Realistically, this is time for Iraq strategy. The old one, not the target Jr. one, only taken to the end. No fly zone over country (would be the first time those expensive as fuck F-22s could actually see any action), supply arms to rebels quietly through CIA contacts. Have them win and be in debt to you.
The problem is that Gaddafi can afford to get all those Ruandan/Sudanese/Kongolese rapist mass-murdering fucks to come and do it in his own country and is currently flying them in as much as his planes let him. Contain that and he will likely fall. Don't contain, and he has a pretty good chance of winning it Ruanda style - it doesn't matter how hungry you are, when your options are to support him, or be forced to watch as all your female relatives get raped until they die or get pregnant and be forced to keep the kid who will be taken away to be trained as another merc punches the rebellious air out of men very fast - no matter how poor and hungry they are.
This is isn't a horror story. This is reality in large parts of Africa, and has been so for decades now.
If it does that, it most likely means you're not downloading messages to your system other then on demand. You need to tick the option to download entire messages rather then headers on refresh.
Then the legislation is utterly retarded (nothing new in the West in general - not just US sadly when it comes to corporate interests). But what exactly stops employee from, say, develop on their own time, and let their spouse/kid/parents/cousin claim copyright?
I believe I saw a study made here in Finland, which claimed correlation between catching seasonal flu and other infectious diseases and how cold your home was in winter. So when your remote heating/oil heating/whatever it is you use to heat can only go to, say, 18-20C, using electrical heater to push it to 24 may very well save you a lot of money in not being absent from work due to catching flu/influenza.
In parts of the world where you have to heat your home for most of the year, yes. The much-whined about "waste energy" is almost purely heat radiation, which reduces your other heating expenditures.
Which is why ban makes sense in areas where winters are temperate and short, and no sense where winters are long and cold. Because in latter, the heat is not "wasted", and incandescent has near-100% efficiency.
"Barbaric"? No, not really. US rarely has the stomach for it. The most barbaric empire to date badge definitely goes to Brits or Romans. You can choose.
The badge that goes to US is "dumb empire". All that power, and they literally only start wars that both aren't winnable and drain their treasury dry, just so that their corporations can get rich in short term (and yet still get bought out by Chinese who are far smarter, and plan for a long run rather then sprint). The fact that you're even considering putting infantry on Libyan soil just proves this point.
Look, ethical issues aside, this is realpolitik. So yes, in this regard Gaddafi works quite well for the West. Just like Mubarak did. As the guy in the leaked cables put it, "it's much easier to call a dictator and tell him what we want done, than do the same to a democratically elected leader".
For a specific history lesson, look at Gaza. Bush&Co had the dumbest notion that bringing democracy to the strip would solve the problem. Look how that turned out.
So your option is to play it like US does and do yet another re-enactment of "elephant in a porcelain shop"? Only this time, some poor EU country being the dumbass elephant with no clue?
You do realise that most of NATO members learned a LOT from last two adventures that had a goal of "bringing freedom and democracy"? Reality is, when it's time for a civil war, you supply humanitarian aid and stay the fuck out and let locals figure out who's right and who's dead. If you're really smart, you'll supply guns to the side that is most likely to win, or one that has world views that most align with yours. But you stay the fuck out. Nothing is as dumb as getting in between two of those who are certain of themselves being RIGHT. You're not going to convince anyone that they're wrong, and at best you'll have them kill each other anyway, and at worst, they'll kill you first, and then each other a la Iraq.
That would probably depend on your definition of "running". He's not in a very visible place any more, but if you for a moment imagine that POTUS doesn't take orders from them, or more specifically follow the aligned interests of US military industrial complex, you're beyond help.
Libya is already in a state of open civil war. We have everything from sectarian violence to systemic and organised violence by foreign mercs.
Granted Libya has never been a very "solid" country when under Gaddafi. One of his main priorities has clearly been to split country in many zones of special interest, and play them against each other. Libya's army is a joke, the real power is wielded by "committees" who are typically locally administered, and far better armed.
You can see this very well in photos of "army's equipment" being taken in the east. It's mostly rusty, poorly maintained junk. The real armed forces on the other hand are much better equipped.
Erm, so in your opinion, every time more then one person have to work on the same file at the same time (aka collaboration), sitting at the one, same computer, it's a "clusterfuck"?
Do you even understand what collaboration features are designed for? They are there to recreate the experience of multiple people sitting at one monitor and keyboard, working on one document. This is common office work in most companies, from more complex presentations to folks in accounting going over same account sheets and everything in between.
This is supposed to be this way. It has always done that way before, when these people sat in the same room. Nowadays everyone is at their own workstation, collaborating in the cloud is essentially trying to recreate that same thing. You can do stuff like "hey, what do you think of this here?" "no, this here is wrong", etc while being on other sides of the planet without having to essentially email the same document back and forth a thousand time.
They simply don't have another year or two to coast on dumbphones while they sink money they can't afford into R&D for MeeGo in the hopes it'll shape up in time, and without a real product in the smartphone category they are bleeding share like there is no tomorrow.
Actually, no. This is the image you get from endgadget and co. Reality is, even in last quarter their symbian sales grew. They didn't grow fast enough to keep market share on a market that's exploding, but they grew. And outside USA, specifically in markets that will matter in long term (BRIC + EU i.e. no crushing personal debt issues, no middle massively shrinking middle class), pretty much any measure shows that nokia phones are still occupy majority of top10 phones sold AND top10 phones used. By a large and wide margin. They're also reporting profits every quarter, which means that they're not even posting losses yet - and their last quarterly shows 10 billion in cash, which means that they could afford to take losses for a while - something that Elop clearly wants to capitalize on.
So yes, they could coast on their phones for at least two years more EASILY. So long as they just ignore the "rape the customer, make the phones for operator" US market. When Elop said that "microsoft phone will be the most operator friendly phone on the market", pretty much everyone who stuck with nokia because they liked their phones in spite of dated OS UI, knew that it was game over.
That is in process of killing nokia. Not the market share bleed, while still growing every quarter in both smartphone and dumbphone market globally.
This phone already exists. It's called nokia n900. The main problem is weak and unoptimized hardware, so android applications won't run nearly as fast as they would have to be usable. But it already exists, and nokia has announced that n900 will have a meego successor coming out some time this year (along with similar lack of real support like n900, essentially ending up the same kind of a hacker's/programmer's phone).
So keep your fingers crossed that all the meego hate and Elop's actions haven't buried it enough to be bad on release.
It's worth noting that anyone with actual common sense in above situation will invest in a 100-200USD flash over 1000+USD differential between a POS and even half decent DSLR with a flash. As you seem to essentially imply that the only way to fix the crappy flash problem is to buy a camera that is significantly more expensive... just for the flash which can be purchased separately for a fraction of the price. Now if you actually know photography, and spent days, or even months on learning how to use that DSLR properly, then sure, it may be worth the extra money. But if not, then you're just another moron (and I don't use this term lightly) who massively overspends for image's sake.
Then again, you're in a good company. I believe about 8/10 or 9/10 people who buy an SUV never take it off road if manufacturers are to be believed, and drive a gas guzzling POC where a decent station wagon would've done a far better job, for a lot less money. All in the name of image.
And all of above doesn't make you any less of a moron. Just puts you in a company of other rich, clueless people who keep up an industry of advertising and packaging selling them crap they don't need.
It's worth noting that "corporatism" is nothing but an attempt to clear out the heavy legacy that comes with the actual (and factual) name that was associated with that economic system.
Fascism. It's exactly what Mussolini installed in Italy, and what Hitler tried (and partially succeeded) to install in Germany. It's quite close to what we have now in US and several Western European countries.
Surroundings. Problem is, German foreign office has to work with a lot of both national and foreign entities. Key documents not rendering correctly on other party's machine (that runs windows and office) can cause problems far greater then simple cost savings.
Essentially the issue is that even if they're on linux and OO, they still have to work with people who have windows and MS office. And that is a problem.
As they can't force other to switch to linux, they are forced to go to windows themselves for interoperability reasons.
There is a subset of that thinking in usability (when studied as science). Textbook example is a sport wrist watch. On one hand, you can have one with a lot of features that can be accessed very quickly and a lot of info on the home screen, but requires a lot of buttons to control functions in a usable way. Other is aimed at "we want something that just works" crowd (usually senior citizens), and has only one big red button and "just works" (and "illumination" button on the side for obvious reasons).
Reality - it "just works" for people who are willing to limit themselves to limited feature set given by the watch. It doesn't replace the one with many "confusing" buttons, and when it does it does it with a lot less efficiency.
Apple's advantage is that hype essentially steamrolls the "but the other features that are clunky/missing?" argument as hype claims that if iphone can't do it, you don't need it. Never mind that USB connectivity to a PC as an external drive, or ability to see email sender's name right from the home screen without having to go through "pretty" menus (to cite two of several obvious examples) have been a default feature in the smart phones for a long time. Apple is that "one button" watch that "just works" - so long as you're willing to accept that to even access and start timer will take you a lot longer that it would on a phone that does it the way "watch with many buttons" does.
And when hype will eventually run it's course and run out, you'll be left out with reality - that apple's version of "one button it just works" usability isn't all that good when you want to step outside those basic boundaries.
Iirc (correct me if I'm wrong) but most of the android applications aren't linux applications. They're java that runs on a virtual machine. Linux is just the underlying embedded OS that runs the VM. That being one of the biggest reasons for remarkably horrible energy efficiency of the OS.
Maemo/Meego on the other hand is an actual linux on a phone. It runs native linux software by default, rather then through a virtual machine.
There is however the fact that people got android working on n900, and maemo/meego working on some of android phones, so they should be interchangeable to a point hardware-wise.
Would've been an interesting set of points, if you didn't invoke end"foxnews looks professional compared to us when we talk about nokia"gadget.
They still have the article where they compared N8's camera to the slap on-crap that IP4 has and concluded that IP4 camera is better. They even sited their own pics which showed autumn London blooming with colors like beach in Bahamas on massively overprossed IP4's camera (which when you actually delve into the pics is done to hide the atrocious general detail quality even for 5mp camera) and conclude that IP4 is better.
Just because the other phone has five magical letters on it. And I'm not talking about apple.
I'd say that the odds of world domination look slim; but I don't see why QT couldn't continue doing what it did before the Nokia acquisition(even if Nokia has no further interest, they paid good money for Trolltech, so they'd be stupid to destroy them internally, rather than spin them off again and take what they can get...)
Nokia (or more specifically the MS guy who got into CEO position) essentially threw its entire 5 year "linux phone" development under the bus. Trolltech purchase is pennies in comparison.
Pretty much all games where scrolling would be relevant (like scrolling text for quest info etc) for example. There are quite a few where developer is lazy and doesn't add it, but most do nowadays.
Nay. Serve is a proper choice of words. They are INSTRUMENTS with which we manage our resources. A set of tools. Not an entity comparable to us in any way.
The moment you lose control of your tools, you modify them to get control back or destroy them. In this regard, to reference popular culture, skynet is a great example.
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Realistically, this is time for Iraq strategy. The old one, not the target Jr. one, only taken to the end. No fly zone over country (would be the first time those expensive as fuck F-22s could actually see any action), supply arms to rebels quietly through CIA contacts. Have them win and be in debt to you.
The problem is that Gaddafi can afford to get all those Ruandan/Sudanese/Kongolese rapist mass-murdering fucks to come and do it in his own country and is currently flying them in as much as his planes let him. Contain that and he will likely fall. Don't contain, and he has a pretty good chance of winning it Ruanda style - it doesn't matter how hungry you are, when your options are to support him, or be forced to watch as all your female relatives get raped until they die or get pregnant and be forced to keep the kid who will be taken away to be trained as another merc punches the rebellious air out of men very fast - no matter how poor and hungry they are.
This is isn't a horror story. This is reality in large parts of Africa, and has been so for decades now.
If it does that, it most likely means you're not downloading messages to your system other then on demand. You need to tick the option to download entire messages rather then headers on refresh.
Then the legislation is utterly retarded (nothing new in the West in general - not just US sadly when it comes to corporate interests). But what exactly stops employee from, say, develop on their own time, and let their spouse/kid/parents/cousin claim copyright?
I believe I saw a study made here in Finland, which claimed correlation between catching seasonal flu and other infectious diseases and how cold your home was in winter. So when your remote heating/oil heating/whatever it is you use to heat can only go to, say, 18-20C, using electrical heater to push it to 24 may very well save you a lot of money in not being absent from work due to catching flu/influenza.
Finally there is a comfort factor.
In parts of the world where you have to heat your home for most of the year, yes. The much-whined about "waste energy" is almost purely heat radiation, which reduces your other heating expenditures.
Which is why ban makes sense in areas where winters are temperate and short, and no sense where winters are long and cold. Because in latter, the heat is not "wasted", and incandescent has near-100% efficiency.
"Barbaric"? No, not really. US rarely has the stomach for it. The most barbaric empire to date badge definitely goes to Brits or Romans. You can choose.
The badge that goes to US is "dumb empire". All that power, and they literally only start wars that both aren't winnable and drain their treasury dry, just so that their corporations can get rich in short term (and yet still get bought out by Chinese who are far smarter, and plan for a long run rather then sprint). The fact that you're even considering putting infantry on Libyan soil just proves this point.
Look, ethical issues aside, this is realpolitik. So yes, in this regard Gaddafi works quite well for the West. Just like Mubarak did. As the guy in the leaked cables put it, "it's much easier to call a dictator and tell him what we want done, than do the same to a democratically elected leader".
For a specific history lesson, look at Gaza. Bush&Co had the dumbest notion that bringing democracy to the strip would solve the problem. Look how that turned out.
Under Hitler's regime. As would US itself. Your point?
So your option is to play it like US does and do yet another re-enactment of "elephant in a porcelain shop"? Only this time, some poor EU country being the dumbass elephant with no clue?
You do realise that most of NATO members learned a LOT from last two adventures that had a goal of "bringing freedom and democracy"? Reality is, when it's time for a civil war, you supply humanitarian aid and stay the fuck out and let locals figure out who's right and who's dead. If you're really smart, you'll supply guns to the side that is most likely to win, or one that has world views that most align with yours. But you stay the fuck out. Nothing is as dumb as getting in between two of those who are certain of themselves being RIGHT. You're not going to convince anyone that they're wrong, and at best you'll have them kill each other anyway, and at worst, they'll kill you first, and then each other a la Iraq.
How would you go about doing that without a military intervention? As far as I know, you're suggesting something that is impossible.
That would probably depend on your definition of "running". He's not in a very visible place any more, but if you for a moment imagine that POTUS doesn't take orders from them, or more specifically follow the aligned interests of US military industrial complex, you're beyond help.
Libya is already in a state of open civil war. We have everything from sectarian violence to systemic and organised violence by foreign mercs.
Granted Libya has never been a very "solid" country when under Gaddafi. One of his main priorities has clearly been to split country in many zones of special interest, and play them against each other. Libya's army is a joke, the real power is wielded by "committees" who are typically locally administered, and far better armed.
You can see this very well in photos of "army's equipment" being taken in the east. It's mostly rusty, poorly maintained junk. The real armed forces on the other hand are much better equipped.
Erm, so in your opinion, every time more then one person have to work on the same file at the same time (aka collaboration), sitting at the one, same computer, it's a "clusterfuck"?
Do you even understand what collaboration features are designed for? They are there to recreate the experience of multiple people sitting at one monitor and keyboard, working on one document. This is common office work in most companies, from more complex presentations to folks in accounting going over same account sheets and everything in between.
This is supposed to be this way. It has always done that way before, when these people sat in the same room. Nowadays everyone is at their own workstation, collaborating in the cloud is essentially trying to recreate that same thing. You can do stuff like "hey, what do you think of this here?" "no, this here is wrong", etc while being on other sides of the planet without having to essentially email the same document back and forth a thousand time.
Extradition is so 20th century. Nowadays we send people on private vacations to Egypt with all expenses paid. Including burial.
They simply don't have another year or two to coast on dumbphones while they sink money they can't afford into R&D for MeeGo in the hopes it'll shape up in time, and without a real product in the smartphone category they are bleeding share like there is no tomorrow.
Actually, no. This is the image you get from endgadget and co. Reality is, even in last quarter their symbian sales grew. They didn't grow fast enough to keep market share on a market that's exploding, but they grew. And outside USA, specifically in markets that will matter in long term (BRIC + EU i.e. no crushing personal debt issues, no middle massively shrinking middle class), pretty much any measure shows that nokia phones are still occupy majority of top10 phones sold AND top10 phones used. By a large and wide margin. They're also reporting profits every quarter, which means that they're not even posting losses yet - and their last quarterly shows 10 billion in cash, which means that they could afford to take losses for a while - something that Elop clearly wants to capitalize on.
So yes, they could coast on their phones for at least two years more EASILY. So long as they just ignore the "rape the customer, make the phones for operator" US market. When Elop said that "microsoft phone will be the most operator friendly phone on the market", pretty much everyone who stuck with nokia because they liked their phones in spite of dated OS UI, knew that it was game over.
That is in process of killing nokia. Not the market share bleed, while still growing every quarter in both smartphone and dumbphone market globally.
This phone already exists. It's called nokia n900. The main problem is weak and unoptimized hardware, so android applications won't run nearly as fast as they would have to be usable. But it already exists, and nokia has announced that n900 will have a meego successor coming out some time this year (along with similar lack of real support like n900, essentially ending up the same kind of a hacker's/programmer's phone).
So keep your fingers crossed that all the meego hate and Elop's actions haven't buried it enough to be bad on release.
It's worth noting that anyone with actual common sense in above situation will invest in a 100-200USD flash over 1000+USD differential between a POS and even half decent DSLR with a flash. As you seem to essentially imply that the only way to fix the crappy flash problem is to buy a camera that is significantly more expensive... just for the flash which can be purchased separately for a fraction of the price.
Now if you actually know photography, and spent days, or even months on learning how to use that DSLR properly, then sure, it may be worth the extra money. But if not, then you're just another moron (and I don't use this term lightly) who massively overspends for image's sake.
Then again, you're in a good company. I believe about 8/10 or 9/10 people who buy an SUV never take it off road if manufacturers are to be believed, and drive a gas guzzling POC where a decent station wagon would've done a far better job, for a lot less money. All in the name of image.
And all of above doesn't make you any less of a moron. Just puts you in a company of other rich, clueless people who keep up an industry of advertising and packaging selling them crap they don't need.
It's worth noting that "corporatism" is nothing but an attempt to clear out the heavy legacy that comes with the actual (and factual) name that was associated with that economic system.
Fascism. It's exactly what Mussolini installed in Italy, and what Hitler tried (and partially succeeded) to install in Germany. It's quite close to what we have now in US and several Western European countries.
Surroundings. Problem is, German foreign office has to work with a lot of both national and foreign entities. Key documents not rendering correctly on other party's machine (that runs windows and office) can cause problems far greater then simple cost savings.
Essentially the issue is that even if they're on linux and OO, they still have to work with people who have windows and MS office. And that is a problem.
As they can't force other to switch to linux, they are forced to go to windows themselves for interoperability reasons.
There is a subset of that thinking in usability (when studied as science). Textbook example is a sport wrist watch. On one hand, you can have one with a lot of features that can be accessed very quickly and a lot of info on the home screen, but requires a lot of buttons to control functions in a usable way.
Other is aimed at "we want something that just works" crowd (usually senior citizens), and has only one big red button and "just works" (and "illumination" button on the side for obvious reasons).
Reality - it "just works" for people who are willing to limit themselves to limited feature set given by the watch. It doesn't replace the one with many "confusing" buttons, and when it does it does it with a lot less efficiency.
Apple's advantage is that hype essentially steamrolls the "but the other features that are clunky/missing?" argument as hype claims that if iphone can't do it, you don't need it. Never mind that USB connectivity to a PC as an external drive, or ability to see email sender's name right from the home screen without having to go through "pretty" menus (to cite two of several obvious examples) have been a default feature in the smart phones for a long time. Apple is that "one button" watch that "just works" - so long as you're willing to accept that to even access and start timer will take you a lot longer that it would on a phone that does it the way "watch with many buttons" does.
And when hype will eventually run it's course and run out, you'll be left out with reality - that apple's version of "one button it just works" usability isn't all that good when you want to step outside those basic boundaries.
Iirc (correct me if I'm wrong) but most of the android applications aren't linux applications. They're java that runs on a virtual machine. Linux is just the underlying embedded OS that runs the VM. That being one of the biggest reasons for remarkably horrible energy efficiency of the OS.
Maemo/Meego on the other hand is an actual linux on a phone. It runs native linux software by default, rather then through a virtual machine.
There is however the fact that people got android working on n900, and maemo/meego working on some of android phones, so they should be interchangeable to a point hardware-wise.
Would've been an interesting set of points, if you didn't invoke end"foxnews looks professional compared to us when we talk about nokia"gadget.
They still have the article where they compared N8's camera to the slap on-crap that IP4 has and concluded that IP4 camera is better. They even sited their own pics which showed autumn London blooming with colors like beach in Bahamas on massively overprossed IP4's camera (which when you actually delve into the pics is done to hide the atrocious general detail quality even for 5mp camera) and conclude that IP4 is better.
Just because the other phone has five magical letters on it. And I'm not talking about apple.
I'd say that the odds of world domination look slim; but I don't see why QT couldn't continue doing what it did before the Nokia acquisition(even if Nokia has no further interest, they paid good money for Trolltech, so they'd be stupid to destroy them internally, rather than spin them off again and take what they can get...)
Nokia (or more specifically the MS guy who got into CEO position) essentially threw its entire 5 year "linux phone" development under the bus. Trolltech purchase is pennies in comparison.
Pretty much all games where scrolling would be relevant (like scrolling text for quest info etc) for example. There are quite a few where developer is lazy and doesn't add it, but most do nowadays.
Nay. Serve is a proper choice of words. They are INSTRUMENTS with which we manage our resources. A set of tools. Not an entity comparable to us in any way.
The moment you lose control of your tools, you modify them to get control back or destroy them. In this regard, to reference popular culture, skynet is a great example.