Opera have always been highly credible to me. I've used Opera since 3.64 and have liaised with a couple of the programmers.
Being Norwegian, they're part of a socialist paradise and largely immune to US strong-arming.
Also, they've only got a handful of programmers working on it. I doubt they've had time to put a backdoor et al in.
Firstly, I don't trust Google. Chrome probably sends Google/NSA your surfing history, passwords, everything.
Chromium is a pain in the arse to install.
I couldn't tell you what it does that Opera doesn't or vice versa.
The reason I'm not too interested in the above though is inertia. Since nobody is claiming Chromium is better, it's just easier and more comfortable for me to continue with Opera.
As an Opera fan, I uninstalled 12.14 (actually the latest Presto is 12.16) and am using Opera 19 beta exclusively. I still use Presto on my smartphone.
Presto is easily the best rendering engine out there which was sadly ignored by the rest of the internet except for possibly Marlin its intended successor. As such, Opera Software spent half their time trying to get it to work with badly-coded websites and proprietary code used in eg Facebook and Google sites.
I agree with Opera Software's difficult decision to abandon it and jump on Google's bandwagon. Using their own rendering engine was a strategy that had failed for 10 years. Their handling of the transition though has been a sad joke.
Compared to what I liked Presto for, Opera Blink has weak tab management. Everything else is either provided or covered by extensions.
What I gained: access to thousands of Chrome extensions, massively reduced startup time and memory requirements, perfect compatibility with websites and superfast Facebook.
Presto was so sophisticated and configurable that everyone used it differently. Opera Software has placed a low priority on pleasing them all.
Bookmarks are coming but development is progressing at a snail's pace. I guess I'd expect them around April.
In a prelude to the more recent gross attacks on democracy, the US and UK have both been consistently shitting on whistleblowers for many decades.
Snowden's method will probably only work if your leak will make you famous. For everyone else, anonymity would be advised.
The author of Spyblog has been documenting the progress of the UK's seemingly-inexorable descent into a Stasi police state for about 10 years.
In 2006, he started posting tips on whistleblowing. This has since evolved into a more comprehensive website.
Windows RT implies it runs Windows which is a clear feature. The fact it doesn't wouldn't have lost them sales.
What killed both the Surface and Surface Pro were the prices. With Microsoft's $60bn cash reserves, it should have been selling the Surface at a loss and the Surface Pro at cost. It was happy to do this with Windows Phone.
Microsoft's backwards step with Windows 8 obviously didn't help either.
LOL. I didn't even mention Obama and I suspect a far higher proportion of US citizens are openly bigoted. Heck, many leading GOP members are openly homophobic.
Try again.
You sound like the militia movement from the 1990s.
That voice you hear... isn't me. You might want to get that checked out.
this is a civilized website where smart people talk.
So what are you doing here?
I am British and thus have no US party bias, which is more than I can say for you. Also, I am left of Obama, like nearly all Brits -- so you couldn't be further off the mark.
And this is why Schneier undid 10 years NSA work on subverting encryption algorithms. Terrorists are a miniscule threat compared to our Governments and Secret Services
The US no longer has a legitimate "government (..) for the people." The UK never did, except occasionally by chance.
We know that power like this is abused and attracts those who will abuse it. We must consider whether we want our children to live in a free country.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
We need to support projects like MailPile and BitMessage. Maybe some of you know of or are working on other projects you'd care to mention.
... that Wikipedians can't be overprotective of their edits or biased against newbies or can't be zealots or um paid advocates?
Try making significant improvements to the Slashdot lead. I guarantee you'll be reverted within a week.
Microsoft has shafted every single partner its had. Secondly, it was in decline. Thirdly, it's a very unpopular brand.
So your first step is to rule out Microsoft.
The other thing you don't do is tell people your two main platforms are dead. Especially when one of them was easily the best phone operating system at the time, your first product based on it was done, was beautiful and would end up with some of the most positive reviews in the history of the industry.
Now maybe it would never have attracted developer support but in spite of being a dead-end phone that Nokia refused to sell in their main markets, it still sold 1-3 million units.
Personally, I would have supported Android and Meego on the same hardware: default Android but dual boot and shared data. Meanwhile, I'd have bought out OpenMobile or Alien Dalvik and got Android apps running on Meego, just as Jolla have on Sailfish.
Would it have worked? Not necessarily, but it's not hard to see the N9 selling 3+ million units and that's a good enough start for anyone. They had the best hardware division period and some nice software up their sleeves. They also had prototype Meego tablets. Symbian would have tailed off more slowly.
At best, you can say that, things looked different then than they do now. Android and Apple were at the height of their popularity. Blackberry 10 was "due". Microsoft may have stayed relevant if they hadn't messed up Windows 8 and sold the Surface (Pro) at cost.
Also, who looks more incompetent, Elop with his $25m sale-of-Nokia bonus or the board of directors?
Look for an application called AutoDisconnect. You won't get IM notifications, but your battery will last 2-3 days. You can also buy the same battery but with more modern battery technology.
The keyboard is what most disappointed me about the N900. The dodgy USB port was the only other thing.
The screen was amazing in 2009 and doesn't look too bad today IF you don't mind using a stylus.
Battery technology has advanced a lot since then too, but you can buy replacement modern batteries which last a third longer. Secondly, the N900, once properly configured, uses almost no power and will last 2-3 days with a modern battery.
Not quite. Negative things can stick around whether we want them to or not. There's no such rule for positive things.
I will be explaining why in a book.
"Depression is a mental disorder caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain"
No, that's an explanation made up by pharmaceutical companies to sell £tens of billions of ineffective drugs to the most vulnerable people in society.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
