I think it good news that Motorola has turned to Linux & Java, but it still lags way behind Symbian despite tens of thousands of developers knowing Java (whereas I would call Symbian more of a localised community).
Motorola, however, still holds shares in Symbian, as now do Siemens, Panasonic, SonyEricsson and Samsung - this latter one having invested £17 million for a 5% stake.
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A butterfly's wings in Brazil Can trigger a Texan tornado"
Interesting how world events seem to only affect America. Presumably Dubya will us this Texan tornado as a justification for carpet bombing Brazil - this "butterfly wings" undoubtedly a codename for some sort of Weapons of Mass Destruction...
Innaresting concept, but what about those of us who like not only FPS but Strategy and RPG? A futuristic RTS wargame in which Tux takes on Gates? Where you can play select battles in FPS as well as direct them from an RTS perspective? Perhaps make it a MultiPlayer bonanza with one team as MS and one as Linux?
I think that many commercial, closed-source writers work in this way. I think here specifically of Gaming Industries, where profit drives much of it forward. I can't believe just how many tonnes of games go into commercial release & production with a huge amount of bugs, despite "extensive" beta-testing. SimCity4 springs immediately to mind.
To me it feels as though once developers complete writing their code - and only levels, designs, etc. remain - they feel too reluctant to make any indepth changes and figure they can simply sort it out "with a patch if enough people complain".
Well I don't consider that good enough, hence my recent n00bie conversion to Linux and open-source in general. =;-D>
I personally believe that computers and technology in a non-paper format tends to scare a lot of people. Many people I know don't even pay online through secure checkouts for fear of it leaving their control (even though Direct Debit takes away just as much control).
Accordingly I think some people might want hackers punished more severely because they see it as a more insidious crime than going into a bank with a gun in front of everyone.
It kind of reminds me of a Tom Waits song in which a person starts suspecting his neighbour of all sorts of acts of terrorism because he keeps to himself and stays up all night on his laptop (or whatever). He stays inside and uses a computer - he MUST have some evil in mind...
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Motorola, however, still holds shares in Symbian, as now do Siemens, Panasonic, SonyEricsson and Samsung - this latter one having invested £17 million for a 5% stake.
At least any OS = better than cackrosoft...
Interesting how world events seem to only affect America. Presumably Dubya will us this Texan tornado as a justification for carpet bombing Brazil - this "butterfly wings" undoubtedly a codename for some sort of Weapons of Mass Destruction...
Innaresting concept, but what about those of us who like not only FPS but Strategy and RPG? A futuristic RTS wargame in which Tux takes on Gates? Where you can play select battles in FPS as well as direct them from an RTS perspective? Perhaps make it a MultiPlayer bonanza with one team as MS and one as Linux?
Sounds great to me...
I think that many commercial, closed-source writers work in this way. I think here specifically of Gaming Industries, where profit drives much of it forward. I can't believe just how many tonnes of games go into commercial release & production with a huge amount of bugs, despite "extensive" beta-testing. SimCity4 springs immediately to mind.
To me it feels as though once developers complete writing their code - and only levels, designs, etc. remain - they feel too reluctant to make any indepth changes and figure they can simply sort it out "with a patch if enough people complain".
Well I don't consider that good enough, hence my recent n00bie conversion to Linux and open-source in general. =;-D>
Accordingly I think some people might want hackers punished more severely because they see it as a more insidious crime than going into a bank with a gun in front of everyone.
It kind of reminds me of a Tom Waits song in which a person starts suspecting his neighbour of all sorts of acts of terrorism because he keeps to himself and stays up all night on his laptop (or whatever). He stays inside and uses a computer - he MUST have some evil in mind...