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Zune XNA games preview release aimed for May {Engadget}
May 5th 2008 11:42PM Yeah, you should be embarrassed; you sound like a total jackass. Are you a lonely person or do you hang out with other loud jackasses, because I seriously can't fathom how any sane person could put up with your inane ranting.
Next-gen Toyota Prius: bigger, stronger, more Prius-like than ever before {Engadget}
Apr 29th 2008 10:39PM RTFA
Windows XP SP3 final trudges into the torrent {Engadget}
Apr 25th 2008 3:03PM I don't think there will be many performance improvements in SP3; in fact there might not be any performance improvements at all since this is a re-bundle of all the patches since SP2 and a few other patches. If you keep your XP machine patched there probably won't be much change.
Zune getting Audible {Engadget}
Apr 21st 2008 9:57PM The the features you want are pretty easy to implement. Hopefully they do it in the next update. As for the auto-playlist feature you should check out Microsoft Research Music Steering. It intelligently tags and categorizes your music library programmaticly and then can generate playlists based on what you want to hear, your mood or your situation. It is currently only a research project but hopefully it gets implemented into a product.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=388038
Alienware's Aurora desktop storms back: AMD Phenom 9850 included {Engadget}
Apr 15th 2008 5:41PM You should take a closer look at the picture. Mike is correct; the SATA cables from the two hard drives are together. If you look closely you can see there are actually two cables there.
And no, the optical drives are PATA in this rig. You can see the black round PATA cables coming out from the back of the optical drives and going into the motherboard.
Alienware's Aurora desktop storms back: AMD Phenom 9850 included {Engadget}
Apr 15th 2008 5:25PM @ Rob
You aren't quite right with your assumption. Typical PC manufacturers like Dell and HP don't always have the cleanest case management but manufacturers like Alienware, Falcon and even HP with their Black Bird build PC's for gamers and computer enthusiasts and the internal management reflects this. I'm not sure where you get your false impression from but these PC manufacturers don't get their good reputation from making sloppy computers.
Psystar's OpenMac Apple clone is close to a Cease and Desist order {Engadget}
Apr 14th 2008 2:55PM @ Zak
Part of what you are saying is true; it does cost about that much for a work station class computer, however most if not all typical users do not require work station computers. Apple fails to provide high end consumer machines; they have mid to low end machines (which are overpriced compared to similarly specs PCs) and then move to a different market with work station machines. They don't cater to the high end consumer.
Also if I built my own machine I could have an all aluminum case, I could do a really clean open cabling layout, I could buy a really powerful and reliable PSU and I could use low noise cooling components for a very quite machine (with water cooling it could be completely silent).
The Mac Pro isn't overpriced but it is irrelevant and overblown even for high end consumers. Maybe if they started making machines with Core 2 Quads and 9800GTX's instead of Xeons and Quadros the price wouldn't be so ridiculously high for the consumer. Also you shouldn't assume Apple is the only one capable of making sleek, powerful and quite machines.
Yahoo responds to Microsoft ultimatum: more money please {Engadget}
Apr 7th 2008 8:31AM Maybe if MS buys Yahoo! then Yahoo! Mail will finally offer imap and pop access for free, since Live Mail has it.
PWN 2 OWN over: MacBook Air gets seized in 2 minutes flat {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2008 7:51AM @ Zak
I don't think you understand how security is suppose to work in these OS's. There are privilege levels and in all these systems the user has limited privileges and thus all other programs running under their session also have limited privileges. The point of this type of exploit is to go from not having privilege to having super user privilege and being able to do anything you want with the computer. Navigating to a website does not require admin privileges but the exploit was able to gain root access through this innocuous action. It also seems from what other people have said above that this type of attack wouldn't even need any social engineering.
PWN 2 OWN over: MacBook Air gets seized in 2 minutes flat {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2008 7:39AM Uh... I think the $10,000 prize was his motivation, not the MBA.
