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Re: Ultimaker 3D printer timelapse

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:44:12 -0000

You're welcome! If you need some more test objects let me know! :-) I'm thinking of getting a smaller printer for myself.

Re: Ultimaker 3D printer timelapse

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:53:33 -0000

Lots of work! Do you think it needs a lot of tweaking or were you happy with the first results?

Re: Chernobyl 20+ Years After the Accident

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:47:35 -0000

The "?" wasn't about the way time is represented, but because the number is partially deleted and behind the metal bar, so I'm not sure if it's a 0 or if it was another number (like a 1 for instance).

Re: Panoramas SAPO, making of…

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:36:13 -0000

You didn't hurt any feelings. As I post with a clear identity, you can see I'm not from SAPO. You post behind a limited if not fake identity - I don't know who you are, and your post has very little value. This is a great project to be part of. We had different challenges that other panoramic projects didn't, and we learned (and are still learning) from the many mistakes we did. If you want to contribute with something useful, go ahead. Otherwise you're just increasing the universal entropy each time you post.

Re: Panoramas SAPO, making of…

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:04:40 -0000

Hum... Like posting comments with a fake name? Hasn't *that* been done before too?

Re: Ensaio sobre Portugal, parte 3, Sucesso

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:34:55 -0000

Sim, mas a assunção base do Português comum é quando vê alguém com sinais de riqueza, é simultaneamente assumir que a pessoa fez algo de ilegal para adquirir essa riqueza, e assumir também que nunca conseguirá lá chegar. Portugal é um país com muitas histórias de sucesso de pessoas que começaram do zero, e que conseguiram chegar longe, tanto para eles como na criação de riqueza em geral. É claro, que como em todo o mundo, há quem tenha ficado rico roubando, enganando. Mas assumir que é a única maneira de enriquecer, é completamente errado, ressabiado, e derrotista.

Re: Ensaio sobre Portugal, parte 3, Sucesso

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:17:54 -0000

Mas era mesmo do estado de espirito do Povo Português de que eu falava, desde tempos imemoriais. Exemplo: um OH típico de Portugueses face a verem um casarão enorme - regra geral o que dizem é "o que é que aquele sacana roubou para ter aquilo" e não "gostava de um dia ter uma casa assim".

Re: Ensaio sobre Portugal, parte 3, Sucesso

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:37:53 -0000

Há uma frase que distila este teu post em poucas palavras: "Os ricos que paguem a crise" - é a assunção que a) os que tiveram sucesso foi por se aproveitarem do "povo", e b) a crise (que não afecta os ricos) existe por isso mesmo. Como se houvesse uma quantidade fixa de riqueza, e se uns têm mais, é porque tiraram aos outros. E a solução é voltar a re-distribuir, tirando aos ricos para dar ao povo, seja gentilmente e às suaves prestações, ou não (como naquela pequena experiência do PREC, com as nacionalizações e intervenções).

Re: Notes: Real-time web

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:45:00 -0000

I'm glad that we've sparked interest in capable and worthy people like you!! :-) Basically, me and Nuno started the Exocortex project as a set of goals. Although we want to also work on the "how"s, the main goal is to establish first a goal of the "what"s, and the standards backbone for all the work people want to contribute to the concept.

Re: Lily Allen's copyright problem

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:06:29 -0000

The ability to copy something has gone from the extremely elevated (pre-Gutenberg books and illustrations), to moderated (photocopying printed books, copying vinyl disks into tape), to basically free (copying anything that's in digital form). At the same time, the fidelity of the copies has increased from low to perfect.

The copyright question has finally achieved a cultural level. People will only pay for content if they feel any ethical obligation to do so, within their culture. Suing file sharers for millions, treating paying customers as thieves, and extending copyrights into centuries is the wrong way to do it. As Cory said it, it's a very complex issue. Things will continue changing.

Re: Warning for XT and 2degrees users: iPhone OS 3.1 disables tethering

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:46:56 -0000

@Steve
I think this is a question of a "battle" between the old and new ways of carriers looking at the data market.
The old way is to promote "unlimited" data plans (to get as many customers as possible). If everyone uses their data plans to do everything and anything, of course the networks will be slow and unreliable, so to prevent this they want to control the way the end-user can have access, e.g., not allowing tethering (and in some cases, charge separately for tethering).
The new way is to market different data plans, with different prices, which include a specified amount of data a month (and sometimes different maximum speeds), and not care with how the consumers use it - that's the way we have it here in Portugal, and I guess in a lot of European countries.

The problem is that not allowing tethering is complicated, because it relies on setting specific limits (it's rumored that AT&T will cut connections if you try to transfer files bigger than 10MB), and shredding the user experience to bits by moves like this latest one.

The iPhone has been the best mobile experience, by far, that I've ever had, but I'm very disappointed at Apple for doing something like this, and not finding a better way to match the goals of the different carriers in different markets in a way that wouldn't hurt consumers who did nothing wrong. I'll think twice about getting another iPhone when I think of upgrading. Apple has shown that they will remove important features, which other tactics might they employ in the future?

Re: The Shiny, Shallow UI - Tao of Mac

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:21:26 -0000

Although it doesn't address the whole question you mentioned, the inclusion of Spotlight on the iPhone has changed a lot the way things are found (and in part acted upon). Instead of having to think about which app holds a certain bit of information, you just need to remember anything about the information. We still have quite a bit to go until we can do even more useful things (like tagging photos on the iPhone itself, being able to Spotlight something while we're writing a message to include that information, etc.)

Another interesting thing that happened is the out of the box integration between sync and GMail - When someone changes their own details, the corresponding info is updated on my synced contacts, including their own photos.

Re: Street art at Chernobyl site

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:55:58 -0000

I can vouch for some of the stencils/graffiti as being there in early 2008:
http://www.flickr.com/searc...
They were made ilegally by a German/Belorussian group in 2005, as explained by the official guide.

Re: Street art at Chernobyl site

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:55:58 -0000

Re: Notes: Sponsors

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:58:33 -0000

Pedro, I hope they do find out what the problem is. I don't know the specifics, but ask them about Chron's disease if they haven't mentioned it. In the meanwhile, rest and relaxation is the best course of action. :-)

Re: Alcides Fonseca: It confirms! Twitter is the IRC 2.0

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:55:04 -0000

With one small^h^h^h^h^hbig difference. How big is the chatroom on Twitter? Everything is connected - there's a *fundamental* difference there.

Re: Filtering @ replies from your Twitter feed

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:59:56 -0000

Well... it's a free world, don't use it! You should use your time to complain (perhaps in a constructive way?) about the things that forcibly affect your life...

Re: Power outage

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:06:30 -0000

Fixed!

Re: Notes: Tip: a Macbook Pro without the battery will always hybernate

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:15:59 -0000

Pedro, Mac OS X always does that, even with the battery on, it's called "safe sleep", and it can be disabled through the terminal.

Re: The bad design from 20 years ago, today!

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:22:18 -0000

No Luis... it's really from today. And those *are* Nespresso capsules... :-)

Re: Paul The Wine Guy

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:24:24 -0000

Very smart! :)

Re: Paul The Wine Guy

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:30:01 -0000

Hey! That was my first computer! Mine was a Timex clone, called the Timex 1000. I also had the 16KB extension :)
See you on the the Vogon ship tomorrow!

Re: blog.cpinto.net: Prespectives on various subjects

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:40:09 -0000

Re: iPhone/iPod Touch apps. I don't have an iPhone yet, but I've had an iPod Touch for quite some time now. I bought the 2.0 upgrade so I could start buying/downloading applications through the iTunes store. My experience so far, both buying apps through iTunes on a Mac and through the Apps store on the iPod itself makes be believe that the whole experience is as smooth and easy as buying a song or an album. Even the easiest Symbian or J2ME installs (even through carriers' online portals) are easily two or three times more complex than that, putting both experiences on different sides of the youth/geek barrier - which leads me to believe that the market success of iPhone/iPod Touch apps will be greater within the respective hardware universe than within the symbian/windows mobile/J2ME market. An older and/or non-geek demographic won't feel intimidated by the experience (see the success of the iTunes store for music/movies).

My experiences with the apps so far:
- Twitterrific (premium version) - very nice set of features, relatively simple, a few bugs to iron out, could use a UI speedup;
- Bloomberg (free) - excellent for a free app - not enough info for a professional trader, more due to that kind of market info not being free (like bid/sell positions for instance), fast, has at least one serious bug;
- Remote (free) - excellent, could be mapped to the home button's double tap when working for quick access;
- Sketches (paid) - pretty simple, has nice integration: you can export sketches to the photo album or tweet them (I didn't test this functionality);
- eReader (free) - the killer app for me, as I tend to do all my leisure reading on my mobile devices; fetches the books directly from my ereader.com and fictionwise.com bookshelves, and stores them on the device (the fictionwise.com downloads are still not working);
- Bejewelled 2 - a classic, well implemented. I bought it straight from the App store on the iPod, the install places the icon on the home screen with a little progress bar underneath, and you can do other things while it's being downloaded/installed.

Re: Emel – Pagamento por multibanco

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:50:16 -0000

E que tal um número de sms por zona (afixado nas placas e com instruções), e na mensagem escrevia-se "nºdeminutos matrícula". Quando o tempo estivesse a chegar ao fim o sistema enviava uma mensagem a dizer que estava a acabar e como renovar. O valor da mensagem seria cobrado conforme o número de minutos indicados. Se isto não for possível (atribuir o valor a um sms após o seu envio), podia-se ter uma estrutura de números de envio dos SMS como XXXXXYYY em que XXXXX seria o parquímetro/zona e YYY seria o número de minutos. Os fiscais teriam uma aplicação sobre GPRS onde colocariam a matrícula de um carro sem o comprovativo, e seria respondido se aquele carro pagou por sms.

Re: Paul The Wine Guy - 'ste cose mi scapocciano

Pedro Moura Pinheiro — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:24:17 -0000

marcodesignz,
A very wide iPod, it does :)