Re: 0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-27 Thread Joe
On Fri, 27 May 2011 11:19:19 +0530 Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 05/27/2011 08:55 AM, Freeman wrote: > > and a habit of attempting to impress attractive young women with it > > all. > > Did this ever work ? :D > > Not to my knowledge. Is this only open to smartphone users? I've gone the way of

Re: 0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-27 Thread Freeman
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:19:19AM +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 05/27/2011 08:55 AM, Freeman wrote: > >and a habit of attempting to impress attractive young women with it all. > > Did this ever work ? :D > Most are patient but, outside of a couple of diversions to youtube, . . . no. :

Re: 0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-27 Thread Freeman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:19:29PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2011 20:25:32 -0700, "Freeman" said: > > But, not a programmer, just an enthusiast/hobbiest with a love of Debian, > > > :) > > If that's the way you want to read my question, fine by me. ;) > > > The way _I_ read

Re: 0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 27 May 00:54 -0500, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 05/27/2011 08:55 AM, Freeman wrote: > >and a habit of attempting to impress attractive young women with it all. > > Did this ever work ? :D Only by referencing Star Trek in a blog post. ;-) - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that w

Re: 0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-26 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 05/27/2011 08:55 AM, Freeman wrote: and a habit of attempting to impress attractive young women with it all. Did this ever work ? :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: 0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-26 Thread giovanni_re
On Thu, 26 May 2011 20:25:32 -0700, "Freeman" said: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:48:25PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > > On Tue, 17 May 2011 19:07:09 -0700, "Freeman" said: > > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:48:23PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > > > > What is the # of years in your Age, Programming, D

Re: 0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-26 Thread Freeman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:48:25PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011 19:07:09 -0700, "Freeman" said: > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:48:23PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > > > > . . . > > > OK: What Smartphone do you use? > > > Manufacturer name, Model name, OS name, Cell Carrier name,

0 years 1st programmed computer? - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-26 Thread giovanni_re
Hi Freeman :) I got a laugh out of your reply here - in a nice way. I'm thinking perhaps you didn't press on some key hard enough. Are you sure your answer to #2 is "0"? ;) (Please reply to the list - I'm "to"ing you cause this reply is to a message from last week. ;) ) On Tue, 17 May 2011

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Freeman
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:48:23PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: . . . > = > = Poll 1b: 3 Additional Poll questions now: > Age, Programming years, Debian years > > As I was reading over the poll responses, I thought

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Steven
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 21:48 -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > Nokia N900 running Maemo 5, my carrier is Proximus (Belgacom mobile), > Belgium. > APD: 24, 12, 3 (maybe 4) Mind that back then, the 'programming' was only simple html and annoying javascript alert boxes. It got more serious in 2002 - 2003

Re: Smartphone definition - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread shawn wilson
On May 17, 2011 4:30 AM, "Andrei Popescu" wrote: > > On Lu, 16 mai 11, 22:49:15, giovanni_re wrote: > > > > Smartphone == a hardware object which contains a programmable computer, > > with memory & a touch screen user interface, and also contains cell > > phone system connection ability, upon wh

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread David Sanders
> > They are actually an English company called Hutchinson 3G Telecoms, > but the carrier name is 3. And to contradict myself, they're not English at all by the look of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchison_3G I really should check my facts before opening mutt! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread David Sanders
> (Yes, Sweden has a cell carrier named "3".  No, I have no idea how they > managed to get that approved as a company name.) They are actually an English company called Hutchinson 3G Telecoms, but the carrier name is 3. FWIW: HTC Hero, Android 2.3 (Cyanogen Mod 7 Stable), 3, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
Ah, what the heck... I'll play: Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i, Android 2.1, 3, Sweden APD: 40, 32, 13 (Yes, Sweden has a cell carrier named "3". No, I have no idea how they managed to get that approved as a company name.) -- Dave Sherohman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: Smartphone definition - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Simon Hoerder
Hi, (Andrei, it was indeed meant for the list. Sorry for mailing you.) To avoid the marketing lingo I'd say a smart phone is a device which is intended to be used as a phone (if you want to distinguish it from tablets with phone capabilities) and which is beefed up enough to run an OS such as d

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:48:23PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: > = Poll 1b: 3 Additional Poll questions now: > Age, Programming years, Debian years > > As I was reading over the poll responses, I thought > "It would be useful to know something about the smartphone users. > Specific

Re: Smartphone definition - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 16 mai 11, 22:49:15, giovanni_re wrote: > > Smartphone == a hardware object which contains a programmable computer, > with memory & a touch screen user interface, and also contains cell > phone system connection ability, upon which potentially a properly > designed Debian GNU(Linux) subdi

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-16 Thread Dom
On 17/05/11 05:48, giovanni_re wrote: = OK: What Smartphone do you use? Manufacturer name, Model name, OS name, Cell Carrier name, Country you live in. HTC, Hermes300 (T-Mobile Vario MDA II), Winmobile 5 (Yuck!), T-Mobile, England What is the # of years in your Age, Programming, Debian

Smartphone definition - Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-16 Thread giovanni_re
On Tue, 17 May 2011 14:20:43 +0900, "Miles Bader" said: > What defines a "smartphone" anyway? >From my perspective, as an owner of a hardware object which contains a programmable computer, with memory & a touch screen user interface, and also contains cell phone system connection ability, (& upo

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-16 Thread teddieeb
Miles Bader ask: What defines a "smartphone" anyway? -Miles --- An IQ of at least 130 pts.? TeddyB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/771755914-

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-16 Thread Miles Bader
What defines a "smartphone" anyway? -Miles -- Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-05-16 23:48:23 giovanni_re wrote: >HTC, Hero, Android + HTC Sense, Sprint, USA >1) How old are you? 31 as of Sunday. >2) How many years ago did you 1st program a computer? 0 to #, >or N=Never 26. (I started writing BASIC, MS QuickBasic, and DOS .bat scripts after school whe

Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-16 Thread giovanni_re
We had a great response here two weeks ago on this poll, :) & today here is: 1) The summary, & 2) 3 additional poll questions. :) - As I was working on this summary, I realized there were 3 more questions that would have added to the useful & fun information. So, we'll do a "Part B" of this