http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/ Engadget Comments for National Geographic shoves every morsel of its collection onto 160GB HDD http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
Is it just me or does "kewl" as the first post look as stupid as just saying "first"? If you're going to leave a comment at least make it viable]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
What I'd like to know before using any Santa bucks is whether this stuff is DRM'd. I don't want to rely on their USB drive and would prefer to dump everything onto my firewire external drive. Also, just read their FAQs and while it might be the standard disclaimer-driven blurb...
"Question:
My National Geographic Hard Drive is making clicking noises. What could be happening?"]]>Dec 30th 2009 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
"Answer:
it's probably the natives at Pakatoa and their 1-hr bongos set"]]>Dec 30th 2009 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 31st 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Jan 1st 2010 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
This might be a pretty good model for large knowledge-bases like NatGeo.

I'm thinking that the Encyclopaedia Britannica could distribute annually this way, too.]]>Dec 30th 2009 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 31st 2009 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
I don't know man.

DVD's don't make much cents to me anymore. I'm only willing to put my hard earned dollars and sense to new technology!]]>Dec 30th 2009 3:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
You mean sense not cents.]]>Dec 30th 2009 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/I agree. Why put this on a hard disk when it could have been delivered on a small format CD and copied to my, faster, internal hard disk.

MAkes no sense to sell it this way. Also if they had offered it as a download, they would sell many more. Well, until it got made into a Torrent. But that's gonna happen anyway. ]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
Twas the joke, my friend.]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/> "I agree. Why put this on a hard disk when it could have been delivered on a small format CD and copied to my, faster, internal hard disk."

It's also available on 6 DVDs for $60. There ya go.

But I think they made this hard drive version for ease of use for the average NatGeo reader... not Engadget readers.

*You* might be able to copy each DVD to your hard drive and probably make it work. Although the DVD version will expect the DVD to be in the drive, and you'd probably have to use Deamon Tools or whatever to make it all work seamlessly.

Other people will just buy the hard drive version.

NatGeo did a good thing here... they gave us choice. But who cares... you'll just torrent it anyway.]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/and what if its in a blu-ray xD ?]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
Nothing gets by you does it?]]>Dec 30th 2009 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
You can copy it onto your hard drive. They are supposed to create a program to do this, but you just need to copy the DVD folders into a cache file. National Geographic has even posted instructions:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/completeng/faqs.html]]>Dec 30th 2009 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
Ba bing!

http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/browse/productDetail.jsp?productId=1076013]]>Dec 30th 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
I think a single 60GB Blu-Ray disc makes even more sense. Good luck using search function on a dozen DVDs to find that one article you cant remember the date of.

With that in mind, I think a HDD was a wise choice, just remember to back it up.]]>Dec 31st 2009 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Jan 4th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/lol but I just (yesterday) bought a subsciption for one year ... lol
I want that hard drive now ... but in german -,-]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
From their website:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/completeng/faqs.html

When, and how will The Complete National Geographic update the digital archive?
Content updates for The Complete National Geographic will be available after the print editions of the previous year have been published. The 2009 content update will be available for purchase and download via the Internet in the spring of 2010.
]]>Dec 30th 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/well 1995 -> 2010
hope they bought a better scanner ^o^]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
though this is something worth supporting, so i might just buy it xD]]>Dec 30th 2009 3:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/I was just about to say: This will be one big torrent file!]]>Dec 30th 2009 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
Maybe popup pictures. National Geographic should go popup. I said it. ]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
Pop up is the porn man's 3d.]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
I meant "poor"

I guess you all know what I'm doing in the other tab =D]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/exactly! And since we are in a recession, pop up would be perfect. I mean, we can't all be like James Cameron making 3D epicness, so the poor mans 3D would be a nice fit. And National Geographic in IMAX 3D sounds lame. ]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/link ? ...... :p]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
DRM free?
File format (pdf, ebook, jpeg...)
clear definition of 'high resolution'

until then the actual magazine will suffice.]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/
...equals probably one of the most incredible experiences.]]>Dec 30th 2009 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/30/national-geographic-shoves-every-morsel-of-its-collection-onto-1/Dec 30th 2009 5:03AM