So basically what you're saying is; if your company goes down the drain, you should no be allowed to do business ever again?
I look at it this way; maybe a bankrupcy taught you a thing or two, so that you wont make the same mistakes again.
Of course if one person goes bankrupt again and again and again there should be some controlling means, but I would also say there is something wrong with investors who repeatedly bet money on a notorious bankrupcy filer.
Also, I can't help but notice that our technical and engineering industries, which do not have as much grade inflation, tend to lag behind those of countries such as Japan and the Netherlands (home of Philips). Meanwhile, our grade-inflated literary and historical output dominates those of other countries. Perhaps it is the very grade inflation that allows us to excel in the liberal arts, even as we struggle in technology.
Really? From the other side of the pond, that is not my impression. Hardware wise you are onto something, but a lot of software originates from your side, as do the locomotives Intel/NVidia/others. And if you leave out TV series and stuff from Hollywood (much of it is not made by liberal arts majors it seems;-) ), not much arts stuff is seriously influential in Europe.
I believe this is more of a marketing issue. Japansese/European tech-companies have large market shares in the USA. As for history, we tend to be more interested in European history, you in American history. Same goes for literature, you read American authors, with whom you share a larger common experiencebase than with European ones, while we may never have heard of them because the publisher thinks the books are not interesting abroad.
Yes, 7 is worth a new look over 6, since a lot of code has been rewritten.
I have barely tested Phoenix, but I've used Moz quite a lot, and Moz is dead slow to get going. Minimize Moz for a while, and it takes ages to get it up again. This is ofcourse very nice memory-wise, Moz is very friendly towards my RAM when it is idle, but too slow.
File->New window does the trick for me.
Or ctrl+alt+n if you are a shortcut addict.
Also the "Open pages in new window" setting under Preferences->Window is handy.
You are proving my point. We all just look at this as a phone with small add-ons. Why couldn't this be the opposite - a thingy with phone-capabilities?
Take SMS as an example. Back in 1996 I would never have seen the point in sending short messages from a lousy numerical keyboard. (I still think it is a lousy way of communication, but the majority of people disagree with me) Today, SMS is the single largest driving force behind phone-sales (atleast in Scandinavia) in the mass-market. Many hardly use it for voice. Back then SMS was an add-on, today taking pictures is an add-on, tomorrow sending video is the main thing, with phone-capabilities as an add-on.
Just the fact that some don't see the point today, does not waste the billions spent on research/development.
If it's cheap enough people will use it, even if only for their own amusement. As an example of a possible killer app I can mention that some tv-stations open the screens up for people to chat via sms during the night, and the messages scroll the screen. Currently, the price to send one message is in the $1 area. Insane if you ask me, but people still do it and the network makes money. Imagine the the day everyone can send in their own pictures taken with their phone, and have them aired almost instantly. If some are willing to pay a dollar to get a few words on the screen, why shouldn't they pay two dollars to get their picture on the screen?
If you did a market survey in say 1870; "Would you install a phone if it cost $xx?", what would the answer be?
Or in 1992: "Would you be on the internet if it cost $xx?"
The point is, you need to create demand for such services. A market survey is worth nothing if you ask for something the participants do not know what is.
Actually I think it is the Phillipines that have the record for messages per phone with 313 messages per phone per month.
Norway: 48/phone/month
Your numbers for Germany gives about 40/phone/month.
Living in a country with high coverage (Norway, over 100% if you take away kids under 10 years and old people over 75), I can confirm the annoying ring tones in public areas.
What is worse, it is not only 15 year old girls, everyone does this. Sitting on a bus for a couple of hours is hell.
And there is always someone who forgot to turn it off in the theater.
As for driving, holding the phone is now outlawed, you need a hands free kit. Not that it is enforced, but you face a fine if you get caugth.
Personally, I don't have a regular phone line (POTS, ISDN whatever), and more and more people are leaving the old, wired phone, so I guess it is more than a toy. Actually there are more cellphone subscribers than subscribers to regular phone service here now.
Firstly Nokia phones are normally known to be reliable.
Heh, a consumer tv-show aired in Norway today documented the poor quality of Nokia phones. One of the large electronic equipment suppliers experienced a return of about one third of the Nokia-phones they sold. On one particular model (3410), six out of ten phones were returned for service.
That is not reliability in my book.
Well, consider that most of Western European countries have this kind of coverage. The eastern part are catching up too. Add those and you get a large piece of land and a few people too.
Add to this that all of these countries use the same cellular system (yes, they actually managed to agree on a common system), you can see why Europe has the edge.
That is not the fault of the technology. Politicians decide to have nationwide road-tolls, technology just provides an easy means of collecting them.
Having five different, incompatible systems suck!
I don't know definitions they used to categorize use of land, but in Norway, if a piece of land is at least five kilometres from the nearest technical installation (road,powerline etc.), it is officially wilderness.
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So basically what you're saying is; if your company goes down the drain, you should no be allowed to do business ever again?
I look at it this way; maybe a bankrupcy taught you a thing or two, so that you wont make the same mistakes again.
Of course if one person goes bankrupt again and again and again there should be some controlling means, but I would also say there is something wrong with investors who repeatedly bet money on a notorious bankrupcy filer.
"Owned by" is perhaps a bit over the top. Canopy owns 4.1% and SCO Group owns 1.6%. Almost 70% is owned by current and previous employees.
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Also, I can't help but notice that our technical and engineering industries, which do not have as much grade inflation, tend to lag behind those of countries such as Japan and the Netherlands (home of Philips). Meanwhile, our grade-inflated literary and historical output dominates those of other countries. Perhaps it is the very grade inflation that allows us to excel in the liberal arts, even as we struggle in technology.
Really? From the other side of the pond, that is not my impression. Hardware wise you are onto something, but a lot of software originates from your side, as do the locomotives Intel/NVidia/others. And if you leave out TV series and stuff from Hollywood (much of it is not made by liberal arts majors it seems ;-) ), not much arts stuff is seriously influential in Europe.
I believe this is more of a marketing issue. Japansese/European tech-companies have large market shares in the USA. As for history, we tend to be more interested in European history, you in American history. Same goes for literature, you read American authors, with whom you share a larger common experiencebase than with European ones, while we may never have heard of them because the publisher thinks the books are not interesting abroad.
Yes, 7 is worth a new look over 6, since a lot of code has been rewritten. I have barely tested Phoenix, but I've used Moz quite a lot, and Moz is dead slow to get going. Minimize Moz for a while, and it takes ages to get it up again. This is ofcourse very nice memory-wise, Moz is very friendly towards my RAM when it is idle, but too slow.
It is only a style sheet, not a feature as such. No bloat, just a "the power of CSS" showoff.
File->New window does the trick for me. Or ctrl+alt+n if you are a shortcut addict. Also the "Open pages in new window" setting under Preferences->Window is handy.
If you are talking about the C64 look, it's all done by a style sheet, so there is not much overhead there.
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You are proving my point. We all just look at this as a phone with small add-ons. Why couldn't this be the opposite - a thingy with phone-capabilities?
Take SMS as an example. Back in 1996 I would never have seen the point in sending short messages from a lousy numerical keyboard. (I still think it is a lousy way of communication, but the majority of people disagree with me) Today, SMS is the single largest driving force behind phone-sales (atleast in Scandinavia) in the mass-market. Many hardly use it for voice. Back then SMS was an add-on, today taking pictures is an add-on, tomorrow sending video is the main thing, with phone-capabilities as an add-on.
Just the fact that some don't see the point today, does not waste the billions spent on research/development.
If it's cheap enough people will use it, even if only for their own amusement. As an example of a possible killer app I can mention that some tv-stations open the screens up for people to chat via sms during the night, and the messages scroll the screen. Currently, the price to send one message is in the $1 area. Insane if you ask me, but people still do it and the network makes money. Imagine the the day everyone can send in their own pictures taken with their phone, and have them aired almost instantly. If some are willing to pay a dollar to get a few words on the screen, why shouldn't they pay two dollars to get their picture on the screen?
If you did a market survey in say 1870; "Would you install a phone if it cost $xx?", what would the answer be?
Or in 1992: "Would you be on the internet if it cost $xx?"
The point is, you need to create demand for such services. A market survey is worth nothing if you ask for something the participants do not know what is.
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Actually I think it is the Phillipines that have the record for messages per phone with 313 messages per phone per month. /phone/month
Norway: 48
Your numbers for Germany gives about 40/phone/month.
Living in a country with high coverage (Norway, over 100% if you take away kids under 10 years and old people over 75), I can confirm the annoying ring tones in public areas.
What is worse, it is not only 15 year old girls, everyone does this. Sitting on a bus for a couple of hours is hell.
And there is always someone who forgot to turn it off in the theater.
As for driving, holding the phone is now outlawed, you need a hands free kit. Not that it is enforced, but you face a fine if you get caugth.
Personally, I don't have a regular phone line (POTS, ISDN whatever), and more and more people are leaving the old, wired phone, so I guess it is more than a toy. Actually there are more cellphone subscribers than subscribers to regular phone service here now.
Firstly Nokia phones are normally known to be reliable. Heh, a consumer tv-show aired in Norway today documented the poor quality of Nokia phones. One of the large electronic equipment suppliers experienced a return of about one third of the Nokia-phones they sold. On one particular model (3410), six out of ten phones were returned for service. That is not reliability in my book.
You know, some people don't have regular phone lines. I have 100Mbps Ethernet and a GSM-phone, that is all I need. No CATV, no ISDN, no POTS.
Well, consider that most of Western European countries have this kind of coverage. The eastern part are catching up too. Add those and you get a large piece of land and a few people too.
Add to this that all of these countries use the same cellular system (yes, they actually managed to agree on a common system), you can see why Europe has the edge.
I see pr0n-stars out of business.
That is not the fault of the technology. Politicians decide to have nationwide road-tolls, technology just provides an easy means of collecting them. Having five different, incompatible systems suck!
I don't know definitions they used to categorize use of land, but in Norway, if a piece of land is at least five kilometres from the nearest technical installation (road,powerline etc.), it is officially wilderness.
Nah, they probably read /. and will be prepared for this question....