Always has been, always will be. You need to take a look at history.
The worst case recently though are all the soldiers sent off to Iraq to save America from Weapons of Mass Destruction. Shoulda joined Blackwater, not the army.
Maybe it's time the techies realized that they are working class and not the professional class many have thought of themselves.
I've found it amusing for quite a while that developers call themselves "engineers" despite not following any forms of engineering practice. Not to say there aren't software engineers, but they're few and far between, maybe 1% or so of developers. Most are really just tradesmen. Just like weavers.
It IS a videophone, is a word processor, is a spreadsheet, is also a map and a satnav, and is a super small computing device designed for visual display of information.
Fuck, I can even run multi user ssh sessions, DB servers and web sites on it. Y'know I reckon I could run mult user X desktops on the thing as well.
It'd be great to be able to project onto a wall for a spur-of-the-moment code discussion, etc. It seems like every time I'm in a meeting & want to share an idea or code snippet, etc. with the group
The first time Joe Newbie tries to open a Shockwave web page, send an OpenOffice document to his buddy (who uses MS) that opens with crapped-up formatting, or tries to connect to an Exchange server (and no, OWA light is not a good alternative), he's going to have a bad taste in his mouth.
WTF? Have you got a clue stick? Smack yourself over the head with it please. The people who this is aimed at have no idea what an application is, never mind shockwave web sites or an exchange server or what OWA is.
The USB stick contains your log-n credentials, encrypted. Your data is sitting on their box. Vendor lock-in and over-priced.
They're not doing their users any favours.
They are making a system which is designed for 90%+ of people, not you. You as (probably) an IT professional are almost certainly part of the problem, not the solution. A task based paradigm. No desktop. No applications. No files, no file formats. No viruses. No backups. No networking. etc etc. Not a computer at all. None of the bullshit which suffuses computers.
That's the favour they are doing for their users. I've been using computers for... *decades* and y'know, it sounds good to me. Hell, it even includes broadband and offsite backups too.
Simple abuse of email as a broadcast medium means that I receive a mean of around 100 emails per day (in a corporate environment) from dozens of different people and organisations. Sure, I have filters, dozens of them and constantly adding more, but, you know, it's really just not worth it for the numbers of useful and relevant emails which I do receive. Particularly when outlook is so dire at handling large numbers of mails.
Single pass through designs. Then of course the process of making use of the resulting energy itself is only 35% efficient. So really, our nuclear reactors are only around 0.3% efficient.
There are proposed designs which will burn all the waste as well almost eliminating the waste problem and giving up to about 30% efficiency. And if the "waste" heat was pumped into a large district heating network as well, you might even reach 70-80% overall efficiency. 250 times more energy out of the same amount of nuclear fuel. Now that would be world changing.
Whereas every other country has always taxed it to compensate for the huge amount of damage cars/vehicles make to infrastructure and environment.
Actually, it's worse than that, and it isn't just damage, it's economics. Oil is paid for in dollars. US dollars. You want oil? You buy US dollars first.
See the trick? America gets paid for Saudi oil before the Saudis do. It gives the US a huge advantage economically. The US gets to export a significant proportion of it's inflation to the rest of the world and gets real value for it. Print a trillion dollars here, the price of oil goes up, everybody buys those fresh new bills cos they still need oil. Oil purchases for the rest of the world export value to the US.
The iphone didn't even have GPS originally, never mind a mapping application. The N95 is 3 years old. You might want to compare against something current instead, like the N97 or N900, once they get Maps 3 ported to Linux. Though I suspect the battery life on that will suck almost as badly as the iphone's.
Nokia Maps has also gone from rev 1.0 (on the N95) to rev 3.0 in the last 3 years.
The better use IMHO would be if/when it comes to mobile phones. I like Google maps/street view because I can pull it up from my phone, and get a look at what's in front of me...
Only if you have good 3G reception. Not that google maps isn't impressive, but the time when you most need it? Lost, middle of nowhere, crap reception? You know, typical slasher movie intro. You're fubar. The chainsaw wielding maniac is going to get you.
One year they have vast amounts of money, think they own the world. 10 years later, their cash is being spent on a dozen failures which they can't own up to and then, suddenly someone makes their core monopoly irrelevant.
It takes years, possibly decades for them to stop moving but it happens.
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My phone is an iPhone, you insensitive clod!
Ah, you good little consumer. Shame you can't do anything productive with it.
Cos China owns trillions of US government bonds, which your income taxes pay for.
The question is, who do you get to buy your debts?
A camel will eat anything semi green.
(and can be bought for the meagre price of your wife, or $500, whichever comes first)
Always has been, always will be. You need to take a look at history.
The worst case recently though are all the soldiers sent off to Iraq to save America from Weapons of Mass Destruction. Shoulda joined Blackwater, not the army.
Maybe it's time the techies realized that they are working class and not the professional class many have thought of themselves.
I've found it amusing for quite a while that developers call themselves "engineers" despite not following any forms of engineering practice. Not to say there aren't software engineers, but they're few and far between, maybe 1% or so of developers. Most are really just tradesmen. Just like weavers.
Besides, if you're playing a video with your phone, what if you want to then take a phone call?
You pause the video?
You can already get wifi pico projectors and yup, they're about the size of a pack of cards.
It IS a videophone, is a word processor, is a spreadsheet, is also a map and a satnav, and is a super small computing device designed for visual display of information.
Fuck, I can even run multi user ssh sessions, DB servers and web sites on it. Y'know I reckon I could run mult user X desktops on the thing as well.
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
Where have you been for the last 5 years?
Projector too? Hell yeah!
It'd be great to be able to project onto a wall for a spur-of-the-moment code discussion, etc. It seems like every time I'm in a meeting & want to share an idea or code snippet, etc. with the group
My my, don't you have a bushy tail.
The first time Joe Newbie tries to open a Shockwave web page, send an OpenOffice document to his buddy (who uses MS) that opens with crapped-up formatting, or tries to connect to an Exchange server (and no, OWA light is not a good alternative), he's going to have a bad taste in his mouth.
WTF? Have you got a clue stick? Smack yourself over the head with it please. The people who this is aimed at have no idea what an application is, never mind shockwave web sites or an exchange server or what OWA is.
The USB stick contains your log-n credentials, encrypted. Your data is sitting on their box. Vendor lock-in and over-priced.
They're not doing their users any favours.
They are making a system which is designed for 90%+ of people, not you. You as (probably) an IT professional are almost certainly part of the problem, not the solution. A task based paradigm.
No desktop. No applications. No files, no file formats. No viruses. No backups. No networking. etc etc. Not a computer at all. None of the bullshit which suffuses computers.
That's the favour they are doing for their users. I've been using computers for... *decades* and y'know, it sounds good to me. Hell, it even includes broadband and offsite backups too.
Wonder how many hits they got for that one.
this is true of any and all CAs.
And I'm not talking about UCE.
Simple abuse of email as a broadcast medium means that I receive a mean of around 100 emails per day (in a corporate environment) from dozens of different people and organisations. Sure, I have filters, dozens of them and constantly adding more, but, you know, it's really just not worth it for the numbers of useful and relevant emails which I do receive. Particularly when outlook is so dire at handling large numbers of mails.
Single pass through designs. Then of course the process of making use of the resulting energy itself is only 35% efficient. So really, our nuclear reactors are only around 0.3% efficient.
There are proposed designs which will burn all the waste as well almost eliminating the waste problem and giving up to about 30% efficiency. And if the "waste" heat was pumped into a large district heating network as well, you might even reach 70-80% overall efficiency. 250 times more energy out of the same amount of nuclear fuel. Now that would be world changing.
Whereas every other country has always taxed it to compensate for the huge amount of damage cars/vehicles make to infrastructure and environment.
Actually, it's worse than that, and it isn't just damage, it's economics. Oil is paid for in dollars. US dollars. You want oil? You buy US dollars first.
See the trick? America gets paid for Saudi oil before the Saudis do. It gives the US a huge advantage economically. The US gets to export a significant proportion of it's inflation to the rest of the world and gets real value for it. Print a trillion dollars here, the price of oil goes up, everybody buys those fresh new bills cos they still need oil. Oil purchases for the rest of the world export value to the US.
Thought not.
Apart from MS Office, it has to be the most pirated bit of software in the world.
You cant take any details from any news articles at face value.
CPU & RAM
N95: 332 MHz 90 Mb
iphone: 600MHz 256Mb
The iphone didn't even have GPS originally, never mind a mapping application. The N95 is 3 years old. You might want to compare against something current instead, like the N97 or N900, once they get Maps 3 ported to Linux. Though I suspect the battery life on that will suck almost as badly as the iphone's.
Nokia Maps has also gone from rev 1.0 (on the N95) to rev 3.0 in the last 3 years.
Jeez.
Or do you need to lug around a supercomputer in a rucksack?
The better use IMHO would be if/when it comes to mobile phones. I like Google maps/street view because I can pull it up from my phone, and get a look at what's in front of me...
Only if you have good 3G reception. Not that google maps isn't impressive, but the time when you most need it? Lost, middle of nowhere, crap reception? You know, typical slasher movie intro. You're fubar. The chainsaw wielding maniac is going to get you.
One year they have vast amounts of money, think they own the world. 10 years later, their cash is being spent on a dozen failures which they can't own up to and then, suddenly someone makes their core monopoly irrelevant.
It takes years, possibly decades for them to stop moving but it happens.
Servers are N Units high. Most are 2 or 3 units. So why lie them flat and try to force air front to back when it wants to rise?
Rotate the servers 90 so they are vertical and leave an approx 1U air gap between them.
And while we're reconfiguring the shape of rack servers. Please put the network ports, console ports at the front, the power ports at the back.
Here is a bunch of money, more than you usually get. I want you to spend it, but I don't want you to do anything with it.
Go build a statue, a pyramid, anything, as long as it's not useful. Classical Keynesian economics.
If your site truly needs availability, you have to get a diesel generator.
lol.
If your site truly needs availability, you need a second site.