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The Livescribe pen is great for taking notes in lectures and meetings, particularly if you can't write because you are in a discussion. It makes it easy to get to the ground of things. Notes loose a lot of content....
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Andrew Plotkin commented on
New year's resolution revisited
I have been playing with the idea that a personal computer is a device that runs programs and gives the user access to its filesystem. If it doesn't, it's a "personal accessory" or "personal device" or some such term. Because, basically, if you can bang on the filesystem then you can make it do whatever you want, all the way down to swapping the OS. And yes, this means that I could turn my iPhone into a computer by jailbreaking it. So goes the categorization. I can see ways in which it could stop making sense (serious hardware-level code-signing requirements;...
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Charlie Stross commented on
New year's resolution revisited
Any phone I buy is going to spend its life in a case. Because? My phones tend to get shoved in a pocket with keys and coins and other sharp things. And smartphones cost about as much as a decent laptop. Worse: if bought on contract, you can't easily replace one within the term of the contract. So I tend to look after them. The exposed aerial thing is neither here nor there, compared to the shortcomings of other phones that I've put up with in the past ......
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Andrew Plotkin commented on
New year's resolution revisited
Yes, I am the IF Zarf, and I am happy to hear it. :) Enjoy. (--Andrew Plotkin)...
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bellinghman commented on
New year's resolution revisited
only by individual which is of no use especially with no search option either Odd. Android 2.1 has the search option - just use the search button as elsewhere. The edit box even comes up with a 'search contacts' hint....
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Sean Eric Fagan commented on
New year's resolution revisited
I don't think "file system access" is a meaningful designation. (Bit of a warning: my keyboard is being flaky, especially the 'd' key, and I haven't been catching all of them. This is ironic given what I'm writing below.) If you go back and look at the history, the first computers didn't have filesystems. Even when they had hard drives, it was still bare-bones, and programs had specific blocks they use for data. Eventually, this got abstracted so that you could use filenames; this started the process of users being able to control their own data. When you got to...
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