there was another update in 2008, with more ui building blocks. for touch phones. s60 5th gen had it and symbian^1.
but they still didn't make enough of the api's sane enough to use(practical. many api was unpractical due to asking the user 10 times yes/no to create a file.. )
qt was owned by Nokia at the time, being developed in house in Nokia to be basis of programming for their mobiles.
gtk was and still is a piece of shit, abandoned for use on mobiles already because coding for it is so shit.
anyhow, google went with java because a lot of mobile devs were already familiar with java syntax and if they just offered them something better than j2me the devs would just jump straight over.
"only because some bigwig in the company says so" in regards of java is _BULLSHIT_. perhaps you're thinking about windows phone for which it is true - not because wp development would be a pain, but because wp has no market share - but there's plenty of willing android developers out there, perhaps because it's not such bullshit as objective c.
with android you get choice from 70 dollars to 700 dollars, that's the whole point. but then again some devs could only do windows applications for hardcoded 1024*768 size too so whatever..
disney or universal can give use of the characters or not based on solely on their wishes. there's no need for them to license them to everyone or nobody like you fucking claimed.
disney's own licensing deals around the world are a direct counter example to what you're claiming, showing that you're just full of bullshit. any group can demand the right to use uncle scrooge today as well and they can deny it to any group they want just as they can grant it.
furthermore the business world is full of cases where a business has decided to give some user or another some perk or another while not giving it to everyone. the cops analogy is bullshit since they're public servants.
sony-e had a working prototype all java(with I suppose their own os underneath). basically android was a clone of that.
but what sunoracle fucked up in the mid 00's was being too slow in developing j2me extensions(and the 'all java' phone os that they kept in different projects for years and years) and just badly managing how they could be used(four security dialogs for creating a file in a folder on the sd card each with two clicks from the user, for example - NO MATTER WHAT SIGNING YOU PAID FOR), thus the market for android was there when android emerged.
as for j2me, the process a new API went through to be an approved API was just stupid. the end result was api's that had always some flaw on them or were just unusable from the day 1, like the j2me 3d _scene_ descriptor shit, which was just a wrong, wrong way to go about it on the hw and use it was launching for(like, the api might have been ok for making some animation suite or whatever, but shitty for making games).
there was a market for a java development based smartphone os all right.. they just dragged their feet on it for way too long, so that market hole is now filled with android.
they just didn't care about it enough to make sure that the shit they were certifying and dictating how it should be was usable at all.
immobilizer chip = the thing that makes it harder to start the car without the thing that talks to the immobilizer chip and says to it that it's ok to start. basically it should make it impossible to start the car by connecting two wires behind the steering wheel. it's the thing that makes just making a physical copy of your key pattern useless for stealing your car.
it's not like there hasn't been craploads of articles on them on slashdot before you know..
actually there was a problem once because they had not updated average weights.
however.. this is uzbekistan. maybe they defaulted to people weighting 40 kilo or something before.
I was on a cheapo flight recently where they made announcements that you couldn't exchange seats without authorization (paying money) due to 'weight of the traveller mattering for the seat planning' (only problem: you could have paid money to reserve seats you wanted AND THE AIRLINE HAD NO FUCKING CLUE OF WEIGHTS OF ANY OF THE TRAVELERS. fuck, the airline in question had not even _seen_ the travelers before due to automated check in and the seats being set even before that). so that part was clearly bullshit.
yeah so you're saying that there doesn't exist clubs for carsharing ferraris? (there does, to impress dolts).
also, I was amazed that asians run fucking watch-share clubs. where they buy an expensive watch and everyone gets to keep it a week at a time to impress his friends.
also there's people who buy them as investments, asians as well. they buy them like they would buy gold. the iWatch is a horrible substitute for that.
iWatch might eat into pebble and other 70-100 bucks semi-expensive dolt watch sales.. but can't really see it affecting the high dollar watch market, as it's just a collectors market so the practicality of it makes little point and buying high tech expensive items as investments is pretty fucking stupid(apart from cars). how well are vertu's holding their value and practicality? not very well.
none of those are as good as artificial lakes that you pump water into.
the best source to pump it with? nuclear. duh.
the real problem is that a certain ceo said at a product release that the whole usa could be powered by batteries and the public bought the idea without blinking...
why would it make shareholders bitch less when the same shareholders own this now as well?
I know, I know, that's what larry is hoping for, but nothing is changing in regards to that - its still all stockholders money.
all I see so far is that it shows how gullible google fanboys are that they think just rebranding them into a yet another branded X labs would actually change _anything_ about where the bills are paid from.
the traded stock stays 100% the same as before - who pays for what doesn't change one bit - that's how they could get away by announcing it in a blog posting.
from stockholders view the calico, life sciences etc are in same boat today as they were before - nothing really changed.
And courts. This helps to segment Google's advertising business so that if they get slammed by a government for refusing to censor, it's much harder to go after the parent company's assets. It's risk-management for shareholders.
read the posting, then if you don't understand it try to make a diagram on a paper or something about the ownership/stock relations before and after this rebranding.
no difference at all!. all you have is sundar as ceo of some part of it, while being in the organizational chart directly under larry and sergei! the friggin BOARD doesn't change, though presumably now they're the board of google alphabet! does larry bother to talk about that even? HECK NO! the only time board is mentioned is that "they" think that sundar is ripe for being CEO.
it doesn't protect them from lawsuits, regulation or anything at all. all it helps for them it to show on their quarterly report in bigger numbers how much their money making operations made and try to hush hush how much their non-making operations are making.
the rebranding is of so little actual consequence to stock owners that they did the announcement in a blog posting for fucks sake. the blog posting doesn't even bother to outline if youtube and android are still under Sundar or not! IT MATTERS SO LITTLE!
they just had to find an use for the "cool" address of abc.xyz, find a way to have both larry and sundar be CEO's and that's pretty much the whole thing.
it's really rather stupid. but the how pointless it is, is underlined that if this had some stock implications then it would have been announced differently(never mind it being posted after trading was stopped).
everything is still owned by the same people and same stock and trying to change that without some kind of official announcing would pretty much count as fraud - probably even if they announced it. so from perspective of any outsider, you just have a title changed and a slight rebranding done.
not really at all. the stock doesn't change. the guys who are responsible for what inside google doesn't actually change. it doesn't let anyone focus on whatever any more, it just lets them emphasize one profit number more than actual profit.
THIS IS JUST A REBRANDING. nothing, nothing else. the position of the stock owners doesn't change one bit.
it is just a rebranding and the addition that the "google" finances are reported quarterly separately. it's just a rebranding that makes the google numbers seem better (if you consider that almost all other google alphabet projects are money losing r&d projects).
it's just rebranding trickery. the chain of command doesn't actually change at all, that's evident from the blog posting once you look past the words to the actual meaning of the words, the new guy stays as operational chief of google while larry and sergei do whatever vanity projects they want while still being money allocators for google alphabet and still being ceo and the president of all things google alphabet - it's just that the new guy gets to be CEO of google that's owned by google alphabet and he answers to the ceo/president of google alphabet.
in effect it's just a re-branding with the addition of adding one "ceo" position(the new google ceo position in organizational chart is directly under the google alphabet ceo though so that again is just playing with words, nothing actually changes.
oh how very google. I give it 3 years and they'll re-brand it back.
their shares will even continue to trade in exact same two classes as before in exactly the same fashion owing exactly the same things!
it's a really pointless puzzling rebranding to be honest. normal people aren't going to care in the slightest, people investing in the stock shouldn't care - nobody needs to care about this announcement one bit! it's so pointless I'm thinking that they just bought abc.xyz for big money and then thought just hey wtf we do this and came up with this while smelling their own farts while sipping on some kool-aid.
a free tier plan with a service that is online based. think github etc.
it's like shareware, except the service can go away any day were you a paying customer or not, so if you were putting big money into it, why would you? especially if cloning most of these services to your own cloud instances is in most cases cheaper than licensing the top tier levels.
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there was another update in 2008, with more ui building blocks. for touch phones. s60 5th gen had it and symbian^1.
but they still didn't make enough of the api's sane enough to use(practical. many api was unpractical due to asking the user 10 times yes/no to create a file.. )
that's why they're so popular in eastern europe. some cities in russia anyways.
(the road buried will require maintenance too I'll bet though)
I doubt he read replies to it even.
ten thousand messages with title "why?" sitting in his inbox. in his email address he doesn't use anyways.
Well I can tell you straight up that it pales in comparison of putting the electric wires up in the air above the busses.
not quite sure about that.
the other half the time the stuff being on computer screens is just meant to look like busy garbage.
tron is entirely just meant to look pretty.
I mean fuck, check out this link http://cdn.jtn.im/178/TRON_GFX...
sure, it's pretty. but where are you going to see that your ports are being scanned?
qt was owned by Nokia at the time, being developed in house in Nokia to be basis of programming for their mobiles.
gtk was and still is a piece of shit, abandoned for use on mobiles already because coding for it is so shit.
anyhow, google went with java because a lot of mobile devs were already familiar with java syntax and if they just offered them something better than j2me the devs would just jump straight over.
"only because some bigwig in the company says so" in regards of java is _BULLSHIT_. perhaps you're thinking about windows phone for which it is true - not because wp development would be a pain, but because wp has no market share - but there's plenty of willing android developers out there, perhaps because it's not such bullshit as objective c.
with android you get choice from 70 dollars to 700 dollars, that's the whole point. but then again some devs could only do windows applications for hardcoded 1024*768 size too so whatever..
disney or universal can give use of the characters or not based on solely on their wishes. there's no need for them to license them to everyone or nobody like you fucking claimed.
disney's own licensing deals around the world are a direct counter example to what you're claiming, showing that you're just full of bullshit. any group can demand the right to use uncle scrooge today as well and they can deny it to any group they want just as they can grant it.
furthermore the business world is full of cases where a business has decided to give some user or another some perk or another while not giving it to everyone. the cops analogy is bullshit since they're public servants.
it totally works. cuts charge time to like one fifth or sixth or even less.
you can get usable charge into the phone while taking a dump.
(at least on note edge, however note edge if you watch youtube and have it connected to a normal 500mah 5v charger it will barely charge.. ).
anyhow note edge has removable battery too(as well removable backplate and comes with two.. one with the faux leather 'wallet' case and one without.
it's pretty handy. the edge is usable mostly just as a quick launch bar or as a night watch
sony-e had a working prototype all java(with I suppose their own os underneath). basically android was a clone of that.
but what sunoracle fucked up in the mid 00's was being too slow in developing j2me extensions(and the 'all java' phone os that they kept in different projects for years and years) and just badly managing how they could be used(four security dialogs for creating a file in a folder on the sd card each with two clicks from the user, for example - NO MATTER WHAT SIGNING YOU PAID FOR), thus the market for android was there when android emerged.
as for j2me, the process a new API went through to be an approved API was just stupid. the end result was api's that had always some flaw on them or were just unusable from the day 1, like the j2me 3d _scene_ descriptor shit, which was just a wrong, wrong way to go about it on the hw and use it was launching for(like, the api might have been ok for making some animation suite or whatever, but shitty for making games).
there was a market for a java development based smartphone os all right.. they just dragged their feet on it for way too long, so that market hole is now filled with android.
they just didn't care about it enough to make sure that the shit they were certifying and dictating how it should be was usable at all.
it's a feature.
turn off location tags if you don't want them.
they didn't want him to intern because the way he was presenting the stuff, I think. or because he cannot tell a software flaw from a feature.
shooting randomly in public places being illegal is a different "ancillary" crime from shooting directly at someone who is a target. both illegal.
the car isn't illegal.
immobilizer chip = the thing that makes it harder to start the car without the thing that talks to the immobilizer chip and says to it that it's ok to start. basically it should make it impossible to start the car by connecting two wires behind the steering wheel. it's the thing that makes just making a physical copy of your key pattern useless for stealing your car.
it's not like there hasn't been craploads of articles on them on slashdot before you know..
actually there was a problem once because they had not updated average weights.
however.. this is uzbekistan. maybe they defaulted to people weighting 40 kilo or something before.
I was on a cheapo flight recently where they made announcements that you couldn't exchange seats without authorization (paying money) due to 'weight of the traveller mattering for the seat planning' (only problem: you could have paid money to reserve seats you wanted AND THE AIRLINE HAD NO FUCKING CLUE OF WEIGHTS OF ANY OF THE TRAVELERS. fuck, the airline in question had not even _seen_ the travelers before due to automated check in and the seats being set even before that). so that part was clearly bullshit.
what you look is private - taboo to talk about to other people.
that it's taboo doesn't mean that it doesn't exist or be easily available.
the fcc license for something like this is a rubber stamp for wifi.
but yeah there's already automateds..
why do you think they didn't write it in qt?
but with github client you can get an easy installation of a command line git kept up to date.
iirc windows was written in qt anyways before, but it tried to mimic windows 8 look. many confusing things. accept buttons as save, or back etc.
yeah so you're saying that there doesn't exist clubs for carsharing ferraris? (there does, to impress dolts).
also, I was amazed that asians run fucking watch-share clubs. where they buy an expensive watch and everyone gets to keep it a week at a time to impress his friends.
also there's people who buy them as investments, asians as well. they buy them like they would buy gold. the iWatch is a horrible substitute for that.
iWatch might eat into pebble and other 70-100 bucks semi-expensive dolt watch sales.. but can't really see it affecting the high dollar watch market, as it's just a collectors market so the practicality of it makes little point and buying high tech expensive items as investments is pretty fucking stupid(apart from cars). how well are vertu's holding their value and practicality? not very well.
30 bucks?
one for a fiver will run all year anyhow.
as for a smartphone.. why wouldn't you want a computer in your pocket? but if you have already that, wtf do you need the smart watch for.
and if apple has sold 11 million iWatches I sure aren't seeing any of them worn by anyone.
(smartphone pricing starts at about 70 bucks these days, no lock, no sub, 800x480px. 300-500 is pretty high end actually)
it's an entirely different market yeah.
apple watch loses value in 5 years to zero.
none of those are as good as artificial lakes that you pump water into.
the best source to pump it with? nuclear. duh.
the real problem is that a certain ceo said at a product release that the whole usa could be powered by batteries and the public bought the idea without blinking...
fuck that, I read Gnome 3 on the summary and thought immediately "oh well it's a piece of shit".
I guess you _could_ build something usable on top of Gnome 3 but then, why the fuck would you?
(gtk sucks too)
why would it make shareholders bitch less when the same shareholders own this now as well?
I know, I know, that's what larry is hoping for, but nothing is changing in regards to that - its still all stockholders money.
all I see so far is that it shows how gullible google fanboys are that they think just rebranding them into a yet another branded X labs would actually change _anything_ about where the bills are paid from.
the traded stock stays 100% the same as before - who pays for what doesn't change one bit - that's how they could get away by announcing it in a blog posting.
from stockholders view the calico, life sciences etc are in same boat today as they were before - nothing really changed.
And courts. This helps to segment Google's advertising business so that if they get slammed by a government for refusing to censor, it's much harder to go after the parent company's assets. It's risk-management for shareholders.
read the posting, then if you don't understand it try to make a diagram on a paper or something about the ownership/stock relations before and after this rebranding.
no difference at all!. all you have is sundar as ceo of some part of it, while being in the organizational chart directly under larry and sergei! the friggin BOARD doesn't change, though presumably now they're the board of google alphabet! does larry bother to talk about that even? HECK NO! the only time board is mentioned is that "they" think that sundar is ripe for being CEO.
it doesn't protect them from lawsuits, regulation or anything at all. all it helps for them it to show on their quarterly report in bigger numbers how much their money making operations made and try to hush hush how much their non-making operations are making.
the rebranding is of so little actual consequence to stock owners that they did the announcement in a blog posting for fucks sake. the blog posting doesn't even bother to outline if youtube and android are still under Sundar or not! IT MATTERS SO LITTLE!
they just had to find an use for the "cool" address of abc.xyz, find a way to have both larry and sundar be CEO's and that's pretty much the whole thing.
it's really rather stupid. but the how pointless it is, is underlined that if this had some stock implications then it would have been announced differently(never mind it being posted after trading was stopped).
everything is still owned by the same people and same stock and trying to change that without some kind of official announcing would pretty much count as fraud - probably even if they announced it. so from perspective of any outsider, you just have a title changed and a slight rebranding done.
not really at all. the stock doesn't change. the guys who are responsible for what inside google doesn't actually change. it doesn't let anyone focus on whatever any more, it just lets them emphasize one profit number more than actual profit.
THIS IS JUST A REBRANDING. nothing, nothing else. the position of the stock owners doesn't change one bit.
it is just a rebranding and the addition that the "google" finances are reported quarterly separately. it's just a rebranding that makes the google numbers seem better (if you consider that almost all other google alphabet projects are money losing r&d projects).
it's just rebranding trickery. the chain of command doesn't actually change at all, that's evident from the blog posting once you look past the words to the actual meaning of the words, the new guy stays as operational chief of google while larry and sergei do whatever vanity projects they want while still being money allocators for google alphabet and still being ceo and the president of all things google alphabet - it's just that the new guy gets to be CEO of google that's owned by google alphabet and he answers to the ceo/president of google alphabet.
in effect it's just a re-branding with the addition of adding one "ceo" position(the new google ceo position in organizational chart is directly under the google alphabet ceo though so that again is just playing with words, nothing actually changes.
oh how very google. I give it 3 years and they'll re-brand it back.
their shares will even continue to trade in exact same two classes as before in exactly the same fashion owing exactly the same things!
it's a really pointless puzzling rebranding to be honest. normal people aren't going to care in the slightest, people investing in the stock shouldn't care - nobody needs to care about this announcement one bit! it's so pointless I'm thinking that they just bought abc.xyz for big money and then thought just hey wtf we do this and came up with this while smelling their own farts while sipping on some kool-aid.
freemium business apps is pretty much this:
a free tier plan with a service that is online based. think github etc.
it's like shareware, except the service can go away any day were you a paying customer or not, so if you were putting big money into it, why would you? especially if cloning most of these services to your own cloud instances is in most cases cheaper than licensing the top tier levels.