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Engadget HD's recession antidote: win an Moxi HD DVR! {Engadget HD}
Jul 8th 2009 12:53PM Nice piece of kit.
Engadget's recession antidote: win a 2GB Lexar JumpDrive Lightning flash drive! {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2009 4:32PM I'd take that.
HP Mini 5101 cleans up nice, shows the serious side of netbooks {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2009 2:15AM I also like the design, nevermind the anti-netbook article from earlier today. I could completely believe an 8 hour runtime with the LED screen option and an efficient SSD under the hood... particularly if you could put some flavor of Linux on it that could be SSD optimized instead of the worst OS possible for a netbook, Vista.
I bet the reason they are shipping Vista instead of something more appropriate is because they are willfully breaking Microsoft's arbitrary hardware limitations for XP on netbooks.
VIZIO Internet App HDTVs launch later this year, for less than you might expect {Engadget}
Jun 23rd 2009 4:53PM Always good to see the smart dimming LED array backlight tech getting cheaper and finding its way into lower sized sets. Props to Vizio for blazing the path on this front.
Large Hadron restart delayed again -- you can relax until October {Engadget}
Jun 22nd 2009 5:28PM @giuliop
Right. They knew it would fail, installed it, and broke the machine. On purpose. Seriously? Do you really believe any of this was done intentionally?
For your edification (since you seem uninterested in looking this up yourself): Fermilab designed and sourced the magnet in question for CERN. The flaw in the design was overlooked for over 4 years, through construction, delivery, and into operation until it failed. Fermilab director Pier Oddone said "In this case we are dumbfounded that we missed some very simple balance of forces."
Embarrassing, definitely. Preventable, possibly through better review in the future. Malicious - not at all, and while the flaw was in the design it went unremarked and unknown until it failed. When it was installed of course it was believed to be fully functional. Only with the benefit of hindsight and an investigation does the sentence of mine you quoted make sense.
Could there be other flaws in different parts? Sure, it's possible. An iceberg's worth as you imply? I seriously doubt it.
"The point is not how it is supposed to work. It is how it actually works."
Just stop posting. You clearly have no idea that in science, theory and experiment are equally important and drive each other. Thank goodness everybody doesn't have your attitude, or we'd probably still think the Earth was the center of the universe. Failure is acceptable and in many cases desirable, since it means the model needs revision. So long as you learn from it, there is nothing wrong with failure.
Large Hadron restart delayed again -- you can relax until October {Engadget}
Jun 22nd 2009 2:56PM @giuliop
I just can't leave idiotic comments like yours alone without calling them out as the dreck they are. You clearly are completely uninformed and uninterested in becoming so, and this response is more than you deserve, but I'm writing it so the crap you just wrote doesn't spread.
They did start the LHC. One or a few magnets were not designed to take the forces exerted on them, and their coolant systems triggered a failsafe which - operating correctly - shut down the accelerator and the magnets. Getting these repaired and the failsafe's coolant cascade cleaned, then excruciatingly slowly cooling them down to operating temperatures is what has taken so long. I don't yet know the exact reason for the latest delay.
As for the rest of your comment: you're dead wrong. How_P is completely correct. We don't know precisely what will happen when the LHC is operating at full power, but we DO know very well what energies it will be capable of producing. The energies at which the LHC's collisions will occur are significantly below that of highly energetic interstellar particles impacting our atmosphere frequently. If these energies could create anything dangerous such as a black hole, they would have done so countless times in our planet's history. The fact that the Earth itself exists is incontrovertible evidence that the LHC poses vanishingly small danger to the planet.
If you don't have a clue about what you're talking about, don't post. Please.
Engadget's recession antidote: win a Microsoft gaming pack! {Engadget}
Jun 18th 2009 12:11PM I'd take that.
Engadget's recession antidote: win a Phosphor E-Ink watch! {Engadget}
Jun 16th 2009 10:59PM Like my current watch, but this would be pretty cool.
Nikon D300S screen leaks out {Engadget}
Jun 12th 2009 3:50PM Dual SD/CF doesn't really make sense to me. Much rather have dual CF. There's plenty of room in the camera for this; the Dx00 market isn't like mp3 players and tiny P&S cameras which are strapped for space.
IAC Prodigy e-reader does EV-DO, HSPA, WiMAX and WiFi {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2009 10:56PM I have to completely agree. Stop trying to make these things worldwide cellphones with every wireless radio known to mankind. That's what CELLPHONES and/or MIDs are for; an e-ink screen is silly to use to browse anything other than pages of text. Impulse purchases which have worked well in the music department, aren't going to translate quite so smoothly to these devices as each book occupies considerably more time. Buy a half dozen, and you're probably good for at least a week. These things don't need to be able to get new 'content' wirelessly.
Still waiting for a reasonably priced e-ink READER, without a phone/MID/e-store identity crisis. As I suspect most of the silent majority is as well. When somebody delivers quality (read: metal) construction, open file handling, and a solid screen/interface under $200 this market will actually begin to get interesting. Andy by 'interesting' I mean that company will print money Nintendo DS-style.
