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Nikon D700 spy shots and info piling up {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2008 8:15PM I really doubt this is a fake. If you look at this and the D300 the area above the lens where the pentaprism/viewfinder is looks much taller and larger than the D300.
This would make sense since it is a full frame sensor camera.
How would you change Wii Fit? {Engadget}
Jun 13th 2008 9:05PM I would make it an exciting videogame exercise system by adding 4 directional arrows and some wording that said "show me your moves".....
Olympus E420 DSLR gets reviewed {Engadget}
Jun 3rd 2008 10:30PM No IS is a major flaw since Olympus doesn't put it into their lenses. I think there are one or two sell the farm Zeiss lenses that incorporate it into the lens, but if you're in the market for those lenses you're not going after this entry level camera.
NVIDIA shows off Tegra on video {Engadget}
Jun 3rd 2008 5:42PM Owned. Nice work.
NVIDIA shows off Tegra on video {Engadget}
Jun 3rd 2008 5:41PM Oh man it looks like it has a little scroll dial like on a dslr! That is such a good solution! Those dials are so tactile and easy to use.
Are they using a player/pmp that they will brand and sell?
AMD jumps into the netbook game, challenges opponents to a duel {Engadget}
Jun 3rd 2008 1:42PM If they add a trackpad and a 10inch screen to this I'll fork over my $500
Best keyboard i've seen so far.
Japanese scientists craft planet's smallest ramen bowl {Engadget}
Jun 1st 2008 3:13AM After eating this you are surely going to be hungry 30 minutes later.
Ask Engadget: What's the best entry-level DSLR? {Engadget}
May 29th 2008 6:47PM > $500 - Nikon D40 kit w/ 18-55mm lens (el cheapo DSLR with rock solid performance and really nice ergonomics)
> $600 - Sony A200 kit w/ 18-70mm lens (Image stabilization built into the body, kit lens image quality not as good as Nikon but a longer focal range.
> $850 - Nikon D80 kit w/ 18-55mm VR lens (D80 has a larger frame/viewfinder and is one of the best selling DSLR's of all time. A step up from normal entry level cameras and has AF drive motor so you can use autofocus on 3rd party and prime lenses.)
> $1200 - Canon 40D kit w/ 28-135mm IS lens (In the same class as the D80 but 1.5 years newer, faster, and has many new features the D80 lacks, albiet for a price) - Features a $200 Canon instant rebate until July.
Oppo offers up sleek S11 portable media player {Engadget}
May 29th 2008 2:26PM Here is data from the last census taken in China taken in 2003. 5.1% of the population had a University degree. A percentage of those would also be 2 year degrees so you have to assume the number with a 4 year degree is lower. http://english.gov.cn/2005-08/08/content_27315.htm there are the CCP's numbers not mine.
Healthcare isn't free in America? Ask California and Arizona why their states are bankrupt. You are not denied medical attention in the emergency room. That's why illegals go there for all their medical needs. We have something called the Hippocratic Oath in our medical field. In China if the bill isn't paid you die on the stretcher. How do I know this? Because I can speak mandarin and saw a man with head trauma die on a stretcher while his family argued over the bill. Maybe that was an isolated incident. I dunno, but from my experience I wouldn't be surprised if it was the status quo.
I don't make this stuff up. When I make statements I use facts and figures from reputable sources. I don't see how you can say that tons of poor students go to university when only 5.1, lets adjust for 2008 and say 5.5-6% of the population has a degree. I'm not trying to be a dick but your personal feelings or anecdotal information doesn't outweigh the facts and the numbers make it imposible that hardly any poor children are getting a university education. The Chinese middle class numbers at around 200million, that's 15% of the population. With the percentage of the population with a degree so small you'd have to argue that very few of them are even getting degrees, how much of the percentage is left over for the kids of farmers? And what good would it do them to get a degree. Their families wouldn't have the guanxi to get them a good job anyways.
I'm not trying to personally insult anyone who is Chinese. The situation is what it is over there, it's a dictatorship, you shouldn't expect them to be on par with a democracy. You don't elect and give power to the leaders in China so why should they do anything more for the people than what is required to prevent revolt and revolution. Having spent so long in country I love the Chinese people and I'm very critical of the government there because I know the potential of the people and how their deserved destiny and prosperity is stolen from them by the CCP.
So please don't take offense, and if you're willing to be fair you'll also agree that the Chinese people's futures are often stolen from them or not allowed to flourish in the way they could if the people were free. Please wrap your patriotism and nationalism around the accomplishments and heritage your people and not the power of the little emperors that run the CCP, you don't choose them anyways and all they do is hold the people back and keep them enslaved.
Cam-Trax is "coolest thing since ice," can provide Wii-like controls with any webcam {Engadget}
May 27th 2008 9:39PM since it will track in 3D this means one thing. Everyone keeps talking about the "Minority Report" interface.... this is it and even better than the controls in Minority Report, you don't need powered gloves for this, proabably just a cloth gove with colored fingers. All that is missing is the OS that supports it.
