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How would you change Sony's PlayStation 3 Slim? {Engadget}
Oct 31st 2009 11:11AM I actually get a decent amount of use out of the multicard reader on my 80GB (with BC!) cause of digital cameras and SD cards. BC is kind of a mixed bag - some months I don't use it at all, but other times it's just nice to be able to get some more replay value out of Shadow of the Colossus or whatnot, esp with new PS3 games being $60. The lack of MKV support isn't really an issue for me - I have a server good enough to use PS3 Media Server to live transcode, and really, there's no way to put a big enough drive in to store enough HD content to make it worth it.
Tesla Roadster keeps on rollin', goes 313 miles on single charge {Engadget}
Oct 31st 2009 11:04AM If you think they're THAT fat, then you must have met like a dozen people in your entire life.
Tesla Roadster keeps on rollin', goes 313 miles on single charge {Engadget}
Oct 31st 2009 11:00AM 150 miles is still a pretty long distance in terms of daily drives. The real problem isn't the mileage you get on a full "tank", it's the time it takes to get that full tank.
And to everyone who says that you're just shifting the pollution from cars to power plants, I'd rather have a few hundred power plants to make cleaner than a few hundred thousand cars.
Asustek announces a 1.1 Teraflop, Tesla GPU powered supercomputer {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2009 8:12AM yeah, no kidding. One of my co-workers at my last internship had one under his desk, and then there were a bunch more throughout the server rooms. Measuring GPU performance in FLOPS is pointless anyhow as it all comes down to the exact problem you're trying to solve, how well you code it, and how many weeks you're willing to spend tweaking your code to run on one exact GPU..
FCC keen on commandeering TV spectrum for wireless broadband {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2009 8:08AM I think after all that work it's a bit too soon to kill off DTV...
Tilera's 100-core Tile-GX processor won't boil the oceans, will still melt faces {Engadget}
Oct 26th 2009 4:38AM the performance of a sole core won't tell you much - with 100 threads you're going to have cache problems out the ass, and to get down to a 5W TDP with 16 cores it's not likely they have the fancier things like branch prediction on them.
ZFS open source project abruptly shuts down, Snow Leopard weeps icy tears {Engadget}
Oct 24th 2009 4:45PM hah... the people who wrote Dtrace were furious about the specifics of how it got put into 10.5. You couldn't use Dtrace with iTunes because Apple didn't want anyone using it to try and circumvent the DRM.
AT&T sues LG, Samsung, others alleging LCD price-fixing 'conspiracy' {Engadget}
Oct 21st 2009 12:36PM maybe they went up in price cause AT&T was buying 300,000,000 of them...
Windows PC Scout patronizes, offers surprisingly good comparison tool {Engadget}
Oct 21st 2009 12:25AM also, there's a damn link under that with the text "Know your way around laptops..." right above it that takes you to the comparison tool (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pc-scout/laptop-set-criteria.aspx?mode=landing). And it's not flash, it's javascript.
Windows PC Scout patronizes, offers surprisingly good comparison tool {Engadget}
Oct 20th 2009 11:40PM not sure if I'd call it particularly patronizing, considering the people they're trying to target with this are the people who need help shopping for and comparing laptops, and if you read (or write for) engadget you most likely are aware of the various brands and price points already.
