Actually Farmville is more of a danger to China. Imagine all the office workers around the world who waste time on checking up on their farms and therefore reducing real life productivity.
Maybe they should've thought of the consequences before Viacom actively sent people out to internet cafés and the like to upload infringing material in order to further their cause in the lawsuit which started this.
For the most part I've just always been more comfortable with Nokia devices although at times I used separate phones for business and personal purposes. With the exception of the Maemo devices' lack of user-friendliness they simply deliver the "it just works" experience Apple usually claims for itself.
E.g., around 1999/2000 I had a 3210 and later a 6210 for personal use and an Alcatel One Touch Com for business use. For those who don't know the OTC: It offered extremely reliable pen input, a note/drawing app, full text search through contacts/text messages/mails without borders) with a comfort which practically no other smartphone offered at that time (unless you wanted to shell out a ton of money for the first WinCE phones and bluescreens in your pocket).
But it took until 2004 to sway me away from the OTC and the 3660 when the 7710 came with its superior Symbian Series 90 platform (which although abandoned continues its legacy with today's Hildon in the N900).
It boils down to deciding what works best for oneself and to me that usually was Nokia but at least to me they've burnt a lot of bridges by constantly shooting themself in the foot thanks to bad decisions (and sometimes abandoning superior products along the way).
True. With all the downsides it's still a useful tool. I lost count of how often I used it to do all kinds of server maintenance while I was on the road. And if you need more power there's always the ability to switch over to fully grown Debian.
Chrome OS was a nice publicity gag but Android simply has more to offer and combined with the know-how from the Chrome browser it should make for a nice solution where a fully grown Linux distro would be too much for the hardware.
I'm rather skeptic and after the "N900 experience" (read: serious lack of commercial apps, treated by Nokia as a second-class device, the whole (ongoing) Ovi Store debacle,...) I'm not sure I'll ever buy a Nokia device again. And that's coming from someone who's been a steady Nokia customer since the late 90's.
True, Symbian has been open source for a while but it also is an antiquated dinosaur which should've been taken out to the pasture and taken out of its misery long ago.
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Exactly, which is why tying its support timeframe to XP SP3 x86 instead of the server OS doesn't make much sense.
Just look at the entertainment industry.
Nowadays the best they can do are remakes of remakes of remakes.
Actually Farmville is more of a danger to China.
Imagine all the office workers around the world who waste time on checking up on their farms and therefore reducing real life productivity.
Does that mean CowboyNeal wasn't involved after all?
Well, you're still young. Lots of time for practice. ;)
True again.
Unfortunately whoever marked the earlier comment as Flamebait and Offtopic seriously needs to develop a sense of humor.
... for a little Suzuki motorcycle.
... the artist formerly known as someone people once gave a shit about
Who exactly was drunk enough to come up with the idea of a state rock in the first place?
If they play it right a bunch of out-of-control rent-a-cops will soon have a new career, flipping burgers.
Imagine a photo of Rosie O'Donnell on a nude beach and you'll know what damage a camera can do.
Sure you're not talking about the Daily Fail?
Check the probe. They probably left a "Mega maid was here" bumper sticker.
Maybe they should've thought of the consequences before Viacom actively sent people out to internet cafés and the like to upload infringing material in order to further their cause in the lawsuit which started this.
Did they turn gksudo into UAC?
For the most part I've just always been more comfortable with Nokia devices although at times I used separate phones for business and personal purposes. With the exception of the Maemo devices' lack of user-friendliness they simply deliver the "it just works" experience Apple usually claims for itself.
E.g., around 1999/2000 I had a 3210 and later a 6210 for personal use and an Alcatel One Touch Com for business use.
For those who don't know the OTC: It offered extremely reliable pen input, a note/drawing app, full text search through contacts/text messages/mails without borders) with a comfort which practically no other smartphone offered at that time (unless you wanted to shell out a ton of money for the first WinCE phones and bluescreens in your pocket).
But it took until 2004 to sway me away from the OTC and the 3660 when the 7710 came with its superior Symbian Series 90 platform (which although abandoned continues its legacy with today's Hildon in the N900).
It boils down to deciding what works best for oneself and to me that usually was Nokia but at least to me they've burnt a lot of bridges by constantly shooting themself in the foot thanks to bad decisions (and sometimes abandoning superior products along the way).
True.
With all the downsides it's still a useful tool. I lost count of how often I used it to do all kinds of server maintenance while I was on the road. And if you need more power there's always the ability to switch over to fully grown Debian.
HAve to agree.
Chrome OS was a nice publicity gag but Android simply has more to offer and combined with the know-how from the Chrome browser it should make for a nice solution where a fully grown Linux distro would be too much for the hardware.
"One TLD to block them all..."
Guess which side has donated more towards campaign funds?
Join the club.
I'm rather skeptic and after the "N900 experience" (read: serious lack of commercial apps, treated by Nokia as a second-class device, the whole (ongoing) Ovi Store debacle, ...) I'm not sure I'll ever buy a Nokia device again.
And that's coming from someone who's been a steady Nokia customer since the late 90's.
True, Symbian has been open source for a while but it also is an antiquated dinosaur which should've been taken out to the pasture and taken out of its misery long ago.
Was I the only one surprised at how low 37% seems?
I was expecting something above 95%. The rest is pretty much background noise.
Didn't the last Star Trek movie already prove that you only need some bad writing to destroy one?
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And there's a reason why government agencies don't use MS Windows above a certain security level.