The results of the tests were the exact opposite of the impression I have seen in Slashdot.
There is a pack of Microsoft astroturfers who hang out on Slashdot and whose job is post their talking points as often as possible, one of this is the FUD about GIMP. Must suck to be one of those.
Nokia, for all its reputation, does not offer any real competitive advantage in the Android marketplace.
Absolute rubbish. Nokia's rep for good hardware would given them a special place in the market. And of course they could customize Android as some do successfully. Then they would be selling a product people actually wanted. Let's be honest. Nobody wants a Microsoft phone.
By the way, I seriously doubt your are an investor/stakeholder in Nokia, except to the extent you answer to your Microsoft masters.
It's all moot anyway. Nokia is doomed, and with it Microsoft's phone ambitions.
I'm wondering whether my old nokia dumb phone will last longer than Nokia the company;).
I'd bet on that for sure.
My 5310 Music phone is going great and I often carry it in preference to the bulkier Android because it is a tiny fraction of the size, has great call quality and great speakers. Really amazing for a gadget that size. Plus it's built like a tank in spite of being small and light.
Exactly. I don't have the source code for the processor microcode either. I can live with it, provided the API exposed to the driver is sufficiently complete.
I don't think it's all that wacky to question the veracity of the claim that suicides at Foxconn dropped to zero after safety nets were installed around the buildings. Reported suicides maybe.
Did I miss something, or don't they even try to disguise advertisement on/. anymore? o_O
See, this Humble Bundle thing benefits Slashdotters in general, whether they buy it or not. Slashdot also tends to advertise Android (aka Linux). Any objections about that?
What you mention is far different from being secretly paid by an interested party. I guess if you want to make such an allegation, you better be prepared to prove it.
What the hell does "DCE6 display watermark support" mean? I googled for it and didn't find anything useful.
Whoa, this one really flies below the Google radar. DCE part of recent Radeon architecture, a programmable display controller that produces low level digitial signals to drive a wide variety of display types. As for "watermark", I did not turn up much on it beyond the patch. You tell me and we'll both know.
The ATI 3d acceleration is still dependent on non-free software. Only the 2d works on free systems.
Complete nonsense. I am doing OpenGL development at this very moment using the fully open Radeon driver. Your post has too many inaccuracies to address. If it were possible to retract it, you probably should.
My impression of the relative compression performance is that there is only a small difference. Not enough to get me excited personally. Like many, I value the free and open aspect far more. And it has Google pixie dust on it, how could that hurt?
Your conspiracy theory requires some substantiation as does mine. Yours more so than mine, as you directly impugn the integrity of a specific person. Would you be so bold if you used your real name?
I do find the proposition that the Foxconn suicide rate is actually lower than the general Chinese population rather hard to swallow, frankly. Actually, I just kind of accepted that claim like everybody else until I thought about it a moment. We know for example that the suicide rate at colleges is higher than in the general population, in spite of the fact that the college population generally comes from a higher income background and has brighter prospects than the population at large. Something to do with stress I think. Now how exactly is Foxconn able to beat the odds, not just by a little, but by a lot?
When somebody jumps off a building it is pretty hard to hush it up. Maybe it is easier in some other cases. Maybe Foxconn's goal with the suicide nets was not so much to prevent suicide, but to drive it into the shadows where it can be denied. After the suicide nets went up it was reported that the suicide rate dropped effectively to zero. Accepting that claim requires an open mind, in fact a gaping one.
So... if you want a nuclear reactor flying around over your head ready to spread itself out over the countryside due to a moment's inattention, I hope that you live in a different country than I do, regardless of the relative safety of different reactor types.
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The results of the tests were the exact opposite of the impression I have seen in Slashdot.
There is a pack of Microsoft astroturfers who hang out on Slashdot and whose job is post their talking points as often as possible, one of this is the FUD about GIMP. Must suck to be one of those.
people who type "M$" are criticized. Because it shows they're speaking purely out of spiteful bias
Or is it because M$ astroturfers just hate that nice little joke?, which has a long if not particularly distinguished pedigree.
Because stock price reflects the next quarter
If that's what you think then I have some advice for you: stay out of the stock market.
Nokia, for all its reputation, does not offer any real competitive advantage in the Android marketplace.
Absolute rubbish. Nokia's rep for good hardware would given them a special place in the market. And of course they could customize Android as some do successfully. Then they would be selling a product people actually wanted. Let's be honest. Nobody wants a Microsoft phone.
By the way, I seriously doubt your are an investor/stakeholder in Nokia, except to the extent you answer to your Microsoft masters.
It's all moot anyway. Nokia is doomed, and with it Microsoft's phone ambitions.
it's not impossible for the entire windows 8 strategy to fail
I thought it already did.
By "cash injection" do you mean "bribe"? Paid to the company, or paid to individuals?
They could have bought Las Vegas.
I'm wondering whether my old nokia dumb phone will last longer than Nokia the company ;).
I'd bet on that for sure.
My 5310 Music phone is going great and I often carry it in preference to the bulkier Android because it is a tiny fraction of the size, has great call quality and great speakers. Really amazing for a gadget that size. Plus it's built like a tank in spite of being small and light.
You so totally make sense and you so totally explained why NOK tanked 20% the day of the deal with Microsoft.
Cause Microsoft paid them more than Google.
Whatever it was, it obviously wasn't worth it.
Watermark refers to empty/fill thresholds in the FIFOs between video memory and the display.
Hah, so it's made-in-linux terminology abuse. Somebody got confused between the correct "highwater mark" and the incorrect "high watermark".
Exactly. I don't have the source code for the processor microcode either. I can live with it, provided the API exposed to the driver is sufficiently complete.
I don't think it's all that wacky to question the veracity of the claim that suicides at Foxconn dropped to zero after safety nets were installed around the buildings. Reported suicides maybe.
Did I miss something, or don't they even try to disguise advertisement on /. anymore? o_O
See, this Humble Bundle thing benefits Slashdotters in general, whether they buy it or not. Slashdot also tends to advertise Android (aka Linux). Any objections about that?
Waiting for the other shoe to drop: a competitor to Humble Bundle. To prove that the market is really as vibrant as it seems.
By the way, bullshit is fertilizer. Bad analogy. Ranks about about with the rest of your post though.
What you mention is far different from being secretly paid by an interested party. I guess if you want to make such an allegation, you better be prepared to prove it.
What the hell does "DCE6 display watermark support" mean?
I googled for it and didn't find anything useful.
Whoa, this one really flies below the Google radar. DCE part of recent Radeon architecture, a programmable display controller that produces low level digitial signals to drive a wide variety of display types. As for "watermark", I did not turn up much on it beyond the patch. You tell me and we'll both know.
The ATI 3d acceleration is still dependent on non-free software. Only the 2d works on free systems.
Complete nonsense. I am doing OpenGL development at this very moment using the fully open Radeon driver. Your post has too many inaccuracies to address. If it were possible to retract it, you probably should.
Yes, to be precise we must have actually meant VP8 vs H.264, but good point about the subtitles. WHATWG / W3C RFC will release guidance on subtitles and other overlays in HTML5 in the near future.
My impression of the relative compression performance is that there is only a small difference. Not enough to get me excited personally. Like many, I value the free and open aspect far more. And it has Google pixie dust on it, how could that hurt?
...make that "medical college" rather than college in general.
Your conspiracy theory requires some substantiation as does mine. Yours more so than mine, as you directly impugn the integrity of a specific person. Would you be so bold if you used your real name?
I do find the proposition that the Foxconn suicide rate is actually lower than the general Chinese population rather hard to swallow, frankly. Actually, I just kind of accepted that claim like everybody else until I thought about it a moment. We know for example that the suicide rate at colleges is higher than in the general population, in spite of the fact that the college population generally comes from a higher income background and has brighter prospects than the population at large. Something to do with stress I think. Now how exactly is Foxconn able to beat the odds, not just by a little, but by a lot?
When somebody jumps off a building it is pretty hard to hush it up. Maybe it is easier in some other cases. Maybe Foxconn's goal with the suicide nets was not so much to prevent suicide, but to drive it into the shadows where it can be denied. After the suicide nets went up it was reported that the suicide rate dropped effectively to zero. Accepting that claim requires an open mind, in fact a gaping one.
Whether or not it is the best business model is entirely irrelevant to the issue that the model is what some companies actually utilize...
Then they are stupid and I have no sympathy.
So... if you want a nuclear reactor flying around over your head ready to spread itself out over the countryside due to a moment's inattention, I hope that you live in a different country than I do, regardless of the relative safety of different reactor types.
What is theoretical about the observation that forcing something nobody wants down their throats is usually not the best possible business model?