I definitely sent you hate waves. Perhaps there's a server bottleneck.

A minority do that too, but most don't - it's only the period which they precede with a space which makes it all the more annoying (they are inconsistently wrong!) I find this habit really strange - I mean, don't they look at what they have written and think to themselves "That's just wrong"? Obviously not! Then again, maybe it's a mild form of dyslexia or something so I shouldn't be too hard on them.

Typing was a part of my elementary education, and I took several years of typing/computer courses throughout middle- and high-school. Not a single one of my teachers taught me the two-space method as part of any typing or writing rules (and two teachers, one typing and one english, specifically instructed against it).

You people should consider yourselves lucky! Thais won't even use spaces -- unless it's meant for very young (and therefore ignorant) children.

I'm 33, and I was taught the two-space method; one space while in university.

Either way, I tend to use two spaces in most documents.

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I'm now so back to puntuation.

It's not even your fault, it's a forum bug.

Yeah? You want even better?

Ccehk tihs out. Rlaley sgtarne taht tihs is slitl rdlebaae eh?

Contrary to the National Geographic example, this actually took some headscratching. So either my cavia's condition is contageous [*], or that "first and last letter" crap isn't all it's hyped up to be.

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[*] Use the search, Luke.

With all the *****ing, I figure I should get mine in too, currently at a frustrated point with the whole n800 thing, but I am NOT giving it up :-).

Why, you might ask?

Simple. It is a NEW device and overall excellent. The old AM radio I had in the 1960s was a modern marvel, you could take it with you away from wall sockets, no tubes to heat it up too much in your *pocket*!

Since then the pocket radios have become small enough to easily loose (so light hanging on your ear, you don't notice when they fall off :-) and *tiny* batteries last practically forever.

So, sure glad I didn't just give up on them having to replace the 9V battery often and because it would pull down on my shirt enough because of the weight to eventually get uncomfortable.

Ya gotta start somewhere. Riding the leading edge of the wave has it's benefits and disadvantages too (remembering I paid $500 for my first 16M stick of DRAM (not even going to mention the 4K of 2102s for the KIM :-) :-)). Just because PADDs sprung fully grown and functional from the minds of the startrek writers doesn't mean that has anything to do with reality.

I discovered iTs late. Initially I wanted a 770 even though the 800 was out and the 810 coming. I spent over a month researching the issue.

Finally decided that although the 770 had a better form factor and protection, the RSD cards were a deal breaker. Outside of the price, I liked the n800 better because *I* could decide on what keyboard and GPS *I* wanted and when I wanted them.

My *MAJOR* ***** about the n800 isn't the n800, it is that pitiful condom they supply with it as a case.

The experience with the n800 "camera" pretty much convinced me I was right not to get all the built in stuff. Others probably have different desires and needs.

Overall, the experience with the n800 has been up to expectations and better. A shirt pocket linux (and deb at that!), wow, Wow and WOW.

Yes, it has problems. More from the software / firmware end than any real inherent problems. Given time it will mature - look back to the 2007 OS. I keep thinking I should go back to that for a while, but...

Compared to the computers on the space shuttle, I am pretty sure I am still ahead of the game. Glad I don't have to try to put one of those in my pocket :-).

*****es have really nothing to do with the n800 itself.

I got an igo fold up keyboard, LOVE it. Picked up one of the 737 BT GPSs, love it. The included ($150) map application is pure crap compared to maemo mapper.

Both seem to work flawlessly.

Only thing that doesn't work is the BT headset (Mot 700) but that doesn't work for audio with *anything* other than my cell phone (Mot Razor V3xx, which I hate, mostly because AT&T has castrated it in the interest of the entertainment mafias).

So just what ARE my *****es?

The maemo.org web site is the worst site on the net in terms of speed. Organization sucks loudly too. Deal breaker? No, just more hassle than it should be.

67 apps listed the other day, I could only find 62 wading through each category. Of those 8 were missing the install file. The "fresh" listing I either do not understand or it is seriously hosed. Having to chase around the net rather endlessly for apps isn't a happy experience either. A page of apps for the thing and links would sure make the less diligent and experienced of us a lot happier and easier to find things. There ARE more than whatever the count of apps for 2008 is today, problem is finding them and getting them installed.

Since I am *****ing, gcompris, pigin and the dictionaries could have their own respositories, it makes for a serious mess in my apps list for things I have NO interest in (well, excepting the dictionary :-).

Sure, it takes a little work to get it where you want it. In these days of IG (Instant Gratification takes too long to say or type) folks dedicated to that bent will be offended. Get over it. Anything worth having is going to take some work.

One thing to keep in mind - if you want something to be as simple as a toaster, then all it is going to do is make toast :-).

Thanks Nokia (but PLEASE do something about that web site) and most expecially to all the folks doing development for this wondrous little device:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And yes, in 10 years or so we can look back and say how pitiful these things were, looking back at my rat shack PC-1 now, it was a pitiful little device, but at the time a MARVEL :-).