Windows Mobile phones are as open as it gets without the operating being open source software. They exist since 2002. They are quite popular here in Germany (iPhone not so). The networks are still there and offer excellent service (the phenomena of dropped calls exists only in the first and the last hour of a year). Viruses are also unknown.
Jobs' reality distortion field must be very strong in the USA.
Well, a former colleague of mine had a Treo with Windows Mobile and it really sucked. So it is probably the phone, not the operating system. I for one have passed down my older Windows Mobile phones to my family (my mother currently uses two, my father one). Both like them very much, don't expirience real problems (I don't count it as a problem when my mother again forgets how to start the GPS navigation).
Looks like you had your share of bad luck when it comes to handsets. Here is the list of devices I personally owned: HTC Wallaby, Himalaya, Blue Angel, Universal, Athena, Blackstone.
I actually like windows mobile. I started with a HTC Wallaby in 2003 and had 6 different HTC devices over the years and never had a major problem with the operating system (WM2002 through WM6.5). And in terms of features they always were the best devices you can get.
Anecdotes go only so far. I've got a HTC Himalaya somewhere which also was abused a lot. It must be 6 years old now, was equipped with WM2003 back then but works even with WM6. Had to replace the battery twice, but other than that it just works.
Well, a majority of humans is stupid. There is a strong correlation between low IQ and strong religious feelings. But surely shit must taste good because millions of flies just cannot be wrong.
Ingenuity? A Les Paul? Leo Fender made some innovative stuff, but a Les Paul was nothing special even back then. Except humbuckers maybe, but first LPs had single coil pickups.
I've learned Turbo Pascal as my first language back then in 1991. Currently I develop in C for embedded Linux, but I still like Pascal better because I happen to like comfort better than hardships.
There actually can be an easy solution for the possibly problem of the healthcare quality: basic universal healthcare that covers most important things can be provided. If someone wants more service they can either pay cash or have a private insurance. This combines the best of both worlds.
Was. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Back then the Germans were so euphoric that pretty much any happy song back then became popular. The current generation probably doesn't even know who David Hasselhoff is.
While outlawing anonymity sucks, this construct sucks, too. You can use it for almost everything, for example: "if wanking is outlawed, only outlaws will masturbate".
Especially because Ferdinand Porsche was a favourite engineer of Hitler, was a chairman of the war economy association, helped to develop Tiger 1 and 2 tanks, developed a heavy tank and a heavy tank destroyer. He used lots of forced labourers at his factories.
More or less same thing in Germany. Cyclists are only allowed to drive on the sidewalks if there is a special bicycle road on it or if they are under 10 years old.
English is not the only language where such punctuation jokes are possible. There is a very old Russian joke about the king who wrote an order which can be translated to English as "to execute you may not pardon him". It can be read both as "to execute, you may not pardon him" or "to execute you may not, pardon him".
Word order in Russian is quite relaxed, so the sentence is much more ambiguous, than it is in English.
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If you pay people enough, they are willing to take the risk. So it is actually about the price.
Windows Mobile phones are as open as it gets without the operating being open source software. They exist since 2002. They are quite popular here in Germany (iPhone not so). The networks are still there and offer excellent service (the phenomena of dropped calls exists only in the first and the last hour of a year). Viruses are also unknown.
Jobs' reality distortion field must be very strong in the USA.
Well, a former colleague of mine had a Treo with Windows Mobile and it really sucked. So it is probably the phone, not the operating system. I for one have passed down my older Windows Mobile phones to my family (my mother currently uses two, my father one). Both like them very much, don't expirience real problems (I don't count it as a problem when my mother again forgets how to start the GPS navigation).
Looks like you had your share of bad luck when it comes to handsets. Here is the list of devices I personally owned: HTC Wallaby, Himalaya, Blue Angel, Universal, Athena, Blackstone.
I actually like windows mobile.
I started with a HTC Wallaby in 2003 and had 6 different HTC devices over the years and never had a major problem with the operating system (WM2002 through WM6.5). And in terms of features they always were the best devices you can get.
Yep. And pretty much all electronic appliances came with a complete wiring diagram.
Anecdotes go only so far.
I've got a HTC Himalaya somewhere which also was abused a lot. It must be 6 years old now, was equipped with WM2003 back then but works even with WM6. Had to replace the battery twice, but other than that it just works.
Well, a majority of humans is stupid. There is a strong correlation between low IQ and strong religious feelings. But surely shit must taste good because millions of flies just cannot be wrong.
Not always. Many viruses fuck with the body's temperature regulation.
More often than not the data collected by the Soviet agents was only used to doublecheck the work of Soviet scientists and engineers.
Yep. I own a Simpad SL4. It is in a way a better device - multitasking and no restrictions for software.
Funny thing, though. You could fly anywhere inside the USSR without showing any papers.
Ingenuity? A Les Paul? Leo Fender made some innovative stuff, but a Les Paul was nothing special even back then. Except humbuckers maybe, but first LPs had single coil pickups.
Sorry, never bothered to learn Basic, but C# is something I quite like for business application development.
I've learned Turbo Pascal as my first language back then in 1991. Currently I develop in C for embedded Linux, but I still like Pascal better because I happen to like comfort better than hardships.
When crashes are a criterion then C must be the worst language ever existed.
There actually can be an easy solution for the possibly problem of the healthcare quality: basic universal healthcare that covers most important things can be provided. If someone wants more service they can either pay cash or have a private insurance. This combines the best of both worlds.
- Take your best shot, flatlander woman.
It is about as morally wrong as breaking a contract.
Was. Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Back then the Germans were so euphoric that pretty much any happy song back then became popular. The current generation probably doesn't even know who David Hasselhoff is.
While outlawing anonymity sucks, this construct sucks, too. You can use it for almost everything, for example: "if wanking is outlawed, only outlaws will masturbate".
Since we are technically speaking about UK, I doubt that the Brits allow big animals such as donkeys into the airplane.
Especially because Ferdinand Porsche was a favourite engineer of Hitler, was a chairman of the war economy association, helped to develop Tiger 1 and 2 tanks, developed a heavy tank and a heavy tank destroyer. He used lots of forced labourers at his factories.
More or less same thing in Germany. Cyclists are only allowed to drive on the sidewalks if there is a special bicycle road on it or if they are under 10 years old.
English is not the only language where such punctuation jokes are possible.
There is a very old Russian joke about the king who wrote an order which can be translated to English as "to execute you may not pardon him".
It can be read both as "to execute, you may not pardon him" or "to execute you may not, pardon him".
Word order in Russian is quite relaxed, so the sentence is much more ambiguous, than it is in English.
Can someone explain the joke to me? English is neither a native language nor the first foreign language for me.