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Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS
BobB-nw writes to tell us that Palm has decided to kill their PalmOS operating system and is instead betting their future on a still mostly unknown Palm webOS. Very little is known about the new Palm webOS, but it will supposedly support HTML5 and enable a local data store so that applications can be used both online and off. All of this is rolled into a Linux framework with a message bus based on JSON. Will be interesting to see where they take it.
Comments like this are the reason Slashdot needs a (-1, Stupid) or (-1, Just F***ing Wrong) mod option. This isn't flamebait or trolling, the poster is just an idiot, as is the guy who modded him Insightful.
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guxests. Some p3ople
imagine the same scenario today: posts would be moderated flamebait, troll, offtopic, or (more likely) overrated. Asshat moderators can be counteracted by other moderators or graded in M2. Meanwhile, every day dozens of inaccurate/wrong posts get modded up then modded down as overrated (which doesn't affect the label assigned to it), or flambait/troll/offtopic (which may cause other mods to mod it back up because they don't consider it a troll).
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
If you want a nice hand-sized ebook reader, you may wish to consider the iTouch. While I actually had to set up a tiny webserver just to get my ebooks uploaded onto the iTouch (I'm not at all thrilled about the necessity to use the itunes software to sync up) once you get the books onto the device it is actually a very comfortable reading experience.