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Members of the ATSC agree on measure to curb loud commercials {Engadget HD}
Nov 1st 2009 8:29PM Ander: This IS a measure against compression.
Compression does not make anything louder, it just makes the waveform smaller ("compresses" it), leaving you with a new headroom. What you do with the new headroom is up to you. Normally they use the headroom to further turn up the volume, but this new measure will prevent them from doing exactly that, so if this is strictly applied, the only thing they will achieve with compression is to make their ad sound like shit.
Texas Instruments CC2540 promises ultra-low energy Bluetooth {Engadget}
Oct 19th 2009 4:53PM No. The whole point of BT is the short range.. For long range use WiFi (especially the soon-to-come WiFi Direct, it will be good)
I agree it needs to be faster though. A lot faster.
Mad scientists figure out how to write memories to brains, take over Earth {Engadget}
Oct 18th 2009 3:44AM @Durr Hurr: Another bullshit statement. Hunger _does_ involve pain.
This "satisfaction" you mention, comes from a lack of hunger, nothing else.
Assume a fresh brain with absolutely no previous knowledge. If you completely eliminate the pain of hunger and starvation, the brain will never even learn to eat, and it will eventually die without having felt anything wrong until the very last moment.
Why? Because since there was no pain to begin with, eating, which would have otherwise eliminated the pain, does not cause any change in the feelings whatsoever, and thus the brain does not see any benefit to eating, and thus it feels no pleasure.
OpenMoko branches out with new $99 WikiReader device {Engadget}
Oct 13th 2009 2:34PM Offline Wikipedia on PalmOS doesn't work that well
Also, some of us don't like to buy used things
Green laser for microprojectors developed, microraves soon to follow {Engadget}
Oct 13th 2009 12:12AM Yeah, I was also hoping they had invented a diode green laser..
Guess not yet :-(
CTIA jumps on the micro-USB bandwagon {Engadget}
Oct 12th 2009 3:11PM No.
Wireless some things, yes. Wireless everything, no.
Wii balance board could be used in fruitless airport security effort {Engadget}
Oct 10th 2009 2:21PM Jordan, I didn't reply because I was pretty sure you were being sarcastic, but now that I see you're not, I just think you're silly (not to use a stronger word).
Your approach certainly works - in the perfect world where the gov't is incorruptible, technology is 100.1% secure, there are no monetary interests at all, and everyone (or at least everyone working on the gov't and the project) is completely honest.
In reality, no. Just, no. Corruption, special interests, power madness, and sheer stupidity/ignorance will be everywhere (just like it is now). Not to mention that, since terrorists and criminals don't need to follow any law, they will easily bypass the whole thing, making it useless.
Also, I fail to see at all how is this related to progress.
The only thing you have to give up for progress is the comfortable lack of education a lot of people in the U.S.A. (and why lie, in the whole continent) has. By education I don't mean school knowledge, I mean life education, of the kind you should get at home (but a lot of people don't because of lazy parents).
And yes, people needs to be in control, even if we had a perfect no-evil government, because there is no guarantee at all that it'll still be that way in the future.
Elecom's USB numeric touch keypad does touch gestures on the side {Engadget}
Oct 10th 2009 11:15AM No, it's a bad idea.
The whole point of the numpad is being able to input lots of numbers very fast, and that implies doing so without having to look at the damn thing, which is impossible without real buttons.
If you can afford to be looking at this thing every time you want to write a number and correcting the inevitable lots of errors, you can do with the normal numbers on your keyboard.
I agree with Darren that the "secondary" features are the attractive part about this device. However, I really don't think it's worth it, considering that for the price you could buy (?) a mouse with similar features (ie. assignable buttons that can make the wheel zoom in/out, shift up/down, etc.).
This would be very good, however, if when working as a numpad it could send different codes than the normal numbers (ie. always alt+number), this way you could use it as a rather rugged remote for any app.
21-Year-Old Makes $1.9M With Online Crime Game {Switched.com}
Oct 7th 2009 3:26PM No.
The fun in videogames is being able to do things you can't or shouldn't do in real life.
That some stupid spoiled kids confuse games with reality - that's an education problem, not a gaming problem, and only parents are to blame.
Be a criminal in the game so curiosity doesn't get you to in real life.
FCC says there's a 'looming spectrum crisis' {Engadget}
Oct 7th 2009 1:30PM It's like the jump to the metric system.
It ain't happening because it would make too much sense.
