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Comment look at some of the stuff they banned (Score 1) 356

STUPID
NIGER (the country??)
KOTEX
SEX
VAGINA
TONGUE
SUCK
HOSTAGE
UTERUS
SNIPER
SNOT
SIX SIX SIX (yeah cuz someone is gonna spell out numbers?? why not ban 666 then)
SCREW
SHOWTIME
ROBBER
RETARDED
CRAP
CREAMY
DIKE
DEVIL
DRUNK
GAY
HARDER
JOINT
PEE
PERIOD
OUI
NAKED
NIG
OU812
POOP
PREMATURE
PUSSY CAT
REAR END
SLAVE
STROKE
TROJAN
TWO ON ONE
WUUTANG (???)
WHITE TRASH (is this a problem over there??)

Comment Re:Only good in the USA... (Score 1) 77

Yeah, and they wonder why there is a piracy problem.
"Can I watch this show? Here is $8 US"
"No, the binary data would become unlicensed and therefore Illegal if it crossed an imaginary line while being transferred over the Internet."
I'd understand if they wanted to charge less money in countries with worthless currency, but I really don't get why these idiot network executives shun the global market and then cancel all the cool sci-fi shows I like because "nobody wants to watch them".

Comment Re:Only good in the USA... (Score 1) 77

There are ways to get it working, using vpn, proxies, dns tricks... I don't want to say the exact solution that I used because it was easy and inexpensive enough that anyone can do it. This isn't exactly a good thing as stuff that easy tends to get blocked too. Lets just say if you want to watch US VIDEOs there is an ORGanization that can help you with that. But, please just be a sucker and pay for the crappy Canadian version of Netflix, that is the only way they will make enough money to license all the content for us as well in the future. (I hope I'm wrong)

Comment Re:They for got one step: port Dalvik (Score 2) 424

these guys have done it already:
http://www.myriadgroup.com/Media-Centre/News/Myriad-Announces-Alien%20Dalvik-Enables-Android-Apps-to-Run-on-Non-Android-Phones.aspx
the picture shows an n900, the press release used to say something about maemo or meego but they changed it now that Nokia is trying to run away from their own platform.
Only problem is this company will want a lot of money for their product, people that tried emailing them to purchase it were told it's up to the operators and manufacturers to come to an arrangement, they won't sell directly to end users :(

Comment Re:So... (Score 2) 78

The fastest speed at a given voltage is always the most efficient, so overclocking is really only a battery killer if you run at higher than stock voltages to reach the top speeds.
n900 also becomes both faster and more efficient by disabling the 125 and 250 mhz frequencies. This is because they use very similar low voltages, with nokia's kernel they are close, and some of the other voltage profiles commonly used with titan's kernel they are identical. So it's better to do x cycles of work at 500mhz and sleep for as long as possible (shut off the cpu as much as possible to save power) than to run twice or four times as much to the same amount of work.
Anyways, I wish people on the maemo forums would understand this before crying that the 125/250mhz isn't "working"...

Comment Re:They're still around? (Score 1) 135

i can run kismet on it, get packet injection working (hard to get the driver but whatever), play with 3-4 different operating systems (using a boot menu), replace the camera app with one that does HDR and burst mode with full manual settings, connect to msn,skype,jabber,irc,etc all at the same time... I've also got an IR transmitter, usb-host mode, fm-transmitter, front camera, 32GB storage PLUS SD-card. It comes rooted, and I didn't even void the warranty to do any of these things. but, yeah, it doesn't have a RETINA display or stainless steel call dropper bezel, or sweet "store" to buy DRM laden crap I probably already own 3 times. okay, no google maps app either, and it took nokia just about forever to get some basic stuff working like the pc sync.
Hopefully they sell a crapload of MeeGo devices next year, and drop Symbian soon, because I've seen the potential of this device. With some more developer support, it would truly be the best (for me). One really can't complain that the default stuff on the phone is slow or hard to use, it's more like a prototype they were nice enough to manufactre and sell at a loss. They did their best (with limited resources) to support, update and fix it, and we can upgrade it to a MeeGo device with a simple firmware flash in the near future if we want. Meanwhile, the community has been patching and replacing whatever Nokia code we can, whenever we think we can do a better job than Nokia's developers.

and no, you can't conect a sixaxis to your phone. it doesn't work as a standard HID, sony is lame.

Comment Re:They're still around? (Score 1) 135

1) yes, no multitouch. i got over it. I could connect a mouse & keyboard via bluetooth if I really wanted to though, and I can use a real stylus. It's not all bad.
2) what's a store? I'm glad this "store" thing with apps that cost money is nearly empty. Okay, so they have some free stuff there too, but the real place you should be looking is HERE. That's the "extras" maemo repository, full of the free apps that made it through the community based testing & voting process. They're mostly written for the platform, not generic gtk stuff. There's other repositories with even more "apps" that are still in development or testing, and companies and individuals can host their own as well.

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