Raw news is valueless today. There's little advantage to being the first to break it when the other outlets can be echoing your story in minutes. It's as fungible as water. Commentary is brandable, and unique, and protectable though. That's where the value is.
It only recently turned a profit, IIRC. I'm not sure how you can value a project that only recently got into the black, at $315m. Maybe it's the HuffPo's advertising gross, although if it was that high I would've expected it to go into profit long ago. Maybe it's their anticipated ad gross based on projections into the near future. Maybe the intangable value of a zeitgeisty outlet is factored in somewhere.
Setting your argument aside for a moment - it's interesting - I can't believe you linked to the HuffPo on a vaccine topic. It's like linking to Answers in Genesis on evolution. It's a cauldron of cranks on that topic.
The restrictions placed on the licence when it is described in 11.1 also apply when the same licence is mentioned in 11.2. Whatever generality you may read into the clause in isolation does not trump the restrictions placed upon that clause by the rest of the document, unless the document says as much.
Maemo's still very much alive. They've not released anything with it in years because the Nokia-Intel partnership is comically mismanaged, but it's under constant development with new hardware perpetually six months away.
If they were using the data to create a Satnav product, yes. Otherwise, no. There's a pretty obvious difference between having a correlation between your data and someone else's data, and having an exact duplicate of a direct competitor's data in your competing product.
He used lots of little mirrors scrounged from an old disco ball. That's probably easier than trying to get a good, smooth reflective sheet on a parabolic surface. All you need is glue and patience.
Might depend on how data's billed. Some providers round up to the nearest whatever, and if that whatever is 10kb I could see the occasional 1kb push service handshake message, or something, causing a lot of data usage.
It's like robots.txt*. People are entitled to ignore it, but they will reap the consequences if they do. Whether adoption of this flag is as heroic will say a lot about the maturity of the web.
*Appropriate, really. Used to be you'd make a site and decide how much you wanted to share with spiders using robots.txt. Now you make a Facebook profile and decide how much you want to share with advertisers similarly.
They do different things. Privacy browsing gives you a new, clean session that's trashed (with temp files, cookies, etc.) when you exit. Do-not-track tells sites they should not be tracking your activity, without affecting your session's permanence. In some situations you'd want neither, either, or both.
I left this thought half-finished. I was going to say that I suspect that Nokia's cachet with the general public might have evaporated during the smartphone transition, before they get any Android devices out there. Certainly they're too heavily involved in MeeGo right now to abandon that platform, and it's a good year or so from arrival.
Trouble is, Nokia's smartphone platform isn't nearly as friendly as their basic phone platform, and there's a big shift toward smartphones right now. It doesn't help that Nokia's budget range is based on Symbian^1, which is just dire.
That said, the extreme profit margin's not coming from users, as near as I can tell. The on-contract and SIM-free price of the iPhone is at a parity with smartphones from rival vendors. The advantage is either at the manufacturing end, or in the wholesale price they charge the networks.
What the heck version of Symbian were you using that was "form over function"? It's form and function's slowly cooling corpses under a bridge. It's not exactly a looker, and it's a constant mental challenge to figure out how to do things. Their push from S40 (which was at least straightfoward) to S60 5th probably explains recent alienation of their user base. It's just not something that Nokia's normal customers will be able to get to grips with.
(FWIW I was a reasonably content S60 3rd Edition user, given the great flexibility of the system, but the bugs and inconsistencies and general misbehavior drove me away.)
Their touchscreen phones, perhaps, but I wouldn't say their smartphone offerings as a whole have been weak. The N95 was an incredibly influential device in that brief window before everyone realised there was more to life than T9 keypads.
Nokia Series 40 isn't Symbian. And it's not a platform, as far as development goes. It can run JavaME apps, so I guess you could say that it sales count toward Java's considerable share of the mobile phone business.
Series 60 was a Nokia platform that was based on Symbian, which explains your confusion.
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Raw news is valueless today. There's little advantage to being the first to break it when the other outlets can be echoing your story in minutes. It's as fungible as water. Commentary is brandable, and unique, and protectable though. That's where the value is.
I imagine that is why he wrote "Disney Animation" and not "Disney".
It only recently turned a profit, IIRC. I'm not sure how you can value a project that only recently got into the black, at $315m. Maybe it's the HuffPo's advertising gross, although if it was that high I would've expected it to go into profit long ago. Maybe it's their anticipated ad gross based on projections into the near future. Maybe the intangable value of a zeitgeisty outlet is factored in somewhere.
Setting your argument aside for a moment - it's interesting - I can't believe you linked to the HuffPo on a vaccine topic. It's like linking to Answers in Genesis on evolution. It's a cauldron of cranks on that topic.
The restrictions placed on the licence when it is described in 11.1 also apply when the same licence is mentioned in 11.2. Whatever generality you may read into the clause in isolation does not trump the restrictions placed upon that clause by the rest of the document, unless the document says as much.
Yeah, silly them using the internet for one of the things the internet was intended for.
Misread, thought you said Meego, didn't hit Cancel in time.
Maemo's still very much alive. They've not released anything with it in years because the Nokia-Intel partnership is comically mismanaged, but it's under constant development with new hardware perpetually six months away.
If they were using the data to create a Satnav product, yes. Otherwise, no. There's a pretty obvious difference between having a correlation between your data and someone else's data, and having an exact duplicate of a direct competitor's data in your competing product.
I see from your signature that you didn't really get out of that phase. ;)
He used lots of little mirrors scrounged from an old disco ball. That's probably easier than trying to get a good, smooth reflective sheet on a parabolic surface. All you need is glue and patience.
Intensity.
Might depend on how data's billed. Some providers round up to the nearest whatever, and if that whatever is 10kb I could see the occasional 1kb push service handshake message, or something, causing a lot of data usage.
It's like robots.txt*. People are entitled to ignore it, but they will reap the consequences if they do. Whether adoption of this flag is as heroic will say a lot about the maturity of the web.
*Appropriate, really. Used to be you'd make a site and decide how much you wanted to share with spiders using robots.txt. Now you make a Facebook profile and decide how much you want to share with advertisers similarly.
They do different things. Privacy browsing gives you a new, clean session that's trashed (with temp files, cookies, etc.) when you exit. Do-not-track tells sites they should not be tracking your activity, without affecting your session's permanence. In some situations you'd want neither, either, or both.
You mean, the America syndrome.
The punchline is that Windows Mobile 6 is currently outselling Windows Phone 7. What an embarrasment.
I left this thought half-finished. I was going to say that I suspect that Nokia's cachet with the general public might have evaporated during the smartphone transition, before they get any Android devices out there. Certainly they're too heavily involved in MeeGo right now to abandon that platform, and it's a good year or so from arrival.
Actually smartphones are now about 25% of total worldwide phone sales (source) and climbing.
Galaxy S RRP in Germany: €650
iPhone 4 RRP in German: €630
Galaxy S RRP in UK: £480
iPhone 4 RRP in UK: £510
You can get some handsets (Desire, N900) a lot cheaper now because they're old, but if we're going to play that game I could point to the iPhone 3GS.
Trouble is, Nokia's smartphone platform isn't nearly as friendly as their basic phone platform, and there's a big shift toward smartphones right now. It doesn't help that Nokia's budget range is based on Symbian^1, which is just dire.
Who said it was a positive?
That said, the extreme profit margin's not coming from users, as near as I can tell. The on-contract and SIM-free price of the iPhone is at a parity with smartphones from rival vendors. The advantage is either at the manufacturing end, or in the wholesale price they charge the networks.
What the heck version of Symbian were you using that was "form over function"? It's form and function's slowly cooling corpses under a bridge. It's not exactly a looker, and it's a constant mental challenge to figure out how to do things. Their push from S40 (which was at least straightfoward) to S60 5th probably explains recent alienation of their user base. It's just not something that Nokia's normal customers will be able to get to grips with.
(FWIW I was a reasonably content S60 3rd Edition user, given the great flexibility of the system, but the bugs and inconsistencies and general misbehavior drove me away.)
Their touchscreen phones, perhaps, but I wouldn't say their smartphone offerings as a whole have been weak. The N95 was an incredibly influential device in that brief window before everyone realised there was more to life than T9 keypads.
Nokia Series 40 isn't Symbian. And it's not a platform, as far as development goes. It can run JavaME apps, so I guess you could say that it sales count toward Java's considerable share of the mobile phone business.
Series 60 was a Nokia platform that was based on Symbian, which explains your confusion.