You have the E6x and E7x series if you want a Blackberry-like form factor with a full keyboard, or if you just want a good phone, the E5x series in soap-bar form factor.
All run a recent version of Symbian, all are full smartphones, although the ones without a full keyboard are of course a bit less useful in that regard.
And make no mistake, running Symbian is an advantage. It is a clunky OS to write apps for, but it's a real embedded real-time OS dedicated to running phone hardware, not a stripped-down PC OS shoehorned into a smaller box. So Nokia phones are just plain good at their primary task: being a phone.
Of course, if you had read TFA, you'd have seen I scrupulously posted the TV Tropes' admins side of this incident.
That you are not getting Google's side of the story is the fault of strictly one party: Google, for not giving information to TV Tropes as to what is the exact violation.
I picked exactly of the mildest pages behind the warning to show the absurdity of the situation. I'd have no problem if the entire 'Porn Tropes' index landed behind the warning, but any discussion of human sexuality, or even a simple discussion of alternate family compositions in fiction? That just shows how utterly idiotic American neo-Puritanism has become.
Erm. The closest thing the AdSense Terms of Service come is the mention of 'no pornography'. If relatively innocuous pages like 'Has Two Mommies' is a technical violation of that in your eyes, I suggest you visit an optometrist.
The summary is 100% unedited my own words. I am nowhere implying that Google made that judgment, I mean exactly what I wrote: Google's withdrawal of advertising has led TV Tropes to self-censor.
Actually, they are. Censorship is the suppression or editing of information on moral or political grounds. Putting it behind a content warning may not be deleting it, but it takes a very narrow definition of censorship to say that this is not (self-)censorship.
Look closely at what you wrote: the primary impetus in regulation was the use of lubricant-fuel mixtures in two-strokes. The engines that solved that problem are a niche market today, as the majority was the old-fashioned design depending on mixed fuel.
Yeah, I've seen you comment on other subthreads. I agree, it's not quite a boxer in the more detailed description. I will make 2 reservations however:
As others have pointed out, it is indeed not revolutionary, it is in fact, like many 'innovations' in ICE design, old tech.
When I have just waded through a page of typical hype bullshit, I don't feel like inspecting the page to look for more technical details. Blame their marketing for generating the wrong idea.
I see a lot of buzzwords, but the few words with some real content in it makes it seem like this is just a two-stroke boxer engine.
More efficient? No shit Sherlock, that's always been the province of the two-stroke. The problem was how to keep the lubricants out of the combustion chamber so that it wouldn't be so damn polluting.
Libel and slander and serious threats and harassment are one thing.
How can you say this and defend this douchebag? It's plain harassment what he did, period. Just because it's posted on Internet forums does not make it any less harassment.
This has nothing to do with 'frea speach'. That's the same lame excuse spammers use. It doesn't fly for them, it bloody well should not fly for a low-life scumbag like this. Free speech is not a 'get out of jail free' card.
Minor correction, it wasn't Yamamoto in person, but the naval attaché who was on hand to witness the result of the British Swordfish strikes and immediately pass it on to his superiors in Tokyo, who passed it on to the guys planning Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese didn't wing it. They had the example of Taranto. In fact one of their officers was close by to witness that debacle, you may recognise his name: Yamamoto.
Every time high-speed rail or ubiquitious broadband comes up on Slashdot, we see all kinds of reasons put forward why it can't possibly work in the USA.
This attitude puzzles me. Instead of looking for ways to make things work, there seems to be a fatalistic streak in modern American culture that is in strong contrast to the 'can do' attitude that Americans seem to think embodies their culture.
At the risk of sounding flame-baiting: it sounds decadent to me, this looking for excuses not to excel.
In much of Europe [high-speed rail] isn't a problem, because the tracks were typically laid a long time ago and just need upgrading
Erm. No.
High speed rail, in the case of the TGV and ICE, requires special track. For sure the trains can run over normal track, but they won't go much faster than normal Intercity trains.
In the case of France it was a selling point that the TGV on high-speed track could cover popular routes such as Paris-Lyon at travel times comparable to planes, thus decreasing the load on local airports and the environment. This was one of the reasons why the Dutch government chose to have new track laid for the extension of the TGV network to Amsterdam; needlessly IMO, as extending to Rotterdam with new track and running over upgraded track for the remainder of the journey would have cost only a few minutes travel time, and a lot less money and disruption in the rural areas between Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
I don't know the situation in Germany, but I do seem to remember that the ICE runs over mostly upgraded existing track. Any Germans care to chime in?
You might try doing some research before spouting off.
Matthew 22:
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Note that there is no element of punishment in the first commandment, and that the second is indeed 'be nice to each other'. This is the whole of the law according to Christianity's primary spiritual text.
Here's a concept for you that you might find shocking: due diligence.
Why the fuck are you shilling for BP like this? They hide behind contractors they hired in the first place. Since when does that mean they get to freely wash their hands of their underlings' actions?
Because the market will be flooded with cheap copies that are nowhere near the original product. This has happened, with the Danish dairy industry producing mock feta made from cow's milk.
And no, you cannot expect the market to correct for this kind of behaviour. It's a studied economic principle that this will happen, to the detriment of the consumer. Look up "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" for the prize-winning study in this field.
Eh no. Most feta sold before the EU started enforcing PDO regulations was nowhere near the product that feta should be. It was a Danish white cheese made from cow's milk, which is definitely not feta as it should be. As for the leavings scraped from the packaging machines that were sold as parmesan, that is an even more egregious piece of false advertising.
Champagne often uses a lot of grapes that you'd otherwise not make good wine from.
I beg your pardon?
The primary three varietals used are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier. These are all three used in lots of other wines.
Yes, there are six minor varietals which are allowed to be used according to INAO rules, but these are not used enough to deserve the 'often' qualifier in your statement.
And who would not license JAVA to MSFT, so that MSFT had to create their own language(s)? That's right-SUN.
I see this is the new party line? This particular bit of revisionism has been especially virulent since the Oracle/Google brouhaha started.
Here's the deal how it really went down: Microsoft killed Java on the Windows platform. They did it by licensing Java from Sun, and then putting Windows extensions in the public namespace, violating their license. And since the license was (among other things) for use of the trademark Java, Sun had no other recourse but to sue.
Yes, I remember Hans Reiser. Many here said that the proof was circumstantial, even if it did look suspicious. Most were insisting that Hans was innocent until proven guilty in court, as it should be.
It's not equivalent. The state has an obligation to treat similar cases similarly. Equal Protection and Due Process and all that, you know. Therefore pointing out that Childs' sentence is way out of line with sentences handed out in similar cases is a a compelling argument that his punishment was, in fact, unfair.
Dude, what moronic calculators do you guys use in school? The standard here is for proper calculators, and they evaluate precedence correctly. I just tested it on a TI-31. which is an approved model for pre-university high-school education here in the Netherlands. I have no doubt that the most common model used (the Casio FX-82) would do just as well.
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Anything in the E-series, Nokia's business line.
You have the E6x and E7x series if you want a Blackberry-like form factor with a full keyboard, or if you just want a good phone, the E5x series in soap-bar form factor.
All run a recent version of Symbian, all are full smartphones, although the ones without a full keyboard are of course a bit less useful in that regard.
And make no mistake, running Symbian is an advantage. It is a clunky OS to write apps for, but it's a real embedded real-time OS dedicated to running phone hardware, not a stripped-down PC OS shoehorned into a smaller box. So Nokia phones are just plain good at their primary task: being a phone.
Mart (Nokia fanboy)
Of course, if you had read TFA, you'd have seen I scrupulously posted the TV Tropes' admins side of this incident.
That you are not getting Google's side of the story is the fault of strictly one party: Google, for not giving information to TV Tropes as to what is the exact violation.
Mart
I picked exactly of the mildest pages behind the warning to show the absurdity of the situation. I'd have no problem if the entire 'Porn Tropes' index landed behind the warning, but any discussion of human sexuality, or even a simple discussion of alternate family compositions in fiction? That just shows how utterly idiotic American neo-Puritanism has become.
Mart
Erm. The closest thing the AdSense Terms of Service come is the mention of 'no pornography'. If relatively innocuous pages like 'Has Two Mommies' is a technical violation of that in your eyes, I suggest you visit an optometrist.
Mart
The summary is 100% unedited my own words. I am nowhere implying that Google made that judgment, I mean exactly what I wrote: Google's withdrawal of advertising has led TV Tropes to self-censor.
Mart
Actually, they are. Censorship is the suppression or editing of information on moral or political grounds. Putting it behind a content warning may not be deleting it, but it takes a very narrow definition of censorship to say that this is not (self-)censorship.
Mart
You know, being a time-waster is not against the AdSense Terms of Service. Or can you point me to evidence to the contrary?
Mart
Look closely at what you wrote: the primary impetus in regulation was the use of lubricant-fuel mixtures in two-strokes. The engines that solved that problem are a niche market today, as the majority was the old-fashioned design depending on mixed fuel.
Mart
Yeah, I've seen you comment on other subthreads. I agree, it's not quite a boxer in the more detailed description. I will make 2 reservations however:
Mart
I see a lot of buzzwords, but the few words with some real content in it makes it seem like this is just a two-stroke boxer engine.
More efficient? No shit Sherlock, that's always been the province of the two-stroke. The problem was how to keep the lubricants out of the combustion chamber so that it wouldn't be so damn polluting.
Mart
How can you say this and defend this douchebag? It's plain harassment what he did, period. Just because it's posted on Internet forums does not make it any less harassment.
This has nothing to do with 'frea speach'. That's the same lame excuse spammers use. It doesn't fly for them, it bloody well should not fly for a low-life scumbag like this. Free speech is not a 'get out of jail free' card.
Mart
Oh really? During the World Cup, our local broadcaster offered live coverage of matches using Silverlight, but no way that that worked on Moonlight.
So no, it does not work ok.
Mart
Minor correction, it wasn't Yamamoto in person, but the naval attaché who was on hand to witness the result of the British Swordfish strikes and immediately pass it on to his superiors in Tokyo, who passed it on to the guys planning Pearl Harbor.
Mart
The Japanese didn't wing it. They had the example of Taranto. In fact one of their officers was close by to witness that debacle, you may recognise his name: Yamamoto.
Mart
Every time high-speed rail or ubiquitious broadband comes up on Slashdot, we see all kinds of reasons put forward why it can't possibly work in the USA.
This attitude puzzles me. Instead of looking for ways to make things work, there seems to be a fatalistic streak in modern American culture that is in strong contrast to the 'can do' attitude that Americans seem to think embodies their culture.
At the risk of sounding flame-baiting: it sounds decadent to me, this looking for excuses not to excel.
Mart
Erm. No.
High speed rail, in the case of the TGV and ICE, requires special track. For sure the trains can run over normal track, but they won't go much faster than normal Intercity trains.
In the case of France it was a selling point that the TGV on high-speed track could cover popular routes such as Paris-Lyon at travel times comparable to planes, thus decreasing the load on local airports and the environment. This was one of the reasons why the Dutch government chose to have new track laid for the extension of the TGV network to Amsterdam; needlessly IMO, as extending to Rotterdam with new track and running over upgraded track for the remainder of the journey would have cost only a few minutes travel time, and a lot less money and disruption in the rural areas between Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
I don't know the situation in Germany, but I do seem to remember that the ICE runs over mostly upgraded existing track. Any Germans care to chime in?
Mart
You might try doing some research before spouting off.
Matthew 22:
Note that there is no element of punishment in the first commandment, and that the second is indeed 'be nice to each other'. This is the whole of the law according to Christianity's primary spiritual text.
Mart
Here's a concept for you that you might find shocking: due diligence.
Why the fuck are you shilling for BP like this? They hide behind contractors they hired in the first place. Since when does that mean they get to freely wash their hands of their underlings' actions?
Mart
Because the market will be flooded with cheap copies that are nowhere near the original product. This has happened, with the Danish dairy industry producing mock feta made from cow's milk.
And no, you cannot expect the market to correct for this kind of behaviour. It's a studied economic principle that this will happen, to the detriment of the consumer. Look up "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" for the prize-winning study in this field.
Mart
Eh no. Most feta sold before the EU started enforcing PDO regulations was nowhere near the product that feta should be. It was a Danish white cheese made from cow's milk, which is definitely not feta as it should be. As for the leavings scraped from the packaging machines that were sold as parmesan, that is an even more egregious piece of false advertising.
Mart
I beg your pardon?
The primary three varietals used are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier. These are all three used in lots of other wines.
Yes, there are six minor varietals which are allowed to be used according to INAO rules, but these are not used enough to deserve the 'often' qualifier in your statement.
Mart
I see this is the new party line? This particular bit of revisionism has been especially virulent since the Oracle/Google brouhaha started.
Here's the deal how it really went down: Microsoft killed Java on the Windows platform. They did it by licensing Java from Sun, and then putting Windows extensions in the public namespace, violating their license. And since the license was (among other things) for use of the trademark Java, Sun had no other recourse but to sue.
Mart
Yes, I remember Hans Reiser. Many here said that the proof was circumstantial, even if it did look suspicious. Most were insisting that Hans was innocent until proven guilty in court, as it should be.
Mart
It's not equivalent. The state has an obligation to treat similar cases similarly. Equal Protection and Due Process and all that, you know. Therefore pointing out that Childs' sentence is way out of line with sentences handed out in similar cases is a a compelling argument that his punishment was, in fact, unfair.
Mart
Dude, what moronic calculators do you guys use in school? The standard here is for proper calculators, and they evaluate precedence correctly. I just tested it on a TI-31. which is an approved model for pre-university high-school education here in the Netherlands. I have no doubt that the most common model used (the Casio FX-82) would do just as well.
Mart