The N97 was the phone I was thinking of although ALL of their Nxx devices were crap.
The N95 was kinda ok, the N97 was a buggy disaster, the N900 was a great pocketable computer (bulky and geeky, but great), the N9 was simply brilliant but got killed before it arrived. That's the short history of the N line. By the time they got it right they decided to go the other way...
Beautiful. Simple. Brilliant. Out of place and hardly on time. Timeless. The Nokia N9 is a story with no happy ending but you want to enjoy every word. Sad story. Post-coital kind of sad.
And that’s not because the Nokia N9 let us down. On the contrary, we found it to be a revelation: gorgeous design and the divine simplicity of the all-screen experience.
If anyone is let down, it's the Nokia N9 itself. The platform is as good as doomed. Forsaken by its own creator. With Nokia giving up on MeeGo and a price tag that confines the N9 to a premium niche, it will be next to impossible for the OS to grow a substantial user base. Without users, developers won’t be too interested in MeeGo either. And the limited number of apps is the platform's biggest weakness.
Google a few other reviews and they will all be along those lines. I didn't buy it because it was dead on arrival, I bet a lot of others did the same. And it's a shame because it could have been a great platform, especially because it was a fairly standard Linux system below the hood.
2 - The objective is not to select the least incompetent but to select people who posses the knowledge required to adequately receive the teachings given in the first year.
In this case I'd say it would be more worthwhile to select the people with the skill required and teach them whatever they are missing along the line. In Liberia not educating people because there primary education sucks seems a really stupid decision to me.
Accidents are ALWAYS caused by a difference in speed
More specifically, they are caused by traveling at speeds wherein the driver of one or more of the vehicles involved cannot react sufficiently quickly to prevent the accident. It doesn't take a degree in physics or math to realize that excessive speed is the real problem, not merely a difference in speed between you and other cars, since other cars which are going exactly the same direction as you in smoothly flowing traffic are not the only thing that you may potentially collide with if or when something entirely unexpected happens. You can't do jack about how fast other people drive... you *CAN* do something about how fast you drive, and should do everything in your ability to ensure that while engaging in that practice, you do so in a way that gives *YOU* the maximum opportunity to react to anything unexpected, and thereby preserving life to the best of your own ability. Somebody else driving too fast should be their problem, not yours.
That's simply not true. Your ability to avoid an accident simply doesn't depend on just your own speed. It depends on the speed of the others on the road as well, and more importantly, the changes of 'something entirely unexpected' happening go down when the speed difference between vehicles goes down. Heck, Germany with it's autobahn without speed limit has a lower fatality rate then the US. I've done well over 100mph there regularly and safely. The skill of the drivers and the conditions of the road make the actual difference. And keeping up with the traffic is an important part of decent driving skills.
Yeah, I wish they'd pool resources in an effort to make One Stable, Solid Distribution sort of like FreeBSD.
Great idea, we should call it Debian.
As soon as you get outside the vanilla use-cases the packaging system supports, you're essentially on your own, with just your buddies configure and make.
But that's often the case on any other OS as well. In Linux (or any other open source OS) you'll at least get to use configure and make.
BLISS is ignorance.
