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VideoTapir posted:There are Android flip phones. I wonder why going to that site on my phone makes Firefox ask for permission to take pictures and record video.
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Kibbles n Shits posted:T9 predictive text worked really well and could be done (well, had to be done) one handed, and could even be done without looking once you became proficient at it. I kind of miss it. T9 was like the phone was hardwired into my nervous system, able to type one handed, without looking and basically zero mistakes. Physical feedback told me I actually pressed a key!! I am God awful at both swipe and normal typing on smart phones and my predictive text gets all hosed up and I hate it.
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Trunko posted:Anybody have any experience switching back to a simple flip phone handset? Thinking Bout going that direction and just keeping a small tablet in by bag for any smart phone type tasks. I had to use a Sony W595 for six months before I got a new smartphone last Christmas. And only a computer at home, no tablet. It was refreshing reading more books and having to note appointments on paper before inputting into gCal when I got home. It was hell.
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tactlessbastard posted:I wonder why going to that site on my phone makes Firefox ask for permission to take pictures and record video. Their app is pretty good - except for it pinging you about deals once a day. EDIT: Here's a nice article on Zip Disks http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/r...k&ICID=ref_fark Humphreys has a new favorite as of 13:44 on Dec 22, 2016 |
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http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_folder_2_flip_phone_passes_through_tenaa-news-19733.php http://www.ebay.com/p/samsung-galax...n=ps&lpid=82,82 Turns out Samsung's got a new one, this one running Marshmallow.
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VideoTapir posted:http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_folder_2_flip_phone_passes_through_tenaa-news-19733.php Well, there's my birthday present sorted.
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And oldie and a goodie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
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Gonz posted:And oldie and a goodie: And the sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk
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Humphreys posted:And the sequel: Look at this son of a bitch ruining all of his  by writing with marker on the Read side.
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Gonz posted:And oldie and a goodie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Also, losing screen space to have a keyboard is just a pain in the rear end in general. Uhhh your choices are 30-40% larger screen that at times temporarily has a keyboard on it Permanently smaller screen, made so by the presence of a physical keyboard
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Gonz posted:Look at this son of a bitch ruining all of his  There are CD-Rs which are silver on the label side and blue on the read side.
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"It's not just a copy it's a crime" *steals IP from Paramount/CBS* Also, who sells pirated stuff? Aside from that guy in the video, if someone has something, they usually just say "you can copy it off my hard drive."
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Cojawfee posted:"It's not just a copy it's a crime" 
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You wouldn't download a watch.
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Cojawfee posted:"It's not just a copy it's a crime" Pirated DVDs are (or at least were) a huge thing in lower-middle class urban areas. 10 years ago you couldn't have a meal at a restaurant in Newark without at least one person walking in with a backpack and going around to all the tables selling VCDs of popular movies and/or terrible cams of movies currently in theaters. e: also http://www.nickselby.com/2013/08/25/software-pirates-rule-in-russia/ quote:In Russia, however, the piracy rates are a stunning 91 percent for business applications and 93 percent for entertainment software, according to Eric Schwartz, counsel to the International Intellectual Property Association, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that lobbies internationally on behalf of the copyright industry. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 19:55 on Jan 4, 2017 |
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Cojawfee posted:"It's not just a copy it's a crime" Clearly you've never been to canal st in nyc
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Dell Glover used to sell pirated CDs and DVDs from the plant he worked at in North Carolina.
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Regular Nintendo posted:Uhhh your choices are There is a maximum size of phone that comfortably fits in my pocket anyway - I would rather have a reasonably-sized phone with a physical keyboard that fits in my pocket than a phablet I need a goddamn purse for.
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Star Man posted:Dell Glover used to sell pirated CDs and DVDs from the plant he worked at in North Carolina. drat good read! At least now I know who I had to thank for all that stuff.
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Regular Nintendo posted:Clearly you've never been to canal st in nyc I still have a "Rolex" from a trip there like 10 years ago, and my wife has a fairly convincing "Louis Vuitton" purse e. fairly convincing to me, a guy, who has seen real ones but probably doesn't know about tiny details or whatever
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Off-the-street knockoff watched are poo poo, I've never gotten one that lasted more than a month or even kept decent time while it did last. I do know there's an entire industry around making watches that look like really expensive watches, but AFAIK they're much more on the level as far as "we are not claiming this is a real Rolex, just a cheap but decent one that happens to look exactly like a Rolex." Handbags I dunno. I was in China in 2010 and most of the poo poo I bought is still around today: both pairs of "Ray-Ban" eyeglasses (combined cost with eye exam and prescription lenses was like $50 total), the "North Face" backpack, the "CCM" hockey jersey, etc. Even the knockoff Nintendo DS Lite I got there still works flawlessly, reads both actual games and the flash cart I also got there like a champ. Really it's just the watches that were crap.
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Kelp Me! posted:Pirated DVDs are (or at least were) a huge thing in lower-middle class urban areas. 10 years ago you couldn't have a meal at a restaurant in Newark without at least one person walking in with a backpack and going around to all the tables selling VCDs of popular movies and/or terrible cams of movies currently in theaters. All over Oakland and most of the flea markets in the East Bay.
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Kelp Me! posted:I do know there's an entire industry around making watches that look like really expensive watches, but AFAIK they're much more on the level as far as "we are not claiming this is a real Rolex, just a cheap but decent one that happens to look exactly like a Rolex." The trick is that you think you‘re getting a quality fake for one hundredth of the price of a real Rolex, but you‘re actually getting a lovely fake for one hundred times the Chinese wholesale price.
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Chopper Reid on movie piracy: (quality Is kinda crap) https://youtu.be/F92xvxyLOvI "I stole this movie about stealing movies from a movie I stole."
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luv 2 date boys posted:Kind of reminds me of the first smart phone I got was the android based T-Mobile G1: This was my first smartphone too after starting with (aka the shoe phone as all my friends called it in college):  e: I used to spend my minutes by dialing into my school's dial-up because i had something crazy like 2000 minutes a month through t-mobile and gprs sucked, 3g wasn't even a thing with that phone, it was the cutting edge. then going to this after I finally dropped it too many times.  This phone was the biggest pile of poo poo ever. Somehow the alarm got stuck onto 5am, you could set other alarms but every morning at 5am it would go off, there was no way to delete it, my friends hated me when we went tailgating because i can sleep through anything. Then I got the G1 and my mind was blown, a full keyboard, little nub wheel! Amazing. I also used blackberries for work so I was used to the nub and the half keyboard thing. Those were some wild times in old lovely palm pilots that happened to have a phone attached without the infrastructure to do more than check the weather or find movie times. Plinkey has a new favorite as of 06:39 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Cojawfee posted:You wouldn't download a watch. But you WOULD watch a download!  EDIT: http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/...k&ICID=ref_fark New Blackberry (branded) phone with QWERTY keyboard to be announced at CES. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 10:09 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Kelp Me! posted:Pirated DVDs are (or at least were) a huge thing in lower-middle class urban areas. 10 years ago you couldn't have a meal at a restaurant in Newark without at least one person walking in with a backpack and going around to all the tables selling VCDs of popular movies and/or terrible cams of movies currently in theaters. The article is timestamped 2013, and they were selling bootleg Windows98 and NT4 in Russia? 
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I'd wager that Windows 98 and NT4 are right up there with dashboard cameras in terms of "things that drive the Russian economy".
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Dashboard cams are a worldwide comedy gain tho. I bet they are dirt cheap for Russians, or the insurancepays for them.
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Cojawfee posted:You wouldn't download a watch. http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/11/26/luxury-brands-fighting-against-pirated-smartwatch-faces/
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Remember the Timex Datalink? It was an early predecessor of smartwatches that you synced by holding up to your computer screen which would strobe or something to transmit data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink Well, in the YOOL 2017, I just had to program a wireless adapter for a Pitney Bowes postal machine the same way. https://setup.smartlink.pitneybowes.com/connection You put your SSID and password into that page, then press start and hold the adapter up to your screen while it flashes in a spot to transmit the data. Only took me 6 tries or so to get it to work. The adapter connects to the postage machine via usb, so seems like maybe they could have used that to set it up on a PC first but nope. Flashy lights while I try to hold it perfectly still up against the monitor.
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Gonz posted:I'd wager that Windows 98 and NT4 are right up there with dashboard cameras in terms of "things that drive the Russian economy". The fax machine is what killed the Soviet Union. They don’t want to miss out on the next big thing in information technology. 
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Remember the Timex Datalink? It was an early predecessor of smartwatches that you synced by holding up to your computer screen which would strobe or something to transmit data. The zapper lives 
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Flashing monitor data transfer: still better than AirDrop.
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Collateral Damage posted:Even though the horse has not only died but been butchered, sold and eaten we can still beat it some more! TBQH their last one actually looked like a sweet phone (the Priv) - literally just a solid Android phone with a slide-out BB keyboard:  axolotl farmer posted:The article is timestamped 2013, and they were selling bootleg Windows98 and NT4 in Russia? At least 1 of the Chinese manufacturers we contract with are still using Win2k and at least 3 of them are using WinXP SP1 so it's not that far of a stretch Hell, one of our engineers has a separate Win98 SE PC in the lab because that's the last version of Windows that will run the ancient PCB CAD software he uses and he refuses to learn the new programs.
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Kelp Me! posted:TBQH their last one actually looked like a sweet phone (the Priv) - literally just a solid Android phone with a slide-out BB keyboard: why are the Z and Y keys switched
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