Jolla could be the true third (or fourth) ecosystem by using Open Source to the full extent. Include a slightly curated collection of open source repositories to get their phone full of content. I.e. it should be free to signup and they should just make sure there is a semi-respectable community behind the repo (with access cut if turns to piratism, child porn, etc). The only chance of success they have IMO is to get the best of FOSS software (and content) ported to them. They will never attract developers as an "Android alternative without users".
They should have made a huge startup dialog "Do you want to be tracked" and achieved 90+% block without these complaints. They might still have ignored it but at least it would have been clearly a DNT violation
Imagine the scene: Our heroine has snuck into the villains office and starts to hack into the computer to find evidence of the crime. After a some furious minutes of password guessing and file browsing, she finds the incriminating file! Then, just as she prints the file, there is an error of print failure. Our hero starts a browser and starts to google for an updated driver. After a few misses, she finds one in the manufacturers Taiwanese website. But after installing the driver, the error still persists. She returns to Google and starts looking for other people with similar issues. After 20 minutes of searching she finds an obscure tip in the forums to disable PCL-emulation in the registry. After changing the setting she reboots the computer and we nervously wait for another 10 minutes for the login to complete and document to reopen.. It works! The document prints! Our heroin snatches the print and slips out of the side door just before the villain re-enters
Now that's entertainment!
...and just like Series60 (=Symbian) and Windows Mobile to a smaller extent. Nokia is really the saddest example as their "lack of platform" was a strategic choice to let product lines "compete & innovate" between themselves leading to incompatible versions of nearly identical OS & HW. Androids problem is really that it's so "bare bones" that OEM's have to implement many things themselves leading to incompatibilities where they don't have to exist. Apple approach (one OS for all iterations) is clearly the best, but only possible in a single vendor environment.
Don't you get it, that's a migration path right there:
1) Migrate existing COBOL code to.NET
2) Start migrating modules one by one to C# or ASP.NET or what ever makes sense (even keeping some in COBOL)
3) Start saving money on maintenance and being more future proof
It's still a hell of a migration project but significantly better than reimplementing from scratch or having that same system running in 10 years..:/
1) Only applies to 2G/GSM, not 3G/UMTS
2) This has been known pretty much from the beginning, and updating has been started years ago. As said in TFA, only news of this is the plan to make it publicly available.
The point is not to be virtual reality, but rather "wiimote v2". I.e. it will allow new types of gameplay for casual gamers that don't enjoy (=can't handle) button mushing with a pad. It's MS's response/evolution to Nintendo's innovation on motion controlled gaming. It's not going to revolutionalize gaming, but it's big enough for Sony to realize they can't be only one without.
Why, oh why is this annexed with Windows 7. The release of either affects the other in no way what-so-ever. If Ubuntu beta/rc is not news worthy by itself, releasing on the same day with Win7 doesn't change that in any way. And yes, even one sentence about what's new in this would not hurt...
Here in Finland most mobile & broadband operators charge for the bill. Manual, email and electronic bills are free. There were some outbreaks when the first one did it, but it was eventually accepted (and got a lot of people using electronic billing). Personally, I prefer the electronic billing as you can't lose bills when you get them directly to your bank account.
This is where you need free press that attack like a pack of pitbulls and demand to know who ordered the cancellation and why. Nothing teaches politicians honest like public humiliation.
As concrete example to parent, do you think the EU investigations have been started by independent EU bureaucrats analyzing the markets and discovering potential issues. The reason MS is getting more heat is that competition is organizing and "feeding the intel". And as parent said, it's not necessarily a problem. The competition should keep an eye of of each other as they are best qualified to identify abuse.
...Google has been convening with other companies that see Microsoft as a threat and trying to lobby different Washington interest groups "Microsoft as a big bad technology company".
I.e. a practise otherwise discribed as a standard procedure of strategic competition in corporate America. You don't have to like it, but it's not exactly news. Catching them in the act of trying to bribe a congressmen/senators would be news.
Considering that ActiveSync is already the number one mail solution in Nokia (E-series) devices and they have for a long time included office viewers, I don't really thinks this is anything that major. Nokia recognises that Office & Exchange are a necessity for their business customers and want to support that. Microsoft on the other hand would bring Office to Android if that would further their Office-business. If anything, Nokia is trying to get advantage over iPhone as a corporate phone.
The funny part is that the "why does pepsi suck" in Bing gives a result "Why Windows Vista sucks".. The only point is that if you want to ask a semantic question (and not just find specific terms), you really need to use the parentheses. That's all folks, move along...
The point of the comment was that AT THE TIME there were no arguments for or against the article, but the article was still tagged as astroturf. If people had actually read the article and thought it to be a non-review, they'd surely point that out. Instead they just tag it with their preconception, i.e. positive Win7 review is astroturfing, Macs have Apple tax, DRM is defective by design, etc.
And TFA is not void of negative points:
- "Do note that some users have claimed to have limited success running the Windows 7 beta with less than 1GB of RAM, but that's not recommended."
- "One annoying change is that Bluetooth driver support no longer comes baked into the operating system. If you need a Bluetooth driver, you'll either need the installation disc on hand or you'll have to go and download it."
- "The search field, however, is available by default only in the Start menu and in Windows Explorer and cannot be easily added to the taskbar."
- "The hardware sometimes misread some of the multitouch gestures, occasionally confusing rotating an image, for example, with zooming in or out of the image."
- "[XP mode] is not easy to set up once you've downloaded the XP Mode installer. You'll need to double-check that you have the right hardware, and can get the right software. Hardware Virtualization Technology, also known as AMD-V, Vanderpool or VT-d, must be supported for it to work. Motherboards older than two years probably won't work, and even if you do have a newer one you might have to go into your BIOS and activate Hardware Virtualization."
- "Microsoft has tweaked the [UAC] so that it's less intrusive, but it's not clear whether that means you're actually more or less secure than you were in Vista."
- "Windows 7 feels faster than Windows XP and Vista, but it turns out that's not always the case -- sometimes, it's the slowest of the three operating systems."
- "It was slower than XP and Vista, however, for both booting up cold by a little more than 1 second, and slower than either of its predecessors in its Microsoft Office performance."
...so Mac is the only potentially exploitable environment? It doesn't actually say that, but recommending mitigation through coding around the problem sure sounds like it.
This tired argument of comparing original XP release to current Linux distros really needs to stop. It's apples to oranges and the only thing it accomplishes is a loss of credibility for Linux as a solution ("can't it handle a fair comparison?"). Especially the WPA comment from grandparent is ironic as the out-of-the-box WLAN experience (i.e. just works vs. ndiswrapper hacking) is just now getting together (and comparable to ~XP SP1)
Text messaging is actually just one service of the SMS bearer, and it can also used for sending binary content like configuration messages. There are also many variations (e.g. charactersets), which are defined be the PDU headers. Checkout the protocol identifiers for available services.
This sounds like a classical failure to correctly validate the data or handle some unsupported combination resulting in a crash or a buffer overflow. What is amazing is that they can fit an actual payload to the message...
As stated in the linked article:
- It's a piece of standard 3GPP (=GSM) equipment for lawful intercept, i.e. to allow law enforcement to wiretap calls (according guidelines set by local law).
- It only handles voice calls and does not allow internet traffic monitoring, let alone deep packet inspection.
- The equipment is compliant with EU and UN export regulations
Also, it's much less of a privacy threat than the mechanisms currently in place in US, UK (and I'm sure EU).
LTE alone is nothing. The point of LTE is that it provides next gen data bearer with voice & sms handover to (GSM) 2G/3G. You will never see the same coverage for LTE, and there's no point in providing it if you can't steer voice to 3G/2G. They could do that for CDMA also, but likely not as soon an easily.
This is both informative (a believable in-the-ball-park analysis of Facebook operational costs) & insightful (price is not enough to be the best solution)
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Jolla could be the true third (or fourth) ecosystem by using Open Source to the full extent. Include a slightly curated collection of open source repositories to get their phone full of content. I.e. it should be free to signup and they should just make sure there is a semi-respectable community behind the repo (with access cut if turns to piratism, child porn, etc). The only chance of success they have IMO is to get the best of FOSS software (and content) ported to them. They will never attract developers as an "Android alternative without users".
They should have made a huge startup dialog "Do you want to be tracked" and achieved 90+% block without these complaints. They might still have ignored it but at least it would have been clearly a DNT violation
Imagine the scene:
Our heroine has snuck into the villains office and starts to hack into the computer to find evidence of the crime. After a some furious minutes of password guessing and file browsing, she finds the incriminating file! Then, just as she prints the file, there is an error of print failure. Our hero starts a browser and starts to google for an updated driver. After a few misses, she finds one in the manufacturers Taiwanese website. But after installing the driver, the error still persists. She returns to Google and starts looking for other people with similar issues. After 20 minutes of searching she finds an obscure tip in the forums to disable PCL-emulation in the registry. After changing the setting she reboots the computer and we nervously wait for another 10 minutes for the login to complete and document to reopen.. It works! The document prints! Our heroin snatches the print and slips out of the side door just before the villain re-enters
Now that's entertainment!
...and just like Series60 (=Symbian) and Windows Mobile to a smaller extent. Nokia is really the saddest example as their "lack of platform" was a strategic choice to let product lines "compete & innovate" between themselves leading to incompatible versions of nearly identical OS & HW. Androids problem is really that it's so "bare bones" that OEM's have to implement many things themselves leading to incompatibilities where they don't have to exist. Apple approach (one OS for all iterations) is clearly the best, but only possible in a single vendor environment.
Don't you get it, that's a migration path right there: .NET
:/
1) Migrate existing COBOL code to
2) Start migrating modules one by one to C# or ASP.NET or what ever makes sense (even keeping some in COBOL)
3) Start saving money on maintenance and being more future proof
It's still a hell of a migration project but significantly better than reimplementing from scratch or having that same system running in 10 years..
You can usually make your SO happy by saying something in the lines of "I think we've saved enough percentages for today, honey"
1) Only applies to 2G/GSM, not 3G/UMTS
2) This has been known pretty much from the beginning, and updating has been started years ago. As said in TFA, only news of this is the plan to make it publicly available.
The point is not to be virtual reality, but rather "wiimote v2". I.e. it will allow new types of gameplay for casual gamers that don't enjoy (=can't handle) button mushing with a pad. It's MS's response/evolution to Nintendo's innovation on motion controlled gaming. It's not going to revolutionalize gaming, but it's big enough for Sony to realize they can't be only one without.
Why, oh why is this annexed with Windows 7. The release of either affects the other in no way what-so-ever. If Ubuntu beta/rc is not news worthy by itself, releasing on the same day with Win7 doesn't change that in any way. And yes, even one sentence about what's new in this would not hurt...
Here in Finland most mobile & broadband operators charge for the bill. Manual, email and electronic bills are free. There were some outbreaks when the first one did it, but it was eventually accepted (and got a lot of people using electronic billing). Personally, I prefer the electronic billing as you can't lose bills when you get them directly to your bank account.
This is where you need free press that attack like a pack of pitbulls and demand to know who ordered the cancellation and why. Nothing teaches politicians honest like public humiliation.
As concrete example to parent, do you think the EU investigations have been started by independent EU bureaucrats analyzing the markets and discovering potential issues. The reason MS is getting more heat is that competition is organizing and "feeding the intel". And as parent said, it's not necessarily a problem. The competition should keep an eye of of each other as they are best qualified to identify abuse.
...Google has been convening with other companies that see Microsoft as a threat and trying to lobby different Washington interest groups "Microsoft as a big bad technology company".
I.e. a practise otherwise discribed as a standard procedure of strategic competition in corporate America. You don't have to like it, but it's not exactly news. Catching them in the act of trying to bribe a congressmen/senators would be news.
Considering that ActiveSync is already the number one mail solution in Nokia (E-series) devices and they have for a long time included office viewers, I don't really thinks this is anything that major. Nokia recognises that Office & Exchange are a necessity for their business customers and want to support that. Microsoft on the other hand would bring Office to Android if that would further their Office-business. If anything, Nokia is trying to get advantage over iPhone as a corporate phone.
The funny part is that the "why does pepsi suck" in Bing gives a result "Why Windows Vista sucks".. The only point is that if you want to ask a semantic question (and not just find specific terms), you really need to use the parentheses. That's all folks, move along...
Except that putting that same query to Google will give this result in the first page:
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/why-are-macs-so-expensive--609128
The point of the comment was that AT THE TIME there were no arguments for or against the article, but the article was still tagged as astroturf. If people had actually read the article and thought it to be a non-review, they'd surely point that out. Instead they just tag it with their preconception, i.e. positive Win7 review is astroturfing, Macs have Apple tax, DRM is defective by design, etc.
And TFA is not void of negative points:
- "Do note that some users have claimed to have limited success running the Windows 7 beta with less than 1GB of RAM, but that's not recommended."
- "One annoying change is that Bluetooth driver support no longer comes baked into the operating system. If you need a Bluetooth driver, you'll either need the installation disc on hand or you'll have to go and download it."
- "The search field, however, is available by default only in the Start menu and in Windows Explorer and cannot be easily added to the taskbar."
- "The hardware sometimes misread some of the multitouch gestures, occasionally confusing rotating an image, for example, with zooming in or out of the image."
- "[XP mode] is not easy to set up once you've downloaded the XP Mode installer. You'll need to double-check that you have the right hardware, and can get the right software. Hardware Virtualization Technology, also known as AMD-V, Vanderpool or VT-d, must be supported for it to work. Motherboards older than two years probably won't work, and even if you do have a newer one you might have to go into your BIOS and activate Hardware Virtualization."
- "Microsoft has tweaked the [UAC] so that it's less intrusive, but it's not clear whether that means you're actually more or less secure than you were in Vista."
- "Windows 7 feels faster than Windows XP and Vista, but it turns out that's not always the case -- sometimes, it's the slowest of the three operating systems."
- "It was slower than XP and Vista, however, for both booting up cold by a little more than 1 second, and slower than either of its predecessors in its Microsoft Office performance."
Hmph.. No comments that even remotely imply having RTFA'd, but sure enough there's an "astroturfing"-tag. Classy..
...so Mac is the only potentially exploitable environment? It doesn't actually say that, but recommending mitigation through coding around the problem sure sounds like it.
This tired argument of comparing original XP release to current Linux distros really needs to stop. It's apples to oranges and the only thing it accomplishes is a loss of credibility for Linux as a solution ("can't it handle a fair comparison?"). Especially the WPA comment from grandparent is ironic as the out-of-the-box WLAN experience (i.e. just works vs. ndiswrapper hacking) is just now getting together (and comparable to ~XP SP1)
Text messaging is actually just one service of the SMS bearer, and it can also used for sending binary content like configuration messages. There are also many variations (e.g. charactersets), which are defined be the PDU headers. Checkout the protocol identifiers for available services.
This sounds like a classical failure to correctly validate the data or handle some unsupported combination resulting in a crash or a buffer overflow. What is amazing is that they can fit an actual payload to the message...
As stated in the linked article:
- It's a piece of standard 3GPP (=GSM) equipment for lawful intercept, i.e. to allow law enforcement to wiretap calls (according guidelines set by local law).
- It only handles voice calls and does not allow internet traffic monitoring, let alone deep packet inspection.
- The equipment is compliant with EU and UN export regulations
Also, it's much less of a privacy threat than the mechanisms currently in place in US, UK (and I'm sure EU).
Must be the year of the Linux laptop if they got the WLAN working...
LTE alone is nothing. The point of LTE is that it provides next gen data bearer with voice & sms handover to (GSM) 2G/3G. You will never see the same coverage for LTE, and there's no point in providing it if you can't steer voice to 3G/2G. They could do that for CDMA also, but likely not as soon an easily.
This is both informative (a believable in-the-ball-park analysis of Facebook operational costs) & insightful (price is not enough to be the best solution)