Recent Comments:
Painting the town magenta {Engadget}
Apr 2nd 2008 8:24AM Definitely not an April Fools (if anyone's still doubting this); I work for a major retailer and we got one as well, objecting to our maroon design. So, if you are vaguely involved with mobile phones and your chosen base colour contains red Deutsche Telekom are on to you!
Nokia's N95 now shipping... everywhere but here {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 22nd 2007 9:02AM Yeah, we've got it at £79.99 with the unlimited data package on T-Mobile
http://www.mobiles.co.uk/t-mobile-nokia-n95.html
Having played with one at 3GSM in Barcelona, it's a very very nice handset. Worth mentioning that most of the Nokia execs I was chatting to were using it, with a smattering opting for the E90 communicator instead.
Paris Preview: Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione hits the web {Autoblog}
Sep 12th 2006 8:51AM Why have Alfa started making the Sagaris?
Sony Ericsson's P990i gains FCC approval {Engadget}
Jul 11th 2006 4:30AM "The purpose of an anechoic chamber is to filter out any noise not created by the unit itself, I've been in two my whole life."
Like the boy in the bubble?
I've been waiting for this phone since it was the P1000, then the hermione, and then the p990. And I'm still waiting, and still getting it because frankly it's the only touchscreen phone with wifi and a good camera, even 12 months after it was rumoured. Oh, except for the SPV M600 (HTC thingy, called all sorts worldwide), but I'd chew my own balls off before I used a MS phone.
I do like the screen on the N80 though.
VW's Golf GTi "53 plus 1" is fully autonomous {Engadget}
Jul 3rd 2006 6:00AM "No it can't drift. It is physically impossible for a FWD (or AWD) car to truly drift. Sure it can get sideways with the handbrake and pull itself straight with the front wheels, but you need to be able to control and hold your slip angle. Something that is only possible in a RWD car"
So, you've never heard of lift-off oversteer? True, "drifting" (if you define it as power-sliding, using the throttle for steering) is impossible in a FWD car, but AWD cars can do it (see for example, umm, every WRC car since the Quattro?), and by no means do you need the handbrake to get the back end out.
While you make out it's all very complicated and people can email you for a full explanation, you're really just pulling 'facts' out of your arse.
Yet Another Leopard...wait, video? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 30th 2006 8:34AM 10.5 is for both PPC and x86.
In fact, it will be the first OSX version to be available as a retail x86 product as opposed to coming pre-installed.
My number one fact to use on Mac-doubters is this; 10.4 made my 867Mhz G4 PB faster than it was under 10.3 - compare that to Windows..
New legs, Japan, new legs! {Engadget}
Apr 26th 2006 10:36AM Props on the Lieutenant Dan quote
Concrete Revolution specs? {Engadget}
Mar 30th 2006 6:38AM Sega Saturn (and Dreamcast, perhaps) - immensely powerful for the day, yet impossible to code for.
Sony Playstation - originally an add-on for the SNES, yet it conquered all before it.
Xbox - a cheap, outdated Celeron with a cheap, outdated graphics card and a bodged PC motherboard
Can you imagine optimising code for what is essentially a 6-CPU PowerPC machine with S-ATA and 32 pixel lines, or whatever the GPU has going for it?
It's all in the gameplay, people.
US Gov't to launch investigation into Lenovo "spy" PCs {Engadget}
Mar 28th 2006 10:28AM I hereby nominate PS3RULEZ for the annual "best guerilla marketeer" award - Ken, is that you?
If you want a really good "backdoor" story (heh), try googling INSLAW PROMIS.
Xbox 360 DVD firmware hacked? {Engadget}
Mar 20th 2006 4:29AM "Here in Germany, a Ferrari retails for 300.000 Euros. They are too greedy so i'm gonna steal one from the street."
If you couldn't afford a Ferrari, not ever, and if you could have a perfect copy of someone else's with their permission for free, which wouldn't deprive them of anything, would you still say no? I bet your high and mighty principles would go out of the window pretty damn fast.
This hack will be duplicated within a month by people with darker intentions. Ironic that MS tried so very, very hard to prevent unsigned code from running but then just ported over the Xbox DVD protection with only minor tweaks, and are now facing the fact that copied games could be run. So Pirates 1, Microsoft 0, home-coding hobbyists 0 (well, maybe 1/2 - this could lead somewhere for them, I suppose)
