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Thieves hijack truck carrying Rock Band, steal 1,000 boxes {Engadget}
Dec 13th 2007 9:38PM Does the hardware have serial numbers, or just the discs?
If the hardware isn't numbered (or with secret ID numbers inside of it, maybe electronically on the firmware inside), the hardware could be sold separately while the discs are thrown in the trash.
Maybe these boxes were stolen for the hardware, so that could be sold off individually, and the discs are just going to be thrown out.
I'm not really familiar with Rock Band. Do people who buy the Rock Band box want extra instruments not included in the box (like an extra guitar)? If so, then there's a ready market for these stolen instruments.
Rumor: CompUSA going out of business in January {Engadget}
Dec 5th 2007 8:14PM BestBuy isn't going out of business because it has great variety and decent (NOT great) prices.
When I go to BestBuy, I end up buying stuff, because they have something, somewhere in the store, that I want at a decent price.
The last time I went to CompUSA, I nearly ran out of the store, I was so traumatized by their price tags.
Michael Bay's format war conspiracy theory: it's a Microsoft fix {Engadget}
Dec 4th 2007 11:01PM Oil is always 15 years from running out, the oceans are always 20 years away from rising 10 feet, and the internet always has only 10 years left before it gets too crowded. Color me skeptical.
The "999,999,999 in 1 Super Game" system {Engadget}
Nov 24th 2007 5:03PM You might be able to store more than 1 game per byte. For instance, let's say there's a Final Fantasy game taking up 1 megabyte. Then you have options, like: how strong are the fighters? (How strong/agile/etc. are the other classes?) How strong are the enemies? How frequent are the random encounters? If you have 10 different settings for each option, and 100 options, that would give you 10^100 different "games" even if they are each almost identical. This same approach could be used for any genre of game. Change the speed at which the game takes place, the locations of enemies, etc. I'll bet that's how they make their claimed 1 billion games. That, and a great deal of stolen intellectual property!
Samsung's 8 megapixel CMOS sensor for phones -- another world's first {Engadget}
Nov 15th 2007 5:54AM How long before they fit a DSLR into a cell phone?
The 8MP CMOS camera is already obsolete.
Apple estimates 250,000 iPhones sold to SIM unlockers {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2007 4:03AM Wrong. Apple and AT&T split an extra $500--FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS--for every phone that is not unlocked, because that is how much MORE AT&T's phone plan costs than a comparable plan from T-Mobile.
Apple gets MOST of that $500, as per the terms of its contract with AT&T. Why do you think Apple bothered with an exclusive dealer contract in the first place? Apple gets about as much money as the iPhone costs--probably about $400--every time someone buys an iPhone plan from AT&T. Apple makes MOST of its profit on the iPhone when people buy service from AT&T.
THAT is why Apple is obsessed with unlockers. It's not because Steve Jobs is a control freak (though he is). It's because he's greedy.
Canada's Copyright Board slaps tax on music downloads {Engadget}
Oct 19th 2007 5:09PM Now you can pirate music with a clean conscience: because you know the people who are buying legal music are paying a fee to cover the costs of your piracy.
"Artificial life" created as scientist makes synthetic chromosome {Engadget}
Oct 7th 2007 3:19PM "This man has just made his career."
That is incredibly ignorant. We're talking about DOCTOR CRAIG VENTER, the dude who was instrumental in sequencing the human genome.
Death row inmate unable to appeal, computer troubles blamed {Engadget}
Oct 6th 2007 2:44AM This guy wasn't put to death for thoughtcrime.
He was put to death for actually-murdering-someone-crime.
His lawyers asked the court to stay open late but WOULDN'T SAY WHY. If they told the court they had computer trouble, it would have stayed open. They refused to give a reason.
They probably didn't have computer trouble at all. Law firms are always rushing things out at the last second, because the lawyers don't budget their time well. (How would I know this? I work in one!)
Hulk PC mod smashes expectations, makes us green with envy {Engadget}
Oct 5th 2007 7:14PM You can ask the modder to make you a custom version, with Bruce Banner in his lab coat, carrying a Pico-ITX board from VIA. It won't have all those unsightly wires!
