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Casio's burst-recordin' EX-FC100 pocket cam reviewed {Engadget}
Mar 6th 2009 10:45AM Well it's nice to see UNLV's human cloning program is coming along nicely...
...or are they Casio's newest humanoid animatronic demonstration... I'm not sure.
MobileMe gets new leadership, Jobs admits Apple made a big mistake {Engadget}
Aug 5th 2008 12:13AM This was, "somehow a difficult(article to be read)" I think: "yes it is" hard. Talking these words.
Olympus EVOLT E-520 DSLR gets purchased, sample shots abound {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2008 12:45PM Please remove this embarrasing review. That this is linked to by engadget really does a disservice to engadget and it's readers. I have not read such a terribly executed review in a long time. Who did the palm os developer-douchebag blow over there to get such an undeserving plug??
Apple stores go down all over the world {Engadget}
Jun 9th 2008 12:18PM To 'Rich'...
"2) Watch as hipsters/fanatics/fashion victims/occasional person who the product actual suits buy it"
That is the first time that actually sounds like a compliment...
Creeping up to middle age, I'd be glad to be any of those one-dimensional caricatures - Hipster? I should be so lucky. Fanatic? Beats being casual. Fashion victim? Seems better than out-dated. Occasional person, etc...? Oh, dear, actually buying something that suits me. How daring...
Canon prepping a Digital Rebel XS / 1000D? {Engadget}
May 13th 2008 8:10PM How about Canon's APS-C sensored compact camera?
GTA IV 40GB PlayStation 3 bundle surfaces in Europe {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2008 6:36PM Still limping along with a PS2... Had been holding off on a PS3 til GTA IV came out.
When the PS3 was released and there was no GTA IV on the radar, I often joked with my friends that I would buy a welded-shut steel box with a PS3 and the next GTA permanently installed for $X00 when it came out -- looks like I am not too far off the mark ;)
OMG: OS X on your iPod? {Engadget}
Jul 5th 2006 7:59PM Wow, Engadget readers are a proverbial "sack of hammers"...
Nuttin' gets past you guys...
Intel's F1-inspired Viiv remote {Engadget}
Jun 30th 2006 10:38AM I don't even know what to say about this... Those really are marker caps, right?
Apple hit by Swedish anti-iTunes pressure {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2006 5:41PM Our collective schzophrenic views on digital media and hardware choices are really astounding...
"force people to buy one(iPods) so that they can use their services(iTMS)"
How can Apple force someone to buy an iPod and force them to voluntarily use iTMS? There are many other players out there. A number of different formats not to mention the old 'diy - rip a CD yourself - method'. You have never lost any abilities you had before. If you want the percieved convenience of buying individual tracks ready-packaged for a device, you have a few choices.
This is not 'forcing' like we've known for decades with Windows. But more on that in a minute...
"ITMS is not the only online music store, nor is it the only media that will play on an iPod."
Well, hello, lucid thought... Exactly right, you don't have to use the iTMS to fill up your iPod... well, I guess that doesn't really fit in to the 'locked in' meme... 99% of the music in my library are MP3s that I ripped from CDs I bought over the last 20 years. If my memory serves me, most WMA MP3 players have a similar facility with MP3s, yet no one is crying foul that they only play WMAs... But Apple could license Fairplay to other manufacturers, you say... I can't see how we can force an inventor to license their invention by mandate... No matter how monopolistic MS was, there was never an argument that they should be fored to write Windows for PowerPC...
"and microsoft licences their wma drm to everyone ... heck they could even licence it for the ipod if they wanted"
Again, why should Apple be forced to license WMA when iPod owners don't want WMA... let MS suffer their own foolishness and not be subsidized by Apple's success.
"Interoperability is a big issue, people say buy and ipod or don't, the thing is if you want the best experience the ipod is the way to go, it's slick and nothing measures to it, you then get iTunes on a cd with it so you can manage your iPod's music collection, and the store is integrated, it would be absurd to assume people wouldn't use it, especially as easy as it is."
Now this one was funny as I believe the parent was using this in a negative way... a sort of, 'it works so well, how could you not use it, therefore it should be punished for being too damn good"... I am reminded of an obscure auto racing memory. Audi raced for a couple of years in the Trans-Am series in America. They were racing large sedans, but because of their Quattro drivetrains, they demolished the competition. For every race they won, they were penalized for being unfairly competitive and forced to add ballast weight. They still managed to trounce the competition and went on to win the series. Afterward, probably in disgust at the everchanging 'rules', they left the series. The SCCA went on to protect the pathetic American car companies that Audi whooped by outlawing all-wheel-drive cars and non-American engines from the series... ouch...
Apple is Audi right now. What they deliver is so superior to the competition yet still so easy to use(like Quattro) that no one else can compete. However, they are not cheating. They simply did it right. We can keep adding ballast, but it won't work until they win and quit out of discust at our total lack of appreciation for what they do...
Has anyone else 'stood up to the Record companies' and told them that prices aren't going higher any time soon and made it stick? Not that I know of, but hey I don't pretend to be all that smart, so tell me if I'm wrong...
Creative sues Apple for violation of "Zen Patent" {Engadget}
May 15th 2006 6:53PM I'm not one to defend corporations that don't need help being defended, but I can't help but opine about how pathetic our patent system is and how counter it is to a fair marketplace.
The iPod won... Creative lost... suck it up and actually make a better product rather than claim some ridiculously obvious patent -- wow, so you patented a common interface heirarchy, only this time it's on a tiny screen... some real rocket-scientists you got working for you there...
