moylan

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by moylan 14y ago
i'm not saying your wrong. and i definitely agree this is aimed at average users. but it will put off a percentage of non average users. and those are often the users who recommend to average users what to use. i know i've stopped recom
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by moylan 14y ago
i'd rather a platform were i have to be careful to avoid malware rather than a platform were there is a single 'gateway' to what apps can be installed. how can that gateway ever be considered impartial in a for profit system?
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by moylan 14y ago
app development on symbian used to be a chaotic affair till nokia brought in signed apps. after that the apps started to dry up. it became a hurdle for lone developers that wasn't worth the effort. i'm sure apple would organise it better
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by moylan 14y ago
and ireland. and with all the companies from the usa here i suspect it'll be a popular purchase to save space in a bag. i know i want one or three.
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by moylan 14y ago
i'm beginning to think that the biggest problem may now be legal. with a driver there is someone to get a signature/payment/paperwork whilest a driverless vehicle would need something else. who's responsible for damage inside the back of a
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by moylan 14y ago
it's tyre in ireland.
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by moylan 14y ago
if it was just a grudge match between tesla and edison i could respect edison a little more. it is possible to get so obsessed that he would have a blind spot and go out of his way to engage a competitor. think steve jobs promising to go
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by moylan 14y ago
the telegraph service western union turned down a chance to buy the patent for telephones as they thought it was merely a toy. it's still a custom in ireland to send telegrams for weddings, other than that... facebook is merely a service t
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by moylan 14y ago
the metallic dust does cause short circuits. the office our pc was in was in an office built above the work floor and had very good ventelation but fine dust still made it up and on to every surface. once enough dust settled inside the pc
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by moylan 14y ago
i wonder if the dust created by the bandsaw wouldn't make it difficult to replace it with a more modern system. we used to use standard office pcs to run a pos system for video shops around ireland. as the systems moved from been shipped
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by moylan 14y ago
i always regret that i didn't take my parents valve radio when the house was cleared and sold over a decade ago. it was bulky, inefficient but worked perfectly. had a lot of fond memories of that radio as a kid. they got it as a wedding
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by moylan 14y ago
so unless there has been a giant leap in a.i. we'll need a licence to access a site about scunthorpe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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by moylan 14y ago
i hate unity. it's nothing but distracting eye candy. a non standard waste of resources. but i like ubuntu overall so at the mo i use xubuntu. suits all my needs without unity. but ubuntu is still an organisation to support especially
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by moylan 14y ago
i'd rather pay an ubuntu tax than a microsoft tax so i really look forward to buying a new machine with the option of ubuntu even if it costs a little more. but my main concern will be the those who buy an ubuntu machine and then expect to
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by moylan 14y ago
in 2008 nokia was a far superior phone. in europe anyway. they really seem to have had no impact in the usa. my nokias back then had nice useable keyboards, decent cameras that shot video, cameras with flashes. been able to write code on
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by moylan 14y ago
massive solar eruptions capable of destroying humanity are covered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstorm_(novel) good book. i liked how the emergency services, military and police were using ancient pre electronic ground vehicles as
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by moylan 14y ago
i use llama on my android devices to turn on wifi only in places where it knows and turn it off else where. saves power too that way. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...
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by moylan 14y ago
didn't the soviets gain much of their information from american citizens? so i'm sure that many such agencies will simply recruit citizens from the country they wish to spy on. such changes in security practices as this will only change t
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by moylan 14y ago
aertel is still going for the mo. and you can see the pages on the web. which is handy for when the web is on a go slow. http://www.aertel.ie/aertel/ tvs with teletext cost about £20-30 more last time i bought a tv but you got the money
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by moylan 14y ago
when it comes to surveillance the british have a history of intercepting communications. like intercepting most phone traffic from ireland using a legal loophole from 1985. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/may/31/northernireland.ric...
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by moylan 14y ago
i thought it was to buy nokias patents at a knock down price later.
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by moylan 14y ago
perhaps a folding bike? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_Bicycle not cheap but easily transportable indoors and out. you can store it by your desk in a bag. i see them all over dublin as it's cheaper ultimately to keep your bike b
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by moylan 14y ago
here in ireland most schools and libraries has an apple ii. but they were expensive fragile things that nobody understood or touched. when the c64 came out our school got 6 linked to one floppy drive. we went nuts over them. but when it
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by moylan 14y ago
i bought a sony walkman radio in the early 80s. still have it, use it every day, use it in the bathroom where it is subject to hot and humid conditions. it's now over a quarter of a century old and works fine. in the 80s the build quality
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by moylan 14y ago
first i saw about non newtonian liquids was a british science entertainment show. and about a year afterwards they began talking about using the same as armour. just stuck in my mind as the kids show came first. from 2003. http://www.you
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by moylan 14y ago
and there we run into the problem of one size fits all design. you hate the stylus and i prefer them. it comes down to what you are using your mobile tech for. with the psions keyboards i could get 30-40 wpm typing. with a stylus i was d
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by moylan 14y ago
i had stylus with psions and several palms and palm clones. over 10 years of use and never lost a single stylus. make a standard stylus and it becomes easy to keep a spare in your bag.
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by moylan 14y ago
that is one of the goals of the reprap project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepRap#Construction fingers crossed they get there.
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by moylan 14y ago
but the stylus available for android and iphones are horrible (at least the 2-3 i've tried). my sharp zaurus had a neat learning mode which allowed me to teach it graffiti. one of the main reasons i gave up palm (had a iiix, iiic, visor neo
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by moylan 14y ago
i was thinking more along the lines of keyboard based android devices. rim have shown they can build heavyduty hardware that can take a lot of punishment.

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