@RikF: Actually, yes. You don't realize it because you're saturated with it, but North American technology is so embarrassingly in the dark ages that it's no wonder we can't get back to the moon.
Case in point: a hot water heater. Seriously, think about it. A HUGE canister dedicated to keeping a reservoir of 60 gallons or so piping hot. All day long. Just in case you need hot water at any time. And for the 23 hours a day you AREN'T using hot water, that tank is just slowly leeching its heat out into the environment as waste.
The Europeans solved this years ago with Water On Demand. We're FINALLY seeing some adoption of these water heating systems (for those who don't know them, they are essentially a very small wall-mounted unit that heats incoming cold water AS NEEDED and doesn't keep it in reserve) - it was only a few years ago that Home Depot started stocking them.

I do have a good supporting example of the waste energy being useful, as well. Shortly before I was born, my dad built a water reclamation tank in basement of the house. It was basically a dishwasher-sized aluminum tank. Sewer water from all the bathtubs and sinks (minus kitchen sink which typically has far too much food waste in it) flows into this tank (and drains via an overflow into the sewer proper). The incoming cold water that's destined for the hot water heater travels through 40' of coiled copper piping inside this tank - essentially it pre-warms the water to be heated by the hot water tank. He went to great pains to chart the performance of the tank (and some tuning) and the energy savings netted a 25% reduction in gas needed by the water heater. That's substantial and requires NO energy and some minor maintenance (read: cleaning and seal inspection) every 5 years or so.

There are so many wasteful things we do that we can't see past as we look for alternative energy. Like with all things, the answer lies in between - we don't NEED a source of green energy to replace all of our energy consumption, because we don't NEED all the energy we're using. A hybrid of energy replacement coupled with a smart reduction of energy usage (which cannot mean a reduction in quality of life to get there) will get us so much closer.

Palm OS Garnet is a pig and has a lot of niggling bugs that I'm sure have driven a lot of developers away (not to mention their godawful documentation of the new SDKs) - but I'd rather they stay with a "stable" OS than try some weird interim thing that will just further annoy developers.

It's cheap, that's good. But it's ugly. The keyboard buttons are too small and there seems to be an awful lot of wasted space on the front of the device where useful buttons could go (like, a slightly scaled-up keyboard). How about a keyboard will TALLER buttons? Sure it looks out of proportion and silly, but even that makes it easier to type, especially with thumbs.

It's also way too big. Apple has really raised the bar for form factor with the iPhone and that's going to be the wave of the future. Sure, for a hundred bucks it's attractive, but I'm sick and tired of the "Treo bulge" in my pocket and the Centro, being the exact same size as the Treo (sorry, a couple of millimeters isn't smaller, it's still fat) holds no appeal.

End result is I see Palm as a company that really doesn't care anymore and it's a real shame. Innovation has stopped - which is fine since they're clearly building new and exciting things in house, but then they need to stop wasting resources on these lame duck releases until then.

It's actually discrete.

2 reasons:
1. Discreet means to be subtle. Discrete means to contain finite, measurable jumps.

2. The article that the URL embedded in the text points to says DISCRETE in it.

Please, grammar police, don't get on your high horse if you're wrong.

I can only dream!

Oh man I've been wanting a Connect for months!

Would be fun!

Oh good god I need one!

Woohoo!

Here's hoping!

Thanks guys!