No, not head, because Nokia's strength is more on the lower end, which they sell most of, not on extreme high price devices where cost really is not an issue, but those phones where cost is an issue, and they excel in that hardware. Their head would be the whole HW R&D portion:) Lower end phones being their right arm:)
And no he did not give nokia on a silver platter, that is an strategic alliance, which makes immense sense, especially as MS is putting big money on Nokia's direction.
Besides, this is the kind of thing which i would expect to see 1st of April, not anytime else.
Nokia's business has, and always has been, to advance mobile phone technologies through hardware innovation. Selling their smart phone business would be bit like selling your left arm.
wow, that is absolutely amazing! Tho is that even real:/ but if it is, wait till when we can do this at temperatures upto +40C ! Now that would be freakishly cool
He is correct, i can talk about experience here:) However, where freemium works is bringing publicity, and via publicity you gather also paying customers. The freemium lookers have only a tiny fraction are going to purchase, but they will link you, tell their friends etc. so they bring in customers indirectly.
and they are vastly more demanding, will ignore the rules, expect special treatment, and if you can give them something free, everything should be free or next to free.
No, he is VERY likely to land a job. Especially web devs are in damn high demand right now. Take it from someone with no formal education, no formal work experience (freelancing, and my own projects barely count!), and landing development job was rather easy, and with just 1year of working on a small business i progressed as Chief Networking Officer or something, after being a Lead architect, Project lead etc. for the company's largest and most important projects in it its ~15yo existence! After that, i've had hard time not to land a job and just concentrate on my own business.
Then again, i'm probably the exception as my first programming experience was when i was 3yo, not able to read nor write, but i simply had to develop something, and so i did, by comparing characters! Ofc, it was just copy & paste from a book, on a C64!
I progressed on the company because i took charge of things, and ensured things got done and got done correctly.
I left because my workload had been insane for the past ~5-6months, my regular day being 14hrs, CEO was an asshole, my salary sucked really bad, newcomers got paid more than i did. After i left, the CEO immediately offered more than triple my salary before i even left the company. He called back in a month asking me again, i still refused. I heard they had to hire 7guys to cover my workload:/
After i left the company merged with another a bit larger company, and more than doubled their combined workforce.
Bottomline is:
- Landing a development job is VERY easy
- Code monkeys are treated shit
- Code monkeys do not usually get paid their worth
- Working culture for most part sucks
- No matter how fast developer you are, you are still too slow or not cheap enough (I consider high skill and high quality code as a requirement for being fast)
Quite big expectations for human race there for our current level of progress. To be able to ruin the whole universe, with our current level of technology or near our current level.
This world is CRAZY. Come on, copyright on a medical test oO; This is like a band doing cover song of other bands song, and being forbidden to do that due to copyright. Which afaik is a form of fair use.
Next someone has copyrighted showing the middle finger.
Getting 50+mpg is nothing new. Buy an old Renault Clio, every time it breaks, just buy a new one. You get so much better mileage on the Clio that it's free compared to getting a Prius (and batteries swapped every few years).
Those tiny cars at best ~4L/100km or less at highway. That's over 60mpg. That's quite good for a car which costs today probably less than your computer.
and thus taxed to death. Electricity used to replace fuel? Goverments solution: 1) Introduce taxes at the same level as fuels have on electricity (~80% of consumer price or more, currently about 80% being raised few % next year) 2) Increase fuel taxes due to lesser consumption
Actually Ladas are quite high quality make, some important parts from ladas are used in rally. They are known to be quite reliable too (the old RWD ones), up to a certain point. They can't take as much wear in general, but until they are worn out they are damn reliable ones.
The better models have intriguing accessories too, one would not expect to see in many cars, sport version a friend owned had voltage, rpm, oil press, oil temp gauges, surprisingly fuel injected for such an old car, and other neat little things.
Also the lesser models were tuned for the russian cheap gasoline, for our usage you could easily tune it up to produce quite a bit more within an single night, changing the tune up for the higher quality fuel we got.
Parts are tremendously cheap too.
They are meant to be cheap commodity cars, and for that purpose i think they did quite well. The newer ladas tho... They all seem to suck and have shoddy quality.
Disclaimer: I've never owned a lada, i've only driven a lada once (and i hated it, was some reaaally old model with funky steering wheel angle), and will not own one. I'm simply a fan of classic, simple, RWD cars.
their abuse dept is far from non-responsive --- except when you need to have to get them raise an machine back online which they took down on Friday afternoon, so earliest it could be brought up is monday morning.
They are cheap not by ingenuity but by being too frugal which causes issues, commodity hardware HAPHAZARDLY assembled. Granted performance is nice - when things work.
Normally insurances do NOT cover force majeure such as forces of the nature. But i guess they could get one with a huge premium on it.
Still, insurances are gambling weighted on favor of the insurer, so you are pretty much guaranteed to make a loss on long run. All insurances are a gamble, you are gambling that something bad happens, and insurance co is betting against, larger the pool of insured for the same thing, the bigger the pool of prizes is vs. the cost of gambling.
As an average odds are badly against you, but there are the few things where insurance is a good idea: In cases where odds are bad, but if it hits, the PRIZE is huge one, ie. car insurance -> knock someone over and they get paralyzed below waist permanently, insurance co is paying and not you.
no one seeing what's going on? Youtube is allowing this kind of behavior *drums rolling* it's their form of protest!
More silly takedowns the Big Media does, that much more outcry there is, yet google will seem completely neutral "at worst" towards the big media, or even a supporter in their eyes. Big Media is dangerous for google too, but they can't do much of raising awareness etc. to avoid huge legal battles with the Big Media or Govt. coming after google for copyright infringement. So yes, that is Corporate Disobedience in disguise.
Complying on this bullshit just makes things worse for the Big Media;D
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No, not head, because Nokia's strength is more on the lower end, which they sell most of, not on extreme high price devices where cost really is not an issue, but those phones where cost is an issue, and they excel in that hardware. :) Lower end phones being their right arm :)
Their head would be the whole HW R&D portion
And no he did not give nokia on a silver platter, that is an strategic alliance, which makes immense sense, especially as MS is putting big money on Nokia's direction.
because the /. staff don't check the stories?
Besides, this is the kind of thing which i would expect to see 1st of April, not anytime else.
Nokia's business has, and always has been, to advance mobile phone technologies through hardware innovation. Selling their smart phone business would be bit like selling your left arm.
wow, that is absolutely amazing! :/ but if it is, wait till when we can do this at temperatures upto +40C !
Tho is that even real
Now that would be freakishly cool
He is correct, i can talk about experience here :)
However, where freemium works is bringing publicity, and via publicity you gather also paying customers.
The freemium lookers have only a tiny fraction are going to purchase, but they will link you, tell their friends etc. so they bring in customers indirectly.
and they are vastly more demanding, will ignore the rules, expect special treatment, and if you can give them something free, everything should be free or next to free.
Was about to post that it's certain rosedale will screw up this too, just like he did for SL.
But i guess the answer to that was easy to notice.
Greed and ignorance in the way of innovation. Again.
Many EU companies do follow US laws too even if they are not obligated to do so :(
No, he is VERY likely to land a job. Especially web devs are in damn high demand right now.
Take it from someone with no formal education, no formal work experience (freelancing, and my own projects barely count!), and landing development job was rather easy, and with just 1year of working on a small business i progressed as Chief Networking Officer or something, after being a Lead architect, Project lead etc. for the company's largest and most important projects in it its ~15yo existence!
After that, i've had hard time not to land a job and just concentrate on my own business.
Then again, i'm probably the exception as my first programming experience was when i was 3yo, not able to read nor write, but i simply had to develop something, and so i did, by comparing characters! Ofc, it was just copy & paste from a book, on a C64!
I progressed on the company because i took charge of things, and ensured things got done and got done correctly.
I left because my workload had been insane for the past ~5-6months, my regular day being 14hrs, CEO was an asshole, my salary sucked really bad, newcomers got paid more than i did. After i left, the CEO immediately offered more than triple my salary before i even left the company. He called back in a month asking me again, i still refused. :/
I heard they had to hire 7guys to cover my workload
After i left the company merged with another a bit larger company, and more than doubled their combined workforce.
Bottomline is:
- Landing a development job is VERY easy
- Code monkeys are treated shit
- Code monkeys do not usually get paid their worth
- Working culture for most part sucks
- No matter how fast developer you are, you are still too slow or not cheap enough (I consider high skill and high quality code as a requirement for being fast)
everything also costs more for the US military.
Soldiers @ China are tremendously cheap as well.
Quite big expectations for human race there for our current level of progress. To be able to ruin the whole universe, with our current level of technology or near our current level.
This world is CRAZY.
Come on, copyright on a medical test oO;
This is like a band doing cover song of other bands song, and being forbidden to do that due to copyright. Which afaik is a form of fair use.
Next someone has copyrighted showing the middle finger.
Getting 50+mpg is nothing new.
Buy an old Renault Clio, every time it breaks, just buy a new one. You get so much better mileage on the Clio that it's free compared to getting a Prius (and batteries swapped every few years).
Those tiny cars at best ~4L/100km or less at highway. That's over 60mpg. That's quite good for a car which costs today probably less than your computer.
and thus taxed to death.
Electricity used to replace fuel?
Goverments solution:
1) Introduce taxes at the same level as fuels have on electricity (~80% of consumer price or more, currently about 80% being raised few % next year)
2) Increase fuel taxes due to lesser consumption
That's how we roll here in Finland.
Actually Ladas are quite high quality make, some important parts from ladas are used in rally.
They are known to be quite reliable too (the old RWD ones), up to a certain point. They can't take as much wear in general, but until they are worn out they are damn reliable ones.
The better models have intriguing accessories too, one would not expect to see in many cars, sport version a friend owned had voltage, rpm, oil press, oil temp gauges, surprisingly fuel injected for such an old car, and other neat little things.
Also the lesser models were tuned for the russian cheap gasoline, for our usage you could easily tune it up to produce quite a bit more within an single night, changing the tune up for the higher quality fuel we got.
Parts are tremendously cheap too.
They are meant to be cheap commodity cars, and for that purpose i think they did quite well. The newer ladas tho ... They all seem to suck and have shoddy quality.
Disclaimer: I've never owned a lada, i've only driven a lada once (and i hated it, was some reaaally old model with funky steering wheel angle), and will not own one. I'm simply a fan of classic, simple, RWD cars.
Eken M009S can be had for ~55$ and available to anyone, list pricing.
See pandawill.com
Lesser evil does not make evil good.
If it bears any resemblance to SOPA it's just as evil.
their abuse dept is far from non-responsive --- except when you need to have to get them raise an machine back online which they took down on Friday afternoon, so earliest it could be brought up is monday morning.
FDC *sigh*
One of the worst providers there is.
They are cheap not by ingenuity but by being too frugal which causes issues, commodity hardware HAPHAZARDLY assembled.
Granted performance is nice - when things work.
Mod parent +1 insightful :P
Yeah, they could do it now, and thus save huge amounts of money to make their profit margin wider :)
Samsung is probably very happy happy joy joy, getting to charge a premium AND still sell more than competition AND cut their warranty period
Normally insurances do NOT cover force majeure such as forces of the nature. But i guess they could get one with a huge premium on it.
Still, insurances are gambling weighted on favor of the insurer, so you are pretty much guaranteed to make a loss on long run.
All insurances are a gamble, you are gambling that something bad happens, and insurance co is betting against, larger the pool of insured for the same thing, the bigger the pool of prizes is vs. the cost of gambling.
As an average odds are badly against you, but there are the few things where insurance is a good idea: In cases where odds are bad, but if it hits, the PRIZE is huge one, ie. car insurance -> knock someone over and they get paralyzed below waist permanently, insurance co is paying and not you.
I suppose the citizen getting beaten does not violate any rights of the citizen.
we mine the methane and use it :)
I would assume there is money to be made on huge deposits of methane.
no one seeing what's going on?
Youtube is allowing this kind of behavior *drums rolling* it's their form of protest!
More silly takedowns the Big Media does, that much more outcry there is, yet google will seem completely neutral "at worst" towards the big media, or even a supporter in their eyes. Big Media is dangerous for google too, but they can't do much of raising awareness etc. to avoid huge legal battles with the Big Media or Govt. coming after google for copyright infringement. So yes, that is Corporate Disobedience in disguise.
Complying on this bullshit just makes things worse for the Big Media ;D
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Dang it!
In other words secretaries, which in certain circles is a synonym for certain kind of service providers X)
It's typoed, it should read "Stop Online Privacy Act" .... OH wait nvm, it's intentional typo