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In the Autoblog Garage:2009 Nissan GT-R {Autoblog}
Jul 23rd 2008 12:36PM The Nissan GT-R: Applying Darwinism to Lawyers, Doctors, Hollywood Execs and Other Dimwits with More Money than Brains.
Activision plans to launch iTunes alternative {PS3 Fanboy}
Jul 11th 2008 11:09AM Yeah, because you know other large companies like Sony have tried to take on iTunes and done so well at it.
Activision is making the same damn mistakes that Microsoft did before them -- trying everything they can think of. "Let's throw all this s**t at the wall and see what sticks!"
And that's just a dumb way of doing business.
NASA's new suits are one giant leap for space fashion {Engadget}
Jun 13th 2008 9:05AM That cost almost certainly includes the production of x number of suits.
Apple buys P. A. Semi, designer of ultra-efficient processors {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Apr 25th 2008 6:13PM I'm thinking it might go something like this:
http://www.danbailey.net/117/apple-chip-fab
Two-thirds of Americans think nanotechnology is morally unacceptable -- wait, what? {Engadget}
Feb 20th 2008 8:18AM Actually, it's probably the way the question was worded. "Do you think nanotechnology is morally wrong?"
If an American doesn't know what it is, it must be morally wrong!
Microsoft doesn't think Sony can stick to single PS3 SKU {Engadget}
Jul 29th 2007 1:28AM At this point, who gives a fuck what Microsoft "thinks"? This is the group that brought us such notable successes as Vista, and the Zune. They can't innovate to save their fucking lives, they can't ship a product on-time, and when it does come out, it's bug-ridden crap. Witness all the problems with the XBox 360, which was rushed to market and clearly not ready to be there.
When Microsoft can get a product out the door on-time, that works, is actually innovative (and not a blatant knock-off) and doesn't require a firmware upgrade as soon as I open the box, then I'll feel that Microsoft actually has some room to comment on the activities of other companies.
(And this isn't driven by Sony fanboyism -- I'm a Nintendo guy, myself.)
Competing with the NFL {Blog Maverick}
May 31st 2007 11:27AM Mark, I think you're dead right about the need for another pro football league in this country.
I'm sure the issue of the XFL has come up as an example, and to that, I'd argue that the XFL wasn't football, just a clown show in football uniforms. There's the Arena League, but that doesn't have crap for TV rights. I don't remember enough about the USFL to even comment on it here...
The way I see it, there's a few roadblocks along the way to a successful league:
1. The rules. I know it sounds nuts, but I have a hunch (and while that's not hard data, it's all I've got) that the difference in rules from league to league is what makes people unable to watch some of the other leagues. A lot of responses I've heard about Arena League are that it's not football -- the field's too short, scoring is too high, and possessions seem to change every 30 seconds. "It's like watching a video game," as one friend put it. There's no time for the human element.
2. Stadiums. A stadium contributes greatly to the atmosphere for attending a game. Building new stadiums is out of the question for a new league unless every owner is part of the billionaires' club and has no problems burning cash on what may or may not be a successful league. This means that sharing arenas with existing pro (and/or college) teams is going to be a necessity, and that limits you to cities with established pro/college teams...moving into a crowded market is going to be problematic.
Number 1 seems fairly easy to resolve -- just keep it similar to NFL rules. How do you propose to deal with #2?
Nintendo DS does geopositioning with WiFi {Engadget}
Mar 5th 2007 6:07PM GPS uses satellites to triangulate position. Standard WiFi does not have the ability to communicate with satellite -- it's being done by IP address lookup.
So, what'd you get? {Engadget}
Dec 25th 2005 1:41PM * a v1 Robosapien
* the Complete Calvin & Hobbes
* B.B. King's "Treasures" (book/CD combo)
* a new GameCube to replace the one my wife got when we split
* other stuffs
