Comment Re:Modern Technology more than IT (Score 1) 107
I know that of course, but I was reacting to the topic of the article - how modern technology would win WWII in minutes.
Nokia had the best hardware in the world but a terrible outdated OS. Then Microsoft came and killed the best hardware and replaced the OS with an even worse one.
Depends on what OS you mean - if Symbian then you are right, but Maemo/MeeGo/Harmattan were far ahead of their time.
But also nearly universally reviled.
Why does everyone care about saving five seconds during boot that will be completely overshadowed by the time you spend in BIOS POST?
Um, ever heard about containers, cloud images, disposable VMs, instant-on embedded appliances, etc. ?
It has a resistive touchscreen. What's more they're saying they're going for resistive because it's "more accurate" than capacitive and capacitive would be a "step back."
Seems like you never used the N900 touchscreen - it not like the cheap resistive screens on low end phones, but a high quality one. It is just as usable as a capacitive screen for touch and can be used for *very precise* pointing. That's one of the reasons people have been using their N900s for drawing pictures and maps. Try to do that with a normal capacitive screen - it's like trying to draw in boxing gloves.
Hey whaday know, it does have git. I hadn't noticed that, thanks for the tip.
The built in backup software (called vault, source code here: https://github.com/nemomobile/...) is based on git, that's why it is installed.
Anyone who watched the launch video...what is the purple water looking stuff that the camera switched to a couple times?
It is a shot from inside of the liquid oxygen tank AFAIK.
So we're stuck with either "impossible object" or "ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag".
Naming is hard, but it's not *that* hard.
You don't have much experience with data storage management, do you ? It makes much more sense in context.
etc.
Um, I don't think that is very likely:
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