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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 ......
• 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)...
• 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....
• steinmh commented on New year's resolution revisited
  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. Recently my boss was asking why we had implemented a certain feature. I dug back through my notes and it turned out the he had been at a meeting where this feature was deemed indispensable. BTW I have file system access on my Android device - I guess that makes it a computer (I also have shell and can ssh)...
• 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...