How do these smart phones change screen position

[josephkk]

Not since they had to get the lead out.

The better smart phones use osmium-iridium pixel weights favored by
standards labs. No RoHS problems then.

?;-)

 

[John Devereux]

Cool.

Jeff, enclosing the links in carets is ok for email where HTML is accepted
but worthless in usenet where HTML is not acceptable. Your choice, just
thought to explain why.

Carets? You mean angle brackets? A web address in angle brackets is not
html!

It is the standard way to do it in both email and usenet. The angle
brackets will simply stop most clients from putting a line break within
the link and breaking it. It is up to the client whether it renders it
blue with an underline or whatever.

An actual html link would look like:

<a href="http://www.example.com">.

And it's still not really html IMO, just a fragment, since there is no
html header or body declaration.

 

[Jasen Betts]

Cite?

http://www.memsic.com/products/sensor-components/accelerometers.html

It seems to be unique to this maker. for some reason I thought it was
more common.

 

[josephkk]

http://www.memsic.com/products/sensor-components/accelerometers.html

It seems to be unique to this maker. for some reason I thought it was
more common.

Thank you. I learned something, thus today is a good day.

?-)

 

[josephkk]

I beg to differ. It's not HTML. Most, but not all, news readers
recognize the angle brackets as delimiters for a URL that extends
beyond the autowrap margin. This also prevents breaking up a URL into
pieces when it includes spaces. It is also useful for eliminating a
punctuation mark at the end of a sentence so that it is not included
in a URL.

I've been using angle brakets for many years without difficulties or
complaints. Is there a problem?

More of a nuisance, but Agent and old firefox 3.6 are running in wine and
that old firefox has problems opening about 10 to 15 % of the links. It
cannot take YouTube links at all. So i have to copy the link sans <> and
past it into another browser (running direct in linux). I find it fiddly
to get just the link, perhaps tinyurl is a better answer.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Easy test. See if you can fool it with a magnet. The phone assumes the
magnetic field vector will be horizontal.

Unless you're near the equator, it'll be quite different from
horizontal (perpendicular to the gravity vector).

Here's a plot of magnetic inclination:-
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Intro/magnetic_field_b.jpg

Mabye 60-75 degrees for the CONUS and populated areas of Canada.

So set a magnet up to make it
vertical near the phone and see if the screen flips up on its side.

That would prove it. But nothing will happen, I predict.



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Jasen Betts]

More of a nuisance, but Agent and old firefox 3.6 are running in wine and
that old firefox has problems opening about 10 to 15 % of the links. It
cannot take YouTube links at all. So i have to copy the link sans <> and
past it into another browser (running direct in linux). I find it fiddly
to get just the link, perhaps tinyurl is a better answer.

Like it says on the label Wine is not Emulation. it's not a virtual
machine, there is no extra barrier between apps running in wine and
the host system.

There is something you can do to allow wine apps to open links in a
native browser.

there is nothing special about pointy brackets.
they don't do anything.

 

[Jasen Betts]

It depends on teh software, and whether it uses text or HTML modes.
Even if it makes no difference for you, it does for a lot of people.

Identical URLs without & with, posted in text mode:


----------------------------------------------------------------------

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en...03.1416.7j5j0j1.13.0...0.0...1c.1.vR-L5QlSt-c


<https://www.google.com/search?hl=en...03.1416.7j5j0j1.13.0...0.0...1c.1.vR-L5QlSt-c>

the only difference I see is that The second line is two characters longer

there is nothing special about pointy brackets.
they don't do anything.

 

[Jamie]

Jan Panteltje wrote:




Easy test. See if you can fool it with a magnet. The phone assumes the
magnetic field vector will be horizontal. So set a magnet up to make it
vertical near the phone and see if the screen flips up on its side.

I don't want to get into this, I know what the equipment has in it and
what it's used for. The items do exactly what I stated in the equipment
I have.

As for the consumer product using acc chips, most likely, and it
could explain why many of them work like crap.

Jamie

 

[Jasen Betts]

Jason, Depends on the reader. Try some link that has parentheses in
it (not converted to %28 and %29) with and without the <...>.

the standards that say '(' and ')' are reserved if it has a '(' in it
it's not a URL.

 

[Boris Mohar]

Probably a silicon MEMS accelerometer. They're pretty cheap these days.

Cheaper, even, than a pendulum with a magnet and a hall-effect sensor,
and probably far more reliable, too.

Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things) http://www.viatrack.ca

void _-void-_ in the obvious place

 

[Sjouke Burry]

I am still using ff3.6.10, and have no problem with links whatsoever.
Neither for youtube links.
All work just like they should.
You must have had some strange malware attached........

 

[josephkk]

Your header shows that you're now running:
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186
which should be able to pickup the URL's between the brackets. I
can't imagine that Wine is causing any problems. I'll try it after I
restore my Ubuntu 10.04LTS laptop from backups. (Don't ask, I
goofed).

Firefox 3.6 is seriously neanderthal. The current Firefox release is
18.x. Methinks an update might be a good idea. Also, there's no need
to run the Windoze version of Firefox under Wine since there are
native Linux versions available, unless you need Flash or some other
Windoze exclusive plug-in.


I don't like to use tinyURL unless the original URL is absurdly long,
such as a Google maps or Google Earth URL. There's too big a chance
that the target for a shortened URL is a hijacked web site full of
evilware.

I don't see why a YouTube link would be any different from any other
link, unless the URL has Unix specific special symbols in it, such as
the "|" symbol, which might break passing data between programs in a
pipe if the shell got in between and tried to interpret it. What part
of the YouTube URL did it fail to pass?

That copy of Firefox running it that version of wine cannot digest
YouTube. It seems to be a flash related thing, and updates don't seem to
help. It is kind of a fluke configuration problem.

?-)

 

[josephkk]

Joerg bought his computers from Lucas, but he was too cheap to spring
for the required oil drip pans.

Good one.

?-))