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 we live

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 hew...@gmail.com 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_

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. :) I

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 mihirathe...@gmail.com 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

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 toing you cause this reply is to a message from last week. ;) ) On Tue, 17 May 2011

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 hew...@gmail.com 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

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 hew...@gmail.com said: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:48:25PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 19:07:09 -0700, Freeman hew...@gmail.com said: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:48:23PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote: What is the # of years in your

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:

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) subdistro

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. Specifically,

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

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

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 UNSUBSCRIBE,

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 to

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 andreimpope...@gmail.com 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

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: 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 It

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 when I

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

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:

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 mi...@gnu.org 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,

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

2011-05-16 Thread Dom
On 17/05/11 05:48, giovanni_re wrote: snip = 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,

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