Nokia uses the x86 tools as part of their simulator toolset, letting you build a Symbian application for a Win32 library and debugging it on the desktop before building it for the harder to work with hardware.
I just checked on hacker's issues with our Palm OS Developer Suite product.
This download has some components that are under the GPL and some that are under the Eclipse Public License.
The GPL components (Cygwin, PRC-Tools) have source provided in an "original source" and "patch" download provided on the same page as the PODS download. There is a small set of patches to GDB for Win32 that I've not yet posted; I've just reviewed that tar file and will be getting it online tonight, if possible.
We don't have the source for our modified Eclipse plugins posted right now. On reviewing the EPL, I think this was a misinterpretation of the license, and we're reviewing what we need to do to be in compliance. I've already received an email on this issue, and now that we're aware of this problem, we're taking it very seriously.
The Series 1 devices only have 16MB of RAM, which isn't enough for larger databases or upgraded drives, so they tend to swap. One of the less common hacks for the S1 is to upgrade the RAM to 32MB, which seems to improve performance a lot.
Actually, low bitrates will be more important in the near future, as more people use streaming audio over PCS data services. For example, I listen to low-bitrate streams over Shoutcast several times a week on my PalmOne Treo 600, and 32Kbps streams much better than 64Kbps, while higher than that just isn't feasible on Sprint's PCS network. While this isn't as much of an issue for home users, mobile devices on relatively low-speed networks are going to be big.
If you can compromise on Bluetooth, I'd recommend the keyboard/touchpad combo from Wireless Computing. These are designed for long-range wireless, like conference rooms and auditoriums (100'), but do very well in closer situations also.
Also, these are both PalmOS. After a couple of years of exploring their development stuff, I find that it's really not worth the effort. Doing even the smallest thing takes forever, because you just can't debug the stuff. The slightest error freezes everything, you have to reboot, and you have no clues as to what went wrong. There's nothing at all like gdb available. And most of the internal working are invisible and undocumented to outsiders like me.
What do you mean? gdb is available on Palm OS as part of the prc-tools package, and there are also credible debuggers from Metrowerks and PalmSource. True, it is difficult to develop ON the device, but hosted development environments running on the desktop are effective and work well for developing software for that OS. Remember, Palm OS IS an embedded system. You've got to think like an embedded developer to make effective use of it.
Wasn't this film originally going to be called "Revenge of the King", but they changed the name after some marketing material had already been prepared?
You do realize that Motorola SPS is an ARM licensee, and that the i250 platform mentioned is a Motorola CPU with both ARM and DSP cores optimized for wireless.
Blazer 3.0, included with the Treo 600, is based on NetFront 3 which supports JavaScript. The btowser works really well, being able to reformat pages for the small screen or display them big with scrolling.
Aren't there three shuttle orbiters left? I count Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour in the current fleet, with Challenger and Columbia destroyed and Enterprise never made spaceworthy.
Lineo (after changing their name to Embedix) was purchased by Metrowerks (a Motorola company) last year. They are still actively developing and supporting the OpenPDA Linux platform.
Palm OS is officially available in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portugese, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and there are translation modules to support Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Hebrew, Greek, and more. Usually, a device is only set for one language at a time, but some of the overlay programs allow for an Asian language and Engligh together.
Landmark is a chain of mostly "art-house" theaters that show a pretty eclectic fare. I think this is a really great announcement, because it means a much lower distribution cost for a lot of films that otherwise would go without screenings. This will lead to more choices at their theaters, since you won't have the huge costs of dealing with film spools and prints. Films that currently only play a week or two because the print has to go to the next city can have longer runs, and its easier to play repertoire films due to no shipping costs.
I'm looking forward to see how this works at Austin's Dobie Theater. At South by Southwest 2002 and 2003, lots of the festival films were screened using digital projection, and I thought it worked pretty well, with the biggest problem being the limited resolution of the DV source.
In other words, something very similar to RealArcade (http://www.realonearcade.com/). It consists of a game manager application to keep track of both games you've installed through RealArcade and other ones on your PC and a subscription service where you get one free game every month and discounts on others available through their site.
Currently, they're doing distribution for a number of small publishers, including PopCap and Small Rockets, and they also have older games from larger names, including Sierra and Monolith.
The $1150 kit for the 3650 includes an actual 3650 phone. There will be a download with the 3650 dev kit available around March 20th that can be applied to CodeWarrior Development Studio for Symbian OS, Personal Edition, a toolset that cost $399. Yes, its more than most free software developers usually spend on tools, but it is well in line with other wireless toolsets, and less expensive than embedded ARM development systems.
Actually, it does have WAAS support. If you look at the webpage for it at http://www.garmin.com/products/iQue3600/, you'll see the WAAS logo listed at the top of the page, next to the Palm OS logo.
Actually, the Garmin device implements the standard Palm OS 5 APIs, so there already is Ogg Vorbis playback software (AeroPlayer, PocketTunes) that will run on it.
The Garmin device uses a different ARM chip (the Motorola Dragonball MXL) from the Tungsten T (which uses a TI OMAP 1510). This means different sound playback hardware, and its almost certain, much clearer sound playback. The OMAP's DSP handles sound processing, and Palm installed a low-pass filter in the DSP to improve sound quality for voice recording. However, they didn't make this switchable, causing grief for music playback software. This will likely be fixed when Palm does an OS update for the device.
Actually, when I go for an occasionally Ebay auction, I often bid with "odd" values -- as the items I order tend to priced on the low-end, a bid of $9.13 would beat someone elses bid of $9, and if they don't check the auction again, I win. This kind of offset bidding doesn't necessarily mean "shill".
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Actually, XP is version 0. We know this because of LISP, where predicates often end with P. So, XP is asking the question, is this X? The answer is no, or nil, which is similar to C99's "false" which converts to the integer 0.
Yes, but the 7135 will have a true telephone keypad, and according to reports, you will be able to use the keypad for T9-based text entry in Palm OS applications.
Got to love an obscure "The State" reference in the middle of a Slashdot threat.
"I'm Doug, and I'm out-ta-here."
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Actually, Palm OS 5 runs all of the OS calls in ARM mode, so 68K programs that run on OS 5 devices will be quite a bit faster. The only apps that run slower are ones that require a lot of calculation in the app itself, and even those were running at 70% of full speed going from a 33MHz 68K to a 75MHz ARM. Apps that used lots of OS calls were sped up from 3 to 10 times, according to presenters at PalmSource 2002.
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Nokia uses the x86 tools as part of their simulator toolset, letting you build a Symbian application for a Win32 library and debugging it on the desktop before building it for the harder to work with hardware.
I just checked on hacker's issues with our Palm OS Developer Suite product.
This download has some components that are under the GPL and some that are under the Eclipse Public License.
The GPL components (Cygwin, PRC-Tools) have source provided in an "original source" and "patch" download provided on the same page as the PODS download. There is a small set of patches to GDB for Win32 that I've not yet posted; I've just reviewed that tar file and will be getting it online tonight, if possible.
We don't have the source for our modified Eclipse plugins posted right now. On reviewing the EPL, I think this was a misinterpretation of the license, and we're reviewing what we need to do to be in compliance. I've already received an email on this issue, and now that we're aware of this problem, we're taking it very seriously.
The Series 1 devices only have 16MB of RAM, which isn't enough for larger databases or upgraded drives, so they tend to swap. One of the less common hacks for the S1 is to upgrade the RAM to 32MB, which seems to improve performance a lot.
Actually, low bitrates will be more important in the near future, as more people use streaming audio over PCS data services. For example, I listen to low-bitrate streams over Shoutcast several times a week on my PalmOne Treo 600, and 32Kbps streams much better than 64Kbps, while higher than that just isn't feasible on Sprint's PCS network. While this isn't as much of an issue for home users, mobile devices on relatively low-speed networks are going to be big.
If you can compromise on Bluetooth, I'd recommend the keyboard/touchpad combo from Wireless Computing. These are designed for long-range wireless, like conference rooms and auditoriums (100'), but do very well in closer situations also.
What do you mean? gdb is available on Palm OS as part of the prc-tools package, and there are also credible debuggers from Metrowerks and PalmSource. True, it is difficult to develop ON the device, but hosted development environments running on the desktop are effective and work well for developing software for that OS. Remember, Palm OS IS an embedded system. You've got to think like an embedded developer to make effective use of it.
Wasn't this film originally going to be called "Revenge of the King", but they changed the name after some marketing material had already been prepared?
You do realize that Motorola SPS is an ARM licensee, and that the i250 platform mentioned is a Motorola CPU with both ARM and DSP cores optimized for wireless.
Details are at SPS PDF overview of i250
Blazer 3.0, included with the Treo 600, is based on NetFront 3 which supports JavaScript. The btowser works really well, being able to reformat pages for the small screen or display them big with scrolling.
Aren't there three shuttle orbiters left? I count Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour in the current fleet, with Challenger and Columbia destroyed and Enterprise never made spaceworthy.
Lineo (after changing their name to Embedix) was purchased by Metrowerks (a Motorola company) last year. They are still actively developing and supporting the OpenPDA Linux platform.
Palm OS is officially available in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portugese, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and there are translation modules to support Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Hebrew, Greek, and more. Usually, a device is only set for one language at a time, but some of the overlay programs allow for an Asian language and Engligh together.
A few choice URLs:
http://www.penreader.com/PalmOS/PiLoc.html
Hebrew Localization
Chinese OS for Palm OS
Landmark is a chain of mostly "art-house" theaters that show a pretty eclectic fare. I think this is a really great announcement, because it means a much lower distribution cost for a lot of films that otherwise would go without screenings. This will lead to more choices at their theaters, since you won't have the huge costs of dealing with film spools and prints. Films that currently only play a week or two because the print has to go to the next city can have longer runs, and its easier to play repertoire films due to no shipping costs.
I'm looking forward to see how this works at Austin's Dobie Theater. At South by Southwest 2002 and 2003, lots of the festival films were screened using digital projection, and I thought it worked pretty well, with the biggest problem being the limited resolution of the DV source.
In other words, something very similar to RealArcade (http://www.realonearcade.com/). It consists of a game manager application to keep track of both games you've installed through RealArcade and other ones on your PC and a subscription service where you get one free game every month and discounts on others available through their site.
Currently, they're doing distribution for a number of small publishers, including PopCap and Small Rockets, and they also have older games from larger names, including Sierra and Monolith.
The $1150 kit for the 3650 includes an actual 3650 phone. There will be a download with the 3650 dev kit available around March 20th that can be applied to CodeWarrior Development Studio for Symbian OS, Personal Edition, a toolset that cost $399. Yes, its more than most free software developers usually spend on tools, but it is well in line with other wireless toolsets, and less expensive than embedded ARM development systems.
Comic Chat's biggest legacy is Jerk City, a gay-themed comic that occasionally mentions the products I help develop.
Actually, it does have WAAS support. If you look at the webpage for it at http://www.garmin.com/products/iQue3600/, you'll see the WAAS logo listed at the top of the page, next to the Palm OS logo.
Actually, the Garmin device implements the standard Palm OS 5 APIs, so there already is Ogg Vorbis playback software (AeroPlayer, PocketTunes) that will run on it.
The Garmin device uses a different ARM chip (the Motorola Dragonball MXL) from the Tungsten T (which uses a TI OMAP 1510). This means different sound playback hardware, and its almost certain, much clearer sound playback. The OMAP's DSP handles sound processing, and Palm installed a low-pass filter in the DSP to improve sound quality for voice recording. However, they didn't make this switchable, causing grief for music playback software. This will likely be fixed when Palm does an OS update for the device.
Actually, when I go for an occasionally Ebay auction, I often bid with "odd" values -- as the items I order tend to priced on the low-end, a bid of $9.13 would beat someone elses bid of $9, and if they don't check the auction again, I win. This kind of offset bidding doesn't necessarily mean "shill".
Actually, XP is version 0. We know this because of LISP, where predicates often end with P. So, XP is asking the question, is this X? The answer is no, or nil, which is similar to C99's "false" which converts to the integer 0.
Yes, but the 7135 will have a true telephone keypad, and according to reports, you will be able to use the keypad for T9-based text entry in Palm OS applications.
$3K for an introduction, $3K for level-one training, $3K for level two training... sounds like the Church of Scientology developer program.
Got to love an obscure "The State" reference in the middle of a Slashdot threat.
"I'm Doug, and I'm out-ta-here."
Actually, Palm OS 5 runs all of the OS calls in ARM mode, so 68K programs that run on OS 5 devices will be quite a bit faster. The only apps that run slower are ones that require a lot of calculation in the app itself, and even those were running at 70% of full speed going from a 33MHz 68K to a 75MHz ARM. Apps that used lots of OS calls were sped up from 3 to 10 times, according to presenters at PalmSource 2002.