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Black Friday Giveaways (part 18): Neuros OSD + 160GB drive {Engadget}
Nov 24th 2007 10:18AM I just don't know what to say.
The hundred gadget giveaway: round 6 {Engadget}
Sep 5th 2007 9:49AM Zonbu me, please! Got-a-love-Engadget!
The hundred gadget giveaway: round 5 {Engadget}
Sep 5th 2007 12:38AM Wow, I need a shave!
Dateline "exposes" iPod thieves via hidden camera {Engadget}
Aug 3rd 2007 12:54AM My comment is about taking something that was abandoned is not the same as theft. Theft is a deliberate taking of someone else's property. Finding abandoned property and keeping it is not the same. Of course it is always best to try to return something found to it's rightful owner but that is not always possible. Dateline implied that finding and keeping was the same as theft. I don't believe that is the case and it was wrong for Dateline to set people up and then call them thieves for playing finders keepers. If Dateline had placed a sleeping person on a park bench with an ipod on their lap and video taped someone taking advantage and stealing the ipod from them then that would have been theft and a legit undercover sting. Not the way they did it by leaving ipods abandoned in public areas.
Dateline "exposes" iPod thieves via hidden camera {Engadget}
Aug 2nd 2007 11:14PM Dateline's recent show about ipod theft was more about what people do if they find
an ipod abandoned then about theft. Only one scene did I see where a women
reached into an open car window would I call a theft. All the others were
ipods left in public areas where people found them as if abandoned by their
owners.The person who finds it can either take it to security or the police
department where it may or may not be re-united with it's owner, or they
could keep it. I am not aware that the law would claim keeping something
found in a public area as a theft. If I find a quarter lying on the ground
and put it in my pocket is that theft? I could of course take the quarter to
the local police or give it to a charity. Accusing people of theft for
keeping a piece of lost property was wrong for Dateline to do. That isn't theft!
Taking a piece of property that that was inside a car is theft. Inside a
mall the original owner may look for it at the security office but in a very
public area such as a park bench it is unlikely the item would be reunited
with it's owner by taking it to a police department or the park management.
Now if Dateline had clearly added a business card or labeled it with the owner's
name, address and phone number then maybe that would have shown how honest
someone would be to return it. But I don't see how finding lost property in
itself and failing to return it is a theft.
The beginning of the end for analog TV {Engadget}
Mar 3rd 2007 9:54AM Who said the manufacturers had to wait for the deadline before they would start including atsc tuners in all size TVs. I have never seen technology wait so long for a mandated deadline before. I already have a 26 inch HDTV and the uncompressed atsc signal blows away what I could get off of a sat service.
Verizon Wireless to give away ringtones on New Year's Eve {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 1st 2007 3:11PM I received no such offer from Verizon where I have been a customer since they first offered service many years ago. How did their customers find out about this offer?
Pogue's perspective: megapixel numbers don't matter {Engadget}
Nov 23rd 2006 9:10AM I don't think Pogue understands that most people fail to fully use the frame and wind up needing to crop their photos a lot. If you crop out half of a 5 meg frame and then try to blow it up to 11 x 14 your left with a poorly detailed photograph. As a professional I sometimes need to pull a single person out from a two person side by side photograph which winds up cutting my 10 or 12 meg cameras resolution in half and the images still hold up well. If I had to do that with a 5 or 6 meg camera the images would not look so good. Then take a situation where a person is in a group of people and it is the only frame you have of a person who is suddenly a headline for a story. Now I might have to use only a small portion of the image. This has happened many times. Pixels do count. If resolution didn't matter then Ansel Adams wouldn't have bothered using an 8x10 view camera or have written many times about how important a quality negative was to making a great photograph. The pixel count within a raw file is a vital link to a great photograph. If all you want is to make 4x6 snaps then any 3 meg will do. But if you want to make good photographs it helps to start with a well detailed file.
Engadget HD giveaways: win a Samsung HL-S5679W DLP with LED backlight {Engadget HD}
Oct 4th 2006 11:01PM Satellite! Zoom me baby!
Switched On: Flight of the damned... usage terms {Engadget}
Jun 14th 2006 6:51PM Vongo restricts you to your C drive for storing movies which is a real drag since many computer owners partition their drives to keep applications and data seperate. This was the default set up on a Sony laptop I own making the use of Vongo on it unuseable. I was forced to upgrade the hard drive and do a custom install of a new operating system to get around the Sony mandated partitioning scheme of a small C drive and large D drive. Vongo refused to put the movies on the D drive.
