How is it irresponsible? If a teenage boy wants to shoot himself, give him a gun! It's the least thing we can grant people - to leave the world where they have never volunteered to come.
Life has always been, and always will be, hopeless. People you meet everyday don't realize it because those who did are already dead.
I'd buy if it's a multiplayer game and server list not becoming empty after 2 years.
For those who didn't follow the link and actually read it. It's an old security hole on 32-bit Windows
F*** 32-bit. They should have stopped selling 32-bit version since Windows Vista.
By quality I mean the hardware specs, not how the phone actually performs, because given 4 cores and 2+GB RAM most people cannot feel the sluggishness of Android anyway. By hardware they're not cheaper than Indian or Chinese phones such as OnePlus, and they still block vendors from crippling the UI or adding garbage so it's unlikely these vendors will shift their focus from Android to WP in foreseeable future.
Either way it's not helping their market. They're actually trying to make great products and that's why they gonna fail this time.
They already lost. Their market share is so tiny to the point that continuing existence would make no difference to their overall image.
The best thing they can do now is to make their own version of Android on Nokia and push the market bit by bit by superior quality / lower cost which means huge amounts of $$$, until all other brands are finished and then they could dump it.
It's not gonna happen though.
MS bundled IE with Windows and used their near monopoly in the desktop OS market to gain a dominant position in the browser market and push Netscape (and a few other browser makers) out of business.
Who says the OS should provide nothing useful and let app makers make their money on it? Definitely not OS/X by Apple, or Android by Goggle, or any Linux distros which bundle tens of thousands of free apps that kill all commercial alternatives ranged from AV to photoshop!
There was never business for Netscape in the first place. They should know when they were developing apps on Windows, a proprietary and closed system, even though it's nowhere as hostile as iOS today.
A well defined project can be estimated.
Well-defined by design not by functionality or goal. It's pointless when you can't be sure whether your design is seriously flawed.
Which happens to us all the time because we do new types of projects every 2 years or so. My current project built on World Wind Java ended up having the core parts of WWJ re-analyzed, abandoned/replaced and partially rewritten due to very terrible rendering performance on modern hardware, which cannot be seen in prototype with small amounts of objects, plus lots of time tracking and fixing bugs inside Eclipse RCP and JavaFX.
Can it be avoided? yes, by studying the source code of all libraries used in every new projects. That would probably cost us more than the entire project itself.
fact: Internet access is a Human Right.
fact: Access to clean, safe, FREE drinking water is not a Human right.
Fucked up, yes. Sounds wrong, yes. But that does not diminish that both statements are 100% absolutely true.
You cannot just go to a failed country, building a dam and treatment plants for them and expect them to keep everything running. But you can give them Internet access and they'd discover and learn how to fix everything on their own.
Not happening since Windows 7. Although it remains unresolvable if your Windows is somewhat fucked up - there is no way for manual repair or diagnosis.
Ads inside Google Maps and Google Earth could be their next step to get $$$.
Not ad banners, but useful landmarks on maps and virtual ads on virtual buildings in Google Earth - for example, they could make the virtual buildings representing paid customers larger and brighter, and prettier as well. Imagine a regular coffee drinker visit a virtual city in the morning and all of Starbucks' shops instantly pop up like the Empire State Building! Or during lunch time restaurants near your location stand taller than others to tell you where to find them (or hospitals in case of emergency, etc). It'd look awesome and probably quite useful as well.
a senior developer should at least know some basic concepts of encryption
What for? 20 years ago there was no encryption widely used anywhere. He may have learned the implementation details in college but never grasp the idea behind it or the importance, and never used it during 20 years of work.
What has he done in the 20 years? anything impressive?
What do you do with the system, seriously, other than learning Linux itself?
That's a lie. When someone says 75% less power, it's supposed to mean 75% less power for PEAK performance, running for days with zero degradation.
Underclocking to save power is cheating!
Why do you want to visit websites poping up ads in front?
They may have a better chance of making now, with Oracle pissing everybody off with their stewardship of Java. Sun Micro was considered the good guys, at least as far as Java was concerned.
You're kidding right? Sun was the asshole who delayed Java development for many years, refused to fix fundamental problems and invited other vendors to cause fragmentation.
Sun was the stewardship of Java in their last years. Oracle is at least doing things now.
A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
