Maybe this would be more appropriate if the user was forced to set his own examples, though it'd be difficult to enforce a high level of 'challenge' to this test, if such a thing can be measured. The other problem with is that if you friends set their profiles to public, they help defeat your security.
Assuming this is genuine, it is too little too late.
Nokia needed someone to come and say this before the decided to jump ship.
Its staggering to think of how many resources nokia have, and how little and slowly they've innovated. Nokia has been falling behind for a long time.
One thing I always found disheartening was their desire to compete against themselves, and ignore others, as illustrated by them releasing an older version of symbian for their business phones, while using the new symbian for their media phones, but it seemed there was no place to get 'the best' nokia. It was always a choice, but one that didn't seem to have an easily identifiable consumer flagship. Just N's and E's and everything in between.
Right. It's totally too little too late. Getting a billion dollars from Microsoft and using their ecosystem may be their best option at this point to get in the game again. Otherwise, they have too much ground to catch up in too little time.
Why do you think that MS will help? Microsoft has no established "ecosystem"; not in the mobile phone world, at least. How does allying yourself with the aspirational #3 player in a two-player market help you catch up?
While Android is doing well there are a LOT more Android phones and competitors. I suspect they went to Google and said, "we need to be the premiere OEM" and Google said, "screw you."
Then they looked at tech roadmap and maybe thought by end of year WP7 looks as good, if not better, than Android. They won't have a phone ready by then anyways, so the fact that WP7 is behind Android now isn't as big of a deal.
And if MS said, you're our premiere partner and we'll even give you a payout on phones sold... then it's a no-brainer.
Based on what MS showed today at MWC, this race tightens up, not spreads out.
Google has worked tightly with all major Android phone manufacturers to release at least one important product. They've also helped other manufacturers do the same, like some in India. I'm sure they would've helped Nokia to get off the ground as well and get their sh*t together. It's in Google's best interest that every manufacturer impresses with their Android phones, don't you think?
The guy above is right. If Android is the next Windows 95, which brings all manufacturers under it (I believe it is), then no matter whether Nokia likes it or not, choosing another OS would kill it, once it fails.
By the time Nokia helps WP7 capture 10% of the smartphone market, let's say by end of 2012, Android will reach 50-60%. There's no way WP7 can fight that back once Android reaches there.
The inevitable conclusion is that Microsoft is not playing to win. It's playing to create confusion in the mobile market so that its disruption of the PC market - and of its most profitable product lines - takes longer to happen.
When I said "ecosystem" I meant a modern mobile platform with all the pieces needed to compete in the current market. Yes, they don't have mobile users right now, but they will be able to graft users from other markets that they own. The phone world can't be completely separated from other platforms.
Eschewing the usefulness of rss and similar solutions, the endless articles on productivity and discipline, and ultimately all good sense, I find myself visiting hacker news more times per day than a productive person would/should... and it looks like perhaps i'm not alone
Family members, friends, and co-workers might, at first, give you some strange looks when they take a look at a “YOUR-SANDWHICH” written on one side with a sharpie. This is where you explain that you made a “custom sandwhich” just for them.
How do they try it out? Simple. I recommend that you build your custom sandwhich using your own ingredients, similar to a regular sandwhich . That way, people can eat it, and it won’t chmod whatever is already in the fridge. It’s a great way for people to try out other sandwhiches whenever they want.
"Morning exercise is about the last thing I want to do..."
It's almost the last thing I want to do. The last thing I want to do is exercise after I've started my day. I simply never do it.
Good to hear about eating after exercising, too, since I have to go running first thing when I get up. If I first have coffee or eat breakfast I lose all my "go running!" magic power due to the mysterious hypnotic beams emanating from my laptop.
yes, it is necessary to be told it is easy to contribute top open source when it is against a backdrop of being told how difficult it is to produce good code, and the difficulties around software development that are frequently reported
