If you're going to make up words like "squitting", make sure someone else hasn't used them first. Squitting is an activity often associated with a bad fish curry.
Then again, given the average Twitterer's output...
Hang a crap phone off the back of your computer, and send/receive SMS through it. That's relatively simple to do. Then, you can carry a phone that you actually like instead of one that's easy to develop for. And you get to boast that your house has a command-line interface.:)
It isn't that much harder to get your home PC to send you MMS, should you want to see what's going on.
My O2 XDA Stellar (which, I think, is an HTC Kaiser in disguise) is 320x240, and it's surprisingly usable. Sure, you might have to scroll right to get past the page menu, but for the most part the content is usable - certainly enough for most things I want to read on the move. (Two notable exceptions are anything PHPBB-based and Slashdot.) Being able to use it in landscape mode definitely helps. Really, though, in terms of limitations, IE Mobile's lack of meaningful Javascript support (just enough to ignore the NOSCRIPT content and sit there with its thumb up its arse, usually) is a much bigger issue than the small screen.
(BTW, if anyone knows how I can banish Windows Mobile from this thing and still have it sync with Outlook, I'm all ears.)
I've got Bluetooth, 3G, and a full QWERTY keyboard. I've had this phone for six months, and had the T-Mobile MDA Vario II (same thing minus the GPS) for 18 months prior to that. So I'm wondering what's so amazing about this gadget that it's made the front page of Slashdot. Meh.
What if you're a passenger in a car? Even if they could pinpoint the location with GPS's limitation, how do they know you're the driver?
Well, it's really really accurate GPS and it can tell which half of the lane you're in. Straddle the white line and it'll think you're a passenger in the next lane over. Just don't try this on single-carriageway roads;)
You cannot circumvent protection to gain "access" to a work, but you can circumvent protection for "use" of a work provided you gained access (i.e. purchased the work) legally.
So if I rent a DVD, which should mean I'm legally entitled to gain access to it, and ripping it to hard disk qualifies as "use", I'm allowed to rip it to hard disk? I'm confused. (And not in the USA anyway, just amused and interested at this mess of a law.)
My boss is quite insistent that we ensure any third-party stuff is going to be supported. For open-source, this means basically ensuring that there's at least a small number of active developers, an issue tracker without dozens of serious open issues, etc. It's due diligence, really, and something you really should do yourself if you're going to rely on something from outside; I'm not sure that relying on someone else's rating would be a sensible way to go. (And can you imagine the first "but you said they wouldn't collapse!" lawsuit?)
In the closed-source commercial case, there isn't much you can do beyond buy big and hope, I guess.
Exactly. I have two friends in the US. One, I can send SMS to her but she can't send back. The other, we can send SMS both ways but MMS only works from her to me - on my old phone with a different network, MMS also worked both ways.
Now, is it the UK or the US that has this repressive Great Firewall? I forget.
I'm quite sure that this has more to do with differing roaming agreements between operators than with some sinister tinfoil-hat plot to crush teh t3xtz0rz. Some people on here really need to grow up. The OP would do better to ask their mobile operator than Slashdot.
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Not in the slightest - your country sucks just as much as mine :)
What a delightfully US-centric viewpoint...
If you're going to make up words like "squitting", make sure someone else hasn't used them first. Squitting is an activity often associated with a bad fish curry.
Then again, given the average Twitterer's output...
why would you want to hire someone comfortable in a box?
Because otherwise your shiny new office brothel would go to waste? *ducks*
Bargain!
Sincerely,
Osama
Hang a crap phone off the back of your computer, and send/receive SMS through it. That's relatively simple to do. Then, you can carry a phone that you actually like instead of one that's easy to develop for. And you get to boast that your house has a command-line interface. :)
It isn't that much harder to get your home PC to send you MMS, should you want to see what's going on.
Is that official /. editorial policy?
Will whoever pue'd 'is pants kindly go and change? Thanks.
My O2 XDA Stellar (which, I think, is an HTC Kaiser in disguise) is 320x240, and it's surprisingly usable. Sure, you might have to scroll right to get past the page menu, but for the most part the content is usable - certainly enough for most things I want to read on the move. (Two notable exceptions are anything PHPBB-based and Slashdot.) Being able to use it in landscape mode definitely helps. Really, though, in terms of limitations, IE Mobile's lack of meaningful Javascript support (just enough to ignore the NOSCRIPT content and sit there with its thumb up its arse, usually) is a much bigger issue than the small screen.
(BTW, if anyone knows how I can banish Windows Mobile from this thing and still have it sync with Outlook, I'm all ears.)
I've got Bluetooth, 3G, and a full QWERTY keyboard. I've had this phone for six months, and had the T-Mobile MDA Vario II (same thing minus the GPS) for 18 months prior to that. So I'm wondering what's so amazing about this gadget that it's made the front page of Slashdot. Meh.
Is it true that BNFL stands for Better Not Leak?
And in your sig,
"Cute single girls at GCHQ - you know where to find me."
Turn it up to 11!
What if you're a passenger in a car? Even if they could pinpoint the location with GPS's limitation, how do they know you're the driver?
Well, it's really really accurate GPS and it can tell which half of the lane you're in. Straddle the white line and it'll think you're a passenger in the next lane over. Just don't try this on single-carriageway roads ;)
driving less will do wonders for your gas consumption
Indeed. Strictly speaking, it's not the miles-per-gallon but the gallons-per-month that you feel in your pocket.
You cannot circumvent protection to gain "access" to a work, but you can circumvent protection for "use" of a work provided you gained access (i.e. purchased the work) legally.
So if I rent a DVD, which should mean I'm legally entitled to gain access to it, and ripping it to hard disk qualifies as "use", I'm allowed to rip it to hard disk? I'm confused. (And not in the USA anyway, just amused and interested at this mess of a law.)
...play a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War?
If your timebomb has no wait, you're doing it wrong...
My boss is quite insistent that we ensure any third-party stuff is going to be supported. For open-source, this means basically ensuring that there's at least a small number of active developers, an issue tracker without dozens of serious open issues, etc. It's due diligence, really, and something you really should do yourself if you're going to rely on something from outside; I'm not sure that relying on someone else's rating would be a sensible way to go. (And can you imagine the first "but you said they wouldn't collapse!" lawsuit?)
In the closed-source commercial case, there isn't much you can do beyond buy big and hope, I guess.
James May, is that you?
Exactly. I have two friends in the US. One, I can send SMS to her but she can't send back. The other, we can send SMS both ways but MMS only works from her to me - on my old phone with a different network, MMS also worked both ways. Now, is it the UK or the US that has this repressive Great Firewall? I forget. I'm quite sure that this has more to do with differing roaming agreements between operators than with some sinister tinfoil-hat plot to crush teh t3xtz0rz. Some people on here really need to grow up. The OP would do better to ask their mobile operator than Slashdot.
If I was lost, and came across a cow, I wouldn't use it for directions...
I hope you'd wipe it off instead...
i mis-read title... as netherlands... (Score:0, Flamebait)
OK, who gave the Dutchman mod points?!
It breaks my heart when I have to tell a penetration tester that he's mistyped "penetration". ;)
Crashed Firefox (3).
Twice.
I've found that the CURTAINS.TXT convention works pretty well in meatspace.
Meat curtains, eh?