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I am here to apologize to Rotor for my rude comments yesterday against Palm. I fully deserved my probation for denigrating and besmirching something that I know you hold dear. I will try and post better in the future. I am sorry Rotor. This thread can be used also to appreciate all things Palm or for others to apologize to Rotor. Thank you.
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palm owned and we'd all be better off if it was the peak of mobile computing i mean ffs you used to get a month of battery out of 2 AAAs, or if you charged your m515, like two months per charge
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May 8, 2024 14:42
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also webos was really good and what LG has done to it is a travesty
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May 8, 2024 14:42
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AlbertFlasher posted:I am here to apologize to Rotor for my rude comments yesterday against Palm. I fully deserved my probation for denigrating and besmirching something that I know you hold dear. I will try and post better in the future. It takes a big man to admit when they're wrong. I appreciate and accept your apology, Albert.
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May 8, 2024 15:54
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palm was ok but made a ton of unforced errors by trying to be both microsoft and apple at the same time
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May 8, 2024 16:28
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qirex posted:palm was ok but made a ton of unforced errors by trying to be both microsoft and apple at the same time the portmortem that ?verge? did was pretty good. fun fact: i interviewed with Jeff Hawkins at his company after palm, what a great guy
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May 8, 2024 17:11
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i have never used a palm device
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May 8, 2024 17:15
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Captain Foo posted:i have never used a palm device thats just so sad
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May 8, 2024 17:28
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I miss my palm centro. I’ve been thinking of getting a palm iii or whatever the last AAA model was to play with
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May 8, 2024 17:31
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imo the best plain Palm PDA thing was the Sony SL10 https://www.ebay.com/itm/335375526272?itmmeta=01HXCHV7QX8ZEFVTPX7RAB0JXE the jog dial was (and still is) an amazingly good ui widget, and having removable storage was great.
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May 8, 2024 17:53
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stuff needs more dials, imo. I kept hoping sony would add one to the playstation controller but nope, we got a useless touchpad instead
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May 8, 2024 17:55
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qirex posted:palm was ok but made a ton of unforced errors by trying to be both microsoft and apple at the same time though should have tried a bit harder to be microsoft when it came to updating technology. as should apple have at one point. so much energy and money poured into the nerd delusion of clean slate redesigns.
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May 8, 2024 17:56
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i thought this thread was for Rotor to apologize to all the innocent posters he's wronged
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May 8, 2024 17:59
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Roosevelt posted:i thought this thread was for Rotor to apologize to all the innocent posters he's wronged hey i already probated myself for the time i wrongly probated you, what more do you want
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May 8, 2024 18:30
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Roosevelt posted:i thought this thread was for Rotor to apologize to all the innocent posters he's wronged i have given up hope that rotor will come to the light and truth about Airplane!
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May 8, 2024 18:35
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i did borrow my friends palm for a month in high school it was pretty fun wumpuses were hunted
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May 8, 2024 18:35
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i had a palm m125 at one point but i dunno what happened to it still have the palm-branded 16mb sd card for it though.
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May 8, 2024 18:55
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marry rotor, gently caress Captain Foo, kill graph
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May 8, 2024 18:58
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a friend of mine loved his palm treo so much. I think he went through three of them in total, replacing them when they broke with used ebay treos. ebay eventually ran out, so for the last year or so before the cell towers stopped supporting whatever band the thing operated on he was rocking a treo with a cracked screen that somehow got beer inside of it
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May 8, 2024 19:34
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rotor? more like blowtor
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May 8, 2024 19:35
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:rotor? more like blowtor more like ... best bi ... dork jerk! who smells bad!
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May 8, 2024 19:36
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Asleep Style posted:a friend of mine loved his palm treo so much. I think he went through three of them in total, replacing them when they broke with used ebay treos. ebay eventually ran out, so for the last year or so before the cell towers stopped supporting whatever band the thing operated on he was rocking a treo with a cracked screen that somehow got beer inside of it and far from alone. like, it is usually bike shedding to put the failure of a company down to some tech choice, but as i alluded to above, if palm had just stuck the course and managed a windows 95 and a windows xp to the windows 3.1 of palmos they'd still be around. they were genuinely ahead of the iphone in a way that other pda/phone companies were not. i'd also note that microsoft could have made the windows mobile play work (despite being *way* *way* behind palm in actual users and user satisfaction) had they not caught the same idiotic "here's the clean slate" bug
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May 8, 2024 19:42
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May 8, 2024 19:47
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palmos was, by all accounts, an absolutely shitshow interally. I talked to one of the Blazer devs (palmos web browser) and it was like talking to a disaster survivor.
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May 8, 2024 19:48
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https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-inside-story-pre-postmortem. thats the article i was talkin about
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May 8, 2024 19:50
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rotor posted:palmos was, by all accounts, an absolutely shitshow interally. I talked to one of the Blazer devs (palmos web browser) and it was like talking to a disaster survivor. yeah, but windows 3.1 was absolute nonsense as well. and whille windows 95 was an insane achievement, it was more an achievement of hard committal to getting the work done than it was arcane engineering. like, the brief should just have been "there's palmos running and all old apps get to enjoy that, and then we have more modern stuff to the side. it is fine if it is a bit messy and sometimes breaks, we'll do this again in 5 years"
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May 8, 2024 20:02
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:yeah, but windows 3.1 was absolute nonsense as well. and whille windows 95 was an insane achievement, it was more an achievement of hard committal to getting the work done than it was arcane engineering. like you're not wrong but there's a lot of differences between these two things, and highly compressed timetables and super brutal competition are a few of them.
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May 8, 2024 20:09
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rotor posted:like you're not wrong but there's a lot of differences between these two things, and highly compressed timetables and super brutal competition are a few of them. palm was *so* early though. and to be clear i don't blame the engineers, that was business decisions, had they committed 50% of the money they spent on other nonsense to just paying a good team of engineers good money to revise properly they'd have gotten it done.
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May 8, 2024 20:12
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a for the job proven engineering team for that matter, the arm migration was a good chunk of that kind of work well done
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May 8, 2024 20:18
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:palm was *so* early though. oh i think they definitely coasted for a while but when real competition showed up it was very fast and really tough
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May 8, 2024 20:20
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yo rotor, check this poo poo out
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May 8, 2024 20:32
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it is getting real off-topic (but i have no particular apologies for rotor, so i have little choice), but nothing in tech pisses me off as much as good useful work pissed away for no reason. good work is uncommon, and just from where i am viewing things the pissing away is real common. a real poo poo company i worked for a couple of years back built one really good 1.0 product, through excessive efforts of good people. it got licensed a fair bit, it worked, made bank, and the management just went "well, now we're building 2.0, with a different team, making every decision anew and incompatibly". that turned to poo poo, no one really got a payday, all of it is now pretty much in the winds, except the customers doing vital infrastructure things with the decaying irreplaceable 1.0 in one of the securest money-making industries in the world.
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May 8, 2024 20:33
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gently caress yes
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May 8, 2024 20:34
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quote:Nevertheless, it's still basically a Palm, and you'll still need a stylus. This is how you tell if people have used palm devices much. You absolutely do not need a stylus. Your fingers work fine and you have fingernails for when they dont.
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May 8, 2024 20:35
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rotor posted:gently caress yes that guy runs a gopher server for a bunch of old tools, one of his regular projects is making a gopher client for <x>
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infernal machines posted:that guy runs a gopher server for a bunch of old tools, one of his regular projects is making a gopher client for <x> its all comin together
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May 8, 2024 20:39
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i wanted one of those so bad when they were announced and was bummed when it was canceled, i had no idea they eventually revived their plans i'm not so sure it'd want one today lol, but a palmos device that size in a more traditional case would own. maybe make the screen a bit bigger, color, and make the whole device sort of like, idk, late 90s beeper sized but thinner hmm. maybe a little smaller than those REX PCMCIA card pdas, but with the same size display and a minimal bezel and a jog wheel cribbed from the clie on the side e: i know rotor is going to hate to hear this product's name but *ahem* actually palm Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 23:12 on May 8, 2024 |
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May 8, 2024 23:07
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this belongs in the thread for folks who haven't seen it https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm
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May 9, 2024 00:41
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palm is just some anachronistic revisionist garbage, get that poo poo outta here (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Captain Foo posted:i have never used a palm device have you used a lucky goldstar tv? well, great news
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