I just bought myself a Nokia N900, very cool device, well integrated Skype and SIP, runs x11vnc, etc.
I basically know what applications I want running on my phone. I don't believe that anyone will ever provide say pdflatex outside the MeeGo/Maemo/Moblin framework.
American benefits enormously from our content flowing around the world. We lose considerable soft power when you lock down content.
Any convenient enough delivery like the iTunes store will moves product abroad, even in China. If otoh you totally block the people who cannot afford the product, then they'll just listen to European music instead. ACTA will never apply to China either, btw.
America's soft power has been evaporating on every front. In education, Bush tightening student visas was extremely bad, but the costs were already driving foreigners away. Do you realize how Europe has been reversing the Monroe Doctrine by educating upper middle class kids from Central and South America?
ACTA's three-strikes provisions are a fundamental violation of human rights and simply won't help. ACTA's insane seizure requirements are clearly designed to keep drugs prices high in poor countries, which kills people. Obama's support for ACTA has just cost him my campaign contributions next time. I'll surely still vote for him, but I'll never donate money.
It appears the judge said EMI could not distribute Pink Floyd online at all, which mean EMI must seek a new license to distribute from the band members, and that'll translate into significantly more money for the band.
I'm all for Pink Floyd being paid again by EMI for their music, EMI never foresaw online distribution and fought online distribution once it started. It's therefore poetic justice that EMI loses these rights. And obviously copyright law should award all unforeseen rights to the artists.
I hope this'll help numerous other bands twofold : (a) they can now seek additional money for the online distribution rights, and (b) they can seek new online distribution channels if the labels fail to distribute their work. If we'd had this ruling 10 years ago, artists would earn more today, mp3.com might never have failed, etc.
I have considerable life experience living among different cultures. My impression has always been that men evaluate their success based upon both domain metrics and absolute metrics.
A domain metric might be football, C++, driving, or warcraft III skill, but we only have one or two absolute metric, and the secondary absolute metric is always being a good family man. A few domain metrics like cooking heavily influence surface level cultural distinctions. All the biggest subtle cultural differences are determined by the absolute metrics however.
An American male's primary absolute metric is always his net wealth, income, or possessions guess which one wracks up credit card debt). A Frenchman's primary absolute metric is the number and quality of the women he's fucked, unless he sacrifices that metric for family man only. Big fucking cultural difference!
Anyways, I don't think they're exactly "masturbating" over their female's greater attractiveness.;)
I'm aware that many Europeans and Asians would benefit from this technology, but American outside NYC will never get much current out. Any wonder Nokia dominates the European and Asian markets but preforms dismally over here?
Anyone who leaves tabs open needs a flash blocker, like FlashBlock under Safari and ClickToFlash under Safari, not necessarily an ad blocker. You can always still load desirable flash objects by clicking them.
Any advertiser could circumvent your ad blocker with flash ads hosted by the content distributor, that flash will still crash your browser. Heck, I've found that even intentional flash like games, youtube, and porn can crash the browser, so you need flash blocked whenever you hit reopen all windows from last session.
I'm quite happy leaving ads unblocked now that flash is blocked almost completely. Advertisers still get their impressions so long as those impressions are not flash. All web functionality is preserved. All for the small cost of clicking desirable flash games and videos.
I've found that FlashBlock under FireFox and ClickToFlash under Safari are extremely effective against the worst ads, without inconveniencing normal browsing and reasonable ads.
In particular, good sites like thepiratebay.org occasionally use ad servers banned by google for distributing malware. Google usually blocks the whole site when dangerous ads are loaded. If you use flash blockers, you instead see a few iframes populated by google's malware warning, but the site itself loads fine.
I'm sure all this will get far messier when advertisers start preferring HTML5 interactive video over Flash, but HTML5 likely won't pose quite the malware risks. Also, FireFox could still include a click feature, although Safari might prove more challenging.
I expect the community will benefit enormously from the fact that both Moblin and Maemo are merging as MeeGo, with support from both Intel and Nokia, and third parties also providing devices.
p.s. I'd been holding out for their Maemo's fifth generation device, but ultimately decided to buy an N900, partially because the next revision might not be a phone, and I'll likely buy the next revision too. It's true they've not put any marketing behind Maemo, but the device itself is fabulous.
You're very likely correct about the corporate momentum issues, but failure isn't a forgone conclusion.
(a) Symbian has fallen behind real competitors, especially Android. Sun watched everyone else stick with x86. Palm reinvented itself.
(b) Symbian jobs are not immediately threatened because Symbian's age, stability, and speed make it suitable for mid-level larger market phones.
Nokia's approach has always been fairly laid back, planning upon five Maemo based platforms before declaring the product ready for prime time. We'll see how well their next Maemo phone stacks up.
Android's Java run-time Dalvik and Java classes are open source and run under desktop linux already, so surely they'll be ported to MeeGo.
Android's higher level services like address book obviously aren't much use on a MeeGo device of course. So we'd need to rewrite Android's higher level Java classes for many sophisticated apps, but many games could run without those, and developers could simply port their apps to MeeGo.
GnuSTEP is quite far from fully supporting the iPhone's UIKit framework, but various people are working towards ports, and some apps can still be ported with even fractional compatibility.
Also, Qt has been a very popular porting target for desktop applications departing NeXTSTEP, Cocoa, etc. and Qt compares quite favorably with Cocoa, iPhone's UIKit, etc. One might even blame Qt for GnuSTEPs stagnation. So sufficiently successful apps could simply be ported to Qt.
Apple has been attracting new smartphone users more oriented towards games, plus Symbian seems outdated now. But now Android has locked onto the exact same market as Apple. Android's enormous variety will prove an astounding asset in the fashion conscious consumer electronics world.
Nokia has not yet declared their Maemo/MeeGo platform as consumer ready, but their next revision should achieve that status, unless the MeeGo merger shows down their timeline. A solid MeeGo based smartphone with heavy marketing will perform amazingly well.
Also, MeeGo should provides an easy porting target for Android apps (Java duh?) and eventually iPhone Apps (GnuSTEP). Imagine you're a successful iPhone or Android developer. Do you develop a whole new app for your platform? Or do you port your existing hits to MeeGo? You'll make more money doing less work by porting most of the time.
Don't count on it. Nokia is the best & strongest mobile phone maker in the world. Millions will use Maemo if & when Nokia says "It's ready". Intel and Nokia standardizing their Moblin and Maemo distributions as MeeGo makes the platform considerably more attractive for developers too.
Windows Moblle is, well, Windows.
lol yes.
Symbian is showing its age.
Symbian is also opening up more in response to internal competition from Maemo/MeeGo.
Blackberry is designed for somebody who texts a lot more than I do.
Business users must avoid all the touch screen phones because they lose clients if you send short terse messages.
Intel's Nehalem chips are vulnerable to far easier and speedier attacks using their HTT technology, plus HTT attacks do not require rooting the machine. http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf
I bet we eventually find that saving the game and reloading is bad for kids, but all games themselves are fine so long as you don't restart from the same game.
All these qui tam cases actually benefit society by making companies comply with the laws, the only problem is lawyers are going after poorly labeled cups instead of Amazon's 1-click patent.
I'm sure you can sue for false DMCA takedown notices, but tracking down all those false ones will require more than $500 per incident. Imagine a false DMCA takedown notice earns the victim $10k just like abusive collections practices do. We'd most likely still see most victims just sit around and suffer quietly rather than fight.
All these qui tam actions might be lawyers trying to make a buck, but I feel they are basically beneficial because : (a) they help out small producers that actually know their own patents, and (b) they highlight the underlying meaninglessness of the patent system.
We must also remember that judges will weigh the social costs for the various violations. For example, I'd expect that the 21 billion Solo Cup lids case is rather "open and shut", as all those lids were falsely market, but the actual damages are rather small. How many people were wrongfully dissuaded from creating competing lids? I'd hope the court awards Attorney Matthew Pequignot a couple million dollars, but not more.
I'd say that ask.metafilter.com is usually better for serious questions like this one, slashdot users know almost nothing outside their own favorite software or programming languages. I'll give you an ask.metafilter.com style answer though :
If you've got the money for a penthouse in Manhattan, then you've got the money to hire a medical doctor and/or electrical engineer who can evaluate the actual radiation levels in the apartment.
You should make an appointment with an M.D. in radiology in NYC, say like Manhattan Diagnostic Radiology. I doubt they'll have the equipment for evaluating the dangers themselves, but a radiology doctor will figure out how you should proceed, and might evaluate you for other cancer risk factors.
Two bonuses : (1) you might never feel secure unless you have an actual medical opinion. (2) you'll know how to alley the fears of the next person you sell the apartment to.
If people acquire power based upon their beliefs, like the Pope, Rick Santorum, or George Bush v2, then their actions speak volumes about the belief system granting that power.
Christianity has been violent, cruel, deceptive, selfish, and manipulative throughout the majority of the previous 2000 years (see Holy Roman Empire, Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, indulgences, etc.).
Yes, you may obviously read the original texts inspired by Jesus' life yourself, well see Protestantism. You know however that most people who pursue that are still voting for evil politicians, against gay marriage, etc.
I'm sure some communists say the same thing about Russia and China, but they are wrong too.
Actions define words like volunteer, murderer, etc. Status defines words like leader, stewardess, etc. Beliefs define stuff people believe.
Christian believe simply that Jesus was the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, period. All those people voting against torturing Spanish jews into conversion or voting against gay marriage did so out of beliefs affiliated with their belief in Jesus. Pretty cut & dry.
It's not like they were poisoning beer being sold off the shelf, they were adding poisons to stuff that people already should not have been drinking even before prohibition.
... because they knew people would be drinking it. Nice authoritarian streak you got there.
We have a word for that sort of behavior, murder. In fact, we've a more precise word when the target group is ethnic not behavioral, genocide. I'd say that word fits this case fairly well overall though.
Wind will obviously become cause effective eventually because manufacturing wind turbines need not be any more expensive than manufacturing cars. Solar is rapidly improving too. Nuclear was never made safe because producing nuclear bombs was the technological priority.
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I just bought myself a Nokia N900, very cool device, well integrated Skype and SIP, runs x11vnc, etc.
I basically know what applications I want running on my phone. I don't believe that anyone will ever provide say pdflatex outside the MeeGo/Maemo/Moblin framework.
American benefits enormously from our content flowing around the world. We lose considerable soft power when you lock down content.
Any convenient enough delivery like the iTunes store will moves product abroad, even in China. If otoh you totally block the people who cannot afford the product, then they'll just listen to European music instead. ACTA will never apply to China either, btw.
America's soft power has been evaporating on every front. In education, Bush tightening student visas was extremely bad, but the costs were already driving foreigners away. Do you realize how Europe has been reversing the Monroe Doctrine by educating upper middle class kids from Central and South America?
ACTA's three-strikes provisions are a fundamental violation of human rights and simply won't help. ACTA's insane seizure requirements are clearly designed to keep drugs prices high in poor countries, which kills people. Obama's support for ACTA has just cost him my campaign contributions next time. I'll surely still vote for him, but I'll never donate money.
Just check their frequencies :
http://www.prepaidgsm.net/en/germany.html
It appears the judge said EMI could not distribute Pink Floyd online at all, which mean EMI must seek a new license to distribute from the band members, and that'll translate into significantly more money for the band.
I'm all for Pink Floyd being paid again by EMI for their music, EMI never foresaw online distribution and fought online distribution once it started. It's therefore poetic justice that EMI loses these rights. And obviously copyright law should award all unforeseen rights to the artists.
I hope this'll help numerous other bands twofold : (a) they can now seek additional money for the online distribution rights, and (b) they can seek new online distribution channels if the labels fail to distribute their work. If we'd had this ruling 10 years ago, artists would earn more today, mp3.com might never have failed, etc.
I have considerable life experience living among different cultures. My impression has always been that men evaluate their success based upon both domain metrics and absolute metrics.
A domain metric might be football, C++, driving, or warcraft III skill, but we only have one or two absolute metric, and the secondary absolute metric is always being a good family man. A few domain metrics like cooking heavily influence surface level cultural distinctions. All the biggest subtle cultural differences are determined by the absolute metrics however.
An American male's primary absolute metric is always his net wealth, income, or possessions guess which one wracks up credit card debt). A Frenchman's primary absolute metric is the number and quality of the women he's fucked, unless he sacrifices that metric for family man only. Big fucking cultural difference!
Anyways, I don't think they're exactly "masturbating" over their female's greater attractiveness. ;)
England, Scottland and Ireland are not Europe culturally, even if Ireland likes pretending to annoy the British.
An English 16 year old girl will be fatter than an American girl. A 50 year old French mother of two will weigh less than either one.
I'm aware that many Europeans and Asians would benefit from this technology, but American outside NYC will never get much current out. Any wonder Nokia dominates the European and Asian markets but preforms dismally over here?
Anyone who leaves tabs open needs a flash blocker, like FlashBlock under Safari and ClickToFlash under Safari, not necessarily an ad blocker. You can always still load desirable flash objects by clicking them.
Any advertiser could circumvent your ad blocker with flash ads hosted by the content distributor, that flash will still crash your browser. Heck, I've found that even intentional flash like games, youtube, and porn can crash the browser, so you need flash blocked whenever you hit reopen all windows from last session.
I'm quite happy leaving ads unblocked now that flash is blocked almost completely. Advertisers still get their impressions so long as those impressions are not flash. All web functionality is preserved. All for the small cost of clicking desirable flash games and videos.
I've found that FlashBlock under FireFox and ClickToFlash under Safari are extremely effective against the worst ads, without inconveniencing normal browsing and reasonable ads.
In particular, good sites like thepiratebay.org occasionally use ad servers banned by google for distributing malware. Google usually blocks the whole site when dangerous ads are loaded. If you use flash blockers, you instead see a few iframes populated by google's malware warning, but the site itself loads fine.
I'm sure all this will get far messier when advertisers start preferring HTML5 interactive video over Flash, but HTML5 likely won't pose quite the malware risks. Also, FireFox could still include a click feature, although Safari might prove more challenging.
You won't have this problem if you don't use facebook apps, just facebook itself. Any particularly annoying app gets blocked of course.
I expect the community will benefit enormously from the fact that both Moblin and Maemo are merging as MeeGo, with support from both Intel and Nokia, and third parties also providing devices.
p.s. I'd been holding out for their Maemo's fifth generation device, but ultimately decided to buy an N900, partially because the next revision might not be a phone, and I'll likely buy the next revision too. It's true they've not put any marketing behind Maemo, but the device itself is fabulous.
You're very likely correct about the corporate momentum issues, but failure isn't a forgone conclusion.
(a) Symbian has fallen behind real competitors, especially Android. Sun watched everyone else stick with x86. Palm reinvented itself.
(b) Symbian jobs are not immediately threatened because Symbian's age, stability, and speed make it suitable for mid-level larger market phones.
Nokia's approach has always been fairly laid back, planning upon five Maemo based platforms before declaring the product ready for prime time. We'll see how well their next Maemo phone stacks up.
Android's Java run-time Dalvik and Java classes are open source and run under desktop linux already, so surely they'll be ported to MeeGo.
Android's higher level services like address book obviously aren't much use on a MeeGo device of course. So we'd need to rewrite Android's higher level Java classes for many sophisticated apps, but many games could run without those, and developers could simply port their apps to MeeGo.
GnuSTEP is quite far from fully supporting the iPhone's UIKit framework, but various people are working towards ports, and some apps can still be ported with even fractional compatibility.
Also, Qt has been a very popular porting target for desktop applications departing NeXTSTEP, Cocoa, etc. and Qt compares quite favorably with Cocoa, iPhone's UIKit, etc. One might even blame Qt for GnuSTEPs stagnation. So sufficiently successful apps could simply be ported to Qt.
North America does not lead the world smartphone market. Windows Mobile and Blackberry never count on abroad for example.
http://vowe.net/archives/008814.html
http://gizmodo.com/5101114/iphone-conquers-166-percent-of-world-smartphone-market
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/10283_Gartner_Q2_world_smartphone_sa.php
Apple has been attracting new smartphone users more oriented towards games, plus Symbian seems outdated now. But now Android has locked onto the exact same market as Apple. Android's enormous variety will prove an astounding asset in the fashion conscious consumer electronics world.
Nokia has not yet declared their Maemo/MeeGo platform as consumer ready, but their next revision should achieve that status, unless the MeeGo merger shows down their timeline. A solid MeeGo based smartphone with heavy marketing will perform amazingly well.
Also, MeeGo should provides an easy porting target for Android apps (Java duh?) and eventually iPhone Apps (GnuSTEP). Imagine you're a successful iPhone or Android developer. Do you develop a whole new app for your platform? Or do you port your existing hits to MeeGo? You'll make more money doing less work by porting most of the time.
Maemo ... will never achieve critical mass.
Don't count on it. Nokia is the best & strongest mobile phone maker in the world. Millions will use Maemo if & when Nokia says "It's ready". Intel and Nokia standardizing their Moblin and Maemo distributions as MeeGo makes the platform considerably more attractive for developers too.
Windows Moblle is, well, Windows.
lol yes.
Symbian is showing its age.
Symbian is also opening up more in response to internal competition from Maemo/MeeGo.
Blackberry is designed for somebody who texts a lot more than I do.
Business users must avoid all the touch screen phones because they lose clients if you send short terse messages.
Intel's Nehalem chips are vulnerable to far easier and speedier attacks using their HTT technology, plus HTT attacks do not require rooting the machine.
http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf
I bet we eventually find that saving the game and reloading is bad for kids, but all games themselves are fine so long as you don't restart from the same game.
All these qui tam cases actually benefit society by making companies comply with the laws, the only problem is lawyers are going after poorly labeled cups instead of Amazon's 1-click patent.
.. copyrights never expire.
I'm sure you can sue for false DMCA takedown notices, but tracking down all those false ones will require more than $500 per incident. Imagine a false DMCA takedown notice earns the victim $10k just like abusive collections practices do. We'd most likely still see most victims just sit around and suffer quietly rather than fight.
All these qui tam actions might be lawyers trying to make a buck, but I feel they are basically beneficial because :
(a) they help out small producers that actually know their own patents, and
(b) they highlight the underlying meaninglessness of the patent system.
We must also remember that judges will weigh the social costs for the various violations. For example, I'd expect that the 21 billion Solo Cup lids case is rather "open and shut", as all those lids were falsely market, but the actual damages are rather small. How many people were wrongfully dissuaded from creating competing lids? I'd hope the court awards Attorney Matthew Pequignot a couple million dollars, but not more.
I'd say that ask.metafilter.com is usually better for serious questions like this one, slashdot users know almost nothing outside their own favorite software or programming languages. I'll give you an ask.metafilter.com style answer though :
If you've got the money for a penthouse in Manhattan, then you've got the money to hire a medical doctor and/or electrical engineer who can evaluate the actual radiation levels in the apartment.
You should make an appointment with an M.D. in radiology in NYC, say like Manhattan Diagnostic Radiology. I doubt they'll have the equipment for evaluating the dangers themselves, but a radiology doctor will figure out how you should proceed, and might evaluate you for other cancer risk factors.
Two bonuses :
(1) you might never feel secure unless you have an actual medical opinion.
(2) you'll know how to alley the fears of the next person you sell the apartment to.
If people acquire power based upon their beliefs, like the Pope, Rick Santorum, or George Bush v2, then their actions speak volumes about the belief system granting that power.
Christianity has been violent, cruel, deceptive, selfish, and manipulative throughout the majority of the previous 2000 years (see Holy Roman Empire, Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, indulgences, etc.).
Yes, you may obviously read the original texts inspired by Jesus' life yourself, well see Protestantism. You know however that most people who pursue that are still voting for evil politicians, against gay marriage, etc.
I'm sure some communists say the same thing about Russia and China, but they are wrong too.
Actions define words like volunteer, murderer, etc. Status defines words like leader, stewardess, etc. Beliefs define stuff people believe.
Christian believe simply that Jesus was the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, period. All those people voting against torturing Spanish jews into conversion or voting against gay marriage did so out of beliefs affiliated with their belief in Jesus. Pretty cut & dry.
It's not like they were poisoning beer being sold off the shelf, they were adding poisons to stuff that people already should not have been drinking even before prohibition.
We have a word for that sort of behavior, murder. In fact, we've a more precise word when the target group is ethnic not behavioral, genocide. I'd say that word fits this case fairly well overall though.
Wind will obviously become cause effective eventually because manufacturing wind turbines need not be any more expensive than manufacturing cars. Solar is rapidly improving too. Nuclear was never made safe because producing nuclear bombs was the technological priority.