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Re: MIR Show - The Microvision Mobile Projector - GENIUS

George — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:38:57 -0000

Fast forward 8 months: Not too late. Is taking off. Soon to be offered by Vodaphone and Uniden for starters. SHOW WX by Microvision provides the best pio projector technology in existance!

Re: What Happened To Simple Customer Service?

constantine — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:29:16 -0000

My parents bought and sold 2 homes, each time we used Chase Manhattan Bank, each time it was absolutely flawless.

As for paying more for more service, I buy Lenovo laptops, the ThinkPad line, because they rarely break. When they do, they fix things so fast you barely know your part was broken.

They replaced a motherboard on one of my laptops that was out of warranty by 2 weeks.

Samsung also, I used to have one of their HDTVs. Standard 1 year warrenty. 13 months into the purchase, my picture turns a terrible green. I call them up, say I'm out of warranty, but would like to know how much it would cost to get my system fixed, the girl said don't worry about it and within 48 hours a truck pulled up to my house with a brand new television.

Simply stunned.

Re: Subscribing to the newsletter – my mistake

constantine — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:51:23 -0000

i've yet to receive a single issue and i've been signed up since you very first tweeted about it

EDIT: Never mind, I see that tomorrow is episode 1!

Re: What’s the best backpack a geek can buy?

constantine — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:05 -0000

i LOVE my OGIO Metro, absolutely love it.

http://www.ogio.com/product.php?product=126

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

constantine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:45:54 -0000

I have that exact same plan as well.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

parislemon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:07:56 -0000

yeah. at some point I have this feeling that I'll just go somewhere for a year and check nothing.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

netspencer — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:24:53 -0000

I totally agree. I, like MG have opted into many notifications. It's almost become addicting. However, I totally agree with you.

I wrote about my experience out in nature for 2 weeks without any technology. http://netspencer.com/2009/08/we-live-inside-a-...

It's incredible the world we live in today.

Re: On Drumming And Distractions

constantine — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:14:04 -0000

One day you'll suffer from burn out, like I did, and rethink what is important in your life.

So you're the first to know about something, so what?

So you know that someone left a comment on your Facebook wall, so what?

I find it really funny that when the telephone was the only way to communicate, all the cool kids opted to have their numbers unlisted, to be hard to find. Hell, giving out your number was considered something you do only when you really trusted someone. Now we scream from the bottom of our lungs about the multitudes of ways we can be reach.

Just opt out. Those notifications and sleepless nights are self inflicted because you think every bit of data you consume is of the utmost importance.

If I sound like a bitter old man, I'm not, I'm 23.

If I sound like a technical lagard, I'm not, I've worked in the PC industry since I was a young teenager and have been blogging professionally about the mobile phone space for over 2 years now.

I've been there MG. I know how much it blows.

Disconnect. Reevaluate what's truly worth your time. Then get back out there.

Re: Who or what will be the BitTorrent of Realtime? (Scripting News)

eas — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:43:19 -0000

I'm not sure how far Unite goes, but I think the concept of putting a server inside of every browser may get further in a more browser-agnostic incarnation. HTML5 local storage features are becoming more widely supported. The mobile browsers on iPhone and android support enough of it to enable browser-based offline versions of gmail and google reader, and on the desktop, I know Safari 4, and I think Firefox 3.5 have similar levels of support, and if IE8 doesn't, it can be added with Google gears.

The local storage features mean that javascript code, images, and html data can be stored locally, along with a persistent datastore. The app runs inside the browser when the user visits the page. Once started, it can reach out and request updates over HTTP.

The shortcoming of this approach is that it doesn't provide for long-running processes that can be accessed remotely, but I question whether that is a big strike against it, since firewalls make P2P communication across the Internet difficult.

The missing piece then is a way for peers to communicate. Some sort of generic HTTP accessible message-queue could provide that piece of the puzzle.

Re: Who or what will be the BitTorrent of Realtime? (Scripting News)

constantine — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:23:26 -0000

I think the best candidate for this right now would have to be Opera. They're trying something really crazy by making a server inside the browser. Granted, the Unite project is a bit half assed, and closed source, but that type of thinking, to finally enable read write is what will change things hopefully.

My biggest want right now is to make internet services like applications on my desktop. Meaning I have Photoshop, Lightroom, Irfanview, <insert name of image editing/viewing program here>, and they all access the same instance of one JPG file.

I should be able to tell Flickr, Posterous, Wordpress, whatever, that "hey look, my files are sitting on this server; go use that data to provide me an awesome service"

Data portability as a concept makes me slap my forehead. It isn't about making your data easy to export and then import into another system, it's about letting data be data, services be services, and having the two be totally separate entities. Opera's Unite concept of putting a server inside every browser is similar in concept to bit torrent since you're just another brick in the wall helping people commit piracy.

These thoughts are all out there, but I hope in 5 years you're right, and Facebook is dead. Best thing I did in 2009 was get rid of it.

Re: How to Create Loopable Wallpapers for Nokia N900

thenokiablog — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:35:52 -0000

Thank you

Re: Bruce Sterling at Reboot (Scripting News)

constantine — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:20:34 -0000

Thanks for sharing this Dave! I've been living out of 2 suitcases for the past 3 years, in 2 countries. Leaving my 4000 square foot home and living in small 350 square foot flats was the best thing I've ever done.

Re: Mobile Industry Review turns into a weekly newsletter next Friday

constantine — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:04:31 -0000

RSS would be preferred, I agree. I signed up for the newsletter option anyway.

Re: Mobile Industry Review turns into a weekly newsletter next Friday

constantine — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:03:43 -0000

not really. don't judge content by the method used for transmission.

Re: How to Create Loopable Wallpapers for Nokia N900

constantine — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:38:57 -0000

in full agreement with that statement

Re: Absolutely blown away by the N900

guest — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:25:25 -0000

He's correct - it is step 4 out of 5. Maemo5 is step 4, not 5 as you might expect :/

Re: Absolutely blown away by the N900

N900IsFantastic! — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:40:54 -0000

Here are a few reasons to bother:
a. N900 is fantastic (trust me!)
b. it will take a looong time until they make version 6, considering it's not out yet it could be a year from now...
c. newer phones can/should always be better so with this philosophy you will be telling the "waiting for the next one" story to your grandchildren

Re: Absolutely blown away by the N900

constantine — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:18:47 -0000

Can't wait to see this video. For a long, long, long time I've wanted to do a video showing how I setup my S60 device fresh from the box. Looks like you've taken the liberally of doing this already, but with Maemo.

Oh and to correct your numbers, the N900 is "step 5 out of 6" not 4 out of 5 as you so put it. I'm not spending a dime of my personal money on the N900 since Nokia has done a fantastic job at underselling it by saying stupid things like "the next one will be sooo much better" to which I have to reply exactly as you did: why bother?

Re: Video Diary: Whatley & the Sony Ericsson Satio in Soho

whatleydude — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:53:20 -0000

The camera on the Satio beats everything else hands down.

By miles.

But.. Battery, sharing and just the damn size of the thing put me off.

Re: Video Diary: Whatley & the Sony Ericsson Satio in Soho

constantine — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:50:08 -0000

So which camera is better, your N86 or this thing?

I must admit, that vertical photo gallery is brilliant. Much more intuitive than anything else I've seen.

Re: Nokia N900 Video Autofocus

thenokiablog — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:15:34 -0000

yup

Re: Nokia N900 Video Autofocus

constantine — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:15:41 -0000

so it works exactly like the iPhone 3GS. nice.

Re: Looking at the Nokia Booklet 3G with an N900

bensmith — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:49:22 -0000

I'll repeat the exercise and post a vid, but from memory... "better" :-)

Re: Looking at the Nokia Booklet 3G with an N900

constantine — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:32:59 -0000

terrible quality, how do those videos play on your Samsung netbook? same Atom processor.

Re: Hands-on with the Nokia N97 Mini and X6

constantine — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:39:22 -0000

Rafe is double clicking, single clicking, poor chap, Mr. Symbian, is confused by S60 5th Edition. What does that say about the OS?