April 15, 2008
Ubuntu - 9 days to go!
Ubuntu Hardy Heron is nearly ready for serving.
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Eadaoin
I'm in work and of course working hard and I happened upon your sight.....
I've had a very strange flash back as I knew Mick, Roc and Noely about a hundred years ago! (ok maybe only 10!)
"January 26, 2004 Sunday Night" is the blog I do believe I stumbled on and I just thought I'd say hi and let you know you brought a smile to someone's face :)
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July 3, 2007
Soyuz Rocket Launch Failure
Watch the whole thing - shocking and morbidly funny at the same time :)
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June 30, 2007
The only good iPhone is a dead iPhone
The ever brilliant Anandtech has ALREADY dissected an iPhone
To get to this point they had to basically destroy (possibly not beyond repair...) the casing. Compare the iPhone with the OpenMoko (Linux OS) based Neo1973. The development kit comes with a guitar pick to allow you to open the case more easily - when they mean an open phone, they really mean it!
The iPhone battery takes up most of the casing and as Anandtech mentions - "there is no way you are replacing this thing on your own". Having said that, it is the first generation iPhone and possibly (possibly....) like the iPods before it, the battery life and form size will be inversely proportional.
Still, it begs the question; what happens when the battery is depleted? I did an admittedly very quick search to see if there was any obvious information. But, the genius of Apple is working again and people are not thinking about the important questions (which could well be moot - I've never used the iPhone):
- As it is a touch-screen, what happens when someone phones you and the iPhone is in your pocket - does the contact from your pocket answer the call?
- Possibly this is one of the main reasons it is a multi-touch screen - but, if some algorithm is used to figure out that the iPhone is in your pocket - how difficult will it be to answer a call if you are holding the iPhone but have parts of your fingers over the screen at the same time?
- Can you text while not looking at it? First reports suggest no
- Accessibility? This is not a phone for people with accessibility issues - sight impairment (blind can forget about it by the looks of it, unless there is an audio interface? What about people with mobility issues with their hands/fingers? Any reports I have read suggest that using the iPhone is a to-handed job - but I remember using my first mobile - it took me a couple of weeks before I could confidently hold it in one hand and text with it.
- I remember the horrible experience I had with the Sony Ericsson phone that I had - great camera, lousy phone experience. OK, that was mostly down to the lousy software and the fact that the buttons stopped working after a few months, but, as the iPhone is pushing its 'ubiquitous computing' angle - will it be a decent phone?
- AT&T - evil, evil, evil company. Why Steve? Why? What will we be lumped with here in Europe?
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