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Forum: General 2011-02-16, 14:51
Replies: 55
Views: 20,305
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Re: NOKIA Rejected Android in Favor of M$ - Eric Schmidt

Just read up on Cherry. Completely missed it...

I guess it boils down to picking the lesser evil.

Or host your own data. As Rop Gonggrijp (subpoenaed by US DoD in Wikileaks fishing exp. put...
Forum: General 2011-02-16, 02:10
Replies: 55
Views: 20,305
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: NOKIA Rejected Android in Favor of M$ - Eric Schmidt

So did Novell. And some other folks. (http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/11/in-memoriam-microsofts-previous-strategic-mobile-partners/)

Do you remember all these settlements Microsoft made with...
Forum: General 2011-02-16, 01:54
Replies: 279
Views: 68,709
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Re: Maybe the unpleasant truth is that MeeGo really was too late and/or not good enough?

Your argument is valid in the sense that Microsoft gotten their profits from a dominant market position (the Windows desktop, and Office) where they've used business tactics for which they've been...
Forum: General 2011-02-15, 11:35
Replies: 279
Views: 68,709
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Re: Maybe the unpleasant truth is that MeeGo really was too late and/or not good enough?

Yes... many.

Out of the top of my head: Opera, Maya, Google Earth, Skype, TeamSpeak.
Forum: General 2011-02-14, 18:12
Replies: 279
Views: 68,709
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Re: Maybe the unpleasant truth is that MeeGo really was too late and/or not good enough?

In a conflict, there are always at least 2 parties involved, and trying to pinpoint toward 'the true source of the problem' is often oversimplifying the issue at hand. In your example, there is no...
Forum: General 2011-02-14, 07:59
Replies: 279
Views: 68,709
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Re: Maybe the unpleasant truth is that MeeGo really was too late and/or not good enough?

Gates essentially bought QDOS from a corporation, and as far as I understood it he only had to port it. And then, once MSDOS has marketshare, he made sure every IBM clone had to run Microsoft OS via...
Forum: General 2011-02-14, 06:42
Replies: 279
Views: 68,709
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Maybe the unpleasant truth is that MeeGo really was too late and/or not good enough?

Yep, and what scares the **** out of me is that they brought an App Store into OS X.
Forum: General 2011-02-14, 06:28
Replies: 279
Views: 68,709
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Re: Maybe the unpleasant truth is that MeeGo really was too late and/or not good enough?

Orly. Why does my MBP have Bash? And so on, and so on.

Don't confuse Apple gadgets with Macs. Thank you.
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-10-27, 08:13
Replies: 57
Views: 19,912
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Re: battery better with PR 1.3

Just when I got my new phone my old phone received an important update mitigating an important issue I had with it. :rolleyes: Although a year too late I'm glad it works for you folks. I'll keep...
Forum: General 2010-10-09, 11:56
Replies: 195
Views: 58,893
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Jaaksi leaves?

Smartphones are complex, feature-rich, and used for tons of purposes hence speaking in [such] absolutes ("would be better off with something else, well - anything else") is dangerous, and likely...
Forum: General 2010-10-06, 08:22
Replies: 195
Views: 58,893
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Jaaksi leaves?

iOS doesn't come with an adblocker by default, and one must jailbreak to get this functionality. Now, we can argue whether this is mandatory to get proper functionality. I'll speak for myself and say...
Forum: Competitors 2010-10-05, 23:01
Replies: 336
Views: 77,419
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: what do you guys have against apple?

Most, sure. All? Nope. Examples: launchd, webkit, cups, bonjour, libdispatch, llvm, and so on. See e.g. http://opensource.apple.com/ and http://www.macosforge.org/
Forum: General 2010-10-05, 22:17
Replies: 195
Views: 58,893
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Jaaksi leaves?

Any drater can start a rumor. I mean, I'm a drater and I've started rumors. So do yourself a favor and don't take them serious. Remember they want to generate page views to satisfy their advertisers...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-10-05, 21:54
Replies: 631
Views: 253,120
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Firmware 1.3 on its way????

What fixes? Are these available in a repository? Most people won't use these fixes unless they are available in firmware.

The amount of unofficial tweaks I have to make to a vanilla OS to get a...
Forum: Competitors 2010-10-05, 21:17
Replies: 4,676
Views: 1,293,077
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Samsung Galaxy Tab Info Thread

Released in November. 750 EUR for 32 GB version. 850 EUR for 64 GB version. Source is nu.nl (http://www.nu.nl/gadgets/2348928/galaxy-tab-fors-duurder-dan-ipad.html) (Dutch) who have it from Samsung....
Forum: General 2010-10-05, 21:11
Replies: 195
Views: 58,893
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Jaaksi leaves?

REDMOND, 25 October 2010. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Microsoft is proud to announce that Ari Jaaksi has joined the develop Windows Phone 7 team. :eek:
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-10-05, 21:05
Replies: 155
Views: 58,826
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Re: N9 technical specifications appeared rumoured

Antilles already explained this.

SDXC opted for Microsoft's proprietary ExFAT as default filesystem, so devices with which you can use a SDXC card have to support r/w support for ExFAT. Only then...
Forum: General 2010-10-05, 20:46
Replies: 195
Views: 58,893
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Jaaksi leaves?

Lets start some more rumors. I heard, and I'm not uncovering my source, Nokia is going to ship devices with iOS!!

Thats it. I'm out of hash, but after reading your post, I'm sure you smoked enough...
Forum: Applications 2010-10-05, 17:20
Replies: 165
Views: 62,189
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: [Testers needed] New pulseaudio package

Does anyone have the source and build files for this package?
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-10-05, 17:15
Replies: 220
Views: 92,510
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: [Testers needed] USB Hostmode prealpha for the N900

Instead of Jul 27 2010 in URL use underscores (symbol: _) or numbers (e.g. 20100727). Makes it easier to use wget.
Forum: Competitors 2010-10-04, 14:56
Replies: 44
Views: 15,890
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Intel Is Doomed

Yes, Linux. But not necessarily Maemo or MeeGo. Anything as long as it isn't Microsoft Windows.

IOW, Android, ChromeOS, iOS, ...
Forum: Applications 2010-10-01, 04:29
Replies: 172
Views: 78,603
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: [Request] Beautify "Conky"

I've used Conky on Debian GNU/Linux years ago and it refreshes data every X seconds. It just parses data from e.g. /proc and displays this in a UI. The default UI and settings sucked balls though...
Forum: Alternatives 2010-10-01, 03:14
Replies: 764
Views: 330,935
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Nitdroid today, auto-installer and 1st impression and 0.0.8 installation

bun can you change



to (just copy/paste)

Or something like that.

Thx hun.
Forum: Brainstorm 2010-10-01, 02:57
Replies: 4
Views: 3,915
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Chrome OS on N900?

For some reason Chrome OS reminds me of Facebook.
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-10-01, 02:53
Replies: 29
Views: 11,409
Posted By allnameswereout
Re: Fennec Sucks!! Minefield Rocks!!

Well Caballero, good for you, but it misses even more security, reliability, and performance patches than current MicroB version used on Nokia N900. If all you care about is speed, go snort that....
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