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Comment Re:Apps (Score 1) 228

by slonik (#35203840) Attached to: Intel Committed To MeeGo Despite Nokia Defection
When MeeGo comes in, say, in a year (and I'm being optimistic here), why would mobile developers care to divert resources from existing well-entrenched platforms?

I guess because of a cross-platform nature of the Qt-based MeeGo development tools. You develop for MeeGo and without much fuss cross compile to MS/Apple/Linux Desktops. Hopefully, Intel will port Qt to Android, then you can compile for it too.
Open Source

Submission + - London Stock Exchange Completes Move to Linux (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The London Stock Exchange has successfully completed the 'go live' weekend for its new Millennium Exchange, a next-generation trading platform powered by the open source Linux operating system. Developed and named by MillenniumIT, the Millennium Exchange's inaugural weekend comes after the LSE trialled Linux as a real-time trading platform on its Turquoise trading pool back in October — finding that the switch from its outdated Microsoft .Net platform brought a massive decrease in trading latency.

Submission + - After getting assurance Egyptian protesters have (blogspot.com)

Submitted by ejazahmed2609
ejazahmed2609 writes: A large number of protestors have gone Cairo’s Tahrir square when Egypt's new military government gave assurance that they would dissolve parliament and hang up the constitution.
The military superior authorities have also said they will stay in power for six months whenever the election could be held. The declarations were praised by most of the demonstrators as a fresh break from the old rule. Egyptian former President Hosni Mubarak resigned on Friday as the result of 18 days of national protests.
Cellphones

Submission + - Why Nokia Is Toast (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: It's hard to remember now, but there was a time when Finland was at the center of the cell phone universe. No more. Nokia is being killed by complexity. Along comes Microsoft with Windows Phone 7, delivering more complexity. My view is that Microsoft doesn't matter, writes Mike Elgan. Although Windows Phone 7 is a way better operating system than Symbian, Nokia's problem isn't Symbian, and the solution isn't Windows Phone 7. Nokia's problem is that it follows the losing strategies of the other losers in the market, and rejects the only two known winning strategies. There are way too many Nokia phones. This causes either choice paralysis, sending buyers screaming to Apple for relief, or buyer's remorse. Nokia should take the advice Steve Jobs gave to Nike CEO Mark Parker: 'Just get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff.'
Microsoft

Submission + - Mr.Elop still owns Microsoft shares? (kauppalehti.fi)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Finnish economic newspaper Kauppalehti has a breaking story that reveals Mr. Elop not owning any Nokia shares nor options [ http://www.kauppalehti.fi/5/i/talous/uutiset/etusivu/uutinen.jsp?oid=20110260319 ]. But as a former insider of Microsoft, it's publicly known that he traded with MS shares as late as 31th August 2010, when he owned 261 302 shares and sold off roughly 23 000 shares to a value of 500 000 USD. Nokia's stock price lost 18 points on Friday. The newspaper points out that if Mr. Elop still owns MS shares this would put the whole Nokia-MS deal in a very special light and damage Nokia's reputation. Kauppalehti didn't today find anybody from Nokia who would comment on the issue.
Microsoft

Submission + - Elop has no Nokia shares (slashdot.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The largest newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat, reports that the new boss at mobile maker Nokia, Sephen Elop, has no Nokia shares at all. Stephen Elop however have major share holdings in Microsoft. Usually it is considered to be in the shareholders interest if the CEO ownes shares in the company he is running. Speculation about Elop beeing part of a Microsoft coup to take over Nokia are running wilde.

Full story (finnish):

http://www.hs.fi/talous/artikkeli/Sis%C3%A4piirirekisteri+Elop+ei+omista+yht%C3%A4%C3%A4n+Nokian+osaketta/1135263763862

Comment Re:Read the article to see how pathetic they are (Score 4, Informative) 137

by slonik (#34262710) Attached to: AT&T Wireless Data Still Growing At 1000%

An ISP that cannot handle their customers getting 100MB/day is not worth being named an ISP imho.
We are talking Wide Area Wireless Network here. You know, there are laws of physics that prevent you from achieving 100MB/day/user in a limited spectrum with cells covering 5 square kilometers.
Comparing mobile wireless network with fixed fiber or cable is simply silly.
Learn to use WiFi on top of a fast fiber/cable link.

And yes, I do wireless network engineering for living.

Comment Limits to Heat Engine Efficiency (Score 1) 570

by slonik (#34092482) Attached to: Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles

No matter how ingenious a heat engine design is, an old Carnot theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot's_theorem_(thermodynamics)
limits its efficiency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Engine#Efficiency
In practical terms the wiggle room to improve heat engines is small and will only provide incremental gains not sufficient to solve our energy problem. It will simply postpone it by few years.
The real inefficiency is a massive use of personal transport where a mass transit is much more economical.

Comment please, be accurate with dimentsions (Score 1) 184

by slonik (#33989806) Attached to: Physicists Say Graphene Could Create Mass

According to Abdulaziz Alhaidari's calculations, if one were to roll up graphene into a nanotube, this could compactify dimensions (from the sheet's two down to the tube's one),...
The sentence above conveys a wrong impression that tube is one dimensional. Dimensionality of a tube is still the same as of the plane and it is still two. What is different is its topology. Tube has one one dimension with a topology of a line (infinite in both directions) and another one which is a circle and is compact. And it, indeed, could cause some strange effects like pseudo-mass.

Comment Re:Welcome to the third world (Score 1) 249

by slonik (#33553858) Attached to: Microsoft Complaints Help Russian Gov't Pursue Political Opposition Groups

Russia, as a country with minimal rule of law and an average IQ of 96, qualifies as third-world...

Are you seriously suggesting that a country with an average IQ of 96 can win a World War II in Europe, sent first satellite (sputnik) into space followed by a first man in space, develop nuke and thermo-nuke weapons, keep the whole world on its toes for about half a century and all that with an average IQ of just 96. I do not want to be rude or disrespectful but I wonder what is your IQ?

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