Re: Why some people keep on reinventing the ill-fated Palm Foleo?
I could use one rather than trying to carry a monitor+keyb+mouse + find enough power outlets for headless machines
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Scientists here at the Institute of Studies, compared tea drinking monks in a Tibetan monastery with coffee drinkers in Syria and concluded that tea drinking protects you from nerve gas.
We are also investigating complaints that there have been no proper double-blind trials of the effectiveness of parachutes and intend to replace half the chutes in the Army Parachute display team with anvils.
So we can now use smartphones to make direct voice "calls" indistinguishable from a rotary telephone - except for the initial 15minutes of "can you hear me?", "I can't hear you", "are you on mute?", "can everyone else mute, there is an echo" "I have to restart", "can you resend the invite", "I have updates", "you have to send me another invite I'm not in your group"
In this case it is the opposite way around.
The company wanted to be all LGBTQ2 and inclusive and she said basically "I have spent years studying English, I'm not going to start using (s)he and singular "they" if I know the person I am writing to is called "Loretta".
The company then came down on the non-specific-gender-unit Monica like a ton of rectangular building materials (some find the term bricks offensive)