Well, I guess it might work out better if they want to build new ones...
(though realistically, probably pipe dreams anyway (nothing particularly new?), again / better to use the tech in most efficient way and place - an existing land, for example)
Not really true; at least some time ago it wasn't hard to find, in many CIS & generally former Warsaw Pact places, laptops (also from very big manufacturers) without OS (or with useless "DOS2000", or similarly useless Linux LiveDVD without drivers for the machine)
He just has genetics, gut bacteria, etc. suitable for losing weight.
But we must not forget many people around us, in which those factors(*) cause them to be a thermodynamic perpetuum mobile. Major concentrations of them in just few places around the world certainly suggest genetic factors.
Personally I think once someone decides to break into your home, you have every right to bludgeon him to death with a crow bar
Plus, if we make a honest mistake or if we really (and justifiably!) consider someone to be an antisocial element, how the now-body was breaking in will mean a lot less trouble for all the good folks.
Improving the snippets of website text, shown in normal results, would be much more useful than this visual, well, gimmick.
Easy too - simply by allowing more text to be shown (technically easy at least, because I guess we would get more "Google is stealing from us!" a'la Murdoch)
PS. Option of bigger (say, two to three line, configurable) snippets would be useful in Slashdot D2, too.
Yes, that is what pundits marvelled with their newfound smartphones (by no means worse, typically better, sure), in few places where Nokia virtually didn't exist in the first place, would like you to believe. Or where people can afford "hotness"...
Look at what people actually use and buy, what they choose worldwide(quite a lot of recent Nokia phones there, mostly S40 which this was about), also "lesser" people in "lesser" places.
But hey, maybe I'm imagining those stats too, just like what I hear about reasons for preference of Nokia over most top players... (though it's not the case anymore vs. Samsung Touchwiz and LG touch UI, in LG Cookie-like phones - those are hot handsets, responsible for losses in marketshare of Nokia, not iOS or Android ones)
Pre-2003 there were hardly any Nokia smartphones to speak of in the first place, certainly nothing mainstream.
And you know what, in most places I'm familiar with, people generally tend to like Nokia phones - because they are easy to use (when it comes to S30 legacy and S40 lineage, what would form the bulk of sales during the last decade; and being familiar with them makes S60 decent BTW, since it carried over many UI concepts...even if its complexity outgrew them) No, there appeared to be some amount of Nokia not giving some carriers what they wanted - "sexy" phones with horrible custom carrier UI; the latter was probably the largest point of contention (and Nokia does prefer giving features; which wouldn't become a point of contention "pre-2003" - phones were still very basic at the turn of millennium, remember?)
"iPods sold" a bit similar, many of them are no longer in service.
But I guess you'd be still surprised. From where I live (a decently prosperous late EU memberstate) - not only I can probably count the number of iPods I've seen on the fingers of one hand (excluding my iPod of course) - the standard mp3 player was something like chinese S1 devices. Now most portable music listening seems to happen from mobile phones, and typically so called "feature phones" (also touchscreens though, like Samsung Touchwiz or LG Cookie-like phones). And that's by no means a unique situation.
But this is also about smartphone market, about expanding it to lower price segments. Yes, look at the trends - for example at "annual increase in the number of Symbian handsets shipped" ("percentage of growth" is deceiving when one player has a big share already...)
70% (was it ever that high?) to 40% to 35% happens when that's only a small part of total market, a percentage of percentage; and when growth of that part finally happens in places which were previously fed with locked-down RAZRs/etc. by carriers (shunting Nokia)
How large is development community around Android kernel and libraries, anyway? (opensourcing Symbian supposedly was a response to it...) I've heard there's some amount of NIH Syndrome, etc.
They only said that N-series will go with Meego from now on, it leaves plenty of space for Symbian (and devices with the latter exploit the somewhat more frugal hardware requirements, so a port of Meego is not feasible; though "no more S^4" apparently means its features will be gradually brought, via updates, to S^3...)
It's about functionality available, not the number of apps (how many single e-books, radiostations, audiobooks or website(!s) UIs packaged as a single app do you need, instead of universal apps accessing those formats?)
And so far Symbian is the furthest in consumer market...
You miss the modus operandi of Nokia. They offer wide range of devices, starting from $20 (without contract!) S30 ones, via S40, Symbian, and now Meego. Each category made affordable to greater number of people, over time. "Slim chance of succeeding" is a misunderstanding.
"iPod is the only one that matters" is telling - you don't see how that's appears to be so only in very few atypical places (BTW, for a long time Nokia alone sells more music capable phones annually than the total number of iPods ever produced). Similar with "domination" of iPhone...
Negative? When not presented as "percentage of growth" (deceiving if one player is much closer to the absolute limit "total number of mobile phones sold"), but as "annual growth in number of units shipped" - it's a top player.
And will continue to be big, if only because of being pushed into lower market segments (what happened to S30, which is still around, and S40, which is still around - in fact, is the most popular phone platform on the planet)
How does that contradict what I said?...and, in many others, "the media" are a reflection of what people expect, what they crave, etc. Yes, really. Don't participate in collective responsibility dodging by blaming it on "them"...
Slashdot Mirror
And even at the landing site, tsunamis are not typically walls of water, too.
Freak waves otoh...
Well, I guess it might work out better if they want to build new ones...
(though realistically, probably pipe dreams anyway (nothing particularly new?), again / better to use the tech in most efficient way and place - an existing land, for example)
Not really true; at least some time ago it wasn't hard to find, in many CIS & generally former Warsaw Pact places, laptops (also from very big manufacturers) without OS (or with useless "DOS2000", or similarly useless Linux LiveDVD without drivers for the machine)
Yes, they were less expensive.
Honestly, you need only 4. And next 4, in another tweet. And again. And...
He just has genetics, gut bacteria, etc. suitable for losing weight.
But we must not forget many people around us, in which those factors(*) cause them to be a thermodynamic perpetuum mobile. Major concentrations of them in just few places around the world certainly suggest genetic factors.
Sounds fine, as long as galleons will lose the ability to sink nuclear submarines.
Personally I think once someone decides to break into your home, you have every right to bludgeon him to death with a crow bar
Plus, if we make a honest mistake or if we really (and justifiably!) consider someone to be an antisocial element, how the now-body was breaking in will mean a lot less trouble for all the good folks.
Improving the snippets of website text, shown in normal results, would be much more useful than this visual, well, gimmick.
Easy too - simply by allowing more text to be shown (technically easy at least, because I guess we would get more "Google is stealing from us!" a'la Murdoch)
PS. Option of bigger (say, two to three line, configurable) snippets would be useful in Slashdot D2, too.
Seriously, with good reasons. Apparently the UK leads in promiscuity
Yes, that is what pundits marvelled with their newfound smartphones (by no means worse, typically better, sure), in few places where Nokia virtually didn't exist in the first place, would like you to believe. Or where people can afford "hotness"...
Look at what people actually use and buy, what they choose worldwide(quite a lot of recent Nokia phones there, mostly S40 which this was about), also "lesser" people in "lesser" places.
But hey, maybe I'm imagining those stats too, just like what I hear about reasons for preference of Nokia over most top players... (though it's not the case anymore vs. Samsung Touchwiz and LG touch UI, in LG Cookie-like phones - those are hot handsets, responsible for losses in marketshare of Nokia, not iOS or Android ones)
Pre-2003 there were hardly any Nokia smartphones to speak of in the first place, certainly nothing mainstream.
And you know what, in most places I'm familiar with, people generally tend to like Nokia phones - because they are easy to use (when it comes to S30 legacy and S40 lineage, what would form the bulk of sales during the last decade; and being familiar with them makes S60 decent BTW, since it carried over many UI concepts...even if its complexity outgrew them)
No, there appeared to be some amount of Nokia not giving some carriers what they wanted - "sexy" phones with horrible custom carrier UI; the latter was probably the largest point of contention (and Nokia does prefer giving features; which wouldn't become a point of contention "pre-2003" - phones were still very basic at the turn of millennium, remember?)
"iPods sold" a bit similar, many of them are no longer in service.
But I guess you'd be still surprised. From where I live (a decently prosperous late EU memberstate) - not only I can probably count the number of iPods I've seen on the fingers of one hand (excluding my iPod of course) - the standard mp3 player was something like chinese S1 devices.
Now most portable music listening seems to happen from mobile phones, and typically so called "feature phones" (also touchscreens though, like Samsung Touchwiz or LG Cookie-like phones). And that's by no means a unique situation.
The parent was talking about reasonable choices of non-Nokia companies...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOAP
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/12268_11_Symbian_phones_announced_by.php (also those are S^2, not MOAP, S60 lineage after all)
But this is also about smartphone market, about expanding it to lower price segments. Yes, look at the trends - for example at "annual increase in the number of Symbian handsets shipped" ("percentage of growth" is deceiving when one player has a big share already...)
70% (was it ever that high?) to 40% to 35% happens when that's only a small part of total market, a percentage of percentage; and when growth of that part finally happens in places which were previously fed with locked-down RAZRs/etc. by carriers (shunting Nokia)
How large is development community around Android kernel and libraries, anyway? (opensourcing Symbian supposedly was a response to it...) I've heard there's some amount of NIH Syndrome, etc.
They only said that N-series will go with Meego from now on, it leaves plenty of space for Symbian (and devices with the latter exploit the somewhat more frugal hardware requirements, so a port of Meego is not feasible; though "no more S^4" apparently means its features will be gradually brought, via updates, to S^3...)
Well, Japanese seem to also think it's a reasonable choice (though their flavor is not part of S60 lineage of course)
And a few dozens of millions of phones are already there - Qt SDK supports Symbian versions which are hitting 4 years now.
It's about functionality available, not the number of apps (how many single e-books, radiostations, audiobooks or website(!s) UIs packaged as a single app do you need, instead of universal apps accessing those formats?)
And so far Symbian is the furthest in consumer market...
You miss the modus operandi of Nokia. They offer wide range of devices, starting from $20 (without contract!) S30 ones, via S40, Symbian, and now Meego. Each category made affordable to greater number of people, over time. "Slim chance of succeeding" is a misunderstanding.
"iPod is the only one that matters" is telling - you don't see how that's appears to be so only in very few atypical places (BTW, for a long time Nokia alone sells more music capable phones annually than the total number of iPods ever produced). Similar with "domination" of iPhone...
Negative? When not presented as "percentage of growth" (deceiving if one player is much closer to the absolute limit "total number of mobile phones sold"), but as "annual growth in number of units shipped" - it's a top player.
And will continue to be big, if only because of being pushed into lower market segments (what happened to S30, which is still around, and S40, which is still around - in fact, is the most popular phone platform on the planet)
How does that contradict what I said? ...and, in many others, "the media" are a reflection of what people expect, what they crave, etc. Yes, really. Don't participate in collective responsibility dodging by blaming it on "them"...
It's not like most of the people going for Coke/Pepsi don't vote their conscience...
Plus it's not water; Crystal Pepsi or Tab Clear, at best.
It works bot ways - "the media" simply give people what they expect, what they want, what they are most comfortable with.
Not merely "governments" intimidate voters, those are also / largely...other voters, essentially.