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Cell phone, feature phone, smartphone… And now the gonzophone!

Except the “number” the machine sends you is how many hot girls there are anywhere!

I certainly wish we could have more and more computer vision applications where we can trust the cameras up there not to be collecting private data. But we should definitely be concerned with abuses.

It would make the system much safer if all the processing were done locally… If something bad ever happens, they can still fallback to doing this.

…And how does all these statistics compare to any other social networks out there, right now or in the past? They give us numbers, and tell us this it is bad, but I need to compare it with numbers from another site to believe it.

I love Wolfram. Great guy, he actually inspired some research of mine, and I use Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha.

And this is all I’m saying, and all I wish there was to be said…

Who’s going to play Woz?

I thought it wasn’t a bad idea, but he’s still looking too much like Walden.

Nice article, Paul Unplugged is being great so far, better than I first envisioned.

Now, time and again we see someone talking about how people now check their phones all the time during diners, etc, and talk like this is bad, like we had to be engaged in personal conversations by air and face-to-face all the time. I don’t feel like Paul is really saying that, he is not quite saying this bad and that “you should be talking to the other person on the table”, etc.

For those people who say that, I am happy to hear that you had a great like before cell phones existed, and that you were always engaged in great personal conversations. But not everybody is like this. I have met most of my friends on-line. The cell phone does not prevent me from having great conversations with anyone. In the age “before mobile” we would just have to endure those dinners and trains rides pissed off and angry, maybe reading a book, maybe listening to a walkman. Society blows. People always hated their neighbors and coworkers and their families. This is just an escape door that opened up, and we exit through it from time to time. The pressure to get out already existed before that.

When I was a kid I would often spend a day having this constant feeling of wanting to get back home to my computer. Now I carry one in my pocket. I am definitely more happy today than when I was a kid. I know how all those bored kids who stick to their Nintendo DS all the time feel like.

I don’t say things have to be that way, people have to spend their whole times looking at some screen, trolling at The Verge forums like me. But this is a symptom, not a cause. It’s not easy to build a society where people are all the time having great face-to-face conversations, or producing some great work instead of just sitting down browsing through their ipad apps. The medium is the message, but don’t hate the messanger or the message, hate whoever wrote the message in the first place, and what the message means! :)

Scary that so many people think Paul writing a book is something bad. Dire days are these when book writing is considered anything but great and good.

Well, heat is a concern in mobile devices as much as power consumption, if not bigger.

Big chance I’ll replace my N8 with the 808, but I’m a little put down by the design, with the three buttons below like a C6…

It’s not so much being close to the Equator that helps. They started traveling near the September equinox. Than means being north of the Equator will give you shorter days, and the sun will be at an angle relative to your zenith at noon. Starting day one after the September equinox, you want to be south of the Equator, where not only the sun will be at a better angle, but the days will be longer. The best place to be with this ship at Christmas is somewhere near the Tropic of Capricorn. That’s where you will get “maximum sunlight exposure” that day, to quote the Verge comment at Google+.