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Bucket-based hydroelectric generator powers up small gadgets {Engadget}
Jun 28th 2008 6:15PM This is fricken awesome.
We have a cabin out in country that has no power, but has a steadily flowing stream closeby. This would be pretty nice for small gadgets and maybe a low power light.
The Bill Day giveaway (part 3) - Zune 80GB (black) {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 6:53PM The Zune Actually
The Bill Day giveaway (part 2) - Office Ultimate 2007 {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 6:42PM Windows XP
The Bill Day giveaway (part 1) - Toshiba Gigabeat T400 {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 6:42PM Favorite product would have to be Visual Studio .Net
Jury finds Taser accountable for man's death, awards $6m settlement to family {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2008 11:09AM Seriously, do gun makers get sued when a gun kills someone? Why the hell should the people who make tasers get sued when a taser kills someone?
Who the hell pulled the trigger on the taser? Shouldnt they be the ones held responsible? Oh thats right, the evil taser company made them do it.
MSI's new NVIDIA 9600GT card includes "turbo" button for overclocking {Engadget}
May 27th 2008 12:45PM Its because when Nvidia makes a batch of chips, a certain percentage of each batch has a certain amount of defective transistors on it. They then get seperated out by the number of defects on each chip.
That is why you have the 8800 GTX, GTS, GT, and GS. The 8800 GTX are the chips that had the fewest number of defects, and therefore can tolerate the higher clock rate.
Atari founder cries wolf about piracy-ending chip {Engadget}
May 26th 2008 3:24AM I think you are missing the point. He is saying the games will come encrypted, then this chip will decrypt them on the fly. If you kill the chip, you can no longer decrypt the games and therefore you are screwed.
Biggest drawing in the world created with GPS {Hack a Day}
May 24th 2008 2:32PM If you watch the movie you see that he is not exactly flying commercial. It looks like he worked closely with DHL for this. At multiple points you see him either getting a tour of a DHL facility, hanging out with DHL employees, sitting in the cargo plans cockpit, sitting in the Co-Pilot seat with a GPS receiver, ect..
Since he is working so closely with DHL I would imagine they had a lot of prior notice as to what the case was, its not like he had to make it through the every day airport security checkpoints for this, and if he did then I am willing to bet DHL worked it out.
Also, that said, the "secure" case could also have just been a prop, in several clips you see him holding a hand-held GPS receiver.
From the movie I am unqualified to say if it is True / False, but nothing in the movie signaled to me that this is a set-up. He gets an interesting art project out of it, and DHL will get lots of free publicity. I would not be surprised if DHL makes an ad-campaign out of it somewhere.
Microsoft to appeal $1.35B EU antitrust fine {Engadget}
May 10th 2008 12:36AM Sorry, but Microsoft needs Europe more than Europe needs Microsoft.
In the real world, there are a couple scenarios
1. Microsoft cuts all sales to Europe. Europe starts buying all macs, causing Apple's stock to skyrocket. Macs get a serious foothold in some seriously large markets. Apple is now back in the mainstream consumer game.
2. Microsoft cuts all sales to Europe. Europe, sick of being run around by bigger companies makes Linux / Unix the operating system of choice since it only has a license that says you need to keep it free. This will lead to a major investment of time and money in open source computing spurring an incredible growth in desktop linux.
MS is essentially screwed if it cuts sales, so that means MS has only 2 real options:
1. Delay paying the fine through long court battles which then force them to pay the fine + late payments for the fine.
2. Just pay the fine.
Overall I would say given how much MS is worth, if you just slap them with a $500,000 fine your not really going to make them twitch, but a $1.35 billion fine is going to attract some serious attention.
Kinda like how if Bill Gates gets a $200 speeding ticket its a drop in the bucket, he just gives them some of his toilet paper, but if I get that same $200 speeding ticket I am living off ramen noodles for a week.
HTC Touch Diamond hands-on {Engadget}
May 6th 2008 10:26AM I prefer chicken.
Thanks guys!
