Makes sense
After all, it is where criminals and lunatics were traditionally sent in the past.
Posts by Paul 75
42 posts • joined 4 Sep 2009
Former Nokia boss Stephen Elop scores gig as chief innovator for Australia's top telco
I cannae dae it, cap'n! Why I had to quit the madness of frontline IT
Apple to tailor Swift into fully open-source language – for Linux, too
Android please!
I'd love to see this running on Android, so much less porting work would need to be done.
REVEALED: Titsup flight plan mainframe borks UK air traffic control
Re: Tech specs
Ah, that was probably the radar-processing side of things (making sense of the radar inputs, churning out combined data to the LAN). Those would not run the "modern" stuff like Ada or C++, but were based on established proprietary products. The RS-6000s ran AIX, a flavour of Unix.
Wow, I have to check out the National Museum of Computing, maybe something I worked on actually had historic value (rather than being thrown away without ever being released, like most things...)
So you reckon Nokia-wielding Microsoft can't beat off Apple?
Re: Strange analysis
> Nokia at the end of 2010 had a large market share based on old technology, and they had no answer to the new and fast growing contender.
They had Meego, a Linux based OS, which Elop also cast onto the fire, but did spawn the N9 in 2011. So I don't agree that they had "no answer", but WP became the smartphone platform instead of Meego.
I can only assume the other Directors on Nokia's board were threatened with the firing squad if they disagreed. They should all be put against the wall today in any case.
New iPhones: C certainly DOESN'T stand for 'Cheap'
Microsoft, Nokia and the sound of colliding garbage trucks
This could be a great move by the "remainder" of Nokia that MS don't get their hands on.
Firstly, they get rid of that asshole Elop, and his asshole board of asslicking directors.
Secondly, they get rid of the bag-of-shite WinPhone platform.
What is left, if I understand correctly, is the Asha phone line, NAVTEQ/Maps, patents, and a GIANT pile of cash.
Nokia would have a couple of years time to engineer an Android phone ready for when they can start using their brand on phones again. This will compete strongly with Samsung and bury Elop & co.
Of course, they could blow the cash pile on a damn good weekend out in Tallinn with blackjack and hookers.
Rogue Nokia splinter cell drops its Jolla phone A-BOMB
I wonder whether it will be able to run any of the QT apps already in the app-store-formerly-known-as-ovi?
Re: Rolling upgrade
Well, yes and no, the main issue I can see with that is that you are tied to the same form factor - if you make your device any larger or smaller, then presumably you will have issues attaching the two halves.
... time machine. Iranian Dr Who claims he invented a ...
I'd like to know how they prove...
...it is accurate to 98% when things in the future have not happened yet :)
Nokia axes 300 IT bods, outsources 820 to Tata, HCL
Chinese man pleads guilty to $100m piracy scam
4chan founder Moot threatens site for using his handle
Musk to blast right of way through California with railgun Concorde
ROGUE PLANET WITHOUT A SUN spotted in interstellar space
Steve Jobs' Apple-powered yacht makes belated first trip
I bet that looked a whole lot better on the back of the envelope that they originally sketched it on...
WHITE WHALE spent 4 years trying to tell us something, then stopped
Re: Best get those scientists out there to do their research
Not if it is Jimmy Wales, and that wouldn't be counted as cannibalism, but as a favour to humanity ;)
Brighton marathon munchers banned from all-you-can-eat diner
Simon Cowell plans X Factor for Tech
Re: The hunt for the Susan Boyle of code is on
There are many with the looks, but alas few with the voice...
'Proud' RIM supremo survives shareholder showdown
What he really meant was
"The change in timeline is not related to the quality of the platform nor the architecture nor the functionality,"
"the delay was due to software integration taking longer than the firm thought it would"
The quality, the platform, AND the architecture are all fooked concurrently :)
Milky Way DOOMED to high-speed smash with Andromeda galaxy
Nokia Lumia 710
X Prize: Build a Star Trek 'tricorder' and win $10m
That's all very well,
but where will they find someone with 15 different diseases to test?!
If they get a bunch of MPs together and they could easily detect the seven deadly sins...do they count as diseases?
Apple: 4m iPhone 4S handsets sold, thank you very much
Another story...
...on this day "Survey: '4 million' Brits stung by ID theft"
Coincidence? I think not!
Here lies /^v.+b$/i
Legendary steampunk computer 'should be built' - programmer
It's all very well building the hardware...
...but who will implement the App Store for it?
Blog service shut down by order of US law enforcement
New Jersey car prang woman blames carjacking
Symbian Titanic heading for iceberg
Ways to develop on Symbian
Nowadays there are lots of ways to develop for Symbian - in native C++ with the ugly descriptors, cleanup stack, and leaves...but once you learn it, it works well, although it is somewhat verbose.
J2ME, already mentioned by some posters, is supported on all S60 devices, and can run for the most part unaltered also on Nokia's S40 devices (as long as you don't have too much memory utilisation and know differences in camera handling, for example).
QT will bring a huge salvation in application development for the platform with its really nice C++ APIs, with added advantage that the same apps should run on Meego also...and also in theory might cross compile to other platforms (PC, Linux, and I believe Mac is also on the cards), although I believe Nokia have grafted some phone-specific APIs on top of vanilla QT that won't port across (yet).
One thing not yet mentioned is that Nokia have OpenC interfaces, with very posix-like APIs, so many C programs and libraries can just be recompiled. If you use Open GL for the UI then you should be in a good position since you don't need to use the crappy Avkon framework, which is admittedly, crappy.
Maybe there are some other ways, but those are the ones I have used until now (there is also web runtime stuff, Flash, and Silverlight, but I don't know too much about that at the moment). So, you are rather spoiled for choice in a way, and developers from many backgrounds (C++, Java, C, Web) can find some tool to leverage for Symbian. Which is pretty impressive actually.
Sun slips nips onto iPad
Alt rock diva's nude snap 'leaked' to tweetosphere
Bear and Monkey smack Apple with patent suit
So why doesn't he sue the big G (and all other search engines) for only showing a summary of their page matches? What a dumb thing to try to patent, and even dumber to be granted a patent!
Flat-pack plug designer wins top award
Nice plug for laptop
I'd like to see the rest of his house, if his wall sockets look like that!
Googlenet dwarfs all but two of world's ISPs
How...
Is it just me, or can anyone else comprehend how a single company can accumulate so much wealth and power, in such a short time, simply from some dumbasses clicking adverts on a computer screen? I mean they don't even have any physical product, unlike Amazon or other online retailers. Even Microsoft actually ships products out the door. The world has gone completely mad.
Mafia don suspect tracked down via Facebook
India eyes man in space by 2016
pair of astronauts into a seven-day low-Earth orbit in 2016
Presumably, they will have different names, but exactly the same CV.
Microsoft 'offered sex and drugs to distributors'
Neither EIM nor Microsoft were able to immediately comment on this story
Were they on a cruise?
And, please, Playmobil reconstruction!
Swedish military bras burst, melt during 'rigorous exercise'
Battlefield airbags
That's not a design failure, it's probably a must-have design feature!
I bet that the recent arsebomber wished he had fireproof underwear too...
