I wonder why they don't make such thing like a monitor-case with power supply and room for regular mini-itx motherboard and few horizontal extension slots. That's something that I would buy on spot, immediately.
It's good to eliminate cables (that's reason #1 why non-tech people buy notebooks, not because of portability), but buying all-in-one or notebook takes away almost all possibilities of upgrade. Universal monitor-case could solve this problem.
Is there any level on which this decision makes sense in light of Nokia's direction?
It makes a perfect sense because Elop can't fire all linux developers at once. It's just impossible under the law. So he has to find them a useless work for an year or two.
Consistency? What's that?
Everything is consistent. They are going to kill linux devlopment, just can't do it in one month.
I just tried to create google plus account and they won't continue unless they either: send me an SMS or call my mobile phone. And all mobile phones are registered to person here in Russia. It does not matter what online name the profile has, it's enough to tell the police mobile phone number and they know exactly where to go to beat the shit out of somebody with dfferent political views...
Of couse it's extremely easy and cheap to buy anonymous SIM card and an old used phone (to avoid leaving my personal communicator's IMEI in cellular tower's logs). I think I'm going to do that just to have a spare identity.
No? Then it's not a browser at all.
Today it's impossible to browse the net without eazylist & co. It makes NO sense to change your browser if you switch and immediately get hit with shitloads of ads.
That's exactly why I did not switch from Firefox to Opera, no matter how fast Opera is (and was). I don't want to maintain my own list of adblocks, other people did it well. I just want to be subscribed to the best up-to-date set of rules and only Firefox does this seamlessly.
Ayn Rand, "Atlas shrugged" describes exactly what's going on in Russia right now. Real workers are underpaid and nobody is interested in doing things properly. Most probably it's a result of gross incompetence and lack of maintenance.
Some years ago Moscow blacked out because a transformer exploded and burned out. Everything stopped. I'm a network sysadmin in a big retail chain here and I remember watching shops go black, one by one until our main office internet connection collapsed. They said it was old transformer station exploded. Now they again say that it was an explosion of the transformer station. But I believe it's not just faulty equipment, but just exactly what's described by Rand.
What is needed is a COMPELLING, modern, cross-platform, open-source, GUI, business application development environment. It is 2008. It shouldn't be difficult anymore for existing vendors to port their software to all major platforms and support them. Eventually this will happen, at least with a few major vendors. But in the meanwhile, Linux is suffering horribly in business outside of being web/file/print/compute servers.
Oracle APEX is the answer. There is no need for GUI, but anything business-related could be done in APEX very quickly and you don't need anything except the browser to access them. Oracle's dbms is powerful enough to implement any serious business logic and you can write your own closed-source applications in PL/SQL.
Rig the cooling towers to a pipe system and you've the biggest, hottest hypocaust ever made.
Eh... yes, that's what they did in Russia in big cities like Moscow decades ago. And we still feel the result: they have to turn off hot water every year for a whooping MONTH to maintain the pipes. Maintaining hot water pipes is a huge problem and eats all benefits...
Yes, that's the main problem. We had to retire one of our sites because it was made in old drupal and old custom modules became broken in version 5. We did not have manpower to modify them and it was easier to reimplement it in APEX.
Also Drupal is not flexible enough, Oracle APEX could run circles around it. Yes, I know it's not open source, but we use APEX for some years and it's waaay better than any open source tool around.
I used both during last years and I must say that APEX is much, much better if you want to design something nonstandard (i.e. missing in Drupal out of box). I wanted some menu items to be shown only to certain users in Drupal... arrrgh, what a problem doing a simple task! While authentication and authorization methods in APEX are easy to use and understand (and you can create your own authorization method and bind it to the page OR any element, be it tab on the page or button, or report, whatever -- if the user passess authorization he sees the item, it's that simple). The only drawback of APEX is that you are stuck either with free Oracle XE with its limitations (1gb of ram and 4gb of disk) or with non-legal copies of recent oracle without access to the patches. Unfortunately there still no open-source projects to create a free version of APEX for PostgreSQL (it's quite possible because PostgreSQL is mature enough to handle such system, with all triggers and stored procedures)...
Recently we managed to phase out our corporate drupal-based site. It was close to impossible to upgrade from Drupal 4.x up to 5.x (and 6.x) because of custom modules and we have no human resources to recode someone's crap from version to version every year.
I have a VAZ-11113 "Oka" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Oka )
and its 32 hp engine is ok for driving in Moscow and around. It accelerates easily up to 110 km/h and it's possible to achieve 130 km/h on the good road (but kinda scary above 110-120). Once I got four passengers and we rode for about 200km and it wasn't that different from driving alone, it was just a little slower to accelerate...
And it's very cheap to maintain.
This is a worst idea ever invented. There are a lot of languages like Russian where some letters are the same as normal english letters. So if they manage to roll out multiligual domains it meas they will roll out a lot of possibilites to spoof domains. For example russian 'R' looks like english 'P'. So suddenly any jerk could register well-known domain substituting one letter for another and capture a lot of passwords...
I must be a minority here on Slashdot, because I haven't studied history of the Russian revolution, so I know not who Gapon is.
Gapon was an agent provocateur, who led people into the trap in 1905. Gapon organized workers into the mob and led them into the demonstration to bring the petition to the tzar, at the same time he talked to police to organize a shooting squadron. The intent was to scare workers away from doing strikes. The result: Bloody Sunday. about 100 killed and 300 wounded. This incident started 1905-1907 revolution.
Also, it would be nice if you could back up your dislike of Kasparov with any factual evidence instead of mere name-calling.
Kasparov is well-known for his support for chechen terrorists. That alone is enough to alienate 99% of Russian people. And there is much, much more than that... Western politicians did a grave mistake bidding on Kasparov, it's a sure way to turn Russian people towards Edinaya Rossia party, because they see no real choice. It was a very clever move by Russian government to let Kasparov slide into the public light and lead the opposition.
You must be kidding. Saying that Russia is in need of land and resources is like saying that China is facing a manpower shortage. Even accounting for the percentage of the country covered in permafrost, they have more usable land than any other country in the world. And as for their natural resources, they are hardly hurting there either.
Actually there IS a shortage of the land right now. The appetite for bribery from officials is enormous and it's kinda funny to read when officials from a small town in Siberia complain that there is no land for new house buildings. There are thousands of kilometers of raw forests around, but they say NO, you can't build there. And unless you pay huge bribes and fill mounts of paperwork you can't build. And property prices shoot through the roof (average 3-room flat in Moscow cost about $300k, yep, $300000).
Kasparov is someone like Gapon (this name tells everything to anyone who studied the history of Russian revolution). Kasparov was allowed to take the lead of this protest forces because his political image is disgusting (really), and 99% of these who otherwise would support protesters (and there are a lot of things to protest against) are going to turn away in disgust. The whole ordeal was staged and masses were led into the trap. It was quite possible to just guard this meeting and nobody would notice it at all. But the government used this tactics to make sure that everybody who fights against current ruling party "Edinaya Rossia" get a bad-bad-bad image on TV screen.
Nobody in sane mind here is going to support Kasparov. That's what the government wants: opposition is led by someone who is not going to get any reasonable support among thinking people.
It's just a "popil" -- this new Russian word means getting profit from the government project without doing anything useful. Unfortunately NOTHING could help Russia to get out of economy shithole.
Even today with sky-high oil prices our economy does not really improve. We have much more officials than whole USSR had and everything is too regulated to start a new successful business. If you run a business more than 30% of your profit is going into bribes, because otherwise government won't let you function. Add insane taxes and sudden changes in tax laws that require you to have a good accountant who keeps everything up to law (these women ARE expensive!). Add tax office that has the right to just take your money from your company account and explain this action later (and even if you fend off them in the court they are not going to bear any punishment, even if it was a mistake made by low-paid official).
It's possible to run a startup in Moscow (because the city is huge -- about 20 millions if you include Moscow region and illegal immigrants), you can tap this human resource, and laws work a little better then in rural Russia, and you are not alone, there are thousands of new companies get created every month. But today average salaries in Moscow are getting close to Europe's. As unix/cisco sysadmin I earn about $19k/year (after taxes). And today it's not much because average three-room flat cost about $400k... But if you try to run a startup in rural Russia you'll get a lot of attention from hungry government officials and they'll strangle your business before you get ANY profit.
Unfortunately most of the people in Russia still believe in socialism. As result they support party "Edinaya Rossia" that's now resembles the old communist party (while real communist party, KPRF became nothing but a bunch of clowns). As result Edinaya Rossia who took majority in Duma enough to pass laws without looking at other parties makes more and more laws that strangle businesses (and general people's rights) further and most people support these moves without understanding that they strangle themselves.
Tylenol is not the solution, it's a way to make the problem much worse then it is. At first painkillers let you forget about your pain and continue with your bad posture, then they stop working and you have to spend endless nights coping with never ending pain...
Nohands footmouse http://www.footmouse.com/
It worked for me... kinda. Several years ago I bought two of these and both broke after two months of normal use. These things should be built using machined steel, not crappy plastic. Now workrave does the best job of keeping the pain on manageable level....
Things like I2P and freenet are going to get a boost. Currently only a few whackos toy with freenet & co, but if you force enough people to consider their safety something is going to evolve. And then they will have a very tough task to ban cryptography...
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I wonder why they don't make such thing like a monitor-case with power supply and room for regular mini-itx motherboard and few horizontal extension slots. That's something that I would buy on spot, immediately. It's good to eliminate cables (that's reason #1 why non-tech people buy notebooks, not because of portability), but buying all-in-one or notebook takes away almost all possibilities of upgrade. Universal monitor-case could solve this problem.
It makes a perfect sense because Elop can't fire all linux developers at once. It's just impossible under the law. So he has to find them a useless work for an year or two.
Consistency? What's that?
Everything is consistent. They are going to kill linux devlopment, just can't do it in one month.
Does Nokia have any strategic direction at all?!
Yes. Microsoft.
The law in Russia clearly states that any statement in ANY agreement that goes aginst the law is void.
I just tried to create google plus account and they won't continue unless they either: send me an SMS or call my mobile phone. And all mobile phones are registered to person here in Russia. It does not matter what online name the profile has, it's enough to tell the police mobile phone number and they know exactly where to go to beat the shit out of somebody with dfferent political views... Of couse it's extremely easy and cheap to buy anonymous SIM card and an old used phone (to avoid leaving my personal communicator's IMEI in cellular tower's logs). I think I'm going to do that just to have a spare identity.
Dalvik?
...but what about fixing that f.. networkmanager instead? It's still broken in many ways.
% man uzbl
No manual entry for uzbl
They call it unix way? WTF? I want to know how to use it, I type man uzbl and what? No man page?
Pathetic.
No? Then it's not a browser at all. Today it's impossible to browse the net without eazylist & co. It makes NO sense to change your browser if you switch and immediately get hit with shitloads of ads. That's exactly why I did not switch from Firefox to Opera, no matter how fast Opera is (and was). I don't want to maintain my own list of adblocks, other people did it well. I just want to be subscribed to the best up-to-date set of rules and only Firefox does this seamlessly.
Ayn Rand, "Atlas shrugged" describes exactly what's going on in Russia right now. Real workers are underpaid and nobody is interested in doing things properly. Most probably it's a result of gross incompetence and lack of maintenance.
Some years ago Moscow blacked out because a transformer exploded and burned out. Everything stopped. I'm a network sysadmin in a big retail chain here and I remember watching shops go black, one by one until our main office internet connection collapsed. They said it was old transformer station exploded. Now they again say that it was an explosion of the transformer station. But I believe it's not just faulty equipment, but just exactly what's described by Rand.
Actually Vi is really friendly if you touch type already. Just take some time to learn Vi commands.
Oracle APEX is the answer. There is no need for GUI, but anything business-related could be done in APEX very quickly and you don't need anything except the browser to access them. Oracle's dbms is powerful enough to implement any serious business logic and you can write your own closed-source applications in PL/SQL.
Eh... yes, that's what they did in Russia in big cities like Moscow decades ago. And we still feel the result: they have to turn off hot water every year for a whooping MONTH to maintain the pipes. Maintaining hot water pipes is a huge problem and eats all benefits...
Yes, that's the main problem. We had to retire one of our sites because it was made in old drupal and old custom modules became broken in version 5. We did not have manpower to modify them and it was easier to reimplement it in APEX. Also Drupal is not flexible enough, Oracle APEX could run circles around it. Yes, I know it's not open source, but we use APEX for some years and it's waaay better than any open source tool around.
I used both during last years and I must say that APEX is much, much better if you want to design something nonstandard (i.e. missing in Drupal out of box). I wanted some menu items to be shown only to certain users in Drupal... arrrgh, what a problem doing a simple task! While authentication and authorization methods in APEX are easy to use and understand (and you can create your own authorization method and bind it to the page OR any element, be it tab on the page or button, or report, whatever -- if the user passess authorization he sees the item, it's that simple). The only drawback of APEX is that you are stuck either with free Oracle XE with its limitations (1gb of ram and 4gb of disk) or with non-legal copies of recent oracle without access to the patches. Unfortunately there still no open-source projects to create a free version of APEX for PostgreSQL (it's quite possible because PostgreSQL is mature enough to handle such system, with all triggers and stored procedures)...
Recently we managed to phase out our corporate drupal-based site. It was close to impossible to upgrade from Drupal 4.x up to 5.x (and 6.x) because of custom modules and we have no human resources to recode someone's crap from version to version every year.
Wrong. He is the president and will be president until May 7.
I have a VAZ-11113 "Oka" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Oka ) and its 32 hp engine is ok for driving in Moscow and around. It accelerates easily up to 110 km/h and it's possible to achieve 130 km/h on the good road (but kinda scary above 110-120). Once I got four passengers and we rode for about 200km and it wasn't that different from driving alone, it was just a little slower to accelerate... And it's very cheap to maintain.
This is a worst idea ever invented. There are a lot of languages like Russian where some letters are the same as normal english letters. So if they manage to roll out multiligual domains it meas they will roll out a lot of possibilites to spoof domains. For example russian 'R' looks like english 'P'. So suddenly any jerk could register well-known domain substituting one letter for another and capture a lot of passwords...
Gapon was an agent provocateur, who led people into the trap in 1905. Gapon organized workers into the mob and led them into the demonstration to bring the petition to the tzar, at the same time he talked to police to organize a shooting squadron. The intent was to scare workers away from doing strikes. The result: Bloody Sunday. about 100 killed and 300 wounded. This incident started 1905-1907 revolution.
Also, it would be nice if you could back up your dislike of Kasparov with any factual evidence instead of mere name-calling.
Kasparov is well-known for his support for chechen terrorists. That alone is enough to alienate 99% of Russian people. And there is much, much more than that... Western politicians did a grave mistake bidding on Kasparov, it's a sure way to turn Russian people towards Edinaya Rossia party, because they see no real choice. It was a very clever move by Russian government to let Kasparov slide into the public light and lead the opposition.
Actually there IS a shortage of the land right now. The appetite for bribery from officials is enormous and it's kinda funny to read when officials from a small town in Siberia complain that there is no land for new house buildings. There are thousands of kilometers of raw forests around, but they say NO, you can't build there. And unless you pay huge bribes and fill mounts of paperwork you can't build. And property prices shoot through the roof (average 3-room flat in Moscow cost about $300k, yep, $300000).
Kasparov is someone like Gapon (this name tells everything to anyone who studied the history of Russian revolution). Kasparov was allowed to take the lead of this protest forces because his political image is disgusting (really), and 99% of these who otherwise would support protesters (and there are a lot of things to protest against) are going to turn away in disgust. The whole ordeal was staged and masses were led into the trap. It was quite possible to just guard this meeting and nobody would notice it at all. But the government used this tactics to make sure that everybody who fights against current ruling party "Edinaya Rossia" get a bad-bad-bad image on TV screen. Nobody in sane mind here is going to support Kasparov. That's what the government wants: opposition is led by someone who is not going to get any reasonable support among thinking people.
Even today with sky-high oil prices our economy does not really improve. We have much more officials than whole USSR had and everything is too regulated to start a new successful business. If you run a business more than 30% of your profit is going into bribes, because otherwise government won't let you function. Add insane taxes and sudden changes in tax laws that require you to have a good accountant who keeps everything up to law (these women ARE expensive!). Add tax office that has the right to just take your money from your company account and explain this action later (and even if you fend off them in the court they are not going to bear any punishment, even if it was a mistake made by low-paid official).
It's possible to run a startup in Moscow (because the city is huge -- about 20 millions if you include Moscow region and illegal immigrants), you can tap this human resource, and laws work a little better then in rural Russia, and you are not alone, there are thousands of new companies get created every month. But today average salaries in Moscow are getting close to Europe's. As unix/cisco sysadmin I earn about $19k/year (after taxes). And today it's not much because average three-room flat cost about $400k... But if you try to run a startup in rural Russia you'll get a lot of attention from hungry government officials and they'll strangle your business before you get ANY profit.
Unfortunately most of the people in Russia still believe in socialism. As result they support party "Edinaya Rossia" that's now resembles the old communist party (while real communist party, KPRF became nothing but a bunch of clowns). As result Edinaya Rossia who took majority in Duma enough to pass laws without looking at other parties makes more and more laws that strangle businesses (and general people's rights) further and most people support these moves without understanding that they strangle themselves.
Tylenol is not the solution, it's a way to make the problem much worse then it is. At first painkillers let you forget about your pain and continue with your bad posture, then they stop working and you have to spend endless nights coping with never ending pain...
Nohands footmouse http://www.footmouse.com/ It worked for me... kinda. Several years ago I bought two of these and both broke after two months of normal use. These things should be built using machined steel, not crappy plastic. Now workrave does the best job of keeping the pain on manageable level....
Where is GPRSS module on this gadget? Wifi doesn't cover much while GPRS is available almost everywhere... and can this thing browse the net?
Things like I2P and freenet are going to get a boost. Currently only a few whackos toy with freenet & co, but if you force enough people to consider their safety something is going to evolve. And then they will have a very tough task to ban cryptography...