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Indifferent swimmers break 8 world records while whining about Speedo's LZR Racer continues {Engadget}
Aug 12th 2008 12:48PM Reading your msg again, I'm unclear actually on what you are trying to say. Your last statement is certainly true, but what I got from your first two statements was that you are equating equipment and drugs. If that wasn't your intention, sorry.
Indifferent swimmers break 8 world records while whining about Speedo's LZR Racer continues {Engadget}
Aug 12th 2008 12:32PM You're wrong. You can take the suit off, and its effects end, which is not the same as with injections that modify peoples' body makeup and chemistry. Also part of the objection to doping is that it puts the athlete at long-term health risks, not JUST because it improves performance. Sports in general are viewed as a way to improve overall health, and the use of chemicals put that view at risk (you need only look at the public opinions on weightlifting to see the PR damage drug use can do to a sport).
This is in sharp contrast to better equipment, which tends to protect the athlete, and helps them to achieve the maximum from their regular bodies potential.
By your terrible logic, all athletes should have to compete completely naked.
Indifferent swimmers break 8 world records while whining about Speedo's LZR Racer continues {Engadget}
Aug 12th 2008 12:24PM No, *not* everyone should wear the suits, any more than anyone should wear the same brand of shoe, or ride the same board, or sport the same tracksuit.
It is whining to complain about the suits, and it is getting annoying. The suit clearly helps, and it does so in the same manner as hundreds of pieces of equipment have in the past. Few if any tennis players still use a wooden racket. Ditto for Lacrosse, badminton, and many similar sports. Race cars have a variety of technological improvements that have improved track times. Tennis shoes have gone from canvas lace ups to sophisticated composite affairs. Skateboards, which first used clay races and loose bearings, now use sealed cartridge bearings. On and on and on...
Perhaps if people viewed all sports as a team effort, between athletes, supporters, and equipment manufacturers, then they would stop whining. These items are not "technological doping", as they've been called, because unlike doping the effects begin and end with the activity in question. They are just improvements, and I am sick of Luddites who want to have everyone wrestling nude in the dirt with olive oil and running in their bare feet.
MidiBox SID turns Commodore 64 into 4-voice, 8-bit analog synth {Engadget}
Jun 9th 2008 3:27PM I built a Midibox 64 (another DIY project built on the MIdibox platform), and found the community there very helpful and the process fairly easy - even for an electronics never-ever. MIdibox has been around for years, and TK (Thorsten) is the guy that drew up the original code and schematics.
As for the Noise comment, it's quite good, actually. TK's full time job was (imagine) developing midi hardware for a living, so he knows what he is doing.
Archer Quinn calls it quits: "You may have been able to prevent the straw from falling, maybe not." {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2008 12:56PM "personally, i think he's on to something."
personally, i think he's on something.
Fixed :)
Archer Quinn calls it quits: "You may have been able to prevent the straw from falling, maybe not." {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2008 12:54PM Seriously, this guy is comedy gold. Check these wonderful excerpts:
"Paedophile Check?????? I want f@cking Newtonian checks brought in to schools. Next time you talk to one just say yooouuuu diiickheads."
"f@cking apes, Charlton heston was lucky for him it was just a f@cking movie, I have to wake up to this shit every day.
you can dig up Isaac newton so he can suck my cock.
why does it work??"
Archer Quinn calls it quits: "You may have been able to prevent the straw from falling, maybe not." {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2008 12:26PM No, but I suspect that Archer does.
Mio's Lovebird becomes G50 while LEAP K1 shows both sides of itself {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2008 12:23PM Yes - you flip it over to use the two features. I personally like the concept; if there was a switch that deactivated the buttons on the side facing down, that would be even better.
Mio's Lovebird becomes G50 while LEAP K1 shows both sides of itself {Engadget}
Jun 4th 2008 12:19PM @iEye also:
Hmm, my old sprint Palm phone from about 6 years back was a rectangular , button-less touchscreen phone. Is THAT what you were thinking of?
Every screen made since the dawn of screens has been a (gasp) rectangle. I wasn't aware that any one company had a lock on a particular gemetric shape :/.
Man kills neighbor over missing PS3 {Engadget}
May 9th 2008 3:35PM This is what happens when the most realistic science education in the state comes from "Epcot Center". Florida is where ignorance is born.
