When Elan first arrived at Nokia he made a big rah rah speech about Qt and Symbian. But, the move to Winp7 occurred so quickly that it is obvious the move was planned from his arrival, if not earlier. Ealn, the former MS exec who is the 7th or 8th largest individual Microsoft stockholder, depending on market variations, stands to profit EVEN MORE from the $1 BILLION dollar "investment" in Nokia by Microsoft. His share of MS stock is worth less than $5 million. Even 5% of that $1B would give him 10X more than his MS stock is worth.
As it is, Nokia traded their $42 Billion dollar market cap for $1B cash, which caused their market cap to drop $11B, and it is continuing on its plunge toward the penny stock basement. And, it killed Qt on Nokia's phones AND as a dev tool on Window's platform. Two birds with one stone.
How does this NOT look like a corporate hijacking of another company's market space, and for chump change?
That's not accurate. Nokia sold the COMMERCIAL Qt LICENSE business (i.e., Qt support), not QT. They still own the Qt copyrights and have a contractual obligation to release Qt updates annually and never let the LGPL version get more than one version away from the commercial version. If they violate that KDE Qt FREE Foundation license agreement then Qt immediately goes to a BSD license, a situation which would terrify Microsoft because it would let all sorts of vendors of proprietary software be able to write applications for Windows (and Mac and Linux,, from a single source code) WITHOUT having to pay a license fee to Nokia or anyone else, or purchase MS development tools.
But, the Qt FREE agreement does NOT demand that Qt be kept current for any platform other than Linux. So, expect Nokia, under Microsoft's influence, to let the Windows and Mac ports of Qt stagnate and fall far behind Qt for Linux. With the release of the Qt/Android compatibility tool called Necessitas, I suspect that a LOT of Qt developers will switch their apps to the Android market, which ranks #1 in powering smartphones.
Works for me, too, but I add, for family and friends, "If you want me to support your PC I'll be glad to do so if you'll let me replace Windows with Kubuntu" So far, about a couple dozen have taken me up on it. Where I used to clean or recover the same Windows box three times in a year, with Kubuntu on it the only time I hear from them is when we chat small talk on Skype, or exchange emails.
It first appeared as Cairo, full of hope and LOTS of promises, but then it died. With some PR electricity it was brought back to life as LongHorn, but then died again. Now, with jumper cables from its baby brother, Win Phone 7, it gets another jolt of PR electricity.
But, alas, I fear this new re-incarnation of the perfect desktop/laptop/notebook/netbook/Dag will die just like the rest.... A touch screen laptop is out of their budget, so how many people can afford a 10 foot touch screen/scanner/camera? And, how many of those devices can any corporation afford to buy? CEO's aren't going to learn how to use them, since most of them don't even know how to use a laptop and Dag could never understand their corporate-speak.
From the FOIA.ZIP file is the document called "prescient.doc":
"An ESTB/ASTB Thematic Programme Proposal
Palaeoclimatic Research and Earth System Modelling for Enhanced ClImatic and ENvironmental PredicTion (PRESCIENT)
We propose a joint five-year Earth Science/Atmospheric Science Thematic Programme of Research designed to enable more rigorous testing of the capabilities and reliability of GCMs, with a specific focus on increasing the sophistication and versatility of the Earth System model being developed at the UK Meteorological Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (HC).
Informed social and economic planning demands a genuine and realistically defined predictive capability for climatic and environmental change. Accurate prediction requires an understanding of both natural and anthropogenic mechanisms of change. Our only realistic approach to developing such an integrated and quantitative capability is through the use of advanced General Circulation Models (GCMs) which attempt to simulate the operation of the whole Earth System. Major advances in GCM development are currently underway and UK research in this area is at the forefront of this development. It is now evident, however, that these models require thorough testing beyond that achievable by comparison with the short instrumental-based observational record. Palaeoclimate data can extend the instrumental record, provide evidence on the nature of past mean climates, climate variability and extreme events during periods of different climate forcing; and provide evidence of the likelihood and possible mechanisms of extremely rapid ‘switches’ between different modes of climate operation.... snip.. Deliverables The major deliverables will be: 1) More confidence in the veracity of predictions of 21st Century Climate Change 2) Major improvement in our ability to disentangle ‘natural’ and ‘anthropogenic’ climate change 3) More confidence in current claims of detection and attribution of human induced climate change through better knowledge and understanding of natural climate variability.
Other deliverables will be: 4) A methodology for the validation of climate models using palaeo-data 5) Better constraint/validation of the sub-process operation and climate output of the most recent HC model(s). 6) An empirical basis for improving the pragmatic definitions of extreme event recurrences under different climate boundary conditions and assessing future recurrence probabilities (with practical application in engineering, building design, agriculture, coastal protection, etc.) 7) A more coordinated and interactive body of earth and climate model scientists and an increased number of young interdisciplinary researchers with experience of assessing and using palaeodata in a climate modelling context.
They weren't kidding about "deliverables". Their contracts with the IPCC had delivery dates for "data" that would support AGW, including sign offs, just as if they were programmers contracted to deliver a working program to some business. In fact, "programmers" are what they are. If you have read the HARRY_README.txt file that was also in the FOIA.ZIP files you'd understand exactly HOW they managed to gather that "data" which would support their agenda. Just search for the "F**K" word, without the asterisks to locate sections where they describe the quality of their data, or the word "synthetic" to learn how they replaced real data with.... synthetic data.
Of course, "deliverable" #1 is a washout: Wrong.... again!. But, they planned ahead with "deliverable #7", which is more along the lines of AgiProp than science. In an email (1102687002.txt) dated Dec 10,
(disclaimer, I am an OSS developer working for Collabora, contracted to Nokia around MeeGo)
IF you are an OSS developer working on MeeGo you've learned that Nokia has dumped MeeGo. Unless Intel pick up your contract you will be looking for a new job.
But, I doubt you are. A statement like "I hear everyday how Open Source gives us freedom..." is precisely how someone who is not familiar with OSS and the GPL would write about it, not understanding about the FOUR FREEDOMS.
There are two licenses: GPL/LGPL, and Nokia's commercial license. The GPL/LGPL version is free. Always has been and always will be. That includes QtCreator and Qt-SDK. The only difference between the two is that the free version includes connectivity to PostgreSQL, MySQL and other open source dbms, while the commercial version has those and proprietary db connections like Oracle.
Many people seem incapable of investigating connections and learning that Elop is the 8th LARGEST MS stockholder, although he claims his shares aren't worth that much and he's selling them as fast as the law allows.
It is obvious he is not conflicted in his interests since, as a major stockholder, it is in his own interest to keep MICROSOFT as profitable as he can. A former Microsoft executive, he's done to Nokia what he did to Macromedia as its CEO. Macromedia WAS a competitor to SilverLight but it is now dead. Symbian, running on 200 million Nokia phones (4 times Apple's iPhone market), is now DEAD in 1st world countries! Symbian will only be onn phones in non-1st world countries and for another 150 million sales or so, then it is DEAD world-wide. Qt's mobile phone foot print was only on the Nokia phone, now it is DEAD on that platform, and WP7 lives. The pattern is too consistent to be accidental. It's worse. Elop has it in his power to kill all future proprietary Qt apps on the Windows platform.
Elop cannot hurt the GPL version of Qt, but his true motives for Qt will be revealed when we learn what his plans are for the commercial Qt license. IF he does NOT allow Nokia to continue to sell commercial Qt licenses (dragging his feet, making promises which put off Qt plans, etc...) we'll know what his true motives for accepting the Nokia CEO position were -- to kill Qt's cross platform capability for proprietary applications (sans source) on the Windows platform. Qt, "write once, run anywhere", IS exploding on the Windows platform. It makes a LOT of economic sense to use Qt to write a proprietary app whose source code can be compiled on THREE platforms with little or no change. One very sophisticated tool chain, three target platforms. Ballmer knows that. Elop knows that. The WORLD has now learned that. That is what scares Ballmer, Microsoft, and.... Elop?
They also know that the QtFree Foundation Agreement, signed by Nokia in 2009, allows ALL of Qt to go BSD or fully GPL if Nokia (Elop) allows a gap of more than one year between the free and proprietary version, or if Qt development is not *significant* for a year. Elop isn't supposed to nickle and dime Qt development. But, I predict that he will. He will allow the commercial version to stagnate, and by succession the GPL version, using what ever excuse he needs to use. Because they have stagnated they are not "up to Nokia's high standards" and commercial Qt license sales will be suspended until WP7 activities moderate and allow "resumption" of Qt development. Elop can waste another few months "negotiating" with the QtFree foundation and, more importantly for Microsoft, no NEW commercial Qt licenses will be available during that time. Existing proprietary Qt projects will be impeded. Letting Qt go BSD would be a problem, though, because it opens Qt to the Windows ecosystem again, this time WITHOUT a license! Elop & Microsoft can't allow that to happen. So, they'll add just enough development to Qt to make it *significant*, even if it really isn't (is changing a few files and the version number significant? Whose lawyer will fight that?) which gives them another year. Qt is now, really, two years behind. That's 2/3rds of a computer generation! If they can stretch this ploy out another year Qt becomes a computer generation behind other tools. App developers look to other tools. Elop has freed the Windows ecosystem of proprietary Qt apps, creating more opportunities for Microsoft to step back in and fill the vacuum left by Qt's departure.
IMO killing commercial Qt is what his move to Nokia was all about. Nokia's Symbian smartphone market share was twice Android's and four times iPhone's, and the cure to stopping the 22% market share decline over the last year is to shed 19% market share, fire most of your developers, abandon your "disruptive" technologies, and re
... strategically positioned WiFi access points and lots of cantennas or similar directional devices....
Won't work. We've cultivated such a collection of thieves in the US that someone in that chain will use it to hack into other computers on that network and steal their personal info. Or, one of the links will be a snitch, selling out their neighbor for a "reward". By the time the East German government fell, the Stazi had over 1/3rd of the population spying on the other 2/3rds, and that was without an internet.
When I read this : the business was to be launched off the back of the vaccine scare, diagnosing a purported—and still unsubstantiated—“new syndrome.” , I thought that approach to research sounded familiar.
Then it hit me. While browsing through the CRU FOIA files I recalled reading the "EURO4M_DoW_v2.doc" which outlined a set of "deliverables and milestones" for climate data (Figure B.1.3b. GANTT diagram for Deliverables and Milestones, on page 35, from: Project acronym: EURO4M Project full title: European Reanalysis and Observations for Monitoring Grant agreement no.: 242093 Date of preparation of Annex I (latest version): 9 November 2009).
The document discussed in advance who would get how much of the grant money.
The autism scam worked the same way. In advance of their "theory" becoming practice, the autism scammers had already worked out how the pie would be sliced: Wakefield would get 37%, and the father of child 10 22.2%. The venture capitalist would get 18%, Pounder 11.7%, and O’Leary 11.1%.
In the CRU EURO4M document the "List of Beneficiaries" (their words, not mine) include: * Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute * Met Office * University Rovira i Virgili * National Meteorological Administration * Meteo Swiss * Deutscher Wetterdienst * Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute *University of East Anglia (Climatic Research Unit) *Météo France
One such set of CRU "Deliverables", out of around 50 areas of categorized "research", were: " * gridded high-resolution daily precipitation dataset for the Alpine region and analysis of daily to decadal precipitation variations (D1.1, M1.1, D1.2); * European window of the GPCC dataset available for the EURO4M (D1.3); * extended and updated ENSEMBLES gridded daily dataset for Europe (D1.4, M1.2, D1.5); * new UEA/CRU data products for Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) and PDSI (D1.6); * new satellite-based gridded datasets based on MVIRI (D1.7, M1.3, D1.8), MSG (D1.9, D1.10), Land-SAF (D1.11); * datasets for the Mediterranean (D1.12, D1.13, M1.4); * proposal for additional data rescue activities required (D1.14)."
Now, as a retired programmer I can understand how one can write a proposal for creating software and give specific "deliverables" and milestone dates for product delivery and sign-off. But, having done research in anti-Cancer metabolites in graduate school, I found it amazing that someone could write a grant proposal for Global Warming (a.k.a Climate Change) and promise a delivery date for data which would support the AGW hypothesis. Nature is NOT so pliable.
The comparisons between this scam and the AGW scam go even farther. Knowing the unethical, if not illegal, nature of their plans, the parties agreed to keep the relevant information secret, even from Freedom Of Information Actions. Except in the autism case,... when Richard Thomas, at the time the UK’s information commissioner, traveled to the college’s offices and later served a formal notice, did they release the documents into my hands. . When Phil Jones got a FOIA request from Steve McIntyre, the UK Information Office went to the CRU and conspired with Jones to keep the AGW data secret. Of course, one has to ask that if the data did support the theory of AGW why would they want to keep it secret? McIntyre has proven to be a much better statistician than anyone at the CRU. IF the data showed what the CRU was claiming it showed, McIntyre could only punctuate their claims. Instead, McIntyre punctured their claims by showing how they fudged the data and, as the "HARRY_README.TXT" file revealed, created some temperature data sets for the 1960-2000 range Ex nihilo, a truly remarkable creation!
Contrary to the autism or CRU publications, for at least two centuries the standard protocol when publishing in science journals is that the scientist ALSO includes the exa
To maintain their scam proponents make the absurd claim that "water has memory", so even though physiological agents may have been removed by dilution, the water "remembers" what the preparation is "supposed to do".
I'm sure your opinion is well founded in facts, but here are facts which suggest you are wrong.
There are quacks among both MDs and Chiropractors. An MD gave my son and I Hepatitis B, which nearly killed him since he got the first dose of anti-biotic from a glass syringe the doctor "sterilized" between shots. He gave the person he treated before he treated my son an anti-biotic shot to treat that person's case of Hep B. I would never had known the source of our Hep B had not his nurse been a former student of mine and called to tell me of his "practice" of using glass syringes to save money. He lost his medical license as a result. Both of my feet give constant pain while walking after two failed surgeries, by different doctors claiming they could "fix" my severe case of hammer toes. The literature is filled with examples of incompetent doctors doing damage to their patients.
I met a Chiropractor who claimed he could cure the common cold with spinal adjustments. He was suffering from a cold at the time.
My sister was in an automobile accident and had her jaw fractured in several places. She recovered from her injuries but over the next 10 years she suffered severe headaches, and her sight in one eye went from color to black and white, with tunnel vision, before becoming totally blind. She was on high doses of analgesics for years. She grew weak on the same side and eventually was confined to a wheel chair. The vision in her other eye became black and white and started to tunnel. Tons of X-Rays, MRI's and CAT scans over the years didn't show the doctors any reason for her illness, which they attributed to mental causes, but didn't hesitate to add that she probably didn't have long to live if the paralysis continued to spread.
My brother-in-law took her to a home show to get her out and put her mind on something other than her troubles. They happened to stop at a Chiropractor's booth. He briefly examined her and announced, without any prior knowledge, that she had been in an auto accident and it caused a small dislocation of one of her vertebra. Over the next several months of therapy my sister discarded the wheel chair, strength returned to her right arm and leg, and more importantly, color vision returned to her remaining good eye. Unbelievably, within a year full color vision returned to her other eye. While the vertebral displacement could account for the lateral weakness I still don't understand how it could have led to her loss of vision.
She filed a lawsuit against Kaiser HMO (Colorado) and the doctors who treated her and with a court order obtained her original X-rays following the car accident, and on many visits afterwords. They were compared with ones taken by the Chiropractor on her first visit and on her last visit. All of the X-rays showed an approximate 1/8 inch displacement of a vertebra, except the last one taken before the Chiropractor discharged her. The lawsuit was thrown out because of problems getting other doctors in Colorado to testify, and out-of-state doctors being rejected by the court, but Kaiser gave her $15,000, which supposedly was reimbursement for her visits lawyer fees. They got off light.
The next time I saw her, about 5 years after her lawsuit, she was wearing an nasal cannula connected to an Oxygen bottle. Forty years of smoking did what an accident couldn't. She got tired of living her life tethered to an Oxygen bottle and still having breathing become more difficult as the Emphysema progressed. She checked herself into a hospital, took off the nasal cannula, and specifically requested no heroic efforts to save her life. It took her three days to die of suffocation. She was one tough gal, and I miss her.
Personally, I always prefer a Chiropractor to a "Physical Therapist" for problems relating to physical trauma.
It is LESS than ONE HALF the capacity of a 4.7GB DVD. Will you watch a movie? Kiss 1/4th of your 2GB goodbye. Watch four movies in a MONTH and you'll more than likely go over your 2GB CAP, then your service will be throttled to 200Kb/s for a full month following the day you went over your LIMIT. 200Kb/s is barely faster than the old V.92 dial-up service.
The Verizon plan is summarized here. "Verizon will be offering unlimited data for a flat $30 fee." but the small print in your contract will limit your "unlimited" data to 5GB/month, which is less than 7MB/hr. Stream audio, watch many movies, tether other devices? In other words, do what you should be able to do with an iPhone? How many days will it take you to go over 5GB? And, if you go over that "unlimitied" limit your connection will be throttled for a MONTH following the day you go over. All this for only $30/mo ABOVE your regular phone bill?
France has a Fiber Optic net. For $30/m you can buy a 40MB/s Internet connection, with unlimited 3G cellphone calling to any other phone in the country, and 200 channels of TV. No cap, no throttles.
When I heard about Verizon and iPhone I was seriously considering upgrading my account. After researching it I decided I will stay with my present plan and Internet service.
Go the the USTPO website and look up patent # 6630507, owned by the US Gov. The US Gov has PATENTED nearly two dozen MEDICAL uses for Cannabis and its derivatives.
Actually, to make comparisons with percentages you have to have "common denominators". Multiply 322 by 4 to get 1288, which is close enough to 1272. Therefore, multiply 12 by 4 to get 48, which is 24 times larger than 2, or 2400%.
The big problem with the study is that the data was supplied by the subjects, not by collected measurements, making the data anecdotal. And, too many variables were uncontrolled.
The answer is simple -- Tax it and regulate... Exactly!
Thousands are being murdered annually because of the demand for Marijuana in the US. In one fell swoop we could clean out our prisons of people who shouldn't have been sent there, shut down the Mexican and American drug lords, and find a new source of taxes. We could also renew research on medical uses of Marijuana, especially Rick Simpson's discovery that it may be a cure for Cancer (see YouTube). Medical Marijuana is not a myth. The US Gov patented almost two dozen medical uses for it. See patent # 6630507.
Jared Loughner's YouTube handle was Classitup10 and until YouTube takes it down you'll see his reading list there. Looks rather normal: Books: I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.
So it seems he favored some books over others, and had a good deal of insanity pitched in.
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They abandon Kin six weeks after launch.
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All that is is missing is the Microsoft PR logo, like the one Gartner forgot to remove from one of their "reports" that MS paid for.
From their "estimates" it appears that the Win Phone 7 will have to rise in marketshare as fast as the Symbian will drop. Not much chance of that happening since the WinP7 market share is reported on March 8th as "taking a dive": http://vista.blorge.com/2011/03/08/microsofts-windows-phone-7-market-share-takes-a-dive/
When Elan first arrived at Nokia he made a big rah rah speech about Qt and Symbian. But, the move to Winp7 occurred so quickly that it is obvious the move was planned from his arrival, if not earlier. Ealn, the former MS exec who is the 7th or 8th largest individual Microsoft stockholder, depending on market variations, stands to profit EVEN MORE from the $1 BILLION dollar "investment" in Nokia by Microsoft. His share of MS stock is worth less than $5 million. Even 5% of that $1B would give him 10X more than his MS stock is worth.
As it is, Nokia traded their $42 Billion dollar market cap for $1B cash, which caused their market cap to drop $11B, and it is continuing on its plunge toward the penny stock basement. And, it killed Qt on Nokia's phones AND as a dev tool on Window's platform. Two birds with one stone.
How does this NOT look like a corporate hijacking of another company's market space, and for chump change?
given that Nokia already sold Qt,
That's not accurate. Nokia sold the COMMERCIAL Qt LICENSE business (i.e., Qt support), not QT. They still own the Qt copyrights and have a contractual obligation to release Qt updates annually and never let the LGPL version get more than one version away from the commercial version. If they violate that KDE Qt FREE Foundation license agreement then Qt immediately goes to a BSD license, a situation which would terrify Microsoft because it would let all sorts of vendors of proprietary software be able to write applications for Windows (and Mac and Linux,, from a single source code) WITHOUT having to pay a license fee to Nokia or anyone else, or purchase MS development tools.
But, the Qt FREE agreement does NOT demand that Qt be kept current for any platform other than Linux. So, expect Nokia, under Microsoft's influence, to let the Windows and Mac ports of Qt stagnate and fall far behind Qt for Linux. With the release of the Qt/Android compatibility tool called Necessitas, I suspect that a LOT of Qt developers will switch their apps to the Android market, which ranks #1 in powering smartphones.
Works for me, too, but I add, for family and friends, "If you want me to support your PC I'll be glad to do so if you'll let me replace Windows with Kubuntu"
So far, about a couple dozen have taken me up on it. Where I used to clean or recover the same Windows box three times in a year, with Kubuntu on it the only time I hear from them is when we chat small talk on Skype, or exchange emails.
It gives reason to ask the question "How much of that $1B will end up in Elop's pocket?" Certainly much more than the $4M in MS stock he owns.
It first appeared as Cairo, full of hope and LOTS of promises, but then it died.
With some PR electricity it was brought back to life as LongHorn, but then died again.
Now, with jumper cables from its baby brother, Win Phone 7, it gets another jolt of PR electricity.
But, alas, I fear this new re-incarnation of the perfect desktop/laptop/notebook/netbook/Dag will die just like the rest.... A touch screen laptop is out of their budget, so how many people can afford a 10 foot touch screen/scanner/camera? And, how many of those devices can any corporation afford to buy? CEO's aren't going to learn how to use them, since most of them don't even know how to use a laptop and Dag could never understand their corporate-speak.
From the FOIA.ZIP file is the document called "prescient.doc":
"An ESTB/ASTB Thematic Programme Proposal
Palaeoclimatic Research and Earth System Modelling for Enhanced ClImatic and ENvironmental PredicTion (PRESCIENT)
We propose a joint five-year Earth Science/Atmospheric Science Thematic Programme of Research designed to enable more rigorous testing of the capabilities and reliability of GCMs, with a specific focus on increasing the sophistication and versatility of the Earth System model being developed at the UK Meteorological Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (HC).
Informed social and economic planning demands a genuine and realistically defined predictive capability for climatic and environmental change. Accurate prediction requires an understanding of both natural and anthropogenic mechanisms of change. Our only realistic approach to developing such an integrated and quantitative capability is through the use of advanced General Circulation Models (GCMs) which attempt to simulate the operation of the whole Earth System. Major advances in GCM development are currently underway and UK research in this area is at the forefront of this development. It is now evident, however, that these models require thorough testing beyond that achievable by comparison with the short instrumental-based observational record. Palaeoclimate data can extend the instrumental record, provide evidence on the nature of past mean climates, climate variability and extreme events during periods of different climate forcing; and provide evidence of the likelihood and possible mechanisms of extremely rapid ‘switches’ between different modes of climate operation. ... snip ..
Deliverables
The major deliverables will be:
1) More confidence in the veracity of predictions of 21st Century Climate Change
2) Major improvement in our ability to disentangle ‘natural’ and ‘anthropogenic’ climate change
3) More confidence in current claims of detection and attribution of human induced climate change through better knowledge and understanding of natural climate variability.
Other deliverables will be:
4) A methodology for the validation of climate models using palaeo-data
5) Better constraint/validation of the sub-process operation and climate output of the most recent HC model(s).
6) An empirical basis for improving the pragmatic definitions of extreme event recurrences under different climate boundary conditions and assessing future recurrence probabilities (with practical application in engineering, building design, agriculture, coastal protection, etc.)
7) A more coordinated and interactive body of earth and climate model scientists and an increased number of young interdisciplinary researchers with experience of assessing and using palaeodata in a climate modelling context.
They weren't kidding about "deliverables". Their contracts with the IPCC had delivery dates for "data" that would support AGW, including sign offs, just as if they were programmers contracted to deliver a working program to some business. In fact, "programmers" are what they are. If you have read the HARRY_README.txt file that was also in the FOIA.ZIP files you'd understand exactly HOW they managed to gather that "data" which would support their agenda. Just search for the "F**K" word, without the asterisks to locate sections where they describe the quality of their data, or the word "synthetic" to learn how they replaced real data with .... synthetic data.
Of course, "deliverable" #1 is a washout: Wrong .... again!. But, they planned ahead with "deliverable #7", which is more along the lines of AgiProp than science. In an email (1102687002.txt) dated Dec 10,
(disclaimer, I am an OSS developer working for Collabora, contracted to Nokia around MeeGo)
IF you are an OSS developer working on MeeGo you've learned that Nokia has dumped MeeGo. Unless Intel pick up your contract you will be looking for a new job.
But, I doubt you are. A statement like "I hear everyday how Open Source gives us freedom..." is precisely how someone who is not familiar with OSS and the GPL would write about it, not understanding about the FOUR FREEDOMS.
Your post is too blasé.
It means that they know that WP7 has only a 3% market share and they are hedging their bets.
Only in your imagination...
There are two licenses: GPL/LGPL, and Nokia's commercial license. The GPL/LGPL version is free. Always has been and always will be. That includes QtCreator and Qt-SDK. The only difference between the two is that the free version includes connectivity to PostgreSQL, MySQL and other open source dbms, while the commercial version has those and proprietary db connections like Oracle.
The GPL/LGPL Qt can be forked at any time.
Many people seem incapable of investigating connections and learning that Elop is the 8th LARGEST MS stockholder, although he claims his shares aren't worth that much and he's selling them as fast as the law allows.
It is obvious he is not conflicted in his interests since, as a major stockholder, it is in his own interest to keep MICROSOFT as profitable as he can. A former Microsoft executive, he's done to Nokia what he did to Macromedia as its CEO. Macromedia WAS a competitor to SilverLight but it is now dead. Symbian, running on 200 million Nokia phones (4 times Apple's iPhone market), is now DEAD in 1st world countries! Symbian will only be onn phones in non-1st world countries and for another 150 million sales or so, then it is DEAD world-wide. Qt's mobile phone foot print was only on the Nokia phone, now it is DEAD on that platform, and WP7 lives. The pattern is too consistent to be accidental. It's worse. Elop has it in his power to kill all future proprietary Qt apps on the Windows platform.
Elop cannot hurt the GPL version of Qt, but his true motives for Qt will be revealed when we learn what his plans are for the commercial Qt license. IF he does NOT allow Nokia to continue to sell commercial Qt licenses (dragging his feet, making promises which put off Qt plans, etc...) we'll know what his true motives for accepting the Nokia CEO position were -- to kill Qt's cross platform capability for proprietary applications (sans source) on the Windows platform. Qt, "write once, run anywhere", IS exploding on the Windows platform. It makes a LOT of economic sense to use Qt to write a proprietary app whose source code can be compiled on THREE platforms with little or no change. One very sophisticated tool chain, three target platforms. Ballmer knows that. Elop knows that. The WORLD has now learned that. That is what scares Ballmer, Microsoft, and .... Elop?
They also know that the QtFree Foundation Agreement, signed by Nokia in 2009, allows ALL of Qt to go BSD or fully GPL if Nokia (Elop) allows a gap of more than one year between the free and proprietary version, or if Qt development is not *significant* for a year. Elop isn't supposed to nickle and dime Qt development. But, I predict that he will. He will allow the commercial version to stagnate, and by succession the GPL version, using what ever excuse he needs to use. Because they have stagnated they are not "up to Nokia's high standards" and commercial Qt license sales will be suspended until WP7 activities moderate and allow "resumption" of Qt development. Elop can waste another few months "negotiating" with the QtFree foundation and, more importantly for Microsoft, no NEW commercial Qt licenses will be available during that time. Existing proprietary Qt projects will be impeded. Letting Qt go BSD would be a problem, though, because it opens Qt to the Windows ecosystem again, this time WITHOUT a license! Elop & Microsoft can't allow that to happen. So, they'll add just enough development to Qt to make it *significant*, even if it really isn't (is changing a few files and the version number significant? Whose lawyer will fight that?) which gives them another year. Qt is now, really, two years behind. That's 2/3rds of a computer generation! If they can stretch this ploy out another year Qt becomes a computer generation behind other tools. App developers look to other tools. Elop has freed the Windows ecosystem of proprietary Qt apps, creating more opportunities for Microsoft to step back in and fill the vacuum left by Qt's departure.
IMO killing commercial Qt is what his move to Nokia was all about. Nokia's Symbian smartphone market share was twice Android's and four times iPhone's, and the cure to stopping the 22% market share decline over the last year is to shed 19% market share, fire most of your developers, abandon your "disruptive" technologies, and re
... strategically positioned WiFi access points and lots of cantennas or similar directional devices....
Won't work. We've cultivated such a collection of thieves in the US that someone in that chain will use it to hack into other computers on that network and steal their personal info. Or, one of the links will be a snitch, selling out their neighbor for a "reward". By the time the East German government fell, the Stazi had over 1/3rd of the population spying on the other 2/3rds, and that was without an internet.
When I read this : the business was to be launched off the back of the vaccine scare, diagnosing a purported—and still unsubstantiated—“new syndrome.” , I thought that approach to research sounded familiar.
Then it hit me. While browsing through the CRU FOIA files I recalled reading the "EURO4M_DoW_v2.doc" which outlined a set of "deliverables and milestones" for climate data (Figure B.1.3b. GANTT diagram for Deliverables and Milestones, on page 35, from:
Project acronym: EURO4M
Project full title: European Reanalysis and Observations for Monitoring
Grant agreement no.: 242093
Date of preparation of Annex I (latest version): 9 November 2009).
The document discussed in advance who would get how much of the grant money.
The autism scam worked the same way. In advance of their "theory" becoming practice, the autism scammers had already worked out how the pie would be sliced: Wakefield would get 37%, and the father of child 10 22.2%. The venture capitalist would get 18%, Pounder 11.7%, and O’Leary 11.1%.
In the CRU EURO4M document the "List of Beneficiaries" (their words, not mine) include:
* Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
* Met Office
* University Rovira i Virgili
* National Meteorological Administration
* Meteo Swiss
* Deutscher Wetterdienst
* Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
*University of East Anglia (Climatic Research Unit)
*Météo France
One such set of CRU "Deliverables", out of around 50 areas of categorized "research", were:
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* gridded high-resolution daily precipitation dataset for the Alpine region and analysis of daily to decadal precipitation variations (D1.1, M1.1, D1.2);
* European window of the GPCC dataset available for the EURO4M (D1.3);
* extended and updated ENSEMBLES gridded daily dataset for Europe (D1.4, M1.2, D1.5);
* new UEA/CRU data products for Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) and PDSI (D1.6);
* new satellite-based gridded datasets based on MVIRI (D1.7, M1.3, D1.8), MSG (D1.9, D1.10), Land-SAF (D1.11);
* datasets for the Mediterranean (D1.12, D1.13, M1.4);
* proposal for additional data rescue activities required (D1.14)."
Now, as a retired programmer I can understand how one can write a proposal for creating software and give specific "deliverables" and milestone dates for product delivery and sign-off. But, having done research in anti-Cancer metabolites in graduate school, I found it amazing that someone could write a grant proposal for Global Warming (a.k.a Climate Change) and promise a delivery date for data which would support the AGW hypothesis. Nature is NOT so pliable.
The comparisons between this scam and the AGW scam go even farther. Knowing the unethical, if not illegal, nature of their plans, the parties agreed to keep the relevant information secret, even from Freedom Of Information Actions. Except in the autism case, ... when Richard Thomas, at the time the UK’s information commissioner, traveled to the college’s offices and later served a formal notice, did they release the documents into my hands. . When Phil Jones got a FOIA request from Steve McIntyre, the UK Information Office went to the CRU and conspired with Jones to keep the AGW data secret. Of course, one has to ask that if the data did support the theory of AGW why would they want to keep it secret? McIntyre has proven to be a much better statistician than anyone at the CRU. IF the data showed what the CRU was claiming it showed, McIntyre could only punctuate their claims. Instead, McIntyre punctured their claims by showing how they fudged the data and, as the "HARRY_README.TXT" file revealed, created some temperature data sets for the 1960-2000 range Ex nihilo, a truly remarkable creation!
Contrary to the autism or CRU publications, for at least two centuries the standard protocol when publishing in science journals is that the scientist ALSO includes the exa
Homeopathy IS a scam, as anyone with a degree in Chemistry or Biochemistry can tell you. Many DOUBLE BLIND studies have been done testing the claims: Homeopathy's efficacy beyond the placebo effect is unsupported by the collective weight of scientific and clinical evidence.
To maintain their scam proponents make the absurd claim that "water has memory", so even though physiological agents may have been removed by dilution, the water "remembers" what the preparation is "supposed to do".
I'm sure your opinion is well founded in facts, but here are facts which suggest you are wrong.
There are quacks among both MDs and Chiropractors. An MD gave my son and I Hepatitis B, which nearly killed him since he got the first dose of anti-biotic from a glass syringe the doctor "sterilized" between shots. He gave the person he treated before he treated my son an anti-biotic shot to treat that person's case of Hep B. I would never had known the source of our Hep B had not his nurse been a former student of mine and called to tell me of his "practice" of using glass syringes to save money. He lost his medical license as a result. Both of my feet give constant pain while walking after two failed surgeries, by different doctors claiming they could "fix" my severe case of hammer toes. The literature is filled with examples of incompetent doctors doing damage to their patients.
I met a Chiropractor who claimed he could cure the common cold with spinal adjustments. He was suffering from a cold at the time.
My sister was in an automobile accident and had her jaw fractured in several places. She recovered from her injuries but over the next 10 years she suffered severe headaches, and her sight in one eye went from color to black and white, with tunnel vision, before becoming totally blind. She was on high doses of analgesics for years. She grew weak on the same side and eventually was confined to a wheel chair. The vision in her other eye became black and white and started to tunnel. Tons of X-Rays, MRI's and CAT scans over the years didn't show the doctors any reason for her illness, which they attributed to mental causes, but didn't hesitate to add that she probably didn't have long to live if the paralysis continued to spread.
My brother-in-law took her to a home show to get her out and put her mind on something other than her troubles. They happened to stop at a Chiropractor's booth. He briefly examined her and announced, without any prior knowledge, that she had been in an auto accident and it caused a small dislocation of one of her vertebra. Over the next several months of therapy my sister discarded the wheel chair, strength returned to her right arm and leg, and more importantly, color vision returned to her remaining good eye. Unbelievably, within a year full color vision returned to her other eye. While the vertebral displacement could account for the lateral weakness I still don't understand how it could have led to her loss of vision.
She filed a lawsuit against Kaiser HMO (Colorado) and the doctors who treated her and with a court order obtained her original X-rays following the car accident, and on many visits afterwords. They were compared with ones taken by the Chiropractor on her first visit and on her last visit. All of the X-rays showed an approximate 1/8 inch displacement of a vertebra, except the last one taken before the Chiropractor discharged her. The lawsuit was thrown out because of problems getting other doctors in Colorado to testify, and out-of-state doctors being rejected by the court, but Kaiser gave her $15,000, which supposedly was reimbursement for her visits lawyer fees. They got off light.
The next time I saw her, about 5 years after her lawsuit, she was wearing an nasal cannula connected to an Oxygen bottle. Forty years of smoking did what an accident couldn't. She got tired of living her life tethered to an Oxygen bottle and still having breathing become more difficult as the Emphysema progressed. She checked herself into a hospital, took off the nasal cannula, and specifically requested no heroic efforts to save her life. It took her three days to die of suffocation. She was one tough gal, and I miss her.
Personally, I always prefer a Chiropractor to a "Physical Therapist" for problems relating to physical trauma.
2 GB is a pitiful amount of data.
It is LESS than ONE HALF the capacity of a 4.7GB DVD. Will you watch a movie? Kiss 1/4th of your 2GB goodbye. Watch four movies in a MONTH and you'll more than likely go over your 2GB CAP, then your service will be throttled to 200Kb/s for a full month following the day you went over your LIMIT. 200Kb/s is barely faster than the old V.92 dial-up service.
Paying $30 for 5GB of data is unarmed robbery.
The Verizon plan is summarized here.
"Verizon will be offering unlimited data for a flat $30 fee." but the small print in your contract will limit your "unlimited" data to 5GB/month, which is less than 7MB/hr. Stream audio, watch many movies, tether other devices? In other words, do what you should be able to do with an iPhone? How many days will it take you to go over 5GB? And, if you go over that "unlimitied" limit your connection will be throttled for a MONTH following the day you go over. All this for only $30/mo ABOVE your regular phone bill?
France has a Fiber Optic net. For $30/m you can buy a 40MB/s Internet connection, with unlimited 3G cellphone calling to any other phone in the country, and 200 channels of TV. No cap, no throttles.
When I heard about Verizon and iPhone I was seriously considering upgrading my account. After researching it I decided I will stay with my present plan and Internet service.
Look up "Rick Simpson" on YouTube
Go the the USTPO website and look up patent # 6630507, owned by the US Gov. The US Gov has PATENTED nearly two dozen MEDICAL uses for Cannabis and its derivatives.
Actually, to make comparisons with percentages you have to have "common denominators". Multiply 322 by 4 to get 1288, which is close enough to 1272. Therefore, multiply 12 by 4 to get 48, which is 24 times larger than 2, or 2400%.
The big problem with the study is that the data was supplied by the subjects, not by collected measurements, making the data anecdotal. And, too many variables were uncontrolled.
So is alcohol. I suspect more people are killed by drunks than by the stoned.
The answer is simple -- Tax it and regulate...
Exactly!
Thousands are being murdered annually because of the demand for Marijuana in the US. In one fell swoop we could clean out our prisons of people who shouldn't have been sent there, shut down the Mexican and American drug lords, and find a new source of taxes. We could also renew research on medical uses of Marijuana, especially Rick Simpson's discovery that it may be a cure for Cancer (see YouTube). Medical Marijuana is not a myth. The US Gov patented almost two dozen medical uses for it. See patent # 6630507.
Jared Loughner's YouTube handle was Classitup10 and until YouTube takes it down you'll see his reading list there. Looks rather normal:
Books:
I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.
So it seems he favored some books over others, and had a good deal of insanity pitched in.