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by gvurrdon 9y ago
Email mostly works for me, particularly for friends and family. The problem is that many people prioritise Facebook over email and frequently forget to reply, or don't send email in the first place as they assume that everyone has seen
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by gvurrdon 9y ago
Indeed. There are some iPhone applications which could do with an Apple Watch equivalent and don't have one, such as Google Inbox, though.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Same here - both glare and low resolution have been problematic. I see that someone has tried to deal with the resolution, though: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/65p6n9/google_phot...
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
> If it was more like email that isn't owned by any one entity I would be more understanding. Definitely. If it operated in a Manner similar to Mastodon then FB would be a lot more tempting to use for the limited purposes I feel I n
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I've noticed video blogging becoming more popular. Unfortunately, I find it more difficult to deal with as it requires wearing headphones and is also very slow. There's one popular YouTube video presenter whose work I sometimes lo
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I've not heard of the cheese, but the beer is very good: http://www.sheltonbrothers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HO...
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I found that both the Google and iOS versions could perform much the same sort of searches (e.g. "cat", "house") with roughly similar outcomes. However, Apple chooses to censor some searches (nothing illegal or dodgy, of
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
A few years ago I worked on a research project at a university where we generated quite a bit of data, and we would occasionally (every few months) run an archiving script which would copy data from one MySQL table to another and then trunc
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Mine was altering a BASIC space shooter so that one's laser beams would fire directly at the location of the target without having to manoeuvre so it was in one's crosshairs. The hacking was more fun than the game became after my
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I've tried both Android Wear (Moto 360, mainly) and the Apple Watch. Both of these devices were horribly slow when I first had them but with OS updates both have improved and, whilst not incredibly quick, are usable. I also tried a Peb
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Indeed, the watch is great. I'm not such a fan of the iPhone for various reasons, primarily that I find the interface a bit clunky and very much dislike the locked bootloader, App Store and so on. But, to use Android Wear on an Android
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I don't know and I'm not particularly bothered to find out since I don't want to use it for anything other than reminders, timers and the occasional text message. When I was using Android Wear and Google Now that was all I wa
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
The Apple watch recently obtained a means to reply to messages by means of handwriting recognition. This works rather well in practice and I find I'm able to send short replies quickly and easily in situations where speaking to the wat
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Indeed. There are plenty of things I could be doing, such as writing books or teaching martial arts, but there's not enough money in these activities to pay for food and accommodation.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Another disadvantage is that turning off "web and app activity" prevents useful features of Android Wear from functioning, e.g. setting reminders or receiving commute time notifications. If it weren't for smartwatches I'
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
It's inevitable that the forthcoming iOS version will require location history to be turned on for one's Google account. Therefore, I'd much prefer another cross-platform means of providing this information. Owntracks hasn&#x
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Tempting, but still lacks some of the required features. I'm looking for something that I can use to send text messages, set timers and, most importantly, set reminders (also accessible via a web interface) using my voice, without some
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
It's a good application, but having used it I found that it was often very difficult or even impossible to locate my destination and when navigating it often had some funny ideas about what route to take; Google offered much better rou
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Something equivalent to Google's location timeline which could be quickly set up on my own server would be worth paying for.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I'd like to buy a nice pair of headphones but that's the thing that worries me. I'm not at all bothered by the background noise (e.g. aircraft engines) but human-made noises are very distracting. There seems to be nothing tha
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Office noise has become a bit of an issue for me recently, this being the reason: http://www.tinnitus.org.uk/hyperacusis Although the amount of talking in the office is low and not very disturbing, and there's certainl
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
It is indeed Traveller; MegaTraveller, to be precise. In those tech levels the best we could claim to be is early TL9, with laser weapons &c. We're supposed to have early fusion power, FTL and anti-gravity by the end of TL9, IIRC.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
There was a period during the late 19th and early 20th century where pocket watches were reasonably priced and available and yet wristwatches had not appeared. It was WW1 which seems to have made it popular (along with disposable razor shav
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Having never used Facebook I find that I don't need it for most things. But, there are some activities in which I'm involved where almost all discussion and event organisation takes place on Facebook. My participation has thus dec
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Years ago I was first author on a paper with this chap, who gives his Erdös number as 4, which would presumably make mine 5: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-cortina-borja-2b98ab47 Also, I was in a film with Donald Su
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
I also wonder why such a comment is worthy of downvoting. Perhaps someone would care to enlighten me?
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
That would have been very interesting to see. I have often wondered what would have happened if they'd gone in that direction, perhaps including some sort of WINE-derived code to allow legacy applications to run.
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Indeed; after a time they required search history to be turned on in order for commuting traffic information to be supplied, which was not initially the case. At that point I turned it on but deleted* the search history each day, until such
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
My partner received a few emails which a government representative had tried to forward from their work account to their private Gmail account whilst getting the address wrong. These contained personal information relating to correspondence
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by gvurrdon 10y ago
Isn't it the case that Apple's attempts at similar AI assistance store much of the data on the user's iPhone?

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