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Comment on Few Notes on Mobile Javacript by matnel

matnel — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:17:41 +0000

@Lamperi: my question is more, why desktop browser accept invalid JS

Comment on Few Notes on Mobile Javacript by Lamperi

Lamperi — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:36:00 +0000

Matti, kuka käski koodata epävaliidia JavaScriptiä? Ei näin!

Comment on Government and Social Media, part I by Science and Industry » Blog Archive » Goverment and Social Media, part II

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:02:50 +0000

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Comment on Running out of battery by matnel

matnel — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:41:56 +0000

Mika, you are correct that the battery technology is the bottle neck here. But I don’t think that just putting “more” capabilities into the battery is enough. As the devices become more powerful, it will most likely mean more battery usage.

In any case people need to charge their device some time. Thus the charging experience need to be good in any case and one must remember to charge the device — which I forgot in this case. I actually had the charger with me, so that wasn’t the problem — I just forgot my device totally and focused to work with the desktop.

E.g. I like the iPhone’s dock: every time I’m next to computer I most likely would remind to take the phone out of my pocket and give it some more power. But how to take care that this happens in unusual environment, like in my university, also?

Comment on Running out of battery by Mika Marttila

Mika Marttila — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:25:03 +0000

I think the problem is much more interesting with the iPhone. Since the release of the new 3G version, there’s been much complains about it’s battery life-time. I think E90 suffers from the same problem because of it’s keyboard and large screen.

It’s not that the battery isn’t enough, but numerous possibilities and ease of use that drain it empty too fast. According to some tests iPhone’s battery is actually more durable than those in competitors devices.

So what happens when other mobiles become as easy to use as iPhone? Common folks start having these daily battery issues.

Your solution sounds neat, but doesn’t solve the actual problem. The smarter the phones become, more power they need. We need better battery technology.

Comment on Running out of battery by matnel

matnel — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:51:52 +0000

Actually, there's several solutions for this. One friend of mine asked in the irc if there's USB charging solutions. Yes there are; I own CA-100 and found out that there's solutions with PC connectivity also, CA-126. And I'm sure that there's 3rd party things doing this also. Japsu suggested that I should carry secondary batter with me, and sometimes I've got N810 in the back also - which uses the same battery. But these are only solutions for the implication, not the problem. I consider that the problem is that mobile devices are so quite and just stay in the pockets most of the time that ordinary people forget them. I try to charge my device every night, but just now I noticed that the device has been laying on the desk without charging for hours.

Comment on Running out of battery by Japsu

Japsu — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:05:09 +0000

There’s this trick that spared me from utter boredom countless times when I was serving in the Finnish army: Carry a spare battery with you everywhere you go The E90 battery, despite being one of the biggest Nokia uses, is still quite compact and fits my wallet nicely.

There’s, of course, a small flaw in this plan: The spare battery needs to be kept charged, too. This can be somewhat nontrivial, as my method of choice for recharging the cell phone is leaving it plugged overnight.

Comment on Assembly demoparty by Science and Industry » Blog Archive » What’s matter with us?

Science and Industry » Blog Archive » What’s matter with us? — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:00:11 +0000

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Comment on Contextual Deliberative Discussion by matnel

matnel — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:38:45 +0000

To those who may ask it: no, I haven’t done any discussion with the users (citizens). That’s definitely something that needs to be done before anything else if this never get’s out of my head into a formal project.

Comment on Assembly demoparty by matnel

matnel — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:34:24 +0000

Actually, outside the blog I could also say some words of the demos and compos there. If ou just want to see two of them, look these: Panic room by Fairlight, winner of 64 kilos entry (source code fits to a floppy), especially look at the water there Timereal by Tekotuotanto, second in short films -- this was rather touching for me; and teen age boys like explosions also! If you really have some extra time look the seminars also: there were some interesting topics.