GM sold God knows how many cars under 8 or so different marquees around the world with god knows how many dead marquees(22 if Wikipedia's to be trusted; this is also international too) with lots of cross cannibalization.
Toyota is selling three. Toyota, Scion and Lexus. Each in distinct markets that do not cannibalize each other.
Sure, Toyota lost a butt load of money last year and the famous throttle problem, but they're also not worried about going bankrupt anytime soon either.
Simplification of a product line is a damn good thing and flooding the market with product isn't the same thing as being successful or profitable.
You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci. Two reasons; first of all, I think he's a good actor. Ok. To me, that counts. Second; he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. Doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that god was having trouble with. For years I asked god to do something about my noisy neighbor with the barking dog. Joe Pesci straightened that cock-sucker out with one visit.
We've got the Processing part down, now we need to make sure that they play nice when talking to foreign machines. Unfortunately, that's not happening.
Common CPU exploits we see now weren't new when Intel designed the 386. It's just that well, when Intel designed the 386, I don't think anyone would've expected that architecture to stay the same and be used in mission critical, 24/7 support situations.
I just get this feeling like the approach is all wrong to security.
At the heart of the security concept is that CPUs generally aren't designed with security in mind. I blame Intel, ARM, Motorola, IBM, and anyone else I can. CPUs are just executing code they're told to execute. NX, ASLR, and other "security" features don't work. Particularly when the underlying architecture itself is flawed.
Well, no, IBM gets a pass. Given that the PS3 has yet to see a major exploit, I believe that the Cell may have security done right.
Android is the OS, which is quite open indeed. What vendors do with the firmware on their own phones, is entirely up to them.
I really don't think it should be the vendor's choice whether or not to screw their customers.
This is Android's fault. If Google used some sort of license like BSD, that handcuffed OEMs to you know, support their hardware but still leave tinkering and modding free, maybe this shit wouldn't happen. Or create a new Android License stating if you sell hardware you have to support it.
Blahblahblah, iPhone user, locked down, no freedom, whatever.
The browser's just now getting HTML5 support? I thought it was based off of the same WebKit engine that Safari was? Or is it based off of WebKit's *HTML* engine but not JS? Just now getting Exchange support?
Google's trying to shoehorn Android to be right for everyone. OEMs, users, developers, and carriers, yet I can't help but to feel like something's got to give.
Glass-Steagal was designed as a part of a package to stop banks from both creating financial products and also loaning money in which to buy said financial products.
We didn't have a crash like the 1929 crash since 1929 until now for a pretty good reason.
Just because we stop one failure doesn't mean that other failures do not occur, or that failure may not happen again.
Given that the current economic crisis is a result of regulatory failure after the demise of Glass-Steagal and the chain of events in the late 90's and early 00's?
Regulation is a good thing, in general.
Let programmers do what they want and you wind up with useless software. Let investment bankers do what they want and you wind up with CDOs and derivatives trading.
It's not that I think these things are beneath me, but if I want my dose of weekly homoeroticism, I hit up manhunt.com.
I like how in the discussion about human life, the only thing the slash dot crowd cares about is getting a comic reference right, not you know, making sure people don't get trampled on. I understand on Black Friday you're probably not at WalMart at 3AM, but, imagine it was Comicon and natalie portman's hot grits were showing? I don't know where to go with this one.
Because even if I did buy say, a Nokia Symbian/Meego/Maemo device or an Android handset, I don't have the time and energy to assert total control over my devices anyway?
Nokia as a company? Sure, that's one thing, they sell more than just consumer phones. But the one field they compete with Apple in, that's another story.
Ovi's failure is pretty much symbolic of what's wrong with Nokia right now. Nokia's clearly a hardware company that's trying to sell consumer gadgets. Apple's a consumer gadget company trying to sell consumer gadgets.
I can't imagine Nokia sustaining their hold on Asian and European markets, if they keep playing catch-up in that particular segment of the market.
There's a few bits here that kind of strike a chord with me.
When a business standardises on a Nokia S60 phone (happens far more often then a business standardising on a Iphone) they get all the tools they need pre-installed. Ovi failed because it wasn't needed by Nokia's core audience (Business people). Office, Exchange, Email, etc.. are pre-installed on the E71, on the E72 you have in built OCR when photographing documents. I've never had a request for additional software on an E71/72 in two years compared to literally hundreds on the Iphone.
Are your clients even aware that the S60 can take custom applications? Do they even care what phone they're given?
This is what I mean about the tech disconnect with the average user.
The average user might think the OCR scanning capabilities are neat, and sometimes useful, however, how often are you going to use this in your day to day work life? How mangled will the document be? how easy is it to use those features?
Besides, do you realize that you just told me that the bulk of Nokia's handset userbase are a bunch of people who wouldn't normally buy Nokia's bullshit on their own, unprompted? I mean, even RIM got their fucking act together and put out phones that the general average consumer would buy.
I'm sorry dear fanboy but Nokia is going not failing because Nokia understands it's core audience, Nokia is also a huge part of the team developing new standards like LTE, HSPA+ and other next generation technologies whilst apple is working on "magical revolutions". Nokia will be around because unlike Apple, it is a team player in mobile R&D, LTE is being developed by the likes of Nokia, Siemens (Siemens networks is part of Nokia BTW), Motorola and Eriksson (Sony) meanwhile Apple is working exactly zero next generation technologies. In other words, Apple depends on Nokia and the others, not the other way around.
So?
The CMTS that connects my cablemodem to the rest of my cableco's network is Motorola and it's a fascinating piece of kit. That doesn't change the fact that the Droid is kind of wrought with mistakes(How the fuck do you not ship with Multitouch!?) and that Motorola was crapping out shitty phone after shitty phone for years after the RAZR until they started shipping Android phones.
it's expensive to run lots of trials. Spread that cost to the CDC, NIH, the WHO, various teaching hospitals, universities, pharmacos, foreign medical systems... and yes, research gets cheap per study.
Nokia just isn't innovating anymore. What's Meego got in terms of user experience that iPhone OS doesn't? "Freedom" is a joke. Freedom is why my Windows mobile devices sucked balls("If you see a task manager, they did it wrong"). Losing freedom in a mobile handset isn't like being put into martial law. It's just a damned phone.
Nokia was late to the game with multitouch and centralized app sales. They may be selling more units than Apple, but, for how long?
How many of these handset manufacturers will be profitable a year from now? 2 years? 3 years? How many of them are going to make waves in the industry? Microsoft, HTC, Nokia, Samsung, and Dell are all still playing catchup to Apple(Particularly Microsoft), and Google didn't even get into the market until well after the iPhone established itself.
Of anyone who's shipping Android, I can only really see HTC shipping out Android phones with any real gusto in the next few years.
yes, there were tons of apps for Windows Mobile, but, given that the general population wasn't enthusiastic about Windows Mobile? I mean, Symbian was a huge success too, in Asia and Europe, but, again, the idea of selling software on a cel phone just seemed like a losing proposition for developers in mid 2000's.
and we all know what happened between then and now.
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Samuel Clemens was a hell of a salesman.
He's going to be dead, he's not going to a dime of those sales.
However, if he puts his writings on hold for 100 years, then, well, that's a bit more of a sale than if he simply sold them posthumously.
I picked up my monitor and rotated it around.
Screw you too.
GM sold God knows how many cars under 8 or so different marquees around the world with god knows how many dead marquees(22 if Wikipedia's to be trusted; this is also international too) with lots of cross cannibalization.
Toyota is selling three. Toyota, Scion and Lexus. Each in distinct markets that do not cannibalize each other.
Sure, Toyota lost a butt load of money last year and the famous throttle problem, but they're also not worried about going bankrupt anytime soon either.
Simplification of a product line is a damn good thing and flooding the market with product isn't the same thing as being successful or profitable.
Atheists aren't going to pray to anyone.
not true. I'm going to pray to Joe Pesci.
To quote George Carlin:
You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci. Two reasons; first of all, I think he's a good actor. Ok. To me, that counts. Second; he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. Doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that god was having trouble with. For years I asked god to do something about my noisy neighbor with the barking dog. Joe Pesci straightened that cock-sucker out with one visit.
My suggestion is to dump *crappy* CPUs.
Which unfortunately, is a lot of them.
We've got the Processing part down, now we need to make sure that they play nice when talking to foreign machines. Unfortunately, that's not happening.
Common CPU exploits we see now weren't new when Intel designed the 386. It's just that well, when Intel designed the 386, I don't think anyone would've expected that architecture to stay the same and be used in mission critical, 24/7 support situations.
I just get this feeling like the approach is all wrong to security.
At the heart of the security concept is that CPUs generally aren't designed with security in mind. I blame Intel, ARM, Motorola, IBM, and anyone else I can. CPUs are just executing code they're told to execute. NX, ASLR, and other "security" features don't work. Particularly when the underlying architecture itself is flawed.
Well, no, IBM gets a pass. Given that the PS3 has yet to see a major exploit, I believe that the Cell may have security done right.
That's not Androids fault, that's the vendors.
Android is the OS, which is quite open indeed.
What vendors do with the firmware on their own phones, is entirely up to them.
I really don't think it should be the vendor's choice whether or not to screw their customers.
This is Android's fault. If Google used some sort of license like BSD, that handcuffed OEMs to you know, support their hardware but still leave tinkering and modding free, maybe this shit wouldn't happen. Or create a new Android License stating if you sell hardware you have to support it.
Blahblahblah, iPhone user, locked down, no freedom, whatever.
The browser's just now getting HTML5 support? I thought it was based off of the same WebKit engine that Safari was? Or is it based off of WebKit's *HTML* engine but not JS? Just now getting Exchange support?
Google's trying to shoehorn Android to be right for everyone. OEMs, users, developers, and carriers, yet I can't help but to feel like something's got to give.
It was because regulation had forced lenders, especially large banks, to take on bad debt in the form of low-income mortgages.
What, Community Reinvestment Act?
http://mediamatters.org/research/200810100022
http://mediamatters.org/research/201004200058
Wrong.
Stop blaming poor people for rich people fuckups.
Glass-Steagal was designed as a part of a package to stop banks from both creating financial products and also loaning money in which to buy said financial products.
We didn't have a crash like the 1929 crash since 1929 until now for a pretty good reason.
Just because we stop one failure doesn't mean that other failures do not occur, or that failure may not happen again.
Say it's running GNU/Hurd
Given that the current economic crisis is a result of regulatory failure after the demise of Glass-Steagal and the chain of events in the late 90's and early 00's?
Regulation is a good thing, in general.
Let programmers do what they want and you wind up with useless software. Let investment bankers do what they want and you wind up with CDOs and derivatives trading.
Free markets! Bootstraps! Ron Paul! Ron Paul! Free markets! FREDERICK VAN HAYEK! MORE BOOTSTRAPS!
Rabble Rabble Rabble!
Can I make a sketch of Lady Gaga and then scrawl "Mohammed" under it
SSSH
DON'T GIVE HER IDEAS FOR HER NEXT ALBUM'S COVER.
I don't watch wrestling or read comics.
I just sit in the crossfire of people who do.
It's not that I think these things are beneath me, but if I want my dose of weekly homoeroticism, I hit up manhunt.com.
I like how in the discussion about human life, the only thing the slash dot crowd cares about is getting a comic reference right, not you know, making sure people don't get trampled on. I understand on Black Friday you're probably not at WalMart at 3AM, but, imagine it was Comicon and natalie portman's hot grits were showing? I don't know where to go with this one.
most of the world minus Japan and a few other countries use GSM. Japan uses TDMA.
From what I understand about group dynamics, shouting, "FIRE" in a crowded theater even if there is a fire will result in similar outcomes.
(People telling you "SSSSH this is the scene where Cody Rhodes gets the WarMachine armor!" in hushed tones.)
Because even if I did buy say, a Nokia Symbian/Meego/Maemo device or an Android handset, I don't have the time and energy to assert total control over my devices anyway?
The second Americans figure out that things aren't as good here as it is in other countries...
We just went through a year and a half of healthcare debates and no one got really upset that we pay out the nose for 2nd rate care.
Do you really think that we'll give the same level of caring to lousy cellular service?
in so far as I understand it, research is largely decentralized to avoid things like bias and conflicts of interest.
Nokia as a company? Sure, that's one thing, they sell more than just consumer phones. But the one field they compete with Apple in, that's another story.
Ovi's failure is pretty much symbolic of what's wrong with Nokia right now. Nokia's clearly a hardware company that's trying to sell consumer gadgets. Apple's a consumer gadget company trying to sell consumer gadgets.
I can't imagine Nokia sustaining their hold on Asian and European markets, if they keep playing catch-up in that particular segment of the market.
There's a few bits here that kind of strike a chord with me.
When a business standardises on a Nokia S60 phone (happens far more often then a business standardising on a Iphone) they get all the tools they need pre-installed. Ovi failed because it wasn't needed by Nokia's core audience (Business people). Office, Exchange, Email, etc.. are pre-installed on the E71, on the E72 you have in built OCR when photographing documents. I've never had a request for additional software on an E71/72 in two years compared to literally hundreds on the Iphone.
Are your clients even aware that the S60 can take custom applications? Do they even care what phone they're given?
This is what I mean about the tech disconnect with the average user.
The average user might think the OCR scanning capabilities are neat, and sometimes useful, however, how often are you going to use this in your day to day work life? How mangled will the document be? how easy is it to use those features?
Besides, do you realize that you just told me that the bulk of Nokia's handset userbase are a bunch of people who wouldn't normally buy Nokia's bullshit on their own, unprompted? I mean, even RIM got their fucking act together and put out phones that the general average consumer would buy.
I'm sorry dear fanboy but Nokia is going not failing because Nokia understands it's core audience, Nokia is also a huge part of the team developing new standards like LTE, HSPA+ and other next generation technologies whilst apple is working on "magical revolutions". Nokia will be around because unlike Apple, it is a team player in mobile R&D, LTE is being developed by the likes of Nokia, Siemens (Siemens networks is part of Nokia BTW), Motorola and Eriksson (Sony) meanwhile Apple is working exactly zero next generation technologies. In other words, Apple depends on Nokia and the others, not the other way around.
So?
The CMTS that connects my cablemodem to the rest of my cableco's network is Motorola and it's a fascinating piece of kit. That doesn't change the fact that the Droid is kind of wrought with mistakes(How the fuck do you not ship with Multitouch!?) and that Motorola was crapping out shitty phone after shitty phone for years after the RAZR until they started shipping Android phones.
it's not expensive to run one trial.
it's expensive to run lots of trials. Spread that cost to the CDC, NIH, the WHO, various teaching hospitals, universities, pharmacos, foreign medical systems... and yes, research gets cheap per study.
http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/10/why-the-ovi-store-is-still-total-bollocks.html
http://dailymobile.se/2009/05/26/ovi-store-a-complete-disaster/
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90439
Nokia just isn't innovating anymore. What's Meego got in terms of user experience that iPhone OS doesn't? "Freedom" is a joke. Freedom is why my Windows mobile devices sucked balls("If you see a task manager, they did it wrong"). Losing freedom in a mobile handset isn't like being put into martial law. It's just a damned phone.
Nokia was late to the game with multitouch and centralized app sales. They may be selling more units than Apple, but, for how long?
How many of these handset manufacturers will be profitable a year from now? 2 years? 3 years? How many of them are going to make waves in the industry? Microsoft, HTC, Nokia, Samsung, and Dell are all still playing catchup to Apple(Particularly Microsoft), and Google didn't even get into the market until well after the iPhone established itself.
Of anyone who's shipping Android, I can only really see HTC shipping out Android phones with any real gusto in the next few years.
yes, there were tons of apps for Windows Mobile, but, given that the general population wasn't enthusiastic about Windows Mobile? I mean, Symbian was a huge success too, in Asia and Europe, but, again, the idea of selling software on a cel phone just seemed like a losing proposition for developers in mid 2000's.
and we all know what happened between then and now.