Quote from BlakjeKaas :

But that is not very handy, now is it?

I mean, you wouldn't be able to hold your hands in the water that's coming out of the sink

Just hold the tube with both hands and your hands will get wet...

But that was not the purpose of this anyway, it's just supposed to be an optical illusion...

Quote from Bose321 :

Speaking from experience there?

:shhh:

Quote from Don :

I didn't know you would be interested in paper cutout

lol
I'm really missing the "Like" button from Facebook.

Anyways: "Velociround likes Don's post".

Ever since Nokia stopped their online photo sharing service it became very difficult for me to get my photos to this thread the way I want it. Before I could just send them straight from the camera and then post the links here (it automatically generated 800px wide or something images for forum posts and gave me the link to the full picture). Now I'll have to use something else. In 2005, imageshack used to be great for that; today it's awful. Flickr doesn't give me a link for the full image and I'm uncertain which other service I could get the things I want...

Could someone please recommend an online image hosting service in which I can keep all my photos, automatically generates small pictures for posting on forums and allows me to directly link both small pictures (like 800px wide) and full image?
Thanks in advance.

Quote from hazaky :

Most likely painted in white.

The ones I have seen are almost 100% transparent. Not painted. They look even more real that way, specially on small ones (like the ones you have in sink): you can see through it! So it doesn't even look like there's a tube there.

If you get a lot of lube on it you are also able to open it and close it without moving the tube. That's very convincing, too. It got me thinking a lot about it until I finally figured out.

Quote from Superobo :

Go Launcher EX is pretty good.
http://forcabarca.sk/foto/mobil.jpg

LOL! Now I understand why Apple is suing Samsung; at first, I really thought that was an jailbroken iPhone.

I know how you feel (though not about Nokia, because I did a lot of research in advance before (not) buying a s60v5 device, so I just purchased their good products and skipped the fail years from 2008 to half 2010).

I have been through this sentiment with products from other companies (such as C3 tech, PSU maker), that failed hard on me (causing data loss, hardware problems and money prejudice) and I know I'm never buying from them again. I don't even search anymore to see whether they have improved or fixed their products, I just skip them.

Well, this is how trust works anyway. Hard to get, easy to lose, almost impossible to fully reconquer.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Nice, that widget looks much better then on my screen..

Slight change from last time..

http://i346.photobucket.com/al ... orisLozac811/device25.png

Nice! And you use Opera Mobile too

Quote from arco :

I'm just saying what I see. Sorry for not being an expert on Nokia history. A bit odd though that if they invented that look a long time ago, it's first now that they decided to use it. But whatever.

You don't need to know any of that either, I'm just saying it's impossible that Symbian Belle is a "ripoff" from Android because Symbian came first, and Nokia had these features long before Android even existed. By the way, answering the "a bit odd though" part: that's because of a response I wrote when I posted that message, but it didn't get sent because my internet connection got broken somehow and I didn't have time to get back to it again until now. I was going to edit the post and add the reply, but I'm just going to paste the message down here.

Quote from arco :

That lock screen and status bar looks like a "ripoff" from Android.

Do you really want to come up with "who came first?" questions? I guess it's Symbian, in 1990. You can say any feature you want: it is highly unlikely to have been implemented in any other platform before Symbian. It has had quick access to bluetooth/silent/etc before Android and iOS even existed.

One could say Android's drop-down status bar looks like, with your own words, a "ripoff" from Nokia's Maemo-powered devices, which not only came to market long before Android, but also have this drop-down bar from the status bar with all of these notifications/switches(bluetooth, silent, ...)/etc. So you can say Nokia has evolved their own former status bar and lock screen on Symbian Belle, but you can't say they copied it from Android. It's more likely to be the other way around as Maemo came first.

By the way, the Symbian (all versions, including non-touch) lockscreen has always (like, since the S60 interface has been created or something) been like that. The only difference is the wallpaper (custom) and the improved status bar.

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Ah yes thanks for clearing that up Velociround, I had no idea about the other symbians. But yeah I regret buying a 5800XM, it was bloody expensive when it was new. I still have it just in case something happens with my SGS.

The SGS is a very nice phone, too.

You're lucky you got the 5800xm! The N97 (also s60v5) was so bad even Nokia is trying to make people forget about it. But that's Nokia's own fault: release a phone with an OS that has great kernel but make it with an awful user interface that was not programmed well and still worked as if it was a keypad interface (tap to select item first, then tap to choose. no kinetic scrolling, no visual cues, etc), very underpowered hardware with not enough optimizations (on a side note, it can't receive any of the new 2011 updates currently being released for other S60v5 phones because of hardware limitations), not enough memory (RAM, storage, etc), put a high price, show misleading ads of a lot of animations and UI effects on TV and call it flagship. Almost everyone loved the N95 and it was a great flagship, an iconic phone, but the N97 with all its limitations only works as a phone, not as a smartphone (even though it runs smartphone OS).

If you compare the N95 and the N97, it looks like Nokia was trying hard to piss on itself. The N95 even had a powerful GPU (if I'm not mistaken, more powerful than the first iPhone's GPU), and they simply removed it for all S60v5 phones. If you like mobile gaming, forget about Symbian^1.

The company also had a lot of internal problems and internal competition which was very bad for business (in all ways) and they messed up bad, but I won't go into details about that. Just as an example of the internal competition is that they would not release a phone for a segment that would compete with another phone they released themselves, thus removing features and making too many phones, with forgettable ones.

Just to get an idea, they had different teams on the company working on different projects, and competition between these teams was encouraged! They were not competing with other companies, they were competing with themselves. And these projects were all incompatible with each other. Symbian has had (about) more than 8 different user interfaces, most of them were never released and everyone on S60v5 was stuck to that keypad-touch-ish interface.

All of which has (mostly) been resolved by now, and they are making great progress now and releasing everything they should have released long ago.

I searched about the OS long before purchasing a new phone (I had an N95 which I loved, running S60v3), so I passed out on all of the Symbian^1 touch phones and only purchased a new phone when Symbian^3 was released. When I purchased my N8 in november/december 2010 I already knew it would receive 2 major updates in 2011 (Anna and Belle, formerly known as PR2.0 and PR3.0. The first with under-the-hood optimizations and improvements and the second with even more improvements and a completely new interface) and the complete OS roadmap from december 2010 to december 2011. Everything is coming up very nicely now, and I'm enjoying my experience a lot. It's like having a completely new phone after every update.

Now with the Microsoft partnership, Microsoft is developing, for the first time ever, a free, native update for all Symbian^3 (Belle) phones which includes all of their office suites (Microsoft Office, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, ActiveSync, Communicator, etc). It is the first time Microsoft develops their official software suite for a mobile platform that is not their own (Windows Mobile/Windows Phone 7). The first batch of Microsoft software updates is coming this year, and the next is coming early 2012.

I wouldn't change the best camera on any smartphone on the planet (even after what, almost 11 months? from its release) and all its connectivity options and updates for anything else on the market right now. I'm waiting for 2012 when Nokia should supposedly release (some sources says it's already confirmed) the Nokia 801 (with the old naming convention, this should be the Nokia N8-01, an all-new, updated N8-00). If it gets released, I'm very likely to buy it just because of the hardware update, or I'll just keep my N8 which is doing everything I want and more, even better now with Symbian Belle and a lot better memory management.

Last edited by Velociround, Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:40. Reason : highlighted (bold) the parts of the text that are of interest to answer arco

Quote from arco :

That lock screen and status bar looks like a "ripoff" from Android.

Do you really want to come up with "who came first?" questions? I guess it's Symbian, in 1990. You can say any feature you want: it is highly unlikely to have been implemented in any other platform before Symbian. It has had quick access to bluetooth/silent/etc before Android and iOS even existed.

Android's drop-down status bar is, with your own words, a "ripoff" from Nokia's Maemo-powered devices, which not only came to market long before Android, but also have this drop-down bar from the status bar with all of these notifications/switches(bluetooth, silent, ...)/etc. So you can say Nokia has evolved their own former status bar and lock screen on Symbian Belle, but you can't say they copied it from Android. It's the other way around.

By the way, the Symbian (all versions, including non-touch) lockscreen has always (like, since the S60 interface has been created or something) been like that. The only difference is the wallpaper (custom) and the improved status bar.

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Looks nice, but Android is much more better... I had symbian (5800XM) and I hated it. Slow, ugly and inconvenient.

Yeah, you had an old S60v5 phone in 2008 so the new Symbian Belle devices from 2011/2012 must be old, look old and feel slow too. It totally makes sense.

I agree with you about S60v5 (Symbian^1), which is the operating system of 5800xm, but that is absolutely and completely different from everything beyond and including Symbian^3.

S60v5 was a "desperate" attempt to push Symbian to touch devices after the release of the iPhone. It was the first Symbian touch device released. It was a direct conversion, and everything from the non-touch phones was kept. Unlike Symbian^3 and all its updates, which were made with touchscreens in mind from the beginning. So, you only dislike "Symbian" it because you have never used Symbian^3. Or its latest update: Symbian Belle. That slow (user interface) thing which you dislike was released in 2008, and we're in 2011, mate. That's like saying Windows 7 is bad because you have used Windows XP, or PlayStation 3 has poor graphics because PlayStation 1 had poor graphics, etc.

Memory management and hardware memory is massively improved on Symbian Belle (5800xm had 128MB of RAM, the first Belle handsets have 512MB and a whole lot better memory management with an extra 512MB of flash page file to extend your usage and reduced memory footprint).

Let's compare in a very simple way your poor, ugly, slow and inconvenient experience of 5800xm with the awesome, beautiful, blazingly fast and convenient experience of the new Symbian Belle update and new handsets:

Feature - 5800xm - Symbian Belle handsets
Operating System - S60v5 - Symbian Belle (make no mistakes: they are very different)
Processor - ARM11 434mhz - ARM11 1GHz
RAM - 128MB only - 512MB + page file and memory optimizations
Screen - default LCD TFT - ClearBlack AMOLED / LCD IPS LED-backlit
Touchscreen - resistive (comes with pen for input) - capacitive, multi-point(multitouch)

I won't go into further details because the differences are really THAT huge and I would spend all day writing this post. There is absolutely nothing that both platforms share beyond application compatibility and basis system kernel/name/etc (which has always been great, but with bad user interface made everything look bad when it was not, and even the great parts and the kernel have now also been greatly improved).

You must take into account that Symbian is an awesomely optimized OS. You can have a new Symbian phone with a quarter the RAM necessary to run Android and have it run the same things Android does, maybe even better. Android is one of the least optimized OS. I'm a software developer and I know the differences, the Symbian kernel is small and highly efficient, whereas everything you run on Android is running on java virtual machine.

With Symbian you basically have "direct" access to the drivers and instant access to the hardware, and on Android everything you run must be interpreted and "compiled" by a virtual machine. No wonder Android devices must have much better processors, it's very obvious: it needs this processing power. Symbian doesn't need that: it runs exactly the same games Android and iOS can run with a lot less requirements.

I'm stopping here because I must finish my work. Ironically, I come here to criticize some aspects of java running on Android (not being native code, running on virtual machine, not optimized for each system, etc) but I work with java development. (not for Android, though)

Quote from Silverracer :

http://www.lfsforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=117104&stc=1&d=1315572469

Thank you so much, I really needed this!

Symbian is a real man's OS. All of its updates are women names. Unlike some gay update names stuff such as "ice cream sandwich" or "gingerbread". Please, don't take it seriously. I just needed to say this

I just love Belle. So beautiful.

Symbian Anna (before)


Symbian Belle


(By the way, this screenshot is out-of-date. I have changed my homescreens a lot since then but I don't have any recent screenshot of the latest changes.)

Last edited by Velociround, Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:08.

I have given up almost a year ago. Some people just don't get the meaning of raw.

Quote from jwardy :

Arsenal.

I don't get it.

http://techietonic.com/list-of ... -edition-comparison-2011/
http://www.pcworld.com/article ... ld_rival_apples_ipad.html

Quote from e2mustang :

yes just please remake the 1. in hd or just make it run on new pc`s

Gameloft remade some graphics and released the original Driver game for iOS (iPhone/iPod touch).

It's a must for fans of the game!

store.ovi.com/content/156224

Quote from Inouva :

I just wanna a good Bloom setting, i'be disable everthing else, this are my "Basic" conf of bloom,
BloomPowerDay=20
BloomFadeTime=1
BloomConstantDay=1
BloomQuality=0
BloomScreenLevelDay=30
BloomCurveDay=5
BloomPowerNight=3
BloomConstantNight=1
BloomCurveNight=5
BloomScreenLevelNight=22
BloomAdaptationScreenLevel=50
BloomAdaptationMultiplier=1
BloomAllowOversaturation=1

Any recomendation?

I recommend my settings on this page, you can get direct link and screenshots from my forum signature.

There are many different versions, some with stronger bloom and some with less bloom. The version I use on my pc is the "most realistic" one, with somewhat less bloom.

Spaghetti

Quote from JeanAHough :

Hi velociround,

Try to follow these steps:

d3dx9_37.dll
This is because you are missing a file.
Step 1. You can download http://www.d3dx9.net/download-missing-d3dx9_37-dll/ here.
Step 2. Paste this file into your system32 and system folder. Also put it in your syswow
Step 3. Navigate to your System32(32Bit OS) or SyWOW64(64Bit OS) Folder.
Note: The location of System32 or SyWOW64 is
C:Windows\System32 (If you are using 32Bit Windows)
C:\Windows\SysWOW64 (if you are using 64Bit Windows)
Step 4.Paste the d3dx9_37.dll into this folder.
Step 5.Run the game. It might work now.

Hi! Well, thank you for your help and seeing the date you have registered on the forum it seems that you have registered for posting this and I really appreciate that.

Though I think you should know it wasn't actually me who was having problems, but another user who asked me for help after his computer stopped working (would not even boot). Apparently this was not his problem because he already had the DLL but he managed to figure it out somehow (I didn't have enough info on his problem to know what it was).
Your solution is still valid and valuable information for all kinds of missing DLLs, and some time ago (in 2008) when I needed this to make ENBSeries work I did just that and it works.

Thank you again for your time.

Gotta love this website.

Last edited by Velociround, Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:53. Reason : added another GREAT one

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

thats what i thought when checking this thread....WTF?!?!?

Yes. Really, WTF.

That is really very disgusting. :grumpy:

I wonder if the mods could also delete these posts (including mine) commenting on that pic so we can avoid off topic (I know it feels weird avoiding off topic on "Off topic" but it is for the good of this thread! Please!)

Quote from mrodgers :

[...]I was chillin and relaxin out on the beach.[...]

That was pretty cool. Very good photos, and your daughter is so cute when reading!
She looks very smart. I think it's very good when children like to read when young, they develop many of their skills doing that.

Quote from Bose321 :

Cheers mate.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9847/dsc04141y.jpg
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/5028/dsc03021v.jpg
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1518/dsc04231a.jpg
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6091/dsc00041qi.jpg

I liked these the most. If you got any other awesome or similar pictures feel free to send them. Thanks in advance

You didn't ask for the girl pic!

Could you please send me this in high resolution?
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/9620/dsc03211b.jpg