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RIM patents tilt-and-slide, multitouch BlackBerrys {Engadget}
Feb 8th 2008 11:22AM I wish engadget would get this right. These are NOT patents, they are APPLICATIONS for a patent. The Patent Office could outright reject these. There is a big difference between an application for a patent and an issued patent.
What the links are linking to is the publication of the application. ALL applications are automatically published at 18 months, so the fact that these are appearing means nothing more than that RIM dropped them in the mailbox to be sent to the PTO 18 months ago.
LED pranksters remember the Aqua Teen Hunger Force "bomb" scare {Engadget}
Jan 31st 2008 7:13PM @DvS - AGGGGGGHHHHH!!! Hanging weird electronics on bridges != protesting or being an individual. Walk around with a sign! Hand out leaflets! Wear your hair funny, but I am GLAD the police disposed of some weird electronics like they did.
No, I don't want cameras everywhere, but if the cops don't know what it is, YES, caution should be used.
This is exactly why I wish we could move on. You will NEVER convince me that the BPD overreacted. Did Menino? Sure. But calling out the bomb squad was the right thing to do for some wacked out electronic device on a bridge.
At least I know that if I want to blow something up, I should dress it up like a mooninite so you'll all just ignore it. Well, at least until it goes BOOM and then every one will QQ about how some police person didn't do their job.
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LED pranksters remember the Aqua Teen Hunger Force "bomb" scare {Engadget}
Jan 31st 2008 4:41PM *sigh* I wish we could forget this - all it does is gender enmity between people. As a resident of Boston, the interruption was non-existent (I didn't even hear about it until 7PM that night) and I am GLAD the police take matters seriously, even if it turns out to be nothing. Yes, they overreacted in trying to get Turner to pay for the effort, but can we please just move on? I'm glad the comments are broken so I don't have to read how stupid the people of Boston are, because, really, we weren't hiding in bomb shelters and kissing our loved ones good-bye that day - no one even knew about it.
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Good news for TiVo: court upholds patent claims against Echostar {Engadget}
Jan 31st 2008 4:01PM yeah, seriously. I had a series 2 TiVo and loved it. When I moved into my new apartment, the two-prong cable didn't play nicely with TiVo's one-prong coax input so I sucked it up and dealt with Comcast's buggy and unresponsive box.
Once Comcast sent me a letter saying that they'd be upping my monthly cost to rent their HD DVR to something more expensive than a TiVo, I dropped the $300 for an HD TiVo with a Cable Card tuner and couldn't be happier (admittedly I do not use VOD - Comcast's VOD is garbage).
While I too balked at TiVo's $800 intro to the HD market, the TiVo HD at $300 is hardly prohibitive.
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Good news for TiVo: court upholds patent claims against Echostar {Engadget}
Jan 31st 2008 3:04PM No worries. Just piping up so my eye-for-detail name is out there. Need any guest writers? ;-)
*squint* and what's with using my real name? That's what the alias is for! *grin*
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Good news for TiVo: court upholds patent claims against Echostar {Engadget}
Jan 31st 2008 1:58PM >> as the Court of Appeals for the Eastern District
>> of Texas
Oh Nilay, I'd expect better from an attorney. It's the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in DC, that issued this opinion. The CAFC hears all appeals in patent cases regardless of the original venue.
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Survey finds Apple users have sense of superiority -- no wait, hear us out {Engadget}
Jan 17th 2008 3:42PM "Mac users are the hippies of the world. Linux/Windows users are more or less the engineers. We sit around do something useful and productive with our PCs..."
Yeah, because Jame Gosling and Bill Joy, who both prefer OS X over Linux, don't do anything. Well, except the first created the Java programming language and the second was the Chief Scientist of SUN Microsystems. But other than that, they don't do anything productive.
Whatever. Geez, I just wish there was a place to find out all the cool science-y things you can't do with a Mac. Oh well.
Links due to engadget's removal:
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/gosling/
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/billjoy.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/
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Wearable farming robot suit takes the load off {Engadget}
Jan 17th 2008 3:02PM I gotta stop playing WoW. I instantly thought of another kind of farming robot, but those are usually found in China.
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Sling Media's CES 2008 booth tour {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2008 10:08AM Sorry, to clarify - Sling allows you to watch/control practically ANY device that has a video out, e.g., cable boxes, TiVos, DVD players, etc. It uses IR Blaster and preset remote codes to control the device and the Pro sling boxes allow for switching between multiple sources.
I have the Slingbox Solo hooked up to my TiVo (no cablebox) and it was well worth the price. It's a great little device.
Sling Media's CES 2008 booth tour {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2008 10:05AM that is correct. It is also great if you live in an apartment and have cable running into only one room and your PCs in another, allowing you to watch TV from any room with a computer.
Sling for me has been great for the scenario above and for scheduling TiVo to record a show last-minute.
