Nope. You are wrong. Banks create money every day. That's what makes a bank a bank, and different from all other financial organisations, like say paypal.
My current N97 has 128Mb of RAM and 30+Gb of storage on board.
It browses web pages fine, plays music, videos, sends video emails and calls, has gps and maps and it lasts up to 3 days on a battery charge.
The maemo N900 has 256Mb of RAM, 600MHz CPU. As fast and powerful and as handy with Linux on board as it is, do you think the battery life is going to last 3 days?
If you want an embedded platform where the costs and specific performance criteria are important, e.g. making profit selling hardware, the OS requirements can make a huge difference to the bottom line. Developers... Well battery life is only important to their wives and storage comes in terabytes.
marketing studies to each other to determine the minimum amount of features and quality assurance to put into our products to maximize profit, as if running technology business were the same as running a 50's era factory.
Clearly you could run Microsoft better. More profit, bigger margins, larger market share etc etc etc.
mail clients that don't understand folders, push email that works about half the time,
WTF? The Nokia Symbian mail client understands folders, they've supported imap for donkeys years. It just works, I use it every day. As annoying as push email & calendaring is, the MS Exchange client also just works. The street numbers in a map application come from the data provider. I get the impression you live somewhere like Podunk Idaho, do you have to stand on a hill to get a signal?
A totally unscalabe web app where each page view takes 1 second
That's latency, not throughput. Scalability is throughput. Latency is how shitty it is to use.
I can scale your 1 second web app by adding 1000 processes per server and 1000 servers. That's a million page views per second throughput. But it'll still be a 1 second latency piece of shit application.
For a start, "traditional" karateka are not traditional. They're a 1940s phenomenon.
Second... Intercepting a reverse punch with a reverse punch? Who on earth is going to throw a reverse punch at you?
If you read anything the guys from the earlier era said, it basically amounts to "Don't start a fight, but if trouble is inevitable, put the other guy down first." The alternative interpretations are modern "bushido" bullshit.
Is that why we already succeeded at Year Of Linux On Desktop back in 2003?
Haven't you noticed? The desktop is irrelevant. It's been abstracted to an Internet access platform. It's the phone in the pocket which is the current battleground, and Linux has won that already.
Google has a major advantage here as one of the largest companies in the world
Nokia has the major advantage that they are *the* largest phone producer on the face of the planet and have *the* largest world market share by a large percentage. Google and particularly, Android are small fry in comparison, despite their size in other markets. Those companies jumping on Android are dumb because their horizon is limited to the US market and a single platform.
For irony, Google "Maemo" and "Nokia N900".
As I said, the only groups being hurt by this are Google and those dumb enough to rely on Android for their future, anyone else with a brain will take a look at the competition and more open platforms.
No, it isn't, because there is open competition from other vendors. The only group it's harming is Google and those companies dumb enough to buy into Android for their future.
Like I said, I work in the field. To do a very small -- SMALL -- experiment with only half a dozen volunteers who will have a temporary brain implant for two weeks, the non-recoverable costs are about $500,000.
Clearly you should offshore this to China or India.
Bright red meat... damned near glowing with health?
Food chemistry is well understood, as is customer preference. The industry has been using every trick in the book for a thousand years to sell product to customers.
If all you've got is locked content on locked machines, you end up with mind firmly locked shut.
Bollocks. Bullshit. Hyperbole.
I.T.'s loss is the rest of the world's gain. The less time people spend fucking around with irrelevant I.T. wheels the more time spent on the real problems and solutions of the world.
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Nope. You are wrong. Banks create money every day. That's what makes a bank a bank, and different from all other financial organisations, like say paypal.
Banks create money.
Paypal moves money.
I have concluded that your math sounds like something a salesman/shill would produce to justify selling you something.
There. Fixed it.
Throw off those Chinese made instruments of oppression!
On second thoughts. The idea of millions of Americans going naked isn't so appealing.
My current N97 has 128Mb of RAM and 30+Gb of storage on board.
It browses web pages fine, plays music, videos, sends video emails and calls, has gps and maps and it lasts up to 3 days on a battery charge.
The maemo N900 has 256Mb of RAM, 600MHz CPU. As fast and powerful and as handy with Linux on board as it is, do you think the battery life is going to last 3 days?
If you want an embedded platform where the costs and specific performance criteria are important, e.g. making profit selling hardware, the OS requirements can make a huge difference to the bottom line. Developers... Well battery life is only important to their wives and storage comes in terabytes.
marketing studies to each other to determine the minimum amount of features and quality assurance to put into our products to maximize profit, as if running technology business were the same as running a 50's era factory.
Clearly you could run Microsoft better. More profit, bigger margins, larger market share etc etc etc.
If they'd just agreed to modify the Office applications so they understood handwriting.
mail clients that don't understand folders, push email that works about half the time,
WTF? The Nokia Symbian mail client understands folders, they've supported imap for donkeys years. It just works, I use it every day. As annoying as push email & calendaring is, the MS Exchange client also just works. The street numbers in a map application come from the data provider. I get the impression you live somewhere like Podunk Idaho, do you have to stand on a hill to get a signal?
Try ovi suite. It's a reimagining of what pc suite should do.
You install the app signer which has a dev cert. Then you can sign and install any application you want, a bit of a pain, but no risky hacks required.
http://thesymbianblog.com/2009/07/04/how-to-sign-unsigned-files-on-a-s60-3rd5th-edition-device-itself/
It's even Linux. Hell, it's Debian.
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
A totally unscalabe web app where each page view takes 1 second
That's latency, not throughput. Scalability is throughput. Latency is how shitty it is to use.
I can scale your 1 second web app by adding 1000 processes per server and 1000 servers. That's a million page views per second throughput. But it'll still be a 1 second latency piece of shit application.
For a start, "traditional" karateka are not traditional. They're a 1940s phenomenon.
Second... Intercepting a reverse punch with a reverse punch? Who on earth is going to throw a reverse punch at you?
If you read anything the guys from the earlier era said, it basically amounts to "Don't start a fight, but if trouble is inevitable, put the other guy down first." The alternative interpretations are modern "bushido" bullshit.
But if we start now, maybe by the time we get there, earth based life will be well established.
Is that why we already succeeded at Year Of Linux On Desktop back in 2003?
Haven't you noticed? The desktop is irrelevant. It's been abstracted to an Internet access platform. It's the phone in the pocket which is the current battleground, and Linux has won that already.
Google has a major advantage here as one of the largest companies in the world
Nokia has the major advantage that they are *the* largest phone producer on the face of the planet and have *the* largest world market share by a large percentage. Google and particularly, Android are small fry in comparison, despite their size in other markets. Those companies jumping on Android are dumb because their horizon is limited to the US market and a single platform.
For irony, Google "Maemo" and "Nokia N900".
As I said, the only groups being hurt by this are Google and those dumb enough to rely on Android for their future, anyone else with a brain will take a look at the competition and more open platforms.
That's not harming Linux and OSS community?
No, it isn't, because there is open competition from other vendors. The only group it's harming is Google and those companies dumb enough to buy into Android for their future.
Like I said, I work in the field. To do a very small -- SMALL -- experiment with only half a dozen volunteers who will have a temporary brain implant for two weeks, the non-recoverable costs are about $500,000.
Clearly you should offshore this to China or India.
low labor-cost morons.
Way to categorize thousands of people you've never met, you fucking psychopath.
In a reverse manner.
So you think you need a new style of clothes every year?
No. You tell people that they are better/smarter/sexier because they have something. Or dumb/failure/loser because they don't.
You for instance are a failure because you don't have an electric car.
Bright red meat... damned near glowing with health?
Food chemistry is well understood, as is customer preference. The industry has been using every trick in the book for a thousand years to sell product to customers.
If all you've got is locked content on locked machines, you end up with mind firmly locked shut.
Bollocks. Bullshit. Hyperbole.
I.T.'s loss is the rest of the world's gain. The less time people spend fucking around with irrelevant I.T. wheels the more time spent on the real problems and solutions of the world.
You have may be able to modify it for cheap gigabit line of sight. Which isn't an obsolete technology.
They're doing the human race a favour. Really.