The ex-Nokia people with their Symbian skills are not useful for the modern mobile/web dev market. Almost every single IT-company in Finland at the moment is suffering from lack of developers.
The geeks and techies endlessly complain about privacy issues etc. when it comes to government boosting up security, but still no one has seen nor there is any concrete problems with that. Terrorism on the other hand is killing innocent people all the time everywhere so people giving government these right is a no brainer.
It's not Apple's fault no matter how ridiculous their patents are. It's 100% fault of the American retarded patent system. As a company or large corporation you have only two options: You apply for crazy patents or end up paying for compensations to others.
What kind of bullshit is this?
If they actually legally purchased the software then why the fuck you think they removed all the copyright notices etc? Also why did the Al-Jazeera not respond to any of the allegations?
Considering how many times before Tolvards has just been full of shit with his "opinions", I wouldn't pay too much attention to this...
...and especially since the whole post is 3 years old and currently the world's top engineering university and major chip makers such as AMD, ARM and MediaTek rely on Geekbench.
Security on iOS on lightyears ahead of Android in all aspects and because of the fundamental design of Android it will not change in the near future if ever.
Other things I might add: efficieny of usage, performance, UX, hardware design, development of software (for us devs), privacy, quality of app store etc.
This is just normal phase Europe, US, Hong Kong have faced long time ago.
Transformation from product factory to service society.
What the article said about quality of Chinese engineers is unfortunately true, however easter part of China (Shanghai, Jiangsu-province, Beijing, Shenzhen) have tens of millions of excellent quality ones which are comparable with their western counter parts.
What's probably going to happen is that East China is going to keep on advancing and getting rich (and developing to the level of Europe and US) while other parts of the country stay poor.
I'm software engineer based in Helsinki, Finland and Shanghai, China.
Uber may be fighting against the law, but when the government does not respect the democratic will of the people, it is actually ok and in the long run will benefit all.
I'm based in Helsinki, Finland and Shanghai, China (50/50). Two very different countries in all aspects. In both countries government used to regulate taxis and today China does not anymore but Finland still does.
In Finland taxis are very new (BMW, Mercedes Benz, Audi, Tesla etc.) and expensive (supported with tax payers money) and they are REALLY expensive to take. Way too expensive. This may sound ridiculous, but in my home town (major Finnish city) during the weekends it was common for people to walk home 7-10km after the night out, because taxis are so expensive. They are not seen as normal transportation service but instead more as a luxury service that you have to carefully consider before taking. They are still very safe, clean, have their own Uber-like app etc. Finns have demanded many many years (long before Uber) for the taxi-monopoly to be destroyed, but the government has happily turned a blind eye to them. Ubers in Finland are usually Toyotas or Volkswagens, quite new and clean. Prices are only 50-60% of traditional taxis.
So what about China? Taxis are old/medium-level volkswagens, little dirty, driver may be smoking inside the car, quite safe but there are many people playing with the meter or overcharging in some other ways. Some drivers are also really greedy and arrogant: They may ask you where are you going before letting you into the car and if they don't like the route they'll not take you. Anyway they are relatively affordable for average people in China. When Uber and it's Chinese competitor DiDi came to the market, the government was confused at first but later legalized them when they realized that competition will benefit all in the long run.
Now? Uber and Didi are extremely popular, significantly cheaper than traditional taxis, clean, safe and no more people have to worry about getting bullshitted with the cab fare.
So once again Uber made things better for all. Sometimes breaking the law in not only acceptable, but required for a greater good and change to happen. In Finland however it might take a while since the government is still living in their 1950s mentality and currently hunting down Uber drivers and suing them.
Some might say it's wrong that Uber is putting all the responsibility on the driver. You know what? It's not.
They know what they are signing up for and besides if Uber as a company was responsible for every single incident all over the world in every country, the company wouldn't exist anymore. No investor money could cover all those fines. The current way is the only way Uber can exist and only way the change can happen.
As a game developer I'm pretty excited about this. There is really no reason to use DX12 backend anymore in the future game development, because of the ease of development, performance and multiplatform features of the Vulkan.
Another retarded feminist cunt who instead of actually talking to her colleagues and addressing the issues is just sitting there quiet building hate and insane rage inside her and trying to find problems where there are none.
The fact that they didn't let you change the basketball to friends has nothing to do with you being a women but simply because majority of the office wanted to watch the basketball.
It's amazing how some of these bitches in the industry think that everyone should worship them and do everything like they demand and if there is even the slightest thing wrong it's always discrimination, "being a woman in <insert any engineering industry here>" etc.
The ex-Nokia people with their Symbian skills are not useful for the modern mobile/web dev market. Almost every single IT-company in Finland at the moment is suffering from lack of developers.