Same here, I agree with you. Polyphone tones is all I want, too. Not to play retarded music from my phone (god I could kill them when I hear it on the train) but to have a nice soft beep/bell like tone that gets louder. I'm stuck on a T68i from ericcsson right now. DO NOT BUY! BEWARE! Besides the UI being crap (I couldnt describe it without using many ugly words), DEAD SLOW (~1s delay when entering characters!!) it also crashes regularly in a very nice way; it will still display the reception bars, I can still navigate the menus, but when I want to make a call, or when someone tries to call me, it just doesnt work. Until I take out the battery and put it back in. Incoming callers will just think I'm not picking up. Great, just what I want from my cellphone!
Back to the point: The ericcsson ringtones are the worst I have ever heard from a phone. When you're at a phone shop the next time and bored, get one and just play through the "tunes". When you're done you will be deaf. I guess that's intentional because then it won't bother you anymore that there is no accoustic sms notification. I'm not kidding you. You can select "off" or "click". Yes. "Click" is a single click-sound, about half a second duration. Impossible to notice an incoming message unless you carry the phone around your neck or have it lying next to your head...
Okay, enough///-bashing. I know people going through similar agony with their so-called "high-end" devices (P900). So, if you consider an///-phone, please do yourself a favor and try it out for at least a week or two before buying it. Otherwise you'll most likely regret it, very bad. I think the newer ones have polyphone ringtones, but as I was told the software is the same crap (and worse) as usual.
And to make this post complete, here comes my dream-phone:
Small (nokia 8210 size)
No camera
Polyphone ringers
Endless standby-/talk-time (give me a b/w-display if you have to, I dont care for colors, have them on my t68i and realized... WHAT FOR?)
A good phonebook with a GOOD UI. This means take what nokia/siemens do and improve it. Dont even bother to look at what the clueless///-guys make. I don't know about samsung but I guess they're not worth a look either.
Generally a good UI. Nokia comes close. Siemens also has shown some clue (customizable soft-keys). Put your money there and not into f**ing cameras or 5 color lcds plus one on the inside of the battery-cover.
The UI gotta be fast and responsive. After dealing with the t68i for a while I cannot stress this painfully obvious point enough...
I really hope nokia will go back to the 8210 design (not 8310 please, the software was buggy as hell, and some blacksuit decided to put a RADIO (yes..) in...).
The 8210 was the best phone I ever owned and I regret giving up on it for the crap68i that I'm stuck with now.
I'm gonna purchase a new phone soon and after evaluating the current offers I seriously consider to go for a 8210 again.
There seems to be no single phone with a sane design on the market right now, if anyone knows one, please let me know!
They all have cameras, weight, crappy displays (because its gotta be color but it must not be expensive, ofcourse), slow and buggy software and an amazing amount of useless, half-baked organizers, calendars, crappy games and other stuff that simply doesn't work if you want to use it for anything serious.
Btw, on a sidenote, my friend has the nokia 9210 (or something, the big brick with the keyboard) and he regrets spending all the money. Often when I call him the first thing I hear is him complaining about my name not showing up on the display because the software has crashed, yet again...
Phew, that was a lot of rant. But I guess there are a lot of people around here who know exactly what I'm talking about.;-)
Isn't that what analysts are for? To tell us things (wrapped up in shiny powerpoint slides) that anyone with half a brain and a calculator could figure out alone?
Well, as said, I want a clipboard that does not go away when I select a piece of text with my mouse anywhere.
That's my one and only concern. Too often have I copied an E-Mail address somewhere (and closed the window afterwards) only to figure out that the middle click in the destination window either gives me nothing (dont ask me why, happens frequently) or some completely unrelated text that I clickrolled over by accident while shuffling windows around...
What does it cost me to file/participate in such a lawsuit? I'd support the goal unless it costs a lot of my money or time. (I, as many others, don't like SCO but can't afford to dedicate my life on it...)
Every time a technical achievement like this one is made people start talking about the military uses. Too bad the major technology-driver still is the desire to kill each other more effectively...
Slashdot, as usual, is thinking decades ahead. And, as usual, it's pretty interesting.
I agree in the long run we will probably see things like a "live paper"-map.
But just for now I'd already be excited to see a PDA with rollable display. Does anyone know how much space the remaining electronics occupy?
Maybe PDAs go back to wristwratch formfactor (with "pull out"-screen) one day using this tech. Add a laser-projected keyboard and watch out for the guys who made futurama to claim prior art.;)
Okay, I hear you. I didn't mean to bash X as a whole, sorry if it sounded like that. But still I must stick to my point: As the applications have failed to offer proper copy/paste for years, shouldn't we (they) consider building that functionality into the X-server with little or no application support now?
I haven't tried the latest KDE and Gnome versions but I haven't heard any rumors about this issue being finally fixed there either. So I assume the problem is still present, even in the latest "userfriendly"-distros (Xandros et al).
If there is some library call in xlib (or elsewhere) available that can be used to insert text at current focus position I could probably fix it at least for myself with a tiny 5-liner 'pastekludge.c'. Does anyone have any hints regarding that?
I'm still thinking about what I proposed in an earlier post: bind ALT-C to 'xclip -o >~/.clipboard' and bind ALT-V to 'pastekludge <~/.clipboard'
Slashdot Mirror
Hell yea, I've just installed this button-merit-badge. Keep your visitors up-to-date. Thank you! :)
Let's call it nemo (nemozilla if you have to) and be done with.
How about Mozilla Browser and Mozilla Mail?
Yes, I confess, I'm simple minded...
Remember, back in the days when everybody was using "netscape"?
Those were the days...
Among the target audience you just say "check your mail, me send you the .psd". ;)
reasons:
Maybe this gets modded flaimbait but I'd like to read others opinions.
Back in my day only the lineage of "COWBOY NEAL!!!", "In Soviet Russia..." and "???, Profit!!" were funny.
Not these stupid-copycat posts that contain nothing but a blatant remix of other peoples carefully crafted posts!
I'll just get the white earphones then. Saves me a lot of money and I can still get..*cough*..talking point!
Didn't apple patent the scrollwheel?
They should really have attacked SCO and Mikerowesoft for some more positive feedback here on slashdot. ;-)
Polyphone tones is all I want, too. Not to play retarded music from my phone (god I could kill them when I hear it on the train) but to have a nice soft beep/bell like tone that gets louder. I'm stuck on a T68i from ericcsson right now. DO NOT BUY! BEWARE! Besides the UI being crap (I couldnt describe it without using many ugly words), DEAD SLOW (~1s delay when entering characters!!) it also crashes regularly in a very nice way; it will still display the reception bars, I can still navigate the menus, but when I want to make a call, or when someone tries to call me, it just doesnt work. Until I take out the battery and put it back in. Incoming callers will just think I'm not picking up. Great, just what I want from my cellphone!
Back to the point: The ericcsson ringtones are the worst I have ever heard from a phone. When you're at a phone shop the next time and bored, get one and just play through the "tunes". When you're done you will be deaf. I guess that's intentional because then it won't bother you anymore that there is no accoustic sms notification. I'm not kidding you. You can select "off" or "click". Yes. "Click" is a single click-sound, about half a second duration. Impossible to notice an incoming message unless you carry the phone around your neck or have it lying next to your head...
Okay, enough
And to make this post complete, here comes my dream-phone:
I really hope nokia will go back to the 8210 design (not 8310 please, the software was buggy as hell, and some blacksuit decided to put a RADIO (yes..) in...).
;-)
The 8210 was the best phone I ever owned and I regret giving up on it for the crap68i that I'm stuck with now.
I'm gonna purchase a new phone soon and after evaluating the current offers I seriously consider to go for a 8210 again.
There seems to be no single phone with a sane design on the market right now, if anyone knows one, please let me know!
They all have cameras, weight, crappy displays (because its gotta be color but it must not be expensive, ofcourse), slow and buggy software and an amazing amount of useless, half-baked organizers, calendars, crappy games and other stuff that simply doesn't work if you want to use it for anything serious.
Btw, on a sidenote, my friend has the nokia 9210 (or something, the big brick with the keyboard) and he regrets spending all the money.
Often when I call him the first thing I hear is him complaining about my name not showing up on the display because the software has crashed, yet again...
Phew, that was a lot of rant. But I guess there are a lot of people around here who know exactly what I'm talking about.
spamhole.com works just fine for me.
There are dozens of "silent" PSUs around. Just bought myself one a couple weeks ago... What exactly makes this review of one a headline?
Isn't that what analysts are for?
To tell us things (wrapped up in shiny powerpoint slides) that anyone with half a brain and a calculator could figure out alone?
That's right, the cursor/clipart sites are for spyware. But if you need to pick up a dialer, look for the nekkid pics!
The real question is, will playboy feature animated gifs?
Well, as said, I want a clipboard that does not go away when I select a piece of text with my mouse anywhere.
That's my one and only concern.
Too often have I copied an E-Mail address somewhere (and closed the window afterwards) only to figure out that the middle click in the destination window either gives me nothing (dont ask me why, happens frequently) or some completely unrelated text that I clickrolled over by accident while shuffling windows around...
What does it cost me to file/participate in such a lawsuit?
I'd support the goal unless it costs a lot of my money or time.
(I, as many others, don't like SCO but can't afford to dedicate my life on it...)
But with a proper firewall (iptables ruleset) the worm wouldn't be listening on any port and maybe not connecting to the outside world either.
Every time a technical achievement like this one is made people start talking about the military uses.
Too bad the major technology-driver still is the desire to kill each other more effectively...
(my two idealistic cents)
Quick, write a script for 2001 reloaded feat. SCO and Mikerowesoft!
Slashdot, as usual, is thinking decades ahead.
;)
And, as usual, it's pretty interesting.
I agree in the long run we will probably see things like a "live paper"-map.
But just for now I'd already be excited to see a PDA with rollable display.
Does anyone know how much space the remaining electronics occupy?
Maybe PDAs go back to wristwratch formfactor (with "pull out"-screen) one day using this tech. Add a laser-projected keyboard and watch out for the guys who made futurama to claim prior art.
Okay, I hear you. I didn't mean to bash X as a whole, sorry if it sounded like that.
But still I must stick to my point: As the applications have failed to offer proper copy/paste for years, shouldn't we (they) consider building that functionality into the X-server with little or no application support now?
I haven't tried the latest KDE and Gnome versions but I haven't heard any rumors about this issue being finally fixed there either. So I assume the problem is still present, even in the latest "userfriendly"-distros (Xandros et al).
If there is some library call in xlib (or elsewhere) available that can be used to insert text at current focus position I could probably fix it at least for myself with a tiny 5-liner 'pastekludge.c'. Does anyone have any hints regarding that?
I'm still thinking about what I proposed in an earlier post:
bind ALT-C to 'xclip -o >~/.clipboard' and
bind ALT-V to 'pastekludge <~/.clipboard'
My favorite patent. Did someone really pay 10k dollars for that?
So is that what they teach them at law-schools nowadays?
Abuse the law for fun and profit?