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Surprise! Rock Band 2 announced {Joystiq}
Jun 30th 2008 12:43PM This is /also/ good because we don't end up with a hundred million fucking plastic instruments polluting our landfills. It's not just the fact that this is undeniably bad for the environment, but what will the next species think of us if the only remnants of our civilization they find are plastic instruments which make muffled clicking noises?!
Nice to see Harmonix gets it. As for Rock Band... this is getting out of hand. It's worse than the AOL CDs.
Bill Gates wipes away tears at Microsoft farewell {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 9:27PM Anyone else find image #5 in that slideshow really, really creepy?
http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20080627&t=2&i=4942663&w=&r=2008-06-27T194111Z_01_N26301301_RTRUKOP_0_PICTURE3
Spore getting $80 'Galactic Edition' {Joystiq}
Jun 24th 2008 3:18PM I would buy this if it came with a voucher for a creature from their 3D printer. (Speaking of which, I wonder if that feature will come to fruition?).
I would also buy this if it did not come in one of those stupidly huge boxes.
HP slips into thin with TouchSmart 2 all-in-ones {Engadget}
Jun 10th 2008 12:34PM So is that a regular single-touch resistive screen, or a multitouch surface? If multitouch, is that using DI (eg: Microsoft Surface, which they have demod crammed into flat panels), or is it a capacitive screen (eg: iPhone, which only takes fingers)?
PS:
To those who seem to assume this is multitouch... a finger swiping across the screen to move stuff is not a multitouch gesture. Hell, multitouch gestures can be mimicked on resistive touch screens with some work. Finally, before this pops up again, it seems folks must be reminded: The iPhone has a 3.5 inch screen, where multitouch is useful mainly for shortcut gestures.
Acer tells Windows it's been seeing Linux, needs some space {Engadget}
Jun 5th 2008 12:58PM I am trying to make it a habit for me to stop reading things as soon as Linux is spelled "Lunix". It seems to be a 100% accurate sign for idiotic troll posts :/
PS: Linux is pretty big in small devices. Look at the Motorolla Razr 2, for example. The platform is infinitely customizable, which the more capable device manufacturers love.
Wii Fit fit for two year olds, and other revelations {Joystiq}
May 30th 2008 2:16AM Wii Fit has an arbitrary maximum limit for date of birth? Damnit, why?!
...Short-sighted oafs. This feels like how my DS now adjusts for daylight savings time incorrectly, and there is no chance of that being solved because Nintendo and software updates (much less /firmware updates/) do not go together.
Given the number of timeless games they have put out, one would expect Nintendo to understand, at this point, the value of not arbitrarily constraining their software to a particular set of arbitrary rules. Especially when it is something as simple as "choose a date preceding the current system date" vs. "choose any date from this list of 1900 to 2006".
Grr...
Sugar Labs already in talks with four laptop makers {Engadget}
May 23rd 2008 9:50AM It's not a window manager, it's a desktop environment. It does /use/ an unusual window manager, though.
Toshiba lets loose 13.3-inch Portege M800 laptop {Engadget}
May 7th 2008 2:56PM Ooh, nice article, Andy :)
Still, it's my understanding that the 7000 series has many enhancements beyond just performance. Then again, I'm just bitter from seeing a new computer with a T2050...
Toshiba lets loose 13.3-inch Portege M800 laptop {Engadget}
May 7th 2008 1:22PM Why is the T5000 series of processors still so frequently used?
I hope that RAM is a single GB board instead of two 512 MB ones. It pains me to think how many excess sodimms are being thrown out to upgrade laptops so they can actually run Vista.
"Oooh, but it has white LEDs!"
It would be nice if they took that good taste and applied it somewhere worthwhile.
That said, white LEDs are pretty :)
Uh-Ohkami: Capcom botches Okami Wii box art, inadvertently advertises IGN {Joystiq}
Apr 20th 2008 12:04PM Even IGN themselves don't seem to mind -- at least not in their review.
