Then you read wrong, the UK has a much more vibrant ISP marketplace, and I've used several ISPs that not only were fine with servers but would give you a free static IP and unblock port 25 (incoming) on request.
I've had the same experience and I think it's that they don't want to disappoint you or make trouble, so they agree that they know how to do everything and they understand everything. Trouble is that often enough it's a complete lie.
Where a westerner would (or should) be expected to say "No, I don't understand that, can you give me some pointers/docs/assisstance?" it seems that that is not the done thing in Indian culture.
Either that or we were working with incompetent liars, you know?
Yep, it's crazy to see it go from innovative leader in the market to "we have 500 models, each with a slightly different feature set" and none of them that cutting edge.
Who gives a crap if other handset manufacturers are interested when you can have the biggest slice of the market to yourself if you just pull your thumb out of your butthole and go to work like you used to?
Outside the US they still have massive market share. They should stop making 90 billion different handset models (go back to four or five cheap phones, a couple of smarts like they had a long time ago).
"If Meego is superior then where is it? Is it a Marketing Deficiency?"
Management clusterfuck.
It's the only explanation. Massive infighting, department (and hence phone model) proliferaton, and no focused strategy on getting good, new stuff to market.
Umm, no. They were in the lead for smartphones for quite a while (decade perhaps) and there's no reason not to be on top again.
Outside the US they're still a well respected brand with a good market. RTFA for a good strategy. The last thing nokia need to become is a handset manufacturer for MS.
The 'old' strategy was aimless development of so many different handsets it was nuts. They need to focus in on a real strategy.
LOL. over the last decade or so, funds have (in general) been a great way to make next to no money at all. The dot-com burst and then the "crisis" we're apparently still recovering from.
Fans of it will say it provides 'increased liquidity'.
Me, I say, it sucks monkey out of the stock market. If it didn't the HFT people wouldn't bother doing it. The money comes from somewhere, and that somewhere is other investors. If it *doesn't* come from somewhere then creating it means there's more money and it comes from everyone via inflation.
That's my take. May be wrong, may be dense, but that's my take. Me, I'd scale back the whole thing massively because I still haven't had anyone explain adequately to me how, after they've gone public, the company's stock market valuation matters (to the company) for anything at all, except for perhaps their ability to rack up debt.
Of course there isn't if you look at the actual figures, but who wants to do a silly thing like that?
No, we need to use gut feelings and media outrage, that way we *know* there's an epidemic of violence and society is collapsing right in front of us, without needing silly little things like evidence.
One day some years ago I went to Dixons in the UK to buy a modem. For those that know about the UK and Dixons - yes, I needed it there and then, there's no way I'd have gone if it wasn't an emergency!
Anyway, picked up box from shelf, went to counter to pay for it. The box was a dummy and they had to get the real thing from out back. Like a fool, I paid. I paid in cash. Then they couldn't find it, so I said "fine, I'll take this other one", which I think was a couple of quid more expensive.
Then they had to process a refund.
"OK sir I'll just need your name, address and phone number" "Well you won't be getting them" "I need them or the computer won't process the refund" "No" "Oh, well... do you want me to get the manager?" "Please do"
"What's the problem here?" "Well you don't have the item I just bought with cash and I'm not giving you all my details to process the refund" "Oh, well we need something to put in the computer" (facepalm) "As far as I'm concerned you've just taken my money, I want it back. NOW" "But the computer" "Make something up, what the hell do I care?" "OK..."
She then proceeded to press some buttons, and then asked me again "So I'll need your name" at which point I crumbled and I started making shit up. The problem is not just marketing/data collection people. It's also moronic shop staff.
Meh... a lot of folks changed uboot on their sheevaplug. Someone in the community released a version that was patched to be able to initialise and read from the SD slot so that you could boot from it.
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I thought it came, fully formed, straight out of Satan's butthole!
"Normal consumers -- probably even the hypothetical reasonable person -- would not expect to run bootloaders, Linux"
You mean when it says right there on the box?
Clearly totally unreasonable, yes.
I think I mean incoming and outgoing, they'd just unblock port 25...
They were also happy to add rDNS for me.
Then you read wrong, the UK has a much more vibrant ISP marketplace, and I've used several ISPs that not only were fine with servers but would give you a free static IP and unblock port 25 (incoming) on request.
Maybe a cultural thing?
I've had the same experience and I think it's that they don't want to disappoint you or make trouble, so they agree that they know how to do everything and they understand everything. Trouble is that often enough it's a complete lie.
Where a westerner would (or should) be expected to say "No, I don't understand that, can you give me some pointers/docs/assisstance?" it seems that that is not the done thing in Indian culture.
Either that or we were working with incompetent liars, you know?
Also note that wikileaks don't hack anything, they just receive and publish data.
That's very, very fishy.
Not that I think Hacktivism is necessarily malicious or 'bad'. but then I guess that makes me a rogue... LOL
Why would I want a phone without a camera, web browser or email client?
Having a pocket computer is awesome.
Doesn't mean I want hardware-level FB integration though.
Yep, it's crazy to see it go from innovative leader in the market to "we have 500 models, each with a slightly different feature set" and none of them that cutting edge.
Total management failure.
Who gives a crap if other handset manufacturers are interested when you can have the biggest slice of the market to yourself if you just pull your thumb out of your butthole and go to work like you used to?
Outside the US they still have massive market share. They should stop making 90 billion different handset models (go back to four or five cheap phones, a couple of smarts like they had a long time ago).
"If Meego is superior then where is it? Is it a Marketing Deficiency?"
Management clusterfuck.
It's the only explanation. Massive infighting, department (and hence phone model) proliferaton, and no focused strategy on getting good, new stuff to market.
Not so much in Finland, no. In europe people have rights.
Why is Symbian the 14.99 walmart OS?
Why is meego behind?
Maemo's more capable than any other OS I've seen on a phone.
Umm, no. They were in the lead for smartphones for quite a while (decade perhaps) and there's no reason not to be on top again.
Outside the US they're still a well respected brand with a good market. RTFA for a good strategy. The last thing nokia need to become is a handset manufacturer for MS.
The 'old' strategy was aimless development of so many different handsets it was nuts. They need to focus in on a real strategy.
Just to join int, try to stop the company that made the best, most reliable phones for the longest time from being sold down the river by an MS plant.
Actually, no, but then the dollar is meaningless to me as I don't live in the US.
And you can diversify as much as you like, roughly every ten years (it seems) everything takes a major dive for a year or two.
LOL. over the last decade or so, funds have (in general) been a great way to make next to no money at all. The dot-com burst and then the "crisis" we're apparently still recovering from.
Nope, you're not alone. It took me until the word "flare" to realise this was something else!
It sucks money out of the stock market.
Fans of it will say it provides 'increased liquidity'.
Me, I say, it sucks monkey out of the stock market. If it didn't the HFT people wouldn't bother doing it. The money comes from somewhere, and that somewhere is other investors. If it *doesn't* come from somewhere then creating it means there's more money and it comes from everyone via inflation.
That's my take. May be wrong, may be dense, but that's my take. Me, I'd scale back the whole thing massively because I still haven't had anyone explain adequately to me how, after they've gone public, the company's stock market valuation matters (to the company) for anything at all, except for perhaps their ability to rack up debt.
Because clearly, ever more HFT is exactly what everyone needs!
Does Mappero give you the whole world, offline?
That's the major win for Ovi maps, for me.
I got used to its other quirks, and it guided me around the australian outback for months...
Of course there isn't if you look at the actual figures, but who wants to do a silly thing like that?
No, we need to use gut feelings and media outrage, that way we *know* there's an epidemic of violence and society is collapsing right in front of us, without needing silly little things like evidence.
DUH!
I wish I wasn't becoming quite so misanthropic...
Well then, I suggest you never go to Malawi where that sort of behaviour is illegal!
Perhaps I should have said "David Mudkips"
One day some years ago I went to Dixons in the UK to buy a modem. For those that know about the UK and Dixons - yes, I needed it there and then, there's no way I'd have gone if it wasn't an emergency!
Anyway, picked up box from shelf, went to counter to pay for it. The box was a dummy and they had to get the real thing from out back. Like a fool, I paid. I paid in cash. Then they couldn't find it, so I said "fine, I'll take this other one", which I think was a couple of quid more expensive.
Then they had to process a refund.
"OK sir I'll just need your name, address and phone number"
"Well you won't be getting them"
"I need them or the computer won't process the refund"
"No"
"Oh, well... do you want me to get the manager?"
"Please do"
"What's the problem here?"
"Well you don't have the item I just bought with cash and I'm not giving you all my details to process the refund"
"Oh, well we need something to put in the computer" (facepalm)
"As far as I'm concerned you've just taken my money, I want it back. NOW"
"But the computer"
"Make something up, what the hell do I care?"
"OK..."
She then proceeded to press some buttons, and then asked me again "So I'll need your name" at which point I crumbled and I started making shit up. The problem is not just marketing/data collection people. It's also moronic shop staff.
Meh... a lot of folks changed uboot on their sheevaplug. Someone in the community released a version that was patched to be able to initialise and read from the SD slot so that you could boot from it.
Very useful, no bricks I know of.