Posts by Mike Taylor103 posts • joined Thursday 25th January 2007 10:54 GMT
Has to be audacity, doesn't it? On linux too, and it's ace.
Please. I know I love my N900 (now more-or-less) deceased, but I really really don't want to have to buy another anonymous slab. Yes please, interesting devices. Something that stands out and isn't another tedious, unimaginative mini-fondle-pad.
I can think of nothing more likely to get me throwing my credit card in the shop than this + meego. Oh well, this + meego + a real keyboard :-(
(Mine's the tear-stained one with the dead N900 in its pocket)
oh the horror! Clear memories of installing quark 2.11, then 2.12, then 2.12a, then 2.12b on multiple screens to pacify some passive aggressive boss
Hell yes. I am a coffee snob and (imho, of course), filtering or percolating are the kindest ways to go.
Yeah, i know they're not the same, I have a work BB too. If I really, really can't have (as you say) a hand-held computer, then something I can type fast on will have to do. But I am gutted, my poor phone shot out of my pocket, across three lanes, banged into a gutter - still working, but the screen has finally got seriously scratched and occasionally odd things happen :-(
I'm having to face up to replacing my beloved Nokia N900, and a decent keyboard is one of the critical aspects - and I'd much rather not buy into the Gooplex any more than I do already. I would go for a BB such as you describe without hesitation, esp when the new OS comes out.
Makes me want it more.
The politicization is not something publishers want. It's a major pain in the arse. And frequently stupid and wrong. It's dictated by school / education boards, which are often elected.
I hope they get a wiggle on, I can upgrade on Jan 6th and will stay with O2 if I can get one on a reasonable tariff.
Given the crap the MS got into with IE, funding an alternative browser - whilst still benefiting from it - is a very sensible strategy.
Where is this click of which you speak?
Enough, already. As bad as the BBC with their 'quotes'.
SURELY in the name of gods sake ITS not a FLAME!!!!!! EPIC FAIL ON SO MANY LEVELS no swaring no threats no EPIC LEVELS OF OTT WTF fanboi!
I've had to put in a support call a couple of times in three years. Last time I got through to the usual indian call centre. I said i was using ubuntu and expected the usual response. Instead I ended up having a really good conversation (that ultimately pinpointed the problem) with a young woman who knew more about linux than me. Maybe just lucky, but I was chuffed.
... the final paragraph about it running with linux and everything working - pretty much the most important thing you said, cheers. More like this please.
was that the last one you're proud of?
Can't say I agree with the politics of it, but it is thoughtful and thought provoking. Thank you.
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but I can't believe - to a jaw-dropping amount - how expensive those contracts are. It's bewildering. I pay £30 a month to use my N900 and I can't imagine ever using the stupid quantities of minutes and texts I get. Ditto the data, though since it usually connects wifi, it's not an issue. $82 / month. OMG.
You can buy phones that let you choose to run some software - flash being an example - you can buy phones that don't. Personally I like playing Flash games on Facebook, I need a physical keyboard and I like as much control as possible, so I bought a Nokia N900. Runs a form of Debian.
I don't understand how choice translates into hate or love, or why people get so wound up about these things. It doesn't say much about the objectivity of the readership, their ability to form opinions or their capability to have a technical discussion. Not that there's many erudite articles about technology on elreg.
Is that software (whether licenced or open or free) isn't the only cost, that network infrastructure is a very expensive part of building a company.
He's not making points about licence types, nor open vs proprietory scaling.
As the COO of Ubuntu Linux, I seriously doubt he's criticising Linux. Or being a MS shill.
Don't most modern phones have face detection already? I think your excellent idea is already possible!
I've tried doing pretty much anything to my N95 to make it drop a bar. Short of inserting it in a cow's jacksi. Doesn't drop a bar, never dropped a call either. And that is a smartphone.
I'd be interested in a series of articles on mobile chip architecture.
Libdem.
http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/about-the-council/councillors/
Maybe the asteroids we find on the ground started much bigger than 25m wide?
First ever, in many years of using ubuntu (and being command line averse).
1) Upgrading using software manager seemed to die. PC rebooted into 9.10, but froze with some white / black gobbledegook. Clean install from 9.10 worked fine. It's possible that the machine got turned off halfway through, kids looked a bit guilty. I'm going to give it a month before upgrading my production machine and laptops.
2) 9.10 machine only gives me 640 and 800 res monitor options when plugged into a monitor / keyboard switch. Is fine when not. This is a new, but weird problem.
Main complaint is that Ubuntu is fugly - fonts, colours especially - and means it's decidedly hard to swank about.
A minor factual point, but one worth making in the light of various "Nokia have lead", "massive user base" comments.
Nokia are the market leaders in smartphones by a considerable margin (in fact, by factors over Apple) and are (as reported in El Reg) destined to remain there for some years to come.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10/09/android_2012_gartner/
Mine's the one with the n95 in the pocket, but I'm no fanboi of anyone.
Does it have wings?
What does the windows button do?
Labeling that picture as NSFW has made me very angry indeed. In what absurdly repressed culture is that piece of art not suitable for anyone to look at? If my kids (6 and 9) can look at it and intelligently debate the story being told, I don't see who is likely to get their knickers in a twist over it.
Agh, I can barely express a coherent thought, but I'd love to know who that label is aimed at.
UFO crashes.
Alien autopsy.
Out pops our friend.
Old style sci-fi action ensues.
It'll have spec similar to $200 devices, but come at six times the price because it's thinner, shinier and got the right logo?
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48934
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
On a free, instead of a replacement phone.
And I rather like it. Not a replacement for a corporate outlook, but certainly for the papery thing that no-one keeps up to date. It is slightly odd that it doesn't produce an alert on the display, but we've already had one update since plugging it in, that may come. Which will be a must when the radio function arrives (then the kitchen radio will go)
Speakers are a little tinny, I have a pair I'll plug in some time. Connectivity is no problem whatsoever for us. Nice photo frame screen-saver. The kids - 8 and 6 - can use it without thinking about it. The touch-screen is excellent. It stores the weather location without any problem, btw, I've seen that down as a bug before.
There's a hacking project for it - http://hackthejoggler.blogspot.com/
It has a place in a busy family.
If you happen to find yourself covering apps for more extensive smartphones, then Fring is a damn fine app
But she should have settled for $3000-$5000 as was offered (according to the Ass. quotes in the Times):
"Cara Duckworth, for the RIAA, said that the industry remained willing to settle. She refused to name a figure, but acknowledged that Thomas-Rasset had been given the chance to settle for $3,000 to $5,000 earlier in the case. "Since day one we have been willing to settle this case and we remain willing to do so," Ms Duckworth said. "
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6534542.ece
Can we get vanity urls too, please?
Nice to read some insights into building a business around an operating system.
Seems core to El Reg too. Thanks.
They have an osprey webcam - http://www.swt.org.uk/ - but thing of the traffic a live beaver cam would get
Despite being registered on the site and getting periodic emails, Nokia haven't marketed Ovi at me at all. Just as well we're not limited to one store: I recommend Fring - chat and voip client for Nokia Symbian - as a first rate app
There definitely needs to be some noise added to them. I was overtaken by a TNT electric lorry the other day - I was on my bike. I nearly shat myself.
The Butts were places where archery was practised.
Perhaps your research needed to go beyond The Sun and Wikipedia.
http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/help/help.asp?code=BTThes/a/68831.htm
How about Wolvercote Village Hall - 150 capacity, several nice pubs just down the road - cheap as chips and 10 minutes from the city centre (on bus or bike).
http://www.charitiesdirect.com/charities/wolvercote-village-hall-304392.html
In imperial
http://www93.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+many+calories+are+there+in+a+pint+of+beer%3F
but not the number of joules in a litre
What it's doing is far more impressive than the results indicate
I believe a constant flow of tweets from a twat is a twatterblat.
I miss open season too. There's a place in the world (and on elreg!) for microbites, but it doesn't speak to my professional life like openseason did.
