I work at a large software company too, but I decided that my work life is not so miserable yet that I need to check my smartphone every time an email comes into my inbox. So I don't sync my mail to the phone. Mail is done at comfortable times, normally on my desktop (or in meetings — perfect opportunities for keeping up!), or at least with a big screen and a big keyboard. If they want me urgently, my phone number is in the directory.
That they had their own plan, one based around Qt, and which was just about to bear fruit
They had three: 1) build a Debian-based distro, and a home-grown UI framework based around Qt; 2) build MeeGo, switching the Moblin legacy software from Gtk onto the said home-grown framework; 3) introduce QML and Qt Components to both of the above. They executed all these plans at once. Only the first one was "just about" to bear fruit (7 months, as you can count now, or more, considering that the decision was made before February). If it does not make sense to you, think if it would make sense to a CEO with their head in the right place.
Denying it makes you only look even more of a naïve fool than you already do - at best. Frankly speaking, you mostly look like you're attempting damage-control.
In some half a year we can see who of us is a bigger fool. Unfortunately you post anonymously, so I can't come back to you then.
It's not enough to convince me! Any former Micro$oft exec has sold his soul and is marked by the Windows logo-shaped seal of evil! I wear my tinfoil hat every time I drive by Nokia HQ in Espoo.
The solution to mismanaged projects is to ditch the project. Not the management responsible.
The management has mostly departed as well.
Not to mention that said mismanaged project has recived raving reviews pretty much universally,
Which project are you talking about? Certainly not MeeGo, the shared effort by Intel and Nokia announced in early 2010. That never released anything worth mentioning for smartphones, and it has recently been morphed into something else again. The N9 is a product-driven wrap up of pre-MeeGo development, marketed as "kinda MeeGo, but not quite". This schizophrenia made no sense, wasted precious resources, so there was in effect no credible platform to go to market with this year, while Android and Apple are tearing Nokia's market share apart.
by basically running around the docks telling everyone that their ship is rigged with explosives and they will press the button aaaany time, and by severly limiting who's even able to get onboard.
So they should have made an about-face and spun N9 as the future of Nokia, only to reveal that the king has no clothes later when a lot of people have bought it. That would boost consumer good will even better than N97 did...
Ditch a Linux-based project, and Slashdot weenies will cry foul, no matter how badly mismanaged the project had in fact been.
Have another Linux project started, and Slashdot conspiracy theorists will accuse you of trying to undermine it with your other hand, before anything is even publicly confirmed about it.
Considering that Microsoft owns Skype, in a few years down the road it's reasonable to expect that only GTalk and special features of GMail may still be missing.
Push notifications with end-to-end authentication is a goodie that Nokia could add; it is developing at least service-side support for unified push notifications.
If I were into it, I'd go for an "accidentally" dropped anchor. Works with fiber optic cables all the time;-)
But seriously, I don't think splicing a ruptured underwater pipeline in shallow waters is that difficult. And surely they have protection for cutting off a major fire or explosion. Russia actually got a land pipeline sabotaged some years ago. The damage was localized.
what should be the primary paradigm to manage the computer.
I'm not sure I agree. Seeing what most non-techie users do to their home folders, I can confirm that filesystem hierarchies are indeed for advanced usage and would be considered complex by the majority of people. I do prefer to keep my files neatly stacked in nested folders, but I find that my own hierarchy is often contrived; I have to fit my data organization to the limitations imposed by the folder hierarchy. What I would absolutely love is to be able to tag documents with arbitrarily many topics in the system-wide file management UI, and then find them quickly using the tags. Full text search is also great if it can be made to work fast. Kudos to anyone innovating to make this possible.
I live in Finland and I feel very safe anywhere here including the dirty immigrant-ridden hellhole (accordingly to some locals) called Helsinki. To be fair, I haven't been mugged once for some ten years in Moscow, so it's all anecdotal.
SPARQL belongs to the RDF la-la land, so it's designed by academics who never tried to implement anything convenient and scalable. Just ask them how easy it is to store and query a semantic equivalent of an ordered list of strings.
See, climate change science was nothing controversial, until the fossil fuel industry and useful idiots from the "free enterprise" crowd got wind of some of its implications on public policy.
Ha-ha, but I remember a community effort on the net by some self-proclaimed statisticians to try to validate the scientists' conclusions based on the publicly available data sets (with a very sceptically predisposed eye at that). I haven't heard about their progress in a while now...
There is some truth to the joke. The Germans were confronted with the fact that an almost entire generation had been complicit in the Holocaust in some way. Now they want to keep themselves aware of this, to never let it happen again.
Evolution has been pretty stagnant feature-wise for the last 6-7 years at least. It was quickly put together by the folks at Ximian. Then, after Ximian was bought by Novell, it was handed off to a bunch of hapless Novell employees, who didn't seem to know what to do with it. In the recent years there has been some activity, but it looks like the codebase bogs down any attempts to change it.
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I work at a large software company too, but I decided that my work life is not so miserable yet that I need to check my smartphone every time an email comes into my inbox. So I don't sync my mail to the phone. Mail is done at comfortable times, normally on my desktop (or in meetings — perfect opportunities for keeping up!), or at least with a big screen and a big keyboard. If they want me urgently, my phone number is in the directory.
It's more about being quirk-for-quirk compatible with Windows.
That they had their own plan, one based around Qt, and which was just about to bear fruit
They had three: 1) build a Debian-based distro, and a home-grown UI framework based around Qt; 2) build MeeGo, switching the Moblin legacy software from Gtk onto the said home-grown framework; 3) introduce QML and Qt Components to both of the above. They executed all these plans at once. Only the first one was "just about" to bear fruit (7 months, as you can count now, or more, considering that the decision was made before February). If it does not make sense to you, think if it would make sense to a CEO with their head in the right place.
Denying it makes you only look even more of a naïve fool than you already do - at best. Frankly speaking, you mostly look like you're attempting damage-control.
In some half a year we can see who of us is a bigger fool. Unfortunately you post anonymously, so I can't come back to you then.
It's not enough to convince me! Any former Micro$oft exec has sold his soul and is marked by the Windows logo-shaped seal of evil!
I wear my tinfoil hat every time I drive by Nokia HQ in Espoo.
No, you are making an unwarranted assumption: that you are the only one here who can pull authority claiming inside knowledge :)
The solution to mismanaged projects is to ditch the project. Not the management responsible.
The management has mostly departed as well.
Not to mention that said mismanaged project has recived raving reviews pretty much universally,
Which project are you talking about? Certainly not MeeGo, the shared effort by Intel and Nokia announced in early 2010. That never released anything worth mentioning for smartphones, and it has recently been morphed into something else again. The N9 is a product-driven wrap up of pre-MeeGo development, marketed as "kinda MeeGo, but not quite". This schizophrenia made no sense, wasted precious resources, so there was in effect no credible platform to go to market with this year, while Android and Apple are tearing Nokia's market share apart.
by basically running around the docks telling everyone that their ship is rigged with explosives and they will press the button aaaany time, and by severly limiting who's even able to get onboard.
So they should have made an about-face and spun N9 as the future of Nokia, only to reveal that the king has no clothes later when a lot of people have bought it. That would boost consumer good will even better than N97 did...
Ditch a Linux-based project, and Slashdot weenies will cry foul, no matter how badly mismanaged the project had in fact been.
Have another Linux project started, and Slashdot conspiracy theorists will accuse you of trying to undermine it with your other hand, before anything is even publicly confirmed about it.
Stephen Elop, you can't win.
A couple companies are making them, but no one is actually selling any.
There is that little company called HTC...
Sorry if it rains on your parade or something.
Like the awesome Maemo I have on my n900?
That was abandoned for a new platform, which has just been abandoned for a new platform.
Meanwhile the rest of the world uses something else on actual, shipped devices.
Considering that Microsoft owns Skype, in a few years down the road it's reasonable to expect that only GTalk and special features of GMail may still be missing.
Push notifications with end-to-end authentication is a goodie that Nokia could add; it is developing at least service-side support for unified push notifications.
WP7 reportedly has 30,000+ apps, which ones do you miss?
Not Obsessed with Killing Itself by Android
Fixed that for you.
If I were into it, I'd go for an "accidentally" dropped anchor. Works with fiber optic cables all the time ;-)
But seriously, I don't think splicing a ruptured underwater pipeline in shallow waters is that difficult. And surely they have protection for cutting off a major fire or explosion. Russia actually got a land pipeline sabotaged some years ago. The damage was localized.
That's the wittiest Slashdot dept. line I've seen in a while :)
Which countries does it run through?
None. It starts in Russia, runs on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and comes out in Germany.
I was going with the GP for a while, waiting to get to a meaningful idea, until it mentioned 4chan.
what should be the primary paradigm to manage the computer.
I'm not sure I agree. Seeing what most non-techie users do to their home folders, I can confirm that filesystem hierarchies are indeed for advanced usage and would be considered complex by the majority of people. I do prefer to keep my files neatly stacked in nested folders, but I find that my own hierarchy is often contrived; I have to fit my data organization to the limitations imposed by the folder hierarchy. What I would absolutely love is to be able to tag documents with arbitrarily many topics in the system-wide file management UI, and then find them quickly using the tags. Full text search is also great if it can be made to work fast. Kudos to anyone innovating to make this possible.
I live in Finland and I feel very safe anywhere here including the dirty immigrant-ridden hellhole (accordingly to some locals) called Helsinki. To be fair, I haven't been mugged once for some ten years in Moscow, so it's all anecdotal.
SPARQL belongs to the RDF la-la land, so it's designed by academics who never tried to implement anything convenient and scalable.
Just ask them how easy it is to store and query a semantic equivalent of an ordered list of strings.
See, climate change science was nothing controversial, until the fossil fuel industry and useful idiots from the "free enterprise" crowd got wind of some of its implications on public policy.
Ha-ha, but I remember a community effort on the net by some self-proclaimed statisticians to try to validate the scientists' conclusions based on the publicly available data sets (with a very sceptically predisposed eye at that). I haven't heard about their progress in a while now...
Alcohol makes you fat.
[Citation needed]
IANA medical researcher, but most of the late stage alcoholics I've seen were not fat.
There is some truth to the joke. The Germans were confronted with the fact that an almost entire generation had been complicit in the Holocaust in some way. Now they want to keep themselves aware of this, to never let it happen again.
Evolution has been pretty stagnant feature-wise for the last 6-7 years at least.
It was quickly put together by the folks at Ximian. Then, after Ximian was bought by Novell, it was handed off to a bunch of hapless Novell employees, who didn't seem to know what to do with it. In the recent years there has been some activity, but it looks like the codebase bogs down any attempts to change it.