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Comment Re:Who or what is the target for WebOS? (Score 1) 300

by presidentnixon (#26829551) Attached to: Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS

Are these guys still making PDAs and phones? If they're a hardware vendor, why not just use Android? Wrapping webkit and giving javascript APIs to talk to the hardware isn't a bad idea and it's working for PhoneGap. I just don't know why they have to re-invent the wheel. Do they intend on making money licensing their WebOS to other hardware manufacturers?

Why would you comment when you obviously have no understanding of what the company in the story produces? Palm has released PalmOS powered and Windows Mobile devices side-by-side for several years. Yes, they still make phones and PDAs. It doesn't make sense to use Android, and have to pay licensing on a product that they don't own when they have been around long enough to know what works and what their customers want. The technology that WebOS uses is well known, and they made what seems to be an improvement on their own work with the WebOS. I'll miss the traditional PalmOS, but probably not for long, if the early reviews of WebOS are any indicaion.
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How the City Hurts Your Brain 439

Posted by kdawson from the but-not-paris dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The city has always been an engine of intellectual life and the 'concentration of social interactions' is largely responsible for urban creativity and innovation. But now scientists are finding that being in an urban environment impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory and suffers from reduced self-control. 'The mind is a limited machine,' says psychologist Marc Berman. 'And we're beginning to understand the different ways that a city can exceed those limitations.' Consider everything your brain has to keep track of as you walk down a busy city street. A city is so overstuffed with stimuli that we need to redirect our attention constantly so that we aren't distracted by irrelevant things. This sort of controlled perception — we are telling the mind what to pay attention to — takes energy and effort. Natural settings don't require the same amount of cognitive effort. A study at the University of Michigan found memory performance and attention spans improved by 20 percent after people spent an hour interacting with nature. 'It's not an accident that Central Park is in the middle of Manhattan,' says Berman. 'They needed to put a park there.'"

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