Developer who "jumps ship" from Android to Apple, or the other way is dumb. Developing for both is the best way to reach most customers. Both platforms area easy to develop for, why would you pick one out of two? Fragmentation is only an excuse for shitty developers to pick Apple only.
First Steve Jobs and now you? I've got this gut feeling that something is wrong with the world now. However, I'm pretty sure I'll just write in the address slashdot.org to my browser tomorrow and continue reading the news for nerds like nothing has changed.
They had a site but they apparently reverted back to facebook after their own server died. I managed to catch a glimpse of it before the slashdot reported this story.
I guess that a huge drop in the share value might mean that this plan B might get some actual backing from the majority of shareholders. The share has dropped around 20% since the Microsoft announcement.
Law is the explanation. Elop had insider information involving both MS and Nokia which prevented him from selling his MS shares and buying Nokia. At least this was the reason given by Nokia to a finnish newspaper.
You can call iOS the better platform the moment I get to develop an application that can run in the background (no, you still can't do this on iOS unless your app matches some very specific use cases). The fact that you can't run an irc client that stays connected 24/7 on a iOS device tells what's really wrong with the platform.
I'm currently making an iPhone version of our clients mobile product. Let's just say that due to iOS platform limitations I can only make 10% of the features we have on our symbian version. Hell even on Android we propably can't make it to be an exact match of our symbian product.
Ohh and Nokia with their Qt. It just lacks utilities to access certain system properties and events. Even the Qt Mobility API still lacks a lot of needed features. Features which are apparently easy to do for an experienced Symbian developer (I'm just glad its not me. Descriptors, anyone?). Sure, you can make some nice apps with Qt. You just can't get down to the system stuff (well this should be obvious to anyone). We have to do a lot of work with Maemo/meeGo/Symbian specific implementations. Guess that's what you get when you need to do something really specific on a very specific phone model. But I still have to say, Qt seems to be the most promising framework on mobile devices atm. I have high hopes on meego devices. At the moment Android seems to be the most fun to target while symbian still is the most feature rich of them all.
I just don't want to imagine what kind of shitstorm i would hit on a BlackBerry or a Bada platform. Ohh right, M$ is back in the game too with their newest shitplatform. Ugh..
Mobile software development is a bitch. Too many shitty platforms, all having their problems. Gotta hope the shittiest drop off the face of earth soon or get more open (Fuck iOS and Apple's policies atm. I only started to work with the 4.1 and I can't even imagine how closed and limited it was before).
Seeing that the smartphone as a term originated from Nokia. You are kind of wrong by calling it a bizarre definition.
Hell. You'd be able to target over 100 million users with your application if you developed it with Java ME. Nokia sells huge numbers of smartphones in developing countries.
Are you sure you don't need a filter to that pipeline? Surely/dev/zero can't be just clean 0's. All those 1 bits that get inside your cpu will eventually shorten the cpu's lifetime.
Congrats are in order. I have been here for at least 5 years now. I can say all the comments and the way people discuss things here changed the way I see/understand the world and people. Big kudos to all of you!
Take a look at this video. The Thinkpads are scattered across the whole space station. And as you can see they are pretty much mounted on racks doing something specific.
By the way, am I the only one thinking the ISS seems to be pretty huge?
You do know that designing a big thing with lot's of moving parts actually costs a quite lot of money? Let alone building something like that. I doubt there's that much air in the prices when they are eventually selling it to NASA. Raw materials, workforce, facilities etc. cost money, they don't come for free. Hardware ain't like software where some old and grumpy guy with a big beard can do stuff for free.
However they had an old house. Instead of running the pipes to the concrete he decided to make a little hole to the wall and run pipes to the ground outside. The ground seems to work as an excellent heat exchanger. Just run enough pipe underground and it will cool down wether it's winter or summer.
Yeah that's bollocks. I happen to have an old keyboard made by Nokia right next to me. Currently attached to my FreeBSD box. I think it came from one of the last MikroMikko models. It's old enough not to have any windows keys in it. And I do recall using the MikroMikko as a youngster when it was all DOS. So yeah, nokia used to make PC's back in the days before they started doing only mobile telephone tech.
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Developer who "jumps ship" from Android to Apple, or the other way is dumb. Developing for both is the best way to reach most customers. Both platforms area easy to develop for, why would you pick one out of two? Fragmentation is only an excuse for shitty developers to pick Apple only.
When I showed news of this to my boss. He just replied "yeah my old buddy who's still at Nokia works on this". My boss used to work at Nokia himself.
Anyway, the rumour began to sound more plausible after hearing his comment.
I let my phone to remember numbers and use computer to store larger amount of information. What I memorize myself is how to get to this stored info.
Around here it's a small or a large beer. (small is usually 333ml, large is around half a liter depending on the bar and drink").
Even if we use metrics, that doesn't mean we have to use silly phrases in our everyday life.
First Steve Jobs and now you? I've got this gut feeling that something is wrong with the world now. However, I'm pretty sure I'll just write in the address slashdot.org to my browser tomorrow and continue reading the news for nerds like nothing has changed.
Anyway, big thanks from Finland!
Ain't that obvious? All those scientists wanted to name an unit after their own name!
They had a site but they apparently reverted back to facebook after their own server died. I managed to catch a glimpse of it before the slashdot reported this story.
I guess that a huge drop in the share value might mean that this plan B might get some actual backing from the majority of shareholders. The share has dropped around 20% since the Microsoft announcement.
Law is the explanation. Elop had insider information involving both MS and Nokia which prevented him from selling his MS shares and buying Nokia. At least this was the reason given by Nokia to a finnish newspaper.
You can call iOS the better platform the moment I get to develop an application that can run in the background (no, you still can't do this on iOS unless your app matches some very specific use cases). The fact that you can't run an irc client that stays connected 24/7 on a iOS device tells what's really wrong with the platform.
I'm currently making an iPhone version of our clients mobile product. Let's just say that due to iOS platform limitations I can only make 10% of the features we have on our symbian version. Hell even on Android we propably can't make it to be an exact match of our symbian product.
Ohh and Nokia with their Qt. It just lacks utilities to access certain system properties and events. Even the Qt Mobility API still lacks a lot of needed features. Features which are apparently easy to do for an experienced Symbian developer (I'm just glad its not me. Descriptors, anyone?). Sure, you can make some nice apps with Qt. You just can't get down to the system stuff (well this should be obvious to anyone). We have to do a lot of work with Maemo/meeGo/Symbian specific implementations. Guess that's what you get when you need to do something really specific on a very specific phone model. But I still have to say, Qt seems to be the most promising framework on mobile devices atm. I have high hopes on meego devices. At the moment Android seems to be the most fun to target while symbian still is the most feature rich of them all.
I just don't want to imagine what kind of shitstorm i would hit on a BlackBerry or a Bada platform. Ohh right, M$ is back in the game too with their newest shitplatform. Ugh..
Mobile software development is a bitch. Too many shitty platforms, all having their problems. Gotta hope the shittiest drop off the face of earth soon or get more open (Fuck iOS and Apple's policies atm. I only started to work with the 4.1 and I can't even imagine how closed and limited it was before).
Seeing that the smartphone as a term originated from Nokia. You are kind of wrong by calling it a bizarre definition.
Hell. You'd be able to target over 100 million users with your application if you developed it with Java ME. Nokia sells huge numbers of smartphones in developing countries.
Who the hell wouldn't like their toaster to have its own ip unique ip address?
Are you sure you don't need a filter to that pipeline? Surely /dev/zero can't be just clean 0's. All those 1 bits that get inside your cpu will eventually shorten the cpu's lifetime.
Congrats are in order. I have been here for at least 5 years now. I can say all the comments and the way people discuss things here changed the way I see/understand the world and people. Big kudos to all of you!
Take a look at this video. The Thinkpads are scattered across the whole space station. And as you can see they are pretty much mounted on racks doing something specific.
By the way, am I the only one thinking the ISS seems to be pretty huge?
And here I was thinking we were saved after they announced Duke Nukem: Forever being cancelled...
You do know that designing a big thing with lot's of moving parts actually costs a quite lot of money? Let alone building something like that. I doubt there's that much air in the prices when they are eventually selling it to NASA. Raw materials, workforce, facilities etc. cost money, they don't come for free. Hardware ain't like software where some old and grumpy guy with a big beard can do stuff for free.
Google doesn't seem to like bluetooth. But why? I don't see them making a new solution for short range wireless communications.
However they had an old house. Instead of running the pipes to the concrete he decided to make a little hole to the wall and run pipes to the ground outside. The ground seems to work as an excellent heat exchanger. Just run enough pipe underground and it will cool down wether it's winter or summer.
Yeah that's bollocks. I happen to have an old keyboard made by Nokia right next to me. Currently attached to my FreeBSD box. I think it came from one of the last MikroMikko models. It's old enough not to have any windows keys in it. And I do recall using the MikroMikko as a youngster when it was all DOS. So yeah, nokia used to make PC's back in the days before they started doing only mobile telephone tech.
I've got ff 3.0.13 on windows XP. Worked for me.
It's here. I think this is the original news source.