I have the same phone (developing for it too), and it doesn’t matter if you have a branded carrier-updated model.
Changing the internal ID that controls, which update mod it’s going to pull, is ridiculously easy. There is a small tool, and a huge list of all IDs of all Nokia phones for all carriers! You change the ID, run Nokia’s own updater, and you’re done! (Just to into the themes menu and back out, for the theme to initialize properly.)
So everybody can have the very latest updates.
As for the GPS. That’s not the worst problem. The worst problem is, that without a data connection, GPS is not working and useless. It just tries to find satellites. According to Nokia, it takes up to 40 minutes to get the first fix, then it’s fast. 40 minutes?? A TomTom does it in under two seconds! Like pretty much every GPS device (including phones) out there. And they don’t want to admit that it’s a serious bug too. Which puts a big dent in the otherwise huge respect that I have for Nokia, because of their strong support for QT, Linux, and open source in general. On my phone, even 40 minutes do not help. I can be in a place with nothing at all around me. No trees, no buildings, nothing. And yet, after two hours, I don’t get a fix. Unless I enable A-GPS. Then’s working as expected.
I really recommend installing Maps Booster. It’s a software similar to the iPhone’s “fake” GPS, which uses wifi hotspots with a database of ID/location mappings, which even works inside rooms, and adds to the overall quality. The only problem is, that for that you also need a data connection. Because it pulls the IDs from a constantly updated online database. (The same that the iPhone uses, btw.)
All in all, I guess you can’t do without a data flatrate nowadays. Which costs around 20€ here. Too much for the average user.
I let salesmen really feel the pain, by sloowly reading the whole contract and terms... twice... asking for any and all the tiniest unclarities, until I perfectly and fully understand it. And if he loses his patience, I call the police and tell them some criminal want so pull a con job on me, and now started to threaten me. Then when I’m done, sometimes I simply say: Sorry, that thing is criminal, offensive and not acceptable. And drop it on the floor like it’s a piece of cloth used for cleaning train station toilets.
1. A totally free market has no rules at all. 2. When there are no rules at all, that is called “the law of the jungle”. 3. On a scale of how democratic something is, a perfect democracy is at 1.0, and the law of the jungle is at 0.0. (And 1984 is somewhere down the negative values. Hence that quote, that fascism should be called corporatism.) 4. Therefore, the free market and proper democracy are natural opposites.
Uuum, one question: Here in Germany, no company can change a contract in “mid air”, without asking you for permission. They can send you a letter where they tell you about the changes. But you can then terminate the contract without having to pay anything, if they don’t want to keep your original contract. They can’t do anything about it. I’ve done it some times.
Is’t that the case in the USA too? If Verizon would send me a “change in contract”, with the new terms, that they could rape me, and that I would have to pay for it too, I could terminate on the spot... right? Oh god I hope I’m right...
The total amount of attack will/power stays the same, no matter what size the individual attacks are? No shit? I could have told you that too. Together with other amazing facts, like that the amount of coffee in a can stays the same, no matter of the size and number of cups you fill with it.;)
I can even predict, that they do not actually stay the same, but in the biggest picture of e.g. one war, go in a curve, first rising strongly, then falling off slowly, only to be re-risen by big events (similar to the scandals / media coverage relationship).
Sorry, but that ‘don’t kill yourself” usually comes from people who can’t imagine a situation, where killing yourself actually is the best option. Yes, this is very hard to swallow for everyone of us. Because these situations are very rare. And that’s why we say “don’t kill yourself” in the first place, and why it’s a good idea to use that mindset in general.:)
But, man. There are things that are so horrible, that forcing someone who is in that situation, to live anyway, is just being a heartless selfish bastard, and also is torture. (Please don’t think I’d say that you are like that. I think not “walking past” by closing the window, is a wonderful character trait.)
As someone who already was in situations worse than dead (Not your emo “worse than dead”. Horrible nightmarish seemingly never ending “worse than dead”), I can tell you that the only reason I still exist, is that I KNEW... NOT guessed... KNEW, that this would end some day. If it would be without end, then from a rational standpoint of a healthy thinking human, I would be dead already. And I would be happy with it. I don’t see death as something bad. In many cultures it is celebrated as something good. And we’re just bio-mass with ideas anyway. If we pass those on to *anyone*, then we *literally* continue to exist. Only a part went away. And that’s not bad at all, is it?
But no, please do not misunderstand this as me advocating death (I know you did;). As I said, in general, I fully agree with you and the “don’t kill yourself’.
I just learned, that there are (rare) situations, where that would be delusional, irrational, cruel, and all around bad. Therefore I can’t be that generalizing in my views anymore.:) Hey, I seriously wish that you will never know such situations for yourself.:) And I wish that if you face such a situation, that you aren’t irrationally cruel too.
Yeah my friend, people fear death. But that’s because they don’t know how bad “life” can be.
Choose the way that, all things considered, is the best for you. When I get in such situations, I stop caring for all the stupid pointless rules of society. Wich at least makes life great in every aspect that’s not wrecked by that big problem.:)
I just wonder, what the cause is, in your case. I looked at the Wikipedia page, and it listed a lot of (to me) unrelated environmental causes. If it’s not a genetic problem (dunno), then how about a complete difference analysis? You know. Change *everything* in your life (even do the complete opposite), and look what that changes. (If it doesn’t change a noticeable thing after half a year, you can still switch back. But if it *does*...)
Sometimes, and especially when doctors tell you there is no cure (which just means that they do not know a cure, not that it’s incurable, which would be silly), the solutions are simpler than one thinks.
You know how autoimmune diseases are said to be incurable? Well, I stopped believing that, when I saw them vanish with my own eyes. The only change? A change in diet. (In this case, a friend of mine just stopped eating any animal-based proteins. Especially heated ones. And started eating more whole-grain-based long carbohydrates. He went from suffocating without his medicine, to not ever needing it again.) Very often, in a cascade over decades, tiny things throw the whole natural system of cycles out of balance.
Now I’m not saying that it’s food in your case. You know that I don’t know much about your case. But I just could not close this window, without at least offering what I know about serious “incurable” diseases, that strangely disappear after small changes in lifestyle.
Please try to change as much in your life as possible. Go caveman and eat what you think is most species-appropriate, live that way (if possible), do things that way. I think it’s really worth a try. (Just my best shot... from my experience.)
I wish you luck, but that you don’t even need it.:D
I prefer the following combination: Simplified EBML-like “binary XML” + a binary tag to XML tag mapper.
That way I have nice efficient, completely flexible, binary data, that with the use of a ridiculously simple mapper, can be transformed back and forth between XML and itself, or upon opening and saving by a text editor.
You know, just like the ASCII or Unicode mapping. But for structural information instead of for text content. It can even hold binary data as content, without any escaping. Just attach a mime type info to it.
Thanks to the mapping, it can still use e.g. XPath.
If you add the mapping data as a header to the file... or a URL to the (locally cacheable) mapping file... you got pretty close to the perfect file format.
If you want, you can also add RelaxNG information to it (C syntax of course), to make it validatable.
Hey you stupid little retard dogmanic Apple fanboy moderators: Read my fuckin' comment! Read all of it!
I’m starting a normal discussion here, and then you come in, wearing no pants, drooling like a retard, moderating everything troll that the little holy war monkey boy does not like, and fuck it all up!
Be happy that we’re not in RL here, or I’d rip your fuckin’ face apart and feed it to my dogs!
P.S.: Now THAT is a Flame! ^^ See. Take that as an example. Maybe you’ll learn something after all.
No, you don’t understand. They expect you to enter it into the registration form.
But I am happy that you did not even consider this possibility, because it was just way out of the imaginable, and therefore did not understand. That shows a healthy, unmarred brain.:)
How exactly are they going to disable it remotely, when my firewall blocks the connections, and I can always reinstall a cracked download, when it disables itself with a timer?
Belgian fries. In my opinion the best fries in the world. Especially if made with eastern-European potatoes (those that still taste like potatoes). If you ever get there, try them.
Try to find anything else than the 24.6% in there!
LOL, and I thought I did go a bit too far in my previous comment, where I stated that the Apple reality distortion bubble would make people want it so much, that they would make things up.
Oh, and another thing: With the article stating, that it got marketed in the Apple-typical crazy fashion of total life invasion, I wonder how many of those who bought one, actually hate it now, and upon trying a different one, wish they would have chosen otherwise.
I mean, I would, when I would later find out, that I can’t even remove the battery, or install anything I want. (Think a Joe Random, wanting to install a game he found on the net. [And if possible do so for free.])
This is based on my previous experiences with the Apple RDB (reality distortion bubble), and how I have seen it make people want something so much, that they would even make it up.
I’m not making a statement about its truth. Just that because of that, Apple news get a harder time. Microsoft for example would get an even harder time. Like with everything where you got burned too often, before.
On top of that, I have problems believing, that an in all points inferior phone (Compared to the crazy stuff they got in Japan. Not what’s available in the US.) would dominate Japan... of all markets??
Anyone from Japan here, with a real world experience, of how many of the people he sees and knows got an iPhone? It it rather close to half? Or rather rare? (Or where in-between?)
Slashdot Mirror
I have the same phone (developing for it too), and it doesn’t matter if you have a branded carrier-updated model.
Changing the internal ID that controls, which update mod it’s going to pull, is ridiculously easy. There is a small tool, and a huge list of all IDs of all Nokia phones for all carriers!
You change the ID, run Nokia’s own updater, and you’re done! (Just to into the themes menu and back out, for the theme to initialize properly.)
So everybody can have the very latest updates.
As for the GPS. That’s not the worst problem. The worst problem is, that without a data connection, GPS is not working and useless. It just tries to find satellites. According to Nokia, it takes up to 40 minutes to get the first fix, then it’s fast. 40 minutes?? A TomTom does it in under two seconds! Like pretty much every GPS device (including phones) out there. And they don’t want to admit that it’s a serious bug too. Which puts a big dent in the otherwise huge respect that I have for Nokia, because of their strong support for QT, Linux, and open source in general.
On my phone, even 40 minutes do not help. I can be in a place with nothing at all around me. No trees, no buildings, nothing. And yet, after two hours, I don’t get a fix. Unless I enable A-GPS. Then’s working as expected.
I really recommend installing Maps Booster. It’s a software similar to the iPhone’s “fake” GPS, which uses wifi hotspots with a database of ID/location mappings, which even works inside rooms, and adds to the overall quality. The only problem is, that for that you also need a data connection. Because it pulls the IDs from a constantly updated online database. (The same that the iPhone uses, btw.)
All in all, I guess you can’t do without a data flatrate nowadays. Which costs around 20€ here. Too much for the average user.
I let salesmen really feel the pain, by sloowly reading the whole contract and terms... twice... asking for any and all the tiniest unclarities, until I perfectly and fully understand it. And if he loses his patience, I call the police and tell them some criminal want so pull a con job on me, and now started to threaten me.
Then when I’m done, sometimes I simply say: Sorry, that thing is criminal, offensive and not acceptable. And drop it on the floor like it’s a piece of cloth used for cleaning train station toilets.
Let them feel it.
You could have said that in a shorter form:
1. A totally free market has no rules at all.
2. When there are no rules at all, that is called “the law of the jungle”.
3. On a scale of how democratic something is, a perfect democracy is at 1.0, and the law of the jungle is at 0.0. (And 1984 is somewhere down the negative values. Hence that quote, that fascism should be called corporatism.)
4. Therefore, the free market and proper democracy are natural opposites.
Uuum, one question: Here in Germany, no company can change a contract in “mid air”, without asking you for permission. They can send you a letter where they tell you about the changes. But you can then terminate the contract without having to pay anything, if they don’t want to keep your original contract. They can’t do anything about it. I’ve done it some times.
Is’t that the case in the USA too? If Verizon would send me a “change in contract”, with the new terms, that they could rape me, and that I would have to pay for it too, I could terminate on the spot... right? Oh god I hope I’m right...
...that a totally “free” market, is the exact same thing as the law of the jungle?
Which is the opposite of democracy on the “democracyness” scale. (Beware, that I don’t say that that scale can’t have negative numbers too. :)
If you tell that to a fundamentalist “free market” republican, does his head explode? ^^
“We must have a democracy.
But we must also have a completely free market.
But we must have a democracy.
But... aaaaahhhh *BANG*”
The total amount of attack will/power stays the same, no matter what size the individual attacks are? No shit? I could have told you that too. ;)
Together with other amazing facts, like that the amount of coffee in a can stays the same, no matter of the size and number of cups you fill with it.
I can even predict, that they do not actually stay the same, but in the biggest picture of e.g. one war, go in a curve, first rising strongly, then falling off slowly, only to be re-risen by big events (similar to the scandals / media coverage relationship).
Do I get the Nobel Prize now? ;)
Sorry, but that ‘don’t kill yourself” usually comes from people who can’t imagine a situation, where killing yourself actually is the best option. :)
Yes, this is very hard to swallow for everyone of us. Because these situations are very rare. And that’s why we say “don’t kill yourself” in the first place, and why it’s a good idea to use that mindset in general.
But, man. There are things that are so horrible, that forcing someone who is in that situation, to live anyway, is just being a heartless selfish bastard, and also is torture.
(Please don’t think I’d say that you are like that. I think not “walking past” by closing the window, is a wonderful character trait.)
As someone who already was in situations worse than dead (Not your emo “worse than dead”. Horrible nightmarish seemingly never ending “worse than dead”), I can tell you that the only reason I still exist, is that I KNEW... NOT guessed... KNEW, that this would end some day.
If it would be without end, then from a rational standpoint of a healthy thinking human, I would be dead already. And I would be happy with it. I don’t see death as something bad. In many cultures it is celebrated as something good. And we’re just bio-mass with ideas anyway. If we pass those on to *anyone*, then we *literally* continue to exist. Only a part went away. And that’s not bad at all, is it?
But no, please do not misunderstand this as me advocating death (I know you did ;). As I said, in general, I fully agree with you and the “don’t kill yourself’.
I just learned, that there are (rare) situations, where that would be delusional, irrational, cruel, and all around bad. Therefore I can’t be that generalizing in my views anymore. :) :)
Hey, I seriously wish that you will never know such situations for yourself.
And I wish that if you face such a situation, that you aren’t irrationally cruel too.
Yeah my friend, people fear death. But that’s because they don’t know how bad “life” can be.
Choose the way that, all things considered, is the best for you. :)
When I get in such situations, I stop caring for all the stupid pointless rules of society. Wich at least makes life great in every aspect that’s not wrecked by that big problem.
I just wonder, what the cause is, in your case. I looked at the Wikipedia page, and it listed a lot of (to me) unrelated environmental causes. If it’s not a genetic problem (dunno), then how about a complete difference analysis?
You know. Change *everything* in your life (even do the complete opposite), and look what that changes. (If it doesn’t change a noticeable thing after half a year, you can still switch back. But if it *does*...)
Sometimes, and especially when doctors tell you there is no cure (which just means that they do not know a cure, not that it’s incurable, which would be silly), the solutions are simpler than one thinks.
You know how autoimmune diseases are said to be incurable? Well, I stopped believing that, when I saw them vanish with my own eyes. The only change? A change in diet. (In this case, a friend of mine just stopped eating any animal-based proteins. Especially heated ones. And started eating more whole-grain-based long carbohydrates. He went from suffocating without his medicine, to not ever needing it again.)
Very often, in a cascade over decades, tiny things throw the whole natural system of cycles out of balance.
Now I’m not saying that it’s food in your case. You know that I don’t know much about your case.
But I just could not close this window, without at least offering what I know about serious “incurable” diseases, that strangely disappear after small changes in lifestyle.
Please try to change as much in your life as possible. Go caveman and eat what you think is most species-appropriate, live that way (if possible), do things that way. I think it’s really worth a try.
(Just my best shot... from my experience.)
I wish you luck, but that you don’t even need it. :D
If it does, then the only pictures coming out, would show the car itself. ^^
That’s what you get for messing up the General’s communication frequency.
Uuum, it was already too late when he started. ^^
American, and proud, I take it? ^^
(Or an old German. Or a very old British.)
XML? More like EPIC FAIL.
I prefer the following combination:
Simplified EBML-like “binary XML”
+ a binary tag to XML tag mapper.
That way I have nice efficient, completely flexible, binary data, that with the use of a ridiculously simple mapper, can be transformed back and forth between XML and itself, or upon opening and saving by a text editor.
You know, just like the ASCII or Unicode mapping. But for structural information instead of for text content.
It can even hold binary data as content, without any escaping. Just attach a mime type info to it.
Thanks to the mapping, it can still use e.g. XPath.
If you add the mapping data as a header to the file... or a URL to the (locally cacheable) mapping file... you got pretty close to the perfect file format.
If you want, you can also add RelaxNG information to it (C syntax of course), to make it validatable.
Hey you stupid little retard dogmanic Apple fanboy moderators: Read my fuckin' comment! Read all of it!
I’m starting a normal discussion here, and then you come in, wearing no pants, drooling like a retard, moderating everything troll that the little holy war monkey boy does not like, and fuck it all up!
Be happy that we’re not in RL here, or I’d rip your fuckin’ face apart and feed it to my dogs!
P.S.: Now THAT is a Flame! ^^ See. Take that as an example. Maybe you’ll learn something after all.
After all he violated his own laws 3 times, and now, according to his own laws, should be thrown off the Internet.
He even did it with intent. As he asked the media industry first, then they denied the request, but then he used it anyway.
Is long as Sarkozy is not behind bars and off the net, this whole thing is a farce.
No, you don’t understand. They expect you to enter it into the registration form.
But I am happy that you did not even consider this possibility, because it was just way out of the imaginable, and therefore did not understand. :)
That shows a healthy, unmarred brain.
Dude, did you go to “special” school? Stuff isn’t absolute. It’s relative.
A blue whale may be a huge animal, compared to a mosquito.
But compared to a red(mond) giant star, its mass is not even noteworthy.
Watch Windows run on a SmartCard.
...because the Internet is all about honesty, and they never entered anything false in all those bazillion registration forms on the net. ^^
who's in love with his own rather murky ideas. No doubt it's all about the ad sense dollars.
You already said that when you said:
AFAICT he's a self-appointed pundit
How exactly are they going to disable it remotely, when my firewall blocks the connections, and I can always reinstall a cracked download, when it disables itself with a timer?
I think that was exactly GP’s point.
The only coffee I drink, is that in a Dirty Harry. (At least here, this is a coffee/chocolate cream type of cocktail.)
You call those sloppy pale mini-sticks “fries”?
Here’s how real fries look like: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.gentoo%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&um=1&sa=1&q=belgische+frieten&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0 :)
Belgian fries. In my opinion the best fries in the world. Especially if made with eastern-European potatoes (those that still taste like potatoes). If you ever get there, try them.
Oh what a convenient lack of the number 2 and movement of the decimal point...
Here’s the translated report:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.impressrd.jp%2Fnews%2F091210%2Fsmartphone2010&sl=ja&tl=en
Try to find anything else than the 24.6% in there!
LOL, and I thought I did go a bit too far in my previous comment, where I stated that the Apple reality distortion bubble would make people want it so much, that they would make things up.
Oh, and another thing: With the article stating, that it got marketed in the Apple-typical crazy fashion of total life invasion, I wonder how many of those who bought one, actually hate it now, and upon trying a different one, wish they would have chosen otherwise.
I mean, I would, when I would later find out, that I can’t even remove the battery, or install anything I want. (Think a Joe Random, wanting to install a game he found on the net. [And if possible do so for free.])
...confirming it.
This is based on my previous experiences with the Apple RDB (reality distortion bubble), and how I have seen it make people want something so much, that they would even make it up.
I’m not making a statement about its truth. Just that because of that, Apple news get a harder time. Microsoft for example would get an even harder time. Like with everything where you got burned too often, before.
On top of that, I have problems believing, that an in all points inferior phone (Compared to the crazy stuff they got in Japan. Not what’s available in the US.) would dominate Japan... of all markets??
Anyone from Japan here, with a real world experience, of how many of the people he sees and knows got an iPhone?
It it rather close to half? Or rather rare? (Or where in-between?)
You insensitive bag of water, my species has no eyes!