourced radiation having more impact then external. What you find in pigs in Germany is low doses of Cs-137 which is known to cause problems in significant concentrations due to the way it's metabolized by out bodies and because irradiation is internal. Problem is, you're not very likely to get significant doses from "irradiated boars", who themselves live with Cs-137 radiation in their tissues just fine. The authorities are being cautious here (and rightfully so), but if you had to choose between going hungry and eating a german boar, you'd likely cause far more damage to yourself by going hungry then by eating the said boar.
That would be because of "even small amounts of radiation are unhealthy" hypothesis. It has been rebuked many times in science, but it's extremely popular among people so it's politically impossible to truly address the people.
At the same time Chernobyl itself is a nature haven, with wild animals returning and due to lack of hunters, they are much more abundant then in any other nearby area.
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Absolutely not necessary, this is total fear mongering at its finest (I suspect you have been successfully brainwashed on the issue by your local providers who want to keep their monopoly). We have a great example of this in almost all if not all Nordic countries. You can change providers while keeping your number, unlocked phones available essentially everywhere (and even contracted phones are often unlocked, because you're still bound by contract if you want a subsidy).
This works because infrastructure costs are paid for by customers. Company maintaining the infrastructure is legally required to lease the infrastructure to smaller companies at REASONABLE costs. Reasonable costs mean (legally) what it actually costs to maintain and expand/upgrade the network (as necessary). Company that's leasing is also not allowed to prioritize its own traffic over that of competitors leasing the network. As a result, everyone including the company maintaining the network pays (or more accurately charges its clients) for network maintenance and then their own margin and potential value-adding services come on top of those costs.
This results in actually working competition, very cheap prices and good infrastructure, all at the same time, as essentially any small company can enter the market and compete on margins or value-adding products, while paying the same infrastructure costs (per usage) as everyone else, including the infrastructure owner. Infrastructure owner obviously has a small competitive advantage as it can still price network lease slightly higher then what it actually costs to maintain, but pushing for profit here is risky. If you start getting noticeable profits out of network lease overpricing, you risk significant penalties which are just not worth the marginal advantage this would give (before it gets noticeable).
It's worth noting that Nordics are among the least densely populated countries on the planet so infrastructure costs here are generally higher then in the rest of the world.
The very same. Nokia has a long history of touchscreen devices. It just never really pushed them to mass market.
Pick your favorite slaughter group then. Almost every single major slaughter in history of mankind has been done by "patriots", with remaining ones being done by religious fanatics.
It's not just microsoft. Nokia collets around 10USD per iphone sold, as it holds several key touchscreen patents that apple is licensing in addition to actual GSM/3G connectivity ones.
Out of interest, why not N9? It seems like a natural evolution of N900.
You can give person freedom, and he may kill himself by being stupid.
You can put the person in a straightacket into a padded room and not be as worried.
Or you can find middle ground rather then painting everything black and white.
He does. It's you that doesn't because of your commie upbringing!
Sadly, reality is not a dream...
No, it's a standard workplace, there are good workers in high returns business section and bad workers in low returns general public section.
Then by your definition of "dropped", nokia did not drop symbian. They keep releasing new versions of OS and will do so for years to come. They are also constantly releasing new phones, including smartphones on symbian. They keep releasing new applications for symbian, and keep supporting developers developing for symbian actively. Their tentative roadplan had penned new symbian smartphones to be designed and released at LEAST until 2016 last time I checked.
In the same way google hasn't dropped android "yet". Actually even less so, considering that my several years old s60v5 phone is still getting updates, long after support for phones of same age from apple and google is gone.
And while Elop claims that symbian will be fully phased out in favor of WP some time in far away future, that's unlikely to happen before 2016 or so, which gives you at least four more years of active support. Looking at current support models, iphone4 iterations and 2.x android support will be long gone by then.
Nokia didn't drop symbian. It's still the biggest mobile OS in the world by a large margin.
A smart worker will simply call it a "handling fee" and you're SOL.
You're confusing government debt and personal debt. These have little in common beyond name.
That's because gaming, as a very artistic industry, is very far from running out of "low hanging fruit".
You missed my point. I meant that "garage hacker" crowd, regardless of their line of business is going after discovering the new low hanging fruit. They have nothing to do in internal combustion engine for car fuel efficiency business anymore, as all easy improvements to the engine have been done and current advances require extreme levels of investment and expertise.
Similar thing will happen in the application stores in near future. All of the apps that are easy to make, provide a new and useful utility and haven't been done yet will be done. And then the revolution phase turns into evolution phase, where improvement takes place from inventing. At this point, "garage hacker" crowd goes looking for a new low hanging fruit, and larger commercial entities invest into improving the already existing pool of technology in the field.
Thing is though, the reason why "garage hackers" are so important now is that this is a new field (applications for everyday mobile use), so people who make new stuff for other people are important.
Give it a few years to a decade and you'll see the same thing that happened to PCs, only worsened by limited access of appstore model. Most of the low hanging fruit applications will be discovered (invented, innovated, pick your favorite word here), and then the big shops will produce bigger and better versions of these applications and small developers will become the fringe, again.
The issue is time. Development from scratch requires a lot of it.
There is a pretty major difference between a PR agent working solo, and a medical company that only sells to other companies in terms of caring about its reputation among geeks.
Which is exactly why most women would say "no" on few first dates.
Washington, Wangton, same thing!
Not even close. The problem in both is failure in making companies follow the laws that are in place, not making laws. At least a third of countries in the world has worse product standards and safety laws then China and Russia.
Cultural clash moment.
In SEPA zone (Western Europe) you almost always pay via your bank account. Typical bill sent home on paper contains bank account to pay to, sum to pay, last date by which bill must be paid and your identification number for payment. Electronic bill contains same information and is paid in same way, except that it either uses fully automated electronic means or just sends you the same bill via email. There is no extra party added in comparison to sending a paper bill.
In US, many in fact charge bills to their credit card, and then just pay the credit card bill, especially in case of mobile transactions. This may incur extra charge for one issuing the bill.
You will never convince me that extra charge is even in the ballpark of 2USD per bill though. It's a very obvious money grab.
You can find countless sources through google, ranging from the (in)famous study on hormesis, to multiple researches done in 50s and 60s on low level radiation which was hushed because "low level radiation is either harmless or beneficial" didn't win big grants - "radiation mutates, kills and destroys" on the other hand... As several scientists were quoted back then, "the best way to get funding in 50s and 60s was to scare the pants off congress". Which is what they did.
Take the study on mice they did in 50s. They put two mouse groups in cages, test group and control group. Test group got constant low level gamma irradiation, while control group didn't. They measured that mice (and their descendants) in the irradiated group constantly lived LONGER (hormesis) then control group while having no statistically visible difference in things like cancer and birth defects. After tests with active irradiation were over, they continued to monitor the mice and noted that the only difference was that longevity benefits went away along with radiation. Test group mice lived and bred just as well as control group ones. No long-term defects or harm was noted to have come to test group mice.
If you want an example of human "testing", take a look at Mexico City. Background radiation in there is at least twice as high every day as it was in Tokyo on the worst day after Fukushima. No visible spike in birth defects, cancer and other problems associated with high doses of radiation in comparison to other large cities of same level of wealth.
And I urge you to try and find a single peer reviewed study that proves that low level radiation is harmful. There are several that hypothesize this, but none (that I know of) that could present proof that stood the test of peer reviews. What we know is that HIGH doses of radiation are harmful and that the level of irradiation is related to way you're irradiated, with internally sourced radiation having more impact then external. What you find in pigs in Germany is low doses of Cs-137 which is known to cause problems in significant concentrations due to the way it's metabolized by out bodies and because irradiation is internal. Problem is, you're not very likely to get significant doses from "irradiated boars", who themselves live with Cs-137 radiation in their tissues just fine. The authorities are being cautious here (and rightfully so), but if you had to choose between going hungry and eating a german boar, you'd likely cause far more damage to yourself by going hungry then by eating the said boar.
That would be because of "even small amounts of radiation are unhealthy" hypothesis. It has been rebuked many times in science, but it's extremely popular among people so it's politically impossible to truly address the people.
At the same time Chernobyl itself is a nature haven, with wild animals returning and due to lack of hunters, they are much more abundant then in any other nearby area.