In retaliation, PS3 Hackers should make an effort to damage the PS3s market any way possible. And I'd imagine the best approaches will be : (1) improving the free PS3 emulators for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, (2) making piracy of PS3 games more user friendly, say writing better howtos, (2) developing tools for cheating in-game, ala aimbots that're easily adapted to new games, (3) writing howto docs explaining how to create PS3 games without paying Sony's royalties, and (4) a howto for creating an inexpensive knockoff PS3 might be nice too.
There are soo many leaks sites running around now that Assange won't "control the market" anymore. Imho, Assange deserves credit for pushing this cultural shift, both by trying to make an uncrackable publication chain and by putting himself on the line going after the U.S. I'll buy a shirt with his face for that.
You'll notice however that Anonymous' HBGary hackers didn't bother protecting their anonymity by gong through wikileaks, they just handled it themselves using proxies, friends, public wifi, etc. If enough hacks and leaks are occurring, and we're explaining reasonable precautions to people, then maybe Assange's leaker protections aren't all that important. And we've all heard how wikileaks backlog is just brutal, even when they still accepted material.
Microsoft has never returned to it's peak during the previous bubble, but Google and Apple surpassed theirs. And all these faired better than WebVan and VA Linix. And even though faired better than Enron, well sorta.
I'd imagine the social networking bubble will see some strong survivors, like facebook and twittr, along with al the flameouts like Tuenti. Investors will painfully learn that facebook has limits of course.
You know, houses are valuable possessions too, just like the various commodities that've made messy bubbles before. Any sectors of stock, bonds, commodities, or higher order derivatives can reach bubble proportions.
Imho, the only real obstacle should be form factor standardization.
MacBook Airs are now fairly simple on the inside, users obviously cannot replace the flash drive, memory, cpu, gpu, etc. given they're all parts of the main board, but batteries, screen, and main board could be user replaceable parts, and the fans could be cleanable. I doubt you'd sacrifice much space making the flash, ram, cpo, and gpu all user replaceable too.
Why should more than one company make a MacBook Air however? You need enough space for product differentiation, which likely goes beyond simply installing better or cheaper parts. And once they need slightly different ports you've lost main board compatibility.
Ahh interesting. I'd noticed that apparently Tony has got a serial killer he's unable to catch. I'm sure wasting police resources on youtube comedians instead of serial killers will benefit his reelection though.
I'd imagine that good ol' Tony wasn't too happy about his ongoing failures appearing on television every night, but the Evan Emory case buys him a nice little reprieve, never mind if it distracts law enforcement resources from finding a serial killer. If your feeling frisky, I'd suggest calling his office to tell him that his little stunt isn't fooling anyone.
I'd expect the internet vigilantes will eventually start harassing the parents who complained. As the police are involved already, I foresee the/b/ tards proceeding by giving anonymous tips that various involved parents are the Muskegon county serial killer, or running a meth lab, or simply reporting a domestic dispute.
Imho, the/b/ tards will actually do less damage to Evan Emory's case by pranking the police about the parents rather than prank calling the parents directly because the police won't involve the news media when they get pranked. I hope his lawyer asks for a change of venue irregardless of the internet shit storm of course.
To elaborate, the anonymous moniker works best when you're extracting lolz from the powerful, CoS, USA, Ben Ali, BoA, etc. If you're lolz target the marginalized & powerless like Fred Phelps, then : Why bother with anonymity? Just take the damn credit since you'll never be hurt by them.
Imho, you're unlikely to extract any reactions from Fred Phelps that're more lol worthy than his standard operating procedure. No worries, just find some nice photo of Phelps & his morons, and fucking photoshop them. You'll make us all smile while reminding us how stupid American christianity becomes.
If they're going for high school, it means they need stupid people, which'll yield up disaster eventually.
NSA salaries aren't too shabby but they're slightly lower than equivalent level jobs in private industry, well government jobs offer better benefits, right?
Wrong. All the much vaunted retirement benefits offered by state governments are rapidly being rescinded. I'd imagine federal jobs will soon follow. If Republicans can gut the VA, then NSAs benefits political are toast.
If your taking a government job, please help all your fellow government employees by insisting upon a salary that's on-par with industry. In particular, you should apply for industry jobs every now & again, seeing if you get offered a significant raise.
Worse, I doubt anonymous cares about Fred Phelps. heh
Anonymous must fundamentally be about the lolz. You're welcome to credit anonymous if you get even bigger lolz by inciting Fred Phelps. Yet, I'm not sure that's possible, meaning any normal reaction will already involve lolz. Don't let me stop you from trying! Just please make sure your shit is actually funny before you take on the anonymous label.
I'd never call harassing Tony Tague, or the parents that put him up to it, an Anonymous action, well no epic here, maybe if the kid was a funner singer, but meh. I'm confident however that many people feel rather annoyed by grandstanding prosecutors and retarded paranoid parents. And clearly this prosecution goes beyond the pale. So here's your chance to vent some frustration and take a stand against stupidity. Just call Tony Tague's office tell his secretary what an ass hat he is for abusing due process like this.
I'm sure they'll be posting the complaining parent's telephone numbers all over/b/ too, but honestly I doubt America's breeders will gain any collective intelligence just because some get bitch slapped by/b/, something awful, etc.
Apple's iOS will certainly maintain some reasonable user base, but the market shall never grant dominance to a control freak. Sorry but people go their own way. iPhone are cute, but kinda old hat now, and all identical. Android otoh has an ever growing rainbow of flavors & features that'll seduce most users eventually. And young people are way more familiar with Java than Objective C meaning Android will see more & more regular the apps first.
Apple has always been pleasant for a certain type of independent developers, especially the sort that like polishing a fancy facade on a utility program : friendly development environments, users who'll pay up croon about it, etc. And I'm sure the DOS/Windows utility developers always put-in vastly more man hours than Mac utility developers, while simultaneously facing rampant piracy. Yet, Norton & co. all started on the DOS side because corporate IT paid their bills. App stores aren't necessarily great for corporate IT though, well unless you roll your own for Android. As you say, you're own interests & sensibilities just don't mesh well with the Android marketplace.
It's all downhill for iOS from here on. Jobs will kick the bucket ending both the reality distortion field and Apple's market responsiveness.
Android will gradually take most developers and users by virtue of being "just open enough", much like Windows. We've even got Blackberry going for Android apps, ala Dr. DOS. A behemoth spewing a billion dollars on marketing and payola pushing their unwanted child called WP7 (OS2). And we'll all end up running MeeGo (Linux) on phones originally designed to run Android.
Imho, we should continue pushing for MeeGo on the phone because the whole Android plus Debian on a dual core phone sounds silly & slow, well plus Maemo has a better user interface and better phone functionality than Android. (gsm, sip, and skype calls are integrated)
I'd believe that only Maemo offers moderately convenient gpg encrypted mobile email, not via the default email client sadly, although maybe you could hack that. Afaik, Maemo boasts the only mobile OTR messaging solution too. Android and Symbian beat out Maemo when your talking encrypted voice calls however since only they boast Zfone implementations. If the country is evil enough though, they might not even have access to skype conversations, not sure how skype handles baddies.
Afaik, all modern mobile platforms support virtually all VPN protocols. Android will handle ssh tunnels once you jail break it, presumably the same for Symbian. iPhones, Blackberries, etc. will get messy wrt port forwarding. I'd imagine that only Maemo will offer seamless SOCKS5 support, but maybe Android. VPN also offers the most plausible deniability if they catch you using encryption.
I've cannot comment on encrypting the contents of the phone under Android and Symbian, but Maemo supports some encrypted file systems from Linux and Easy Debian offers all the others. We're hearing about dual core phones running Android and Debian simultaneously. So maybe you should get your encrypted filesystem running on your N900 now, but plan on buying a dual Android & Debain device once your N900 gets long in the tooth?
In practice, you shouldn't really worry too much about your random comments or encryption usage. American citizens won't get harassed too badly unless they're clearly a threat, i.e. an activist, journalist, etc. If your not America, then you should seriously check into the country. Saudi Arabian employers love keeping people there as slave labor by taking passports, even heard about them doing this to French people.
You'll want the keyboard for the command line, hell even just writing emails. Way too many Android phones are touch only.
If your just an admin, then I'd imagine you'll run scripts on your work boxes. If your needs are more mobile however, then you'll want the ability to run perl & python on the phone itself. I know one nut job who uses an N900 as his primary computer for example.
You can run Android applications on an N900s anyways. So the question is only : Are Debian apps or Android apps first class citizens or 1.5th class citizens?
I personally chose an N900 primarily for the integrated, gsm, sip, and skype calling and breadth of im support integrated into the sms app. Android, iOS, etc. cannot touch that because that'll only work when Linux apps are 1st class citizens. And I'm less excited about a phone running Debian and Android simultaneously for exactly these reasons.
Ideally, all the social networking sites should be shoe horned into one application+plugins as well. I could imagine MeeGo developers pursuing this approach, but not Android, iOS, etc. developers. Apple's "there's an app for that" cop-out has poisoned real innovation too deeply.
Imho, Nokia should've pursued Android over WP7, releasing both pure Android phones, as well as MeeGo phones optimized for Android apps. Ideally, they could've integrated printing, Zphone, OTR messaging, and gpg encrypted email into the MeeGo phones, making them truly full fledged handheld computers and attracting 'certain market segments', and differentiating themselves from the mass of Android venders.
I believe a flashy encryption friendly phone will capture the inner-city market, i.e. people emulating the drug dealers, and make serious in-roads into professions like law and finance, plus all the tech heads would buy it.
iOS is a dung heap. Years without cut & paste? I've an ancient fucking feature phone with cut & paste. What's the multitasking like even today?
I've been happy with Maemo as a proper handheld OS. Maemo lacked all the custom apps for interacting with funky websites like facebook, which was problematic for a mobile, even if the browser is better than iOS's Safari. Yet even that's changed now that Maemo runs Android apps. Maemo's advantage over Android and iOS is the integration of gsm, sip, and skype calls, as well as sms and all instant messager protocols. Why should I use "an app for that" when "that" is exactly what I do elsewhere, only using a different protocol?
Apple's has lead the industry down a technological dead end with their apps. Yes, users need flexibility to choose packages, but we're all diminished when package becomes synonymous with application. Why should my mobile interface to Tuenti, Facebook, MySpace, or Orkut differ for example? It's not like they do anything substantively different.
Integration is the way forward, Apple's apps are the distraction.
Wow! You've found such a complementary was of saying "cuz Apple users are tards." lol
I spent my youth pirating software and copying tapes. I then started pirating mp3s in collage and eventually movies after grad school. I've obviously obtained my news from the internet all along, but I've only just begun obtaining all my books from gigapedia.
I'm content that the world has now reached the new equilibrium where one need only spend money on food, shelter, clothing, and circuits.
- Just reschedule marijuana, revoke tough federal penalties for other drugs, and close down the DEA and ATF. All that shit should've been the sole prerogative of the states all along. Some states will try regulation, some states will try continued criminalization, whatever.
- Just let out all non-violent drug offenders. Btw, executions are actually extremely expensive in the U.S., appeals are automatic and last decades.
- We simply don't need to be giving Egypt $2B per year, that's just ridiculous. All that money only started flowing to buy Israel a friend, but nobody will invade Israel today, all the other leaders prefer that Israel remains in place.
Eisenhower warned us in his military-industrial complex speech that once federal money starts flowing into powerful hands you'll find it almost impossible to staunch the flow. Drug war, prison populations, and Ehypt's foreign aid are just three examples.
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Nokia has been amazing at undercutting all other phone manufactures's prices on the low end, yielding amazing sales in poor countries. Yet, now we're seeing Chinese companies who'll basically just copy all Nokia's products, and produce phone even more cheaply using almost slave labor, which'll obliterate into Nokia razor thin margins.
We're entering a time when Nokia's western low-end phones will run Symbian while other low-end phone remain simply feature phones because Symbian requires less resources than Android, iOS, Blackberry, WP7, etc. I donno how long that bright period will last of course, well maybe it'll depend most upon the marketing for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, etc.
In smart phones, Nokia could've easily run with MeeGo plus Andoird apps, giving themselves the largest app selection plus differentiation. It's dubious however that WP7 will deliver either the developers given that Apple and Android own the market currently, or the users, given that Android delivers all the choices you mentioned.
Maemo never had its own developers, just Linux developers who used it. Yes, the move towards Qt looked cool, but all that meant was familiarity for QT developers, you'd never get write once run anywhere, hell you don't get that under Android.
Yet, you can easily run Andoird apps under Maemo, which basically resolves all app concerns for users. Nokia should have pursued this rather obvious option form the day Android was released. Ideally, they should've supported an open source product to turn GnuSTEP into an iPhone porting layer, but that'd be hard.
Maemo's advantage over Andoird was always the integration of gsm, sip, and skype calling under one application, as well as integration of sms and all instant messengers. Nokia needed to pursue their geek advantage here by (1) ensuring that all video chat applications and all instant messengers worked flawlessly, (2) providing a framework for integrating social networking with sms & im conversations, (3) provided printer support, and (4) building in use friendly support of Zfone, private messaging, and gpg encrypted email,
Andoird apps, integrated phone & messaging, user friendly encryption & printing, and a more computer like interface would've insured that Maemo/MeeGo took & held some significant fragment of the business world. Android+ is the current holy grail for most smartphone makers, but Nokia just dropped it for a load of empty promises from Microsoft.
Isn't the whole point of campaigning to pick up girls? In particular, the sort of girls who care about anything besides their new shoes.
There are many things you can do to really make a difference, like volunteering for good organizations, donating money to good causes like wikileaks, EFF, ACLU, amnesty international, etc., participating in Anonymous protests, or just posting news stories like this on your facebook. Your vote for a democratic candidate isn't directly to bring about change however. It's simply to increase the probability that anyone listens to the organizations that are actually trying to bring about change.
Obama has done absolutely nothing to reign in abuse of power in law enforcement. Not sure what president ever has. To accomplish that, you'd need to change the way people think about law enforcement.
All immediately after the N900 gets Android apps too, sad & stupid Nokia. If Intel's buddies continue pursuing MeeGo tablets, we'll maybe come back around to a MeeGo phone again, eventually.
Ideally, Finland might provide startup funds for some ex-Nokia employees wishing to bring another MeeGo phone to market. A small tech company with less overhead could do so far more inexpensively.
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Internet users will never let craigslist die. Your just reading ebay fud.
If ebay ever outlaws craigslist, we'll just make untraceable p2p networks for online classified, and that'll be worse for both ebay and police.
In retaliation, PS3 Hackers should make an effort to damage the PS3s market any way possible. And I'd imagine the best approaches will be :
(1) improving the free PS3 emulators for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux,
(2) making piracy of PS3 games more user friendly, say writing better howtos,
(2) developing tools for cheating in-game, ala aimbots that're easily adapted to new games,
(3) writing howto docs explaining how to create PS3 games without paying Sony's royalties, and
(4) a howto for creating an inexpensive knockoff PS3 might be nice too.
There are soo many leaks sites running around now that Assange won't "control the market" anymore. Imho, Assange deserves credit for pushing this cultural shift, both by trying to make an uncrackable publication chain and by putting himself on the line going after the U.S. I'll buy a shirt with his face for that.
You'll notice however that Anonymous' HBGary hackers didn't bother protecting their anonymity by gong through wikileaks, they just handled it themselves using proxies, friends, public wifi, etc. If enough hacks and leaks are occurring, and we're explaining reasonable precautions to people, then maybe Assange's leaker protections aren't all that important. And we've all heard how wikileaks backlog is just brutal, even when they still accepted material.
Microsoft has never returned to it's peak during the previous bubble, but Google and Apple surpassed theirs. And all these faired better than WebVan and VA Linix. And even though faired better than Enron, well sorta.
I'd imagine the social networking bubble will see some strong survivors, like facebook and twittr, along with al the flameouts like Tuenti. Investors will painfully learn that facebook has limits of course.
Isn't a treasury bubble kind like gold bubble? Just some bear party
see : http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgda4dt4HE1qbvce2o1_500.jpg
You know, houses are valuable possessions too, just like the various commodities that've made messy bubbles before. Any sectors of stock, bonds, commodities, or higher order derivatives can reach bubble proportions.
Imho, the only real obstacle should be form factor standardization.
MacBook Airs are now fairly simple on the inside, users obviously cannot replace the flash drive, memory, cpu, gpu, etc. given they're all parts of the main board, but batteries, screen, and main board could be user replaceable parts, and the fans could be cleanable. I doubt you'd sacrifice much space making the flash, ram, cpo, and gpu all user replaceable too.
Why should more than one company make a MacBook Air however? You need enough space for product differentiation, which likely goes beyond simply installing better or cheaper parts. And once they need slightly different ports you've lost main board compatibility.
Ahh interesting. I'd noticed that apparently Tony has got a serial killer he's unable to catch. I'm sure wasting police resources on youtube comedians instead of serial killers will benefit his reelection though.
Yes, you'd think Muskegon MI Prosecutor Tony Tague has got a full plate, what with a serial killer on the loose in his county, eh?
I'd imagine that good ol' Tony wasn't too happy about his ongoing failures appearing on television every night, but the Evan Emory case buys him a nice little reprieve, never mind if it distracts law enforcement resources from finding a serial killer. If your feeling frisky, I'd suggest calling his office to tell him that his little stunt isn't fooling anyone.
I'd expect the internet vigilantes will eventually start harassing the parents who complained. As the police are involved already, I foresee the /b/ tards proceeding by giving anonymous tips that various involved parents are the Muskegon county serial killer, or running a meth lab, or simply reporting a domestic dispute.
Imho, the /b/ tards will actually do less damage to Evan Emory's case by pranking the police about the parents rather than prank calling the parents directly because the police won't involve the news media when they get pranked. I hope his lawyer asks for a change of venue irregardless of the internet shit storm of course.
To elaborate, the anonymous moniker works best when you're extracting lolz from the powerful, CoS, USA, Ben Ali, BoA, etc. If you're lolz target the marginalized & powerless like Fred Phelps, then : Why bother with anonymity? Just take the damn credit since you'll never be hurt by them.
Imho, you're unlikely to extract any reactions from Fred Phelps that're more lol worthy than his standard operating procedure. No worries, just find some nice photo of Phelps & his morons, and fucking photoshop them. You'll make us all smile while reminding us how stupid American christianity becomes.
If they're going for high school, it means they need stupid people, which'll yield up disaster eventually.
NSA salaries aren't too shabby but they're slightly lower than equivalent level jobs in private industry, well government jobs offer better benefits, right?
Wrong. All the much vaunted retirement benefits offered by state governments are rapidly being rescinded. I'd imagine federal jobs will soon follow. If Republicans can gut the VA, then NSAs benefits political are toast.
If your taking a government job, please help all your fellow government employees by insisting upon a salary that's on-par with industry. In particular, you should apply for industry jobs every now & again, seeing if you get offered a significant raise.
Worse, I doubt anonymous cares about Fred Phelps. heh
Anonymous must fundamentally be about the lolz. You're welcome to credit anonymous if you get even bigger lolz by inciting Fred Phelps. Yet, I'm not sure that's possible, meaning any normal reaction will already involve lolz. Don't let me stop you from trying! Just please make sure your shit is actually funny before you take on the anonymous label.
If otoh you're just looking for some good ol' internet vigilantly action, may I humbly suggest Muskegon MI Prosecutor Tony Tague. Our dear public servant Tony has clearly got a full plate what with a serial killer on the loose in his town. Yet, he find ample time to prosecute a youtube comedian for tasteless editing. Yes, that right, he's sending some poor kid with a guitar up the creek for 20 years over bad taste in editing.
I'd never call harassing Tony Tague, or the parents that put him up to it, an Anonymous action, well no epic here, maybe if the kid was a funner singer, but meh. I'm confident however that many people feel rather annoyed by grandstanding prosecutors and retarded paranoid parents. And clearly this prosecution goes beyond the pale. So here's your chance to vent some frustration and take a stand against stupidity. Just call Tony Tague's office tell his secretary what an ass hat he is for abusing due process like this.
I'm sure they'll be posting the complaining parent's telephone numbers all over /b/ too, but honestly I doubt America's breeders will gain any collective intelligence just because some get bitch slapped by /b/, something awful, etc.
Apple's iOS will certainly maintain some reasonable user base, but the market shall never grant dominance to a control freak. Sorry but people go their own way. iPhone are cute, but kinda old hat now, and all identical. Android otoh has an ever growing rainbow of flavors & features that'll seduce most users eventually. And young people are way more familiar with Java than Objective C meaning Android will see more & more regular the apps first.
Apple has always been pleasant for a certain type of independent developers, especially the sort that like polishing a fancy facade on a utility program : friendly development environments, users who'll pay up croon about it, etc. And I'm sure the DOS/Windows utility developers always put-in vastly more man hours than Mac utility developers, while simultaneously facing rampant piracy. Yet, Norton & co. all started on the DOS side because corporate IT paid their bills. App stores aren't necessarily great for corporate IT though, well unless you roll your own for Android. As you say, you're own interests & sensibilities just don't mesh well with the Android marketplace.
It's all downhill for iOS from here on. Jobs will kick the bucket ending both the reality distortion field and Apple's market responsiveness.
Android will gradually take most developers and users by virtue of being "just open enough", much like Windows. We've even got Blackberry going for Android apps, ala Dr. DOS. A behemoth spewing a billion dollars on marketing and payola pushing their unwanted child called WP7 (OS2). And we'll all end up running MeeGo (Linux) on phones originally designed to run Android.
Imho, we should continue pushing for MeeGo on the phone because the whole Android plus Debian on a dual core phone sounds silly & slow, well plus Maemo has a better user interface and better phone functionality than Android. (gsm, sip, and skype calls are integrated)
I'd believe that only Maemo offers moderately convenient gpg encrypted mobile email, not via the default email client sadly, although maybe you could hack that. Afaik, Maemo boasts the only mobile OTR messaging solution too. Android and Symbian beat out Maemo when your talking encrypted voice calls however since only they boast Zfone implementations. If the country is evil enough though, they might not even have access to skype conversations, not sure how skype handles baddies.
Afaik, all modern mobile platforms support virtually all VPN protocols. Android will handle ssh tunnels once you jail break it, presumably the same for Symbian. iPhones, Blackberries, etc. will get messy wrt port forwarding. I'd imagine that only Maemo will offer seamless SOCKS5 support, but maybe Android. VPN also offers the most plausible deniability if they catch you using encryption.
I've cannot comment on encrypting the contents of the phone under Android and Symbian, but Maemo supports some encrypted file systems from Linux and Easy Debian offers all the others. We're hearing about dual core phones running Android and Debian simultaneously. So maybe you should get your encrypted filesystem running on your N900 now, but plan on buying a dual Android & Debain device once your N900 gets long in the tooth?
In practice, you shouldn't really worry too much about your random comments or encryption usage. American citizens won't get harassed too badly unless they're clearly a threat, i.e. an activist, journalist, etc. If your not America, then you should seriously check into the country. Saudi Arabian employers love keeping people there as slave labor by taking passports, even heard about them doing this to French people.
I just want a small wifi router with a built in raid array. :(
You'll want the keyboard for the command line, hell even just writing emails. Way too many Android phones are touch only.
If your just an admin, then I'd imagine you'll run scripts on your work boxes. If your needs are more mobile however, then you'll want the ability to run perl & python on the phone itself. I know one nut job who uses an N900 as his primary computer for example.
You can run Android applications on an N900s anyways. So the question is only : Are Debian apps or Android apps first class citizens or 1.5th class citizens?
I personally chose an N900 primarily for the integrated, gsm, sip, and skype calling and breadth of im support integrated into the sms app. Android, iOS, etc. cannot touch that because that'll only work when Linux apps are 1st class citizens. And I'm less excited about a phone running Debian and Android simultaneously for exactly these reasons.
Ideally, all the social networking sites should be shoe horned into one application+plugins as well. I could imagine MeeGo developers pursuing this approach, but not Android, iOS, etc. developers. Apple's "there's an app for that" cop-out has poisoned real innovation too deeply.
Imho, Nokia should've pursued Android over WP7, releasing both pure Android phones, as well as MeeGo phones optimized for Android apps. Ideally, they could've integrated printing, Zphone, OTR messaging, and gpg encrypted email into the MeeGo phones, making them truly full fledged handheld computers and attracting 'certain market segments', and differentiating themselves from the mass of Android venders.
I believe a flashy encryption friendly phone will capture the inner-city market, i.e. people emulating the drug dealers, and make serious in-roads into professions like law and finance, plus all the tech heads would buy it.
iOS is a dung heap. Years without cut & paste? I've an ancient fucking feature phone with cut & paste. What's the multitasking like even today?
I've been happy with Maemo as a proper handheld OS. Maemo lacked all the custom apps for interacting with funky websites like facebook, which was problematic for a mobile, even if the browser is better than iOS's Safari. Yet even that's changed now that Maemo runs Android apps. Maemo's advantage over Android and iOS is the integration of gsm, sip, and skype calls, as well as sms and all instant messager protocols. Why should I use "an app for that" when "that" is exactly what I do elsewhere, only using a different protocol?
Apple's has lead the industry down a technological dead end with their apps. Yes, users need flexibility to choose packages, but we're all diminished when package becomes synonymous with application. Why should my mobile interface to Tuenti, Facebook, MySpace, or Orkut differ for example? It's not like they do anything substantively different.
Integration is the way forward, Apple's apps are the distraction.
Wow! You've found such a complementary was of saying "cuz Apple users are tards." lol
I spent my youth pirating software and copying tapes. I then started pirating mp3s in collage and eventually movies after grad school. I've obviously obtained my news from the internet all along, but I've only just begun obtaining all my books from gigapedia.
I'm content that the world has now reached the new equilibrium where one need only spend money on food, shelter, clothing, and circuits.
- Just reschedule marijuana, revoke tough federal penalties for other drugs, and close down the DEA and ATF. All that shit should've been the sole prerogative of the states all along. Some states will try regulation, some states will try continued criminalization, whatever.
- Just let out all non-violent drug offenders. Btw, executions are actually extremely expensive in the U.S., appeals are automatic and last decades.
- We simply don't need to be giving Egypt $2B per year, that's just ridiculous. All that money only started flowing to buy Israel a friend, but nobody will invade Israel today, all the other leaders prefer that Israel remains in place.
Eisenhower warned us in his military-industrial complex speech that once federal money starts flowing into powerful hands you'll find it almost impossible to staunch the flow. Drug war, prison populations, and Ehypt's foreign aid are just three examples.
In memoriam : Microsoft's previous strategic mobile partners. lol
Nokia has been amazing at undercutting all other phone manufactures's prices on the low end, yielding amazing sales in poor countries. Yet, now we're seeing Chinese companies who'll basically just copy all Nokia's products, and produce phone even more cheaply using almost slave labor, which'll obliterate into Nokia razor thin margins.
We're entering a time when Nokia's western low-end phones will run Symbian while other low-end phone remain simply feature phones because Symbian requires less resources than Android, iOS, Blackberry, WP7, etc. I donno how long that bright period will last of course, well maybe it'll depend most upon the marketing for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, etc.
In smart phones, Nokia could've easily run with MeeGo plus Andoird apps, giving themselves the largest app selection plus differentiation. It's dubious however that WP7 will deliver either the developers given that Apple and Android own the market currently, or the users, given that Android delivers all the choices you mentioned.
Maemo never had its own developers, just Linux developers who used it. Yes, the move towards Qt looked cool, but all that meant was familiarity for QT developers, you'd never get write once run anywhere, hell you don't get that under Android.
Yet, you can easily run Andoird apps under Maemo, which basically resolves all app concerns for users. Nokia should have pursued this rather obvious option form the day Android was released. Ideally, they should've supported an open source product to turn GnuSTEP into an iPhone porting layer, but that'd be hard.
Maemo's advantage over Andoird was always the integration of gsm, sip, and skype calling under one application, as well as integration of sms and all instant messengers. Nokia needed to pursue their geek advantage here by (1) ensuring that all video chat applications and all instant messengers worked flawlessly, (2) providing a framework for integrating social networking with sms & im conversations, (3) provided printer support, and (4) building in use friendly support of Zfone, private messaging, and gpg encrypted email,
Andoird apps, integrated phone & messaging, user friendly encryption & printing, and a more computer like interface would've insured that Maemo/MeeGo took & held some significant fragment of the business world. Android+ is the current holy grail for most smartphone makers, but Nokia just dropped it for a load of empty promises from Microsoft.
Isn't the whole point of campaigning to pick up girls? In particular, the sort of girls who care about anything besides their new shoes.
There are many things you can do to really make a difference, like volunteering for good organizations, donating money to good causes like wikileaks, EFF, ACLU, amnesty international, etc., participating in Anonymous protests, or just posting news stories like this on your facebook. Your vote for a democratic candidate isn't directly to bring about change however. It's simply to increase the probability that anyone listens to the organizations that are actually trying to bring about change.
Obama has done absolutely nothing to reign in abuse of power in law enforcement. Not sure what president ever has. To accomplish that, you'd need to change the way people think about law enforcement.
Any chance Finland will yield up some venture capital for a small group of ex-Nokia developers to bring a solid MeeGo phone to market?
In memoriam : Microsoft's previous strategic mobile partners lol
All immediately after the N900 gets Android apps too, sad & stupid Nokia. If Intel's buddies continue pursuing MeeGo tablets, we'll maybe come back around to a MeeGo phone again, eventually.
Ideally, Finland might provide startup funds for some ex-Nokia employees wishing to bring another MeeGo phone to market. A small tech company with less overhead could do so far more inexpensively.