^ This.

Emisija can be translated as "broadcast" so their logo actually makes sense. And they spell it as E-misija, probably a shorthand for Electronic Mission. Engadget's logo is anyway just a play on RSS. On the other hand, they obviously did copy it from Engadget since the font is identical. Having lived there, I'd say take it as a compliment and ignore it. There's no concept of "intellectual property" there, people just take what they find as they see fit. It's ironic that they improperly use someone else's logo for a movement that's (apparently) about broadening horizons of the general public and introducing them to finer points of the modern western civilization.

Actually it is disabled even on their most expensive machines like Z. If you read the blog, it looks like they expect people who want it to buy their new laptops which will enable it.

Uhm, these are $2000 laptops that ship with Vista Business. You don't even have the option of getting Home Premium from Sony.

I'd say owners (like me) who upgrade will upgrade to W7Pro. And I'd like the option since I can run a virtual XP to run VPN to the office if I need to.

And follow the link in the first post on that notebookreview thread. I just did it and it worked for me.

Thanks for those links! These are new developments as a hack didn't exist for H2O INSYDE before. I just followed the link, booted custom grub and enabled VT on my Vaio Z. Virtual PC now says hadware virtualization is a go and I'm happy.

But Sony will get a piece of my mind on their blog. The exec guy had actually the audacity to say that they won't enable the feature on Z, period. "Reserved for new models only". It hasn't been even a year since this model was put on sale and the hardware is still the latest (cpu and chipset and memory at least). Should I even mention that most of the drivers haven't been updated since launch (Nvidia in particular - and due to custom drivers you can't just put generic ones)? I paid $2000 for this Z and it'll be the last Sony laptop I will own. Buying a top model laptop doesn't buy you much of a support with Sony - once they got your money they pretend you don't exist. As usual with Sony, an amazing piece of hardware with the most rotten customer support money can buy.

To think that my best experiences were with AsRock motherboards - 3 years later they were still releasing BIOS updates to support new video cards, including the one I sent them an email about. I would certainly not expect that so late in the game, especially given the rock bottom prices. But they are getting my business these days.

Indeed, what's up with that? Logitech skips us again.

Finally! A Kindle that you can actually use to 'kindle'.

Nope, it's no technobabble. Wavelets are mathematical construct from 80's (by some French mathematicians if I remember correctly) that are basis of an approach to decomposition of some object into many layers, with the most rough one first and progrressively finer details coming after. And it so happens that human perception gives most attention to the largest details and less to smaller ones. Therefore you can heavily compress or eliminate small details while leaving big stuff mostly intact. It's the basis for JPEG2000 which is way more efficient than old JPEG but unfortunately never took off.

One thing you're right though, it IS rocket science. The math is nasty even though principles are not. But the funny thing is, it is trivially easy to decompose something using wavelets - you only need multiplication and addition. Computationally simple.

I created a simple program as a term project for a graduate subect to decompose a grayscale image into wavelets. That was a decade ago. I never understood why this approach never gained more popularity in images and video, at least not more rapidly. Perhaps because the math is nasty or because comittees move slowly.

Yet to happen? I am typing this on a Sony Vaio Z. Sure, it is 3.4 pounds, a bit over your stated weight limit and it certainly does cost $2000 but it does not compromise on performance, screen quality is second to none and the battery is replaceable too.