Comment Well Duh (Score 1) 386
They removed all of the sharing features and tried to replace it with a half-hearted Google+ integration. All of the people I know who used it stopped using it shortly afterwards.
Comment Re:Still waiting to hear from my family (Score 0) 338
I don't mean to trivialize your concern, but for a moment I was certain you were parodying this:
http://www.theonion.com/video/millions-irrationally-feared-dead-in-minor-train-a,20901/
"After a small train derailment in Delaware, Americans all across the nation are senselessly fearing for their loved ones' lives."
Comment Re:wtf (Score 2, Insightful) 129
At this point, Nokia is just tossing stuff out there as they think of it. "Oh man, we pissed off a massive chunk of our developer base. How do we make them less furious at us? ...besides scrapping the Windows Phone thing, I mean."
Comment Re:They're still around? (Score 1, Interesting) 135
The really nice part about their strategy is a unified development platform between the two operating systems. Applications I write for MeeGo will run on Symbian with few to no changes. Since Symbian has a 41% global market share as of Q2 2010 (numbers from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system) it doesn't make any sense for them to drop it, especially with Qt able to target both platforms trivially.
Comment Re:Countries favourable to Canadians? (Score 0) 282
Well, the US is out; living in Canada gets you used to decent health care, and they're not much better off than we are in terms of ISPs. Someplace in Europe like Norway might be nice, if a tad quiet.
Comment Re:French? I think not. (Score 1, Funny) 389
...and don't call me Frances.
Comment If only... (Score 0) 3
If only he had lived in Canada, or somewhere else with socialized medicine.
Comment Some History (Score 0) 160
I know there's been a lot of dialogue between the authors of SOMA, which predates this, and the Mozilla team; it might provide some interesting context.
Comment Re:Don't benchmark it on Ubuntu (Score 0) 240
To be fair, GCC doesn't *need* to support as many architectures as it does, and the team should probably switch focus to improving performance on its most popular platforms if they want to remain relevant...
Comment Current Support? (Score 0) 193
So say I want to play Half-Life 2 with this thing. When I'm setting controls and it asks me to press forward, do I think "forward" and it'll give the game a keystroke? Is this actually supported by any games at all right now?
Journal Journal: Germany joins Moon Race Club
Germany to go to the Moon with an unmanned mission. The latest member in the race to the Moon in the unmanned category will compete with China, India, Japan, Russia, and USA. All intend to later do manned missions, with ESA also planning a manned mission.
Journal SPAM: Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us 5
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
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