Originally Posted by frostbyte (Post 770793)

geosynchronous is the term

Originally Posted by devensega (Post 770794)

Hey mate, its not my opinion. It's the nuclear physicist at CERN you are saying is only partially right.

In my case I know nothing about the subject or any of the blather about who's the uber Linux coder in this thread. Hell I bought this phone because I saw a video of somebody playing Super Mario on it.

Sweeeet :D

Originally Posted by giladmttw (Post 770797)

mmmmmm. tough one. *raises eyebrow*
As root or as user boy ?

Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 770799)

So is this what it is like when nerds attack? Semantics, fanboyism, terminology arguments... hell. This thread has it all...

Even a light year argument. I was sorta waiting on the Star Wars "parsec" comment to come out. It could still happen!

http://gerbick.com/images/popcorn.gif

Originally Posted by longcat (Post 770805)

does those people get payed to say **** on this forum?

Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 770799)

So is this what it is like when nerds attack? Semantics, fanboyism, terminology arguments... hell. This thread has it all...

Originally Posted by Rauha (Post 770815)

This board certainly has too much nerdrage and fanboism, but as far as this thread goes the OP just came to do one more hate lap before he left. Results as expected.

Originally Posted by PradaBrada (Post 770685)

You know, for a hacking community supposedly overrun by developers and programmers in their 30's this place is the most fanboyish and biased forum I've ever visited

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770612)

I drive a BMW 635i but my n900 wont show transfer contacts over iDrive......

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770612)

so what your suggesting is when I get a VITAL business call that may be worth £20k I should

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770612)

as I posted before I really do *laugh* at these "linux experts", they have NEVER wrote a line of code in their life, they dont know what CPU registers are, but yet they *hack* their n900 ie editing a text file........................

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770683)

thats why i bought my n900, I had a DREAM of a FULL Linux computer in my pocket,...

Originally Posted by danramos (Post 770804)

Either. Go ahead and do it in userland, if you want to be paranoid. I know I'd prefer to do things in paranoia as a matter of my own policy anyway. :)

Originally Posted by Rauha (Post 770815)

This board certainly has too much nerdrage and fanboism, but as far as this thread goes the OP just came to do one more hate lap before he left. Results as expected.

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770832)

Nah sorry if the truth hurts

I spent £430 on two phone calls on my n900

I think Im qualified to comment on its abilities, or to be honest its lack of (Im a qualified UK Software engineer)

nerdrage....well thats you

fanboism....omg...............thats you again.................

the n900 is a stinking pile of ****........................
it has NOTHING going for it.......

apart from plummeting prices....

I just tell it as it is........thats the way I roll

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770832)

I spent £430 on two phone calls on my n900

nerdrage....well thats you

fanboism....omg...............thats you again.................

the n900 is a stinking pile of ****........................
it has NOTHING going for it.......

I just tell it as it is........thats the way I roll

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770559)

Im only on here for another 4 hours (at which point I will get a 67 trillion point infraction and be banned for 5.6 light years), so any questions please be quick

Gary

Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 770826)

Wait... I thought that's what I had! Hmm... uname seems to report back Linux... That IS what I have.

Originally Posted by giladmttw (Post 770831)

I thought you were joking. I didn't realize you are testing to see if I would identify a ******** command. Dude, apt-get install some sense man.
edit: maybe I didn't get the joke.forget this post

Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 770826)

To the OP:
I won't be sad to see you go. Every post you've had on here has been negative, ill-informed, and cynical to the point of being poisonous. You've done absolutely nothing I can see to try to help or support the community in the months I've been here, other then whine and moan about your perceived shortcomings of the N900. Meanwhile others have taken the more positive route of trying to make things work that by all rights shouldn't (like making iDrive work, which it does now, btw.)

Your negativity won't be missed. In fact, it's absence will probably be celebrated. Have fun whining in another forum about your new device when it also doesn't sync with Exchange and/or your iDrive! And yes, I promise to turn the lights out as the last one leaving, if you promise to try to take your other negative-Nancy "friends" with you to whatever forum you go trolling to next... Speaking of....



A forum, for, about, and composed of people who want to develop for and exchange information about a specific device line is biased toward that device line?! NO WAY!

What planet do you live on that that's not the case? Have you tried talking smack against the iPhone in an iPhone forum? Oh, wait, you can't because they'll just ban you and delete your comments...

Yes, most people here like the N900 (or some previous NX00 model), and most own one. If they don't like it, or don't own one, they'd have no reason to be here! This is not Engadget, or some generic talk forum about phones! It's a very specific forum about a particular line of devices. And when bobble-heads like you (and the OP) show up and start randomly criticizing the latest device for not being able to cause the second coming, why are you surprised to find hostility?



Yes, and I can't get my Zune to sync with the iDrive either! It's like the iDrive is a proprietary standard, made for one particular set of devices from a single manufacturer, or something. (I can't get my Epson laptop to sync with my iDrive either... Why don't they supply a cable for that device?) I can't get my iPod to sync with my preferred RSS reader either, but every other MP3 player (and my N900) can sync with it just fine. Should I chuck my iPod? Is it totally useless?



...buy a £10 bluetooth headset with an answer button? How hard is that? I have a little Morotola 500 earpiece in my car, pre-linked to the N900, normally turned off. If my N900 rings while I'm in the car, I put the earpiece on (one handed, takes .5 seconds without looking away from the road) and press the button to turn it on. One second later, it's connected and auto-answers the call. It work's just fine, almost like it's designed to work with most generic phones, not using a proprietary interface from a competing phone company!



This from a man whos so hung up on his iRadio that he can't figure out to buy a cheep bluetooth headset for his car? I love how you make assumptions about people. All I've had to do to "hack" my N900 has been mainly config editing and minor scripting, because it works out of the box for 98% of what I do with it. That doesn't mean I'm not capable of doing more. In fact, I'm about the same age as you, similar profession, and code in C and assembly (on ARM processors) regularly.

One of the things I love about the N900 is that I haven't had to program anything specifically for it, yet. I had 2 projects I really wanted to work on for it, and both were 80% done, the week after I got my phone, and were totally stable. So I threw some donations and testing time to those authors instead. (And as a developer, I know I appreciate detailed testers who file bugs with notes on how to repeat the problem, and maybe even a pointer to the code that's messing things up!)

I'm also syncing with my Exchange server (which it does just fine, thanks), making calls (my call log says 207 calls since November), and lots, lots more. It just works... with little tweaking. It's a shame you weren't able to spend an hour or two to setup the device properly, and only made "two test calls" in the months you've owned it. Sounds like you never really gave it more than a passing glance anyway, which makes me wonder why you bothered... But wait, you said:



Wait... I thought that's what I had! Hmm... uname seems to report back Linux... That IS what I have. And anything compiled to run on a debian-ish ARM system with a reasonably recent library set seems to work just fine... Some of the apps from the manufacturer behave a little oddly at times, but otherwise, it seems quite Linux based to me. You do know that even Slackware, the initial distro put together by Linus himself, has packages with closed-source drivers, right? Last I looked there was a Flash package for Slackware... Closed source.

Maybe what you want it a magical pixy phone that can expand to 8 times it's normal size on command, runs four days on a charge, with constant high-end multi-CPU usage, that can auto-detect and use/run/edit/play any format file and sync with everything up to and including the proprietary data chip embedded in your pet. All out of the box, without needing to configure anything (it should just know that's your pet, right?) Enjoy your hunt Ahab... and watch out for that ticking noise!

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770832)

fanboism....omg...............thats you again.................

Originally Posted by devensega (Post 770846)

Ok, who puts the tags at the bottom? They are quite brilliant.

Originally Posted by danramos (Post 770844)

uname isn't executable in userspace on Android, but on a rooted Android, "uname -a" does report a Linux kernel.

Just saying.

Originally Posted by Rauha (Post 770848)

Yeah sure everyone that disagrees with you is fanboy. That's the winning argument.

Since you are so keen on checking everyones posting history, go ahead and check mine. It's got plenty of Nokia criticism. I just don't have to to rude everyone who disagrees with me. Or make my point with dots, exclamation marks and take a dump on the community while doing it.

But I'll go to get some sleep now and stop feeding the troll now. Wish you best of luck in future.

Originally Posted by PradaBrada (Post 770856)

lol just came back to correct my semantic error from earlier: positional dimension, not spatial, space itself is positional too. The rest still stands

Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 770851)

Uh... OK? Yup... Android is Linux too. Your point? I think Androids are great fun. Several of my friends have them. The shame of it is that the distro developer didn't see fit to include a default "rootshell" package, or a free SSH package to allow users to get root by default. But otherwise, it's not that bad of a system.

I'm confused why you're mentioning this?

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770845)

OMG I dint bother reading all your drivel...youre just a dick who drives a fiesta...........

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770845)

IM talking BMW here..............and you tell me to buy a £10 earpiece !?!?!??!?!?!

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770845)

this is THREE years old but gives you an idea of phone/car integration...............

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770845)

just my opinion....but all n900 owners should be placed on the UK sex offenders registar...................... just a thought ??

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770858)

I knew you were full of BS

Dont blame it on semantics.....................

Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 770864)

Actaully, I drive a smart car... put out by Benz in the US, which trumps your fancy BMW with a busted proprietary iRadio. :)



No, I'm saying you're clearly too hung up on being "superior" in your BMW to consider buying a simple bluetooth earpiece to use to talk on the phone. But then how could you whine about spending hundreds of pounds on two phone calls? And here I thought that line about a fool and his money was just an urban legend....



I have a nice pioneer system at home that my N900 links to just fine. It pauses the music when the phone rings, and has the option of being a speaker device, showing contacts (which now works), or just shutting up while I'm on the phone. Shame your fancy car radio isn't smart enough to do such things... Guess that's your fault though for having a three year old model BMW. I'm sure the new model radio can do that...




Awesome... Please, having been an N900, you should go self-register. I would, but I don't live in the UK, so it really doesn't apply to me. :)

Have fun trolling elsewhere.... I'll miss you!!! Hugs!!! <3 :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by giladmttw (Post 770871)

Does the iDrive integrate with iFart apps ? What if I really have to ? we're talking BMW here, you can't just "go" like in a fiesta.

Originally Posted by danramos (Post 770860)

Because I have about as much Linux in MY pocket as you do in yours.

Originally Posted by danramos (Post 770860)

Mine's much smaller and lighter but it seems to do a lot more and makes more girls happier.

Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 770878)

I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!



So you're saying the vibration motor is stronger? :D

See, I've found that almost anything the Android can do (outside of say commercial stock-car racing simulators) the N900 can do just a well. Sometimes it's a little better, sometimes a little worse, but on par, they're about the same.

Android is a little more user friendly, but a little less flexible/mailable. I tend to like things I can re-shape into something I can use over time, vs something that will do something well, but isn't flexible enough to continue using it over the years. For people that prefer the shiny and are just going to toss their phone in 2 years when the contract is up, Android is probably better. I'm not that type of person though. :)

Anyway... I'm off to spend some time away from tech for a weekend. Have fun all! And please to leave the light on, I'll be wanting it to find my way back next week. :)

Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 770879)

Oh this thread is gonna get sooooo deleted.

Originally Posted by garyc2010 (Post 770881)

"I have a nice pioneer system at home that my N900 links to just fine. It pauses the music when the phone rings, and has the option of being a speaker device, showing contacts (which now works), or just shutting up while I'm on the phone. Shame your fancy car radio isn't smart enough to do such things... Guess that's your fault though for having a three year old model BMW. I'm sure the new model radio can do that...
"

Does your pioneer system ride in your car with you ???

Do you actually KNOW what iDrive is you **** ????

Dont worry My iPhone does all the above and MUCH more

mabe that why iPhone has sold over 40 MILLION units while the n900 has sold 38 (but 6 were later returned as ******ed phones :*( ))

Flanders u bastard **** where the **** is my perm ban u **** or has your n900 ban machine failed you ?????????????

Originally Posted by gerbick (Post 770879)

Oh this thread is gonna get sooooo deleted.