TFA is pretty short on technical details, but this sounds like it's end-to-end between Google datacenters, not customers. So when the NSA comes a-knocking with the inevitable secret court order to hand over keys, they'll be right back to capturing everything and filtering on the NSA side.
Pick any numbers you want, they were all declining before Elop came on board in 2010. Hell, look at a stock chart, NOK vs. the S&P or Dow: the indices started recovering in early 2009, Nokia kept declining all the way to today. That's why they were desperate enough to hire him and follow his all-in on Windows Phone strategy.
Cozy vendor deals with monopoly networks in portions of the US don't mean shit when compared with global sales.
That's what Symbian fans have always said, turns out they were wrong.
Number one in every sub-segment of the phone market in Europe. By the time Elop arrived, Nokia had already had enough of technologically backward US phone networks and put North America on the back burner. That left openings for Blackberry, then iPhones, then Android to take Symbian's smartphone niche, and for Motorola and Samsung to take their premium feature-phone niche.
The rest, as they say, is history. And now so is Nokia.
Is it still going to cost as much as a 10" Android tablet AND a low-end laptop, while offering neither the portability of the first nor the big screen and hard drive of the second?
Yeah, I think I hear another billion dollar write-off coming...
I remember when I was in middle school and high school, the schools were using "integrated math." Which is to say we didn't have algebra, geometry or trig, we had all of them at once and we would start over again the next year.
It's even better when you have to move to a different school district halfway through that program. Having half of a geometry or trig course under your belt is not going to make being dropped into the middle of advanced algebra suck any less.
The only thing that would make it better is if he were to bring in some superstars like Carly Fiorina and every Yahoo CEO from Jerry Yang onward to fill out the executive team...
The kicker is that neither side is allowed to know who the other side is. The FCCX is intended to be an anonymizer-like service to completely disassociate the public information from the federal systems.
At least that's what they say in the non-classified meetings...
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They also forgot "Get there at the right time: not too early with a half-baked OS and underpowered hardware, or so late the other players are already entrenched in their market segments"
It's on AMC (cable-only) in the US. Would you count the entire series as having never been released here?
As well, the TPM module in most motherboards cannot be disabled.
The TPM in most motherboards cannot be disabled because it was never installed in the first place. If you built the machine yourself, read the fine print on your motherboard box, there's about a 99.9% chance you have "TPM support" in the form of an unpopulated header, not an actual TPM.
If it's coming from the manufacturer of the tablet I'm holding, why would it be on a partition on the SD card instead of included in the ROM? There's no reason to do that unless you want to swap SD cards (and associated filesystem driver binaries) across different devices with subtly different OS versions, which strikes me as a spectacularly bad idea.
if formatted by the phone, stick 2 partitions on it, the first a normal FAT that's tiny (or even dos), and stick FS drivers on it.
Just say "no" to loading kernel-mode code from someone else's SD card. The potential for malware and potentially phone-bricking bugs is just too high.
"Would rate ZERO STARS if that was an option! App works, but pesters constantly about koala communist chippies or something. Super SUPER duper annoying. Use SomeOtherApp+ Free instead."
If they think running a firewall is going to help in the slightest with malware, they're probably already infected.
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
