I don't know what Wood&Elastic is and can't find any reference to it. But now that you mention "real life" I can't help but remember a game we also played when we were kids (In this part of the world at least), where you had small glass balls of various sizes textures (Representing different values), and you threw them at a stack of other small balls, and if you managed to knock them all down you won some new ball, otherwise the guy with the stack would win your balls!
The tradeoff comes from the limiting resources on mobile devices. It equals to far quicker development times, and much smaller games, the consoles are going into the other direction with realism and high-quality and detailed models + immersive storyline. It costs far, far, more to develop real console games than it does to buy all phones you can find at some store and employ proven techniques to deal with the various screen resolutions.
I see this as the benefit of the system. People that send illegal things through the post office will be tracked down more easily. Stolen things that are sold on the Internet (What do you think happens to all the stolen credit cards), money that is sent illegally out to other countries (I'm thinking specifically of an incident where a shady exchange office refused to give me a receit), and such things happen on a large scale. Submissions such as that to wikileaks are an exception that don't can't even be seen on the larger scale of things.
People that can't affort sending signed documents with UPS each time. You also send other things through the post office, such as Internet purchases etc. so they're already doing delivery of items, it's just of varying sizes from mail to packages.
So I don't see the post office going away anytime soon.
They don't necessarily think the fixer is an idiot, they just think that "knowing PCs" is equivalent to "knowing exactly what each and every file in the c:\windows folder is and does." and when they mention "virus" because the PC isn't functioning the way it's suposed to, then you'll know exactly what's wrong and can fix it with no effort.
I've "repaired" some PCs in my time, but on the very, very, rare occations someone asks me to fix their PC I just tell them to call their neighbors kid or something (In the hopes that they will understand the perspective here).
Since most of us don't need the mobile device to continue functioning after heavy usage for more than maybe 48 hours, ARM has also hit a wall with how much lower power consumption is needed.
I don't know. You might be able to find a web-based equivalent, though I wouldn't recommend sending all sound to some random place on the net. Since the app is open-source it should be fairly easy to port too.
I need some background noise too. I think it has to do with the way I've never bothered investing specifically in quiet fans on PC's I've built, and as they've become more and more powerful they just became louder until the point where I need some background noise to fall asleep. Otherwise I can hear a bit of stuff from neighbors and such, and those background noises overlaid on the "loud scilence" is annoying.
I recommend Sleep Analyzer http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/sleepanalyser/, (THere's also the iPhone app), so you can see to some extent what the noise looks like during sleep, my comfort zone is with a constant hum.
Even their Mail for Exchange was dead on arrival for most people, only those with dedicated Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers were able to use it, mine still doesn't sync all the time with 2007. The developer of it said "Blame me plz" (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35136) in 2009, what has happened since them? Absolutely nothing, and there's no trace of such a thing for MeeGo.
Office suites would have also been great. They dedicated some resources to porting KOffice, and it was a half-assed attempt. I suspect they did this intentionally, though, so people would still buy their E-series business-class devices. The N-series is a multimedia device (Not that us consumers would care).
Well, Microsoft doesn't give you any choice of support any other platforms anyway so I can understand why that could be a concern.
I'm trying to view the direction we're heading it. Android is coming up fast, and MeeGo just fits well into my utopian vision.
Surely they can. Only, they're more focused on tablets. I believe we the users are most interested in the power of the mobiles in our pockets.
My concern is, what phones are we going to install MeeGo on? Because of Nokia's move, this probably means their phones will be locked to WinMo, and Apple is hopeless when it comes to unlocking anything. Those rare mobile devices that allow for installation of other OSes might become much saught after, but that's probably a niche.
Supporting Android and hoping that Intel will somehow manage to get MeeGo onto phones, is our best bet for a bright future with pocket computers.
"Given Nokia's position what else could they have done to preserve the market share? Any Ideas?"
Assign more developers and resource so MeeGo. It seems they lost faith in MeeGo, or are strategically moving away from Linux. Ironically, the move caused the consumers to lose faith in Nokia.
Since being well-trained in the finer arts of trolling, I'd like to go out of my way and contribute some insightful information on this topic in the hopes that it will help other fellow trolls. But I couldn't help but notice that your erroneous usage of the acronym "URI" does not apply to the posted URL, which indicates that you're a newb that doesn't know what he's talking about, so further engagement in this discussion is likely to yield information of no value from your part.
You can wait them out, in democracies eventually they will go away. In systems such as that in North Korea they plan to keep the power in the family for as far as their family trees take them, even if they're imbeciles that would have never gotten to those positions if they went through the filtering process that us normal peasants go through.
It's all fun and games until someone that doesn't know about the system tries to send you an email. I like the idea of having real names registered to email addresses, but certificates already do this.
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I don't know what Wood&Elastic is and can't find any reference to it. But now that you mention "real life" I can't help but remember a game we also played when we were kids (In this part of the world at least), where you had small glass balls of various sizes textures (Representing different values), and you threw them at a stack of other small balls, and if you managed to knock them all down you won some new ball, otherwise the guy with the stack would win your balls!
The tradeoff comes from the limiting resources on mobile devices. It equals to far quicker development times, and much smaller games, the consoles are going into the other direction with realism and high-quality and detailed models + immersive storyline. It costs far, far, more to develop real console games than it does to buy all phones you can find at some store and employ proven techniques to deal with the various screen resolutions.
I see this as the benefit of the system. People that send illegal things through the post office will be tracked down more easily. Stolen things that are sold on the Internet (What do you think happens to all the stolen credit cards), money that is sent illegally out to other countries (I'm thinking specifically of an incident where a shady exchange office refused to give me a receit), and such things happen on a large scale. Submissions such as that to wikileaks are an exception that don't can't even be seen on the larger scale of things.
Also, who sends letters?
People that can't affort sending signed documents with UPS each time. You also send other things through the post office, such as Internet purchases etc. so they're already doing delivery of items, it's just of varying sizes from mail to packages.
So I don't see the post office going away anytime soon.
Hey, can you do my facebook pic please? Just a quick shot since you know the right angles. ;)
They don't necessarily think the fixer is an idiot, they just think that "knowing PCs" is equivalent to "knowing exactly what each and every file in the c:\windows folder is and does." and when they mention "virus" because the PC isn't functioning the way it's suposed to, then you'll know exactly what's wrong and can fix it with no effort. I've "repaired" some PCs in my time, but on the very, very, rare occations someone asks me to fix their PC I just tell them to call their neighbors kid or something (In the hopes that they will understand the perspective here).
THIS^^^^^ _ and; Lock them down as much as possible. Add push-button resets. And make Linux user-hateful again.
Since most of us don't need the mobile device to continue functioning after heavy usage for more than maybe 48 hours, ARM has also hit a wall with how much lower power consumption is needed.
The devil is in the details ;)
Just try going out and running a few kilometres and you'll notice the effort you'll have to make to get close to the physique of pro athletes ;)
I don't know. You might be able to find a web-based equivalent, though I wouldn't recommend sending all sound to some random place on the net. Since the app is open-source it should be fairly easy to port too.
I need some background noise too. I think it has to do with the way I've never bothered investing specifically in quiet fans on PC's I've built, and as they've become more and more powerful they just became louder until the point where I need some background noise to fall asleep. Otherwise I can hear a bit of stuff from neighbors and such, and those background noises overlaid on the "loud scilence" is annoying. I recommend Sleep Analyzer http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/sleepanalyser/, (THere's also the iPhone app), so you can see to some extent what the noise looks like during sleep, my comfort zone is with a constant hum.
Even their Mail for Exchange was dead on arrival for most people, only those with dedicated Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers were able to use it, mine still doesn't sync all the time with 2007. The developer of it said "Blame me plz" (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35136) in 2009, what has happened since them? Absolutely nothing, and there's no trace of such a thing for MeeGo. Office suites would have also been great. They dedicated some resources to porting KOffice, and it was a half-assed attempt. I suspect they did this intentionally, though, so people would still buy their E-series business-class devices. The N-series is a multimedia device (Not that us consumers would care).
Well, Microsoft doesn't give you any choice of support any other platforms anyway so I can understand why that could be a concern. I'm trying to view the direction we're heading it. Android is coming up fast, and MeeGo just fits well into my utopian vision.
Surely they can. Only, they're more focused on tablets. I believe we the users are most interested in the power of the mobiles in our pockets. My concern is, what phones are we going to install MeeGo on? Because of Nokia's move, this probably means their phones will be locked to WinMo, and Apple is hopeless when it comes to unlocking anything. Those rare mobile devices that allow for installation of other OSes might become much saught after, but that's probably a niche. Supporting Android and hoping that Intel will somehow manage to get MeeGo onto phones, is our best bet for a bright future with pocket computers.
"Given Nokia's position what else could they have done to preserve the market share? Any Ideas?" Assign more developers and resource so MeeGo. It seems they lost faith in MeeGo, or are strategically moving away from Linux. Ironically, the move caused the consumers to lose faith in Nokia.
What has been imagined, cannot be imagined :0
Since being well-trained in the finer arts of trolling, I'd like to go out of my way and contribute some insightful information on this topic in the hopes that it will help other fellow trolls. But I couldn't help but notice that your erroneous usage of the acronym "URI" does not apply to the posted URL, which indicates that you're a newb that doesn't know what he's talking about, so further engagement in this discussion is likely to yield information of no value from your part.
Who's going to build these reactors? I think they're waiting for the oil companies to come aroun an ensure a smooth transition.
You can wait them out, in democracies eventually they will go away. In systems such as that in North Korea they plan to keep the power in the family for as far as their family trees take them, even if they're imbeciles that would have never gotten to those positions if they went through the filtering process that us normal peasants go through.
If the leader of that country is Gaddhafi or Kim Jung-Ill, then yes it's OK.
It's all fun and games until someone that doesn't know about the system tries to send you an email. I like the idea of having real names registered to email addresses, but certificates already do this.
That's it, I am now booking a meeting with my team tomorrow to start talking about quantum teleportation. Touché!
I've started talking about femtoseconds.
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