I want one of thems. I had a 605 Wifi and loved it to death.

I looked at the code that constituted this bug, and it was a couple lines. I think this is a result of andriod being rushed to production, but it's an easy fix. Even the big boys mess up every once in a while.

The good news about this is that Android has a working and usable shell in there somewhere. I hope the community will capitalize on this; I would love a phone that I could execute bash commands on. Makes it a powerful tool.

I want a UMPC! I would use it to Save the World with Bruce Willis!

and also read reddit in class. cause my Archos 605 is broke.

hooray! i want one!

yay for oregon!

This isn't new tech.

They used an ion gun to do this. It's in the same family as an electron microscope. They have tools like this on assembly lines at most semiconductor plants to test and edit their chips on the molecular level. Cool stuff, and i'm glad its getting press. It's amazing what they are able to do with these things, and no one knows about it. They can see atoms now!

One of the premiere companies that produces these tools is actually releasing a table-top version of their microscope for around $100k, for use in schools and smaller laboratories and stuff. Compared to a million bucks, that's way affordable.

I want one in my garage.

exactly. I wish they'd simply work on actually supporting the cards they already have out. AMD's site doesn't even have drivers available for my card under Vista.

Dude, my archos 605 has the same resolution as that thing.... thats freakin sad.

Dude, this argument has been going on since the days when my Parents would tape the radio.

Anyone remember the Jhymn project? Its mission was to take music that was legitimately purchased at the Itunes music store (which i do) and remove the tagging that makes it drm. It would convert to MP3 if you wanted, and for a the first couple versions of Itunes (4-5 or so) it worked awesome. In version 5 it actually had you log in to apple's servers with your ID for your songs (part of the duping process).

Apple couldn't shut them down legally, so they just kept working around the software until they finally just gave up.

Recording companies have also started taking down guitar tab sites. Guitar tabs are made by musicians who listen to a song with a guitar in their hands so they can figure out what the artist is playing, and then writing it down and putting it on the internet so other people can play it.

Part of the point of music, and what makes it so magical, is the ability for me to play and sing the same song as a guy in Indiana as a guy in Montreal as a guy in London and so on. A good song can sometimes unite people who live across the world from one another. During my time in northern Albania (its in the balkans) we would sing contemporary christian songs in two different languages. We couldnt speak each others languages, but the music was a way to bridge that gap.

Anymore, churches here are starting to have to pay for the right to sing artists songs.

Is it going to be illegal in 10 years for me to get out a guitar and sing a song someone else wrote?

in that kind of world, whats the point of music?

Or you could make your own....

http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000060073719/

mintyboost!