Recent Comments:
Samsung makes a hostile bid for SanDisk {Engadget}
Sep 17th 2008 9:25AM Offering someone money for goods, services, or assets and having them accept your terms is not a particularly good definition of "force."
Verayo's "unclonable" RFID uses physical characteristics to thwart hackers {Engadget}
Sep 9th 2008 12:27PM Security through obscurity? That's genius. I'm surprised it hasn't been tempted before.
Samsung UK exec says Blu-ray "has five years left" {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2008 10:04AM Well the problem is with Blu-Ray you have to cram so many things to store everything in there.
iRobot CTO steps down -- ironically, looks to "rehumanize" US manufacturing with robots {Engadget}
Sep 3rd 2008 9:05AM Electricity throughout most of the country?
Another team figures out how to convert waste heat into energy {Engadget}
Jul 26th 2008 12:21AM OK, I'll take on the second law of thermodynamics if you tackle the first. Go team! We can do it!
Powermat promises wireless power for the masses, delivers nothing {Engadget}
Jul 24th 2008 9:08AM I've got a bridge that generates its own power to sell you.
XIM2 brings your keyboard and mouse to the Xbox 360. But you still suck at Halo. {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 1:10PM A keyboard is simply a poor substitute for good control design.
Can't argue on the mouse, though.
Texas wind power initiative to blow other states away {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 10:27AM @ M
Of course nothing is free. But if it costs more to implement this then it is the wrong time to implement this. One seeks alternatives when the current method is not efficient. If a new television makes me happier than my current one, it doesn't necessarily cost me more even if the new television is more expensive in strict dollar terms.
So therefore, perhaps someone could argue that the market price of energy is currently not properly accounting for externalities, and so this is an improvement. It might be a good argument, if the data is available. But then it wouldn't be "costing more" to do this.
And, sure we're paying our own companies. Not that I think that matters much in the grand scheme of things. Free markets, free trade, and all. Of course, it is more convenient for our companies to have us take the long view when it costs us more, but the short view to justify them doing it so they can collect.
I guess there's no law to demand consistency in energy policy.
EU slaps Intel with three more antitrust charges {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 9:06AM @phanbouy
Without validated genetalia, you have to pay double when you park it. Validate it, dude.
Texas wind power initiative to blow other states away {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 8:55AM You can tell it is in a republican area because it is going to cost people more for the same amount of energy, instead of less, and still be called an improvement.
