Recent Comments:
Tesla defies its roots, plans gas-electric car for 2009 {Engadget}
Feb 2nd 2008 11:24AM A friend of mine recently showed me an asian designed hybrid that had a smallish gas tank that -only- gets used if the battery runs out, and a battery that can go... I wanna say it was like 50 miles per charge, and could get to a half charge in 10 minutes. The gas engine is basically there to only ever be used on long road trips. If you have an average daily commute, plug it in at night, and go out of state for the holidays a couple times a year, you'll be burning gas a couple times a year.
Tesla is most likely looking at something similar, and I can't say I'm particularly anti-that.
Poll: What do you call a combined Yahoo! and Microsoft? {Engadget}
Feb 1st 2008 2:16PM "Oceania"
How would you change Nokia's N95? {Engadget}
Dec 9th 2007 3:34PM Less phone, more Tuberculosis filtering.
Wait, darn, that's been done.
(Awe foo, nobody's gonna get my medical humor.)
What would the iCar be like? {Engadget}
Aug 30th 2007 2:35AM No, no, no, wrong analogy. You just have to fill it through iTunes. On the brighter side, gas is $0.99 per gallon.
Guardian headphones tattle when the volume gets cranked {Engadget}
Aug 25th 2007 4:01AM Right, but that doesn't give the parents and opportunity to yell at their kids. I mean really, how could you miss the logic?
Hands-on with Motion Computing's C5 medical Tablet PC {Engadget}
Mar 27th 2007 5:36PM Nope. Not in a setting where privacy is such a big deal. Terrible viewing angles are where it's at. They actually sell viewing angle reducing screens to go over normal displays in offices where social security numbers and the like are commonly on-screen not too far from line-of-sight for non-employees. I'm not surprised if this machine has a seriously bad viewing angle.
Hands-on with Motion Computing's C5 medical Tablet PC {Engadget}
Mar 27th 2007 5:33PM As a nursing student the main reason computers at work appeal to me is so I can type my absurd amounts of documentation rather than doing it all by hand. If you're gonna design something like this, please oh please give me a freakin' keyboard.
Homeowner of solar-hydrogen house has $0.00 utility bill {Engadget}
Mar 17th 2007 6:17PM If that's a picture of the actual house in question, the guy needs to diversify his priorities a bit and get into green architecture. Notice how all the sunlight is hitting the short side of the building with practically no windows, etc.
Sure, improving efficiency on existing buildings is important, but if his goal is research into cost effective self sufficient, non-polluting housing, then retrofitting poorly designed architecture seems like a fishy way to go. He's spending hundreds of thousands of dollars already, how much would it cost to rebuild his house to take advantage of natural light, passive solar, leak less heat, etc?
I'm sure he's doing some neat stuff, but real progress in sustainable living is going to require building our houses from the ground up with a systemic, holistic plan for utilizing the local environment as efficiently as possible. Active Solar and hydrogen conversion may be part of that plan, but they're still just generic energy sources which will be insanely expensive if we don't make a point of using the energy efficiently.
Solar panels aren't free energy. It takes energy to manufacture them. Where does that energy come from? Efficiency is more important than neat gadgets.
The Clicker: Digital content -- why the sense of entitlement? {Engadget}
Sep 22nd 2006 1:20PM "At the end of the day if that's how content owners choose to sell it, isn't that their right? Isn't ours simply a choice of to buy or not to buy?"
The answer to your question is in your own words. We feel entitlement because the words "buy" and "sell" imply a certain degree of "ownership". If you "sell" somebody something, they have the right to decide how to use it, to repair it if it breaks, etc. Digital media gets a bit grey because making an entirely seperate copy as a backup isn't really something you can do with a chair, or a car. But functionally, it's just another form of protecting the investment of paying however much to "buy" an album.
DRM is more like a lease than a purchase. I mean think about it. You buy a house, you buy the rights to edit and modify that house. You lease an appartment, and you don't. I think if they refered to DRM'd products as things you "lease" rather than "buy", they'd get a lot less shit for tromping on people's "entitlements". Course, none of the people who want that entitlement would be inclined to "lease" music if it was actually called that, because that's not what they want. They want to buy it. Because they've got copies of Beatles albums in six different formats now, and they're sick of paying for it again every ten years cause they're discs die.
Haseenote's JIVE W205R Core Duo MacBook clone for Korea {Engadget}
Aug 8th 2006 5:55PM I'm really not seeing the whole "rip-off" thing. This has: Sliding tray optical drive. Normal sized (not extra wide) two button track-pad with a light colored border. Two small hinges rather than one large one. Apparently fairly normal keyboard design. Obvious seems in the sides of the case. Fairly average port selection, design, and layout, including a phone modem. The optical drive is on the left and the ports are on the right. The optical drive has "DISC" and "DVD" logos on it. The case finish is more of a plan plastic look, as well as being almost grey compared to the black MacBook, and the top is an even lighter grey or silvery color that doesn't match the bottom. And to top it all off, it's an inch smaller diagonal, and weighs about half as much.
Where's the design similarity? Core Duo? 1GB of RAM? 1280x800? Aren't those kinda standard by now? So what is it that makes it a clone, a magnetic latch?
I'm not trying to fanboy either way, it's got some nicer specs and some less nice specs than the MacBook. I just don't see much similarity, particularly.
