The handspring VisorPhone does. It was an add-on card that cheaply added a phone to HandSpring-produced PalmOS PDAs. It was my first pdaphone.
The VisorPhone originally cost more than a cellphone. Thanks for proving my point.
I could sort of understand if one of those GamerGate "Men's Rights Activists" dudes were claiming that most government leaders and CEOs were women.
But that's not what happened here.
But why on Earth would a woman make such a bizarre claim?
That's not what happened here.
Have you been living under a rock?
Are you a rock?
So you are calling the above poster a liar? Nice.
Name and shame or you're a liar making shit up to make yourself seem more important. Put up or shut up is the name of the game, otherwise it's just FUD. Vague pronouncements might serve in government, but they don't suit here on Slashdot.
Yeah, that *shrug* is how we got where we are now with our government in general. No justice available from the justice system? *shrug*
You're assuming the goal of listening radio is simply to understand. For most people it most definitely isn't. There's nothing more fatiguing than trying to understand content through static in the background.
Yeah, there's nothing worse than when the radio reception is poor while you're digging ditches.
But it has only been a relative few years that smartphones have had screens bigger than about 3.5"
Yeah, you know why? Because they didn't have the horsepower to drive the resolution that users expected from a display at larger sizes. It's only recently that the hardware has become efficient enough to actually provide a larger display with the features users expect.
They could have simply added a phone and left everything else alone.
What makes you so sure that they could have done that in the same package and still got it out of the door for a price that anyone would pay?
Then came the Treo... their smartphone. They reduced the size of the screen to 1/2 or even less of what it had been before, added chicklet-style keyboard ala Blackberry, and dropped the Graffiti written input.
Oh, you mean like the Tungsten C?
Now, finally, we have smartphones that match or best the Tungsten's color screen in size and resolution.
So I looked it up, and the highest-resolution Tungsten device was at 320 x 480 and now median phones are 720p, the display was only TFT and now phones are starting to be OLED, and the screen was 3.7" while modern phones are 4-5". The specs of the best Tungsten phone were beaten by feature phones some years ago.
We could have had that many years ago,
We did, and no, Palm's 3.7 inch display with almost no dots and also very few colors by modern standards was not comparable to a modern smartphone display. Not even a cheap one.
Says the US, with both feet in Hitler's toy box.
Well, we did import it at great expense, it would be a shame not to play in it.
The notion that North American native peoples lived in any kind of harmony with nature is simply false.
Wait, what? That's nonsense. Any kind clearly covers a lot of ground, and some North American native peoples clearly did live in some kind of harmony with nature. They didn't leave it untouched, but they did see themselves as stewards with a responsibility to maintain the land. Again, there's variation between peoples. On the plains they burned down forests to make room for bison. But in other places they set controlled burns which successfully maintained forests throughout thousands of years of continuous occupation.
bill gates is one of the stories described. he had luck and opportunity - by being born at just the right time when personal computing was beginning - and circumstances - by going to one of the very very few schools in the USA that actually had a computer available
Yes, and by having rich parents. That is the single most reliable predictor of economic success. As such, it is anything but surprising that Gates was successful.
If local ISPs are involved, then what the fuck is the point of this?
Yep, that's the question, isn't it? My local WISP (Digital Path) doesn't even answer support requests reliably, although billing is as reliable as the sunrise. How could this jerkoff waste of time move possibly help me, an actual customer with a crap last mile?
They also want proof of purchase to RMA devices with lifetime warranties, like flash memory. Up theirs. If I wanted theft protection I'd register ownership.
If I can figure out it's an ad from the first sentence of TFS, or better yet from the headline, then that's a massive win. What's annoying is the slashvertisements which masquerade as articles.
The relevant law is here. In most cases they have 70 days to bring you to trial
That doesn't strike you as being a long time? If they want to drag you into court, they can do it in about 70 minutes. But to process you through it, it takes 70 days? Perhaps the money is being spent in the wrong place.
The original palm pilot is 18 years old, and the original Newton is 22 years old.
Yeah yeah, I didn't bother to look up the timescale this time, but I got all the other particulars correct.
Though Palm required you to learn a modified alphabet in the form of Graffiti, it had simpler strokes that were faster to enter, and it allowed more differentiation between characters by the device, and higher accuracy.
Actually, Palm originally didn't require you to learn a modified alphabet in the form of Graffiti, on the Zoomer. That was what was so inexplicable about Graffiti. Making it the only input method was a bit odd.
In any case, I visited Palm before the Pilot even hit the streets, I had a friend who knew those guys. And I had a Zoomer and I still have a GRiDPad 2390, although it doesn't quite work properly.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
