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Cat Faucet solves elusive cat drinking from sink issue, we sigh in relief {Engadget}
Jul 12th 2008 9:43AM i wonder if that hidden tap faucet (aka. slit in the wall) would work on cats...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/hidden-tap-faucet-flows-from-left-to-right-as-you-go-from-dirty/
Hands-on with AOC's latest LCD displays {Engadget}
Jul 12th 2008 2:16AM I really really hope those two monitors are displaying different images... that or someone went and mucked around with the colour temperature settings...
Hong Kong's iPhone 3G gets an unboxing {Engadget}
Jul 10th 2008 1:18AM Given that I was born in Taiwan, and has read up Wikipedia beforehand... here is my personal interpretation of this Taiwan-China business.
China during the Qing dynasty renounces its authority over Formosa (Taiwan).
Japan invades Taiwan.
Republic of China takes over what is now mainland China after the Qing dynasty ends.
Communists overthrew the KMT party and they escaped to Taiwan.
Communists "rename" the ROC to People's Republic of China, though wasn't recognised as a legitimate government for a while.
The ROC based in Taiwan continued to govern (and *founded*, along with other nations, the UN).
WWII ends and Japan surrenders Taiwan.
The ROC started to lose recognition globally due to increased pressure from the PRC, eventually losing their place in the UN.
PRC gets on the security council of the UN and pretty much bullies Taiwan around, vetoing whenever Taiwan applies for UN membership (oh the irony... a founding member that can't get membership...)
Here we are today, a state with limited global recognition.
Yea, the Taiwanese history is complicated, with weird politics and changing authority (sometimes two authorities fighting over it at the same time). Yet one part is clear - Wikipedia says: "Taiwan is also currently claimed by the People's Republic of China (PRC) as a PRC province, though the government of the PRC has never controlled Taiwan island or any of the current ROC territory commonly referred to as "Taiwan"."
So if anything, ROC (Taiwan) should claim that the PRC is part of *them*, not the other way around.
Of course.. this all depends on if the PRC government is even legitimate since they took power during the Chinese Civil War (which technically never ended).
Concluding, IMO, it'd be great if the PRC and Taiwan relation wasn't so strained, but I would rather keep the status quo than to admit that Taiwan was part of the PRC.
Condi Rice's custom DS lite: proof that G8 globalization is important {Engadget}
Jul 4th 2008 8:55AM @Marvin Quach
Oooh.. so that's wat the stickers are for...
Apple orders 50 million iPhone NAND chips from Samsung, rest of world put on hold? {Engadget}
Jul 2nd 2008 8:20AM talk about reducing oversupply... they sure accomplished that...
In Soviet Russia, Motorola's MOTOZINE ZN5 reviews you {Engadget}
Jun 23rd 2008 8:57AM Can we ban ocean? I'm an Apple fan (tho not quite fanboy) and *I'm* tired of all his comments... sarcastic or not..
Video: Mossberg reviews, likes Aircell's Gogo in-flight WiFi {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2008 6:37AM Yea, especially since Dell laptops are banned from planes and Apple laptops are stopped at the airport... how did Mossy get them on the plane? This must be a hoax!
:P
Toshiba's 1.8-inch 160GB disk hits 5400RPM for netbooks {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2008 7:46AM Yay batteries are finally included!
X300 vs Envy 133 vs MacBook Air... Fight! {Engadget}
Jun 10th 2008 9:24AM @pundit
13.3" equals (not ultraportable)
works either way, unless your favourite programming language needs whitespace for forming assignment statements...
Grace Audio Weatherprooof Submersible Wireless Speaker does just what you think it would {Engadget}
May 29th 2008 2:36AM Most speakers can't even touch water... and most humans can't stay in 9 feet of water for 30 minutes... if they want to stay alive that is..
