I still use my n900. I use it as a small computer more than a phone. xterm is the single most-used program on the device, probably. (Which is clearly why I don't use my n9 - no keyboard. My *grrr*lfriend has an n950:-()
Indeed. All you need to do is look at the Spec TPS benchmarks, and the system descriptions/costs. As much is spent on cooling as on the rest of the system put together.
In particular as Ahonen himself seems to repeat it about 20 times in every article. He really is the proverbial stuck record. It's annoying that occasionally he does have some valid observations (for example his historical figures are normally well researched), otherwise you could dismiss him as simply being a total whack-job. I imagine his home/office being like Nash's from/A Beautiful Mind/ - lots of news clipping cut out and stuck on the wall - with figures and names and dates marked in highlighter pen or circled and joined together!
May I enquire which team you were in? I don't know if we ever encountered each other on bugzilla (or IRL) but I hope I'm forgiven if I locked horns too aggressively - I did tend to get a bit passionate about work.
You're not alone. I stopped paying attention to them as soon as they said they were moving back to Windows Phone about 2 years ago (I'm a bigot, sue me). They're clearly fickle, and therefore not worth the effort following.
> and did that team kick-ass to deliver the N9 on-time, just before they were fired
No, it wasted time and effort spinning its wheels going nowhere. Sometimes going backwards. Sometimes taking out water hydrants as they span out of control. Some real examples have been talked about on the forums (beware, almost everyone doesn't have a clue what they're talking about), but alas Nokia's still around to sue if I breach my NDA.
But thanks for calling us kick-ass, it's nice to see people happy with what I devoted so much time and effort to over the years.
Meego was fantasy bullshit. Maemo would have been their winning ticket if they hadn't changed everything repeatedly (look at the early mock-up preview Harmattan slides at the NDC - the final product was diametrically different), and jumped into bed with an 800lb gorilla who had no interest in what Nokia was doing. Then again, Nokia had such a huge range of problems I could write a whole book about them. My history with them doesn't go back long enough to know what it was like in the OSSO days, but I can tell you they were a train-wreck in the meego days.
If one person were to label Dawkins a stud-muffin, would that make him a stud-muffin? I see nothing sexist in the Dawkins quote in that article. Dawkins, perhaps a little unfairly, it depends on the full context, took the piss out of her whining, and she pulled the sexist card, that's all. Dawkins was showing *more* sympathy for the plight of a female facing sexism than the whiner was - assuming you understand how irony works. Having said that, pretty much everything else she complains about was indeed perpetrated by dicks who I wish weren't atheists/skeptics, as they do give it a bad name.
Well, not the EFFI, but the pirate party: http://piraattipuolue.fi/2012/10/tv-kaistan-syytteet-poyristyttavaa-haikailua-mustavalkoaikaan/ Personally, I'd be happier with EFFI behind the cause, the pirate party is sometimes its own worst enemy.
Strange, I normally hear about things like that in Finland, as I still hang out with a lot of like-minded Finns online. Seems like you're referring to http://www.tvkaista.fi/ And that sounds like simply hiring an agent to do for you what you are permitted to do by yourself (timeshift tv programs by recording them, and playing them back as suits you best). Are EFFI taking an interest?
Your request is trivially satisfied - observers "undertake not to interfere in the electoral proceedings", that's already been agreed to since the inception of the treaty. Now let them do their job.
> Therefor breaking EU law in this regards (single market)
Precisely which law do you think is being broken?
A pizza delivery place in Bristol won't deliver to Saltaire. That's not breaking the law, and that's in the same freaking country. In no way does EU law demand that vendors perform trade with people in all locations.
The EU common market laws are mostly aimed at the member states themselves to not prevent the businesses from trading how they want, enabling the businesses and the trades, rather than placing obligations on those businesses.
If only someone would take all the massless parts of the product - the 0 and 1 bits, and transport them at next-to-no cost to Australia. Imagine the fossil fuels saved by doing that - these guys would be regarded as heroes. Shame about all the prison time they'd be forced to serve at the hands of the MAFIAA.
Not likely to be long at all. Here's wikipedia's take on Chris Soghoian's tale:
On October 26, 2006, Soghoian created a website that allowed visitors to generate fake boarding passes for Northwest Airlines. While users could change the boarding document to have any name, flight number or city that they wished, the generator defaulted to creating a document for Osama Bin Laden.
Soghoian claimed that his motivation for the website was to focus national attention on the ease with which a passenger could evade the no-fly lists.[3] Information describing the security vulnerabilities associated with boarding pass modification had been widely publicized by others before, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY)[4][5] and security expert Bruce Schneier.[6] Soghoian received media attention for posting a program on his website to enable the automatic production of modified boarding passes. Democrat Edward Markey, House of Representatives committee (telecommunications and the internet) stated Soghoian should be arrested.[2]
At 2 AM on October 28, 2006, his home was raided by agents of the FBI to seize computers and other materials.[7] Soghoian's Internet Service Provider voluntarily shut down the website, after it received a letter from the FBI claiming that the site posed a national security threat.[8] The FBI closed the criminal investigation in November 2006 without filing any charges.[9] The TSA also initiated a civil investigation in December 2006,[10][11] which was closed without any charges being filed in June 2007.[12][13]
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxTslawkcYk
I still use my n900. I use it as a small computer more than a phone. xterm is the single most-used program on the device, probably. (Which is clearly why I don't use my n9 - no keyboard. My *grrr*lfriend has an n950 :-()
Shit. I have lost the power of Englishing.
Hilarious! Dang, no modpoints, that's both from insightful to funny.
Indeed. All you need to do is look at the Spec TPS benchmarks, and the system descriptions/costs. As much is spent on cooling as on the rest of the system put together.
In particular as Ahonen himself seems to repeat it about 20 times in every article. He really is the proverbial stuck record. It's annoying that occasionally he does have some valid observations (for example his historical figures are normally well researched), otherwise you could dismiss him as simply being a total whack-job. I imagine his home/office being like Nash's from /A Beautiful Mind/ - lots of news clipping cut out and stuck on the wall - with figures and names and dates marked in highlighter pen or circled and joined together!
May I enquire which team you were in? I don't know if we ever encountered each other on bugzilla (or IRL) but I hope I'm forgiven if I locked horns too aggressively - I did tend to get a bit passionate about work.
Wasn't some fucked up fantasy - it was a medical documentary!
But teledildonics isn't new. I'm not sure he's breaking any new ground with his ideas.
You're not alone. I stopped paying attention to them as soon as they said they were moving back to Windows Phone about 2 years ago (I'm a bigot, sue me). They're clearly fickle, and therefore not worth the effort following.
> and did that team kick-ass to deliver the N9 on-time, just before they were fired
No, it wasted time and effort spinning its wheels going nowhere. Sometimes going backwards. Sometimes taking out water hydrants as they span out of control. Some real examples have been talked about on the forums (beware, almost everyone doesn't have a clue what they're talking about), but alas Nokia's still around to sue if I breach my NDA.
But thanks for calling us kick-ass, it's nice to see people happy with what I devoted so much time and effort to over the years.
Meego was fantasy bullshit. Maemo would have been their winning ticket if they hadn't changed everything repeatedly (look at the early mock-up preview Harmattan slides at the NDC - the final product was diametrically different), and jumped into bed with an 800lb gorilla who had no interest in what Nokia was doing. Then again, Nokia had such a huge range of problems I could write a whole book about them. My history with them doesn't go back long enough to know what it was like in the OSSO days, but I can tell you they were a train-wreck in the meego days.
These four simple words would improve the validity of almost all democracies:
[ ] none of the above
As I predicted, my post would be a wooooosh. Now go back and think about what I posted, and how it was relevant.
> It's said VERY CLEAR in the documentation how to use the feature.
And, following the rules of English grammar, it's VERY CLEAR that one modifies a verb with an adverb, not an adjective.
But such a mistake isn't important, surely? I mean, we understood what you meant, so the communication worked, didn't it?
If one person were to label Dawkins a stud-muffin, would that make him a stud-muffin? I see nothing sexist in the Dawkins quote in that article. Dawkins, perhaps a little unfairly, it depends on the full context, took the piss out of her whining, and she pulled the sexist card, that's all. Dawkins was showing *more* sympathy for the plight of a female facing sexism than the whiner was - assuming you understand how irony works. Having said that, pretty much everything else she complains about was indeed perpetrated by dicks who I wish weren't atheists/skeptics, as they do give it a bad name.
Well, not the EFFI, but the pirate party:
http://piraattipuolue.fi/2012/10/tv-kaistan-syytteet-poyristyttavaa-haikailua-mustavalkoaikaan/
Personally, I'd be happier with EFFI behind the cause, the pirate party is sometimes its own worst enemy.
Strange, I normally hear about things like that in Finland, as I still hang out with a lot of like-minded Finns online. Seems like you're referring to http://www.tvkaista.fi/ And that sounds like simply hiring an agent to do for you what you are permitted to do by yourself (timeshift tv programs by recording them, and playing them back as suits you best). Are EFFI taking an interest?
If it's not a stupid question, what the heck are you blathering on about? You sound like a tin-foil-hat weilding loony.
... ... you're letting your fantasies leak into your slashdot posts?
> Hey, I wrote a sci-fi book and
Your request is trivially satisfied - observers "undertake not to interfere in the electoral proceedings", that's already been agreed to since the inception of the treaty. Now let them do their job.
Unless you've got something to hide.
More than that, they agreed to *invite* observers to their elections.
> ... the democratically elected legislature ...
So you claim. What if we don't believe you?
> Therefor breaking EU law in this regards (single market)
Precisely which law do you think is being broken?
A pizza delivery place in Bristol won't deliver to Saltaire. That's not breaking the law, and that's in the same freaking country. In no way does EU law demand that vendors perform trade with people in all locations.
The EU common market laws are mostly aimed at the member states themselves to not prevent the businesses from trading how they want, enabling the businesses and the trades, rather than placing obligations on those businesses.
If only someone would take all the massless parts of the product - the 0 and 1 bits, and transport them at next-to-no cost to Australia. Imagine the fossil fuels saved by doing that - these guys would be regarded as heroes. Shame about all the prison time they'd be forced to serve at the hands of the MAFIAA.
Not likely to be long at all. Here's wikipedia's take on Chris Soghoian's tale:
On October 26, 2006, Soghoian created a website that allowed visitors to generate fake boarding passes for Northwest Airlines. While users could change the boarding document to have any name, flight number or city that they wished, the generator defaulted to creating a document for Osama Bin Laden.
Soghoian claimed that his motivation for the website was to focus national attention on the ease with which a passenger could evade the no-fly lists.[3] Information describing the security vulnerabilities associated with boarding pass modification had been widely publicized by others before, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY)[4][5] and security expert Bruce Schneier.[6] Soghoian received media attention for posting a program on his website to enable the automatic production of modified boarding passes. Democrat Edward Markey, House of Representatives committee (telecommunications and the internet) stated Soghoian should be arrested.[2]
At 2 AM on October 28, 2006, his home was raided by agents of the FBI to seize computers and other materials.[7] Soghoian's Internet Service Provider voluntarily shut down the website, after it received a letter from the FBI claiming that the site posed a national security threat.[8] The FBI closed the criminal investigation in November 2006 without filing any charges.[9] The TSA also initiated a civil investigation in December 2006,[10][11] which was closed without any charges being filed in June 2007.[12][13]
You've failed to mention 420, which I think is relevant here.