Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 03:33:07AM +0200, dnewbie wrote:
> Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote
> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b
Wow. Looks like we have a good influx of new D people in the last 2
years. That's a good sign!
T
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Never step o
The <1 year stat is rather disappointing though...
On 6 July 2013 15:24, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 03:33:07AM +0200, dnewbie wrote:
> > Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote
> > http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b
>
> Wow. Looks l
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 05:33:16 UTC, Manu wrote:
The <1 year stat is rather disappointing though...
Not enough votes in total for any meaningful statistical
inference. There is also probably a bias in favour of more
established users as they most likely spend more time here and
click th
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 06:32:24 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
established users as they most likely spend more time here and
click through to the poll.
... and are MORE LIKELY to click through to the poll.
Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in
textual acc
On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in
> textual accuracy :-(
Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I
absolutely have to.
- Jonathan M Davis
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:48:40PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> > Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in
> > textual accuracy :-(
>
> Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unles
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 05:33:16 UTC, Manu wrote:
The <1 year stat is rather disappointing though...
Perhaps a repost in d.learn would change that.
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:48:40 -0700
Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> > Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in
> > textual accuracy :-(
>
> Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I
On 7/5/2013 6:33 PM, dnewbie wrote:
Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b
D started in 1999.
On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 08:13:49 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> Y'know, I've always found correct-as-you-type features extremely
> annoying. I encountered it first in MS Word, and it annoyed me so
> much I crawled back into my Vim cave. :-P When I upgraded to a
> smartphone, I decided to give it an ho
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 04:26:36PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[...]
> Any kind of "smart" feature usually ends up being a big 'ol bag of
> badly-tuned heuristics (or just simply a stupid, presumptuous idea -
> like the stereo on the 2011(-ish?) Hyundai Elantra *always* turning on
> *twice* every
On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 14:08:20 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> I resisted "upgrading" to a "smart"phone for many years (people used
> to laugh at me for carrying around such a prehistoric antique -- to a
> point I took pride in showing it off to the kids), until the battery
> life started to wear out
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 21:09:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
but I found that I *still* have to recharge once a day 'cos of
the battery drain from all those advanced "features" that were
never
there in the old phone. Sigh...
I heard, wifi consumes the lion share of battery charge, try to
disa
On 07/06/2013 02:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:48:40 -0700
Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in
textual accuracy :-(
Typing on smartphones is hell. I
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:37:37 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
Please, I still have a physical keyboard on my new smartphone.
Put your money where your mouth is.
I must admit it becomes increasingly harder to find ones. I am
not ware of a single new model that has both physical keyboard
and less tha
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:37:37 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
On 07/06/2013 02:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Anyway, typing on a mobile device was more or less a solved
problem
until that sack of shit Steve Jobs moronically convinced
everyone that
physical buttons and styluses were bad things (Remembe
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:44:20 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:37:37 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
Please, I still have a physical keyboard on my new smartphone.
Put your money where your mouth is.
I must admit it becomes increasingly harder to find ones. I am
not ware of a single
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:56:58 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
I guess none of them count as that "new" though.
Yeah, Android 2.3 has some legacy smell :) Looks nice, wish they
released something similar but with fresh h/w and OS. Still may
work with some cyanogen magic, thanks!
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:44:20 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
I must admit it becomes increasingly harder to find ones. I am
not ware of a single new model that has both physical keyboard
and less than 4.5" screen. Any hints?
Blackberry Q10 = 3.1" with 720 x 720 resolution:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.c
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 18:09:24 UTC, MattCoder wrote:
Blackberry Q10 = 3.1" with 720 x 720 resolution:
Any piece of hardware I can't install some custom tweaked OS on
is not an option and RIM attitude has always sucked hard in that
regard. That is not something I will support with my money
On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 02:38:15AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 14:08:20 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> >
> > I resisted "upgrading" to a "smart"phone for many years (people used
> > to laugh at me for carrying around such a prehistoric antique -- to
> > a point I took pride
On 07/07/2013 12:44 PM, Dicebot wrote:
On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 17:37:37 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
Please, I still have a physical keyboard on my new smartphone.
Put your money where your mouth is.
I must admit it becomes increasingly harder to find ones. I am not ware
of a single new model that h
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 16:51:32 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 02:38:15AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >
> > Yea. I don't accept that "smartphones" are really phones. They're
> > PDA's with telephony tacked on.
>
> Ah, what's in a name? If they want to call PDA's with teleph
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:55:57AM -0500, 1100110 wrote:
[...]
> And I haven't experienced the battery issues mentioned.
[...]
> The battery will last half a day with my usage.
[...]
Heh.
The original complaint was that I have to charge the device every day.
And now you're telling me that chargin
On 07/06/2013 08:48 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I
> absolutely have to.
I was on a long train journey, I didn't have my laptop ... at the time it seemed
the right thing to do :-)
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 06:48:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost
in
textual accuracy :-(
Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it
unless I
abs
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 06:48:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling
wrote:
Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost
in
textual accuracy :-(
Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it
unless I
abs
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 05:48:55AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 16:51:32 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
[...]
> > Yeah ever since my wife got an iPhone, our attempts to fall asleep
> > have been constantly interrupted by annoying dings and zings every
> > so often from stray ema
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:21:24 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> and all of the other stuff that insists on
> accessing stuff they shouldn't need to access in order to function.
> It always makes me suspicious when, for example, a single-player game
> app requires "full internet access", sometimes "acce
On 07/08/2013 09:24 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:55:57AM -0500, 1100110 wrote:
[...]
And I haven't experienced the battery issues mentioned.
[...]
The battery will last half a day with my usage.
[...]
Heh.
The original complaint was that I have to charge the device every
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:21:24 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> They'd notice if your app was a superior browser that threatens the
> dominance of Safari. :) Or a video player that *gasp* can play more
> formats than the crippled built-in video player can (*ahem*VLC
> player*cough*). Basically anything
On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 19:22:59 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Y'know what would be an awesome feature? A configurable volume
level
scheduler, like those old turn-on-the-light-at-night power
dials, that
automatically shuts off the volume at night, and turns it back
on in the
morning.
Better yet,
On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 01:33:09 UTC, dnewbie wrote:
Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b
Here are the results.
2012 2013
<1 year 27% 21%
1-2 years 25% 27%
3-5 years 28% 31%
6-10 year
Oh noes! We have an aging population!
We're all gonna need the pension soon... who's gonna pay the rent! O_O
On 15 July 2013 11:32, dnewbie wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 01:33:09 UTC, dnewbie wrote:
>
>> Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote
>> http://www.easypolls.n
On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 08:13 -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[…]
> Y'know, I've always found correct-as-you-type features extremely
> annoying. I encountered it first in MS Word, and it annoyed me so much I
> crawled back into my Vim cave. :-P When I upgraded to a smartphone, I
> decided to give it an hon
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 09:38 +0200, Kagamin wrote:
[…]
> I heard, wifi consumes the lion share of battery charge, try to
> disable it.
WiFi can be a big battery drain, but so is the screen, and (perhaps most
importantly) the mobile aerial. The second of these is perhaps obvious,
the first and thir
Am 07.07.2013 09:49, schrieb Russel Winder:
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 09:38 +0200, Kagamin wrote:
[…]
I heard, wifi consumes the lion share of battery charge, try to
disable it.
WiFi can be a big battery drain, but so is the screen, and (perhaps most
importantly) the mobile aerial. The second of t
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