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RE: D'oh.
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My wife has to sell a lot of candles (www.ccandles.com) to buy her new Palm.
RE: D'oh.
Can you open the device ever again without saying "Kirk here..."?
~ "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." - DV ~
Palm Shmalm, it's cell phones that are the "communicators"
What you should be referencing is the Tricorder!
RE: Palm Shmalm, it's cell phones that are the
The design influence for the first Treo's was definitely the communicator.
elo
RE: Palm Shmalm, it's cell phones that are the
... much like my Apple Newton MP110 :)
~ "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." - DV ~
RE: Palm Shmalm, it's cell phones that are the
I was thinking more along the lines of function.
Also, it seems that you CAN actually use the energy cells from several Palm handhelds to refuel a shuttlecraft.
My bad.
(Just don't dump and ignite it unless you're trying to attract attention while breaking orbit...)
Oops, now I'm thinking Phasers! Doh!
Oh, those days...
-- god, that's rich!!
"Rob Haitani, PalmOne designer: I have to say I was most inspired by the vision of racial equality. Remember in those days, Japanese people were portrayed on TV as buck-toothed clowns with thick glasses. But on Star Trek, there were Asian and African American bridge officers, and starships with Japanese names."
-- Rob! I just watched an episode of "Johnny Staccato" on Trio and the Japanese portrayed on that were not stereotyped. And, hey, what about Bruce Lee as Kato on "The Green Hornet?" Plus, we all bloody worshipped Tesuka as kids (Astro Boy!).
"-- Television broadcasters and makers of TVs were still in the early stages of the transition from black-and-white to color, and many households had only one TV. A typical "big screen'' TV of that era measured 23 inches diagonally and was housed in a wooden box."
-- the advent of the NBC Pea****. "The following broadcast is brought to you in living color by NBC!" And, yeah, you had to *polish* the damned wooden box the set was in. And its resolution was pathetic. And it had *knobs*!
RE: Oh, those days...
RE: Oh, those days...
RE: Oh, those days...
Don't get me wrong - I'm all for cutting out language that is clearly appropriate. But it's hard to miss the irony here.
elo
Paramount sues Palm1!
Seriously, thats probably why there were not any such lawsuits. The guy who "invented" the waterbed in the 60s could not get a patent because Robert Heinleien described one to a "T" in a short story in the late 30s.
Life is a great adventure or nothing.
RE: Paramount sues Palm1!
It was called a "hydraulic bed" and it appeared in "Stranger in a Strange Land". Boo-yah!
-Bryan
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D'oh.
No wonder I feel like such a geek using my Treo 180. The flip lid always makes me feel quite conspicuous using it on the subway, now it will be even worse since it was ** officially ** inspired by the Star Trek communicator.