I take a blank palm pilot to your computer, which is locked, and I sync with it and copy all of your palm pilot data
Except that when you syncronise a blank palm pilot the PC asks you which user this is for, and if the machine is locked you can't select one.
turn off access to the serial port, USB, port
What a good idea, and why not network traffic as well. In your world you couldn't leave a machine working with anything outside the box and lock it. How secure. How sensible.
Tell me when we get there because I don't ever see it happening. The world we live in is one where breaching copyright is becoming easier, and no doubt will continue to get easier, but it is still illegal.
Just because you can do something, doesn't make it right.
So get the hard case. It offers even more protection than the flip cover on the Palm III
... Digs into the edge of my hand ... sliding out of my hand
Maybe you need to hold it like it was designed to be held then! And wipe your hands before using it.
Palm III: Upgradable
If you want to play about with a soldering iron. Funnily enough that's not why I got a PDA.
Well, I don't know about you, but I will take a Dilbert Palm over a Calvin Klein Palm any day! (Palms are mainly about function, not form.)
Fine. I think you'll find most people will take the device that is well designed on the software side, and on the design size. The Palm III/Visor and the Palm V run the same software. Which makes the only difference the look, and the Palm V wins out every time.
Colour would be great, but the screens are just too bulky at the moment. The Palm IIIc looks large compared to the Palm III/e/x, never mind the Palm V/x. If they could get a colour screen in the same size box as the Palm V they would have a real winner. And the way technological miniturization is going that might not be too far away.
I know it's all personal opinion but how can you prefer the Visor over the Palm V. The Visor looks like it was designed by an engineer and resembles a brick. The Palm has elegent curves, is smaller, lighter, and more attractive. I liked my Palm III but I'll keep my Palm V, and leave the Visor to those for whom cost is the main concern. And that outward taper. It fits comfortably along the heel of your hand making for a snug fit.
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I take a blank palm pilot to your computer, which is locked, and I sync with it and copy all of your palm pilot data
Except that when you syncronise a blank palm pilot the PC asks you which user this is for, and if the machine is locked you can't select one.
turn off access to the serial port, USB, port
What a good idea, and why not network traffic as well. In your world you couldn't leave a machine working with anything outside the box and lock it. How secure. How sensible.
The US is the place where all the best technology comes from.
Aren't you forgetting Japan?
US leads the world in .. well, everything
Including murder, shootings, and most other crimes.
countries like Germany and London
Maybe if you weren't so isolationist you would realise that London is a town and not a country.
post-copyright world
Tell me when we get there because I don't ever see it happening. The world we live in is one where breaching copyright is becoming easier, and no doubt will continue to get easier, but it is still illegal.
Just because you can do something, doesn't make it right.
Cute leather cover that turns the unit on
So get the hard case. It offers even more protection than the flip cover on the Palm III
Maybe you need to hold it like it was designed to be held then! And wipe your hands before using it.
Palm III: Upgradable
If you want to play about with a soldering iron. Funnily enough that's not why I got a PDA.
Well, I don't know about you, but I will take a Dilbert Palm over a Calvin Klein Palm any day! (Palms are mainly about function, not form.)
Fine. I think you'll find most people will take the device that is well designed on the software side, and on the design size. The Palm III/Visor and the Palm V run the same software. Which makes the only difference the look, and the Palm V wins out every time.
Colour would be great, but the screens are just too bulky at the moment. The Palm IIIc looks large compared to the Palm III/e/x, never mind the Palm V/x. If they could get a colour screen in the same size box as the Palm V they would have a real winner. And the way technological miniturization is going that might not be too far away.
I know it's all personal opinion but how can you prefer the Visor over the Palm V. The Visor looks like it was designed by an engineer and resembles a brick. The Palm has elegent curves, is smaller, lighter, and more attractive. I liked my Palm III but I'll keep my Palm V, and leave the Visor to those for whom cost is the main concern. And that outward taper. It fits comfortably along the heel of your hand making for a snug fit.