Comment Why leave out two partners? (Score 1) 174
I realise that summaries, by definition, miss some information but why edit out two of the six partners? Mediatek has a market cap of c.$15bn and Ericsson $40bn. Not exactly small players in this space.
Comment Re:Decoder Ring for You Out-of-date Nerds (Score 1) 43
+1 parent
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Was Sandy good for New York and the people? 4
maroberts writes: Whilst sadly more than 40 people have died as a result of Storm Sandy, my colleagues and I are debating whether the storm is actually beneficial in terms of employment and mortality rate. For instance, we argue that deaths from murders and traffic incidents will be way down, as will injuries from the same.
Similarly all the renovation work will be a source of jobs for less skilled manual workers, and we will genuinely witness income flowing from rich to poor. Insurance companies will pay out, reducing their dividends.
So overall, should the US be wishing for more or less bad weather?
Similarly all the renovation work will be a source of jobs for less skilled manual workers, and we will genuinely witness income flowing from rich to poor. Insurance companies will pay out, reducing their dividends.
So overall, should the US be wishing for more or less bad weather?
Comment Why not mention EMC and Ericsson? (Score 2) 121
Why not mention EMC and Ericsson in the summary, who are the only other two companies in the consortium? They're not small companies - they have market caps of $57bn and $47bn respectively. RIM are about a third to a quarter of the size at $15bn.
Comment Re:Not much else to say. (Score 1) 838
There is no such evidence. Thank you for calling me a cunt.
Comment Re:Not much else to say. (Score 1) 838
To mooingyak - thank you. I am fairly thin skinned, so I tend to take criticism badly. Except from geekoid who didn't even read my post properly (his "out of habit" vs. my "convert" statement). I shan't follow him into ad hominem territory.
I posted it this time as a sign of solidarity - a show of strength from those of us who normally remain silent on forums where we're in a minority, against a rather aggressive and vocal majority.
Being a Catholic on
Comment Re:Not much else to say. (Score 0) 838
Thank you so much for posting this.
As an English Catholic convert, I am too scared of getting slapped down on
nic
Comment Re:Indifference towards real life? (Score 1) 779
Wow, I've been modded as a troll. Shows standards really are slipping on
As for "facts" recheck - THE POPE HAS NOT BEEN IMPLICATED ONCE.
Comment Re:Indifference towards real life? (Score 1, Troll) 779
Do your research instead of trotting out the same old lies over and over again. *sigh*
nic
Submission + - Europe embraces Open Document format (ffii.org)
Elektroschock writes: The European legislature has decided to support the open document format as to advance electronic business. It asks the European Commission take concrete steps to support the adoption of ODF 1.2 and its spread. Open Document is an open standard implemented in the latest incarnations of Microsoft Office, Open Office, Google Docs, Abiword and many other products.
Comment "Gas" prices in the UK. (Score 1) 762
In the UK the average petrol price is £1.16.6p/litre (according to http://www.petrolprices.com/ ).
Google tells me that 1 US gallon = 3.78541178 litres and 1 British pound = 1.5943 U.S. dollars
So gas (petrol) is $7.04 per US gallon over here.
For 100000km at mfr's figures my Prius would cost approx. $7250 (More like $8-10k)
For a typical car of that ilk, look at $14k+ for fuel. So saving $7k in fuel cost alone by the figures (or $4-6k or perhaps more, in real life).
Comment Netbeans just isn't there (Score 3, Insightful) 151
Unfortunately for Netbeans zealots, it has never caught up with Eclipse. It may have surpassed it temporarily for certain apps (think Grails support - but look at STS 2.2.0). It's also not as good as IntelliJ IDEA (previously, always non-free).
Yes, both Netbeans and Eclipse are also RCP platforms, but how many real Netbeans platform apps are there? (The Nokia one on the web site is vapourware - yes it shows a real customer RAN - without their permission, I should add! - but it's never been a product delivered to customers). Real Eclipse RCP apps do exist (XMind, Lotus Smartsuite...). Realistically, they both over good RCP platforms (one pure Java, one SWT) but Oracle won't really care about that.
As for JDeveloper - well it's a typical Oracle product - if you're in an Oracle house, it's pretty good, but no, it's not got a large userbase or community supporting it.
Oracle should let Netbeans drift off into open source land. Perhaps it'll thrive? I don't know. JDeveloper's functionality should be ported to Eclipse (along with SQL Developer, while we're at it).
Oracle are great at giving you tools once you've signed up for the ride, and why not rebase your products on the best? Which in my opinion is Eclipse.
Comment Re:That'd make the new company simply... Orabile! (Score 1) 74
Check Ofcom. 3 have the best 3G coverage in the UK.
Churches Use Twitter To Reach a Wider Audience 169
In an attempt to reverse declining attendance figures, many American churches are starting to ask WWJD in 140 or fewer characters. Pastors at Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their 900-member congregation how to use Twitter. 150 of them are now tweeting. Seattle's Mars Hill Church encourages its members to Twitter messages during services. The tweets appear on the church's official Twitter page. Kyle Firstenberg, the church's administrator, said,"It's a good way for them to tell their friends what church is about without their friends even coming in the building."
