..albeit in a cynical, barking kind of way .. Nokia Plans A .. 9
The best being Plan R
This makes me sad
I’m still using (and loving) my N900 after suffering 2 consecutive HTC WinMo phone. I was quite looking forward to the Meego phone, but I’m not going to buy into another dead end.
I’ll stick with my Nokia until the contract expires then see, maybe WebOS maybe Android but definately not Nokia…..
Sad
…. with apologies to EJ Thribb (17 1/2)
So Farewell Gerry Rafferty
No more will you wind your way down to Baker Street
Or be stuck in the middle with anyone
Derr Da Da Da Da Duddle Daaaaaa
That was yours.
Patent Mexican Standoff
Here is an interesting little article about the current Mexican Standoff between the various vendors in the Smartphone market , and the products that would be directly affected if the relevant complaint is upheld….
You’ll notice that there is no line between HTC and Microsoft, that because HTC agreed a patent protection deal a while back , probably with the proviso that they keep making Win 7 Phones.
Sadly this isn’t even the half of it what with the infamous Oracle/Google case.
and even Kodak(!?) getting in on the act 1, and 2
This looks like turning onto a mess of “Jarndyce and Jarndyce“-ian proportions, and you can’t help but wonder where it end up, especially as the US patent system seems to be held in such high esteem by developers.
I’ll finish up with an oldish post from Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz about patent wrangles, as viewed from the inside
A new programming language for Xmas
What with all of the FUD and uncertainty around Oracle’s ongoing transformation of Java into it’s own version of .Net, and what with the, xmas book season creeping up on us, the jobbing programmer thoughts turn to what new programming book to order next for your Kindle/iPad/whatever ebook reader/dead tree edition.
Helpfully DZone has come up with a list of “up and coming” programming lanuages for 2011
9 Programming Languages to watch
* Go figures (go figure?) fairly prominently
* Inexplicably Lua (which has been knocking around for ages, there’s even a Psion version) seems to be quite popular, though I suspect a lot, of this might be because it’s the scripting for World of Warcraft
* Scala seems to be winning the battle of the JVM languages, over Clojure and Groovy
* Erlang gets mentioned, but not Haskell
Of course, for the bleeding edge of you there’s always…
* Rust from Mozilla – which is so bleeding edge it’s still in alpha
* Fantom – for meta JVM and CLR portability
* Mirah – seems like a way of writing Java bytecode using Ruby, from the chap who brought you JRuby.
FIFA ==== FIA
So England yet again fail to win the World cup. This made me think that FIFA has become a lot like FIA. Both seem so me more interested in following the shallow flashy money, and selling out the traditional base of the sport.
Mind you at least Bernie is completely transparent about the money directly heading into his coffers, whereas the FIFA executives keep their back handers very quiet.
2 Annoying Alans
I watched the World Cup last night. and rather than comment on the relative virtues of the match, I’d like to express my extreme annoyance with the witterings of the two Alan’s Hanson and Shearer.
Yes the Dutch were horrendously violent, bordering on psychopathy during the match, and should have had at least 2 players sent off. But compare the condemnation handed out by the of the “esteemed” Alans with their reaction to similar treatment regularly meeted out to the Arsenal by the likes of Birmingham, Hull or the current cloggers-du-jour in the premiership. Obviously and English stud in the shin hurts less than a Dutch one. or all English players aen’t “that kind of player” while the Dutch are. At least the Spanish came away with their legs intact.
On another subject, the Spanish win makes Cesc staying with Arsenal less likely, at least from a subconcious point of view. What with Cesc associating playing with his Barca pals with winning stuff. and with his Arsenal pals less so.
Oh well…..
What do Steve Jobs and Ming the Merciless have in common….
…they both hate Flash
Stevie J relaxing at home
Screwed to the sticking place
I’ve finally summoned up the courage to start reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America.
It’s been sitting under the bed for the past year or so as I didn’t fancy reading anything too dark.
New Phone …… New Posts
Time passes and tech rolls on. My little HTC Touch Diamond has just been replace by a nice new Nokia N900.
Over all It’s been quite a nice experience, a perfectly acceptable little keyboard some nice little apps and with a switch from Orange to T-Mobile RECEPTION AT HOME !!!!
I’ll post some more as I go on.