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BlackBerry Javelin gets photographed, put on eBay {Engadget}
Sep 11th 2008 5:57PM What makes this $2,000 better than, say, the Nokia E71i? Who in their right mind would pay $2,000 for a cell-phone, pre-production, at that?
SlingPlayer 2.0 enters public beta -- without Clip+Sling {Engadget}
Aug 7th 2008 5:27PM Ok, someone who claims to use this, enlighten me -- WHY do you need to watch TV in the car? And why do you need to watch remote TV over FIOS?
Bill Gates: top ten greatest hits (and misses) - the Microsoft years {Engadget}
Jul 14th 2008 10:55AM Bill Gates was never brilliant. Shrewd, yes, but far from brilliant. And lucky... oh boy, was he lucky. Right place, right time, and not scruples, that's how he turned a lousy OS into a $billion empire.
And your definition of "magnanimous" seems a bit flawed. Say you got $100,000 in the bank. Would you expect a standing ovation each time you give someone a dollar? Each time you donate $100 to a charity? If you do, you're a selfish little prick.
Bill has close to $100 BILLION. That's 1,000,000 times more than $100,000. Getting the math? A friend of mine is making $35K working assembly line 60 hours a week. He donated over $8K to charitable causes last year. THAT is generous.
Samsung set to enter US laptop market in effort to boost sales {Engadget}
May 19th 2008 3:44PM Wow, I can't wait to see a Samsung laptop -- I just hope they make them just like their mobile phones. They'd be cheaply made, have low battery life, blurry webcams, nearly unusable wifi, crippled bluetooth and run something like Windows Vista. Oh yea, and instead of "ding", they play the sesame street song, or the best of the Jackson Five.
Epson pops Penryn in 13.3-inch NA801 laptop {Engadget}
Apr 1st 2008 2:06PM Be thee damned!
Optimus Maximus: at long last, we bring one home to test {Engadget}
Feb 28th 2008 4:00PM Hey Chris, nice try.
"Pound" is a weight, just like grams are. Just a different unit. You meant lbf (pound-force), right? It's ok, beginning physics students are always a bit confused on that.
Android gets handled, now with Street View {Engadget}
Feb 28th 2008 3:49PM So glad you remembered Symbian, or I would have b*tchslapped you with a large trout. Been shopping PDA phones lately. I was playing with a T-Mo Wing (Windows Mobile) for a few days, and the thing is positively useless as a phone. Or a PDA. They took all the worst features of Win 98, shrunk them down to make them entirely unreadable, haphazardly added a phone and text-messaging application and called it a "phone".
Then I got to experience a Symbian S60 device... holy frick, what a beautiful thing. It's lightning fast, intuitive, instantly usable as a phone, and easy to use the PDA functions.
HP's UMPC 2133 revealed {Engadget}
Feb 19th 2008 4:34PM Anything fits in an envelope. They make envelope in different sizes, you know.
Official: HD DVD dead and buried, format war is over {Engadget}
Feb 19th 2008 4:24PM Wow, I almost began to care.
HD DVD casualty report: over 1m players, recorders, and drives lost to the format war {Engadget}
Feb 19th 2008 4:20PM And I still don't care. DVDs look fine on my 2001 Sony TV; which set me back over $2200 for a 42" 1080i display. I'm watching broadcast HDTV through my mythTV box and HDHomeRun -- and yes, the pic is sharper than a DVD, but when you're 10ft away from the screen, it doesn't really matter.
I can also archive DVD movies on DVD+Rs, or even on XVid (0.7GB/hr) or h.264 (0.5GB/hr).
I've seen BD first-hand, on a very nice TV set. I still fail to see how a small increase in detail and resolution is worth all that extra money and 5x the storage space.
Ask me again in five years, when BD players are $40 at walmart, burners cost $80, and BD blanks are less than $0.50. Until then... pfffft.
