Comment Re:sensors on a micro-USB device (Score 1) 111
There's an Android app as well...
https://market.android.com/details?id=biz.lakin.android.apps.tricorder
There's an Android app as well...
https://market.android.com/details?id=biz.lakin.android.apps.tricorder
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They go on to say "Sorry about that" but I'm not convinced they are. Anyway, you might want to update you sig.
Voted up. Glad to see you again and hope you make it.
I'm far away from all this (geographically, politically, probably not effectively) but I wonder
What would you like to see slowed down to such a degree?
The Big Bang.
Ooh, but that doesn't work. I must admit: I haven't tried this in Linux, but that is certainly the case on the BSDs.
Interesting. It shows how much I have still to learn, a number of years hence. But also shows how utterly chanceless it is for a newbie to know how to do proper research. Ah well, all the more "Getting Started With..." books sold...
Funny how much of a pain it is to learn something new when you fail to do any sort of research before diving in...
or how seemingly relevant research yields no results.
I learned rather early on that "man" gave you a small manual to a command. But I could never figure out how to EXIT the manual
Overall, it was a very sobering experience to come from a DOS/Windows world and being quite experienced, and going ("back") to "a black screen with a blinky in the upper left corner".
Meanwhile some of us have real work to do which we need our PC's for.
But as tablets become able to do "real work", fewer people will demand PCs.
And how do tables *become* better? Is there a full software development environment that is iOS- or Android-based?
Welcome to 1982! You can tell your boss I said so.
Bill Atkinson, of early Apple fame, also "struggled" (too strong a term, really) with the lines-of-code metric. "He thought his goal was to write as small and fast a program as possible, and that the lines of code metric only encouraged writing sloppy, bloated, broken code.", as the story goes.
www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt
If you're not American, then all the above is still true, but I should have used a different tone.
+1 Excellent use of pre-emptive after-the-fact diplomacy!
I didn't mention the robot-to-dinosaur or robot-to-city transfolk because they are sparkless abominations.
Which makes perfect sense. Sadly, unsparkless* robot-to-star* folk have a tendency to suffer fatal short circuits and are generally not long-lived. But we digress...
* beware technical jargon in the above
That is in all honesty a very good name for a shoulder-mounted gadget such as this.
What a brain fart. Thank you.
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