Are you kidding? Not only does trusting client side security always end up in disaster, but European cell phone networks seem to be doing just fine.
Stop buying into the carriers' propaganda already and start buying your phones directly from the manufacturers. You'd never be in this mess if the average American had done so from the start. The world's largest cell phone manufacturer would prefer to not sell you crippled devices, and look how much US market share it's been rewarded with.
Come on, we all know he wasn't referring to the kernel. Android is not a real Linux distro like people understand the term. KDE and Gnome are also not complete distros on their own.
What does "ripping you off" mean, though? What percentage of profit is excessive? Like with everything else, the important metric is what it's worth to you, personally. If you're comparing similar devices from two manufacturers, and reviews say that the slightly more expensive one is also slightly better, it's up to you to decide what you want to pay for. It doesn't really matter whether the better device's manufacturer also came up with a way to manufacture it really cheaply and is making a huge profit. Everyone will charge whatever the device is worth on the market.
The audiophile grade cable is obvious horseshit, so just don't buy it and you'll be fine.
I was wondering what the hell he was thinking too. He may have been pissed off about people fawning over the iPhone and wanted to point out how Nokia's five step plan started in 2004, and then took his comment too far. Big mistake in my opinion, but he was fortunately talking to developers rather than users. Still, technological progress should come as no surprise, so it doesn't change anything as long as the general public doesn't get the wrong impression.
They also have a real need to manage expectations, though. The N900 will lack a couple of features people expect on Nokia smartphones, because they apparently ran out of time porting things. For example, it will ship with routing, but voice nav isn't ready. I've also heard a rumor that MMS support required a kernel patch that wasn't accepted in time. No big deal, but no one wants millions of pissed off S60 converts who switched before their favorite feature was ported, even though Maemo does everything else better.
The old internet tablets had so few users that they probably had to cut their losses with support. This new device is fortunately a phone and will sell much better.
Plus, the reason it doesn't ship with Ogg is because of patent trolls, so you can hardly blame Nokia. The rest may have licensing fees, but at least you can deal with the owners professionally, which is unfortunately saying a lot.
Technically I don't. When I remote home to run the app, it can still access the data on the phone remotely too. Although I agree that's getting a bit convoluted, I still think a pretty GUI would help a lot.
But that's just it, you don't need to sync. I can have the phone autojoin my home wifi and use KIO Slaves on my desktop. On the road, I can run the programs on the phone. When I need more power, I can use X11 to remote home.
Make a pretty UI and it's good enough for normal people.
Replying to myself, I'd just like to specify I'm against cloud computing. I'm saying I'm going to have the data on the phone, not access web services with it. I was a bit unclear.
I can get to my data anywhere I want to as well. The Nokia N900 ships next month, and I'm pretty sure I won't have to worry about someone installing a keylogger in my pocket.
Yes, but do you have modern copper plumbing *on your phone*?;) I think it's pretty funny a modern cell phone supports a really old terminal emulation standard out of the box.
I still occasionally get screwed up characters in certain situations. VT100 always works.
I think you just answered your own question. VT100 is the lowest common denominator. Notice how the summary also said "X11" rather than "X11 with compositing extensions", which would be more impressive but detract from the point.
Even Wikipedia calls VT100 the "de facto standard" of terminal emulators. It's also what I set my terminal to when some software asks about it, because I know it'll work.
You can get Nokia/Ovi Maps navigation as a monthly or yearly subscription service. You won't be locked in unless you switch phones more than once a month:)
Yes, but the FCC will sell several equivalent pieces of spectrum to multiple providers, and then they own that spectrum in a theoretically competitive market. With a chemical formula one company is the inventor, anyone can copy it for pennies, and patent protection is a prerequisite. Simply being expensive doesn't mean it's a monopoly asset.
Those spectrum auctions are a ridiculous tax on wireless communications, by the way. You should lobby to make them given away for free to the companies that are willing to guarantee the lowest prices and best service. It would allocate spectrum equally efficiently without the government sucking all the infrastructure capital out of the industry.
Sure that makes comparisons harder, but FWIW I'm paying less than 10 euros per month for unlimited data. That should be easier to compare. What are you paying?
European cell phone providers have traditionally charged ridiculous roaming fees "because they could", but the EU is putting a stop to it.
Roaming charges are actually a travesty also because you're most likely to need your GPS map data and mobile internet when you're abroad. Great way to ruin the most useful feature. The next step should be to get the Asian, European and American governments to cooperate on this. You really shouldn't pay more than local users anywhere.
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Are you kidding? Not only does trusting client side security always end up in disaster, but European cell phone networks seem to be doing just fine.
Stop buying into the carriers' propaganda already and start buying your phones directly from the manufacturers. You'd never be in this mess if the average American had done so from the start. The world's largest cell phone manufacturer would prefer to not sell you crippled devices, and look how much US market share it's been rewarded with.
Come on, we all know he wasn't referring to the kernel. Android is not a real Linux distro like people understand the term. KDE and Gnome are also not complete distros on their own.
What does "ripping you off" mean, though? What percentage of profit is excessive? Like with everything else, the important metric is what it's worth to you, personally. If you're comparing similar devices from two manufacturers, and reviews say that the slightly more expensive one is also slightly better, it's up to you to decide what you want to pay for. It doesn't really matter whether the better device's manufacturer also came up with a way to manufacture it really cheaply and is making a huge profit. Everyone will charge whatever the device is worth on the market.
The audiophile grade cable is obvious horseshit, so just don't buy it and you'll be fine.
Maemo is not another platform. It's a lightweight Debian.
Yeah.
October. N900.
Submarine patents in the U.S.
I was wondering what the hell he was thinking too. He may have been pissed off about people fawning over the iPhone and wanted to point out how Nokia's five step plan started in 2004, and then took his comment too far. Big mistake in my opinion, but he was fortunately talking to developers rather than users. Still, technological progress should come as no surprise, so it doesn't change anything as long as the general public doesn't get the wrong impression.
They also have a real need to manage expectations, though. The N900 will lack a couple of features people expect on Nokia smartphones, because they apparently ran out of time porting things. For example, it will ship with routing, but voice nav isn't ready. I've also heard a rumor that MMS support required a kernel patch that wasn't accepted in time. No big deal, but no one wants millions of pissed off S60 converts who switched before their favorite feature was ported, even though Maemo does everything else better.
The old internet tablets had so few users that they probably had to cut their losses with support. This new device is fortunately a phone and will sell much better.
Plus, the reason it doesn't ship with Ogg is because of patent trolls, so you can hardly blame Nokia. The rest may have licensing fees, but at least you can deal with the owners professionally, which is unfortunately saying a lot.
Technically I don't. When I remote home to run the app, it can still access the data on the phone remotely too. Although I agree that's getting a bit convoluted, I still think a pretty GUI would help a lot.
But that's just it, you don't need to sync. I can have the phone autojoin my home wifi and use KIO Slaves on my desktop. On the road, I can run the programs on the phone. When I need more power, I can use X11 to remote home.
Make a pretty UI and it's good enough for normal people.
And rsync for backups.
Replying to myself, I'd just like to specify I'm against cloud computing. I'm saying I'm going to have the data on the phone, not access web services with it. I was a bit unclear.
I can get to my data anywhere I want to as well. The Nokia N900 ships next month, and I'm pretty sure I won't have to worry about someone installing a keylogger in my pocket.
To be honest, I can't actually remember when my last problem was. I think it involved Cygwin, SSH, OpenBSD and GNU Screen.
Violence is the last refuge against the incompetent.
Yes, but do you have modern copper plumbing *on your phone*? ;) I think it's pretty funny a modern cell phone supports a really old terminal emulation standard out of the box.
I still occasionally get screwed up characters in certain situations. VT100 always works.
I don't know about that website, but I've signed Symbian apps on my own computer.
I think you just answered your own question. VT100 is the lowest common denominator. Notice how the summary also said "X11" rather than "X11 with compositing extensions", which would be more impressive but detract from the point.
Even Wikipedia calls VT100 the "de facto standard" of terminal emulators. It's also what I set my terminal to when some software asks about it, because I know it'll work.
You can get Nokia/Ovi Maps navigation as a monthly or yearly subscription service. You won't be locked in unless you switch phones more than once a month :)
Yes, but the FCC will sell several equivalent pieces of spectrum to multiple providers, and then they own that spectrum in a theoretically competitive market. With a chemical formula one company is the inventor, anyone can copy it for pennies, and patent protection is a prerequisite. Simply being expensive doesn't mean it's a monopoly asset.
Those spectrum auctions are a ridiculous tax on wireless communications, by the way. You should lobby to make them given away for free to the companies that are willing to guarantee the lowest prices and best service. It would allocate spectrum equally efficiently without the government sucking all the infrastructure capital out of the industry.
Yeah, pretty much. No, DRM isn't illegal.
I already am voting with my dollars (euros). Talking about it makes others aware of the problem so they can do the same thing.
Locked phones used to be illegal in Finland until the 3G era. Result of massive lobbying I'm sure.
Sure that makes comparisons harder, but FWIW I'm paying less than 10 euros per month for unlimited data. That should be easier to compare. What are you paying?
European cell phone providers have traditionally charged ridiculous roaming fees "because they could", but the EU is putting a stop to it.
Roaming charges are actually a travesty also because you're most likely to need your GPS map data and mobile internet when you're abroad. Great way to ruin the most useful feature. The next step should be to get the Asian, European and American governments to cooperate on this. You really shouldn't pay more than local users anywhere.