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fishmech posted:you're aware uber's "research" program mostly consists of saying "boy self driving cars sure would be great for us" right they bought otto, a legitimate self driving company. also they are brazenly driving their cars in California even though they have been expressly forbidden to do so by the DMV
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# ? May 13, 2024 08:17 |
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all they need is to invent the first robot to qualify for a car loan
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 02:59 |
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prefect posted:which egyptian month is it, anyway? it is the fourth month of akhet, ka-hr-ka, the 23rd day, in the 2063rd year of the reign of the immortal cleopatra vii oh i looked up the wrong calendar gently caress i dunno
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 03:42 |
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every action blackberry takes is to increase their hopes of someone outright purchasing them, they have no actual capacity for shipping anything
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# ? Dec 20, 2016 23:05 |
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Posting on the sex number page
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# ? Dec 21, 2016 11:18 |
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blackberry - or the chinese manufacturer wearing their skin - are in a hotel room near ces showing off the new thing. CNET - BlackBerry is back! Will anyone care? quote:While the BlackBerry brand is wounded, it is still a recognizable name. That's more than can be said for TCL or Alcatel, which have quietly drawn customers by offering more bang for their buck. The BlackBerry name will be independent from Alcatel, which has separate sales and marketing teams, Steve Cistulli, head of Alcatel's North American business, said in an interview Tuesday. Both sit under the TCL umbrella. DigitalTrends - BLACKBERRY MERCURY: OUR FIRST TAKE quote:The same applies for the Mercury — though instead of targeting the budget and mid-range line, the new device will pit itself against flagship devices like Apple’s iPhone 7, the Samsung Galaxy S7, and Google’s Pixel. But BlackBerry has not released hardware specifications for the device, its price, or its release date — all we know is that official details will be announced around the time of Mobile World Congress in February. #BlackberryMobile
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 15:14 |
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 17:10 |
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thats loving more pathetic than ouya setting up a loving tent in whatever game conventions loving parking lot lmao
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 17:11 |
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The Kins posted:blackberry - or the chinese manufacturer wearing their skin - are in a hotel room near ces showing off the new thing. sadness isnt new to blackberry
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# ? Jan 6, 2017 05:36 |
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Waterloo, couldn't escape if you wanted to I was defeated you won the war
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# ? Jan 7, 2017 12:33 |
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isn't QNX an actually legit OS? it'd be funny if BBY actually had a comeback thanks to one lucky purchase
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 02:08 |
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QNX used to be king poo poo of RTOS. I dunno if it's kept up, since I now realize that it's been 20 years since I used it seriously.
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 02:29 |
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it's still used in embedded systems. iirc ford moved their sync platform to it after wince poo poo the bed why that made it a good fit for a mobile os re-imagining of a platform built on java and bailing wire, i'm unclear. but i'm not a visionary like the twin headed dragon of balsille/lazaridis
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 02:37 |
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they had a nifty gui web enabled desktop os variant that fit on a floppy disk too
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 02:38 |
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i was referring to QNX being a good OS in automative systems, both Google and Apple are using it for car integrations, maybe the latter will buy Blackberry for it b/c Project Titan failing lol
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 02:40 |
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qnx is a decent os when your number one criteria is "doesn't crash" and number two is "kind of unixy". my car runs it with a Linux user land in the entertainment system. it was not a bad choice for a phone OS. the problem was in no way the kernel and base OS frameworks, it was the junk on top of that written by blackberry and also that they were way late to market and their hardware sucked.
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 02:50 |
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The Management posted:qnx is a decent os when your number one criteria is "doesn't crash" this would have been a massive improvement for rim. sadly that dream was not realized
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 02:52 |
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infernal machines posted:this would have been a massive improvement for rim. sadly that dream was not realized *extremely zany clown voice* doesn't matter how stable the OS is if the apps just can't stop slipping on banana peels hyuk hyuk hyuk
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 03:28 |
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getting a tour of the plant on philip street was cool but even back in '07 you knew they couldn't compete with chinese mass manufacturing.
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 04:02 |
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My fondest memories of working at rim are: actually seeing management, including a director, getting purged during a round of layoffs. playing 10 person office games of dota v 0.1 before anyone had really heard of it getting so annoyed with the shittier and shittier requests from ux that we completely reskinned the product in plaid and had it autoplay some bagpipe midi.
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 04:07 |
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:getting a tour of the plant on philip street was cool but even back in '07 you knew they couldn't compete with chinese mass manufacturing. This is what it is now. http://factorysquare.ca/
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 05:07 |
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:getting so annoyed with the shittier and shittier requests from ux that we completely reskinned the product in plaid and had it autoplay some bagpipe midi. incredible.
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 05:10 |
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Wheany posted:Posting on the sex number page
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 19:38 |
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The Management posted:qnx is a decent os when your number one criteria is "doesn't crash" and number two is "kind of unixy". my car runs it with a Linux user land in the entertainment system. it was not a bad choice for a phone OS. the problem was in no way the kernel and base OS frameworks, it was the junk on top of that written by blackberry and also that they were way late to market and their hardware sucked. yeah wasn't blackberry os "classic" basically their hellfucked pager os that grew up to become a really bad smartphone os? I remember articles about how they realized that improving bbyos wasn't going anywhere, they couldn't hire any talent good enough to take on cleaning the augean stables because those people would not want that job, and really they just couldn't attract good talent period. so they bought qnx and it was the right move but they should have made it years earlier and by then they were so far behind iphone and android it was doomed to be too little too late
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 21:38 |
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BobHoward posted:yeah wasn't blackberry os "classic" basically their hellfucked pager os that grew up to become a really bad smartphone os? I remember articles about how they realized that improving bbyos wasn't going anywhere, they couldn't hire any talent good enough to take on cleaning the augean stables because those people would not want that job, and really they just couldn't attract good talent period. so they bought qnx and it was the right move yeah, it was garbage in the same way palmos and s40 were. shared memory cooperative multitasking systems (more or less) that aren't designed to run apps as we know them. qnx gave them a modern kernel. buying it was actually a smart move because it saved them a lot of effort. but the outcome would have been exactly the same whether they used linux or any other modern kernel.
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 22:38 |
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remember when the playbook came out and you couldn't use bbm without logging out of your phone becasue they never envisioned a world where people have multiple blackberrys? see also: google allo
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 22:44 |
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Endless Mike posted:remember when the playbook came out and you couldn't use bbm without logging out of your phone becasue they never envisioned a world where people have multiple blackberrys? and it couldn't do email without being tethered to a blackberry
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 22:55 |
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The Management posted:but the outcome would have been exactly the same whether they used linux or any other modern kernel. at the time, wasn't Linux too non-real-time enough to do their low power radio trickery? I remember arguing about that with my mom of all people
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# ? Jan 17, 2017 23:00 |
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BobHoward posted:yeah wasn't blackberry os "classic" basically their hellfucked pager os that grew up to become a really bad smartphone os? I remember articles about how they realized that improving bbyos wasn't going anywhere, they couldn't hire any talent good enough to take on cleaning the augean stables because those people would not want that job, and really they just couldn't attract good talent period. so they bought qnx and it was the right move blackberry os was originally meant to run on a portable revision of the 80386 and just handle displaying and sending email over a low speed wireless data network - not even interfacing with SMS services or traditional pager systems. this was gradually adapted into doing telephony and then actually running other applications. you had to buy different devices if you wanted to use email on a microsoft exchange system or if you wanted to use email with a more typical pop3/imap system. needed to connect to both? gotta carry two of them
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 00:26 |
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Endless Mike posted:remember when the playbook came out and you couldn't use bbm without logging out of your phone becasue they never envisioned a world where people have multiple blackberrys? 1to1 sql relationship buried deep, deep to the point of unfixable, lol
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 00:40 |
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The Management posted:and it couldn't do email without being tethered to a blackberry oh yeah lol
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 00:52 |
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and then a truck full of those pieces of poo poo got "stolen"
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 00:52 |
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i carried around one of these and still got laid. 2003 was a wonderful time.
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 01:08 |
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:i carried around one of these and still got laid. 2003 was a wonderful time.
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 01:21 |
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BobHoward posted:yeah wasn't blackberry os "classic" basically their hellfucked pager os that grew up to become a really bad smartphone os? I remember articles about how they realized that improving bbyos wasn't going anywhere, they couldn't hire any talent good enough to take on cleaning the augean stables because those people would not want that job, and really they just couldn't attract good talent period. so they bought qnx and it was the right move buying qnx as a replacement for their shitass core was a good idea it was just years and years too late as you point out
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 03:14 |
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Subjunctive posted:at the time, wasn't Linux too non-real-time enough to do their low power radio trickery? I remember arguing about that with my mom of all people if you make your radio code an in-kernel driver, lock all the ram (or just don't have a swap device, which is likely in this context), and tweak the scheduler a bit (or use one of the existing realtime linux projects which have already done that), there's no reaosn why linux wouldn't work. most of the time, hard realtime systems only need a tiny bit of driver-ish code to actually be given hard realtime guarantees, and the rest of the system can deal with unpredictable delays, and everyone's happy because this is comparatively little work to get right poo poo doesn't get real (time) until you decide "hey my entire gui stack needs to be hard realtime because it's the control panel for a nuclear power plant and we need to know that without fail every indicator on the virtual instrumentation panel updates in lockstep with the display refresh and also every operator button press during that interval has been fully processed and properly responded to"
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 10:28 |
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Endless Mike posted:google ballo
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 01:09 |
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according to research firm Gartner, blackberry's share of the global smartphone market has fallen to a rounded-off 0.0% after shipping just 207,000 phones last quarter. entirely coincidentally, blackberry is suing nokia over patent infringement claims, specifically seeking payment instead of blocking nokia's usage of the technologies.
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# ? Feb 16, 2017 15:15 |
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Why the Turnaround of BlackBerry Ltd. Is Finally Completequote:If I were to leave the BlackBerry name out of this article, it would sound like a screaming buy as an up-and-coming tech startup which has shown a resilience to succeed and expand into new areas where it has a competitive advantage.
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lmao crackberry is still around
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