Tried everything including a hard reset, nothing helped, so Verizon is sending me a replacement, had to pay twelve bucks to have it overnight to make sure I’ll have a freakin phone this weekend… 🙂 Didn’t think it would be this hard to live without EvDO until I don’t have it. 😉

After some digging poster at TreoCentral and MyTreo said a batch of 700p had “bad memory chips”, I can’t verify how true that is, but whatever… I just want my 700p replacement asap and hopefully I can set the HotSync ID to the same and just do a restore and get everything back.

Here’s a video of the reset loop:

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What’s the best name for a variable of type double (double precision)?

d, of course…

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are hoping to do for speech recognition what graphics cards did for gaming — that is, make it better. The idea being to use specialized computer chips in order to overcome the problems inherent with software-based solutions, which’ll also lower the power consumption required and allow for better speech recognition in things like cellphones. And according to the researchers, it’s working, although currently limited to a not-very-practical 1,000 word vocabulary. The technology isn’t just for dictating your email though; one of the many possible noted examples of applications is making search available on a specific piece of dialog from a movie. Wonder if they’ve been having any secret back room meetings with a certain rumor-happy video game company?

Better speech recognition through chipsets – Engadget

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Maybe I would finally get HD, well, maybe not… too much of a pain to get a new TV…

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This is not new info or anything, so if you already know how to get feeds from vB forums then you can ignore this entry.

I am registered at a fairly large number of forums, I only actively monitor a few of them, which ones of them depends on what I’m into or what I’m looking into buying. 😉 A majority of these Internet forums are powered by vBulletin, and IIRC, RSS feed is enabled by default. Most owners of these forums don’t provide links or advertise the fact that these feeds are enabled, probably because they don’t know about this feature (and Feedburner), or they have board sponsors and assume when people come in via feeds it would bypass their ads. Anyway, since RSS is enabled on most of these boards, here is how you can get to them:

If the URL of the site looks like http://forums.foo.com, the feed for the entire site should look like http://forums.foo.com/external.php?type=rss2 (use just “rss” if you want RSS 0.91).

You can also get the feed for a particular forum, go to the forum you want and note the forum ID, if the end of the URL looks like forumdisplay.php?f=23 then the ID is 23. The feed for that forum is http://forums.foo.com/external.php?type=rss2&forumids=23

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Carnegie Mellon’s Ballbot could teach Segway a thing or two:

Those humanoid robots are all well and good if you’ve got 30 minutes to watch ASIMO manage a 360 degree turn, but some researchers at Carnegie Mellon have been spending some time trying to figure out a bot that could actually be useful in the here and now. Their result is the Ballbot, a 95 pound unit that balances on a single metal sphere, and is tall enough to look a person in the eye. The robot can manage a smooth floor easily, and is designed for navigating human environments. When it isn’t moving, the Ballbot has retractable “kickstands” to hold it up. The next step for the Ballbot is a head and pair of arms to help the robot balance and turn, and the eventual goal is a robot that is a useful helper to the elderly, disabled, or those in an office environment. We’re just looking forward to shouting “Ballbot, beer me!”

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This is kindda neat, not all that useful coz ppl who want gadgets like these already would most likely already have a smart phone… but if it’s cheap enough I’d get one just to use Skype on it, at least until Skype runs on Palm. 🙂

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Was checking out Leopard, nothing really revolutional like when they introduced Dashboard, but virtual desktop is nice, especially coz I got used to having them with window managers in X.

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