If someone like Asa suggests using a Microsoft technology because your company currently looks more evil than "satan himself" (remember?), you should look to mirror and ask what is wrong.
Stop "thinking" with company images. Look to what they actually do. Please stop this "they aren't evil" BS. Enough really... We got a information monopoly in hand who tries to get every bit of your personal information if you aren't careful.
Every feature you hate somehow leaks your personal data to Google if you aren't careful. Interesting co-incidence eh?
Also does Adobe and Apple really need couple of cents from Google? Adobe Flash which has way bigger market share than Google comes with toolbar option selected by DEFAULT. You know the deal with impossible to change Google search on Safari/OS X.
You know, MS (and various closed source) things come with "You may not disassemble the product". I am trying to show what is wrong with using a frankestein filesystem which should be ditched the _day_ floppy diskettes were over.
What a sad thing that Linux, BSD and even Apple couldn't convince these SD card idiots even after the Tomtom wake up call. If it is the popularity, iPhone/iPod uses HFS+ journaled for years with gigantic files in them. Near all "media device" powered by Linux runs some sort of ext2/3.
I would personally trade NTFS with FAT, at least it is modern and journaled. BTW, am I reading wrong or Nokia still uses God damn FAT in a Linux powered device? They are beyond hopeless. If anyone talks about "but they come with FAT", please don't. A Nokia phone does a lot of things with a freshly installed memory card (creates own dirs), how hard would be to check if it is empty and format it with ext2? "Easily remove" was _never_ the case, all Nokia devices have "remove memory card" option for a very good reason.
What bothers me is, non technical people store impossible to reproduce memories (photos etc) to that backwards filesystem thanks to these SD card idiots. We will see their faces when MS becomes a patent troll or decides to punish some company for using Linux.
I think these company execs thinks iPhone OS X is a "new" OS.
iPhone OS X is in fact; 40 years old Unix, 20-25 year old NeXT running Mach Kernel along with a big collection of open source software which aren't really "newly invented". That is the most amazing part of iPhone success which everyone seems to miss. The most trendy, innovative device runs on a very conservative OS.
There is a mysterious trend that having Linux on a device automatically grants you thousands of applications.
I see the same thing on Symbian land too. These people, including the suits making these decisions have no clue about the Linux. Of course, there is a huge and healthy application scene on Linux but we don't speak about desktop here. If the large software library of desktop instantly translated to mobile, Windows Mobile would have million apps now.
I don't even bother about commercial third party apps. For example will Microsoft release a full feature Live Messenger on a Linux powered device? Will Adobe spare time&money to Flash on that OS while their hands are already full? What about.NET? Trolltech (Nokia) Qt? J2ME?
Did they become founding member of Open Handset Alliance too?!?
They are also founding member of Symbian Foundation while they did impossible to recover damage to foundation by announcing they won't release any Symbian phone in 2010! They absolutely acted like a trojan hurting Symbian owners at the end.
I think both foundations doesn't need them and they should give them a very public boot. It is not like they will produce anything serious with such corporate culture anyway.
Nokia and Symbian Foundation promises a simple thing with a real life example already in hand. Learn Qt to write for 200M+ devices regardless of Linux/Symbian and even Windows Mobile.
It is not Java. It is C++ with a perfect real life example in hand, KDE 4. Same source, 3 platforms (Linux/BSD, Windows, OS X).
I know slashdot community knows the deal once Nokia acquired Trolltech but anyway, trying to wake up developers. Also no reason for Qt not to appear on iPhone OS X while.NET exists in some form and apps approved.
PS: Obviously you will need to know more than Qt for "deep level running" apps such as Nimbuzz, Birdstep Smartconnect etc. I speak about regular apps, the 99% of much bragged about 100.000 "app store" stuff.
I hope you got an insanely powerful password for your Google account since it is NOT a "cloud", it is plain old server, owned by some gigantic company who has amazing powerful PR capabilities and close ties to media.
I bet you will install multi billion dollar worth "turn by turn" navigation when Google offers it for free, you will never, ever ask "Why do they offer this thing free to me while others have to ask for money?".
You sir, are the new privacy ignorant type who Google created.
If people didn't fixate themselves to single search engine and use whatever fits best for that particular search or basically, whatever they feel like using that day, this needless monopoly and the issues coming with it would be instantly over.
Why is it a nightmare to track P2P? It is the randomness, multiple services, technologies, hosts, habits changing instantly etc.
What we need is some sort of revolution in size of Gnutella, Wikipedia, Bittorrent. Some invention that really works and actually used/liked by average user. If it is good enough, it will be adopted. I don't think gnutella, bittorrent or wikipedia did multi billion ad campaigns.
I think Google apologizers has become worse than Apple apologizers but let me try one more time.
If you install current Google maps to your Symbian phone (possibly others soon) and "reset it", it will send your personal "favorites" (read: locations saved) to Google, without even asking you. For example "Grandma's home" goes from your personal phone memory to Google, instantly.
It must have sort of "opt out" too of course but it doesn't change the fact that Google really looks like some sort of information vampire, trying to get all data from you, especially personal ones.
One day in future, looking to their horrible image among customers and several government/private investigations going on, they will ask themselves "What did we do wrong?" but it will be too late for them. My "citation"? MS history in 1990s. Quote from the book "No Logo" (sorry, double translated) "It was a cool thing to work at Microsoft but whatever happened in no time, people started to stare at us like we work for Philip Morris."
Perhaps MS has written the engine in true portable way and it will run under FreeBSD Yahoo uses. As you know, MS never had problem with BSD folks and even the license itself. I wouldn't be surprised a bit if MS released some high end software (e.g. Dynamics etc.) on FreeBSD tomorrow. They kinda code for it anyway, I mean they must have learned a lot already thanks to OS X department.
I compile gettext etc. and they keep checking for documented MS languages to support, I don't think they would spare time to some imaginary languages which doesn't really exist:)
By using it and adding a search engine as Bing who tries to achieve some success to your hosts (127.0.x I guess), you create the monster you mention "Google".
I kept using Yahoo for a long time since I got SICK of the easily hacked Google results and horrible advertising control. Now I end up having only Bing.com as my provider since there are no other CREDIBLE engines left. It is MY right to get frustrated, you can keep on using Google.
I hate MS and their puppets in open source, the MSCE idiots but I have tried Bing to see what did they manage to do after all that work. Result? I was impressed with my local language results, very much and I openly told everyone about it, including open source fanatics I know. Of course, unless MS fixes their culture, 30 minutes downtime like comedy will happen, IE will get "better features" eventually and all will get wasted in that corrupt company. Don't I know it? Still not enough to treat it like some spyware host.
I don't see them complain about the ridiculous default search engine under OS X/Safari default browser which you have to hack a signed binaries resources rendering it unsigned to change it from Google to anything else.
That is not Firefox I talk about or not Opera, both lives with the money they get from Google and yet they allow very conveniently to change them. That is $130 (or $30 upgrade) Operating System's default web browser. Add more to the frustration? Windows Safari _allows_ you to change it to Yahoo. iPhone one too!
I know it is not Google to blame on this matter but they should know that, not everyone doesn't like their engine and policies and if Safari case happens, they basically hate them. They should talk to those greedy Apple suits to offer a way to change it, without ridiculous hacks.
There is an amazingly multiplatform reader "wattpad", it has applications for every kind of platform you can imagine including J2ME.
The content looks like crap sometimes but you can see the incoming nightmare of big publishers. People can sit with a keyboard and write actual novel you know. This time, they can publish it electronically too. Just like Youtube.
"Have you been published?" "No but, I got like 3.000.000 readers who read my story. How many books have you sold?"
It is too early to talk about yet, the content is not mature yet but trust me, it is coming.
Is there a popular book about business management that suggest to target the largest marketshare owner?
First Palm claims they will kill iPhone, Verizon attacks directly AT&T/Apple and now this.
Such basic "rule of thumb" things do not work. You can't beat Amazon in anything online unless you change the way you think. Amazon would happily allow _your_ ads inside their pages. Do you have such vision? Amazon could let you use their own idle processing power for your services and can happily rent cheap bandwidth to you. That is the kind of a company you race with.
Will you sell any book about Citizen Kane in your store to begin with? How many years have your media empire boycotted Orson Wells because of his work? Start with answering it and apologizing him/his fans.
My post has links to security models of all 3 smart phone platforms. Sorry if I have broken your "but everything has these problems" Apple apology. No, they don't. They don't trust to fresh idiot interns to run commands like monkeys from a chart, they put actual OS security frameworks/sandboxes and so far, they all work in HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DEVICES from Bangladesh to Sweden.
One day, one dirty rival of Apple or a psychopath will use one of these "theoretical" exploits which Apple keeps ignoring for years. You won't need to check news that day, your newspaper won't simply arrive since the Quark/Indesign Machine they use won't function.
I don't hope for it but Apple is really inviting it...
J2ME which Android was based on had that concept for years. It is a J2ME concept, you know, the VM which trendy developers ignore for years while it is well beyond 700M installed base.
It is news on smart phones which started with lessons learned from Desktop and mobile trojans themselves. Apple ignored those lessons and now paying for it.
Average OS X Leopard install is well beyond 1 million files. Systems, the way they use files, the way they store files are very different, I am saying as a person who is really using them in all kinds of configurations. In fact, needlessly "cleaning" files may cause B-Tree fragmentation itself...
It is horribly stupid to install seti@home or any distributed computing client to machines you don't own but... Did you see the quotes? "Search for E.T." etc.
Scientists at SETI and Stanford should give them a little lecture about seti@home. No idiotic school manager has right to speak about such scientists as some UFO seeking weirdos.
Slashdot Mirror
If someone like Asa suggests using a Microsoft technology because your company currently looks more evil than "satan himself" (remember?), you should look to mirror and ask what is wrong.
Stop "thinking" with company images. Look to what they actually do. Please stop this "they aren't evil" BS. Enough really... We got a information monopoly in hand who tries to get every bit of your personal information if you aren't careful.
Every feature you hate somehow leaks your personal data to Google if you aren't careful. Interesting co-incidence eh?
Also does Adobe and Apple really need couple of cents from Google? Adobe Flash which has way bigger market share than Google comes with toolbar option selected by DEFAULT. You know the deal with impossible to change Google search on Safari/OS X.
You know, MS (and various closed source) things come with "You may not disassemble the product". I am trying to show what is wrong with using a frankestein filesystem which should be ditched the _day_ floppy diskettes were over.
What a sad thing that Linux, BSD and even Apple couldn't convince these SD card idiots even after the Tomtom wake up call. If it is the popularity, iPhone/iPod uses HFS+ journaled for years with gigantic files in them. Near all "media device" powered by Linux runs some sort of ext2/3.
I would personally trade NTFS with FAT, at least it is modern and journaled. BTW, am I reading wrong or Nokia still uses God damn FAT in a Linux powered device? They are beyond hopeless. If anyone talks about "but they come with FAT", please don't. A Nokia phone does a lot of things with a freshly installed memory card (creates own dirs), how hard would be to check if it is empty and format it with ext2? "Easily remove" was _never_ the case, all Nokia devices have "remove memory card" option for a very good reason.
What bothers me is, non technical people store impossible to reproduce memories (photos etc) to that backwards filesystem thanks to these SD card idiots. We will see their faces when MS becomes a patent troll or decides to punish some company for using Linux.
I think these company execs thinks iPhone OS X is a "new" OS.
iPhone OS X is in fact; 40 years old Unix, 20-25 year old NeXT running Mach Kernel along with a big collection of open source software which aren't really "newly invented". That is the most amazing part of iPhone success which everyone seems to miss. The most trendy, innovative device runs on a very conservative OS.
There is a mysterious trend that having Linux on a device automatically grants you thousands of applications.
I see the same thing on Symbian land too. These people, including the suits making these decisions have no clue about the Linux. Of course, there is a huge and healthy application scene on Linux but we don't speak about desktop here. If the large software library of desktop instantly translated to mobile, Windows Mobile would have million apps now.
I don't even bother about commercial third party apps. For example will Microsoft release a full feature Live Messenger on a Linux powered device? Will Adobe spare time&money to Flash on that OS while their hands are already full? What about .NET? Trolltech (Nokia) Qt? J2ME?
Did they become founding member of Open Handset Alliance too?!?
They are also founding member of Symbian Foundation while they did impossible to recover damage to foundation by announcing they won't release any Symbian phone in 2010! They absolutely acted like a trojan hurting Symbian owners at the end.
http://www.symbian.org/members/member-directory
I think both foundations doesn't need them and they should give them a very public boot. It is not like they will produce anything serious with such corporate culture anyway.
Nokia and Symbian Foundation promises a simple thing with a real life example already in hand. Learn Qt to write for 200M+ devices regardless of Linux/Symbian and even Windows Mobile.
It is not Java. It is C++ with a perfect real life example in hand, KDE 4. Same source, 3 platforms (Linux/BSD, Windows, OS X).
I know slashdot community knows the deal once Nokia acquired Trolltech but anyway, trying to wake up developers. Also no reason for Qt not to appear on iPhone OS X while .NET exists in some form and apps approved.
PS: Obviously you will need to know more than Qt for "deep level running" apps such as Nimbuzz, Birdstep Smartconnect etc. I speak about regular apps, the 99% of much bragged about 100.000 "app store" stuff.
I hope you got an insanely powerful password for your Google account since it is NOT a "cloud", it is plain old server, owned by some gigantic company who has amazing powerful PR capabilities and close ties to media.
I bet you will install multi billion dollar worth "turn by turn" navigation when Google offers it for free, you will never, ever ask "Why do they offer this thing free to me while others have to ask for money?".
You sir, are the new privacy ignorant type who Google created.
If they get a court order, all your inbox goes to authories. Stop living in some sort of utopic dream land.
Even slashdot admitted they had to remove couple of messages because US Secret service politely asked them with reasons making sense.
If people didn't fixate themselves to single search engine and use whatever fits best for that particular search or basically, whatever they feel like using that day, this needless monopoly and the issues coming with it would be instantly over.
Why is it a nightmare to track P2P? It is the randomness, multiple services, technologies, hosts, habits changing instantly etc.
What we need is some sort of revolution in size of Gnutella, Wikipedia, Bittorrent. Some invention that really works and actually used/liked by average user. If it is good enough, it will be adopted. I don't think gnutella, bittorrent or wikipedia did multi billion ad campaigns.
I think Google apologizers has become worse than Apple apologizers but let me try one more time.
If you install current Google maps to your Symbian phone (possibly others soon) and "reset it", it will send your personal "favorites" (read: locations saved) to Google, without even asking you. For example "Grandma's home" goes from your personal phone memory to Google, instantly.
It must have sort of "opt out" too of course but it doesn't change the fact that Google really looks like some sort of information vampire, trying to get all data from you, especially personal ones.
One day in future, looking to their horrible image among customers and several government/private investigations going on, they will ask themselves "What did we do wrong?" but it will be too late for them. My "citation"? MS history in 1990s. Quote from the book "No Logo" (sorry, double translated) "It was a cool thing to work at Microsoft but whatever happened in no time, people started to stare at us like we work for Philip Morris."
Perhaps MS has written the engine in true portable way and it will run under FreeBSD Yahoo uses. As you know, MS never had problem with BSD folks and even the license itself. I wouldn't be surprised a bit if MS released some high end software (e.g. Dynamics etc.) on FreeBSD tomorrow. They kinda code for it anyway, I mean they must have learned a lot already thanks to OS X department.
I compile gettext etc. and they keep checking for documented MS languages to support, I don't think they would spare time to some imaginary languages which doesn't really exist :)
By using it and adding a search engine as Bing who tries to achieve some success to your hosts (127.0.x I guess), you create the monster you mention "Google".
I kept using Yahoo for a long time since I got SICK of the easily hacked Google results and horrible advertising control. Now I end up having only Bing.com as my provider since there are no other CREDIBLE engines left. It is MY right to get frustrated, you can keep on using Google.
I hate MS and their puppets in open source, the MSCE idiots but I have tried Bing to see what did they manage to do after all that work. Result? I was impressed with my local language results, very much and I openly told everyone about it, including open source fanatics I know. Of course, unless MS fixes their culture, 30 minutes downtime like comedy will happen, IE will get "better features" eventually and all will get wasted in that corrupt company. Don't I know it? Still not enough to treat it like some spyware host.
I don't see them complain about the ridiculous default search engine under OS X/Safari default browser which you have to hack a signed binaries resources rendering it unsigned to change it from Google to anything else.
That is not Firefox I talk about or not Opera, both lives with the money they get from Google and yet they allow very conveniently to change them. That is $130 (or $30 upgrade) Operating System's default web browser. Add more to the frustration? Windows Safari _allows_ you to change it to Yahoo. iPhone one too!
I know it is not Google to blame on this matter but they should know that, not everyone doesn't like their engine and policies and if Safari case happens, they basically hate them. They should talk to those greedy Apple suits to offer a way to change it, without ridiculous hacks.
There is an amazingly multiplatform reader "wattpad", it has applications for every kind of platform you can imagine including J2ME.
The content looks like crap sometimes but you can see the incoming nightmare of big publishers. People can sit with a keyboard and write actual novel you know. This time, they can publish it electronically too. Just like Youtube.
"Have you been published?" "No but, I got like 3.000.000 readers who read my story. How many books have you sold?"
It is too early to talk about yet, the content is not mature yet but trust me, it is coming.
Is there a popular book about business management that suggest to target the largest marketshare owner?
First Palm claims they will kill iPhone, Verizon attacks directly AT&T/Apple and now this.
Such basic "rule of thumb" things do not work. You can't beat Amazon in anything online unless you change the way you think. Amazon would happily allow _your_ ads inside their pages. Do you have such vision? Amazon could let you use their own idle processing power for your services and can happily rent cheap bandwidth to you. That is the kind of a company you race with.
Will you sell any book about Citizen Kane in your store to begin with? How many years have your media empire boycotted Orson Wells because of his work? Start with answering it and apologizing him/his fans.
If it is "by publishers for publishers", only people who will buy it are publishers themselves. E.g. Dan Brown's manager.
My post has links to security models of all 3 smart phone platforms. Sorry if I have broken your "but everything has these problems" Apple apology. No, they don't. They don't trust to fresh idiot interns to run commands like monkeys from a chart, they put actual OS security frameworks/sandboxes and so far, they all work in HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DEVICES from Bangladesh to Sweden.
Capiche?
Trust me, it won't be that easy on Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile has a security model similar to Symbian and J2ME.
One day, one dirty rival of Apple or a psychopath will use one of these "theoretical" exploits which Apple keeps ignoring for years. You won't need to check news that day, your newspaper won't simply arrive since the Quark/Indesign Machine they use won't function.
I don't hope for it but Apple is really inviting it...
J2ME which Android was based on had that concept for years. It is a J2ME concept, you know, the VM which trendy developers ignore for years while it is well beyond 700M installed base.
It is news on smart phones which started with lessons learned from Desktop and mobile trojans themselves. Apple ignored those lessons and now paying for it.
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Symbian_Platform_Security_Model
http://developers.sun.com/mobility/midp/articles/permissions/
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512651.aspx
In fact, security scene kind of gave up on iPhone&iPod. Let whoever buys makes his/her own mind.
Average OS X Leopard install is well beyond 1 million files. Systems, the way they use files, the way they store files are very different, I am saying as a person who is really using them in all kinds of configurations. In fact, needlessly "cleaning" files may cause B-Tree fragmentation itself...
It is horribly stupid to install seti@home or any distributed computing client to machines you don't own but... Did you see the quotes? "Search for E.T." etc.
Scientists at SETI and Stanford should give them a little lecture about seti@home. No idiotic school manager has right to speak about such scientists as some UFO seeking weirdos.