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2009-10-15 , 01:33
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Originally Posted by ColdFusion View Post
So it's not a problem of having mobile features, but a problem of stupid people.

Like I said, reading a folded newspaper has the same hazardous effects as having a smartphone with a lot of features.

Should we stop using scissors because you can run around with them. What are we, a society of glue-eaters?

The point I was trying to set up then, and can hopefully make now is:

With Maemo we are given a device that with a little knowledge, a little skill, and maybe a little help from the community we can make do whatever we want (within the capabilities of the hardware and the limitations of some drivers). We have seen it with the 770, N800, & N810 before. Anybody new to the forum need only look at the "Downloads" section and see that with the Diablo release there are at least 482 different things that the device didn't do out of the box but the community made happen anyway.

I'm sure someone can hold a baby in their arms, cut hair, drive a car, clean teeth, or eat a dang cheese samich with one hand while texting their vote for "Dancing with the Stars", programming the space shuttle, or ordering Kung Pow chicken on their N900 with the other. Some are pro'ly better at doing all those things simultaneously than I am doing just one thing. Who am I to judge?

I don’t have a problem with glue eaters or even those who want to rub pot roast all over their chest... I just feel a lot better if they had a little knowledge, a little skill, and maybe a little help from the community first.