Should be the perfect ebook for kids, with a great screen for reading even in sunlight, having fbreader available as activity, plenty of books donated to be used freely there but, well... when i see kids here in Uruguay with those in the street i see them watching youtube videos or playing video games instead of reading on them. Maybe low duration battery play a factor, but for me the biggest one is culture. Once you get of those you get so many way of "popular" uses then you dismiss the boring reading.
Someone misread the phrase "Better 10 Guilty Men Go Free than to Convict a Single Innocent Man". Better you are several miles away from the next place they decide that someone is bad around there.
You can even run the actual stuff in your N900 before putting it in a production server, if were for just ssh you can run a java client in most phones. But if you want to run Android's ssh, you can in the n900 too, there are at least 4 different OSs that run in that phone. Is not perfect, but still have functionality that no other smartphone provides yet, even after a year and half of its release.
This site have a common profile for readers that should had been taken into account making the title of article. Something like "Sun farted. Oracle got it", or "We are toast, starting by Nokia". Should't be so bad, in other sites could had been "2012 doomsday true, Sun starting to break", "Another proof that global warming is a myth", or "The dangers of loose bullets"
I bought an N900 too, and i did it not because was hoping that Nokia improves it after, but the community, and it delivered. Now is a better device than it was at the start, not just because of apps (that if well could had been far more, there are several quality ones), but also core features, like kernels with enabled overclocking that improved battery life a lot or libraries that enable apps to do nice tricks with the camera like taking HDR photos.
Regarding Nokia, i bought it to the old company. It delivered me a linux mobile computer with phone capabilities, with desktop flash that took other vendors 6 months or a year to match, with 32 gb of storage plus a great hw keyboard, that in the updates added little pearls like skype/gtalk video calls 3-6 months before any other device. Even a year and half of the original release it compares well against current smartphones.
I don't think i was wrong when I bought it, nor had lost it usefulness because the mole they hired as CEO. And there are room to improvements for the phone. The Community SSU improving things at the core, with a bit of luck the Alien Dalvik opening the door for a bunch of new apps, a possible near future PR that could bring Meego dual boot, or just dual booting Nitdroid on it.
Code in Maemo isnt as free as it should be, there is a lot of propietary code (57%?) that could or not be up to Nokia to free it. Meego afaik don't have such closed components, that alone could require a clean start. And with all open code, the door opens for porting it not just to the devices that comes with meego preinstalled, but for a lot more. So getting late into the party don't mean that you couldnt install later Meego in the i.e. Android or Windows tablets or netbooks that you can buy today.
They could have the source or not, the vulnerabilities that it used to spread could have been patched already (starting with the disabled autorun). Was safe to spread it at the very start because the specific hardware for that payload wasnt very used afaik, and all the techniques that it used to hide itself should now known by security products vendors.
So, it will should be able to damage only the windows users without updates nor running antivirus? Is the target of this announcement people that can't tell if a gun made of soap is real? Or with that (and very little extra effort/knowledge) they could do something close to undetectable that target normal windows systems used in critical environments?
Well, even in the worst case are good news, if there are reasons to be scared then could force to migrate critical environments to safer OSs.
Maybe "emulating" is a too strong words for this. But anyway, is running programs made for one platform in another. And isnt the first case, you have wine, plenty of console emulators, virtual machines, and other approachs to make layers of compatibility.
As a clear pro, you have more apps/games/whatever. You have all the advantages of your current platform (stability, security, multitasking or some special native apps), and being able to run apps made for another. But as con you make devels to not develop for you platform too, and also somewhat say what your platform is not, and if the compatibility/emulation layer is not 100% perfect always will be something that will not run that could press your consume to "downgrade" to your competitors offering.
Of course, if the alternative is not to have those apps at all (at least not until getting popular enough, and you can get there into a chicken-egg situation) probably the best move would be to go forward with that.
Wrong math. At best what you there have 125 exabytes of knowledge and 125 exabytes of anti-knowledge. Ok, probably the knowledge weights more than the antiknowledge, so for each scientific paper could be a hundred pages on ovnis, a thousand lolcat videos, and. well, hundreds of spam pages, but somewhat we keep going forward.
Is not that easy. How you discern someone that say something that you don't think is reasonable or popular enough from the words of a crazy maniac? Once you define "reasonable" you only have one agenda. Suppose that a lot think that they prefer freedom over all the "security screening" that is all around. Would be that considered crazy or the opinion of the majority of the people? And if your perception is "close" to 50-50, you will take the route that have more incentives (aka lobbying) to follow. US government won't change unless they get Egypt's scale protests.
Your stats about what people think are rigged, and a good part of that are things outside normal citizens opinions. And if that is not enough, you force the way to think to enough people to ensure that you are right
Missed the "burnign bridges" Elop memo? They had 2 problems, in high end space (where had to compete against android/ios ecosystems) and in low end (where there are plenty of cheap cellphone makers in china and other countries competing with them). With this alliance, they get little future in the high end and none in the low one.
t shares no common libraries or interfaces with what you find in most Linux distributions. It uses a unique libc that no other distribution uses. It uses a file system layout that is not found anywhere else. Its GUI rendering subsystem is completely unique and incompatible with all others.
Don't forget WebOS then. It had more commercial app support than Maemo, and have a compatible enough fs to make N900 able to run games for it with Preenv. Won't be so surprised if will be possible that kind of connection between Meego and WebOS 3 in the future,
... most of those devices will run well only with ipv4. Anyway, they will be sold like pancakes, after all, what you want is more speed, not reaching anywhere.
Maemo was killed too early. Would had loved to see a bigger-than-n900 tablet/netvertible with it, The remaining hope is Meego, and is coming very late to the party.
Define "internet". Is something bigger than just Google, Facebook or Twitter. You can have local internet social sites, cutting/controlling a few external connections don't need to be full outage, as local ISPs and sites could still provide social communication, and by one method or another give access or import "global" news. Those local ISPs or access providers could be taken as choke ponts too, but still they are better than the old BBS systems in the same game. You just need a p2p social networkinging protocol that could work even if your ISP is not connected to the world (not sure if i.e. Diaspora could apply there)
What is antiscience is to use a McGuffin to explain everything that you can't. Those guys deserve to be stabbed with the Occam's razor (or, maybe, Hanlon's one).
Quite the opposite. Is not just that they don't do enough teaching the right thing, but that in good numbers they teach the wrong one. Before putting teachers to teach science, be sure that they understand it. That would be a sputnik moment.
... the one where by far most of the people, even if you go just to the IT ones, ignores even what is IPv6. How many isps or carriers now are giving ipv6 as an option? Probably the most common policy now is "lets wait till everyone else already took the first step before moving a finger" (later it will be "let all scream and run in circles")
Always Microsoft realizing last the good internet ideas. Probably they are the last ones left on the world that didnt throwed away their hotmail account yet.
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Should be the perfect ebook for kids, with a great screen for reading even in sunlight, having fbreader available as activity, plenty of books donated to be used freely there but, well... when i see kids here in Uruguay with those in the street i see them watching youtube videos or playing video games instead of reading on them. Maybe low duration battery play a factor, but for me the biggest one is culture. Once you get of those you get so many way of "popular" uses then you dismiss the boring reading.
So if that activities ended in a blood bath somehow, would end being called Red Hat?
Still, probably from which government was that agency will change the color of the hat too.
when getting money now matters more than the survival of the humanity in the long term.
Someone misread the phrase "Better 10 Guilty Men Go Free than to Convict a Single Innocent Man". Better you are several miles away from the next place they decide that someone is bad around there.
But beware, if you use it The Eye of Sergey will be fixed on you.
You can even run the actual stuff in your N900 before putting it in a production server, if were for just ssh you can run a java client in most phones. But if you want to run Android's ssh, you can in the n900 too, there are at least 4 different OSs that run in that phone. Is not perfect, but still have functionality that no other smartphone provides yet, even after a year and half of its release.
1-Force everyone, even the ones that had a secure OS, to buy and use the latest version of Windows ...
2-Profit
3
4 Who cares, we already got profit
This site have a common profile for readers that should had been taken into account making the title of article. Something like "Sun farted. Oracle got it", or "We are toast, starting by Nokia". Should't be so bad, in other sites could had been "2012 doomsday true, Sun starting to break", "Another proof that global warming is a myth", or "The dangers of loose bullets"
The #1 reason Nokia is toast is that Elop is still CEO, after what did last friday. The rest is secondary.
I bought an N900 too, and i did it not because was hoping that Nokia improves it after, but the community, and it delivered. Now is a better device than it was at the start, not just because of apps (that if well could had been far more, there are several quality ones), but also core features, like kernels with enabled overclocking that improved battery life a lot or libraries that enable apps to do nice tricks with the camera like taking HDR photos.
Regarding Nokia, i bought it to the old company. It delivered me a linux mobile computer with phone capabilities, with desktop flash that took other vendors 6 months or a year to match, with 32 gb of storage plus a great hw keyboard, that in the updates added little pearls like skype/gtalk video calls 3-6 months before any other device. Even a year and half of the original release it compares well against current smartphones.
I don't think i was wrong when I bought it, nor had lost it usefulness because the mole they hired as CEO. And there are room to improvements for the phone. The Community SSU improving things at the core, with a bit of luck the Alien Dalvik opening the door for a bunch of new apps, a possible near future PR that could bring Meego dual boot, or just dual booting Nitdroid on it.
Code in Maemo isnt as free as it should be, there is a lot of propietary code (57%?) that could or not be up to Nokia to free it. Meego afaik don't have such closed components, that alone could require a clean start. And with all open code, the door opens for porting it not just to the devices that comes with meego preinstalled, but for a lot more. So getting late into the party don't mean that you couldnt install later Meego in the i.e. Android or Windows tablets or netbooks that you can buy today.
They could have the source or not, the vulnerabilities that it used to spread could have been patched already (starting with the disabled autorun). Was safe to spread it at the very start because the specific hardware for that payload wasnt very used afaik, and all the techniques that it used to hide itself should now known by security products vendors.
So, it will should be able to damage only the windows users without updates nor running antivirus? Is the target of this announcement people that can't tell if a gun made of soap is real? Or with that (and very little extra effort/knowledge) they could do something close to undetectable that target normal windows systems used in critical environments?
Well, even in the worst case are good news, if there are reasons to be scared then could force to migrate critical environments to safer OSs.
Maybe "emulating" is a too strong words for this. But anyway, is running programs made for one platform in another. And isnt the first case, you have wine, plenty of console emulators, virtual machines, and other approachs to make layers of compatibility.
As a clear pro, you have more apps/games/whatever. You have all the advantages of your current platform (stability, security, multitasking or some special native apps), and being able to run apps made for another. But as con you make devels to not develop for you platform too, and also somewhat say what your platform is not, and if the compatibility/emulation layer is not 100% perfect always will be something that will not run that could press your consume to "downgrade" to your competitors offering.
Of course, if the alternative is not to have those apps at all (at least not until getting popular enough, and you can get there into a chicken-egg situation) probably the best move would be to go forward with that.
Wrong math. At best what you there have 125 exabytes of knowledge and 125 exabytes of anti-knowledge. Ok, probably the knowledge weights more than the antiknowledge, so for each scientific paper could be a hundred pages on ovnis, a thousand lolcat videos, and. well, hundreds of spam pages, but somewhat we keep going forward.
Is not that easy. How you discern someone that say something that you don't think is reasonable or popular enough from the words of a crazy maniac? Once you define "reasonable" you only have one agenda. Suppose that a lot think that they prefer freedom over all the "security screening" that is all around. Would be that considered crazy or the opinion of the majority of the people? And if your perception is "close" to 50-50, you will take the route that have more incentives (aka lobbying) to follow. US government won't change unless they get Egypt's scale protests.
Your stats about what people think are rigged, and a good part of that are things outside normal citizens opinions. And if that is not enough, you force the way to think to enough people to ensure that you are right
Probaly they will avoid the next market crash with their interference.
Missed the "burnign bridges" Elop memo? They had 2 problems, in high end space (where had to compete against android/ios ecosystems) and in low end (where there are plenty of cheap cellphone makers in china and other countries competing with them). With this alliance, they get little future in the high end and none in the low one.
t shares no common libraries or interfaces with what you find in most Linux distributions. It uses a unique libc that no other distribution uses. It uses a file system layout that is not found anywhere else. Its GUI rendering subsystem is completely unique and incompatible with all others.
Don't forget WebOS then. It had more commercial app support than Maemo, and have a compatible enough fs to make N900 able to run games for it with Preenv. Won't be so surprised if will be possible that kind of connection between Meego and WebOS 3 in the future,
... most of those devices will run well only with ipv4. Anyway, they will be sold like pancakes, after all, what you want is more speed, not reaching anywhere.
Maemo was killed too early. Would had loved to see a bigger-than-n900 tablet/netvertible with it, The remaining hope is Meego, and is coming very late to the party.
Define "internet". Is something bigger than just Google, Facebook or Twitter. You can have local internet social sites, cutting/controlling a few external connections don't need to be full outage, as local ISPs and sites could still provide social communication, and by one method or another give access or import "global" news. Those local ISPs or access providers could be taken as choke ponts too, but still they are better than the old BBS systems in the same game. You just need a p2p social networkinging protocol that could work even if your ISP is not connected to the world (not sure if i.e. Diaspora could apply there)
What is antiscience is to use a McGuffin to explain everything that you can't. Those guys deserve to be stabbed with the Occam's razor (or, maybe, Hanlon's one).
Quite the opposite. Is not just that they don't do enough teaching the right thing, but that in good numbers they teach the wrong one. Before putting teachers to teach science, be sure that they understand it. That would be a sputnik moment.
... the one where by far most of the people, even if you go just to the IT ones, ignores even what is IPv6. How many isps or carriers now are giving ipv6 as an option? Probably the most common policy now is "lets wait till everyone else already took the first step before moving a finger" (later it will be "let all scream and run in circles")
Always Microsoft realizing last the good internet ideas. Probably they are the last ones left on the world that didnt throwed away their hotmail account yet.