Adventures in Mamboland
"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen
Yeah. That sounds about right.
Yeah. That sounds about right.
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Date: 2004-11-08 09:43 am (UTC)Instead, it automatically closes applications when you leave them, freezing their data into a database, and they auto-unfreeze when you enter them again (you see this much more obviously with applications that have to freeze a lot of data when you leave them, and end up hanging onto the processor for a while before they let it go, and from badly written apps that don't always, or ever save their data when you leave).
One thing that annoys me about the architecture is that it doesn't really have multitasking aside from the bad, symmetric type, so palmphones don't get always-on email or AIM except via a hack or two. In theory, Cobalt will fix this, but I haven't heard anything about a machine with it hitting the streets, which is why, at least for now, I've jumped ship to Zaurus-land.
(admitedly, for a palmtop, the Zaurus 6000 has one of the -worst- built-in keyboards I've ever seen; not as bad as some of the add-on ones for the palm, but...it doesn't have every key (no | is really annoying in Linux; so is no `), it doesn't light up, doesn't have raised dots or the j and f (so it's pretty much unusable in the dark, and this from a habitual touch typist), and doesn't have a modal shift, for some lame-ass reason. I'm hoping that about half these physical problems can be dealt with by open-zaurus when it's SL-6000 safe, but we'll see. (and, of course, one can get add-on keyboards, but I'm not sure what works and what doesn't).