Re: digital compass modules

2008-01-23 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, ground control picked up the following transmission from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Citeren Schmidt András <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >   1. The map of a GPS map viewer application turns when you turn > > the machine so it is always aligned with the environment (this > > featur

Re: GMail, silence and other problems

2007-07-13 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Thursday 12 July 2007, ground control picked up the following transmission from Karsten Ensinger: > It also seems as if only GMail customers complain about a disruption > of operation. Also disrupted for starband.net ___ OpenMoko community mailing l

Re: List problems, receiving multiple identical copies of each message

2007-07-12 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Thursday 12 July 2007, ground control picked up the following transmission from Jason Elwell: > Ulrik, > No you are not the only one. Other members of the list have fingered > Gmail as the source of the problem. It seems that any mail coming > from that domain is getting duplicated. Not quit

Re: Multi-Touch

2007-04-10 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, ground control picked up the following transmission from Florent THIERY: > > Tapping two fingers on and off on my Mac laptop (old G4 model) I > > can see behavior that matches this, although the pointer algorithm > > it uses is trying to figure out a single point. > > > >

Re: Still not getting it...(was: New Topic: Learning how to write for OpenMoko)

2007-02-12 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Monday 12 February 2007 14:26, picked up the following transmission from Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded: > Absolutely. There have been several discussions on this, and there > are efforts underway to create appropriate projects. I believe there > will be Java ME as well as J

Re: OpenMoko as a trademark

2007-02-12 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Monday 12 February 2007 08:18, picked up the following transmission from Joe Pfeiffer: > ROB writes: > >Just for the record, as a 'member of the community' or whatever, I > >don't like this. > > Speaking as the designer of the Mopar Mailing List logo (which > incorporates the old Chrysler Motor

Re: music applications: piano, drum, bell...

2007-02-03 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Friday 02 February 2007 16:57, kkr scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > You're right, the first version will not be able of it. > > But in the V2 (2007-09-11), on the basis of this link > (http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/), I think that it will be > possible :-) > > Quotation: "

Re: music applications: piano, drum, bell...

2007-01-30 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:39, kkr scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > I am not sure to well understand how works this new screen generation > (multi-point touch screen)... > > Can he discern the force of pressure exercised with the finger over the > screen (weak, normal or stron

Re: DBus for Generic Data Access Methods?

2007-01-30 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 05:03, Marcel Holtmann scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > And again. Nobody is going to change D-Bus. It works like it does, but > you need to understand how it works. Newbie to Dbus question: any suggestions for a good place to get started on gaining t

Re: about those new lists . . .

2007-01-30 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Sunday 28 January 2007 14:14, Declan Naughton scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > openmoko-whining, too. Don't forget openmoko-flame ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/l

Re: Phone enhancements

2007-01-30 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Saturday 27 January 2007 08:31, ROB scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > I would like a blender and a toaster (for small toast... I realize > that including a full size toaster would make the phone a lot less > portable.) > > > If the phone could also work as an electric razor an

Re: Ready For Prime Time?

2007-01-30 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 19:14, Jeremy Nikolai scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > I thought I read something a while ago that the first generation Neo > _wasn't_ going to be multitouch capable, and it hasn't been mentioned > in the specs recently - does anyone know definitively

Re: is google.com down? Move this list to a BB/Forum system?

2007-01-19 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Friday 19 January 2007 06:12, Gervais Mulongoy scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > What about using Google Groups? Bleah. All the inconvenience of a BB/forum combined with all the drawbacks of web based email. > > On 1/19/07, Ole Tange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/19/0

Re: is google.com down? Move this list to a BB/Forum system?

2007-01-19 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Friday 19 January 2007 03:57, Andreas Kostyrka scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > * Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070119 11:57]: > > And, by being forced to use a webforum, my impression is that people > > tend to think a little more before they write the next ma

Re: ipaq sleeves as an example for hardware extensions

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, kenneth marken scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > Christopher Heiny wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 13:48, David Schlesinger scribbled in > > crayon on > > > > the back of a kid's menu: > >>

Re: ipaq sleeves as an example for hardware extensions

2007-01-17 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 13:48, David Schlesinger scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > On 1/17/07 1:44 PM, "kenneth marken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hmm, i seems to be getting a bit of flak about this on osnews when it > > comes how bulky the phone can be. err, do people ex

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 10:20, Gabriel Ambuehl scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 18:51, Engin Erenturk wrote: > > Hi, I'm Engin; > > > > I'm a game developer from Istanbul/Turkey. the thing i wonder most > > about open openmoko is the gaming oportuni

Re: Gaming oportunities

2007-01-16 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 10:20, Gabriel Ambuehl scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 18:51, Engin Erenturk wrote: > > Hi, I'm Engin; > > > > I'm a game developer from Istanbul/Turkey. the thing i wonder most > > about open openmoko is the gaming oportuni

ToDo/Wish list

2007-01-15 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Friday 12 January 2007 06:25, Ole Tange scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > On 1/12/07, Gervais Mulongoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we should create a To-Do list or a Wish List, so we can track > > the sort of features that would be nice to have in the phone. I think

Re: OpenMoko ON the iPhone

2007-01-15 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Friday 12 January 2007 05:32, Gervais Mulongoy scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > another solution to that could be the use of scalable graphics the way > its done with svg or the way it is done in enlightenment. That sounds like a much better solution than the "monoculture" ap

Interesting iPhone article

2007-01-12 Thread Christopher Heiny
Some of you may have already read this... http://wireless.itworld.com/4267/070111iphonemarket/page_1.html ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Patent?

2007-01-10 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 07:21, Stuart Gray scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > I was just watching the apple iPhone keynote. And when Steve Jobs is > describing the phone touchscreen interface, he says they have patented > it. What does this mean about the OpenMoko phone? I

Re: Patent?

2007-01-10 Thread Christopher Heiny
One patent that Apple may be referring to is described here: http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/apple_files_patent_for_wireless_ipod_with_ringtones_micro_browser But the article doesn't say whether it was granted or still in the application process. And then there's this one: http

Re: Patent?

2007-01-10 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 07:21, Stuart Gray scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > I was just watching the apple iPhone keynote. And when Steve Jobs is > describing the phone touchscreen interface, he says they have patented > it. What does this mean about the OpenMoko phone? I

Re: Patent?

2007-01-10 Thread Christopher Heiny
One patent that Apple may be referring to is described here: http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/apple_files_patent_for_wireless_ipod_with_ringtones_micro_browser But the article doesn't say whether it was granted or still in the application process. And then there's this one: http

Re: Text entry

2006-12-13 Thread Christopher Heiny
Yet another text entry method. Very amenable to tapping. http://blogs.sun.com/korn/date/20061211 ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: The audio IC Wolfson WM8753 is cool :)))))

2006-12-12 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 08:43, Robert Michel scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > Salve Sean! > > The Wolfson WM8753 inside is a nice surprice > - yes your are right, we love surprises. Who says there is no Santa Claus? [snip] > Richard already mentioned the "input/output rate

Re: Shiny geek toy?

2006-12-07 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Thursday 07 December 2006 05:08, bullet holes in a road sign were found to spell the following message: > I think you are generally right, with some caveat. > > It's really a chicken/egg problem. Will the carriers come first, or > the applications? > > It is possible that in 2007, linux based e

Re: Shiny geek toy?

2006-12-07 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Thursday 07 December 2006 05:15, Markus Stehr scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > Hi! > > Christopher Heiny: > >and will see C++ and Java as enablers, VHDL and Perl as barriers. > > Argh, why does it always have to be some obscure object orientated &g

Re: Shiny geek toy?

2006-12-07 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:28, bullet holes in a road sign were found to spell the following message: > Hi Christopher, > > You are very right, of course. However, fantasies have their place in > product design. They inspire ideas. Out of 100 (or 1000) of our > completely wild fantasy ideas,

Shiny geek toy?

2006-12-06 Thread Christopher Heiny
What exactly is it that we want OpenMoko to be? Do we really want a shiny geek toy? Something that is super cool and technologically advanced, but only nerds will want to hack on? Or should we be working toward a solid OpenSource platform that will encourage other phone manufacturers to build

Re: Text entry

2006-11-30 Thread Christopher Heiny
And another one... Quickwriting is stylus based, but might be converted to fingers. http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/demos/quikwriting.html The bottom of the page mentions "licensing for commercial use". However, since it's been around for 8 years now without any apparent commercial implementatio

Text entry

2006-11-30 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Thursday 30 November 2006 00:17, Alexander Steinert scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > What do you think about T9? Touching instead pressing keys could > speed up the process noticable. And the user has the option to fit the > geometry of keys to his fingers. Another option is

Re: multicolour multi-touch screen Re: OpenMoko/Neo1973 is pure (r)evolution :))) - do you recognized the power of "multi-touch gesture recognition"

2006-11-30 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:02, Robert Michel scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > No keystroke at all - using just the different color points - areas > and use the combinatoric - 10 colour points without different areas > would give the power of 10! = 3.628.800 combinations

Re: multicolour multi-touch screen Re: OpenMoko/Neo1973 is pure (r)evolution :))) - do you recognized the power of "multi-touch gesture recognition"

2006-11-29 Thread Christopher Heiny
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:02, Robert Michel scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > No keystroke at all - using just the different color points - areas > and use the combinatoric - 10 colour points without different areas > would give the power of 10! = 3.628.800 combinations