I really do not agree with some comments about Nigeria's image in the first thread concerning this Paul's demeaning statement.
Yes, we have fraudsters in Nigeria, but are we the only country with fraudsters? Why generalize in the first place? In any country you go, you find bad eggs, and good eggs.....Nigeria is not an exception and our good superceeds our bad. Yes, our goods superceeds.....our musicians, our actors, our students abroad, recently a Nigerian was appointed in trump's Govt. I am not in support of the fraudsters but when you support Paul in his statement then you are doing more damage to the country.
His sack will show other white racist like him, that you can't say sh.t about the country Nigeria publicly and go Scot free.
so obvious paul is a troll only clowns fall for trolls
You keep typing this trash about Buhari finishing Yorubas, yet I'm sure you're typing from one 2by2 chicken room in Lagos.
Every January, you all run from Igboland to Yoruba land as if there is a war going on in Igboland. This year, even your brothers increased transport fare to punish you guys, yet you cried like malnourished piglets and still paid the outrageous fares.
The Yorubas that have welcomed you with open hands are now the objects of hate and ridicule from you externally displaced persons?
In any case, you can only hate Yorubas but do nothing about it. After all, there is no person in igboland who became successful without coming to Lagos to eat Amala and ewedu.
erm yo nobody is punishing anybdy cost of goods and services have increased evrywia and just incase u've forgotten lagos until 1991 was nigeria's capital so u lot aren't doin anyone a favour its just like hausa folk sayin they are welcomin ppl to abuja.silly ain't it? also notice hw govt calls 36 states and fct not 37. so cool down
Nudoibaretep: We don hate igbos but igbos are a.ccursed from the foundation of the world, that is why they are our slaves. Our slave will they be forever, we will not free them. In shal allah
accursed,ur slaves?ur statement has revealed ur age already.i'm so sorry.i thought i was chatting with an adult.
Biafra: Buhari is a terrorist who committed treasonable felony in 1983 – Nnamdi Kanu, co-defendant
The incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, his fellow defendants, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi, on Tuesday allegedly described President Muhammadu Buhari as a terrorist.
Kanu, Onwudiwe, Madubugwu and Nwawuisi are currently standing trial before Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court on an 11-count charge bordering on terrorism and treasonable felony.
Speaking shortly after Wednesday’s proceedings, the IPOB leader accused President Muhammadu Buhari of committing treasonable felony in 1983.
In a visibly angry voice, Kanu said, ‘’You want to try somebody who is learned; are you mad. How can you jail me idiots?’’
‘’Buhari committed treasonable felony in 1983’’ ‘’Nigeria is an expired country.’’
Madubugwu on his part said, ‘’ Uwazuruike must come out and testify. Hausa Boko Haram everywhere. Try your father in secret not me and see idiots.
‘’Do you see it; we are even with handcuffs inside the court? This is what Buhari is doing. This is one of the intimidations. Can you see it? ‘Secret trail to defend Nigeria created by human beings?
“Nigeria was created 1ST January 1914 and Nigeria expired on 31 of December 1983. Nigeria is a fraud. I have nothing in common with an Hausa man and Yoruba man.”
Earlier, Kanu had rejected his secret trial, “I SHALL NOT BE TRIED SECRETLY WHILE MY ACCUSERS accused me publicly.”
During the proceedings, Kanu’s legal team had accused security operatives of harassing and killing some IPOB members who visit Kanu in Kuje prison.
i'm yet to undastand sumtin anytime yorubas hear biafra,ipob or nnamdi kanu they go berserk and start saying silly tins u hate igbos yet u don't want them to leave so pls explain it to me cuz i don't get it
errrm dat is fa cup final not a league match bro
rangers v insurance @ national stadium surulere
crowds luvd d fa cup lyk mad den
bloggers pls try and verify b4 posting biko
kelvee: Four heads of parastatal agencies and college in the nation’s aviation industry have been sacked, according to a government statement. Those relieved of their jobs are the Managing Director of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Mr Emma Anasi, and the Director General of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), Dr Anthony Anuforom. Others are the Rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria, Mr Samuel Caulcrick and the Commissioner of Accident Investigation Bureau. A statement by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transportation, Alhaji Sabiu Zakari said on Monday in Abuja that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sack and the appointments of new chief executive officers to run the agencies. Mr Fola Akinkuotu has been named the new Managing Director of NAMA. Akinkuotu is a seasoned Transport Pilot, Flight and Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, Airline Chief Executive Officer as well as a trained Aviation Industry Regulator. Also, Prof. Sani Mashi, a professor of Geography with speciality in Environmental Application of Remote Sensing will hold sway in NiMet as Director-General. According to the statement, Mashi is currently a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Abuja. Capt. Abdulsalam Mohammed, a renowned civil aviation trainer and examiner with accreditation by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority and the Federal Civil Aviation Administration, is the new Rector of NCAT, Zaria. Similarly, Mr Akinola Olateru, an engineer of international repute, will take over as the head of the Accident Investigation Bureau. Olateru is a trained Air Accident Manager and Certified Safety Officer with Aircraft Maintenance Engineering licenses in Nigeria, U.S. and the United Kingdom.
ngolokante: Because we Yorubas are not racists neither are we bigots
No i actually think they are ashamed to admit that they voted the wrong person in. heck even northerners have been blasting buhari cuz of his actions so they keep praising him bcuz of d shame
Aquariann: A friend sent me these pictures of two armed robbers who were this afternoon (23/12/16) burnt in their operational vehicle in Obudu, Cross River State. According to him, they had gone to rob a store around the market area and were about driving off when the brother to the store owner ran out after them and held onto the steer wheel from outside. The driver in a bid to accelerate , lost control and ran into the open roadside drainage.
Onlookers now seized the opportunity to pounce on them. One was fortunate to escape, while the cops were able to save one. But [un]fortunately, two were roasted beyond recognition.
It should be noted also that this is the first time something like this is happening in the town. According to him, there have been an increased spate of armed robbery in the town for months now, almost on a daily basis. I guess the people have had enough and were looking for escape goats. . No Christmas for them
look its high time ds rubbish called jungle justice aka lynching is made a capital offence hia ds rubbish has wasted so many lives i dislike robbers and dia actions but to lynch is definitely not d answer
obiezed: Is that all??,but that's better than no barrels at all,besides the SE doesn't put much fort in oil exports. You go figure, we have always believed our greatest strength is our human resource potential. So stop weeping more than the bereaved, save your tears.
nna my broda d tin always surprises me u will neva ever see us bothered with whatever happens to dem yet just write ipob or biafra here they start to cry
obiezed: Is that all??,but that's better than no barrels at all,besides the SE doesn't put much fort in oil exports. You go figure, we have always believed our greatest strength is our human resource potential. So stop weeping more than the bereaved, save your tears.
nna my broda d tin always surprises me u will neva ever see us bothered with whatever happens to dem yet just write ipob or biafra here they start to bleat like goats smh
DaBullIT: No , they only like protesting in front of embassies and making fake videos of innocent cattle herder minding his own business while they claim it's tearing down their farms in the region where they are cowards
emm excuse me troll u do know igbos are not afonjas right if d north dare try sum bs up in hia dia done for heck even dia herdsmen ran to army barracks to save dia skins funny enough arent u supposed to be yoruba what's with the northern praise
brownhawk: because u guys deserve hell than a phony country where u will embarrass yourself Like South Sudan..unfortunately mumu will not learn cos u are easily manipulated and short sighted
lol did u just compare ndigbo to south sudan? lmao just ds xmas dt we've gone back home ur lagos is looking like a ghost town commerce and business has nosedived lol oh and yea ndigbo are republicans ie we dont wait for one lousy kabiyesi or oba b4 we take action
seeing as u guys only know owambe and oily soup
u lot will miss d igbos more than the hausas
at least the hausas can farm and trade
u lot just love to party
cao: Haha! Concubine?! I didn't know folks still used that, and you calling me a hoe that was desperate for a f*** was a civilised response? Move along kiddo and come back when you start sounding like an adult. Next time write a better thread, now maybe you didn't notice, but there is a high amount of fake accounts on NL. Accounts operated by bots, that will have actual conversations, with the main goal to click bait people. Your attempt at a post sounded like the beginnings of one of those, infact I was initially going to remove the thread, but decided to ask a question, which you never really answered.
Then BluePulse, someone who you've an extensively toxic relationship with on NL, came along, with remnants of an argument you both had, I diffused the situation, he apologised, I believed it had ended. Of course, you decided to apply Rambo and completely destroy everything, then insulted me on top of that. I closed that thread, 'cause it was honestly not worth it, so we'd all sit down for round infinity for whatever c***kfight you are both having? Please, we had better things to do. So grow the hell up. You are an adult, act like one.
cao dont rply to evrytin learn to ignore trolls n kids
Techazuri: A story about why exciting hardware crash and burn
I’m yet to handle a VR set. Reason being, I’m a bit of a sceptic.
In fact, if I was a betting man, I’d put money on this VR experiment fizzling out in a few years, just the way it’s earlier “cousin”, the Google Glass, did. I mean, there are several checkboxes new products tick to succeed in today’s marketplace; boxes Google’s doomed product failed to tick back in 2013.
Perhaps I should begin my case by taking you back to my university days.
I was in my second year: young, abrasive, stuck in a course I didn't like, had too much time and still got monthly allowance from my folks. Meaning I could devote more time and energy to mundane stuff like pissing contests and less towards making good grades.
It was the era of the 7th generation consoles. The PS3s and Xbox 360s (and the tech powering them) were featured on the cover of every videogame, computer and tech magazine for months. What passed for leisure in my circle were regular sessions of competitive gaming followed by long hours of fanboy arguments. Our arguments were usually of the world-changing nature i.e. why the Xbox 360 was the superior console to the PS3 (I was in the Microsoft camp). My personal talking points were raw computing power and HD DVDs.
If you remember, there was a time when the industry was yet to make up its mind about what was to succeed DVDs. Pundits were split between the HD DVD and Blu-ray. The two consumer technology behemoths; Toshiba (which was aggressively pushing the HD DVD) and Sony (championing the Blu-ray) kept throwing money at the situation.
Well, after reading the leading technology magazines in those days, (mostly Ziff Davis publications like PC Magazine, Computer Gaming World, as well as more popular magazines like PC Gamer, we Microsoft groupies were convinced HD DVDs were the future. Microsoft was supposed to be the better company, and the 360 was supposed to be the better product, with the better components, particularly, the HD DVD technology.
Sony and time would prove that Xbox fanboys were drinking their own Kool Aid. The HD DVD bit the bullet when Sony convinced Walmart and Warner Brothers, along with some other major movie distributors to embrace the Blu-ray format, and abandon the HD DVD. The HD DVD became a bust. Blu-ray took its lunch money (Toshiba lost nearly a billion dollars ), and since Microsoft stubbornly refused to incorporate a Blu-ray drive into their console throughout its lifespan, we fanboys were left enduring the hassles of multi-DVD games as we had to switch DVDs several times during gaming sessions.
Little wonder that I humbly ditched my fanboyism and bought a PS3 some years later. Aside having to eat humble pie, I learned a valuable lesson.
Never argue with fanboys. Lol.
That, and the fact that pushing new hardware, ones that will have ripple effects on consumers, their lifestyle and the products they already use is a tall order. When there’s a competitor tussling with you in the marketplace, it is nigh impossible. Microsoft and Toshiba learned this the hard way. And history was going to repeat itself in a few years.
When Google had a Glass Jaw
The Google Glass was a failure. Some publications even embellished their headlines with the “epic” prefix e.g BGR and Fox. Clickbait or not, who could blame them? Google’s new toy which it had pushed for almost two years did not catch on. The product was cancelled and taken back into the lab.
Had it succeeded, Google was going to usher us all into a new age of interactivity. It was going to change the game. After first encounters, tech writers became instant believers. They saw the immense possibilities it offered. (Where have I heard that before? ).
You could video anything you looked at. You could have a map in front of you wherever you walked. The tech offered you a computer and the internet ready at a moment's notice, taking your real world experience to a whole new level.
Also, for the Google Glass, content wasn’t really the problem. It layered a virtual UI over the real world, so you were rarely - if ever - in want of ways to interact with the tech or things to do with it.
The first problem it faced was the price. $1500 is a lot to ask people to pay for a fun glass. Kinda like an alt-version of the Snapchat spectacles come to think of it.
The second issue was the launch itself. The product wasn’t ready. It was supposed to be in beta, yet it was launched like a finished product. The narrative got away from Google, and became a PR nightmare. Not good for a product that was yet to define what position it wanted to occupy in the consumer’s life - everyday device or geeky accessory? As Will Oremus of Slate wrote, "Glass’ problem is that the technology today simply doesn’t offer anything that average people really want, let alone need, in their everyday lives."
Oh dear.
Hardware products differ from software. Interacting with hardware offers a different experience for the user while the amount of control the company exerts over the user experience is limited. Once the product leaves the warehouse, its fate is in the hands of the masses.
As it is now, the current expression of VR shares too many similarities with Google Glass, (Google's unfortunate experiment came first after all). And as a brilliant friend pointed out to me as I was writing this, Glass and VR (as we now know it) don't just share similarities (and potentially the same fate), they are different expressions of the same idea; add a realtime and lifelike layer of interactivity on content. Glass was Augmented Reality (interactivity on existing universes - like Microsoft’s Hololens) while VR is interactivity on created universes.
It’s a pretty nifty idea when you think about it or when you sit through a demo. But the idea has never been the problem. It wasn’t the problem during Glass’ brief stint and it isn’t the problem now. The medium itself is.
You know that situation where your friends tell you your startup idea is a slam dunk but then refuse to patronize you when you launch because, well… shrugs. Yes, this is that situation but with billions of dollars at stake.
It’s not their fault. If your startup’s going to be based on VR technology, I’m going to be shrugging too.
Snobs and the hardware life
At best, I believe VR (if it survives) will become one of those add-ons the really geeky and really edgy folks use - like your friends with the Playstation Move or the Xbox Kinect. Fancy but not groundbreaking. Interesting but not essential to the consumer experience.
Secondly, tech naturally carves out a niche and consolidates. When cars started showing up, it took some time, but eventually we moved in the air conditioner, the radio and then the phone into the car with us. When we got mobile phones, we embedded cameras and added the ability to listen to the radio, and browse the internet. When we got consoles, we added the ability to browse the internet, watch movies and play older games.
If VR is gonna succeed, it’s going to have to be embedded inside some other tech we already use or embed other tech we currently use into the whole experience. Why? Because there’s no space for an extra box in the living room. Right now, we have TV, DVR, Radio, Cable Decoder, WiFi routers, a game console, and a Blu-ray player. At some point, it gets too much. Unless the tech geniuses can figure out a way to make the tech powering VR come with any of these devices, VR will be fighting in an already crowded space.
Sony played a genius hand when they embedded their PS3 console with a Blu-ray player. Nobody needed to tell you that getting a PS3 was a good bargain - two pieces of tech for the meagre price of one.
Another problem is; the VR isn’t replacing anything. New tech that successfully permeates the consumer marketplace is usually a replacement of old tech. Flat screen TVs replaced CRTs. Blu-rays replaced DVDs. Smartphones replaced feature phones which replaced analogue phones. The need was already there and tech was solving it. New tech just came to do it better.
As the Google Glass experiment proved, people aren’t that ready to change their ways for the sake of it. They change when the new way is a better and easier way to meet old needs. I did a mini research. I showed some pics of the Oculus Rift to a friend. I tried pitching it to her as the toy the cool kids are playing with these days. Her reply was unexpected. She went, “And how am I supposed to lug that thing around in my handbag all day? Biko, I have work to do abeg.”
Immediately she said it, I saw her point. VR is not going to be a mobile device. So where’s it going to stay? In the living room? I don't think so. The tech currently powering VR makes it an isolating/solitary experience. It’s definitely not replacing the TV because then we’d need two or three visors, one for dad, mom and child. On the average.
I honestly can’t see it succeeding.
But then again I could be wrong. Several tech heavy weights including Google, Facebook, HTC, Acer, Samsung and Sony, have chimed in, committing to support the format and improve the tech. Throw enough money and brains at the problem and it might just go away (I’m sure I’ve heard that before also).
I’m not a betting man, but if I was, I’d still bet against VR, in spite of the tech being pushed by tech heavyweights. It will (probably) be an epic failure. But that is not to discourage failure. After all, it’s Silicon Valley wisdom to say, “if you’re not failing, you’re not trying.”
I can only assume that the bigger the failure, the bigger the lesson.
P.S. This post is not exclusively about VR. It’s about the challenges new innovations face especially when they involve introducing a totally new kind of consumer technology to the market. I simply used VR as a vehicle to channel my thoughts. Perhaps the headline should read - why good hardware products fail.
So why do good products fail? Here’s a quick recap: Way too high price point (especially if you’re not Apple), Sucky marketing, Non-essential nature i.e it’s an Add-on, and poor industry support.
yibomustgo: Doyin Okupe is actaually talking about flattheads, flat chest beaters yeeebos from yeastern side of Nigeria who have refused to move on from the thourough beaten ineffectual buffon and PDP took in the hands of Buhari and APC. All these deranged yeeebos have been doing is to show up at different embassies and diplomatic missions abroad with the cardboards showing lies like "GENOCIDE", "ETHNIC CLEANSING IN NIGERIA", "BUHARI IS KILLING IGBOS IN BIAFRA", "BIAFRALAND BEING ATTACKED BY ISLAMIIST GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA", "6000 BIAFRNS KILLED AND BURIED SECRETLY"....
Igbos can only lie but truth will always prevail. That is why their lies have not been taken serious so far anywhere in the world. Run to ICJ from now till 2090, nothing will happen.
THE WHOLE WORLD HAS REALIZED THAT YEEBOS ARE LIARS WITH THE WAY THEY HAVE BEEN LYING ALL OVER THE WORLD WITH NO PRROF OF WHAT THEY'VE ACCUSED NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT OF DOING. MIND YOU, I HATE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BUT THE LIES YEEEBOS ARE SPREADING IS SOMETHING ELSE.
Ambassadors in Nigeria are bursting your lies and telling the government in western world that yeeebos are just lying.
at least unlike ur kin u want d ibos to go dats nice tho ur post shows u are either a lowlife troll or a kid seeking attention smh
ebosie11: According to multiple online sources,Faculty of Agriculture,University of Ibadan has ventured into rice production.A 10kg bag of the rice costs N4000 while a 25kg bag costs N9,500.
ChangeIsCostant: Today, 29/11/16 the Sokoto state police commissioner arrived at the residence of Sheikh Qasim Umar, a leading member of The Islamic Movement, ostensibly on a fact finding mission.
The Police Commissioner told the Sheikh that he was was at the centre to verify security reports reaching him that Shiites will hold a "Grand African Shi'ah Congress" in Sokoto, which according to him, might cause a breach of the peace in the state.
Sheikh Qasim commended the Police Commissioner for setting a record of coming personally to verify the security report. He however denied knowledge of any Shi'a conference in Sokoto, stating that "I am hearing about it now from you for the first time."
Sheikh Qasim recounted to the Police Commissioner, how IMN members have previously been victims of police brutality in the state, adding that "we are still awaiting the payment of compensation by the state government after the courts discharged and acquitted us of all charges and awarded us compensation for damages done to us."
The Police Commissioner left the residence evidently satisfied with what he saw by himself concerning the Sheikh and the IMN.
Earlier on, the news of the intended visit by the Commissioner was met with apprehension by IMN members, as it was coming berely two days after Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai paid a condolence visit to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal at the Government House, where he used the occasion to announce the establishment of a new Army Division in Sokoto to enhance security in the zone.
SIGNED BY IBRAHIM MUSA PRESIDENT MEDIA FORUM OF IMN 29/11/16
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