It certainly took a hit from Carly, but it's real problem has been the board of directors ever since.
The morons didn't even INTERVIEW Apotheker before they hired him. They didn't even look into his reason for leaving(actually being canned) by SAP.
They are continuously at odds and busy with infighting rather than running the company. Meg (who was one of those morons on the board) is going to continue with the insane plans Leo got the axe for coming up with. That's insane.
The investors need to clean house of the entire board of directors and get in some folks who get along, have a plan, and know what the hell they are doing.
Elop killed it off just as it was getting worthy of being competition. There is no phone I'd rather have right now then the N950, and they won't even sell that to the general public. That's all on Elop's head.
The other end of the argument you are making is to look at the HP Touchpad.
You can gain root access (developer mode) by typing in the Konami Code. That's it. It doesn't get any more hackable, and it was a failure. Though that was in large part due to the insanely high pricing HP management gave it. No, you can't charge the same as an ipad for a tablet with the same size screen, but slightly heavier, slightly thicker, and a few thousand apps rather than hundreds of thousands of apps.
Basically, until the Touchpad, the hardware has kinda sucked. The Pre had serious build quality issues. A few came out of the factory perfect, but man, a lot of us have gone through a lot of phone replacements.
As far as the Touchpad, I didn't get one when it first came out because HP priced it horrendously. You simply can't price something slightly heavier, thicker and with only 1/300th of the number of available applications the same as an iPad. If they had priced it at $300 for the 16GB, it would have sold really well. The could have taken a tiny loss on each of the first generation of the tablet to get mindshare/marketshare, and made up on the loss in their app store sales, while getting more developers on board.
Instead, they put it at a price point that's just silly, then acted shocked when no one bought it.
It's a great OS, but driven to the brink of extinction by lousy management decisions.
it does have the same gesture area that the Pre had - or at least, something that functions the same way, and in both axis
No, it doesn't. I've got one;) The bezel doesn't have any gesture area. All gestures are done in the screen area. Plus advanced gestures (full side swipe to change apps) is gone. Half swipe to go back doesn't work (unless you are in some small format app ment for the Pre only where you can do the blank part of the screen below the app). It's just not the same. Lots of apps have a 'back' button instead. Lame.
He didn't say they were overworked. He said it's one of the largest circuits because it has about 20% of the US population in it. More population = more cases = more reversals. But the percentage of reversals is the same as elsewhere.
Most of the bugs were killed by an OS update released a week or two ago. Why they didn't hold back the launch for a month until that was ready I'll never know.
Touchpad enables developer mode with the Konami code as well.
They made a locked down versions for corporate buyers who wanted it locked for security reasons (corporate IT could still get root, general users couldn't). Anything you buy off Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, etc, is all unlocked.
Try WebOS first. It's actually a really good OS. It's linux. Rooting it is as simple as typing in the Konami Code to put it in Developer Mode (root).
There are a lot of homebrew apps for it, with their own Homebrew appstore, PreWare. Well, not an appstore really because it's all free there.
Palm's problem was they had crappy hardware for it, and insanely bad advertising. HP hasn't done anything much with it since they bought it a year ago. Sad. A very intuitive and good looking OS. The one thing you will miss out with on the TouchPad is the gesture area that is on the phones. They make task switching pretty awesome when you are multitasking a lot of things. Another bad move by HP to leave that off the TouchPad.
Best Buy stores were ordered this morning to return all unsold stock to HP. Unless you were in the store and got a price match before a manager came around with the update, you are out of luck as far as BB.
Same deal for Staples and HHGregg.
Walmart stores had them at the sale price this morning (and ran out quickly).
Which is why the entire line of "don't tax the job creators" is bullshit. Companies hire the number of people to produce as much product as they can for the price that's going to make them the most money. If there is demand they will hire more folks to make more to sell more to make more money. If there is no demand, then they simply won't hire, or will lay off if they have more folks than they need. They are going to hire as many folks as it takes to make the money. Tax them.
You do realize Obama was left with a clusterfuck from Bush and did massive spending because most of his economic advisers said that was the only way to head off a major depression don't you?
Their own fault? Innocent people get arrested all the time. Some innocent people even get convicted. But a lot of arrests never end up going to trial because they are released because the arrest was bogus.
No, it's not nearly as smooth access into the debian-ish packages as maemo. You've got a bash shell from the Mod community, and a number of apps made easy to install, but don't expect the same easy install of a huge standard linux repository.
I'd love an N950 if Nokia decided to sell them to the public. WebOS would still be my favorite mobile version of Linux, but HP just isn't putting out anything close to competitive hardware-wise for phones, and has pulled some crap on the old user base that's got me thinking it's time to jump ship to Android.
It's kind of sad I can't get the hardware I'd like to run what I consider two better versions of Linux for phones than Android.
Coming off patent won't really help things much. Most thermocromatic substances are UV sensitive and deteriorate fairly quickly in direct sunlight. Not really a good roofing material.
Anyone who got to the table at the title office and THEN made an issue out of the HOA is a moron. The homeowner can't just opt his property out to sell it. If you were bargaining for a house in a HOA area you should know that and not be an ass and go to the table when you know you aren't going to make the deal.
Certainly it's more secure. You need to move around big boxes full of paper, and you need to do that at a lot of locations to affect a state or national election. Lots of people involved. Lots of not so subtle activity. Lots and lots of chances to get caught.
With electronic voting, you need at most one person per state, and at the most obvious, carrying a tiny device in their pocket going into a voting booth. That's if they can't do it all remotely from the comfort of their office chair. Many many less people involved, and with a heck of a lot less obvious activity. Very little chance of getting caught compared to paper changing.
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It certainly took a hit from Carly, but it's real problem has been the board of directors ever since.
The morons didn't even INTERVIEW Apotheker before they hired him. They didn't even look into his reason for leaving(actually being canned) by SAP.
They are continuously at odds and busy with infighting rather than running the company. Meg (who was one of those morons on the board) is going to continue with the insane plans Leo got the axe for coming up with. That's insane.
The investors need to clean house of the entire board of directors and get in some folks who get along, have a plan, and know what the hell they are doing.
Elop killed it off just as it was getting worthy of being competition. There is no phone I'd rather have right now then the N950, and they won't even sell that to the general public. That's all on Elop's head.
The other end of the argument you are making is to look at the HP Touchpad.
You can gain root access (developer mode) by typing in the Konami Code. That's it. It doesn't get any more hackable, and it was a failure. Though that was in large part due to the insanely high pricing HP management gave it. No, you can't charge the same as an ipad for a tablet with the same size screen, but slightly heavier, slightly thicker, and a few thousand apps rather than hundreds of thousands of apps.
The Homebrew folks have had an SSH client AND SERVER for webOS for about 2 years now...
Wait, that's not a baby mouse, that's a baby Predator!
Palm Pre-/WebOS user here.
Basically, until the Touchpad, the hardware has kinda sucked. The Pre had serious build quality issues. A few came out of the factory perfect, but man, a lot of us have gone through a lot of phone replacements.
As far as the Touchpad, I didn't get one when it first came out because HP priced it horrendously. You simply can't price something slightly heavier, thicker and with only 1/300th of the number of available applications the same as an iPad. If they had priced it at $300 for the 16GB, it would have sold really well. The could have taken a tiny loss on each of the first generation of the tablet to get mindshare/marketshare, and made up on the loss in their app store sales, while getting more developers on board.
Instead, they put it at a price point that's just silly, then acted shocked when no one bought it.
It's a great OS, but driven to the brink of extinction by lousy management decisions.
No, but it does give you a picture of the spectrum within the key area. Shakemap!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/
Um, No.
The place to go is: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
They had it the epicenter mapped within a few seconds of me feeling the shaking. It's kinda what they do.
You can contribute info by filling out their online survey:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/
And you can sign up for notifications at:
https://sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens/
it does have the same gesture area that the Pre had - or at least, something that functions the same way, and in both axis No, it doesn't. I've got one ;) The bezel doesn't have any gesture area. All gestures are done in the screen area. Plus advanced gestures (full side swipe to change apps) is gone. Half swipe to go back doesn't work (unless you are in some small format app ment for the Pre only where you can do the blank part of the screen below the app). It's just not the same. Lots of apps have a 'back' button instead. Lame.
He didn't say they were overworked. He said it's one of the largest circuits because it has about 20% of the US population in it. More population = more cases = more reversals. But the percentage of reversals is the same as elsewhere.
Learn reading comprehension.
Most of the bugs were killed by an OS update released a week or two ago. Why they didn't hold back the launch for a month until that was ready I'll never know.
Touchpad enables developer mode with the Konami code as well.
They made a locked down versions for corporate buyers who wanted it locked for security reasons (corporate IT could still get root, general users couldn't). Anything you buy off Amazon, Walmart, BestBuy, etc, is all unlocked.
Browse the web. Play FLASH. Do your emailing. Play games. Play movies, Install a lot of free/open source apps from the mod community....
Try WebOS first. It's actually a really good OS. It's linux. Rooting it is as simple as typing in the Konami Code to put it in Developer Mode (root).
There are a lot of homebrew apps for it, with their own Homebrew appstore, PreWare. Well, not an appstore really because it's all free there.
Palm's problem was they had crappy hardware for it, and insanely bad advertising. HP hasn't done anything much with it since they bought it a year ago. Sad. A very intuitive and good looking OS. The one thing you will miss out with on the TouchPad is the gesture area that is on the phones. They make task switching pretty awesome when you are multitasking a lot of things. Another bad move by HP to leave that off the TouchPad.
Best Buy stores were ordered this morning to return all unsold stock to HP. Unless you were in the store and got a price match before a
manager came around with the update, you are out of luck as far as BB.
Same deal for Staples and HHGregg.
Walmart stores had them at the sale price this morning (and ran out quickly).
Which is why the entire line of "don't tax the job creators" is bullshit. Companies hire the number of people to produce as much product as they can for the price that's going to make them the most money. If there is demand they will hire more folks to make more to sell more to make more money. If there is no demand, then they simply won't hire, or will lay off if they have more folks than they need. They are going to hire as many folks as it takes to make the money. Tax them.
You do realize Obama was left with a clusterfuck from Bush and did massive spending because most of his economic advisers said that was the only way to head off a major depression don't you?
Their own fault? Innocent people get arrested all the time. Some innocent people even get convicted. But a lot of arrests never end up going to trial because they are released because the arrest was bogus.
The U.S. will spend ~$30 Billion though the National Institutes of Health doing medial research. Research without a goal of making a profit.
Obviously you know crap about the U.S.
No, it's not nearly as smooth access into the debian-ish packages as maemo. You've got a bash shell from the Mod community, and a number of apps made easy to install, but don't expect the same easy install of a huge standard linux repository.
I'd love an N950 if Nokia decided to sell them to the public. WebOS would still be my favorite mobile version of Linux, but HP just isn't putting out anything close to competitive hardware-wise for phones, and has pulled some crap on the old user base that's got me thinking it's time to jump ship to Android.
It's kind of sad I can't get the hardware I'd like to run what I consider two better versions of Linux for phones than Android.
Coming off patent won't really help things much. Most thermocromatic substances are UV sensitive and deteriorate fairly quickly in direct sunlight. Not really a good roofing material.
Anyone who got to the table at the title office and THEN made an issue out of the HOA is a moron. The homeowner can't just opt his property out to sell it. If you were bargaining for a house in a HOA area you should know that and not be an ass and go to the table when you know you aren't going to make the deal.
nah, it's just those scotts are always angry and getting into fights.
Oh give MySQL a break. They finally fixed it so it no longer recognized February 31st as a real date, so they are making progress.
Certainly it's more secure. You need to move around big boxes full of paper, and you need to do that at a lot of locations to affect a state or national election. Lots of people involved. Lots of not so subtle activity. Lots and lots of chances to get caught.
With electronic voting, you need at most one person per state, and at the most obvious, carrying a tiny device in their pocket going into a voting booth. That's if they can't do it all remotely from the comfort of their office chair. Many many less people involved, and with a heck of a lot less obvious activity. Very little chance of getting caught compared to paper changing.