moylan

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by moylan 15y ago
patents? i'm sure apple could do with their push email patents. they make a nice keyboard based phone. a version of android on their hardware might do well. i have heard and seen blackberries take a lot of punishment and keep going. when
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by moylan 15y ago
i'd keep it in my bag next to my towel. :-) but it would be really useful. have used the metal detector in the android tricorder app to find metal in places where we were planning to drill. if somebody builds them in bulk the price will co
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by moylan 15y ago
and which ever one loses the acquisition bid will block the winner
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by moylan 15y ago
something like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_telephone very hard to find info on how it works or at what ranges. but this suggests that it shifts sounds down to lower pitches to travel further. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by moylan 15y ago
what about the non tsa stories? the number of times i as a european have heard someone describe an event or opportunity in the usa and then heard but they can't be arsed with the tsa nonsense. is there a measurable reduction of travel to/
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by moylan 15y ago
fingers crossed somebody releases a case with a lcd screen, battery and keyboard that will accept the raspberry pi. even a build your own kit could be interesting considering the cost of the raspberry pi.
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by moylan 15y ago
this. beaming between palms and psions with irda was childs play compared to swapping via bluetooth on later devices. searching, pairing, authorising. and that's assuming the other recipient knows how to use bluetooth. these days i swap
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by moylan 15y ago
depends on what you want from a mobile device. * faster text entry for writing a book? keyboard wins every time. * less distractions while working on a project. * runs for ages on a sniff of alkaline batteries. * easily used outdoors in di
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by moylan 15y ago
and we'll have referendums till the government gets the result they want. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nice
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by moylan 15y ago
i'd have said 1996 with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator but it was a niche product that probably didn't appear in the u.s. much. as a psion user i lusted after these devices. but price of mobile data put them o
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by moylan 15y ago
i think you can get free downloads of music from sony, warner, universal and emi using google in china. never been there but i have seen it mentioned in articles from time to time. a quick search turns up http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/30
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by moylan 15y ago
when it comes to the little guy been screwed over by the ones with the cash to pay lawyers i don't think the usa has any monopoly in this area. my favourite case of the big guy losing despite the resources they bring to bear is the mclibel
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by moylan 15y ago
netflix recently came to ireland. but requiring silverlight rules out linux users. but if i want to watch irish tv (god forbid, it's usually terrible) i can use http://www.aertv.ie/ with no plugins or downloads beyond flash to watch all
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by moylan 15y ago
only found out about the saturday march to be held in dublin late on friday evening. currently on crutches so unable to attend unfortunately. fairly unorganised as far as i could tell from people who were there. edit: if i were to specula
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by moylan 15y ago
some are even worth more than they were origianally. http://www.itp.net/553344-hackers-pay-top-dollar-for-old-nok... i've found that nokias sell well second hand. i wouldn't recommend an iphone second hand as they are much more fragile t
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by moylan 15y ago
souldn't be impossible to do. i use opera mini on android, ios and symbian and it's remote compression reduces data so that i can browse the web all day and get nowhere near my 50mb daily limit. it would be possible for google to create a
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by moylan 15y ago
i use the graphite of pencils on door hinges. also the soft eraser on the end is quite good at cleaning contacts on motherboards from grease and the like. that and a non conducting pencil is handy for raising the guard on uk and irish powe
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by moylan 15y ago
i use a bandaid with one side of the sticky tab cut off. it allows the padded part to fall in front of the camera when i open the laptop and if placed carefully can be flipped up when the camera is needed. i have an olpc and the camera and
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by moylan 15y ago
i do use that. however i spend a substantial amount of time on other peoples systems and when using other peoples systems especially windows systems i avoid logging into google in case of malware. the default settings of google search are
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by moylan 15y ago
from 94 till i got a sharp zaurus pda in the noughties i used pdas like psion and palm/visor that required aa or aaa batteries. i tried duracell/energizer and at a pinch generics. i never had a duracell or energizer leak. the extra money
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by moylan 15y ago
i find changing my search from standard google to; http://www.google.com/pda eliminates instant preview and instant results that really annoy me.
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by moylan 15y ago
he'll also be on rte radio show drivetime after 1800. https://twitter.com/#!/drivetimerte/status/16183954268344320... you can find links for listening online here. http://www.rte.ie/radio/
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by moylan 15y ago
well the minister involved just tweeted that it's not going to happen. not sure if i believe that or not. https://twitter.com/#!/seansherlocktd/status/161600885435281... but irish law can be funny. after years of terrorist activities ce
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by moylan 15y ago
we're getting sopa in ireland in the next few days. kinda slipped out yesterday and is trending on twitter in ireland at the mo. http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/irelands-sopa-faq.html so for any irish folk who frequent hackernews; htt
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by moylan 15y ago
reminds me of; * cambridge z88 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88 * amstrad nc100 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_NC100 * dana - http://www.neo-direct.com/Dana/ i've always thought these would be good for kids in scho
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by moylan 15y ago
well at the moment similar priced products are far lower specced. but of the small list here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_microcontroller#Se... ) i've played with 3 of them. they are doing well. now for the same price i c
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by moylan 15y ago
i seem to remember these been sold as multi part magazines even into the 80s here in ireland. checking online it looks like an irish site is still selling the molds. though when my brother was messing with them my father made sure we did i
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by moylan 15y ago
i grew up with a copy of 'the boy electrician' that my father born in 1921 had. it showed how to build an xray machine from 'commonly available' parts. the only warning was a brief note that long exposure caused blood vessels to break whi
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by moylan 15y ago
2 of my first 3 digital cameras were kodak. a dc2300? a low end 2mp camera. and a palmpix attachment that connected to my then palm iiix and iiic. both were very good cameras and the lenses were better than any of the camera phones i had f
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by moylan 15y ago
* perhaps there are markets with little smartphone usage. but wp7 costs about 3/4 the price of an iphone. if i'm spending that much money i'm going to lessen my risk and get one i know has been somewhat successful. and for the same money

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