Comments on: HP Files for PalmPad Trademark

Not too go OT too much, but I said years ago that Palm/eReader (when they were owned by Palm) could've made an early run at the e-book market with a larger (5" or 6") greyscale unit running OS4. Heck, Palm even made a barely-serious effort at selling those pre-loaded MMCs containing various books. Back in the day I read plenty of public domain ebooks from Memoware (more than I do now due to the lack of expandable store & wireless connectivity in those days) when in school and traveling in the Palm III/V/m500 era.
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It's Linux all over again. People just want stuff to work.

and stop spamming the app store with those awful, redundant clock fart apps.

and no freebees for you & the lizard!

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Nah, the Palm people would have a fit over that. HP can't think of every possible thing and no way in hell would a company like HP imagine "foolish" stuff like Twitter, et al. (Yes, I'm citing a website instead of an app but it is near sleep time and brain going into shutdown mode... sue me.)

Is A War Brewing At HP?
http://ipadtest.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/is-a-war-brewing-at-hp/

"Dude, you're getting a Dell!"

Yeah, well, right now I'm getting DELLED!

Since S370 hasn't been widely used in, what, 7-8 years, I wouldn't expect any freebies from Dell. That's why you are better off assembling your own PC from industry-standard parts and not Dell's cheap, proprietary crap!

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Quite honestly, I still think that a Dell gives a solid new PC for the price. You couldn't even hope to build a comparable modern new machine with a legal Win 7 COA for the cost of their $299 and $399 specials. Also, Dell doesn't pre-load their machines with a crushing load of bloatware like HP/Compaq, Acer/Gateway or Sony, for example. And they still include a restore DVD in the box! However, whenever anyone I know buys a Dell I tell them to basically consider it a disposable appliance and to expect four-five years MAX out of it.
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unbelievable.

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I know two people who bought laptops last year. One bought a $1000 HP with Windows 7 and loved it, and felt smart for saving money. The other bought a $1200 MacBook Pro and loved it. A year later, one thinks it's a piece of shit that doesn't work right (already), and the other is now a regular customer. Guess which is which?

Dell just got dinged for $100M for stock fraud yesterday. Good. Show the corrupt punks for what they are.

The Nook app for Android is incredible bloatware -- over 17MBs installed! Rumor has it that they've pulled it from Android Market. Is that true?

but this discussion started on HP vs. Dell. but then the Apple fan boy had to bring Apple into the mix. check yourself.

You said HP was the most boring company. I said Dell. You posted a video of that Dell MID. I brought up that it wasn't a novel concept and brought Apple's products up as evidence. Then I drew a comparison to Silicon Valley darlings versus whitebox bullshitters who sell enterprise and are losing consumers at a rapid clip.

If you want to blanket Apple users as mindless drones, you're talking about tens of millions of users. Think about that.

I attribute Mike's problem to the sub-standard Dell quality but I think a lot of the 478 problems were due to the general design of the interface (it was easy enough to fit an OEM HSF but they just didn't stand up to repeated removals & reinstallations) and probably exacerbated by the extremely high temperates of the fast clocked CPUs of that era.

Mike is your Dell a Dimension or an Optiplex? if it's an Optiplex I'd be greatly concerned about bad capacitors more so than anything else.
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if i was him i'd send that piece of plastic special delivery and have it jammed so far up your ass you wouldn't forget it.

why are you so worried about your identity? it's not like any thief would get much other than debt and bad credit. they'd be doing you a favor!

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Mike, the Nook software has not been pulled (as of this writing) but it's indeed a bloated mess. I uninstalled but will probably keep the Kindle app on, at least for the time being. Aldiko handily maintains its top spot on Android IMO.

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you guys really need to step out of the past and embrace the future.

let go of the past and the hope and the fantasy.

Hey Gekko, they have their bright spots too! Imagine a WebOS device with terabytes of memory and orders of magnitude higher computing power with longer battery life and 'instant on' boot time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZAHG3COYYA&feature=related

("Mark my words, this will VASTLY change the world... The memristor is the fourth element in integrated circuitry. Scientists are discovering the mathematic equations used to govern memristors are similiar to those which govern synapses in the brain.
In addition, memristors do not "forget" the voltage charge channeled through them. This will yeild several billion-fold times the capacity/performance than current hard drives. That, however, is just one of the multitude of products yet to utilize this incredible new discovery.")

technical talks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFdDPzcZwbs&feature=related

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mikecane wrote:
Now We Know Why Apple Bought A Chipmaker
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/now-we-know-why-apple-bought-a-chipmaker/

They bought them to acquire the expertise in customized low-power ARM designs. The people they acquired were among the top with their StrongARM designs at DEC. Their division was acquired by Intel and then sold to Marvell (with StrongARM being renamed to XScale). During this transition the main people left to form various start ups eventually coming together to start up P.A. Semi, that specialized in customized low-power PowerPC designs.