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Super Talent makes MasterDrive MX SSDs slightly faster {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2008 4:23PM And still all I want is a cheap 32gig (hell, 16 gig would do!) SSD for my OS partition :(
S60 Touch screen shots look like... S60 with touch {Engadget}
Jul 21st 2008 8:24PM Sorry, Bob, you idiot, but In the english language any acronym is prefaced with 'an', no matter what letter said acronym starts with. It's always funny when a grammar nazi fucks up.
Appart from that, attack the meaning of the message, not the form of the message or the messenger. Anything else means you have no valid counterargument.
E Ink responsible for Esquire's flashing magazine cover {Engadget}
Jul 21st 2008 3:58PM Damn. I'm gonna buy at least three, if I can somehow find them in this part of the EU. Then I'm gonna strip it down and uset he e-ink display for my own screens. I was doubting that I'd ever get my hands on an e-ink screen!
Video: Intel launching 80GB 1.8- and 2.5-inch SSDs in Q3? {Engadget}
May 24th 2008 1:35AM And all I need is a cheap(-ish) 16gig one for my main OS....
Microsoft turns the DRM screw on MSN Music owners {Engadget}
Apr 23rd 2008 10:35AM Engadget guys, don't be such hypocrites. You are not 'anti DRM'. Why else do you promote or display without any warning words whatsoever things like Vista and HDMI display? Both are defective by design (aka include DRM tech), yet no mention of that.
Maybe this bit of news will clue you in to the badness that is DRM, but you never did seem to care when the latest 30"DRM laden HDMI screen or HMDI carying videocard came out.
Windows XP SP3 goes to manufacturing, will be released April 29th {Engadget}
Apr 22nd 2008 6:31AM DX10 can be implemented in XP, Microsoft just doesn't want to, as that would cut into Vista sales.
And if you don't want to believe me, at least believe Carmack; he's said this publicly too.
3DConnexion SpaceNavigator gets unboxed {Engadget}
Apr 12th 2008 10:19AM 's not just a knob...you can twist it like a knob, move it like a joystick (left, right, forwards backwards) and push it in /out like a button.
3DConnexion SpaceNavigator gets unboxed {Engadget}
Apr 12th 2008 10:16AM I've written a GlovePIE script to do exactly that, and the answer is:
No.
Or, to be more precise: absolutely not.
There's a number of problems with a wiimote/nunchuck or just the wiimote. First of all is the fact that the wiimote is just not precise enough to manipulate vertexes or place features at the correct spot. Secondly, the hand-off-mouse-point-at-screen really gets in the way of using keyboard shortcuts, and any pro-ish user will tell you you can't be efficient without using hotkeys efficiently.
As for the SpaceExplorer...I can very well believe it's a usefull device. Instead of using key board shortcuts (qwer is where my left hand rests and I have my right hand using mouse buttons 3 and 4 for rotation/panning), a short trip to the left seems like a nice easy move (as oposed to picking up a wiimote or fiddling with alt+mouse) whilst I can use my mouse to manipulate stuff.
I'm actually getting my Space Explorer in on monday, according to UPS. I really hope I can grab a vert and keep it whilst I rotate the model. If I can do that, then modeling will be revolutionised for me. If I can't, even then the money will be well spent for the efficiency on rotation/panning and the four programmable buttons (which I think I'll make into w, e, r and a pan/zoom/rotate toggle)
RFID credit cards easily hacked with $8 reader {Engadget}
Mar 20th 2008 12:09AM That's true. AlexL knows nothing of the electromagnetic spectrum and how to make use of it. All you need is a more powerfull transciever to pick up the low power rfid signal.
Hell, we can pick up Voyager's signals, and that's damn near out of the solar system.
One billion RFID cards vulnerable to hacks {Engadget}
Mar 13th 2008 10:41AM They were inept; they should have realised that 'contactless' was a stupid, unsecurable idea which meant easy identity theft.
Many of the problems of RFID in security documents can be solved by using chips which require contact between chip and reader.
RFID is still pretty neat for some purposes, like supplychain monitoring.
