Cell phones! (a/k/a I can haz SSDD?)
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Just buy a BT keyboard
Not the same though... I'll never be able to compose posts to what.tdwtf one-handed on the toilet again...
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I'll never be able to compose posts to what.tdwtf one-handed on the toilet again
Get a chording BT keyboard, then.
Or make one if you're feeling sufficiently badass.
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@Intercourse said:
I would not go back to a physical keyboard on a mobile phone. They take up too much space that I would prefer to be a larger display.
I'm about to sound even more like a Passport shill than I already do, but the Passport keyboard would wipe the floor with Swype any day of the week, and twice on Sunday. I say that not only because I used Swype when I had an Android phone.BlackBerry Passport keyboard walkthrough and demo – 05:01
— SourceForge
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but the Passport keyboard would wipe the floor with Swype any day of the week, and twice on Sunday
That's as may be, but then you've got Blackberry on you.
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Blackberry on you.
I'm probably gonna just have to accept that & buy a Passport if [i]literally no other phone has a HW keyboard...[/i]
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literally no other phone has a HW keyboard...
*ahem*
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I say that not only because I used Swype when I had an Android phone
How long ago? Current Swype learns from your usage, so it adapts to you as you use it.
As for the video: so the BB keyboard is basically a physical version of the soft keyboard of the Android keyboard. That means the android keyboard has one major advantage: it goes away when you don't need it, giving you additional screenspace when you aren't typing.
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That means the android keyboard has one major advantage: it goes away when you don't need it, giving you additional screenspace when you aren't typing.
I don't care for Swype, and I probably would be faster on a physical keyboard, but what you said is the reason that I have no desire for one.
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Wow, i get to choose between WinPhone and BBOS?!
Sprint sells an Android phone--the Motorola Admiral--but they're out of stock. Looks like AT&T has a Samsung Android as well.
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Is that Windows Mobile 7?
I'd rather have BB8.1 - and that's saying something.
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Wow, i get to choose between WinPhone [i]and[/i] BBOS?!
Here are some Android options, though none with anything newer than Android 4.1 Jellybean.
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Is that Windows Mobile 7?
I'd rather have BB8.1 - and that's saying something.
dunno.
i GID's "phone keyboard" and picke dthe first decent picture of a cellphone.i was hoping for one of those semi-smart phones. you know the ones that are between smart phones and those flip phones that only have the standard numberpad.
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Wow, i get to choose between WinPhone and BBOS?
Nah, we got you covered with feature phones, too!
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you know the ones that are between smart phones and those flip phones that only have the standard numberpad.
The Kyocera I linked has BOTH types of keyboards!
My wife, a few years ago, had a nice dual-slider Pantech. Down gets you a standard 12-key, but slide do the side, and you got a separate full keyboard.
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Looks like a Pro 7 so yeah, Windows Mobile 7.
I had one of these at my previous IT job nearly 6 years ago.
Windows Mobile 6
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It wasn't great either.
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It wasn't great either.
I don't know if there was anything that was "great", though. Several other phones I tried seemed sluggish. My point was that the Windows phones were cromulent for their time.
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SSDD?
You got a cell phone that takes 5¼" floppy discs?
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Heh, nope. Same Shit, Different Day.
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I assumed SSDD was a typo for SSDS and someone really wanted a phone with SpectateSwamp's handiwork on it.
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I assumed SSDD was a typo for SSDS
I wasn't sure why the acronym was there at all at first; I missed SpectateSwamp at the time, and he/it seems like something it's not worth edumacating myself about.
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SpectateSwamp Desktop Search (SSDS) is the topic of an entirely too long thread on the old forums. None of it makes any sense. Also the origin of TDEMSYR AFAICT.
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I can't wait until that gets imported and people decide to compete with the likes topic using a locked topic.
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There was no such thing as an SSDD floppy.
Wikipedia disagrees:SSDD originally referred to Single Sided, Double Density, a format of (usually 5 1⁄4-inch) floppy disks which could typically hold 35-40 tracks of nine 512-byte (or 18 256-byte) sectors each. [..] Single-sided disks began to become obsolete after the introduction of IBM PC DOS 1.1 in 1982, which added support for double-side diskette drives with capacity of 320 KB to the IBM 5150 PC. In 1983 PC DOS 2.0 pushed the formatting capacity to 180 KB single-sided or 360 KB double-sided by utilizing 9 instead of only 8 sectors per track.
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SpectateSwamp Desktop Search (SSDS) is the topic of an entirely too long thread on the old forums.
I clicked that link and I think someone linked to it upthread. I'll admit to date I've seen it a couple of times but haven't been able to force myself to read much of it, heh. "None of it makes any sense" is quite literally true.
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Wikipedia disagrees:
Pendantry denied. Anyone with access to a sharp knife or scissors could and did turn them into DSDD disks. I think I got my first 5.25" drive when I was 13 and I started doing it right away because I'd already read about it in a magazine.
I know that literally, a product called an SSDD existed, but that wasn't what I meant.
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I jumped in at about page 30 and slogged through to the end in hour long chunks over about 3 or 4 days. I'd expect you could jump in anywhere and read any number of posts—like a fractal, the thread is self-similarly non-plussing at all levels of magnification.
Actually I enjoyed the bit about giving DVD's to the homeless, if that's what that bit was about...
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Anyone with access to a sharp knife or scissors could and did turn them into DSDD disks. I think I got my first 5.25" drive when I was 13 and I started doing it right away because I'd already read about it in a magazine.
Would that have been before or after this, from the quoted article?Single-sided disks began to become obsolete after the introduction of IBM PC DOS 1.1 in 1982
I wouldn't know; prior to 1990 the only machine I had regular access to used cassette tapes for storage. They, of course, were double sided :)
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I can't wait until that gets imported and people decide to compete with the likes topic using a locked topic.
What's happening with that, @apapadimoulis?
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I missed SpectateSwamp at the time, and he/it seems like something it's not worth edumacating myself about.
Me too - I've read some of the 50ish page thread. Enough to know I didn't want to read the whole thing.
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Would that have been before or after this, from the quoted article?
I didn't have access to a PC until about 1984, but I got my first Atari floppy drive (Indus GT, baby!) a couple of years earlier. Atari drives, (IIRC like Apple 2 drives) didn't support dual sides, so as far as I know, pretty much everyone cut that second notch.
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This is most definitely on my list, and I was hoping we’d get to it in December; but I’ve had to push it back due to some unexpected rubbish that came up. I’m estimating it’ll be basically a half-day thing, and I just haven’t had one of those available.
Hoping @ben_lubar will be available to assist in Jan!
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excellent!
is adding IPv6 still on the "we'd like to do this while we're at it... if there's time left on the retainer" list still?
:-D
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Anyone with access to a sharp knife or scissors could and did turn them into DSDD disks.
Only with the later ones. Earlier versions may well not have had the magnetic coating on both sides…
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By the time I had access to them, they basically all did.
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BB10 gets something spot on that no other phone manufacturer manages - BlackBerry Hub. It's utterly brilliant.
And the Blackberry Blend software lets you access and use your device's Hub, contacts, calendar, files, etc. from any PC or Mac - even if your device is connected via mobile Internet.
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Blackberry
I know a guy who works for RIM so I had a chance to have a quick play with hisa Passport. It was actually a little smaller than I thought it'd be. I'm kind of tempted to get one, in a "wait 18 months and try and pick one up on ebay for <$250" kind of way.
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If you're trying to make sure the price is over $250, you probably don't even have to wait the 18 months.
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Yeah, I have about a 1 in 3 chance of getting those the right way round... editing...
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The crocodile eats the larger one, because he's a greedy crocodile.
Just realised it's over 20 years since I learned that mnemonic. Where's the getting old thread?
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greedy crocodile
Yah, I basically have to recite that mnemonic every time I want to make a comparison—it only works in situations where you have two numbers with a comparison in the middle. If one of the numbers is implied, or the order is non-standard, then the whole thing breaks down.
Aside: making sense of comparisons is my least favourite aspect of writing code in prefix notation like in Scheme:
(define (max-no-wait-maybe-its min a b)
(if (< a b) a b))
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But it's worth the pain! Having a uniform syntax means you get the most powerful macro system known to mankind* in return!
* warning: scheme macro jargon may be incomprehensible to the uninitiated.
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Relevant (and funny if you've spent any amount of time writing Lisp code):
You are right to an extent you may not even suspect: The loop macro is an abstraction intended to bring closer a programming language (Common Lisp) to a human language (English).
Remember: that's a bad thing. Programming is not meant to be easy and it's important to make sure that it is as cryptic as possible otherwise people other than cult members might be able to understand it. Of course, you also need to make sure it's pure, because otherwise cult members will laughingly throw you into a pit full of spikes and the rotting remains of other heretics.
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Reviving this
phonethread for a quick question: what kind of screen protectors or cases do you people use, if any? I'm always paranoid of damaging my electronics, but I don't know how much those things actually protect.I bought a Moto G (2nd generation (why on earth do companies think it's OK to release two different products with the same name?)) a while ago, with a flip shell, but the shell was defective so I sent it back. Rather than buy a replacement, I explored other options.
There's the good old plastic screen protectors, and the newer tempered glass ones, but the screen is supposed to be gorilla glass and virtually un-scratchable already, so I don't think they really protect anything.
As for shells, there's the thin plastic ones, that I guess protect the body from scratches but definitely not the screen from drops (some claim to do that, but I don't think it's physically possible), the bulkier (and much more expensive) ones that are not worth the cost IMO for such a cheap phone, and even the cool but also expensive grip shell.
I kinda wish I had some actual data to pick between all that, rather than vague manufacturer claims and unscientific "drop tests".
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I have one of these on my S5:
http://www.spigen.co.uk/cell-phone/samsung/galaxy-s5/galaxy-s5-case-ultra-fit.html
The ridge on the front keeps the screen away from things like tables etc.And I had one of these on my Nexus 5:
http://www.spigen.co.uk/cell-phone/google/google-nexus-5/nexus-5-case-ultra-hybrid.htmlAlthough it makes the phone a fair bit bigger, it does keep it well protected.
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what kind of screen protectors or cases do you people use, if any?
None (on SGS3). And while the case certainly took a beating, the screen is barely scratched in one or two places - and that was an used phone in "good" condition, so they might have been there all along.