Qtopia 4.3.1 flash image and SDK

2008-02-11 Thread Lorn Potter
Trolltech released Qtopia Phone 4.3.1 today, and with it, a new flash image and vmware based open source Qtopia SDK for the Neo. http://www.qtopia.net/modules/mydownloads/ GPL Qtopia source code can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qtopia/source Enjoy. -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter

SCALE 2008 recap, and a pre-paid SIM question for the list.

2008-02-11 Thread ian douglas
Hey all, First piece of good news: Michael was *swamped* at SCALE 6x, answering questions from probably hundreds of people asking what an open source phone was all about. There's definitely a buzz in the industry about OpenMoko, and being at SCALE was a definite boost in the exposure of what

Re: brainstorming/organisation software

2008-02-11 Thread Dirk Bergstrom
Jeff Andros wrote: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page I've been using this for years. It's a fantastic way to organize ideas. It also turns out to be a great tool for taking notes, once you get the keybindings tweaked to suit your style. this might eventually run on the

Re: Qtopia 4.3.1 flash image and SDK

2008-02-11 Thread Lorn Potter
Paul Eggleton wrote: Lorn Potter wrote: Trolltech released Qtopia Phone 4.3.1 today, and with it, a new flash image and vmware based open source Qtopia SDK for the Neo. Thanks Lorn. Could you also perhaps briefly mention what's new in this release? Cheers, Paul

qtopia terminal app

2008-02-11 Thread Lorn Potter
One of the htc-linux guys ported embeddedkonsole/konsole 4 to Qtopia. I have done some more work on it for the Neo and created a qpk of it for the Neo running Qtopia, and put it up at qtopia.net Enjoy. -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, MES, Trolltech

Re: Patents and OpenMoko

2008-02-11 Thread Steven Kurylo
Would you explain? because this is very commonly believed: if you don't defend the patent you will lose it. Just depends how this phrase defend the patent is defined I guess... It differs in jurisdictions, but what most people confuse it trademark and patents. You can lose a trademark if

Re: Patents and OpenMoko

2008-02-11 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Nils Faerber writes: Isn't this already a problem? From what I know especially in the US patent system you are *forced* to actively defend your patent, i.e. if you get to know that someone uses your patent and is not paying you roayalties (or you get an alternative commercial advantage like cross

Re: Patents and OpenMoko

2008-02-11 Thread Steven Kurylo
From what I know especially in the US patent system you are *forced* to actively defend your patent, i.e. if you get to know that someone uses your patent and is not paying you roayalties (or you get an alternative commercial advantage like cross licensing) you have to sue him. If you do not

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-11 Thread Oliver Uvman
I haven't read the rest of this discussion, but a human body in starvation will first of all burn muscle for energy, and after that it will start burning fat. The starvation response in the body starts setting in a few hours after you ate last time, which is why bodybuilders eat about 6 times a

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-11 Thread Marcel
Sounds logically. ironySo this would be the perfect diet (suicide...) device, just keep hangin around without eating anything and you will get thinner and thinner.../irony But it might work if the transition between ATP and DC works somehow effectively... Worth an experiment :D Marcel Am

Re: qtopia terminal app

2008-02-11 Thread Lorn Potter
GoXbox Live wrote: Hi ljp. I am about to upload a new Qtopia image for the Neo, I have just some kernel issue left and would like to add the qterminal imporvements to it if there are further changes to it than the source commited to the Qtopia git tree. . Could you also upload the source

Re: Patents and OpenMoko

2008-02-11 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Feb 11, 2008 12:20 PM, Steven Kurylo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I know especially in the US patent system you are *forced* to actively defend your patent, i.e. if you get to know that someone uses your patent and is not paying you roayalties (or you get an alternative commercial

Re: Patents and OpenMoko

2008-02-11 Thread Nils Faerber
Sander van Grieken schrieb: [...] I really hope that OpenMoko will not be covered by any patents. (but I'm sure that there's a patent for a device allowing wireless communication somewhere) I totally agree with Lionel here. It will be bad PR wise and it's very difficult to enforce. Openmoko

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-11 Thread Schmidt András
Marcel wrote: But you would really have to keep an eye on the overall ATP level, if it goes too low, there might something terrible happen... What does a body behave like on really low energy (ATP) levels? I am not a human body expert but my guess is: You get hungry and also your reserves

Re: Bike power (Re: solar power)

2008-02-11 Thread Marcel
Am Montag 11 Februar 2008 01:04:34 schrieb Schmidt András: fun I have another futuristic idea :-). It has no name yet... It is a chemical power generator that generates DC using ATP from blood (the power source of the muscles). Installing this device in our body would equip us with some plugs

Re: qtopia terminal app

2008-02-11 Thread GoXbox Live
Hi ljp. I am about to upload a new Qtopia image for the Neo, I have just some kernel issue left and would like to add the qterminal imporvements to it if there are further changes to it than the source commited to the Qtopia git tree. . Could you also upload the source so others can take

Re: Patents and OpenMoko

2008-02-11 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
Nils, Thanks a lot for such an indepth reply. I need to think about a lot of these points. Let me just comment on a few now... On 2/11/08 Nils Faerber wrote: [snip] Are there any existing options available to us now? Does anyone know of existing companies or organizations with a similar

Re: Qtopia 4.3.1 flash image and SDK

2008-02-11 Thread Paul Eggleton
Lorn Potter wrote: Trolltech released Qtopia Phone 4.3.1 today, and with it, a new flash image and vmware based open source Qtopia SDK for the Neo. Thanks Lorn. Could you also perhaps briefly mention what's new in this release? Cheers, Paul ___

Re: Patents and OpenMoko

2008-02-11 Thread Nils Faerber
Sean Moss-Pultz schrieb: Dear Community, Hello Sean, and others... Most of you know that OpenMoko is a fully independent company at this point. With this great opportunity comes many challenges. Today I would like to share one with you all and ask for some advice. We need to file patents

Re: A bit of fun - freerunner and the wisdom of crowds

2008-02-11 Thread Tim Kersten
Nice page Tim :-) Did you put a link to it on the main FreeRunner Wiki Page? Bren Thanks Bren! Appreciate the feedback :-) I did place a link on the wiki. I figured it was most appropriate here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Buying_Interest_List under the subheading Fun. Any thoughts, as

Re: brainstorming/organisation software

2008-02-11 Thread Mark Chandler
Jeff Andros wrote: On Feb 10, 2008 6:42 PM, Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm looking for some software to eventually go on my neo, but i've no idea what it would be called I think mind mapping might be what you're looking for, check out here:

Re: A bit of fun - freerunner and the wisdom of crowds

2008-02-11 Thread Tim Kersten
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Jeremiah Flerchinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you change my guess (Flerchjj) to 3000? Done. On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Jeremiah Flerchinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A scatter plot would be cool with some more sales to a given month period that