65816 has a 16-bit stack pointer.

and stack relative addressing mode is added.

Disk throwing has been a standard demo/copy party event since the dinosaurs roamed the earth (at least in Finland). I remember there being a disk throwing compo at Assembly '92.

Well yes and no.

Sure, you will take a runtime performance hit if you do a QML UI because all the QML needs to be parsed.

But then again, no it's not all javascript and no it will not suck up all of your CPU. When you write simple bindings (for example someProperty: otherPropert ? "yes.png" : "no.png") the QML engine actually detects these simple cases and doesn't invoke the javascript interpreter when it needs to evaluate the expression, but handles it internally instead. Also if you don't want to do things in javascript you really don't have to as calling QObject slots is super easy. If you stick to simple bindings and write your logic in C++, the javascript interpreter won't have much to do.

Wow. Android is really eating everybody's pie.

But Nokia dropped far less (47.6% -> 37.9%), proportionally, than Microsoft (8.7% -> 4.2%).

No question that Microsoft is the winner here.

RIM's market share in 2010/Q1 according to Gartner (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/google-android-smacks-...) was 19,4% and year before that it was a little bit over 20%.

The article is misleading. The original finnish piece of news says the _use_ of unsecured wireless networks is going to be legalized. Having an unsecured home network has never been illegal.

The legislators are justifying the legalization with the relatively small harm caused by the 'lending', ease of securing the network and the difficulty of figuring out what is actgually meant to be public and what is not.

Either the writer of the article sucks at coming up with analogies or doesn't really understand what pipelining sequential logic means :)

I've had good experiences with Futurlec (http://futurlec.com/PCBService.shtml). I believe the PCBs ship from Thailand so don't expect fast delivery (unless you pay for courier service), but the quality for the price is good (and their other stuff is cheap too).

I think Symbian (S60) devices have had flash since 2004 or something and they've shipped tens of millions of devices since then. Also at least Nokia's Symbian devices are OMAP based like iPhone.

I'm not saying that Adobe's Flash has had a huge impact on the Symbian world, but just to get the facts straight.

Yes and no: Flash Lite has existed there in the firmware for ages, but nobody is using it. It also cannot be utilized from the browser.

Going all philosophical: If a software has zero users, does it still exist?

EDIT: My view may be dated. I haven't checked what Nokia is offering through the ovi-system these days, could be that Flash Lite is actually somewhat widely used nowadays.

Also: Flash Lite has existed also in Nokia Series 40 models ("standard phones", not smart phones) since 2007 or so...

I've just used Flash on my Nokia smart phone to view a flash-only website. Works out of the box.

Really, cool! What phone, what site? Gotta try it myself, I am supposed to know this stuff. :)

It's a Nokia E72. The website was http://www.gerlinea.fr/. :)

Thanks! I stand corrected. On my 6110 Navigator (S60 3rd ed feature pack 1) I get the "broken image icon", and clicking on it the phone tries to open it with it's FlashLite player and gives "Flash 8 not supported error".

But as you said, works fine on E72, which is S60 3rd ed feature pack 2. I'm impressed!

Yes, my N82 which several years old phone has flash which I use with no problem.

It will be interesting to see what comes out of Symbian^4. As the 10+ year old Symbian UI framework is tossed out of the window and replaced by a Qt graphicsview based new one it requires all the app UIs to be rewritten there's a good chance to see some real improvements i.e. a real touch based UI instead of touch glued on top of dpad UI.

What comes to the developing environment Nokia has taken a huge leap (ok ok any improvement of the late atrocity is a huge improvement :)) by adopting Qt and their tools. It's hard to find people who will put Qt down.