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Zune HD 3D games video hands-on {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 6:55PM How much is Sony paying you to post as multiple people on what is a tangentially related story?
Also, replying to your own posts is bad form, man. Bad form!
Zune HD 3D games video hands-on {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 6:54PM He can say PGR is 'super smooth' because PGR is, in fact, 'super smooth'. Something must be wrong with your Zune, or your visual cortex, as many people have posted here to confirm the 'super smooth'ness of PGR. 'Super smooth'.
Also, prove you're not ridley182.
Also, in response to one of your other posts - if you're complaining about the sensitivity of the accelerometer, blame that on the app. I've been toying with XNA and it's very sensitive.
'Super smooth'.
MacBook Pro battery flies off the handle, busts wide open {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 3:02PM "maybe "n00b's" should not buy a macbook pro.."
I thought macs were perfect for n00bs because they 'just work'?
"why would you not replace an battery that doesn't hold a charge longer than 5 minutes.. it's just foolish"
Do you live under a rock? Upwards of 90% of the population is foolish. Count yourself in that group if you actually think that expanding or exploding batteries are in any way acceptable under normal operating conditions.
Even if you're not foolish, not everyone has the free cash to just run out and replace their battery the instant it's not holding a full charge. Will macs even run without a battery, even if it's dead?
MacBook Pro battery flies off the handle, busts wide open {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2009 12:58PM "in most cases this happens because of user naïveté, not replacing old batteries or never cycling the battery etc.. "
I'm sorry, but aside from abnormal activity like dipping it in the bathtub, or introducing it to extreme voltage or current, no battery should EVER do this.
How many n00b users do you think regularly cycle their batteries or replace them before they've been totally dead for a few months?
The game has changed {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2009 2:07PM I realize no-one will be forced to use Google's turn-by-turn nav software, and Android's market share isn't anywhere near as dominant as that of Windows in the mid 90s, but how is this different from Microsoft including Internet Explorer for free?
A larger company with huge resources offers a free tool that does real damage to competitors and their ability to compete.
The Engadget Show - 002: Steve Ballmer, Droid, Nook, and new Macs {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2009 5:32PM These days CEOs have to be as dodgy as politicians. One wrong word and your stock can take a nosedive.
Also, have you not seen CE Oh No He Didn't?
http://www.engadget.com/tag/ce+oh+no+he+didnt/
FCC net neutrality rules enter drafting process, face McCain challenge {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2009 1:04PM National debt on 9/30/2000: 5,674,178,209,886.86
National debt on 9/30/2008: 10,024,724,896,912.49
That's a 77% increase in debt in 8 years.
Source: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt_histo5.htm
Current national debt as of 23 Oct 2009 at 04:51:47 PM GMT
$11,955,422,209,196.24
Source: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
That total includes debt as a result of TARP funds, which were approved by the Bush administration.
If Congress enacts (or enacted, not sure if it has already been approved) the FY2009 Supplemental request as proposed, total war funding would be $935,000,000,000 (which would coincidentally pay for proposed health insurance reforms for the next 10 years)
Current health care plans are all deficit neutral.
The current administration has been by no means fiscally conservative, but at least they have spent money trying to reverse a recession instead of causing one. Deficit spending during a recession can help to blunt its effects. What did deficit spending during the Bush years get us?
FCC net neutrality rules enter drafting process, face McCain challenge {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2009 12:00PM Wait, so is Google restricting your access to news stories, or are the news stories not even being created? I'm a bit confused after reading that wonderfully unbiased blog on that middle-of-the-road, straight-shooting, honest, fair, and balanced site.
Where the fuck were you people after the Patriot Act was passed?
Where the fuck were you people in 2003 before we invaded Iraq?
Where the fuck were you people when journalists were being PAID to write positive stories about the executive branch?
Where the fuck were you people when US Attorneys were being fired for not attacking the administration's political opponents?
Where the fuck were you people when tax cuts and war spending destroyed a budget surplus and plunged us into a fiscal nightmare?
Forgive me if I find your concern over our liberties a bit disingenuous at this late hour.
Windows 7 Whopper claims its first victim (video) {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2009 11:22AM No silly, they have the metric system. It's called a "Royale with cheese"
Burger King selling a Windows 7 Whopper in Japan {Engadget}
Oct 22nd 2009 12:29PM Any company that can not only employ one million monkeys but keep them banging away at typewriters can have my business. That's some serious logistical jujitsu right there.
