connecting to multiple email accounts (multiple Exchange account at that) and having a consolidated inbox was probably the major reason for the switch
iOS & Android still can't match the BB for email support so I can't fathom what you are talking about here.>
That's certainly true now; my new BB Curve has all those features too.
But I'm talking a few years ago; in the Bold 9000 era. BBOS at that time (4 point something or other) could only do email via BES; one account only and no POP3 / IMAP (unless you had a 3rd party client; even then it got messy because of no unified inbox and increased battery drain). The iPhone with iOS4 and most Android phones at the time could do unlimited email accounts - and iPhone could have multiple Exchange accounts, which was quite unique for the day.
As to all you other unquoted but acknowledged points (communications, security, VPN,...) I am in total agreement.
The idea that serious people want a physical keyboard is something that even people in the Blackberry boardroom no longer believe in. At our firm, BBs disappeared almost overnight as soon as corporate mail was made available on iPhone and Android..
I've seen that too; the mass exodus from BB to iPhone/Android. The full touchscreen was probably the shiny reason to move away; connecting to multiple email accounts (multiple Exchange account at that) and having a consolidated inbox was probably the major reason for the switch, however. From an IT Administration standpoint, the elimination of the BES because EAS (Exchange ActiveSync) is good enough for maybe 90% of organizations was a primary factor: no more buying extra BES licenses when someone new comes on board.
This particular phone was well along the development schedule when the MS-Nokia deal came along. Sure, it's been Microsoft'd in terms of UI, but whoopty-do.
The bigger question is what happens with future generations of the Nokia X: Will it continue as an Android phone, or transition to a Windows Phone?
The "only" place I could fix my system control code was sitting on a chair right next to the oven's output cooling fans. Lots of snacking on nice, fresh biscuits:)
Plenty of time spent in other snack food factories, and lots of other stories (eg. packaging machine failure left me frantically rebooting an NT4 system whilst it was raining corn chips from the overflowing scale above me).
Old story from way back; a building has been found on the moon that contains a machine that kills people in many different ways throughout the strange building but always consistently. Almost like a mouse in a maze, the scientists figure out that if they can get through this death trap and map each method of death along the way they should be able to get further each time and eventually manage to travel out the other side. Of course it could take many lives to accomplish this so they devise a method of teleporting a copy of someone from the earth to the moon and taking a "backup" copy that shares memories with their counterpart so that when that doppelganger dies there is still a version left alive earth-side.
The only problem is that the sheer horror of each death causes the surviving copy to be driven insane, the human mind just not able to cope, that is until they find the reckless Al Barker who's courted death all his life. It's only then that the research makes any headway.
The Amiga did this sort of stuff when it first came out. You could create a Copper (the display coprocessor) list that was synced to the vscan quite easily; "beam-synced blitting" I think was the name. Basically, you built your copper list so the screen writes were always just behind the video beam so you could have flicker-free drawing.
Just because something is gimmicky today doesn't mean it won't become useful tomorrow.
Conversely, just because some gimmicky things in the past have become useful today doesn't mean that everything considered gimmicky today will become useful in the future. Two words for you on that: flying cars.
Back in the late '70s and early '80s, there were these expensive gimmicks called "personal computers". They didn't do much at all. Heck; some needed you to flip a whole bunch of switches before they could load a paper tape!
Then there was this uber-expensing thing from some fruit company. Used a gadget called a "mouse", and you used the mouse to move boxes around on the screen. Cost $10,000 1983 dollars; back when the average income was just under $21,000.
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Just because something is gimmicky today doesn't mean it won't become useful tomorrow. It does advance us, in terms of building an infrastructure that allows these flights to happen at all, in terms of learning to build space-rated hardware within a commercial cost basis. Then the price comes down, the $/lb comes down (over time) and we have a civilian launch system.
So the less you earn, the less worth you are to society?
Because this discussion is all about confounding variables, in your example lets make the guy who pays the most a drug dealer and the guy who pays the least a father of a family of five earning the average wage.
The market may well have the answer to this, but not this way.
I will simply call the local sheriff's office and tell them that I have located my phone, give them the address, and tell them that in 10 minutes I will be going in locked and loaded to retrieve it. That should give them sufficient time to prevent a more serious crime from taking place.
Let me think: The cops are going to a) scurry over to the thief to recover a phone; or b) send a SWAT team to kick down your door because they received a credible threat of violence against another person - from you.
Compassion Fatigue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue) is a very real thing. With saturation media coverage of almost any event, it's very easy to become somewhat jaded about events in the world.
It doesn't make you a bad person; but recognizing what you are feeling and not taking steps to stop this from happening again (eg. by switching off the 24/7 news and going to play a game with your dog outside in the sun) does mark you as a bit of a tragic. We all know the types who live for the next mass tragedy so they can lament the world. Don't become one of them.
I understood the Colosseum was built out of large stone blocks, held together with huge iron clamps, with maybe a dab of mortar her and there. It was in use by the church for years, although not for religious purposes.
The only reason the Pantheon survives to this day is because it was converted into a church in the 7th Century. Plenty of other buildings both postdate the Pantheon and were made of concrete didn't survive.
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Designed & wrote VMX and Windows NT 3.1.
I guess lists like this are always a matter of opinion.
Don't forget Pioneer 10 and 11...
connecting to multiple email accounts (multiple Exchange account at that) and having a consolidated inbox was probably the major reason for the switch
iOS & Android still can't match the BB for email support so I can't fathom what you are talking about here.>
That's certainly true now; my new BB Curve has all those features too.
But I'm talking a few years ago; in the Bold 9000 era. BBOS at that time (4 point something or other) could only do email via BES; one account only and no POP3 / IMAP (unless you had a 3rd party client; even then it got messy because of no unified inbox and increased battery drain). The iPhone with iOS4 and most Android phones at the time could do unlimited email accounts - and iPhone could have multiple Exchange accounts, which was quite unique for the day.
As to all you other unquoted but acknowledged points (communications, security, VPN, ...) I am in total agreement.
The idea that serious people want a physical keyboard is something that even people in the Blackberry boardroom no longer believe in. At our firm, BBs disappeared almost overnight as soon as corporate mail was made available on iPhone and Android..
I've seen that too; the mass exodus from BB to iPhone/Android. The full touchscreen was probably the shiny reason to move away; connecting to multiple email accounts (multiple Exchange account at that) and having a consolidated inbox was probably the major reason for the switch, however. From an IT Administration standpoint, the elimination of the BES because EAS (Exchange ActiveSync) is good enough for maybe 90% of organizations was a primary factor: no more buying extra BES licenses when someone new comes on board.
This particular phone was well along the development schedule when the MS-Nokia deal came along. Sure, it's been Microsoft'd in terms of UI, but whoopty-do.
The bigger question is what happens with future generations of the Nokia X: Will it continue as an Android phone, or transition to a Windows Phone?
Perhaps one of the buttons can be set to directly call the Fire Dept.
Mayday, perhaps?
It would posit that if Heisenberg were still alive, he would disagree with you.
But Heisenberg is in a resolved Schrödinger's cat problem...
The "only" place I could fix my system control code was sitting on a chair right next to the oven's output cooling fans. Lots of snacking on nice, fresh biscuits :)
Plenty of time spent in other snack food factories, and lots of other stories (eg. packaging machine failure left me frantically rebooting an NT4 system whilst it was raining corn chips from the overflowing scale above me).
You utter bastard.
As if I didn't have enough keeping up with XKCD, now you bring this rather funny comic to take my attention.
May the fleas of a kilocamel infest your armpits.
Old story from way back; a building has been found on the moon that contains a machine that kills people in many different ways throughout the strange building but always consistently. Almost like a mouse in a maze, the scientists figure out that if they can get through this death trap and map each method of death along the way they should be able to get further each time and eventually manage to travel out the other side. Of course it could take many lives to accomplish this so they devise a method of teleporting a copy of someone from the earth to the moon and taking a "backup" copy that shares memories with their counterpart so that when that doppelganger dies there is still a version left alive earth-side.
The only problem is that the sheer horror of each death causes the surviving copy to be driven insane, the human mind just not able to cope, that is until they find the reckless Al Barker who's courted death all his life. It's only then that the research makes any headway.
Take a picture so now we don't have to imagine what a Beowulf cluster of x looks like any more?
Wonderful comment in the Softpedia comments, linking to this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Oops.
Why space shuttles?
They were a magnificent achievement for the '70s, but they were never a cost-effective means of delivering payloads into orbit.
Oh wow; thanks for that explanation!
+1 informative if I could mod in this thread now.
The Amiga did this sort of stuff when it first came out. You could create a Copper (the display coprocessor) list that was synced to the vscan quite easily; "beam-synced blitting" I think was the name. Basically, you built your copper list so the screen writes were always just behind the video beam so you could have flicker-free drawing.
Just because something is gimmicky today doesn't mean it won't become useful tomorrow.
Conversely, just because some gimmicky things in the past have become useful today doesn't mean that everything considered gimmicky today will become useful in the future. Two words for you on that: flying cars.
Nice counter-example :)
Back in the late '70s and early '80s, there were these expensive gimmicks called "personal computers". They didn't do much at all. Heck; some needed you to flip a whole bunch of switches before they could load a paper tape!
Then there was this uber-expensing thing from some fruit company. Used a gadget called a "mouse", and you used the mouse to move boxes around on the screen. Cost $10,000 1983 dollars; back when the average income was just under $21,000.
--
Just because something is gimmicky today doesn't mean it won't become useful tomorrow. It does advance us, in terms of building an infrastructure that allows these flights to happen at all, in terms of learning to build space-rated hardware within a commercial cost basis. Then the price comes down, the $/lb comes down (over time) and we have a civilian launch system.
So the less you earn, the less worth you are to society?
Because this discussion is all about confounding variables, in your example lets make the guy who pays the most a drug dealer and the guy who pays the least a father of a family of five earning the average wage.
The market may well have the answer to this, but not this way.
I will simply call the local sheriff's office and tell them that I have located my phone, give them the address, and tell them that in 10 minutes I will be going in locked and loaded to retrieve it. That should give them sufficient time to prevent a more serious crime from taking place.
Let me think: The cops are going to a) scurry over to the thief to recover a phone; or b) send a SWAT team to kick down your door because they received a credible threat of violence against another person - from you.
Which scenario do you think gets played out here?
An RC Aircraft requires line-of-sight control; if you can't see it you can't control it.
A drone has some level of autonomous control. For example, I can instruct a drone to fly to waypoints. Drones can also return home by themselves.
Everyone is going to claim the $100 of educational research they bought.
There; fixed that for you :)
Compassion Fatigue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue) is a very real thing. With saturation media coverage of almost any event, it's very easy to become somewhat jaded about events in the world.
It doesn't make you a bad person; but recognizing what you are feeling and not taking steps to stop this from happening again (eg. by switching off the 24/7 news and going to play a game with your dog outside in the sun) does mark you as a bit of a tragic. We all know the types who live for the next mass tragedy so they can lament the world. Don't become one of them.
I understood the Colosseum was built out of large stone blocks, held together with huge iron clamps, with maybe a dab of mortar her and there. It was in use by the church for years, although not for religious purposes.
The only reason the Pantheon survives to this day is because it was converted into a church in the 7th Century. Plenty of other buildings both postdate the Pantheon and were made of concrete didn't survive.
Yeah isn't it weird that Microsoft is supporting something they call "Cancer."
Wasn't it Ballmer who said that?
Anyway, suppose it was Gates. Why couldn't he change his mind during the intervening years?
But that paper was peer reviewed
Commenting specifically on medical peer review in this case: if you fake your results you can prove anything.