And yet, if it was an american parent making those decisions for their children, we might applaud them as more responsible than the average parent who lets their kid get up to anything online, unmonitored.
Let's stop demonising one of the oldest, and traditionally if not currently most advanced civilisations in the world, OK? Yes, they make some poor decisions. Are they evil, or completely misguided compared to the western cultures where kids are running into schools and shooting their classmates before shooting themselves? Perhaps not.
Of course not. If the point was not to pay for something, the solution would be to not buy it. So-called piracy is what other people call sharing useful information. Of course people are willing to pay for useful information, if it's offered in a sane way. That just hasn't been happening much lately.
I don't recall hearing of them ever doing anything to benefit the users.
Well, they did release AOLserver. From wikipedia:
"AOLserver was the first HTTP server program to combine multithreading, a built-in scripting language, and the pooling of persistent database connections. For database-backed Web sites, this enabled performance improvements of 100X compared to the standard practices at the time of CGI scripts that opened fresh database connections on every page load. Eventually other HTTP server programs were able to achieve similar performance with a similar architecture, but AOLserver was several years ahead of the competition."
The N900 uses an old type of touch screen that can't do multitouch (properly). Meego uses multitouch as an everyday input method.
There's already a Meego alpha available for the N900, but there's no UI (just a shell).
Almost. Meego is available for Netbooks, but Nokia released "Meego Core" for the N900, not "Meego". Honestly, individual skilled hackers have released more of android for N900 so far. Nokia have said that they're not supporting N900 because it's not an open hardware platform, and so they can't release drivers for it.
Honestly... the iPhone 4 just came out with half the thickness/weight, better styling, higher screen resolution, multitouch, proper app store with books and audiobooks and thousands of (useful, commercial-quality, varied) apps, working front-facing camera and the promotion to make that a well-used communication tool. Android is similarly polished, and is making progress constantly with new versions. There are a heap of Chinese companies that have, up to now, been making cheap iPhone rip-offs, but are now able to put Android on their phones and compete on a global stage as full-blown phone manufacturers --- and promote Android at the same time. Meanwhile, Nokia is bringing out huge, expensive phones, which are only good (relative to other phones in the price bracket) because you can ignore the crappy solutions Nokia gave you and hack your own stuff in there. They're just not competing on the same level as Google and Apple lately.
While Meego won't be officially supported on the N900, it's worth noting that the N900 remains the reference platform for it.
Link? To my way of thinking, that is a contradiction in terms. Reference platform means a platform which manufacturers can refer to as KNOWN GOOD, in order to build a working solution, when implementing their own products or variants. Since the N900 doesn't even have the correct hardware to run Meego, I don't see how they could possibly claim that.
Additionally, the community support for Maemo is unbelievably good
Community support for Amigas is pretty good too, but that doesn't change the fact that Commodore-Amiga killed their platform.
If you take the time to read the article and comments I linked to above, you'll see others explaining the same problem, and an ex-nokia staff member explaining that Nokia are aware of the problem, acknowledge it internally, know what they need to do to fix it, but just can't get it done because of company structures.
Remember, Hollywood movies can cost from $10,000,000 to $100,000,000 to shoot and produce so compared to that it is nothing.
Remember, what big companies put on paper as "costs" after tax evasion, big bonuses, and drug-fueled parties isn't much to do with the actual costs of a project.
So, you mean, I can now drive to a store and rent the DVD/Bluray of a movie on the same day as I can buy it in a store, six months after I could download a virtually complete and much more interesting workprint release?
Wow, this is real cutting-edge tech they're bringing to consumers. Who wouldn't want to pay through the eyeballs for that?
To replace the market SOFTWARE, you would need access to the market data. Otherwise, you're starting from scratch. But the data is locked down. Often these days, given the lock-in created by having all your friends or apps in one system, open source is a secondary concern, next to open data and openly accessible APIs. Anyone can make a facebook client, even if the source isn't available, but making that facebook client work with facebook without an (un-locked) API, or making a better, more open version of facebook and encouraging everyone to move over en masse is next to impossible. It's the same with Microsoft Word -- there are clones, but everyone's data is in a locked.DOC format, so transition is difficult. Open content is everything.
You're confusing energy conversion efficiency with energy production. The main connection there is that less efficiency means more raw resources for the same result. They're certainly not the same thing.
I think what the GP was getting at is something like, "This sounds way better than past solar conversion efficiency. Can we know build viable solar power stations? What about orbital solar power satellites? Where does this leave coal and nuclear power stations? What will the overall energy production strategy be, once this comes to market, given projected energy needs WHEN it will come to market?"
That's not a set of questions you want to answer too hastily.
Yes, I'm glad to say it seems that way (again). Although it's more a case of "it's becoming an open source, collaborative world", which is even better.
RIM -- Moving to QNX
Interesting. I'd only heard about the microkernel and tried photon; didn't realise QNX was unix-like under the hood.
so to suggest they only bought it to kill it is false
I didn't suggest that at all. Clearly they bought it with the intent of using it to build a good cross-platform SDK solution for their phones. What I did suggest was that they'll probably kill it anyway, despite their good intentions, because they're completely clueless about what developers and users want from modern smartphone platform.
No, you got bugfixes that essentially brought it out of beta status months after it was released. On the same day, you saw the first release of Meego, their new system, which Nokia have clearly said that they will NOT properly support on the N900. The work to fix major bugs was essentially just a woefully inadequate fairwell gesture. A full, supported meego release with potential for another 2 years of app compatibility for the N900 might have been a less stupid gesture.
If you don't even HAVE a name, then I submit you're crazier than the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.
Names aren't as essential or universal as you might think. For instance, I believe that a lot of Japanese peasants in medieval times were only referred to by their role -- fisherman, or cook, for instance. At some point, just like in the West, "blacksmith" became "black" and "smith" became a name rather than a job, but arguably, for a while at least, they were not names; just another index into the same data record that could benefit from a unique name/ID.
The world can't accommodate every possibility, and software is no exception
Why not? Humans do it every day, by assuming something until their model breaks down, then building a bigger mental model and going back to assuming with it. Software SHOULD be that adaptable. We just don't really know how to do that yet.
Android is 100% open source. Don't like the Market? Replace it.
No, Android is an open source client for the Android Market. Download a copy of "open source" Android and you'll soon find that you can't actually use it much because Market isn't available in the open source version. Essentially every copy has to be given a key by Google to make it work, and that only happens on approved hardware. It's just software licensing by another name. Otherwise, I'd gladly install it on my Nokia and never look back.
As an N900 owner: do NOT try an N900. Nokia are even worse than Microsoft in terms of supporting their products. N900's Maemo OS is already outdated, and the N900 along with it. They must have been planning to do that even before releasing the N900, given the timelines, which is why you get people posting friendly advice to Nokia on how it can avoid death.
Nokia seem to think of their phones and OS's like Casio thinks of watches: a simple, closed-loop device that's done as soon as it hits the shelves. For all their hype of maemo's Ovi store and all, when it comes right down to doing the work and putting their money where their mouth is, it just doesn't happen. Now they're planning new products: N9/Meego, which will suck equally badly.
The only thing Nokia has going for it is Qt, which they bought in from Trolltech (along with TT itself), and they'll probably find a way to kill.
Read between the lines a bit. Treat them the same means: treat them as all potentially valid, not that all the names would match in a string comparison.
I don't think that's what it meant at all. I think the author is trying to be too smart by suggesting that someone looking for MacDonald might have heard it wrong, and so might type in McDonald instead. It's probably a valid point for fuzzy searches, but to say that they should all be treated the same is wrong.
That said, his other points, especially about the fact that not all names are properly mapped in unicode, is a good one. I just wish he'd posted citations and solutions, rather than simply pointing out the issues. But the first step in fixing a problem is acknowledging the problem.
As a doctor, many times I have patients coming to me with "agonizing abdominal pain" - they are sure it's appendicitis. If you check their stomach or ask them "does it hurt here?" they jump and cry and wail, etc. etc. But if I start talking to them on other subjects (What do you do in your life? Are you married? Children?) and get them diverted, I find out many times that they "forget" about their pain and the stomach is as soft and non-tender as can be.
Be careful of this. On occasion, I have gone to a doctor and explained a subtle symptom, only to have nothing found, and then had to go back months later when the problem had been allowed to progress to the point where a doctor could clearly see it. That is NOT the way that doctors should work. If a patient complains, a proper investigation should occur until the problem is resolved.
Also, lately, I've seen a few doctors and related a host symptoms (I'm not a hypochondriac, just happen to (apparently) have a few related so-called immune disorders). The problem is that Doctors want to treat the major issues with some painkiller, and ignore the minor ones. Taken together, they are all symptoms of a bigger problem, which deserves a fuller investigation, but doctors want to treat the things that raise immediate alarm bells; the things they see every day and think they have quick fixes for. Except, those things are symptoms, not the issue, and they want to just keep presribing pills while a larger problem progresses uninvestigated.
Doctors really need to do more medical research. They DO NOT have the answers they think they have. Which is why so many are turning to the internet for answers.
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And yet, if it was an american parent making those decisions for their children, we might applaud them as more responsible than the average parent who lets their kid get up to anything online, unmonitored.
Let's stop demonising one of the oldest, and traditionally if not currently most advanced civilisations in the world, OK? Yes, they make some poor decisions. Are they evil, or completely misguided compared to the western cultures where kids are running into schools and shooting their classmates before shooting themselves? Perhaps not.
Of course not. If the point was not to pay for something, the solution would be to not buy it. So-called piracy is what other people call sharing useful information. Of course people are willing to pay for useful information, if it's offered in a sane way. That just hasn't been happening much lately.
Never heard of it. AOL suck. ;)
Well, they did release AOLserver. From wikipedia:
The N900 uses an old type of touch screen that can't do multitouch (properly). Meego uses multitouch as an everyday input method.
Almost. Meego is available for Netbooks, but Nokia released "Meego Core" for the N900, not "Meego". Honestly, individual skilled hackers have released more of android for N900 so far. Nokia have said that they're not supporting N900 because it's not an open hardware platform, and so they can't release drivers for it.
Honestly... the iPhone 4 just came out with half the thickness/weight, better styling, higher screen resolution, multitouch, proper app store with books and audiobooks and thousands of (useful, commercial-quality, varied) apps, working front-facing camera and the promotion to make that a well-used communication tool. Android is similarly polished, and is making progress constantly with new versions. There are a heap of Chinese companies that have, up to now, been making cheap iPhone rip-offs, but are now able to put Android on their phones and compete on a global stage as full-blown phone manufacturers --- and promote Android at the same time. Meanwhile, Nokia is bringing out huge, expensive phones, which are only good (relative to other phones in the price bracket) because you can ignore the crappy solutions Nokia gave you and hack your own stuff in there. They're just not competing on the same level as Google and Apple lately.
It would be pretty stupid to make them limited to one color.
Has anyone put out a contract on him yet?
Link? To my way of thinking, that is a contradiction in terms. Reference platform means a platform which manufacturers can refer to as KNOWN GOOD, in order to build a working solution, when implementing their own products or variants. Since the N900 doesn't even have the correct hardware to run Meego, I don't see how they could possibly claim that.
Community support for Amigas is pretty good too, but that doesn't change the fact that Commodore-Amiga killed their platform.
If you take the time to read the article and comments I linked to above, you'll see others explaining the same problem, and an ex-nokia staff member explaining that Nokia are aware of the problem, acknowledge it internally, know what they need to do to fix it, but just can't get it done because of company structures.
You're talking about piracy. I'm not. Try not to project your own concerns into text when there's no mention of those concerns.
Yeah, people should really be using PNG these days.
Remember, what big companies put on paper as "costs" after tax evasion, big bonuses, and drug-fueled parties isn't much to do with the actual costs of a project.
So, you mean, I can now drive to a store and rent the DVD/Bluray of a movie on the same day as I can buy it in a store, six months after I could download a virtually complete and much more interesting workprint release?
Wow, this is real cutting-edge tech they're bringing to consumers. Who wouldn't want to pay through the eyeballs for that?
To replace the market SOFTWARE, you would need access to the market data. Otherwise, you're starting from scratch. But the data is locked down. Often these days, given the lock-in created by having all your friends or apps in one system, open source is a secondary concern, next to open data and openly accessible APIs. Anyone can make a facebook client, even if the source isn't available, but making that facebook client work with facebook without an (un-locked) API, or making a better, more open version of facebook and encouraging everyone to move over en masse is next to impossible. It's the same with Microsoft Word -- there are clones, but everyone's data is in a locked .DOC format, so transition is difficult. Open content is everything.
You're confusing energy conversion efficiency with energy production. The main connection there is that less efficiency means more raw resources for the same result. They're certainly not the same thing.
I think what the GP was getting at is something like, "This sounds way better than past solar conversion efficiency. Can we know build viable solar power stations? What about orbital solar power satellites? Where does this leave coal and nuclear power stations? What will the overall energy production strategy be, once this comes to market, given projected energy needs WHEN it will come to market?"
That's not a set of questions you want to answer too hastily.
Yes, I'm glad to say it seems that way (again). Although it's more a case of "it's becoming an open source, collaborative world", which is even better.
Interesting. I'd only heard about the microkernel and tried photon; didn't realise QNX was unix-like under the hood.
I didn't suggest that at all. Clearly they bought it with the intent of using it to build a good cross-platform SDK solution for their phones. What I did suggest was that they'll probably kill it anyway, despite their good intentions, because they're completely clueless about what developers and users want from modern smartphone platform.
No, you got bugfixes that essentially brought it out of beta status months after it was released. On the same day, you saw the first release of Meego, their new system, which Nokia have clearly said that they will NOT properly support on the N900. The work to fix major bugs was essentially just a woefully inadequate fairwell gesture. A full, supported meego release with potential for another 2 years of app compatibility for the N900 might have been a less stupid gesture.
It's the kind of thing that armies fight over.
Names aren't as essential or universal as you might think. For instance, I believe that a lot of Japanese peasants in medieval times were only referred to by their role -- fisherman, or cook, for instance. At some point, just like in the West, "blacksmith" became "black" and "smith" became a name rather than a job, but arguably, for a while at least, they were not names; just another index into the same data record that could benefit from a unique name/ID.
Why not? Humans do it every day, by assuming something until their model breaks down, then building a bigger mental model and going back to assuming with it. Software SHOULD be that adaptable. We just don't really know how to do that yet.
No, Android is an open source client for the Android Market. Download a copy of "open source" Android and you'll soon find that you can't actually use it much because Market isn't available in the open source version. Essentially every copy has to be given a key by Google to make it work, and that only happens on approved hardware. It's just software licensing by another name. Otherwise, I'd gladly install it on my Nokia and never look back.
As an N900 owner: do NOT try an N900. Nokia are even worse than Microsoft in terms of supporting their products. N900's Maemo OS is already outdated, and the N900 along with it. They must have been planning to do that even before releasing the N900, given the timelines, which is why you get people posting friendly advice to Nokia on how it can avoid death.
Nokia seem to think of their phones and OS's like Casio thinks of watches: a simple, closed-loop device that's done as soon as it hits the shelves. For all their hype of maemo's Ovi store and all, when it comes right down to doing the work and putting their money where their mouth is, it just doesn't happen. Now they're planning new products: N9/Meego, which will suck equally badly.
The only thing Nokia has going for it is Qt, which they bought in from Trolltech (along with TT itself), and they'll probably find a way to kill.
I don't think that's what it meant at all. I think the author is trying to be too smart by suggesting that someone looking for MacDonald might have heard it wrong, and so might type in McDonald instead. It's probably a valid point for fuzzy searches, but to say that they should all be treated the same is wrong.
That said, his other points, especially about the fact that not all names are properly mapped in unicode, is a good one. I just wish he'd posted citations and solutions, rather than simply pointing out the issues. But the first step in fixing a problem is acknowledging the problem.
No, but the vibrate mode might be good.
Be careful of this. On occasion, I have gone to a doctor and explained a subtle symptom, only to have nothing found, and then had to go back months later when the problem had been allowed to progress to the point where a doctor could clearly see it. That is NOT the way that doctors should work. If a patient complains, a proper investigation should occur until the problem is resolved.
Also, lately, I've seen a few doctors and related a host symptoms (I'm not a hypochondriac, just happen to (apparently) have a few related so-called immune disorders). The problem is that Doctors want to treat the major issues with some painkiller, and ignore the minor ones. Taken together, they are all symptoms of a bigger problem, which deserves a fuller investigation, but doctors want to treat the things that raise immediate alarm bells; the things they see every day and think they have quick fixes for. Except, those things are symptoms, not the issue, and they want to just keep presribing pills while a larger problem progresses uninvestigated.
Doctors really need to do more medical research. They DO NOT have the answers they think they have. Which is why so many are turning to the internet for answers.