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Motorola prepping Palm OS-based Q2 for Sprint? {Engadget}
Nov 11th 2007 4:53AM While the comment about the rectangluar screen is correct there are other technical reasons that Garnet would also not be put on such a phone.
There appears, for instance, to be some kind of limit on how many i/o devices garnet can deal with. It seems currently impossible to have a garnet device that can simultaneously have a phone and WiFi for instance. Evidence of this is largely based in palm offerings and certain code unearthed inside treo 650 roms by a guy called 'shadowmite'. There is also some evidence that Garnet has some problems with multiple device power management.
Garnet is not their newest offering however. While the centro appears to be running regular 5.4.9, the Folio was supposed to have run Palm's newest Linux based system, and there is no reason to believe that new systems should have any of Garnet's problems
ETRI's Rabie terrifies children like Frank The Rabbit {Engadget}
Nov 10th 2007 1:39PM heh. your work then?
ETRI's Rabie terrifies children like Frank The Rabbit {Engadget}
Nov 9th 2007 6:33AM This is an amazing design error worthy of use as an academic case study. They tried to make it cute but by the simple addition of two red panels they turned it into a skull with ears.
This is really easy to fix. Just lose the red and curve the tops of the side arms into half domes so they look like the haunches of a sitting rabbit
LaCie Hub gets reborn, goes USB-only {Engadget}
Nov 9th 2007 1:14AM I'd like to see it in reallife use. It looks like something that is meant to look good being photographed not to look nice in real life
Apple posts firmware v1.1.2 -- goodbye jailbreak! {Engadget}
Nov 8th 2007 10:04PM
There is a great "you shouldn't do this and we won't let you" crowd that is I'm sure frantically digging at the new update. I am equally sure they will eventually find a way. What you may care more about is whether this particular update is even worth having.
If it's anything like 1.1.1 the only thing the update really did was break the hack. You can live with an earlier version just fine. The question is when will development reach a point that you want the new features enough to mess with it.
Fisher-Price announces T.M.X. Elmo "eXtra Special Edition" {Engadget}
Nov 8th 2007 4:03PM it gets better
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4024457809967804989
AMD announces FireStream 9170, first dedicated stream processor {Engadget}
Nov 8th 2007 7:18AM Here that Ladies? Breed with this guy and he'll name the kids after wikipedia.
You have been warned.
Second steampunk laptop wants to be clockwork {Engadget}
Nov 5th 2007 4:58AM It's mighty short on punk if you ask me. I think it's more of a Ducan Phife style.
USB-powered infrared pad heals road warrior's aches {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2007 10:59AM depends on how bright it is. If you want to try it though, these kinds of infared heating pads can also be had as battery powered versions for less money.
Microsoft's HD Photo picked to succeed JPEG {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2007 10:22AM But will it be a DRM free format? My biggest problem by far with WMP is the obnoxious level of DRM that wends it's way through it. I do not like for instance, having my computer quietly call a corporation and report my actions every time I view a file.
how
The other thing that bothers me abut microsoft "standards" is how they seem to turn out to only really be implementable through microsoft products. OOXML is one example. There have been analytical papers stating that ooxml is so difficult to program for that it effectively shuts out all other systems. From what I gather in this article there is every possibility that this new system is exactly the same way. If this is true it is not a standard at all, but rather a way to destroy standardization.
