The victor rebuilding the country in a friendly fashion was largely a side-effect of the Cold War - initially large part of the German population was supposed to starve to death. On the Eastern side - not many people know that the first popular uprising (think Hungary & Poland 56, Czechoslovakia 68) in Soviet Block was in East Germany, 1953.
Put Meego on some 1280-class device. Or 1616. Or - I'll be generous - 2690. Comparable embedded boards are available and it's all OSS, nothing is stopping you (or anybody - one would think somebody would do such and obvious thing by now, right?)
You don't even know that Symbian is not on their lower end phones - that's S30 and partly S40.
(sure, things will change, but pretending it's a decade into the future, while showing most of their customers middle finger, wouldn't be very productive)
Growth in number of units shiped is biggest for Symbian. Everything else is deceiving when players have so wildly different installed bases.
Pundits in few atypical (but highly vocal) places few years ago, when smartphone market was sitting at around 15%, were making prophecies of explosive growth of smartphone segment - so that we should be at half by now. It's around 20% of total, maybe not even above as of yet.
Impressive growth percentages of smartphones don't mention the growth of the total mobile phone market. Also $20 phones. So called "feature phones" mostly (many with more capabilities than iPhone for most of the time...) - and while I can see efforts to redefine Symbian as "not really smartphone", it doesn't change how it will be widely used.
Daily (often bi-daily, for Androids, from what I can see...) recharging of phone is not so straightforward for a lot of people BTW.
Regarding developers - so, tell me, how many of those thousands apps are UIs for single web pages, single e-books and audiobooks or UIs for radio stations? Look at what is used on the desktop. There is something like "enough" here...
Android has strong NIH syndrome / releases sources only after official debut of each version, anyway. As of now, its kernel is essentially forked from Linux mainline.
Again, you want even more one-trick ponies / huge, singular monolithic structures.
I really thought we learned something about them vs. standardization and modularity... (which give also increased safety/predictability, flexibility and longevity - Russians want to detach Mir 2 parts of the ISS and use them in "Mir 3", which will be BTW basically a space shipyard to support deep exploration)
Nokia also has profits (losses you hear now and then were one time write-offs and related to acquiring Nokia Siemens division) - and a bit more strengths apart from brand and selling channels, too - like, for example, how they actually own all their manufacturing facilities, most of them not in China, half of them in the EU, one even quite close to Cupertino...
Of course, "investors" might not value such stuff... (even though Nokia contributed greatly to 5+ billion mobile subscribers, which is a monumental shift for the world / will bring plenty opportunities for new investment)
Symbian has the largest increases in number of units shipped ("percentage of growth" is deceiving when one player has much larger share than the rest, or if effectively locked out of some moderately big (but very visible and vocal) markets which were fed locked-down handsets)
Being able to do high inclination missions is simply a function of thrust (for the given mass of payload) - if Shuttle was "compromised" by this, it means the concept was horrible elsewhere in the first place.
Saturn V approach probably wouldn't be very optimal in the long run - it was a bit of a one-trick pony. Large payloads are nice - but huge, rarely launched, disproportionally expensive (supporting infrastructure) launcher is not the way to go when we can do autonomous orbital rendezvous and can have simple, semi-mass produced, modular launchers (from the US ones - Falcon might be the best example in the future; but Angara will be probably the most striking one, from 1 to 7 identical core stages, from 2 to 40 tonnes to LEO). Even large ships are built in segments nowadays.
(I'm confused - do you don't want a spaceplane after all? There were plans individual reentry cones, too - lighter, at al)
You have no idea what Nokia even provides in the first place. Vast majority of their phones are inexpensive S30 and S40 (the most widespread mobile phone platform on the plant) handsets - responsible in large part for those 5+ billion mobile subscribers now.
Smartphones are 20-25% of what they ship (that's still more than for other large non-"smartphone only" makers, more than the average of the market) - most of them Symbian, and getting into price range of S40 more and more (that's why it will be big). Had they just quickly moved all their phones to what they did with the N770 "Internet Tablet" would mean dropping 95% percent of users.
Well, we are getting into semantics here, but I'd argue (and vast majority of people, which includes vast majority of Buddhists I'm sure, would agree - just ask them) that they are not in the least bit intuitive...virtual particles (and their effects) or unchanging speed of light (hello? Light cones into the past?) don't have much in common with what our minds perceive intuitively as cause and effect.
Strangely enough, for most of people in the world (followers of abrahamic mythologies, mostly) - absolute beginning is very intuitive and does make sense...:|
In other words - it won't make a difference for the small players (orbital capabilities of which could be easily targeted individually and destroyed or blinded as is), but will give a serious headache for the major ones.
What? Many approaches didn't envision the cooling systems that you mention. They still turn out to not give any returns, at best, when studied closer.
How most of the flight must happen outside the atmosphere (which dumb rocket knows, getting the hell out of it as quickly as possible - while spaceplane you envisioned lingers), the basics of rocket equation / how spaceplane wastes lots of payload fraction for airframe - probably means things won't change significantly for a long time, except for some niche uses (like in this case, military)
Remember how the Shuttle was advertised? How it delivers? What actually turns out to be cheapest per launch? (and we barely tried mass production - basically only with very first widely used launcher)
Look at those airplanes (/. & unicode links) from "our" times, as envisioned ~130 years ago (and probably influenced by rapid advances in (sub?)marine technology) - we can build them! (take a Harrier, get rid of the wings and canopy). But strangely, we have settled on something quite different in concept, also when it comes to the mode of operation. Spaceplanes are a dream from scifi of the '40s and '50s (a lot of Shuttle designers probably raised on it...), fueled by rapid advances in airplane technology. But they are a bit analogous to flying boats - and not many those around nowadays (except, again, for very niche uses)
So, if quantum mechanics (particularly when biological neural network looks at things like particle sea, virtual particles, Casimir force, quantum teleportation) and relativity (say, speed of light is _constant_ whatever happens) make sense after all - why classic Bing Bang, by extension, simply doesn't make sense? (the beginning of time is not exceedingly weird, in comparison)
It should be, other launch capable (them at the least) nations being upset about weaponizing of space is a hint how, at some point, somebody might get fed up enough to trigger Kessler syndrome, it would be fairly easy. Orbit is a great place for asymmetric warfare.
Not needing to lug your oxidant along on the first stage is a HUGE win. The same $ would give you a 5x to 10x greater LTO capacity.
Ignoring the small detail that, when the actual technical case studies (or even basically aborted, later, efforts) take a closer look, the gains turn out to be negligible at best to "dumb rocket" using comparably advanced tech.
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So you don't realize Conquistadors found local allies / it was a case of tipping the scales in what was already troubled and divided area?
...We have a new secret weapon - Poutine.
Oh gods. Why didn't you keep it a secret? (at least until the Party Congress on Monday...)
The victor rebuilding the country in a friendly fashion was largely a side-effect of the Cold War - initially large part of the German population was supposed to starve to death. On the Eastern side - not many people know that the first popular uprising (think Hungary & Poland 56, Czechoslovakia 68) in Soviet Block was in East Germany, 1953.
WOuld be really interesting with GNUstep - now that apparently it might get used bigtime. Ph333r rms.
Windows Live Mail doesn't mean anything, it's a marketroid description with "catchy" word of the moment added.
Put Meego on some 1280-class device. Or 1616. Or - I'll be generous - 2690. Comparable embedded boards are available and it's all OSS, nothing is stopping you (or anybody - one would think somebody would do such and obvious thing by now, right?)
You don't even know that Symbian is not on their lower end phones - that's S30 and partly S40.
(sure, things will change, but pretending it's a decade into the future, while showing most of their customers middle finger, wouldn't be very productive)
Growth in number of units shiped is biggest for Symbian. Everything else is deceiving when players have so wildly different installed bases.
Pundits in few atypical (but highly vocal) places few years ago, when smartphone market was sitting at around 15%, were making prophecies of explosive growth of smartphone segment - so that we should be at half by now. It's around 20% of total, maybe not even above as of yet.
Impressive growth percentages of smartphones don't mention the growth of the total mobile phone market. Also $20 phones. So called "feature phones" mostly (many with more capabilities than iPhone for most of the time...) - and while I can see efforts to redefine Symbian as "not really smartphone", it doesn't change how it will be widely used.
Daily (often bi-daily, for Androids, from what I can see...) recharging of phone is not so straightforward for a lot of people BTW.
Regarding developers - so, tell me, how many of those thousands apps are UIs for single web pages, single e-books and audiobooks or UIs for radio stations? Look at what is used on the desktop. There is something like "enough" here...
Android has strong NIH syndrome / releases sources only after official debut of each version, anyway. As of now, its kernel is essentially forked from Linux mainline.
Again, you want even more one-trick ponies / huge, singular monolithic structures.
I really thought we learned something about them vs. standardization and modularity... (which give also increased safety/predictability, flexibility and longevity - Russians want to detach Mir 2 parts of the ISS and use them in "Mir 3", which will be BTW basically a space shipyard to support deep exploration)
Nokia also has profits (losses you hear now and then were one time write-offs and related to acquiring Nokia Siemens division) - and a bit more strengths apart from brand and selling channels, too - like, for example, how they actually own all their manufacturing facilities, most of them not in China, half of them in the EU, one even quite close to Cupertino...
Of course, "investors" might not value such stuff... (even though Nokia contributed greatly to 5+ billion mobile subscribers, which is a monumental shift for the world / will bring plenty opportunities for new investment)
Symbian has the largest increases in number of units shipped ("percentage of growth" is deceiving when one player has much larger share than the rest, or if effectively locked out of some moderately big (but very visible and vocal) markets which were fed locked-down handsets)
So what does work nice enough for video editing on Linux to not be a waste a money?...
Being able to do high inclination missions is simply a function of thrust (for the given mass of payload) - if Shuttle was "compromised" by this, it means the concept was horrible elsewhere in the first place.
Saturn V approach probably wouldn't be very optimal in the long run - it was a bit of a one-trick pony. Large payloads are nice - but huge, rarely launched, disproportionally expensive (supporting infrastructure) launcher is not the way to go when we can do autonomous orbital rendezvous and can have simple, semi-mass produced, modular launchers (from the US ones - Falcon might be the best example in the future; but Angara will be probably the most striking one, from 1 to 7 identical core stages, from 2 to 40 tonnes to LEO). Even large ships are built in segments nowadays.
(I'm confused - do you don't want a spaceplane after all? There were plans individual reentry cones, too - lighter, at al)
You have no idea what Nokia even provides in the first place. Vast majority of their phones are inexpensive S30 and S40 (the most widespread mobile phone platform on the plant) handsets - responsible in large part for those 5+ billion mobile subscribers now.
Smartphones are 20-25% of what they ship (that's still more than for other large non-"smartphone only" makers, more than the average of the market) - most of them Symbian, and getting into price range of S40 more and more (that's why it will be big). Had they just quickly moved all their phones to what they did with the N770 "Internet Tablet" would mean dropping 95% percent of users.
Well, we are getting into semantics here, but I'd argue (and vast majority of people, which includes vast majority of Buddhists I'm sure, would agree - just ask them) that they are not in the least bit intuitive...virtual particles (and their effects) or unchanging speed of light (hello? Light cones into the past?) don't have much in common with what our minds perceive intuitively as cause and effect.
Strangely enough, for most of people in the world (followers of abrahamic mythologies, mostly) - absolute beginning is very intuitive and does make sense... :|
In other words - it won't make a difference for the small players (orbital capabilities of which could be easily targeted individually and destroyed or blinded as is), but will give a serious headache for the major ones.
Getting better.
What? Many approaches didn't envision the cooling systems that you mention. They still turn out to not give any returns, at best, when studied closer.
How most of the flight must happen outside the atmosphere (which dumb rocket knows, getting the hell out of it as quickly as possible - while spaceplane you envisioned lingers), the basics of rocket equation / how spaceplane wastes lots of payload fraction for airframe - probably means things won't change significantly for a long time, except for some niche uses (like in this case, military)
Remember how the Shuttle was advertised? How it delivers? What actually turns out to be cheapest per launch? (and we barely tried mass production - basically only with very first widely used launcher)
Look at those airplanes (/. & unicode links) from "our" times, as envisioned ~130 years ago (and probably influenced by rapid advances in (sub?)marine technology) - we can build them! (take a Harrier, get rid of the wings and canopy). But strangely, we have settled on something quite different in concept, also when it comes to the mode of operation. Spaceplanes are a dream from scifi of the '40s and '50s (a lot of Shuttle designers probably raised on it...), fueled by rapid advances in airplane technology. But they are a bit analogous to flying boats - and not many those around nowadays (except, again, for very niche uses)
In other words it would take very little effort to make the whole thing hugely more expensive, risky, and with less in return.
Mission, f****ng, accomplished.
So, if quantum mechanics (particularly when biological neural network looks at things like particle sea, virtual particles, Casimir force, quantum teleportation) and relativity (say, speed of light is _constant_ whatever happens) make sense after all - why classic Bing Bang, by extension, simply doesn't make sense? (the beginning of time is not exceedingly weird, in comparison)
Air war weapon stockpile runs critically low
Google for Iraq ammunition shortages (and no, nukes are not viable / would hit hard your "allies", remember? Soviets didn't use them)
It should be, other launch capable (them at the least) nations being upset about weaponizing of space is a hint how, at some point, somebody might get fed up enough to trigger Kessler syndrome, it would be fairly easy. Orbit is a great place for asymmetric warfare.
Not needing to lug your oxidant along on the first stage is a HUGE win. The same $ would give you a 5x to 10x greater LTO capacity.
Ignoring the small detail that, when the actual technical case studies (or even basically aborted, later, efforts) take a closer look, the gains turn out to be negligible at best to "dumb rocket" using comparably advanced tech.
Not exactly, I get (however small) new work units semi-regularly. Possibly in every month of this year there was something.