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Hello! I am Amy Westby and I am honored to be the newest team member at World Savvy.org I summarize my almost 20-year career as a convergence or culmination of bright and adventurous experiences that have taken me around the globe. At times, all these experiences might have seemed messy and confusing, but as I pull back and look at the whole portfolio, I see a neat pattern of growth and learning within the field of education. This "mash-up" of jobs has included teaching in a traditional classroom, teaching in an online environment, leading a charter school, cross-connecting with students and educators in other countries, traveling the world via edu-business, and landing at the non-profit World Savvy doorstep! What a huge change from my parent's generation where one career, in one organization was the norm.
The impact of my own experiences has shaped how I view the future of education. No longer are secondary schools preparing students for the one career, one organization trajectory. More than anything, I watch this convergence and see the need for a full thinking shift in education towards cross-application, cross-geographic, and cross-sector experiences. Students aren't graduating with one simple degree hoping to land that one perfect job anymore. Instead, they are frenetically moving from job to job and experience to experience and collecting all this knowledge and development into this unique and super-charged portfolio. Companies are seeking these types of personalities, too. Being an ace mathematician is great; being an ace mathematician who can also think using human-centered design methodology is even better.
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Album Rating: 4.5Accidentally submitted straight out of MS Word; the site won't let me edit it right now, but as soon as I'm able to, I will. Link to game: http://freebirdgames.com/to_the_moon/ Link to buy / stream soundtrack: http://freebirdgames.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-moon-ost Any critiquing would be appreciated, as I've never reviewed something like this. Link to trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkJuSV-23U Link to playlist (if you want to watch a playthrough, not much different than playing the game itself): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB65DD3F80A3A3F34&feature=plcp
omg omg omg omg....the game is sooo amazing and the best part about it is the music. nice to see a review for it. especially a good one ;)
Album Rating: 4.5omg omg omg omg....the game is sooo amazing and the best part about it is the music. nice to see a review for it. especially a good one ;) Thanks, and yeah it's a marvelous game. Since it's one of those games you can only really play once, listening to the soundtrack is one of the only ways I can sort of relive it. Looks slightly overrated, can't wait to hear it! The soundtrack on its own perhaps is "overrated" but paired with the game it's nothing short of near perfection.
Looks slightly overrated, can't wait to hear it!
Album Rating: 4.5Loved the game and the soundtrack. Nice to see a review.
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Nokia punts 'understated elegance' talker
No bling? No problem!
If you're not swayed by handsets for the poser crowd, then how about a Nokia talker that it's claimed radiates understated elegance?
The external screen displays messages, calls and the time
Although the 3610 Fold doesn't boast the fine styling of HTC's Touch Diamond or the functionality of the iPhone 3G, the Nokia device is claimed to have a "spacious keypad" that makes tapping in text simply effortless.
The handset giant also claims its Fold clamshell is ergonomically shaped, which should be…erm…handy.
A 1.3-megapixel camera with 6x digital zoom is built into the phone, and images are stored onto Micro SD cards of up to 4GB.
The 3610's ergonomically designed, it's claimed
Fold has a 2in LCD on the inside and a small screen on the front surface, which can display incoming calls or messages, and be used as an analogue clock.
Connectivity wise, the 3610 is a quad-band GSM network talker. But it doesn't support 3G HSDPA connections.
Nokia's 3610 Fold will be available later this year for around €125 (£100/$200).
Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery
ok enough already....
is it me or is nokia and most of the other telecoms companies just knocking out dull uninspiring and tedious derivative designs?
what happened, to innovation, design, style and most importantly the "wow" factor?


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So, I have watched more TV than I should and now I'm going to pester all my followers with it. Yes, I found that I have followers that I did not personally solicit to follow me.
Anyway, what I have seen recently are the Hunger Games, several episodes of Doctor Who, and Legend of Korra. They're all so perfect that I simply cannot handle it. And I want to talk about all of them.
Hunger Games
This was just so beautiful and perfect and wonderful. I really liked the way the movie was filmed and all the actors they picked were marvelous. Katniss was beautifully intense and cute. The guy who played Peeta has converted me to a complete Peeta fan. I had an entirely different impression of Peeta before, but now I am simply in love with him. After all, he can decorate himself like a rock cake. Can anyone beat that?
I didn't think so. I really liked the new points of view as well. It was really enlightening for me to see really how automated the games were. I never really realized exactly how much control the gamekeeper had. Right down to the falling tree. Also, I proceeded to cry for the entire movie. Every single time Prim was on screen I was crying. And I had a cold, so even when I was not crying, I sounded like I was a complete mess. The whole theater probably thought I was a pathetic. And good looking, of course.
Anyway, the movie was perfect. And there was a guy who was walking out and said, "I'm glad I didn't spend ten bucks on that." I refrained from punching him out, but he was SO wrong.
Doctor Who
I'm now on Season 5 with Matt Smith. I just watched the Van Gogh episode. And he is perfect. He shoudl be the companion and marry Amy, that is all I have to say. And he loves the fact that he is ginger. He even said that he should marry Amy and have many GINGER children. And Amy said they would be so ginger. This should be real.
Otherwise, the episode was really cool. That ending was so perfect. I tried to tell him how awesome and artistic he was, but he would not listen. Then he got to see and I was just so happy for him. I'm glad he got to see what people thought of him.
Legend of Korra
Why did I have to wait so long for this? At first I was really concerned about Korra being too obnoxious to handle. But then she was wonderful and amazing. Who needs patience? Not me. Or Korra apparently. And the writers are so perfect. Toph's kid- wonderful. And Tenzin's beard is just so amazing. It is magical. And you get to see Katara's little spasms inside of him, which is good, since she's too old to spasm properly. And I called right away that the freestyle fighting would teach her aribending. I'm just a genius like that. All others should be jealous. Bolin is so cute. And children who stop Katara from telling stories of Zuko's mom shall never be forgiven. Warning.
Well, with that wall of text, I am done. You're welcome everyone who reads my tumblr. Now I'm back to watching more TV. Heck yeah!
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I'm quite confused that this is being portrayed as a defeat? The various LGBT rights groups in America that I'm subscribed to have all sent emails announcing their happiness that they can fight to set legal precedents within federal court and hopefully have the case reach the Supreme court, so I'm not sure why the article seems to present it as a setback.
I personally think it's good that this case can move forward because Protect Marriage are horrendous defendents of the Prop 8 ban, and Olson/Boies will wipe the floor with them at every court case. The California court has done us a favour by not ending this early and allowing it to eventually become a nationwide precedent, rather than a state specific ruling.
The only disadvantage here is that marriage equality will be delayed in California, but that just makes the fight all the more important to win so that they, and everybody else, can finally be treated equally.
I think the Judge has been either very clever or stupid depending
on his view point.
If he was being anti-gay then his ruling could have been so.
I think he has thrown the ball into the park, thus in some way allowing the anti crowd to expose their bigotry given their as is seen desperate attempts.
This is not a bad decision for marriage equality. The Ninth Circuit
is likely to uphold Judge Walker's ruling, and in doing so, will set a precedent on the merits, that will affect all states the Ninth Circuit has jurisdiction over. It may or may not set-up a SCOTUS showdown, as that court may refuse to take the case. In the meantime, the political atmosphere is decidedly more favorable in favor of marriage equality in the US, and more gays are achieving elective office at all levels of government.
Though it seems to be ridiculous that any clown now can start stepping into the task of the State if they do not agree with the stance of the State.
But, if they would have been refused standing, Judge Walkers ruling would have been CA wide and have no further impact.
Though there now will have to be a full going over the case, I can not imagine PM can do any better defence than they have already done, which means Olson/Boies will indeed wipe the floor with them and only a ridiculous ruling could be in favour of PM and Prop 8 to stand.
So, a ruling against Prop 8 would have a much further impact than Judge Walker's..
America is now less than 12 months away from the next Presidential Election and all the other elections and referenda that also take place on the same day. This will be a golden opportunity for proponents of gay marriage to introduce a new Proposition to be voted on in California. Remember that Prop 8 (2008) was carried by 52% to 48%. Three years of impassioned debate would have no doubt changed peoples' minds on the subject. Some will go from being 'pro' to 'anti' but many more will go from being 'anti' to 'pro' and hopefully a decisive majority will vote in favour of gay marriages killing off forever the claim by religious fundalmentalists that love can only exist between a man and a woman.
No, No, No, No…. hold it now. @GingerlyColors
The difference between an inalienable right and a privilege can be said to be: the difficulty or ease at which it can be taken away
You are proposing that you ask for your rights, to be given to you by popular vote, and that is not a right worth having. That is NOT a right, it is a privilege granted. And your privileges given in one election, can be taken away in the next one.
Our rights are already defined and secured in the Constitution and will protected by the courts. The battle to protect those rights will only make them stronger. The rules with far reaching consequences.
And finally when the last canon is silenced, we can have dignity that we did not compromise or shy away from the battle, and pride that we made a difference.
Then Prop 8 should be deemed unconstitutional according to the 14th Ammendment. Equal Protection under the law. I hope the Supreme Court strikes Prop 8 DOWN
The 14 Amendment was added to the US Constitution and it includes the Equal Protection Clause which means each state has to provide equal protection under the law to all people.
So if LGBT people want to get married like straight people then they have the right to get married which makes all people equal and protected.
The problem is the Christian Fascist want to hijack the US Constitution and the legal system to stop LGBT people from having their equal rights in the United States.
This is disgusting, anything to stall and subject our community to yet more discrimination and treat us as second class citizens.
Take note though… this is why we must have a consultation here in the UK to stop all this messing about to appease the religious extremist. There needs to be no excuses to anyone holding up this process and not only making society more equal but much more stable. That has to be better in any society.
Shame those extreme ones in religion can't see that and would rather create an unbalanced, unequal society to massage their faltering over inflated egos.
In This nation as stated before, there are alot of racism and bigotry that you must tackle, the evils in our nations because of hetersexual people but mostly hetersexual men, are vast, their evils from the past where you have had to fight racist hetersexual men for the rights of women to vote time and time again with civil rights leaders and finally womens rights emerged but you still have to have national task forces on top of the republican party, because they are still trying to harm womens rights even today because of their history of southern demons, you then had to fight along with abraham lincoln the same hetersexual men, for the rights of all minoriteis votes, and their rights in all areas, the evils of racism and bigotry goes way back soulth evils of hetersexual men they no they are evil a white pastor told me they where all demon possesed by satin himself and his demons, this was a hetesexual white male pastor , and said he would not defend men who where now monsters
Hetersexual men have committed the most hannus crimes against everyone down thru history and is still doing so, even to thier own wives and children and yet , the hippocrites stand and sit on court where they should be in jalil themselves for hate crimes and many of the men including jugdes has already been arrested for rape, of women and children, and other real crimes not petty mess, these are people sitting on the court and thats why you are dealing with the constant battles that m;ust be fought until you root the bad one off of the bench and court seats, when a person does not use his or her human rights conscience , theiy tolerate anyting evil wrong and abusive because they themselves are not right they are evil and wicked, the time has been wasted fighting battles that any child would no is wrong, but bigotted court seats and oppointees, mess the system up until you tackle them as well, bad men are the root of every problem and they try and poison the rest of society
People are dangers in the hetersexual world, who is killing millions of people everyday. the hetersexal people mostly men, who is rapping chidren and women every single day by the millions and murdering them and sex trafficking them , almost every single one of them are hetersexual men and some women, who has our nation in wars all the time becauseof racism and bigoty, hetersexuals mostly men, who is the ca;use of children suicides hetersexuual people, where is all of the pedephilia comming from and child incest, hettersexual people, who is the evil johns buying children to rape and molest, hetersexual men, who is the rot of our nation and is the only reason our nation is not safe from harm and in peace, hetersexual people, this is why you must continue to overhaul the system , last year hetesexual people asked that more gay people be elected because of the mess andf problems hetersexual officials and people has made of this naiton, its was placed in the ft worth paper, their sickning
california , is guilty of hate crimes and bigotry abuses like some other countries, they are mostly , because of hetersexual republican hippocrites and the lack of backbone you have in mayors and governors in california, who should be standing like coumo and bloomberg and making history for being good people with the right focus on humanity and they go down in history as honorary people who fought for civil rights and the people like they where suppose to, california lacks the kind of mayor and governors who roll up their sleeves and sound off and get action taken on behalf of racism and other abuses anywhere, you have diane fiensten and nancy peoplosi and boxer down their in the district where are they, they should be down their in the court room on top of these abuses themselves, obama should have been down there and set it all right for human rights as well not many has had the back bone that coumo and bloomberg an their determination to , people are wicked and jelous of gay familis
You must continue to go forth and get with the aclu and all the lgbt human rights forces sldn glbt lamda legal and judge virginias and other people who are honoray civil rights leaders who are not playing around with families lives with their thumb up their ass, they are taking action, the people need serious human right people, not a front, the people of california especially holly wood and other had better start taking more seriously the real issues on the table and stop just looking at you can fly to new york and get married that true and thats good , but you must get equal rights and human rights in every state because it is right to do so, racism and bigotry is wrong and evil and is unconstiutional on all counts, you looking at lunatics in the cour system up their saying and knowing racism and bigots are te cause of children committing suicede that s murder, lives innocent schildren , children bullied, and ab;used , by children and adults , families stalked by hetersexuals
When you have a system who can solve probblems and stop suicides of children and bullying and fail to , it is because they are part of the problem and condone the evil hate crimes and care nothing for those children and no one else, but themselves, our system is full of evil people bad kid who grew up and are wicked adults who hurt other people just like they bullyied and hurt kids when they where in school, that why the nations people and families are going to have to pull together and fight together against all hate crimes and racism, the Aclu is the main one getting things done, not the officials who should have been standing all along, the people must get rid and stop electing bad officials, right now all of the republican candidates for president all public bigots and racists and out spoken about being racists and bigots, that means they are no good and abusers and will do bad things to try and harm masses of families and womens rights , this is not a game, bigots harm many
"For a change, shut up and accept that you cannot have it all your own way"
No. We will get it our way.
Tell me Keith, were you ever any fun before your ex-gay "conversion"? Did you drink excessively then too?
Keith is probably uglier than the picture displayed against his name. What a pathetic individual who has nothing better to do but to persistently troll gay sites to spew his venom. He must be the perfect example of the failed ex-gay ministries of scam. Odd that he'd want to hang out on gay sites too. No straight male in his right mind would troll sites like this just to provoke. He thinks we're so depraved which means he is to for coming here. Obviously he has some very serious issues and conflicts that remain unresolved. My advice, see a psychiatrist, fast. This is one sick individual.
This is just yet more nit-pickibng legal technicalities pushed by the lawyers to make more money.
All this "opportunity to fight the right to not defend the chance to appeal against the right not to defend the ban to stop people having a same sex marriage…"
There are so many double negatives I am completely confused, as I imagine most people are.
Keith – for someone with such a negative view of gay people you seem to spend an awful lot of your time hanging around here.
I would not worry about ths stalker / troll.
Steps have been taken to remove it from this site and
also incarcerate it due to its highly unsociable nature.
It clearly does not want to live in a humane civil society given its hateful diatribes.
Personally I think it should be given help in order to learn how to fit itself into its surroundings and social commentaries.
Failing success on that, it should be removed from civil society given the danger it suggests.
It is clearly is not yet cognisant with the danger it has taken on for itself and the lack of freedom it has induced in itself
by continuing its current course.
As I see it this Keith character no longer deserves any response or argument.
I would not bother complaing to PinkNews as you can see where their interest lies via this URL:.http://www.pinknews.co.uk/images/pinknewsratecard2008.jpg
I wonder how long it will take before they pull this comment???
Keep your eyes on what can be done and by who, http://video.abovetopsecret.com/video7955/The_Truth_Is_Viral_-_Libya_The_Real_Story/
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Lionel Messi scored for the 12th successive Spanish league match on Sunday to prevent Barcelona falling to a second defeat this season, while Mario Balotelli made the headlines on his return to Italy.
Barca's 1-1 draw at Valencia meant the club's La Liga lead was trimmed to nine points by Atletico Madrid, who later beat Real Betis 1-0, but it moved the Catalans 16 points clear of third-placed Real Madrid.
Stand-in Barca boss Jordi Roura was satisfied with the result following the midweek draw against Real in the first leg of the Spanish Cup semifinal.
"We're coming off of a very tough match away to Madrid and that, from a physical standpoint, always wears you down," said the assistant to coach Tito Vilanova, who was absent due to his ongoing cancer treatment.
"Valencia pressure you a lot and they don't let you play. Their intensity made it difficult for us to play our game and it was hard for us to get close to their area."
Messi leveled with a penalty six minutes before halftime after Valencia's goalscorer Evar Banega fouled Pedro. It was the four-time world player of the year's 34th league goal in 22 games.
Banega had put sixth-placed Valencia ahead in the 33rd minute after a failed clearance by Gerard Pique.
Roura paid tribute to goalkeeper Victor Valdes, who has been in fine form despite announcing he will not be extending his contract at the Camp Nou -- in particular denying Roberto Soldado a goal at the end.
"He's the best keeper for us. This Sunday he showed that he's at a fantastic level and he denied Valencia the winning goal. While he's with us, he'll help us," Roura said.
Barca could also have snatched a victory, but David Villa missed a golden opportunity to mark his 100th first-team appearance after coming on as a substitute.


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Re: has no access to the Youtube ad API
No, it's not a device sniffing tactic, it's that there is more than one API for YouTube, and not all APIs provide the same quality results. Here's my guess at what's going on, based on having written a small mobile YT player before.
Basically, you can fetch videos as Flash movies, or raw H.264 streams. The H.264 videos are playable on mobile devices that don't have Flash (these days, that's all of them). However, when requesting the raw videos, only clients that possess a special API key will be sent the links to high-definition video streams in response to their requests. Without the key, you are limited to 360p.
There was an older API that allowed better quality videos for anyone, but Google removed it. Now, to get the HD videos, you need to use a special API that only Google and Apple use. That API requires an access key.
Microsoft requested a similar access key from Google, and Google refused, saying that no private API was required, and they should use the website. But the website compares poorly to a dedicated app. Apple's iOS player app, for instance, has access the HD videos, so it's not even a Google exclusive.
MS then used a well-known loophole in the Flash-player API in their dedicated app to find the HD versions of the videos. (This is the same mechanism that all those "YouTube downloader" services use).
Google sent them a cease-and-desist, because using this source without Flash means that any ads before the content, and the ads normally overlaid on the content by the Flash plater, aren't played; only the requested content is shown.
There's was no sniffing involved, just Google not providing an access key for the API that they and Apple already use to fetch videos. MS wanted to use this API, but weren't allowed to by Google.
Google's behaviour here is irrational. As a company that makes all of its revenues from advertising, their interests would be best served by providing the API key to Microsoft that would allow Windows Phone devices to show YouTube videos with ads. MS are even paying for the development cost of this client, so there's no cost to Google. Google would gain a small increase in ad revenue, and at a cost of... I don't know, pride? Well, I don't read their financials in great detail, but I'm pretty sure that "pride" has a zero monetary value. (Protecting Android market share is a weak argument, when you compare the shares in question: anyone who doesn't have an Android phone by now just doesn't like the platform, and will never buy one)
So in the current situation, users still get to see the videos they want to, and Google loses advertising revenue. A cease-and-desist against MS won't stop other apps using this loophole, and closing the loophole will cost Google a lot of re-engineering, and possibly cut off a large number of desktop viewers in the process.
As an analogy, imagine if ITV (or CBS for non-UK readers) decided that people who use LG TV sets wouldn't be allowed to see their broadcasts anymore... just because, and that there would be nothing that LG could offer that would change their mind. That's the closest analogy to the situation here. It's an advertising platform - restricting its audience is counter-productive.
Re: Hmmm
And how long have you been a Google employee?
Because if you're not working for them, you really are a barrel of fun. Depriving other people of something because they don't follow your personal beliefs.
Sounds like the behaviour of a zealot to me. And an idiot for doing someone else's job for them for nothing in return.
Re: bloat...
Benchmarks won't tell you anything meaningful.
Benchmarks will only show you peak performance on batch tasks, they can't accurately model user interaction. A benchmark can tell you what your IO is like, or what your peak CPU performance is, but it can't tell you what your average event latency is, or how quickly it can respond to user input.
Pick the device up, use it. See how quickly the user interface moves in response to your inputs. See how often the UI drops a frame or two. Leave it be for about 10 or 20 seconds, then see how quickly it becomes responsive again. Load a webpage, scroll it up and down. On equal hardware (WP7 is single core 1Ghz Snapdragon) they should be similar in terms of responsiveness. They're not. (I'm no fan of WP7, btw, but it gets a lot of unwarranted abuse, normally from people who like Android)
" What I am driving at is that at least 128, 256 mb used to be quite common on cheap Android tablets, phones and even small netbooks. You still can get 256 mb tablet on newegg. "
And these low-memory devices are what got Android its reputation for having nasty user experience on cheap hardware. Once you installed a few apps with background services, the OS would spend so much time swapping and/or doing GC cleanup to free some RAM that it couldn't keep up with even basic user interactions. Games, which often pre-cache lots of graphics in RAM, suffer especially badly on this kind of hardware.
Actually, true multitasking like Android's (or before it, Symbian's) is actually bad for gaming, as other tasks can steal resources from the game at inopportune moments. In this respect, the dumb tasking of iOS or WP is better... but, frankly, only in that very specific use-case.
Someone downvoted you for expressing the first law of consumer software design.
Our industry still has a long way to go...
Re: bloat...
You're telling me that native code runs slower than an interpreted bytecode...?
I'm sure that if the situation was the other way round, and it was MS or Apple bunging their whole user libraries through a VM, you'd be right on their case for a making a stupid design decision. It remains a stupid design decision, but it's one that can be explained by a need to get to market quickly.
It's not just the recompilation penalty, though, it's the garbage collection. GC is the worst thing to mix into a small OS. The non-deterministic nature of GC runtimes makes it extremely hard to provide low event latency. This is why Android stutters, even on the best hardware available on the market.
The VM was built by smart people, and has been optimised repeatedly; the APIs were lumped in quickly, and because they're public, they've had to stick to them
To the guy who said Android was originally specced to run in 64 Mb, have a look at what Windows Vista's minimum requirements were. That's enough to run the OS. Apps? well, nobody said anything about apps...
There's evidence that came up in the Oracle trial that Java is that bloat.
I find it very hard to believe that a competent engineering team, given a blank canvas and targetting a resource-constrained platform, would ever willingly implement their entire user-space application framework in an interpreted bytecode runtime. The only rational reason to have done this was to get a quick time to market.
There are a lot of good reasons to have applications written in bytecode (multi-architecture portability not least of them), but not the code libraries that these apps use.
Windows Phone 7 took the approach that I believe Android's developers wanted to: optimised, native-code libraries serving byte-coded apps. Comparing the user performance of a WP7 device with that of similarly-specified device running Android shows that it was the right thing to do from a technical standpoint.
As for the problems with manufacturer apps, a lot of the blame is Google's. The terms of the "powered by Google" licence agreement say that an OEM cannot remove key system applications. So even if the OEM apps are better, so you end up with two email clients, two music stores, two camera apps, and so on. The penalty for breaking this rule is to be denied access to all Google services. Most important of these are the Play store and Google Calendar, which are the most compelling parts of Android as a platform.
Perhaps if they worked a little closer with the key OEMs, a deal could be worked out, but as Google earn nothing from sales of Android, and the OEMs are putting up with the current situation, there's no benefit to Google in doing this.
Re: What is a standard and what is a capability?
The mobile telephony Generations were primarily about signalling:
1890s: 0G - Radiotelephone, ad-hoc call setup
1970s: 1G - Analogue voice, automated circuit-switching
1990s: 2G - Digital voice,circuit-switching
1990s: 2.5G - (e.g., GPRS, EDGE) transition to 3G by adding packet data services
2000s: 3G - Digital voice (circuit switched), packet-switched data
2013: 3G-LTE - ("4G" if you work in marketing), transitioning from 3G to 4G systems
2010s: 4G - Fully packet-switched signalling for voice and data.
Basically, a term that used to have a reasonably well-defined meaning has become a marketing buzzword with little releation to reality (cf "Megahertz", "processor cores"), so Samsung have as much right to call their experimental air-interface "5G" as AT&T had to call their 3G-LTE service "4G".
Re: valid assumption?
The software is very good, but this model may prevent people upgrading - especially in the freelance sector.
As for whether there's competition? Well, yes and no..
Photoshop is the only one that has credible competition, and you could make a good case that for 90% of what the people using pirated PS copies are doing, they could do just as well with Gimp, which is free.
Same kind of applies to DreamWeaver. As a developer doing occasional web stuff, I never saw the huge advantage of DreamWeaver over, say, SublimeText (plug: you owe it to yourself to try this editor!) and FireBug, but it has its devotees.
On the other hand, from personal experience, there is nothing as good as Illustrator for design and illustration work. Not saying it's perfect, mind you, but just that the competition, both free and paid, is a whole lot less perfect.
(I don't use InDesign, but I know people who swear it's the best part of Creative Suite.)
Re: Nah
Apple's EU sales are run out of Cork in Ireland, so registration would be with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. Link: http://www.dataprotection.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=%2Fdocuments%2Frights%2FRightsHome%2Ehtm&CatID=2&m=r
Sounds like a misapplied process. The transaction value in this story is far too low for this kind of verification to be required, unless the card company thought it was a "suspicious" transaction.
Actually, I just tried to buy a laptop (not from Apple) this morning and had the same thing happen to me... phone call to VISA, and was told there was no reason except that it was unusual activity -- surely if I was buying laptops regularly it would be more unusual...
"would work even if the user was wearing gloves, giving it a large advantage over existing capacitive screen tech."
Um... Synaptics already make touch controllers that allow use with gloves. And it's not even like these are only on a roadmap or in a lab: There's one in every Nokia Lumia 720,82x and 92x and every Samsung Galaxy S4 (may not be Synaptics, but the feature is the same).
Re: Asha is not that bad
Yep, previous Ashas are pretty good, but this one takes it to a much higher level.
Looking at the in-use videos, this phone is very smooth and slick - the transitions and scolling are full frame rate, with no skips or judders: only one feature showed a delayed response (pulling down the SIM switcher drawer widget), and the whole thing is really well thought out. I'd like to see this same UI on a full-feature phone, actually, but for a sub-$100 phone, the perceived quality in the UI is astonishing, and well ahead of anything at this price.
The reason? The underlying software isn't Series40 anymore: it's Smarterphone - the Norwegian Linux-based OS that Nokia bought last year. Still the same Java ME API, though for third party apps, but Nokia mention that there will be new, device-exclusive APIs coming for these.
If they'd just add background agents for certain tasks (downloading in my case), I could even get over the non-multitasking aspect of the software. And even Java.
While you're at it...
How about these, similar, offensive generalisations...
People who eat liquorice for pleasure are paedophiles.
Nobody who drives an Alfa Romeo should be trusted with sharp objects.
People who prefer Star Wars to Star Trek torture small animals in their spare time.
Pepsi drinkers are intellectually sub-normal.
Anyone who likes Strictly Come Dancing is a sociopathic pyromaniac.
Re: Nokia cannot hide from their failure
" ..REFUSED to Sell the N9 Meego in the UK "
Let's get the blame to the right place: you got no cheap N9 because no UK operator wanted to offer N9 to their customers. The markets where it was sold were markets where a local operator decided to range it. No conspiracy, no evil plot, just simple commerce. Nokia could not sell a phone over the heads of the local operators - they just don't have that infrastructure (in the UK). The likes of Carphone Warehouse are just agents for the operators - their stock comes from the operators, and is locked and subsidised by them too. There's no free market; you don't have free choice.
You could *always* buy an N9, unlocked, in the UK, but then you'd have to pay its full retail price. Maybe you really wanted the discount from the operator, but giving that to you was their choice, not Nokia's. So bitch to them. They certainly deserve it.
Personally I want all these subsidies to go - all they do is make my bills more expensive, and restrict my choice of handset. There's also no reason for it anymore: does Sky sell you a TV when you take out a subscription? No, because you've already got one.
Re: What is vs what should be
Honestly, some people just WANT to see conspiracies. Competing against "Android and Samsung" is a perfect summary of Nokia's challenges.
Nokia is a full-range manufacturer, as is Samsung. Both companies make everything from simple voice-and-text phones all the way up to high-end smartphones.
In smartphones, Nokia competes with Android as a platform. Below that, their only significant competitor is Samsung's line of non-Android featurephones (against Nokia's Asha series) and Samsung's plain voice-and-text phones (against Nokias 1xx and 2xx series).
You know that both Samsung and Nokia make more money on every simple phone they sell than Sony Ericsson have with any of their Android efforts to date... dumbphones and featurephones might not be in the tech-nerd's line of sight, but they're popular devices, that people want to use, and that produce actual profit for their makers. If you want a future, you need a profit.
Re: LTE
The AT&T version of the 920 supports AT&T's bands (4 and 17). It's the Global, non-carrier-locked, model that uses 1,3,7,8 and 20.
(Source: http://www.nokia.com/us-en/phones/phone/lumia920/specifications/ -- note the "us-en" in that URL)
Re: Bloody hell..
" The cost of the MS WP licences. But more importantly, the 'cost' of being tied to MS dictating requirements. They can only build what MS allows them to in terms of actual SoC used, UI, layout of the screen, and many other."
WP licences are cheaper than Symbian development. Yes SoC is limited, but as a developer I think this is a strength of the platform, not a weakness. Ditto UI layout. I think allowing manufacturers to skin Android is a major flaw of the platform.
"So your claim is that they are not developing these beyond what they were two years ago and merely ported them ?"
No, I'm saying that whether they're developed for Windows Phone or Symbian, the cost of ongoing development is going to be the same, because the new development is a replacement for, rather than an addition to, what was being done before. Don't take my word for it: look at the company's financial reports. R&D costs have fallen far more than licensing costs increased. A net saving.
"I doubt that Android was the only choice. Symbian collapsed not because of the costs but because it was announced as being dead when sales were actually increasing. "
This is a myth. The decline in sales started in late 2010. Advance orders for Symbian devices collapsed at this point, as the N8's introduction turned sour (Bluntly, the hardware was excellent, but the software was not finished, and return rates went through the roof). Sales drops in 2011 were down to networks not renewing orders for Symbian devices back in late 2010. Hardware industries have long lead times: causes go back long before the visible effects. The collapse of Symbian orders, combined with the inability to finish the MeeGo software prompted the famous "Burning Platform" memo; it was not the other way round.
Memo or not, Symbian was already on it's last hurrah, and was never going to continue past Symbian^4, scheduled for 2011 but abandoned in 2010 (but many of its features, running on S^3, came into the Belle release in late 2011). The engineering efforts to get Symbian3 onto the ARM11 SoCs used in N8 and subsequent devices was grossly underestimated, and were the reason why the N8 itself, scheduled to release in early 2010 barely scraped onto the market in November 2010. Nokia's version of Symbian had poor separation of functional layers and was just too difficult to bring into today's more powerful hardware. (open-sourcing the code also sucked time and energy out of the company: perfectly good, working code was re-written to allow the entire OS to be Open-Sourced, and in the end nobody used it.)
"I still have and use an N800. It is not a phone. "
I know that, but telephony is an application; it's not intrinsic to the OS. As an application platform, which was more mature? N800 or the Android release of the time? Actually, if you insist on pedantry, compare Maemo5 on the N900 with Android Cupcake (1.6), both from late 2009.
" as [N950] was killed off so as not to compete with MS products"
No it was not. N9 was put on sale because it was too late to stop, and there were customer orders in place that needed to be fulfilled, but there was no future in the OS. MeeGo was an absolute disaster. It failed to achieve any of its goals, and Intel had failed to deliver any of the hardware that was to propel its progress in tablets - even now, where are those low-power Atom tablets? I love the N9, I think it's a beatiful combination of software and hardware, but it was two years late. The N950 is actually the hardware that N9 was supposed to launch with, but wasn't shipped because there was no software ready. You need to stop seeing this failure as a Microsoft conspiracy, it was entirely of Nokia's own making. It's unpalatable, but true.
Nokia's problems were all in full force years before they signed up as a windows licensee. I waited for N8. I waited for N9. Neither of them were on time, neither as good as they should have been (N8 disgracefully so). My main phone is still an N8. With the last software release on it, it's a pretty good phone, but, again, that was nearly two years later. Had N8 launched on schedule, with Symbian Belle on it (hell, even with Anna), there would have been no problem. It didn't.
Nokia went with Microsoft for solid business reasons. Not liking this outcome doesn't make the whole deal a conspiracy. Google was the other option, and they were approached (I believe WebOS was also considered) and it simply did not make business sense.
Here's a major reason: Google would not allow Nokia to preserve their mapping and navigation apps if they became an Android licensee. They would have been asked to ditch their entire investment in buying Navteq, and all of the work they'd done to make Symbian's maps and navigation class-leading, for no revenue return. Going with a "non-Google Android" would have let them keep Maps, but wasn't a viable choice - the only truly good things about Android are Google's online services: they'd have been locked out of Calendar, the app store, and all of the things that Android does very well, and been castigated by the press for it.
Those services are another reason why Android was a no-go. The post above says that the Android phonemakers have been reduced to box-makers on narrow margins, with no recurring revenue, which is a pretty good assessment of the situation. By choosing Microsoft, Nokia were able to bring their existing services (music and navigation) to Windows Phone that give them recurring revenue streams; those services are made available on all WP handsets, not just Nokia's. That wasn't an option on Android.
Finally, you have to consider the loss of first-mover advantage: Windows Phone 7 was less than six months on the market when Nokia signed up; Android had had nearly two years, and Samsung's position as top dog was becoming very clear.
"And Android is not trying to do that either. Google makes it available and it is up to manufacturers to do as they wish."
That is not how it works. Google churns it in secret, with no input from its customers, spits it out, and leaves it there: then it's up to the non-favoured manufacturers to try to get it working. Linux doesn't work like this; Qt doesn't work like this; WebKit doesn't work like this. Almost every open-source project out there lets you see the sources at all times, so that you know what's coming down the track. Android springs it on you, becaue it's the minimum that Google have to do to be acceptable to the "Open Source" evangelists.
We obviously disagree about this, and there's not much I can say that would change your mind, but you cannot blame Nokia's current woes on Microsoft, or on not choosing Android. They, and they alone, are the authors of their own past misfortunes. That said, their future looks better than some who chose Google's "free OS".
Re: Bloody hell..
" Nokia has _added_ software costs and their business is destroyed. "
Untrue on both counts. What costs have Nokia added? The special apps they do for Windows Phone are ports of the products they provided on Symbian (and Maemo), so no increase in cost. They have, however, relieved themselves of the platform costs of maintaining Symbian (and qualifying the hundreds of carrier and device specific releases of Symbian), of developing Maemo, of juggling the perfectly good Maemo to fit with MeeGo. They also have dropped the majority of their Ovi web/cloud product. Overall, engineering costs have decreased dramatically, even with a large increase in Series40 development. You can see that in figures if you look up their financials.
" The only conclusion is that software licence cost and business destruction, or success, are completely unrelated. "
Yes. That was my point, but I wouldn't use the word "completely". Some companies have failed miserably despite having their costs "reduced" by choosing Android, others have prospered despite doing everything in-house. Some are in between, and as you brought them up, Nokia is one of those.
You appear to be implying that Nokia's business was "destroyed" by choosing Windows Phone - which is a bit like claiming that firefighters cause the roofs of burning buildings to collapse. Causes are often much further ahead of effects than that.
A very small bit of research into that company will show that by the time WP was chosen as their primary platform, the major damage had already been done. Nokia bought marketshare from 2009 to 2011 by dumping loss-making Symbian devices into the market, because it couldn't get its software efforts completed on time. The last revision of Symbian (Belle FP2) is actually pretty competent, but it came out in early 2012: two years later than it should have. Then they wasted a whole year on merging their perfectly serviceable Maemo mobile platform with Intel's "hey-lets-work-on-everything" Moblin to make MeeGo - an effort that went nowhere: the Nokia N9, the only phone to "run on MeeGo", doesn't even run MeeGo; it's the pre-merger version of Maemo, hastily ported to the hardware. A whole year. Gone. That kind of mismanagement is why Nokia's business has collapsed, not any choice of Windows Phone over Android.
If you wanted Nokia to adopt Android, the time would have been 2009, not 2011. But in 2009, they had a realisable roadmap for an open-sourced phone OS: Maemo, and it was more mature than Android was at that time. Compare a Nokia N800 with Android 1.6, and tell me which is better? It was only Nokia's inept management after this time that makes Android look like a good choice in retrospect.
I really have no agenda: I own shares in none of these companies, and I use all of their products daily (my phone is an old Nokia, running Symbian, my two laptops are MacOS and Windows8, my desktop runs Ubuntu, OS X or Windows7 depending on what I need, and I use Google's web services). I like to see diversity in the market, because it helps new and better products to appear. Because what's out there can always be improved.
Maybe you want to see a Google hegemony, but count me out: we've only just managed to get free of one grasping monopolistic corporation that stifled progress for twenty years - why are you so eager to jump into the arms of another? Open source? yeah, right, and I've got some beads I'll swap you for this here island... Google don't give a rat's ass about Open Source, they care only about Google, and if more people realised this, we'd be better off in the long run.
Re: And the spin-offs ..
" I have a terminal session stuck in a "Twisty maze of passages all alike" here on OSX, hints anyone ? "
Sounds like you're trying to debug a medium-sized Java application that has a delegate chain longer and more convoluted than the European Commission.
Control-C and re-write it in Intercal - it'll be quicker in the long run.
Re: Bloody hell..
Android phones have always had better CPUs and more RAM than phones running any other OS. Yes, they're under-specced, but because Android is the heaviest of all current mobile platforms, not that the phones are weak in themselves.
If you're a carmaker, and you can't make a fast model without putting a 500 hp V8 under the hood, you look at cutting weight, not developing an even bigger engine, because there's only so much extra power you can throw at the problem before it becomes uneconomical. Weight reduction is a much better strategy, but Android's distribution model has deprived phonemakers of the leverage to get that weight cut out of the OS.
Maybe a real open-source Linux OS will arrive and give a better, lighter weight option, but I doubt it as long as Linux Foundation are running the mobile OS projects...
Re: Bloody hell..
The desktop market had one huge player in OS, but healthy competition between hardware vendors, and one small but profitable vertical. Mobile has more OS diversity, but there's not going to be the same amount of hardware players.
Sony are making a last dash at Android (which has never made them a cent in profit), HTC lost an early lead to Samsung, and are now losing money on Android in the long run (profits won't cover the next model R&D costs), Motorola also losing money on Android, and this despite being owned by Google. ZTE and Huawei are loss-leading on Android as well, and may actually make something off it, but that's at Chinese overhead levels, and their profitable business is in operator-tailored handsets, something that may finally go away in the next couple of years. So, how is it that removing the software cost from smartphone development has managed to destroy everyone's business, bar Samsung? (..or Apple and Nokia who aren't playing this game, but have their own special long- and short-term problems, respectively)
I think it's a loss of leverage. When I sell you something, we have a mutually-beneficial arrangement. You become my customer, and I respond to your requests to improve the product to gain more sales, because it's easier to keep a customer than get a new one. If, however, I just give the thing away, I am freed from the responsibility of having to make it useful to my customers, and so I can produce something that doesn't take their needs into account at all. My choice is: spend time and money to accommodate someone using my product, and gain $0.00 extra revenue, or do what I want with that same time and money, and still gain $0.00 extra revenue. That's why Android runs so badly on cheap hardware: making it run better is distinctly "un-sexy" development, and it's also difficult and time-consuming. Adding new features and apps to the platform is both easy and gratifying, and who cares if it increases the minimum platform requirements. Samsung will make faster hardware.
Android is popular now, but long-term, unless Google pull their finger out and look at its efficiency, it isn't going to deliver the goods for the mobile makers - Samsung has become the only Android producer to make enough money off the platform for it to be a viable business, partly because their industrial scale allows them to build a device with enough power to run Android properly at an affordable price. The hardware is getting better, but the OS is being burdened with more crap at the same rate: net result, not being able to catch the competition. You know you've got a problem when Apple can produce an OS that's more resource-efficient than yours.
It looks like we're over the fun bit of the party, and now we're getting to the bit where the free bar has run out, and people start arguing about the bill.
Oh, not that it'll help or anything, but: If your phone happens to run Android. I am not insulting you. I don't know you. I'm sure you're a great person. I also don't have a problem with Open Source software (although I have a small issue with Google calling Android that), and I wish you a happy weekend, hopefully free of pointless tribal arguments about mobile phone operating Systems. Have a beer.
Re: No Chip and Pin in America?
No conspiracy theory needed: the answer is more mundane. Unlike elsewhere, US banks pass the full cost of the terminal equipment onto the merchant. It's a once-off fee, and the terminals then belong to the merchants. As the merchants would have to pay for new Chip-n-PIN terminals, they see little benefit in doing so, especially as the benefits aren't going to be obvious to them in terms of lower transaction costs. Similarly, the acquiring companies can't just cut off the magstrip services either, because as long as the merchants keep paying their service fees and refuse to pay for new equipment, forcing a change would result in loss of revenue.
In Europe, on the other hand, the terminal is the bank's property, and is rented to the merchant as part of their monthly service fee. So, if the bank wants to upgrade their security, they tell the merchant that they'll be sending a new terminal, and that's that.
(The US situation is a pain in the hole for security, as it's the only reason why the rest of the world is stuck with magnetic strip readers -- the easiest method of stealing card numbers)
Re: NFC
Put your mass-transit ticket card, or your building's door-access card, in front of it - or another NFC-enabled credit or debit card, for that matter.. The remote NFC snooper that everyone's so afraid of (despite it never having been demonstrated to work in a real-life setting) will trigger both cards and be unable to read from either.
Just because an attack is "high-tech" doesn't mean it's worthwhile for an attacker to pursue. There are easier and cheaper ways of acquiring card numbers than trying to radio them out of peoples' wallets. A few quid in the hand of a dishonest waiter in a busy tourist bar is much better return on investment.
Re: This case proves...
There's one thing right now that I'd happily have fewer of: your moronic comments.
Re: The council text you when they come to empty your bins?
Not the OP, but my bin collection service does the same thing, and it's very useful.
Your situation is most likely different, so the usefulness of this isn't obvious, but here's how it works:
1. There are different bins, for different things (rubbish, glass, recyclable materials, electrical or hazardous, etc.)
2. Every week, the collection service takes a subset of these bins.
3. The subset is different for each week in a four, five or six week cycle, depending on the operator.
You can either:
a. memorise the pattern and hope they don't change it.
b. every evening, find and consult the chart that the collection service has sent you
c. wait for the text that they send the night before, and then put out the necessary bins.
Not difficult.
Re: NFC
Many US merchants don't ask for CVC. Some will accept payment from the 16-digit PAN and expiry alone. These are usually fly-by-night porn outfits, and they pay for the "privilege" with high merchant fees, but the business is commercially worthwhile to them, it's the banks that pay for card fraud, not the card clearing companies, so who cares...
In any case, there's nothing new here. I have a device on my phone which uses electromagnetic radiation to acquire a copy of the details printed on any credit card. It's called a camera.
Re: Landfill?
PAYG phones are also subsidised. Neither of the models you cite are "sub-£150" if you try to buy them SIM-free. Experia is £170, Huawei £160 if you buy them not locked to a network. Close to the Nokia, but still more expensive.
I think the landfill comment is a fair shorthand for Android's ever-rising minimum requirements and the platform's poor update management. It doesn't help that many of these performance-sapping updates are applied by stealth. When new, a cheap Android is fine, especially if manufacturer has trimmed some of the heavier features from the stock software suite, but give it a year, and it will have been rendered nearly unusable by a procession of ever more demanding system updates that seem to enable the kitchen sink by default.
After a year, the Windows Phone will have kept the same performance it had when new. Battery life is the problem for Windows Phone, though (and Android, but Android phones seem to come with bigger batteries). Lumia 800's battery life was as bad as any Android. This series seems to be better, but still not good enough.
Re: first step, transparency
Other way around. To take the most extreme example: Apple in the US advertise their phones at a subsidised price, and then bully the network operators into paying them much more than that for them.
Sure, the network operators are crooks, but that money they're paying to Apple is being taken away from providing better infrastructure. The infrastructure still needs to be put in place, so the money for that comes from... customers. As usual.
In Europe, handset pricing is a little more transparent, but it varies from market to market. Finns, for example, have always been on the model that T-Mobile are now introducing (you pay for service, but the operator will lend you money for a handset at zero percent), but the UK is closer to the US model than any other country, with very low upfront prices, at the cost of higher monthly tariffs.
Re: 30th anniversary of every man and his dog releasing a Spectrum-basher
"What went wrong?"
I think you've got to look back to the 1960s to find the most probably cause. Asset Stripping. Profitable, viable manufacturing companies were bought up and shut down simply because their premises were in an area where property values were high. By the time the 1980s came around, Britain no longer had a "middle-strand" of engineering and manufacturing companies: it was a choice of two-man businesses, or nationwide behemoths crippled by inflexible union agreements.
So, into this environment, you've got a small, IP-led startup. They know how to build computers, but can't make them themselves. Had this happened in Germany (the most similar economy to the UK, historically), the answer would be simple: go to your small, local radio/TV factory, and ask them to knock out 10,000 of them for you. In the UK, those businesses had been destroyed by the likes of "Lord" Hanson, or forcibly merged into quasi-nationalised conglomerates by equally idelogical Labour governments; and investment money was moving into financial serivices and media, as these were seen to be the "future".
In hindsight, the whole process was like losing weight by cutting off your left arm.
The crash of 1983 put the last nail in the coffin of these small manufacturers. Many that were left in the hole by the now-bankrupt micro makers were bought by asset strippers, split up, sold off and shut down.
Amstrad's success in the market was down to having the computers made in Taiwan, at lower costs than any UK maker could manage, and bundling them with a monitor. The offshoring was a revolutionary idea back then, but it was the only way that a UK-based company could make things: the domestic capacity had gone. I had one - it was my first computer.
(Disclaimer: this is just my theory - it's not researched, and I'm not an economist)
Re: Poor results?
Re: Poor results?
I don't know if you follow football (I don't particularly), but here's an analogy...
Queens Park Rangers are currently second from bottom of the table, and will be relegated. If they had finished 17th, not 19th, it would be a good result for them. A great result, in fact.
Had Mancester United (now league champions) achieved that exact same hypothetical 17th position, it would be an appalling result, and heads would roll.
But it's still the same number of points scored, and the same position in the table. Expectations are the key.
Apple have taken so much money over the last five years that yes, $10bn IS a bad result. Their stock was priced in expectation of their already phenomenal profits rising in future; a fall, even a slight fall, gives lie to this valuation. In truth, I think there was a good old fashioned bubble in Apple stock last year, one that is only now correcting itself....
Re: Could anybody explain...
Human hearing has approx 130 dB of dynamic range. Microphones with good audio quality at this kind of range are expensive, and too large to mount in a mobile phone.
A compromise (used by just about everyone else) is to use a less sensitive microphone, with 100 dB of range, but this means that loud sounds will cause it to distort. Alternatively, it can be mechanically damped so that it will not distort at high volumes, but then you lose the ability to detect softer sounds because the microphone diaphragm is now too resistant to movement.
Nokia's idea was to use two mics, one damped one for high level sounds, and another undamped one for lower level, and use some clever signal processing to mix these dynamically. A different version of the technology uses one diaphragm (with, I suspect, a non-linear amplitude response), and better signal processing to re-form the sound signal afterwards.
It is clever, and it does work. That's why they got the patent. But this isn't about patents... HTC didn't use the method to make their own part; it seems that their supplier, STElectronics, supplied HTC with the *exact* part that they were making on Nokia's behalf. That's not patent infringement, it's breach of contract and possibly theft (STE were making these for Nokia, and Nokia alone, so the components were not STE's to give to HTC).
Re: Copyright?
Oh come on...
Tools are just that: tools. The fact that a device can be used to record a concert doesn't mean that it's infringing copyright. The person using the tool bears the responsibility.
There are many loud social occasions where you would want non-distorted audio capture (110 dBA is easy to reach if someone is shouting and cheering very near to your mic), few would involve copyright infringement. Sporting events (amateur or otherwise), parties, motorsport, funfairs are a few that come to mind straight away.
The best reading of the situation is that STE have made a huge mistake; the worst is that HTC have stolen another company's work without compensating them. The part is Nokia's design, even the packaging is the same. STE, as manufacturer, had no right to sell the parts to a third party, any more than Foxconn could start selling iPads to a white-label rebrander. The contract they made with Nokia would have made this very clear.
It's bad news, because the HTC One is a nice phone - HTC should not have taken this risk - and this is why I suspect it's STE's failure, not HTC's. Nokia are within their rights to pursue HTC for compensation, or have sales blocked until they change the part (which they are going to do).
Re: As an app developer...
... if those are your only choices, then yes, ObjC. But it is rather like being asked to chose a favourite venereal disease.
A long time ago, when I did Objective-C, I found that ObjC++ was the only way to make it tolerable. [[but [even [[then [that [[stupid [method call] syntax ]]]] got on my ]] tits]].
... is home to one of the largest ethnic Chinese populations in the Valley (I think about 20% of all residents claim Chinese heritage). The execs who come over won't be without a good place to eat or people to talk to... Sounds like a trivial thing, but getting key staff to move abroad and be happy to stay abroad is one of the biggest challenges in setting up offshore offices.
Re: Better then an N8?
As another N8-owner, I know where you're coming from... Only Nokia and Apple make phones that are as well made, and neither of them can match the camera quality of the N8. I really do not like iOS or Apple's always-on over-saturated colour processing, so that leaves Nokia. I just wish they'd get their camera stuff fully ported to WP...
None of the Androids have a good camera by N8 standards. The HTC One is closest, but it's not as good as N8. If you can take the drop in image quality, it's a nicely made phone, with enough features to keep you up to date for a couple of years. But, being Android, you will have to completely wipe and restore it at some point to recover lost performance. (It's a quick job, though). The Galaxy S 3 and 4 are mediocre as cameras, and the 3 flimsily built. Not a good combination for gigs.
Right now, the (hard to get) 808 is the only thing that is better as a camera. It would also be faster, as it has a CPU that's nearly twice the speed of the N8's, and a better GPU. I considered it, but as you say, it's a lot to pay for a dead-end device.
The 920 (and upcoming 928, most likely) is good in the dark, but it can't beat the N8 in well-lit scenes, although the optical stabilisation for video is exceptional (and the audio quality is also top-notch, if not quite as good as the 808's stunning audio capture).
However, there is a new camera-centric WindowsPhone device rumoured to be coming this summer from Nokia, but no details about it have emerged yet. I'm waiting to see what that one is like: the 920 was close, but a little to big for me, and the 720 produces some stunning results for its price-range. In any case, the N8 will continue for another year...
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" replacing a battery is not a weekly operation - "
No, it would be a twice-daily operation for field workers. If current models allowed removable batteries, it still would be.
Before Jobs made them sealed units, Mac laptops used to have a very useful "warm-swap" feature: put the computer to sleep, and you could pop the battery out for up to 10-15 seconds without affecting the RAM. Makes it very easy to swap batteries and continue working.
That, and their low power consumption meant that packing one or two spare batteries could get you a full day's use of a laptop far away from any power source (very useful for long-haul business travel with long stopovers).
Design isn't just about what a product looks like. Apple used to make well-designed products; these days their stuff only *looks* well designed...
In the US market, why wouldn't you buy Apple?
Knowing nothing else, why wouldn't you buy the most expensive phone? The bizarre US phone market means you'll pay the same upfront charge regardless of what phone you pick, so why not go for the most expensive one?
If T-Mobile's gamble pays off, and the customer is exposed to the price of their phones directly, then the pendulum will swing back to Samsung, Nokia and HTC who offer much better value for money than Apple ever will, but right now $100 for an iPhone is a better deal than $100 for a Galaxy: the first "saves" you over $500; but going with Samsung only "saves" you $350.
This is no comment on the relative merits of each choice, but the fact is that the current US system insulates the customer from the true retail price of the handset, and that grossly distorts consumer behaviour.
Re: bet the company?
Ampex and Sony collaborated on professional VTR equipment, but it was Sony that launched the first successful *consumer* recorder.
It's Sony's consumer electronics business that provides the closest parallel to Apple's current business model.
Re: It's going to get a lot worse for Apple
It's starting already. T-Mobile US is finally ranging the iPhone, but at the same time has dropped ALL handset subsidies - you want an iOS phone, you pay Apple's inflated retail price, or pay a higher monthly tariff (rental + credit repayment for the handset). This is novel for the US, where typically you pay the same monthly regardless of phone, and all phones are subsidised down to the same low price.
Exposing the US customer to the real cost of their phone exposes Apple's biggest weakness in the market: value for money. Yes, an iPhone is better value to a customer than, say, a Galaxy S3 if both are $150 (and the monthly tariff is the same), but when you remove the unequal subsidies, and the Samsung is $350 to the Apple's $650, you really need to be a fan of the brand to buy the iPhone.
Under this model, The operators will still get the high-spending iPhone customers, but those customers won't change their iPhone for the next model every time their contract expires; now that they have to pay the full price, there's no incentive for them to do so. That's bad news for Apple: they need that operator-subsidised handset churn.
Verizon and AT&T are holding back for now, but they do want to move to the same model as TMobile, and the markets know it.
I think this is the major reason why Apple's shares have tanked. Nothing to do with Maps, or a mediocre iPhone 5. Just simple business: their biggest money tap (the US operators) is in serious danger of being turned off.
Re: PD is not the the next logical step on from FLOSS
You're absolutely right. I'm amazed by how many FOSS advocates don't understand this. Without copyright, there's no enforcement of open source licences.
GPL doesn't "reverse the direction of benefit"; it places the copyright with the project maintainers, or the FSF in some cases. The function of copyright in this transaction is no different to selling your software copyright to a commercial publisher: in both cases, it is IP law that allows the right to control copying and distribution to pass from author to distributor.
The only difference is that afterwards, a commercial publisher charges for the copies, whereas a FOSS distributor allows copies on condition of adhering to GPL or similar.
You can't have the GPL without copyright. You can't have copyright if you relinquish it by putting work into the public domain.
Re: where it's going
The standard is called just "Mirrorlink". It's not Google's invention, but rather a cross-industry standard, based on Nokia's original "Terminal Mode" connection system. First implementation was on Symbian, then Android.
iPhone can also connect if you write an app that embeds the libraries, but there's no OS support. Windows Phone, I don't know, but I guess it's coming, as Nokia were such a major player in the standard.
It may be fashionable (and justifiable) to think Apple are nothing but a hollow marketing operation, but that doesn't mean that the company never invented, or never pushed technology forward.
The QuickDraw region-clipping algorithm *was* new - other graphics systems allowed you to specify a single polygon if you were lucky, but usually only a rectangle. For irregular overlaps, this meant dividing your L-shaped exposed area into two rectangles, and then repeating your draw operation for each one. With an expensive draw operation, that meant wasted computation, or more complex code (preCompute(); for each rect in clip list: clip(); draw(); )
The QuickDraw system, unlike these, allowed arbitrary-shaped clipping regions. You could open a "region" handle, draw into that region with any of the QD primitves to define its shape, and then finalise it. Once you defined your clipping area using that Region, the clipping was done at the bit level, not geometrically (it's actually bit masking, but with some optimisations to a. pack the mask bit structure efficiently, and b. never execute fully-obscured draw commands).
The famous Evans & Sutherland patent is for geometric clipping on vector displays. The same techniques can be adapted for bitmaps, but the bitmapped nature of the display allowed much more sophisticated clipping to be performed. This is what Apple, or rather Bill Atkinson, did, and it's why he was awarded the patent.
(more history on this: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=I_Still_Remember_Regions.txt )
Re: Understand the Lisa for what it really is!
Yes, because only Motorola could discontinue their processor line, but the reason for them killing the line was that the customers for the high-powered desktop chips were moving away from Motorola. A product without buyers is of no use to anyone.
SGI had already gone RISC, Atari had moved back to videogame consoles (and never progressed past the 68030), Commodore's Amiga was hitting the end of the line (and also never shipped with anything beyond 68030 - the 040 and 060 chips came from the resurrected organisation).
Intel's phenomenal success in the late 1980s gave them so much more money to pour into deep pipelining and other tricks to make their architecture work for them, but Moto couldn't justify it. They had very few volume sales for the high-end CPUs, and at the same time, the embedded device customers were pulling them towards low-power operation, which is where the 68k ended up.
Motorola stopped developing high-performance 680x0s, killed their 88000 RISC line, and joined the AIM (Apple IBM Motorola) alliance in the early 1990s. The idea was to produce a modern, RISC-based desktop to mainframe processor architecture between them and reap the rewards of the larger economies of scale. Apple and IBM were to provide an OS (Taligent), Moto and IBM did the fabrication, and all three would make customer hardware.
It didn't work that way: Taligent died very slowly, IBM concentrated on Power servers and Motorola ended up making PowerPC chips for embedded devices, with a high-performance variant just for Apple, who were also dying on their feet. The G4 was the last Moto chip in a Mac, but while its embedded focus made Apple's laptops king of the heap for battery life, the desktop line was falling behind the competition, not just on the customer-facing marketing point of peak clock speed, but also on real performance. The IBM-sourced G5 was the last hurrah, but as a server part, it would never make it to a portable.
I learned assembly on a 68000 (Atari ST), and 68030 (Atari Falcon030), and always remember the chips fondly...
Re: Perhaps none.
You might watch the video: you'll see it work with what looks like sunlight, but could have been artificial light. In any case, it was not laser light. The video clips also suggest that that the experiments were done at room temperature.
Re: Comprehension
I worked in Germany with a (German) guy who learned to sing every Bob Dylan song word-perfect years before he learned English. He had no idea what he was singing, but that wasn't the point. Could lead to some strange interpretations, though... ("Aalen in der Wachs stau er", anyone?)
Oh,...and it's "Sings the street a serenade"
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Re: What the fuck does "overly prescriptive" mean?
Overly prescriptive = telling your contractors *how* you want something done, rather than telling them what you want to do with it, and why. The *how* part should always be the contractor's job, once they know "what". "why" is useful because it allows better solutions to be proposed...
Re: fat cheque
While I agree that the 920 seems to be selling very strongly, SeekingAlpha is a cesspool of stock-pumpers at best, and uninformed fanboys at worst. Believe absolutely nothing you read there.
Actually, the same goes for WallStreet Cheat Sheet and the Motley Fool and all the other "crowd-sourced" stock analysis sites. One day, if they get their act together and shape up, these sites might become a wretched hive of scum an villainy.
Re: Insanity of software patents
Yes, it's "just maths", but so is GSM modulation, which you claim to be fair and patentable.
The work in H.264 was in finding a set of processes made from "just maths" that can be performed without needing huge amounts of CPU power, and which won't reduce the output to unwatchable garbage if some of the parameters are garbled in transit and which end up reducing the amount of data transferred without degrading the subjective image quality. None of those three things are a trivial task.
Have you ever tried to develop an existing principle into a working, functional product that meets people's needs? Edison may have been a fucking thief, but he was right about the "99% perspiration" part. That is what you're paying for: not having to make all the false-starts, not having to go down all the dead-ends, not having to rework everything to make it safe to use, or make it work with other components that aren't strictly compatible with what you're doing. You're not paying for the idea. You're paying for the time and effort it took to realise that idea.
"It is not right for people to hold patents on basically other peoples work that they often don't even properly understand. (When they try to modify the algorithm in crypto it is proven that they lack the necessary knowledge)."
You know that this line of argument prevents people owning cars, so I'll assume you walk everywhere. The reason it's called intellectual "property" is because the implementor is able to sell it to someone else. If that someone else already knows exactly how to implement the idea, they wouldn't need to buy the intellectual property.
So, is technology only allowed to be used by people who make it? That's a frankly stupid contention. I doubt that you know enough about the various processes and systems to be able to build, from first principles, a device capable of connecting to the internet, so I must assume that you bought it from someone who did. And that company didn't know how to make all of the components in the box either, and so on back to someone who invented a way of doing something.
"Copy the algorithm as is into Cadance test it on an FPGA and then get an ASIC made is the sort of thing that a 3rd year uni student could do."
Yes, but copy *which* algorithm?
Sure, it's easy to burn any random process into silicon. It's also easy to type random words together on a page. But despite initial impressions, typing random words isn't the same thing as writing "Ulysses".
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