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Comment Re:Wow (Score 0) 396

Sooner or later, even if we find primitive life, we should start thinking about what can be done with the planet, even if it takes 1000 years to get something to live there.

Let's first decide what we do with this planet for the next 100 (one hundred) years. So far we seem to be incapable of doing that.

Comment Re:N9 or N900 -- full *nix (Score 2) 197

You can use FingerTerm on Nokia N9, like I do. It isn't as good as a HW full keyboard, but it's the next best thing. Even more, it is also opensource.

Aegis security system is a bit more limiting than I would like it to be, but you can easily bypass the limitations with inception (for the moment the site seems to be down, so just use your favorite search engine to get some info). With inception you don't even need a computer, everything is done on the phone afaik. Haven't yet tried it myself, because so far I am fully satisfied with the official "developer mode" which can be easily activated from settings menu.

One extra feature for N9 is the community backing it up. You can join IRC freenode network and join #harmattan channel for instance and get help in matters related to SW development.

An alternative would be to try to find a Nokia N950, but as I recall although it has a full hw keyboard, it has some drawbacks compared to N9.

Finally I must also add that as far as I can tell you can't get a better user experience than with N9 UI. It's simply amazing. I hope Jolla will be able to provide it in their future phones.

Comment Re:I've had mine for about 3 weeks. (Score 1) 107

I specifically like the motion based silence mode, if I see a call I don't like, just upturn the phone face down, put it on the desk - silenced, love that.

My Nokia N9 has that. It works for calls and alarms of any kind (clock, calendar).

Only "con" I know of is that there's some issues installing swype to it but that can be gotten around.

Nokia N9 has Swype by default and it works extremely well. Although I thought I would never use it, now I use it for everything.

Comment Re:Better phrasing (Score 0) 146

I appreciate my assistants and try to tell them that on a regular basis. And yeah (answering someone else's post here), they DO appreciate mentions and little letters from the company president. If it's a larger company, a little recognition goes a long way.

I'm not sure if and how it applies to your field of work and more specifically to (your) assistants, but I will generalize and talk about workers: if they are productive it means the company probably makes more money. If the company makes more money and you give them just letters and words, they will actually be demoralized. Sure, few of them will ever let you know, because they are afraid of criticizing the employer; some of them will even fake being happy. But that doesn't make them happy bees.
Letters and words don't feed you (or maybe paper does?), don't pay your bills and so on. If you want to show your appreciation reward them in a way that actually matters to them.

Otherwise, I appreciate the way you are dealing with people, encouraging them to come forward when they make mistake (after all everybody makes mistakes sooner or later) and encouraging them to be creative.

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