And I don't see anybody rushing to write similar apps on Symbian.
WTF? They already exist, as standard. Certainly on n97
ActiveNotes for syncable hierarchical multimedia notes. Built in MP3 player & streamer. Weather is built into Ovi Maps which comes on the phone, as is Find Places for local businesses etc.
Clearly you have no idea about Symbian apps. Did you look? I suspect that'd be a "no".
FRB requires an organisation to grow in order to pay the interest on it's debts. They continually have to generate more and more revenue. So they take out some bigger loans and gobble up competitors and get bigger. Rinse and repeat. Eventually there will be only one corporation, owned by the bank.
As a smart phone, yes, it's laughable how few apps are available for it
Apple claim something like 20k applications. Think about that for a second, and then... What exactly could they all possibly be?
So you've got what? 500 different fart applications? Or what? No really. How many different word processors (for example) can survive in a market? MS Word. Open Office, which is free, and then?
Clearly if you want your fart application in a specific shade of brown rather than green, Apple have got you covered. For the slightly less discerning among us, maybe fewer/better apps isn't so bad.
Fact is, Symbian, Nokia, Sony/Ericsson are not American and most of the tech media (like/.) is American. It's just your normal American ignorance over what's happening in the rest (95%) of the world.
It's really just that simple.
Course the rest of the world often gets a little confused over the way Americans get excited over 3 year old features.
You just might want to do a little more in depth research to see where the huge price rises in corn, etc come from. Hint: not from farmers, nor from ethanol production. It comes from wall street speculators
ok, so i'm a speculator. I've bought 1000 tonnes of corn in the hope it goes up. Then what do I do?
Do I burn it? Do I dump it in the ocean? What?
At some point, that corn has to be sold to the end user, and in the process I increase the supply, just as I increased the demand when buying. i.e. when it's consumed, someone paid the market rate for it.
I mean. It's almost as boring as US car races but at least the tracks aren't ovals. God, almost fell asleep just at the thought.
Excitement. Look at Touring cars, motorcycles; British Superbikes, now there are a bunch of complete nutters. The TT at the Isle of Man. Even MotoGP is better.
Formula 1? What...a... bunch... of... BORING... pussies.
I'd be very grateful if you could do my job for me and (since I have some options) simultaneously add several billion dollars value to the company I work for, all the while making me look good to my boss's boss.
Not exactly surprising, but not for corporate espionage.
Don't know if you noticed, but maps are militarily significant. If you have people providing maps of your country, using the gps on phones within your country to improve the quality of the maps, locate places, it's in your interest to have influence over them, particularly if your biggest competitor owns the satellites and the services run from within their borders.
I mean come on, the howls of outrage and surprise are laughably naive.
Any improvements in electricity storage devices will be compensated for by producers of devices which use those electricity storage devices and thereby negate the improvements.
i.e. You're never going to get more than 100 miles out of your electric car. It'll just get bigger heavier and faster instead.
Battery electric vehicles have had a range of approx 100 miles for a century now. 100 years ago, around 40% of all cars sold in the US were electric. How's that for technological history.
They're using a dessicant to pull water out of the air thereby reducing the humidity. It sounds more like an adsorbtion chiller but using liquid rather than solid dessicants. They've been around for donkeys years but are expensive.
If IT is seen as a cost then it will be spun off into a separate IT organization and basically be the same as any other service; water, power, phone, light etc. You'll get a PC and email. The IT org will spend years on each "big project" which will come in late, over budget and will only partially fulfill requirements which changed years ago. Apart from a "Service Desk" and a small core of centralized support staff who spend their time firefighting, users will be left to fend for themselves. This is pretty normal and is cheaper than the alternative.
If IT is seen as a benefit then the IT components will be integrated directly into the rest of the business. You get a PC, email, office automation, custom apps, etc. There will be local support and development staff who can respond quickly to both business needs and problems. This is rare because it's seen as significantly more expensive than the standard model, though it can deliver huge productivity improvements to businesses. However, in this model, IT costs are rather difficult to quantify so I haven't seen evidence of how much more expensive it is.
Now, you pay your money and take your choice. Quality vs cost; the same old question. But if all you buy is McDonalds, quit bitching about getting fat. BTW, if you take a look at the org chart in your company you'll see how things are going. For people in the IT business, and that probably covers just about everyone on/. the latter model is infinitely preferable to the former.
I use Berlin U bahn, S bahn and RE trains just about every day... One of the best, most efficient and comprehensive mass transit systems in the world. But they only carry a fraction of the journeys (about 5%) which are made in the areas they service (Berlin/Brandenburg). They simply could not cope with a 20 fold increase in usage and there's no realistic way they could be made to cope.
Take a look at Germany's passengerkm stats per mode of transport to see just how the different modes compare.
Thought experiment. You have a road. You can safely put a car along the road every 2 seconds. What is the capacity of the road? 1800 cars per hour.
You put a parking garage at the end of the road. it takes 15 seconds to get a ticket and enter the garage. What is the capacity of the road now? 240 cars per hour. You just cut road capacity to 13% of nominal and created a huge traffic jam. Welcome to reality.
Our traffic problems are created because we don't get cars off the roads fast enough when they get to their destination. What're need are lots of high bandwidth parking garages. Traffic lights and junctions also don't help at all.
Seriously. Problem solved. You could even shock horror, do it properly and take the backups offsite in case someone spills his Mountain Dew on the "mission critical" servers under his desk.
No, wait. It's much better to spend your time re-inventing backups. Go ahead.
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And I don't see anybody rushing to write similar apps on Symbian.
WTF? They already exist, as standard. Certainly on n97
ActiveNotes for syncable hierarchical multimedia notes.
Built in MP3 player & streamer.
Weather is built into Ovi Maps which comes on the phone, as is Find Places for local businesses etc.
Clearly you have no idea about Symbian apps. Did you look? I suspect that'd be a "no".
e.g.
http://store.ovi.com/
and
http://www.symbian-freeware.com/
Hand in hand.
FRB requires an organisation to grow in order to pay the interest on it's debts. They continually have to generate more and more revenue. So they take out some bigger loans and gobble up competitors and get bigger. Rinse and repeat. Eventually there will be only one corporation, owned by the bank.
The availability of cheap credit is key.
As a smart phone, yes, it's laughable how few apps are available for it
Apple claim something like 20k applications. Think about that for a second, and then... What exactly could they all possibly be?
So you've got what? 500 different fart applications? Or what? No really. How many different word processors (for example) can survive in a market? MS Word. Open Office, which is free, and then?
Clearly if you want your fart application in a specific shade of brown rather than green, Apple have got you covered. For the slightly less discerning among us, maybe fewer/better apps isn't so bad.
Yes, Symbian is Nokia's (old, obsolete) OS for the mass-market phones that people buy when they just want a phone
Nope. That's the S40 range. Symbian is used on the smartphone range where ram,cpu,battery matter.
If you don't give a crap about battery life then there's the Linux systems which are coming in.
Fact is, Symbian, Nokia, Sony/Ericsson are not American and most of the tech media (like /.) is American. It's just your normal American ignorance over what's happening in the rest (95%) of the world.
It's really just that simple.
Course the rest of the world often gets a little confused over the way Americans get excited over 3 year old features.
which could actually change the situation.
lol. no.
He'll be labeled an "eccentric genius" (aka kook) and the world will go on as before. Where've you been?
You just might want to do a little more in depth research to see where the huge price rises in corn, etc come from. Hint: not from farmers, nor from ethanol production. It comes from wall street speculators
ok, so i'm a speculator. I've bought 1000 tonnes of corn in the hope it goes up. Then what do I do?
Do I burn it?
Do I dump it in the ocean?
What?
At some point, that corn has to be sold to the end user, and in the process I increase the supply, just as I increased the demand when buying. i.e. when it's consumed, someone paid the market rate for it.
Which compete with palm and apple.
So. no real surprise.
Probably because they have a family and use a car for transportation?
You clearly just moved the discussion way out of his realm of experience.
There's a barrel load of stuff I've forgotten. Should have patented it while I could.
WAIT!!! Maybe I still can.
Go on, get off my lawn!
FFS, someone should take a hatchet to the US PTO. Don't they need to reduce the budget or something?
e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfPM77TsGaA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h04yfZ4xIY
The real head cases though race here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE7H6f9PVwk
Formula 1?
Might as well not bother.
I mean. It's almost as boring as US car races but at least the tracks aren't ovals. God, almost fell asleep just at the thought.
Excitement. Look at Touring cars, motorcycles; British Superbikes, now there are a bunch of complete nutters. The TT at the Isle of Man. Even MotoGP is better.
Formula 1? What ...a ... bunch ... of ... BORING ... pussies.
I'd be very grateful if you could do my job for me and (since I have some options) simultaneously add several billion dollars value to the company I work for, all the while making me look good to my boss's boss.
Yours sincerely...
You will note that the strikes are ONLY occurring against foreign companies. Not a one on local companies.
Reported by? People who have an interest in telling you all about local chinese companies you've never heard of?
Not exactly surprising, but not for corporate espionage.
Don't know if you noticed, but maps are militarily significant. If you have people providing maps of your country, using the gps on phones within your country to improve the quality of the maps, locate places, it's in your interest to have influence over them, particularly if your biggest competitor owns the satellites and the services run from within their borders.
I mean come on, the howls of outrage and surprise are laughably naive.
Any improvements in electricity storage devices will be compensated for by producers of devices which use those electricity storage devices and thereby negate the improvements.
i.e. You're never going to get more than 100 miles out of your electric car. It'll just get bigger heavier and faster instead.
Battery electric vehicles have had a range of approx 100 miles for a century now. 100 years ago, around 40% of all cars sold in the US were electric. How's that for technological history.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6480
They're using a dessicant to pull water out of the air thereby reducing the humidity. It sounds more like an adsorbtion chiller but using liquid rather than solid dessicants. They've been around for donkeys years but are expensive.
If IT is seen as a cost then it will be spun off into a separate IT organization and basically be the same as any other service; water, power, phone, light etc. You'll get a PC and email. The IT org will spend years on each "big project" which will come in late, over budget and will only partially fulfill requirements which changed years ago. Apart from a "Service Desk" and a small core of centralized support staff who spend their time firefighting, users will be left to fend for themselves. This is pretty normal and is cheaper than the alternative.
If IT is seen as a benefit then the IT components will be integrated directly into the rest of the business. You get a PC, email, office automation, custom apps, etc. There will be local support and development staff who can respond quickly to both business needs and problems. This is rare because it's seen as significantly more expensive than the standard model, though it can deliver huge productivity improvements to businesses. However, in this model, IT costs are rather difficult to quantify so I haven't seen evidence of how much more expensive it is.
Now, you pay your money and take your choice. Quality vs cost; the same old question. But if all you buy is McDonalds, quit bitching about getting fat. BTW, if you take a look at the org chart in your company you'll see how things are going. For people in the IT business, and that probably covers just about everyone on /. the latter model is infinitely preferable to the former.
It's shiney shiney.
And people wonder why in many top-tier institutions 75% of the graduate students in science are foreign-born?
They wonder? Really? They're cheaper for the same or better results. Same reason everything is being offshored.
Wait... We can just print money instead. Forget what I just said.
rail can scale, if done well, in appropriate circumstances.
That isn't scaling. That's niche.
I use Berlin U bahn, S bahn and RE trains just about every day... One of the best, most efficient and comprehensive mass transit systems in the world. But they only carry a fraction of the journeys (about 5%) which are made in the areas they service (Berlin/Brandenburg). They simply could not cope with a 20 fold increase in usage and there's no realistic way they could be made to cope.
Take a look at Germany's passengerkm stats per mode of transport to see just how the different modes compare.
No really it is.
Thought experiment. You have a road. You can safely put a car along the road every 2 seconds. What is the capacity of the road? 1800 cars per hour.
You put a parking garage at the end of the road. it takes 15 seconds to get a ticket and enter the garage. What is the capacity of the road now? 240 cars per hour. You just cut road capacity to 13% of nominal and created a huge traffic jam. Welcome to reality.
Our traffic problems are created because we don't get cars off the roads fast enough when they get to their destination. What're need are lots of high bandwidth parking garages. Traffic lights and junctions also don't help at all.
Seriously. Problem solved. You could even shock horror, do it properly and take the backups offsite in case someone spills his Mountain Dew on the "mission critical" servers under his desk.
No, wait. It's much better to spend your time re-inventing backups. Go ahead.