Oh, how us Romanians (.ro domain) would love a Slashdot version in our language, and I'm also sure a Russian (.ru) site would be great for the russians.
I really am not using WMP for anything... too slow and lacks a lot of feaetures that better video players have (did I mention it's also a resource hog?). VLC, BSPlayer, MPlayer... and for audio, definetely Winamp.
And IE, come on, I don't really feel the need to ever use it, It's not that I'm just some Firefox Evangelist that would use it no matter what, but really, it is the better alternative right now.
You had to do what? You just got ripped off by the retailer selling you the Trial Version CDs as the retail box. The RETAIL WoW comes with 30 days free, no questions asked.
It's either that or you're blind and couldn't find the CD-Key flyer inside the box.
This is going to put a big hole in the whole Inteligent Design crowd. Or will get the religious nuts in a frenzy of protest. We're living interesting times.
Well, fortunately, this is not a Politically-based documentary. Watch the movie and you'll see it takes swings at both Republicans and Democrats without holding his punches. It's about a system that is broken, and needs to be fixed somehow.
It's a very good movie, you should definitely watch it. even if it's not 100% accurate, it still brings up a shitload of valid points that Americans should definitely think about.
Yeah, but for the price of a phone that can actually do a lot more. A phone that does "the basic stuff for the average consumer" doesn't have to cost more than 200 USD. And having it flashy and shiny doesn't warrant for the price difference.
This actually proves my point. This kind of technology (mobile telephones) was prevalent in the US long before it was anywhere else in the world.
Actually, while Motorola and AT&T invented the Cellular telephony technology, your FCC kept the technology from being implemented for a crapload of time. It took a phone call from Ronald Reagan to take them out of their eternal sleep. Meanwhile, Japan and Northern Europe already had implemented their own cellular networks.
Please, believe me, the mobile phones around in Europe would kick the iPhone's ass. Go to Finland for example and show your shiny iPhone to a person there and they'll ask you a few things:
1. Does it have 3G
2. Does it have a Card Slot so I can expand it's memory?
3. Can you create REAL applications that will run on it?
4. Does it have GPS?
5. Can you change the damn battery when (not if, but WHEN) its life is over?
What exactly does your beloved iPhone do? besides allowing me to touch a large screen with two fingers at the same time? Everything else is technology that was available in mainstream Mobile Phones 3 years ago.
As everyone knows you can't answer yes to any of the above questions. So at that point, the Finnish guy will take out his shiny N-Series Nokia Smartphone (with a REAL Operating System, with REAL applications, a REAL SDK and a lot of freedon to offer) and tell you to go stick your iPhone where the sun don't shine, because it's the only thing he would think about doing with it.
In it's current state, the iPhone cannot succeed in Europe, and it's not about the price, because it's a normal price for a Smartphone. The only problem is that the iPhone IS NOT A SMARTPHONE, and if Apple continue to not look at what the established mobile phone businesses are doing IT WILL NEVER BE ONE.
Out Romanian president put it to the Russians straight.
When a russian parliament member protested the fact that Romania has allowed the States to have military bases on it's territory and asked for explanations, Mr. president responded: "You stayed in Romania for 30 years and nobody asked you why".
Mod parent up. All this scheme seems to be designed for is to facilitate what people were yelling about a couple of weeks ago: License removal and transferral. This way you could remove the Windows Licence from your old computer and transfer it to a new computer without having activation problems.
Thanks for making uninformed generalizations........
Verizon is the main carrier that does this. The largest carrier in the USA does not.
Sorry for sounding so harsh, I was just answering to the parent that kept complaining about not being able to use his own camera phone because the carrier wouldn't let him, so he stated that camera phones are useless. I agree, answering to a misinformed generalization with another generalization it kinda' wrong.
And because you use an older device which the article doesn't talk about, you're clearly qualified to discount the entire article...
I am going to go for a V3 platform soon and so I've looked into the platform quite a bit. Also I'm a developer and I'm planning into doing some mobile development so I've also looked into the SDK for V3 and it has quite a few new features that are extremely interesting and useful especially from the point of view of the specific piece of software that we plan to implement on the device. From a user's standpoint, one of the most important things the newest version of V3 brings is the integrated web/wap browser with full HTML support (You could also download such a browser for free from Nokia if you had a S60 v3 pre-feature pack 1... open source and based on KHTML - same as Konqueror and Safari).
I can go on but It's kinda' late and the point is, I know quite a bit about the platform even if I didn't YET go through the trouble of changing my aging phone:)
As soon as I get the new phone, I'll also upgrade to a 3G/UMTS plan so I'll be able to enjoy that as well:) Anyway, it's true, my comment was probably a little off, as what I was trying to express is the fact that most likely it wasn't the phone's fault that his calls were being dropped but rather it was caused by network problems.
Please stop acting like everything revolves around the US. As far as I know your providers are the only assholes in the whole world that cripple their phones to such extent that you can't even connect to your mobile phone to download some pictures off it. I'm happy with having a camera phone. I just connect it to my laptop via my INCLUDED USB cable and software or use a bluetooth connection and can get anything on or off the phone in no time.
And the article is nothing but PLAIN AND SIMPLE FUD, I have an older S60 Series 2 phone and love it. Will switch to a Series 3 phone soon because it's a great mobile platform to use. I have everything I need on my phone, E-mail reader, Web Browser (Opera for Symbian is a great piece of software), IM, organizer. And it doesn't drop calls or anything similar. Your problems must be related to the crap CDMA 2000 technology your providers most likely still use.
Don't get me started on java, the most resource hungry platform I've ever seen in my life.
I personally have been using mono for the last 2 years, mainly for Web Service Creation and it was so easy to integrate with Winforms Clients that wanted to consume them. The release of Mono 1.2 means a lot of code I had running on Windows can now be executed without modifications on Linux. Well, I guess I can say that we have a completely portable Application at this moment, which makes me very happy.
BTW, I live in Europe, and if we don't let our greedy politicians get bought up by the American greedy corporations, I will be able to not give a dead rat's ass by any patent that MS wants to throw at me.
I see nowhere in the article a mention about Romania. I know we've had our share of online scam artists, but mentioning Romania any time something like this comes along is just plain ridiculous.
Actually I am a bit of a gentoo fanboy, but I'm not one of those "foaming at the mouth over their distro" type of fanboys. I can accept constructive criticism, especially since I've been through the same experience (started modifying the portage python files to debug so I can figure out what the hell is going on... AND I DON'T KNOW PYTHON, LOL). I mean, it seemed absurd to me that a profile would just "disappear" all of a sudden, and emerge doesn't give a real error message stating that, just crashes with a "null where it is not supposed to be" type exception - can't give you the exact error message right now-.
In the end, every distro has it's strong points and weak points, and right now, It's pretty hard for me to part with "emerge -something-" whenever I want to install or update some package.
There is some truth in this, try doing an emerge -C kde and you'll see what I mean. Again, it takes some time looking for the specific packages that comprise a pseudo-package and uninstall all of them. That doesn't mean you can't uninstall packages.
Yeah, it happened to me to, but only because I did not notice a warning message at an emerge sync earlier that stated that MY PROFILE WILL BECOME OBSOLETE in a couple of weeks. After I figured it out, I just modified the symlink (3 seconds) and everything was back to normal:P
Don't hate Gentoo. As long as you know what you're doing, and you actually look at the display, you're in the clear.
Slashdot Mirror
Or www.google.com/ncr ... this sets a cookie that prevents further redirects to country-specific sites.
Oh, how us Romanians (.ro domain) would love a Slashdot version in our language, and I'm also sure a Russian (.ru) site would be great for the russians.
I really am not using WMP for anything ... too slow and lacks a lot of feaetures that better video players have (did I mention it's also a resource hog?). VLC, BSPlayer, MPlayer ... and for audio, definetely Winamp.
And IE, come on, I don't really feel the need to ever use it, It's not that I'm just some Firefox Evangelist that would use it no matter what, but really, it is the better alternative right now.
And I'm not alone in this.
You had to do what? You just got ripped off by the retailer selling you the Trial Version CDs as the retail box. The RETAIL WoW comes with 30 days free, no questions asked. It's either that or you're blind and couldn't find the CD-Key flyer inside the box.
I think I've got a brilliant idea for a name ... I think I'll call it Caldera, what do you say ?
Well, since everyone is showcasing his favorite combination, I'll go for LAMP my own way:
Linux, Apache, Mod_Mono, PostgreSQL
Both outcomes would be more than acceptable.
Outlook does not ask you anything, it just upgrades your Outlook data files to the new format.
This is going to put a big hole in the whole Inteligent Design crowd. Or will get the religious nuts in a frenzy of protest. We're living interesting times.
Well, fortunately, this is not a Politically-based documentary. Watch the movie and you'll see it takes swings at both Republicans and Democrats without holding his punches. It's about a system that is broken, and needs to be fixed somehow.
It's a very good movie, you should definitely watch it. even if it's not 100% accurate, it still brings up a shitload of valid points that Americans should definitely think about.
Because fanboyism makes some people blind to any form of criticism to the subject of their "idolatry". And once in a while they get mod points :D
Yeah, but for the price of a phone that can actually do a lot more. A phone that does "the basic stuff for the average consumer" doesn't have to cost more than 200 USD. And having it flashy and shiny doesn't warrant for the price difference.
This actually proves my point. This kind of technology (mobile telephones) was prevalent in the US long before it was anywhere else in the world.
Actually, while Motorola and AT&T invented the Cellular telephony technology, your FCC kept the technology from being implemented for a crapload of time. It took a phone call from Ronald Reagan to take them out of their eternal sleep. Meanwhile, Japan and Northern Europe already had implemented their own cellular networks.
Please, believe me, the mobile phones around in Europe would kick the iPhone's ass. Go to Finland for example and show your shiny iPhone to a person there and they'll ask you a few things:
1. Does it have 3G
2. Does it have a Card Slot so I can expand it's memory?
3. Can you create REAL applications that will run on it?
4. Does it have GPS?
5. Can you change the damn battery when (not if, but WHEN) its life is over?
What exactly does your beloved iPhone do? besides allowing me to touch a large screen with two fingers at the same time? Everything else is technology that was available in mainstream Mobile Phones 3 years ago.
As everyone knows you can't answer yes to any of the above questions. So at that point, the Finnish guy will take out his shiny N-Series Nokia Smartphone (with a REAL Operating System, with REAL applications, a REAL SDK and a lot of freedon to offer) and tell you to go stick your iPhone where the sun don't shine, because it's the only thing he would think about doing with it.
In it's current state, the iPhone cannot succeed in Europe, and it's not about the price, because it's a normal price for a Smartphone. The only problem is that the iPhone IS NOT A SMARTPHONE, and if Apple continue to not look at what the established mobile phone businesses are doing IT WILL NEVER BE ONE.
Out Romanian president put it to the Russians straight.
When a russian parliament member protested the fact that Romania has allowed the States to have military bases on it's territory and asked for explanations, Mr. president responded: "You stayed in Romania for 30 years and nobody asked you why".
Something that has to do with biology, politics, the environment and a lot of other interesting subjects for a high-school student.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.
This is the first book in the series
monodevelop has gone a long way since I first started using it a couple of years back.
... much more stable and with a lot of additional features)
Try it. (I recommend the SVN version
Mod parent up. All this scheme seems to be designed for is to facilitate what people were yelling about a couple of weeks ago: License removal and transferral. This way you could remove the Windows Licence from your old computer and transfer it to a new computer without having activation problems.
IMHO: Move along, nothing to see here.
I am going to go for a V3 platform soon and so I've looked into the platform quite a bit. Also I'm a developer and I'm planning into doing some mobile development so I've also looked into the SDK for V3 and it has quite a few new features that are extremely interesting and useful especially from the point of view of the specific piece of software that we plan to implement on the device. From a user's standpoint, one of the most important things the newest version of V3 brings is the integrated web/wap browser with full HTML support (You could also download such a browser for free from Nokia if you had a S60 v3 pre-feature pack 1
I can go on but It's kinda' late and the point is, I know quite a bit about the platform even if I didn't YET go through the trouble of changing my aging phone
As soon as I get the new phone, I'll also upgrade to a 3G/UMTS plan so I'll be able to enjoy that as well
Please stop acting like everything revolves around the US. As far as I know your providers are the only assholes in the whole world that cripple their phones to such extent that you can't even connect to your mobile phone to download some pictures off it. I'm happy with having a camera phone. I just connect it to my laptop via my INCLUDED USB cable and software or use a bluetooth connection and can get anything on or off the phone in no time.
And the article is nothing but PLAIN AND SIMPLE FUD, I have an older S60 Series 2 phone and love it. Will switch to a Series 3 phone soon because it's a great mobile platform to use. I have everything I need on my phone, E-mail reader, Web Browser (Opera for Symbian is a great piece of software), IM, organizer. And it doesn't drop calls or anything similar. Your problems must be related to the crap CDMA 2000 technology your providers most likely still use.
Don't get me started on java, the most resource hungry platform I've ever seen in my life.
I personally have been using mono for the last 2 years, mainly for Web Service Creation and it was so easy to integrate with Winforms Clients that wanted to consume them. The release of Mono 1.2 means a lot of code I had running on Windows can now be executed without modifications on Linux. Well, I guess I can say that we have a completely portable Application at this moment, which makes me very happy.
BTW, I live in Europe, and if we don't let our greedy politicians get bought up by the American greedy corporations, I will be able to not give a dead rat's ass by any patent that MS wants to throw at me.
I see nowhere in the article a mention about Romania. I know we've had our share of online scam artists, but mentioning Romania any time something like this comes along is just plain ridiculous.
Actually I am a bit of a gentoo fanboy, but I'm not one of those "foaming at the mouth over their distro" type of fanboys. I can accept constructive criticism, especially since I've been through the same experience (started modifying the portage python files to debug so I can figure out what the hell is going on ... AND I DON'T KNOW PYTHON, LOL). I mean, it seemed absurd to me that a profile would just "disappear" all of a sudden, and emerge doesn't give a real error message stating that, just crashes with a "null where it is not supposed to be" type exception - can't give you the exact error message right now-.
In the end, every distro has it's strong points and weak points, and right now, It's pretty hard for me to part with "emerge -something-" whenever I want to install or update some package.
Heh, that's why I use openoffice-bin
There is some truth in this, try doing an emerge -C kde and you'll see what I mean. Again, it takes some time looking for the specific packages that comprise a pseudo-package and uninstall all of them. That doesn't mean you can't uninstall packages.
Yeah, it happened to me to, but only because I did not notice a warning message at an emerge sync earlier that stated that MY PROFILE WILL BECOME OBSOLETE in a couple of weeks. After I figured it out, I just modified the symlink (3 seconds) and everything was back to normal :P
Don't hate Gentoo. As long as you know what you're doing, and you actually look at the display, you're in the clear.