Oh me, oh my, "Sony Ericsson SDK 2.5.0.1 Beta for the Java(TM) ME Platform". But wait, Eunuchswear said there's no SDK, how could this be? "Now includes support for on-device debugging", "Eclipse Device Explorer Plugin", "Mascot Capsule v3 Plugins and Tools", "Developers' Guidelines Java ME CLDC (MIDP 2)", "Developers' Guidelines Java ME CLDC (MIDP 2) 3D Graphics", "From BREW to the Java ME platform: An Application Porting Guide".
What a paltry effort, not worthy of the name SDK. Eunuchswear was right. Damn Sony Ericsson.
Yeah. I see. "Learn new framework for language I already know, that can be used where I choose to use it - bad", "Learn Objective C and Cocoa, entirely new languages, that can be used... only on Apple products - good". I see the logic there. Uhh...
The first thing I did with my N95 is buy an extended battery - 1200mAh versus the stock 950mAh. Now, whilst I'm sure some people here will laugh - "Hah, that's a good 'experience', having to buy a new battery", it's no different to anyone else deciding what's important to them.
End result, I can get (just) from M-F with my N95, running Mail For Exchange Push from 8am-11pm daily.
Bah. No they won't. On my phone, this is as simple as a setting "Allow network data usage: Never, Home, Roaming, Always" - selecting certain options will result in a "May incur higher costs" confirmation message. Simply solved. People are just too keen to excuse these kind of things.
No, they didn't. You did that when you configured your server to use blacklists, when you determined the behavior to reflect upon that information. If you choose to outright reject, so be it. ORDB didn't. If you choose to "add 0.1 to spam score", you did that, not ORDB. They provided a service which "may or may not be applicable to your needs".
Once upon a time, it was applicable to your needs. Now, 15 months after it closed down, it "may not be". That is not the commission of a crime.
When a private entity opens up its doors to use by the general public, it becomes, effectively, a utility, and takes on many more responsibilities. This is an established legal principle, and right it is too. If you want to take on a public role, then you sure as hell better be ready to take on the responsibilities that go with it. Otherwise, stay home.
Yeah, you're in it... FOR LIFE! They closed shop in December 2006 and continued to respond accurately to queries for over a year after "going out of business" which, contrary to your blather, is their right.
According to you, apparently, they're somehow obligated as a "utility" to keep on going. Huh? Even when they tell their servers to stop responding at all, they still get bombarded with thousands of requests per minute, not because of their "irresponsibility", but because of other people's irresponsibility and/or negligence.
Bleh. What a joke. I'd love to see the look on the judge's face if you started spouting shit like "ORDB has a responsibility to the public under established legal principles".
I got so sick of this piece of shit software. Thankfully, I figured out how to use my firewall (pfSense) to connect to our Cisco PIX, so my desktop didn't. Even on 32 bit Vista, what took a moment to connect now takes 45 seconds to connect.
You forgot to mention: "Never buy Apple RAM". Ever. Never. Don't do it.
What is the deal with that? There's nothing even remotely justifiable about the utterly corrupt gouging with Apple RAM but the fanboys wave it off. "Everyone knows you buy your memory aftermarket". Do they? Including all those "non-tech", "non-dork", "hip" users who just want to be creative, and 1,001 other user type cliches? They all know not to buy their memory from Apple, getting BENT OVER to the tune of FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS for an upgrade they could have for THIRTY TWO DOLLARS from newegg.com?
Yeah, because it's not like The Steve has any input on a day to day basis about what the marketing department churns out in its multi-million dollar ad campaigns, right?
I mean, we all know he's often concerned with being a president and CEO, and doesn't like to have any hands-on micro-management of Apple's product line and such.
Something about statistics meaning whatever you want them to mean.
In the same year, there were 23 fatal dog attacks. So, 34% of all fatal dog attacks were due to Pit Bulls.
I also notice you didn't talk about number or non-fatal attacks requiring hospitalization...
That being said, as someone who works with the Humane Society, pit bulls were bred as fighting dogs, and retain those traits to this day. It is not the dog. Nor is it the owner. It is both, or rather the combination of both, that causes the issue. Good owner, bad owner, it matters, but the innate sensibilities of the breed mean that there is far less tolerance for error or misstep. And then there's the variations in individual temperament...
Oh Lord, twitter, are you now having conversations with yourself?
This is just the height (or depth) of pathetic:
Microsoft or some big Microsoft fanboy is obviously gaming Slashdot. For some reason, they keep pointing at and saying nasty things about you. That makes you my friend.
As if we didn't need positive examples of just the kind of problem, look at the parent, modded "Interesting" for suggesting that "Apple users, like Israelis, are richer and more civilized than Palestinians".
User preferences arn't part of the application in the first place. Also the sound loops could be usable by any audio application.
Oh come on, that's a pretty paltry "justification" for the piecemeal process there. "Oh, it's as easy as moving the Application to Trash. Any data files, any other files created and used internally by the application, well, you'll have to hunt them down and delete them, and it left those gigabytes of sample files for you to use with other applications! Where's the problem there?"
Hell yeah. I moved to the US about a year ago, and the first few times I drove through an intersection like I would back in Melbourne I got choruses of "Wow, that light was a little red, don't you think?" - Explained the system as it was in Australia - complete with the solid lines leading up to an intersection being based on stopping distance, so you knew if you could stop in time, or whether to go through... They were incredulous, and I got a lot more conservative with yellow lights.
You raise many valid points - the Nokia UI could be dramatically improved, as could Windows Mobile - although Pointui seems to be doing a great job in that regard, at least for Windows Mobile, even moreso than the screenshots suggest.
The N95's menu system, the two buttons? I can't figure that out for the life of me. I didn't touch the E90, though I have used and owned the 9000 and 9200. Nice little things.
Nokia Maps was alright in version one, but version two - I'm surprised you say it feels sluggish, it shoots along for me - I've (on EDGE) deliberately jumped to brand new areas (to ensure no caching), and zoomed in rapidly, stopping regularly. In every instance, the Map was updated within a second or two, at the very most. No experience with TomTom on the S60 platform, I have a Go 910, and I do like that interface. Now, if someone would combine the best elements of that with the inbuilt GPS in my Prius (soooo much potential, so many flaws), I'd be a happy man (though if it happens to be Garmin, I refuse on general principle, following those horrible, horrible ads, especially at Christmas).
Windows Live on WM devices, also very nice. Simple, but with depth. Microsoft seemingly capable, at times, of avoiding bloat, for the better.
I've been trying to find a balance with my mobile devices. My last few, from most recent: N95, HTC Wizard, Sony Ericsson K800i, N90... can't remember beyond that. I ditched the Wizard, too bloated for my liking. Interestingly, I had been going to buy it when I eventually chose the K800, but wanted slim and sleek, but with a nice featureset (the K800 had the former, not the latter, the Wizard the latter, not the former). I like the N95 for that reason, a nice balance.
A couple of nice features of the N95 are only coming out now - I do love the focus Nokia has pushed with their Labs. One Touch Access really does allow a 'so simple, it just works' tethering and net connectivity via the N95 to your PC, be it via Bluetooth, Infrared, or USB. And I mean, really. Forget the past horrors of Bluetooth and running PC Suites and connecting, and dummy dialup EDGE calls, installing "Standard Modem over Bluetooth", ensuring COM port virtualization was happy. To quote Apple, "It. Just. Works.". And then there's PC Phone - the next, and in my view the real evolution of the Mobile Web Server first attempt. In browser control of your phone - see the address book, see text messages, call logs. Send text messages. Do as you will, just using the browser as your interface.
To me, there are three things I'd love to see, and that the iPhone has done right, to varying degrees: UI improvement. Browser. Screen resolution. I don't use the Nokia browser, though it has "potential". Opera Mini does well, but wrap those things up into the N97 or whatever, and I'll be happy.
Re the Nokia N-series. Nokia had "figured out how to put a decent screen on a device" way back in 2005 - The N90 had two screens, an exterior 128x128 and an interior main screen of 352x416 resolution. That would seem to imply the lower resolution screen of the N95 was a deliberate choice. It's DPI that matters, really, more so than absolute pixel count.
It's a little amusing that you throw out "wasting time on MMS" when I would view MMS as one of the least important apps on my N95 (and yes, I've used an iPhone, too). If you've not seen the latest version of Nokia Maps on an N95, you would be impressed. I agree with your assertion that XMPP is on the "must have" list of a fraction of a percent of users. But to suggest that there's something "irrational" about not being all gooey inside about the iPhone when my phone is smaller, is 3.5G, has a 5MP camera, has 8GB of internal storage, Bluetooth 2, Exchange Push email, GPS, etc. But I'll stop there, lest I be branded as an irrational Apple hater.
Listen, we know the phone is not designed to be a mobile broadband connection, so it's just a bad idea to try to use it that way.
B.b.b.but... what about the Apple droids going on about how amazing it was for Apple to get AT&T to agree to "such a cheap" unlimited data connection, so they could now use it all they wanted? And tethering, what's the deal with that? I'm confused.
A 6.5% share of what? The cellphone market? In the world? In North America? Bullshit.
Smartphone market? I still find that hard to believe - there are several countries where Blackberry is, but iPhone is not.
Here's a big hint. Sales does not equate to "size of market". If in the final quarter of 2007, the iPhone sold 27% of the smartphones sold, that does not mean every one in four smartphones is an iPhone (I'm also looking at you for a basic misunderstanding of this, Mr Roughly Drafted).
As the Wikipedians would say, "[citation needed]".
With Image Stabilization, no less!:) If it makes you feel any better, though, it was only a rental. I can't justify the $10,000 or so for the lens (actually, I can, but the wife cannot).
I was flying from Orlando, and they ran my bag through twice. Then, they had me open my bag so they could look through to fnd what was causing them consternation. It turned out to be my camera flash (large professional model)! Now I've traveled with this plenty before but this time, it confused them - they asked me if it was new (it was several years old) and said they had never seen anything like it on the scanners!
Of course, the flipside of this is just a few months ago, I was travelling with a Canon EOS 5D, several lenses... including in a separate hard box - 20lb worth - a 400mm f/2.8 IS lens. The guy ran it through the X-ray, stopped, backed it up, and I was getting ready to fetch the key to unlock the case and show inside, and all he does is grab one of the other TSA guys and says "Just so you know if you ever see it, this is just a/really/ big camera lens, that's all the glass and electronics inside it."
One in ten buys music legally, that's 30 million people. Only half of them like the Beatles, 15 million. Each buying 3 albums?
"Going platinum" = one million albums sold.
You're saying you think it's a reasonable possibility that iTunes is capable of making those albums go, combined, a further FORTY FIVES TIMES PLATINUM?
If that were ever the case, I think it'd be headline news around the world.
iTMS has sold 4B songs worldwide. In its history of five years, including the "exponential" growth since mid 2006 til now (which accounts for 3B of that alone), they've only sold the equivalent of 70M of that three album trio. I don't think they're going to sell 15M of it just by the injection of these songs into the catalog.
Frankly, I'd be amazed if they managed a million Beatles album sales.
My cousin (engineer at Airbus) tells me there even is an Airbus 320 that went to China some time ago. That was it's only flight and it never appeared again. He suspects it's lying around somewhere dismantled and analysed.
Airbus sent a 55 million Euro aircraft to a client in China, it never came back, and they never asked for it back, and this has never been discussed in any media that I can find?
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I guess you missed: http://developer.sonyericsson.com/. I can see how you would, it's well hidden, what with it being on the SE home page and all.
Looky here, what do we have: http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/docstools/java/p_java.jsp
Oh me, oh my, "Sony Ericsson SDK 2.5.0.1 Beta for the Java(TM) ME Platform". But wait, Eunuchswear said there's no SDK, how could this be? "Now includes support for on-device debugging", "Eclipse Device Explorer Plugin", "Mascot Capsule v3 Plugins and Tools", "Developers' Guidelines Java ME CLDC (MIDP 2)", "Developers' Guidelines Java ME CLDC (MIDP 2) 3D Graphics", "From BREW to the Java ME platform: An Application Porting Guide".
What a paltry effort, not worthy of the name SDK. Eunuchswear was right. Damn Sony Ericsson.
Yeah. I see. "Learn new framework for language I already know, that can be used where I choose to use it - bad", "Learn Objective C and Cocoa, entirely new languages, that can be used ... only on Apple products - good". I see the logic there. Uhh...
End result, I can get (just) from M-F with my N95, running Mail For Exchange Push from 8am-11pm daily.
Bah. No they won't. On my phone, this is as simple as a setting "Allow network data usage: Never, Home, Roaming, Always" - selecting certain options will result in a "May incur higher costs" confirmation message. Simply solved. People are just too keen to excuse these kind of things.
Once upon a time, it was applicable to your needs. Now, 15 months after it closed down, it "may not be". That is not the commission of a crime.
Yeah, you're in it ... FOR LIFE! They closed shop in December 2006 and continued to respond accurately to queries for over a year after "going out of business" which, contrary to your blather, is their right.
According to you, apparently, they're somehow obligated as a "utility" to keep on going. Huh? Even when they tell their servers to stop responding at all, they still get bombarded with thousands of requests per minute, not because of their "irresponsibility", but because of other people's irresponsibility and/or negligence.
Bleh. What a joke. I'd love to see the look on the judge's face if you started spouting shit like "ORDB has a responsibility to the public under established legal principles".
Ye gods.
I got so sick of this piece of shit software. Thankfully, I figured out how to use my firewall (pfSense) to connect to our Cisco PIX, so my desktop didn't. Even on 32 bit Vista, what took a moment to connect now takes 45 seconds to connect.
What is the deal with that? There's nothing even remotely justifiable about the utterly corrupt gouging with Apple RAM but the fanboys wave it off. "Everyone knows you buy your memory aftermarket". Do they? Including all those "non-tech", "non-dork", "hip" users who just want to be creative, and 1,001 other user type cliches? They all know not to buy their memory from Apple, getting BENT OVER to the tune of FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS for an upgrade they could have for THIRTY TWO DOLLARS from newegg.com?
There's no possible justification for it.
Shit.
But I still prefer it. :P
I mean, we all know he's often concerned with being a president and CEO, and doesn't like to have any hands-on micro-management of Apple's product line and such.
Wait... I see a flaw...
Underneath it says, "At least I can spell, you overly trendy cnut."
In the same year, there were 23 fatal dog attacks. So, 34% of all fatal dog attacks were due to Pit Bulls.
I also notice you didn't talk about number or non-fatal attacks requiring hospitalization...
That being said, as someone who works with the Humane Society, pit bulls were bred as fighting dogs, and retain those traits to this day. It is not the dog. Nor is it the owner. It is both, or rather the combination of both, that causes the issue. Good owner, bad owner, it matters, but the innate sensibilities of the breed mean that there is far less tolerance for error or misstep. And then there's the variations in individual temperament...
This is just the height (or depth) of pathetic:
As if we didn't need positive examples of just the kind of problem, look at the parent, modded "Interesting" for suggesting that "Apple users, like Israelis, are richer and more civilized than Palestinians".
Oh come on, that's a pretty paltry "justification" for the piecemeal process there. "Oh, it's as easy as moving the Application to Trash. Any data files, any other files created and used internally by the application, well, you'll have to hunt them down and delete them, and it left those gigabytes of sample files for you to use with other applications! Where's the problem there?"
Fucking hypocrite. Took you a good half dozen words to admit you were talking utter shit.
Hell yeah. I moved to the US about a year ago, and the first few times I drove through an intersection like I would back in Melbourne I got choruses of "Wow, that light was a little red, don't you think?" - Explained the system as it was in Australia - complete with the solid lines leading up to an intersection being based on stopping distance, so you knew if you could stop in time, or whether to go through... They were incredulous, and I got a lot more conservative with yellow lights.
The N95's menu system, the two buttons? I can't figure that out for the life of me. I didn't touch the E90, though I have used and owned the 9000 and 9200. Nice little things.
Nokia Maps was alright in version one, but version two - I'm surprised you say it feels sluggish, it shoots along for me - I've (on EDGE) deliberately jumped to brand new areas (to ensure no caching), and zoomed in rapidly, stopping regularly. In every instance, the Map was updated within a second or two, at the very most. No experience with TomTom on the S60 platform, I have a Go 910, and I do like that interface. Now, if someone would combine the best elements of that with the inbuilt GPS in my Prius (soooo much potential, so many flaws), I'd be a happy man (though if it happens to be Garmin, I refuse on general principle, following those horrible, horrible ads, especially at Christmas).
Windows Live on WM devices, also very nice. Simple, but with depth. Microsoft seemingly capable, at times, of avoiding bloat, for the better.
I've been trying to find a balance with my mobile devices. My last few, from most recent: N95, HTC Wizard, Sony Ericsson K800i, N90... can't remember beyond that. I ditched the Wizard, too bloated for my liking. Interestingly, I had been going to buy it when I eventually chose the K800, but wanted slim and sleek, but with a nice featureset (the K800 had the former, not the latter, the Wizard the latter, not the former). I like the N95 for that reason, a nice balance.
A couple of nice features of the N95 are only coming out now - I do love the focus Nokia has pushed with their Labs. One Touch Access really does allow a 'so simple, it just works' tethering and net connectivity via the N95 to your PC, be it via Bluetooth, Infrared, or USB. And I mean, really. Forget the past horrors of Bluetooth and running PC Suites and connecting, and dummy dialup EDGE calls, installing "Standard Modem over Bluetooth", ensuring COM port virtualization was happy. To quote Apple, "It. Just. Works.". And then there's PC Phone - the next, and in my view the real evolution of the Mobile Web Server first attempt. In browser control of your phone - see the address book, see text messages, call logs. Send text messages. Do as you will, just using the browser as your interface.
To me, there are three things I'd love to see, and that the iPhone has done right, to varying degrees: UI improvement. Browser. Screen resolution. I don't use the Nokia browser, though it has "potential". Opera Mini does well, but wrap those things up into the N97 or whatever, and I'll be happy.
It's a little amusing that you throw out "wasting time on MMS" when I would view MMS as one of the least important apps on my N95 (and yes, I've used an iPhone, too). If you've not seen the latest version of Nokia Maps on an N95, you would be impressed. I agree with your assertion that XMPP is on the "must have" list of a fraction of a percent of users. But to suggest that there's something "irrational" about not being all gooey inside about the iPhone when my phone is smaller, is 3.5G, has a 5MP camera, has 8GB of internal storage, Bluetooth 2, Exchange Push email, GPS, etc. But I'll stop there, lest I be branded as an irrational Apple hater.
B.b.b.but ... what about the Apple droids going on about how amazing it was for Apple to get AT&T to agree to "such a cheap" unlimited data connection, so they could now use it all they wanted? And tethering, what's the deal with that? I'm confused.
Smartphone market? I still find that hard to believe - there are several countries where Blackberry is, but iPhone is not.
Here's a big hint. Sales does not equate to "size of market". If in the final quarter of 2007, the iPhone sold 27% of the smartphones sold, that does not mean every one in four smartphones is an iPhone (I'm also looking at you for a basic misunderstanding of this, Mr Roughly Drafted). As the Wikipedians would say, "[citation needed]".
With Image Stabilization, no less! :) If it makes you feel any better, though, it was only a rental. I can't justify the $10,000 or so for the lens (actually, I can, but the wife cannot).
Of course, the flipside of this is just a few months ago, I was travelling with a Canon EOS 5D, several lenses... including in a separate hard box - 20lb worth - a 400mm f/2.8 IS lens. The guy ran it through the X-ray, stopped, backed it up, and I was getting ready to fetch the key to unlock the case and show inside, and all he does is grab one of the other TSA guys and says "Just so you know if you ever see it, this is just a /really/ big camera lens, that's all the glass and electronics inside it."
"Going platinum" = one million albums sold.
You're saying you think it's a reasonable possibility that iTunes is capable of making those albums go, combined, a further FORTY FIVES TIMES PLATINUM?
If that were ever the case, I think it'd be headline news around the world.
iTMS has sold 4B songs worldwide. In its history of five years, including the "exponential" growth since mid 2006 til now (which accounts for 3B of that alone), they've only sold the equivalent of 70M of that three album trio. I don't think they're going to sell 15M of it just by the injection of these songs into the catalog.
Frankly, I'd be amazed if they managed a million Beatles album sales.
Airbus sent a 55 million Euro aircraft to a client in China, it never came back, and they never asked for it back, and this has never been discussed in any media that I can find?
I'm not entirely convinced just yet.