About which phone are you talking? My E61 (bought in 2006) and my E63 (bought 1 year ago) both are fine (besides the pen input, which i did not try yet).
The web-browsing works fine with opera mini/mobile, and even the build-in browser is not terribly bad.
a) News of symbians death are IMHO highly exaggerated. I right now would place a bet that symbian OS will be a significant palyer in the market for the next 5-10 years (maybe more). Why? Go to Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Africa, Russia etc. many people there dont afford iphones, but low-end Nokia devices are pushes out in numbers you cant imagine. And the current mid-class devices (e.g. Nokia e63), which you can already buy there will be the next low-end devices. So - taken into account the fact that Nokia can build successfully push out phones counted in 10s of millions and be profitable on a much smaller margin for revenue, you think they should experiment around?
b) Android: Nokia stayed away from bundling the devices with services from other companies, because then you would invest in developments where somebody else dictates the rules. So should Nokia accept to help advertise and develop a platform, which makes them googles slaves? As a happy Nokia customer i say: No.
c) customer base: If it want something for playing i'll buy and additional android device,iphone,psp or wii. If i want a workhorse, i'll buy the next Nokia phone - if possible a symbian one. I have all the software i need for it, namely dictionaries, pim tools, mail client, podcast downloader, internet radio, youtube client, skype, messaging clients, google maps (and nokia maps), office documents editors. Moreover it runs java programs. This is my definition of "what do i primarily need?". I wont sacrifice running this stably for an unknown gain in other things.
So to say it shortly - the customers interested in having a cool looking web-surfing device Nokia already are lost for Nokia. Their potential customer base are people who want a cheap phone or something which "just works", with a little hooks as possible. For that they should take their time and keep the keys in they own hands.
that they are not able to handle such a situation by changing and regenerating the codes (e.g. a certain number of persons could have a distributed key to decrypt the codes only if more than 3 of them agree). I also would have hoped that the codes them are only decrypted when used on the appropriate terminal, and that this encryption can be changed. Trusting that the card is save against theft, loosing it, or damage is not very wise.
i was devastated when a colleague of mine, 31years old, speaking fluent english and holding a Phd in physics startes to teach me on blood types like it was science.......
a) Nowadays there is no reason that information (especially in something like a university network) is stored locally.
b) since windows, osx and linux have out-of-the box encryption there is no need to subscribe to any software beyond the normal distribution with support.
c) the most tasks which require ssn or any other information are so standardized that a thin client will do the job. A thin client can also be a laptop with 3g, no infromation to be stored locally.
d) Use VPNs to avoid the rest of the trouble.
e) fire employees when you figure out they use USB sticks to take work home, instead of taking the approved laptop home and work via the network. And sue them for cleaning up the mess.
Obviously: when the oracle starts to offer total solutions form the database servers over the Fileservers to thin clients, all based on their own/former suns products an a little bit of open source, and support from one hand - hmmm what could possibly go wrong for MS?
Forbid bundling of phoned an contract, forbid included minutes and data, flat-rates, and make it possible that contracts finish every month without additional cost. And make the simple rule that the price per minute/MB can only go down with growing consumption. There is absolutely no background besides schemes close to gambling for the price jumping *up* by a factor of 100 once you reach a certain limit. Dear providers *if* you have difficulties to provide enough cell towers to handle what you promised, then please throttle the speed in a controlled way.
Enforce separation of the network operators and the companies bundling these to a services and put a stock market in between (like for electricity or other goods) to stimulate reselling.
If a simple per minute/MB scheme applies the customers could compare the offers, the company would not bet on your usage behavior (induced by their crippled branded crap), and for buying a phone you need cash or a loan like for buying anything else, so people would be conscious that they are not given presents.
...I get more and more happy i decided (even forgetting about them being late with 3g support) against buying one, as nice as it is (me = happy user of a E71/E63; the E71 could do a lot of things in 2006 which the iphone seems to learn slowly because Apple teamed up with the providers to fuck the users as hard as possible - sorry transferring contacts, appointments, data by BT and connectign to any BT device i bought or ever tested *is* a mandatory feature; not to mention that the E71 could communicate with my palm from 2003 by infrared.....).
If there is something in the class it should be e-book readers, maybe with a note-taking function and a pocket calculator. This can protect the backbones of the children from carrying 5kg of dead tree every day and schoolbooks could then be updated if mistakes are found. With the right type of ebook reader the note-taking function could also serve for tests which can be easily archived (and multiple choice tests could have randomized order of the answers to prevent cheating); one could even think about activating/deactivating ebooks during tests (e.g. formula handbooks in physics and a pocket calculator) may be available. Multiple choice tests could also be evaluated automatically.
Obviously the notes should be uploaded to a server, and have the setting private (for yourself), public (if you think you found a mistake in the book - yes teach the children that books will never be perfect), and teacher only for tests or questions if you did not understand something. The teacher could then see an overlay of the whole class and recognize which part requires attention and need some repetition.
So to say: use something which takes the troubles of managing outdated books and tests from the school and as a way to annotate books and keep notes. But: Not Internet, no messaging beyond leaving a note for others at a specific place (and possibly seeing the answer - however seeing the answer directly should only happen during teamwork exercises), no movies (beyond slow animated figures in a book) - however an audio function which read the books for blind kids/a zoom in function for children with bad eyesight.
Adobe/MS could give an Update of the CS suite for free for anybody who has an CS for Mac OS X and switches to Win. Or: MS give a boiled-down Version of the CS (e.g. no CMYK mode in the free version would probably be enough to keep professionals buying the real product) for free with windows or they add it on to the MS office suite. In that case Adobe tools would be standard immediately, and people could use a decent editor for vector art.
And a discontinuation of Flash for OS X would make consumer consider to switch.
Maybe using NAT for half a year and having the increased number of people calling support and the increased cost of having terribly stateful routers motivates the ISPs to push ipv6.
I for my part would prefer to run it locally. after all, i would run it in a virtual machine without network connection and then also test it in a machine of my own *before* letting the virus to the wild. That prevents the seller of the webservice from plainly stealing your target customizations, using it for himself and giving you a crippled version. On the other hand, if the programmer has some reputation to loose then he cant pull that off to visibly.
But i must admit that i have no idea which methods the customers would use to express their dissatisfaction....
Just provide it as a service and pay per use, then the software does not need to be transferred. On the other hand - i am not sure the other criminals would trust the website. After all if they promise the are 100%malware-free, its exactly not what they want. If the promise is not given, the i would assume they have backdoor in the backdoor.
I think a special Version of Anti-Virus software is needed.....
a completely drunk photo may be a sign of poor judgment, in the same way as failing the EE bachelor exam may be a sign of poor EE knowledge.
Seeing both actions make me anticipate a certain performance. Normally companies don't hire some failed EE engineer on a job where they need to get the job done directly and they don't hire somebody with poor judgment for PR. The correlation between anticipation and job performance in both cases is far from 100% but probably also far from 0%.
A new interesting competitor significantly different from the endless stream of linux-based mobile devices (unless qnx, like windriver now uses linux).
Interesting to see how it competes. i hope they keep the high reliability they are famous for.
Its funny that nations which manage to get into wars regularly make themselves high moral judges over China at each occasion. Yes, not everything is good in China right now. But they have gone a long way since the beginning of the last century. And don't forget: totalitarianism was an invention of the West, and China is struggling hard to overcome its consequences.
So, no i don't understand why it not good news that one of the biggest nations develops. In the moment when China develops, salaries and standard of living there will rise. Thats good for the people there and good for the US and Europe, since then jobs will come back.
Seeing the stability of the region, i would rather prefer a wealthy and well-developed china than a underdeveloped country.
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About which phone are you talking? My E61 (bought in 2006) and my E63 (bought 1 year ago) both are fine (besides the pen input, which i did not try yet).
The web-browsing works fine with opera mini/mobile, and even the build-in browser is not terribly bad.
a) News of symbians death are IMHO highly exaggerated. I right now would place a bet that symbian OS will be a significant palyer in the market for the next 5-10 years (maybe more). Why? Go to Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Africa, Russia etc. many people there dont afford iphones, but low-end Nokia devices are pushes out in numbers you cant imagine. And the current mid-class devices (e.g. Nokia e63), which you can already buy there will be the next low-end devices. So - taken into account the fact that Nokia can build successfully push out phones counted in 10s of millions and be profitable on a much smaller margin for revenue, you think they should experiment around?
b) Android: Nokia stayed away from bundling the devices with services from other companies, because then you would invest in developments where somebody else dictates the rules. So should Nokia accept to help advertise and develop a platform, which makes them googles slaves? As a happy Nokia customer i say: No.
c) customer base: If it want something for playing i'll buy and additional android device,iphone,psp or wii. If i want a workhorse, i'll buy the next Nokia phone - if possible a symbian one. I have all the software i need for it, namely dictionaries, pim tools, mail client, podcast downloader, internet radio, youtube client, skype, messaging clients, google maps (and nokia maps), office documents editors. Moreover it runs java programs. This is my definition of "what do i primarily need?". I wont sacrifice running this stably for an unknown gain in other things.
So to say it shortly - the customers interested in having a cool looking web-surfing device Nokia already are lost for Nokia. Their potential customer base are people who want a cheap phone or something which "just works", with a little hooks as possible. For that they should take their time and keep the keys in they own hands.
A real car, produced from 2003,
http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/printer_319.shtml
that they are not able to handle such a situation by changing and regenerating the codes (e.g. a certain number of persons could have a distributed key to decrypt the codes only if more than 3 of them agree). I also would have hoped that the codes them are only decrypted when used on the appropriate terminal, and that this encryption can be changed. Trusting that the card is save against theft, loosing it, or damage is not very wise.
normally i expect apt-get update take care of it
under windows the update hint constantly popping up triggers a reflex in my hand to click on it. no thoughts are wasted.
i was devastated when a colleague of mine, 31years old, speaking fluent english and holding a Phd in physics startes to teach me on blood types like it was science.......
a) Nowadays there is no reason that information (especially in something like a university network) is stored locally.
b) since windows, osx and linux have out-of-the box encryption there is no need to subscribe to any software beyond the normal distribution with support.
c) the most tasks which require ssn or any other information are so standardized that a thin client will do the job. A thin client can also be a laptop with 3g, no
infromation to be stored locally.
d) Use VPNs to avoid the rest of the trouble.
e) fire employees when you figure out they use USB sticks to take work home, instead of taking the approved laptop home and work via the network. And sue them for cleaning up the mess.
As a customer: Does Fragmentation mean that i actually have a choice what i buy?
Obviously: when the oracle starts to offer total solutions form the database servers over the Fileservers to thin clients, all based on their own/former suns products an a little bit of open source, and support from one hand - hmmm what could possibly go wrong for MS?
Forbid bundling of phoned an contract, forbid included minutes and data, flat-rates, and make it possible that contracts finish every month without additional cost. And make the simple rule that the price per minute/MB can only go down with growing consumption. There is absolutely no background besides schemes close to gambling for the price jumping *up* by a factor of 100 once you reach a certain limit. Dear providers *if* you have difficulties to provide enough cell towers to handle what you promised, then please throttle the speed in a controlled way.
Enforce separation of the network operators and the companies bundling these to a services and put a stock market in between (like for electricity or other goods) to stimulate reselling.
If a simple per minute/MB scheme applies the customers could compare the offers, the company would not bet on your usage behavior (induced by their crippled branded crap), and for buying a phone you need cash or a loan like for buying anything else, so people would be conscious that they are not given presents.
i hate to say it, but did he work alone or does he have associates
could be fun to see it tweeting about it....
A close inspection yields my phone is actually and e61. No wifi sounds disgusting.
"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." (Victor Hugo)
The internet just mad that stronger.
...I get more and more happy i decided (even forgetting about them being late with 3g support) against buying one, as nice as it is (me = happy user of a E71/E63; the E71 could do a lot of things in 2006 which the iphone seems to learn slowly because Apple teamed up with the providers to fuck the users as hard as possible - sorry transferring contacts, appointments, data by BT and connectign to any BT device i bought or ever tested *is* a mandatory feature; not to mention that the E71 could communicate with my palm from 2003 by infrared.....).
Although....
Wine with apparmor may be safer than Windows 2000....
I agree.
If there is something in the class it should be e-book readers, maybe with a note-taking function and a pocket calculator. This can protect the backbones of the children from carrying 5kg of dead tree every day and schoolbooks could then be updated if mistakes are found. With the right type of ebook reader the note-taking function could also serve for tests which can be easily archived (and multiple choice tests could have randomized order of the answers to prevent cheating); one could even think about activating/deactivating ebooks during tests (e.g. formula handbooks in physics and a pocket calculator) may be available. Multiple choice tests could also be evaluated automatically.
Obviously the notes should be uploaded to a server, and have the setting private (for yourself), public (if you think you found a mistake in the book - yes teach the children that books will never be perfect), and teacher only for tests or questions if you did not understand something. The teacher could then see an overlay of the whole class and recognize which part requires attention and need some repetition.
So to say: use something which takes the troubles of managing outdated books and tests from the school and as a way to annotate books and keep notes. But: Not Internet, no messaging beyond leaving a note for others at a specific place (and possibly seeing the answer - however seeing the answer directly should only happen during teamwork exercises), no movies (beyond slow animated figures in a book) - however an audio function which read the books for blind kids/a zoom in function for children with bad eyesight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_William_Shakespeare_film_adaptations
They could hit Apple where it hurts.
Adobe/MS could give an Update of the CS suite for free for anybody who has an CS for Mac OS X and switches to Win. Or: MS give a boiled-down Version of the CS (e.g. no CMYK mode in the free version would probably be enough to keep professionals buying the real product) for free with windows or they add it on to the MS office suite. In that case Adobe tools would be standard immediately, and people could use a decent editor for vector art.
And a discontinuation of Flash for OS X would make consumer consider to switch.
Maybe using NAT for half a year and having the increased number of people calling support and the increased cost of having terribly stateful routers motivates the ISPs to push ipv6.
I for my part would prefer to run it locally. after all, i would run it in a virtual machine without network connection and then also test it in a machine of my own *before* letting the virus to the wild. That prevents the seller of the webservice from plainly stealing your target customizations, using it for himself and giving you a crippled version. On the other hand, if the programmer has some reputation to loose then he cant pull that off to visibly.
But i must admit that i have no idea which methods the customers would use to express their dissatisfaction....
Just provide it as a service and pay per use, then the software does not need to be transferred. On the other hand - i am not sure the other criminals would trust the website. After all if they promise the are 100%malware-free, its exactly not what they want. If the promise is not given, the i would assume they have backdoor in the backdoor.
I think a special Version of Anti-Virus software is needed.....
a completely drunk photo may be a sign of poor judgment, in the same way as failing the EE bachelor exam may be a sign of poor EE knowledge.
Seeing both actions make me anticipate a certain performance. Normally companies don't hire some failed EE engineer on a job where they need to get the job done directly and they don't hire somebody with poor judgment for PR. The correlation between anticipation and job performance in both cases is far from 100% but probably also far from 0%.
A new interesting competitor significantly different from the endless stream of linux-based mobile devices (unless qnx, like windriver now uses linux).
Interesting to see how it competes. i hope they keep the high reliability they are famous for.
Its funny that nations which manage to get into wars regularly make themselves high moral judges over China at each occasion. Yes, not everything is good in China right now. But they have gone a long way since the beginning of the last century. And don't forget: totalitarianism was an invention of the West, and China is struggling hard to overcome its consequences.
So, no i don't understand why it not good news that one of the biggest nations develops. In the moment when China develops, salaries and standard of living there will rise. Thats good for the people there and good for the US and Europe, since then jobs will come back.
Seeing the stability of the region, i would rather prefer a wealthy and well-developed china than a underdeveloped country.