They're not neccessarily copying designs, but they are jumping on board the economies of scale already established for the required components, plus also leveraging open-source for the OS.
I'd love it if they took Linux further, unfortunately, in trying to accelerate their financial success, they're damaging Ubuntu's longer term viability. Has MArk been hanging around with too many corporate CEOs?
I think the best way would have been to ask for money... before pissing their most likely contributors off with their Amazon search stunt. They really don't seem to get it. A large percentage of Linux users appreciate privacy... they send search results to Amazon. A large percentage of Linux users appreciate options... they switch to Unity and take the Apple attitude of "we know what's best for you".
I have one and love it. They have a new 17" that's pretty similar but doesn't have the gaming graphics card. It's significantly cheaper. I wish they both had higher resolution displays, but they're still better than most laptops these days. I like the caddy based HDD/DVD drives as well. Both have them and the Bonobo has an second drive in addition to it.
As with so many other things, religion. Even in a country that supposedly has a separation of church and state there are a lot of laws whose origins were based upon religion. Some are good, some are not.
I thought the intelligence increase was diet based, although I may be remembering incorrectly. Teaching doesn't increase intelligence, only understanding an problem solving abilities. Based on what I'm seeing, the school system in North America is not improving, it's getting worse.
I agree with this. I learned to program when they got some computers in the library in school, and by the next semester I was better than the teacher teaching the course. Most of the good developers I know are the same; they didn't get into it because it was a profitable career, they got into it because they were good at it and they enjoyed it.
I should add that with many languages and frameworks (Java & Spring/Hibernate for example), "we have machines for that". Only the fine tuning and performance tweaks need to be done my hand. Manually coding an data access layer is almost a "make work project" that's frequently a source of errors in what should really be managed by configuration.
To me, the fact that it was a major problem is an indicator of bigger problems. With systems like this, the database should be just a simple repository for persisting an retrieving domain models. If they want to do any non-trivial reporting on it the data should be replicated to a reporting repository. Treating the database a a simple persistence repository makes most database operations trivial, and better yet, decouples the database from the business, meaning that if you couldn't even manage the simple operations, replacing the layer is fairly trivial.
The problem is when people think the database is the starting point for a system, not just a tool to be used to support what your business logic is doing. It sounds like that's what happened here.
I've looked at them... not for me, but for the sort of person that I sometimes eed to suppport. Like setting them up with a Linux laptop it takes the vast majority of the support issues away while not really removing any capabilities normally required by this sort of person. Not a bad deal, although it would be nice of they started pushing the higher res screens at better prices.
I think it was just Motorola when that started, but regardless; even if they're insisting on some ridiculous value to their patents or something, at least they're not making people sign an NDA to have a look at what they're being threatened with. I'm still amazed that that sort of thing is legal.
My understanding is that it's just a court decision on the F part of FRAND, but I haven't followed it closely.
The developers may want to have a word with the legal/patent department if they're looking for goodwill from the developer community at large. What Microsoft is doing with the Android patents is up there with SCO. They also teamed up with Appple as 'Rockstar' for some of the worst patent abuse around, and lobbied against the current patent reforms. It's going to be a big job.
Yes, your team has a great track record, but unfortunately Microsoft has the worst in the business, or at least very close to it. You've got to expect some suspicion.
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True, but that's not unique to phones. Chinese companies have been doing that to all products.
Yeah, it sounds more like "resigning" before you get fired.
They're not neccessarily copying designs, but they are jumping on board the economies of scale already established for the required components, plus also leveraging open-source for the OS.
If people have interest in a properly encrypted message exchange network, there's a funded kickstarted coming out shortly called Trsst.
Many of us don't even care that much about the actual data, but are trying to secure our *right* to privacy.
... or she's right, but has no proof. In the end it looks like the same thing to everyone but her and the defendant.
I'd love it if they took Linux further, unfortunately, in trying to accelerate their financial success, they're damaging Ubuntu's longer term viability. Has MArk been hanging around with too many corporate CEOs?
I think the best way would have been to ask for money ... before pissing their most likely contributors off with their Amazon search stunt. They really don't seem to get it. A large percentage of Linux users appreciate privacy ... they send search results to Amazon. A large percentage of Linux users appreciate options ... they switch to Unity and take the Apple attitude of "we know what's best for you".
In addition, buying Nokia phones to run other operating systems on would give them money.
I've started using it too, as it's a lot quicker than typing, sometimes, even with Swype. It's lot flawless, but it's pretty damn good.
I have one and love it. They have a new 17" that's pretty similar but doesn't have the gaming graphics card. It's significantly cheaper. I wish they both had higher resolution displays, but they're still better than most laptops these days. I like the caddy based HDD/DVD drives as well. Both have them and the Bonobo has an second drive in addition to it.
As with so many other things, religion. Even in a country that supposedly has a separation of church and state there are a lot of laws whose origins were based upon religion. Some are good, some are not.
... and remember that Adams was a big Apple fan. Maybe he really could see the future.
... and so it begins.
I thought the intelligence increase was diet based, although I may be remembering incorrectly. Teaching doesn't increase intelligence, only understanding an problem solving abilities. Based on what I'm seeing, the school system in North America is not improving, it's getting worse.
There is no "reverse discrimination", only discrimination.
I agree with this. I learned to program when they got some computers in the library in school, and by the next semester I was better than the teacher teaching the course. Most of the good developers I know are the same; they didn't get into it because it was a profitable career, they got into it because they were good at it and they enjoyed it.
I should add that with many languages and frameworks (Java & Spring/Hibernate for example), "we have machines for that". Only the fine tuning and performance tweaks need to be done my hand. Manually coding an data access layer is almost a "make work project" that's frequently a source of errors in what should really be managed by configuration.
To me, the fact that it was a major problem is an indicator of bigger problems. With systems like this, the database should be just a simple repository for persisting an retrieving domain models. If they want to do any non-trivial reporting on it the data should be replicated to a reporting repository. Treating the database a a simple persistence repository makes most database operations trivial, and better yet, decouples the database from the business, meaning that if you couldn't even manage the simple operations, replacing the layer is fairly trivial.
The problem is when people think the database is the starting point for a system, not just a tool to be used to support what your business logic is doing. It sounds like that's what happened here.
I've looked at them ... not for me, but for the sort of person that I sometimes eed to suppport. Like setting them up with a Linux laptop it takes the vast majority of the support issues away while not really removing any capabilities normally required by this sort of person. Not a bad deal, although it would be nice of they started pushing the higher res screens at better prices.
This would be a much better article to have the 'rocket' error that was on an earlier article; or, just to be different, NO ERRORS.
And if you try your case in certain places, you'll win. With Apple, apparently even if you lose, you win.
I think it was just Motorola when that started, but regardless; even if they're insisting on some ridiculous value to their patents or something, at least they're not making people sign an NDA to have a look at what they're being threatened with. I'm still amazed that that sort of thing is legal.
My understanding is that it's just a court decision on the F part of FRAND, but I haven't followed it closely.
The developers may want to have a word with the legal/patent department if they're looking for goodwill from the developer community at large. What Microsoft is doing with the Android patents is up there with SCO. They also teamed up with Appple as 'Rockstar' for some of the worst patent abuse around, and lobbied against the current patent reforms. It's going to be a big job.
Yes, your team has a great track record, but unfortunately Microsoft has the worst in the business, or at least very close to it. You've got to expect some suspicion.