HP has the same problem as Nokia and RIM. Company execs aren't putting enough resources into their new OS's to get things moving.
Nokia had a good thing started with Maemo/Meego. Just look at the recent N950, N9 reviews by Engadget and others ( http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/21/nokia-n9-first-hands-on/ ; http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/30/nokias-n950-demos-meego-harmattan-in-marathon-video/ ). A great start/ideas, but they didn't put enough of their not insubstantial resources behind it to get it developed quickly. They gave developers a mixed message, which had a lot of them sitting back waiting to see if there was going to be full commitment by the company before joining in. Result, the new OS floundered from lack of backing, and they ended up turning to Microsoft.
RIM had been giving the developers the same mixed message about where they are headed. QNX could be an awesome phone OS. Frankly, I'm not sure why someone wasn't putting it on phones years ago. Will it succeed? If it does, it will be despite the big brass's ambivalent attitude.
And now we have HP, which bought a great little OS in WebOS from Palm, that just didn't have the money to dig themselves out of the hole they let themselves get into.
HP keeps claiming they have 'incredible scale' and vast resources to make WebOS a success. But since the purchase of Palm, they haven't put their money where their mouth is.
What have they done with those vast resources?
They let the bulk of the creative talent from Palm, the folks who had all the great ideas that make WebOS the induitive OS that it is, leave to go to Apple, Google, or anywhere but HP.
They've put out the Veer, which is basically a smaller version of the original pre, with slightly upgraded hardware.
They have essentially converted a tablet that they were originally going to have run a MS OS. Their Touchpad is bulkier, heavier, and has slower hardware than the competition. And the OS is laggy.
The 'Cool thing' about the Touchpad was that it is supposed to synch with their(new) phones, (Veer, and Pre3). The veer is selling terribly because it's too tiny for a smartphone.
And the Pre3? The Pre3 was announced in February. It's going to ship (in the U.S.) in the Fall. With specs that are way outclassed by phones already released with Android, and facing a likely new iPhone in the fall, as well as some insanely better hardware in the Galaxy S2.
Not much to show for HPs vaunted vast resources.
And then there's customer service...
Original Pre owners were strung along for many months by HP, who told them their Pre phones would be upgraded to WebOS version 2.x and finally get FLASH, that was promised to them 2 years ago when the phone first went on sale. Then at the last minute, folks found out (via twitter, not even a real press release) that that wasn't going to happen.
Then they said they'd do something to 'make things right' to the WebOS users. What did they do finally? Their marketing guys attempted to upsell those folks by giving them a $50 coupon for the touchpad. But only if they got the high end 32MB version. And only if they did it within 30 days of the notice.
Not timely, not cool HP.
I'm afraid WebOS is fated to go the way of BeOS. O
No, the most of the emphasis at the time was on use for tumors of the retina. There were hopes, of course it would end up being used in a wide variety of tumors. It has been, but to a very limited extent. It's ended up being mainly used for tumors in the lungs or upper GI tract.
That's not a big thing. We've had ways to do this for decades. More than 20 years ago I did work in Photodynamic Therapy (injecting dyes into tumors. When you shine a light on the dyes, they produce oxygen radicals which kill the cells). We have lots and lots of ways to kill a specific tumor. This is just one more of many wrenches in our toolbox.
The hard part is designing a therapy which destroys only tumor cells, while leaving normal cells alone. Preserving needed tissue in critical spots (the brain, etc), while allowing it to hunt down individual rogue cells which may have metastasized and be trying to start a new tumor elsewhere in the body.
Psst, no company ever posts a minimum MPG on a car. None of them. Ever.
They post averages. Those are useful. Maximum 4g speed for the phone would also be good because some phone companies (AT&T) label several phones 4g, even though some of them use slower protocols than others.
The congresswoman is not reasonable. She doesn't understand the minimum, which she asked for, is useless.
Average for an area would be good. Maximum would also be good to publish. Minimum is useless.
RIM has good potential with QNX. It's an awesome OS.
HP buying it would be the same deal though. It doesn't have apps, needs relevant hardware, and needs development a lot of resources through at it to get it up to polish. HP has been making horrible decisions with all those things. Hopefully RIMs management will do better and learn from HP and Nokia's mistakes.
Dumb idea by WSJ for HP to buy Nokia's OS. Really Dumb.
Nokia's OSs:
Symbian: Their main OS. Old and busted. It needs updating in a major way, which isn't happening, which is why they went to Meemo.
Meemo: Cool version of Linux that they didn't get behind fully and refused to throw the resources they needed to into to get it up to snuff quickly. Nokia is a big company with a lot of money. They just refused to spend enough of it quickly enough to get the OS going. This is the same issue HP is having now with their version of Linux, WebOS.
Yeah, yeah, I hear some folks saying 'mythical man month', 'it just couldn't be done that quickly'. BS. Google did it with another flavor of Linux, Android.
Meamo/Meego. After botching Meamo, they decided to F' it up even more by combining it with Moblin to make yet another version of Linux that they wouldn't put resources behind. Any Lessons learned? Nope. Now they moved on to Windows Phone...
In the meantime Palmdeveloped a great OS in WebOS. Palm was small and poor and didn't have the resources necessary to pour into it to get it things where they should be. No office editing software, no flash, no lots of things. Lots of promising things were coming, but not enough cash to hire the developers to make it happen. Not enough cash to make several models of phones, and of the two models they did make, the Pre and Pixie, the higher end model, the Pre, had lots of hardware issues, making them Sprints all time leader on phones-needing-repairs.
HP buys Palm for WebOS. The problem? They, just like Nokia, aren't putting enough resource into getting software developed for it, or new hardware out to run it on.
The Pre3 is going to be launched 'soon'. Their new flagship phone. It's hardware is mediocre at best compared to new hardware that is out now, and more that will be available before it is launched. HP doesn't have any hardware engineers who could have worked on something more up to scratch in the last year?
Oh, and their new tablet, the TouchPad. Targeted at the enterprise. And it will be launched without any document editing software. No document editing. For enterprise...
Not even a powerpoint viewer. For enterprise...
Are you telling me HP couldn't afford to hire some extra devs to get something running on it, or at least ported? In the last year? Really? They are HP for f**k's sake.
Buying Symbian/Meamo/Meego will do absolutely nothing for them because the management is screwing up. Another OS in the same state isn't going to fix that.
Or.... you could not be an asshole, and wait an hour until the movie is over, and then text your friends that it was bad instead of annoying everyone else in the theater behind you.
Sorry, yes, only eating animals you kill yourself is going off the deep end.
I grew up on a farm myself. Regularly killed the chickens, rabbits, etc for dinner.
Doing cattle is a whole different ballgame. You want someone doing that who does it all the time. There's an art to it, and if you are just doing it on off here, or there, you are going to do a crappy job, wasting a lot of the meat in the process.
Is there any particular philosophical reason you would limit yourself to chicken and rabbit meat and now cow meat? No. Doing so is loony.
Oh, I didn't say I liked private jails. But claiming we are all guilty of deliberately 'enslaving' folks in prison is a crock. Slavery is a way to get extremely cheap labor. We aren't getting that. There are some individuals taking advantage of the system to make money, but claiming we are all guilty of enslaving folks is just dumb.
It costs us taxpayers about $60k/year to keep each of them in jail. That's a lot more than they'd be paid to do the same work at those low end jobs on the outside. So we aren't exactly saving a lot of money by 'enslaving' them. It's costing us huge.
It's not slave labor. It's expensive labor.
The theory is they are getting used to being on a regular schedule, getting used to working every day, so they will do that when they get out, instead of going back to the street life that put a very large chunk of them behind bars.
I wish they'd hire you to take over here. Or anyone competent. They have a handful of folks who know what they are doing, but not many in a huge department that always wants to include 6 staff members in any meeting only really needing 1, so they can bill more hours.
At least they are sometimes amusing. When I dropped off a SATA drive with some SQL databases for them to host for another project, I hung around for a few minutes to make sure they could import the data ok. I turned around for a minute and when I turned back their 'IT specialist' was trying to plug the 4 prong power plug for a floppy drive into the data socket of the SATA drive. Scared me a bit, but he stopped after I yelled.
We wanted some storage for some images we need. About 1 TB.
They charged us $50K to give us 1TB of storage in their SAN.
When we download from their storage server, the best any desktop can do is get 0.15 MB per second. It's been a year and they can't make it do any better, so we host it ourselves locally (encrypted far better then theirs I'm sure).
RAID is *NOT* a substitution for backups. Delete a file on the RAID and it's gone. Someone takes the machine, and it's gone.
Backup your computer to offline media, and make sure to keep a (hopefully encrypted) copy of it at some remote location (like a family members house, work, wherever)
Or when you break an arm, or sprain a hand, or your arthritis is acting up, or you are eating some food with one hand while typing with the other like I was at lunch at my desk at work today, etc, etc, etc...
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Because being able to access any of your devices from any of your other devices is handy?
Nice thing about WebOS devices:
Type in the Konami Code (upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart) and you can now enable Developer Mode (root access). Install whatever you want.
HP has the same problem as Nokia and RIM. Company execs aren't putting enough resources into their new OS's to get things moving.
Nokia had a good thing started with Maemo/Meego. Just look at the recent N950, N9 reviews by Engadget and others (
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/21/nokia-n9-first-hands-on/ ; http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/30/nokias-n950-demos-meego-harmattan-in-marathon-video/ ). A great start/ideas, but they didn't put enough of their not insubstantial resources behind it to get it developed quickly. They gave developers a mixed message, which had a lot of them sitting back waiting to see if there was going to be full commitment by the company before joining in.
Result, the new OS floundered from lack of backing, and they ended up turning to Microsoft.
RIM had been giving the developers the same mixed message about where they are headed. QNX could be an awesome phone OS. Frankly, I'm not sure why someone wasn't putting it on phones years ago. Will it succeed? If it does, it will be despite the big brass's ambivalent attitude.
And now we have HP, which bought a great little OS in WebOS from Palm, that just didn't have the money to dig themselves out of the hole they let themselves get into.
HP's administration said they were going to "double down on WebOS." Their new CEO says they are going to "be cooler than apple". He's also said they were going to avoid the same mistakes made in the past and that they would now "ship products within weeks of announcement"".
HP keeps claiming they have 'incredible scale' and vast resources to make WebOS a success. But since the purchase of Palm, they haven't put their money where their mouth is.
What have they done with those vast resources?
They let the bulk of the creative talent from Palm, the folks who had all the great ideas that make WebOS the induitive OS that it is, leave to go to Apple, Google, or anywhere but HP.
They've put out the Veer, which is basically a smaller version of the original pre, with slightly upgraded hardware.
They have essentially converted a tablet that they were originally going to have run a MS OS. Their Touchpad is bulkier, heavier, and has slower hardware than the competition. And the OS is laggy.
The 'Cool thing' about the Touchpad was that it is supposed to synch with their(new) phones, (Veer, and Pre3). The veer is selling terribly because it's too tiny for a smartphone.
And the Pre3? The Pre3 was announced in February. It's going to ship (in the U.S.) in the Fall. With specs that are way outclassed by phones already released with Android, and facing a likely new iPhone in the fall, as well as some insanely better hardware in the Galaxy S2.
Not much to show for HPs vaunted vast resources.
And then there's customer service...
Original Pre owners were strung along for many months by HP, who told them their Pre phones would be upgraded to WebOS version 2.x and finally get FLASH, that was promised to them 2 years ago when the phone first went on sale. Then at the last minute, folks found out (via twitter, not even a real press release) that that wasn't going to happen.
Then they said they'd do something to 'make things right' to the WebOS users. What did they do finally? Their marketing guys attempted to upsell those folks by giving them a $50 coupon for the touchpad. But only if they got the high end 32MB version. And only if they did it within 30 days of the notice.
Not timely, not cool HP.
I'm afraid WebOS is fated to go the way of BeOS. O
No, the most of the emphasis at the time was on use for tumors of the retina. There were hopes, of course it would end up being used in a wide variety of tumors. It has been, but to a very limited extent. It's ended up being mainly used for tumors in the lungs or upper GI tract.
Yes, fiber optics are usually used to deliver the light.
Here's a bit on it from the Cancer Institute:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/photodynamic
That's not a big thing. We've had ways to do this for decades. More than 20 years ago I did work in Photodynamic Therapy (injecting dyes into tumors. When you shine a light on the dyes, they produce oxygen radicals which kill the cells). We have lots and lots of ways to kill a specific tumor. This is just one more of many wrenches in our toolbox.
The hard part is designing a therapy which destroys only tumor cells, while leaving normal cells alone. Preserving needed tissue in critical spots (the brain, etc), while allowing it to hunt down individual rogue cells which may have metastasized and be trying to start a new tumor elsewhere in the body.
That's the the are where we need to focus.
What I don't love... when a judge hands out punishment to someone WHO HAS NOT BEEN TRIED OR CONVICTED YET.
The judge didn't think about the important part.
Psst, no company ever posts a minimum MPG on a car. None of them. Ever.
They post averages. Those are useful. Maximum 4g speed for the phone would also be good because some phone companies (AT&T) label several phones 4g, even though some of them use slower protocols than others.
The congresswoman is not reasonable. She doesn't understand the minimum, which she asked for, is useless.
Average for an area would be good. Maximum would also be good to publish. Minimum is useless.
Almost half of individuals in the U.S. pay no taxes.
The same can be said for the corporations in the U.S.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/08/12/us-usa-taxes-corporations-idUSN1249465620080812
Ack, I'm an idiot. RIM, not Nokia.
RIM has good potential with QNX. It's an awesome OS.
HP buying it would be the same deal though. It doesn't have apps, needs relevant hardware, and needs development a lot of resources through at it to get it up to polish. HP has been making horrible decisions with all those things. Hopefully RIMs management will do better and learn from HP and Nokia's mistakes.
Dumb idea by WSJ for HP to buy Nokia's OS. Really Dumb.
Nokia's OSs:
Symbian: Their main OS. Old and busted. It needs updating in a major way, which isn't happening, which is why they went to Meemo.
Meemo: Cool version of Linux that they didn't get behind fully and refused to throw the resources they needed to into to get it up to snuff quickly. Nokia is a big company with a lot of money. They just refused to spend enough of it quickly enough to get the OS going. This is the same issue HP is having now with their version of Linux, WebOS.
Yeah, yeah, I hear some folks saying 'mythical man month', 'it just couldn't be done that quickly'. BS. Google did it with another flavor of Linux, Android.
Meamo/Meego. After botching Meamo, they decided to F' it up even more by combining it with Moblin to make yet another version of Linux that they wouldn't put resources behind. Any Lessons learned? Nope. Now they moved on to Windows Phone...
In the meantime Palmdeveloped a great OS in WebOS. Palm was small and poor and didn't have the resources necessary to pour into it to get it things where they should be. No office editing software, no flash, no lots of things. Lots of promising things were coming, but not enough cash to hire the developers to make it happen. Not enough cash to make several models of phones, and of the two models they did make, the Pre and Pixie, the higher end model, the Pre, had lots of hardware issues, making them Sprints all time leader on phones-needing-repairs.
HP buys Palm for WebOS. The problem? They, just like Nokia, aren't putting enough resource into getting software developed for it, or new hardware out to run it on.
The Pre3 is going to be launched 'soon'. Their new flagship phone. It's hardware is mediocre at best compared to new hardware that is out now, and more that will be available before it is launched. HP doesn't have any hardware engineers who could have worked on something more up to scratch in the last year?
Oh, and their new tablet, the TouchPad. Targeted at the enterprise. And it will be launched without any document editing software. No document editing. For enterprise...
Not even a powerpoint viewer. For enterprise...
Are you telling me HP couldn't afford to hire some extra devs to get something running on it, or at least ported? In the last year? Really? They are HP for f**k's sake.
Buying Symbian/Meamo/Meego will do absolutely nothing for them because the management is screwing up. Another OS in the same state isn't going to fix that.
ICE is the twunt... yes that ICE.
Intelligence and Counter Espionage? Why would they be after him? Someone needs to call up Mat Helm and find out.
If it had 2011 graphics pre 2000, sure...
But Duke 3D had lots of interactive items in the world. DNF, not really.
Duke 3D had lots of places to explore int he level, hidden location/treasure. DNF is really linear.
DNF is awful, not retro.
Or.... you could not be an asshole, and wait an hour until the movie is over, and then text your friends that it was bad instead of annoying everyone else in the theater behind you.
Sorry, yes, only eating animals you kill yourself is going off the deep end.
I grew up on a farm myself. Regularly killed the chickens, rabbits, etc for dinner.
Doing cattle is a whole different ballgame. You want someone doing that who does it all the time. There's an art to it, and if you are just doing it on off here, or there, you are going to do a crappy job, wasting a lot of the meat in the process.
Is there any particular philosophical reason you would limit yourself to chicken and rabbit meat and now cow meat? No. Doing so is loony.
Oh, I didn't say I liked private jails. But claiming we are all guilty of deliberately 'enslaving' folks in prison is a crock. Slavery is a way to get extremely cheap labor. We aren't getting that. There are some individuals taking advantage of the system to make money, but claiming we are all guilty of enslaving folks is just dumb.
Yo, moron.
It costs us taxpayers about $60k/year to keep each of them in jail. That's a lot more than they'd be paid to do the same work at those low end jobs on the outside. So we aren't exactly saving a lot of money by 'enslaving' them. It's costing us huge.
It's not slave labor. It's expensive labor.
The theory is they are getting used to being on a regular schedule, getting used to working every day, so they will do that when they get out, instead of going back to the street life that put a very large chunk of them behind bars.
Thank god the CDC released instructions for how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Just in time.
I wish they'd hire you to take over here. Or anyone competent. They have a handful of folks who know what they are doing, but not many in a huge department that always wants to include 6 staff members in any meeting only really needing 1, so they can bill more hours.
At least they are sometimes amusing. When I dropped off a SATA drive with some SQL databases for them to host for another project, I hung around for a few minutes to make sure they could import the data ok. I turned around for a minute and when I turned back their 'IT specialist' was trying to plug the 4 prong power plug for a floppy drive into the data socket of the SATA drive. Scared me a bit, but he stopped after I yelled.
Oh, and did I mention the default domain policy leaves Autoplay on? And in 2011, their storage available for your own working files is... 10 MB.
Inept.
We wanted some storage for some images we need. About 1 TB.
They charged us $50K to give us 1TB of storage in their SAN.
When we download from their storage server, the best any desktop can do is get 0.15 MB per second. It's been a year and they can't make it do any better, so we host it ourselves locally (encrypted far better then theirs I'm sure).
Inept.
Bah, I'm at a major research hospital. The inept IT department has us all on IE6.
AND BACKUPS! *AND BACKUPS*!!!
RAID is *NOT* a substitution for backups. Delete a file on the RAID and it's gone. Someone takes the machine, and it's gone.
Backup your computer to offline media, and make sure to keep a (hopefully encrypted) copy of it at some remote location (like a family members house, work, wherever)
RAID IS NOT A SUBSTITUTION FOR BACKUPS!
Or when you break an arm, or sprain a hand, or your arthritis is acting up, or you are eating some food with one hand while typing with the other like I was at lunch at my desk at work today, etc, etc, etc...
This is just a bad idea
It's a nuke. It doesn't have to be that accurate. Ask the folks who live 20 miles away from Fukushima.