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NHRA to test ButtKicker remote-butt-shaking device this weekend {Engadget}
Jun 26th 2008 2:15PM This is the stupidest most gimmick-ey worthless product I have ever seen in my entire life. It's no wonder they see success in selling it to equally stupid nascar fans. (although there is probably an even shittier knockoff version at wal-mart that they will buy)
Vibrating seats to increase immersion. Give me a break. I remember the first time I saw these in Best Buy, they soon disappeared and I thought they where gone for good, unfortunately not - There are still idiots to take advantage of! The best part is how much this crap costs, suckers.
NZXT Khaos chassis brings death and destruction to your desktop {Engadget}
Jun 11th 2008 12:34AM While the flippable motherboard tray feature is pure awesome, thats way too much money for a case for me. I still like my Armor :P
Sirius Starmate 5 stops by FCC, XM gets a mention {Engadget}
Apr 27th 2008 3:47AM Yeah its pretty decent, and its free. The quality is a lot better but its not CD quality. Usually what you get is a 2 HD radio stations for each FM channel, HD1 will be the same thing as the FM channel but in "HD" and HD2 will be the channels alternate station, example: one hip-hop station around here plays old school hip-hop on the HD2 channel. Another big plus is some of the AM stations actually have HD versions so they aren't so painful to listen to.
Doesn't stop the radio from being terrible around here though, I miss the great radio in Detroit/NYC.
Man attempts LCD TV theft using water bottle UPC, fails {Engadget}
Apr 26th 2008 4:18PM If you want to steal a TV, here is a genius plan some of my friends pulled off a long time ago that actually worked, I know stealing is wrong, but I have to give them points for originality at least.
So they walked into some big electronics store (I think it was circuit city) went right to the back and picked up the TV they wanted still in box. Then they went straight to the customer service desk with it and the conversation went something like this:
Thieves: I want to return this TV
Clerk: Well why is that?
Thieves: Well it turns out I can't really afford it so I need to return it
Clerk: Okay well do you have a receipt?
Thieves: No I lost it
Clerk: Well I'm sorry but I can't take anything back without a receipt
Thieves: What? No you don't understand, I cannot afford this, I NEED to return it
Clerk: Would you like to talk to a manager?
*Manager comes out etc etc.*
Thieves: Listen, I need to return this TV, I cannot afford it, I have bills to pay, I know I'm supposed to have a receipt but I don't have it, Please let me return this
Manager: I'm sorry but I really can't, especially with an expensive item such as this
Thieves: This is f-ing BS, I'm never coming to this store again
They walk out of the store with the TV.
Safari 3.1 elbows its way onto the Windows desktop {Download Squad}
Mar 22nd 2008 5:00AM No, its not like Firefox installing with Google Pack, Google Pack is defined by Google as (here comes a copy and paste):
Google Pack is:
* Software specifically selected by Google
* Always free - no trial versions or spyware
* Ready to use in just a few clicks
So Google Pack is a bundle of Software Google feels you should have, which you can install or not, This Apple Updater thing is pushing extra software in a sneaky way, by hiding it and/or making it seem required for other software to run and tricking people into installing it.
Usually theres profit behind apple's BS, This one I don't quite understand. If you have the updater then you already have apple software/logos on your PC, and your probably already using some sort of apple product. Maybe they are trying to bog down PCs in order to make Macs seem faster. I wouldn't put it past them.
Think about it, Someone runs into an annoying garbage Quicktime .mov file (Why do people ever use this stupid format?). The average joe doesn't know about alternatives so he goes to download quicktime. OH but to get quicktime you need iTunes! (Are they still doing this?) and with both Quicktime and/or iTunes comes the apple updater. With all these apps installed at once you have a whole crapton of bloatware/extra services/background processes running which means less system resources and a slower PC. Average Joe now goes to use a Mac somewhere/Mac he already owns and it seems faster because well, at this point it is, eventually he switches to all Macs/a Mac/whatever.
I'm not saying my little theory is definitely true, but Apple is one of the sneakiest/greediest companies around, this is definitely how they do business on a regular basis. Microsoft is just as greedy if not more, just less sneaky, but I steal their software anyway so I couldn't care less, no ones ripping me off :P I'd probably steal from Apple too if I didn't find navigating the OS so annoying.
Microsoft unloads 500 GTA IV Xbox 360 Elite consoles {Engadget}
Mar 22nd 2008 2:47AM Is this guy serious? What a douche. I bet he is one of those people who watch Blu-Ray movies on a SDTV and insists its leaps and bounds better than a DVD. Or worse, one of the people who claim this to be HD. Or are you one of the people drooling over the HDTV you bought at Wal-Mart/Best Buy/ with piss-poor specs?
The 360 is nowhere near obsolete because it doesn't play Blu-Ray movies, Some people buy game consoles for games. In fact game consoles have a history of sucking for movie playback, and they still do in certain cases. I doubt the PS3 really displays Blu-Ray 100% properly. I have one and theres no way its going to remain my main Blu-Ray player once I get the extra cash for something better, I pay bills unlike your bratty ass.
If HD and Blu-Ray is really SO important to you that you'll pull an attitude like this, Go buy a Denon or something so at least it LOOKS like you know what your talking about.
I bet you have never even heard of Denon...idiot. You would shit yourself if you saw/heard my setup. I bet you don't know what a Crown amp is either. Enjoy your Sanyo TV and your Bose speakers.
Analyst: EA being Rockstar's 'white knight' is 'bullsh*t' {Joystiq}
Mar 18th 2008 7:58PM It's Rockstar, you know they have SOMETHING up their sleeve. I feel like some sort of comparison could be made like Rockstar is to the gaming world what The Pirate Bay is to the P2P world.
On a slightly related note, anyone else notice the lockbox you can get with GTA IV? Tell me that isn't spite, They only did that so no one can use the "What if kids take and play a parent's copy of the game without permission" argument anymore, Which is pure awesome.
Intel details the Larrabee next-gen hybrid CPU / GPU {Engadget}
Mar 18th 2008 7:16PM This is sarcasm.
Right?
NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GX2 officially ready to shred your wallet {Engadget}
Mar 18th 2008 12:50PM Yeah but Crysis on consoles isn't going to look anywhere near as good as Crysis maxed out on a PC. (someone has to say it)
Probably won't look that bad overall though, Somewhere between medium and high is my guess. (Very High is the max)
The Cuso PC S600 is not the UMPC of your dreams... or a UMPC {Engadget}
Mar 2nd 2008 11:22AM heh, the first family computer was a Dell Dimension XPS166(s maybe?). Before that it was trips to the library/school.
166MHz Intel Pentium Processor (With MMX - ZOMG!!!)
32MB RAM
And when they shipped it to us they did some weird hard drive partitioning that left us with like a 3GB drive and a 2GB drive or something like that.
Video card was a Matrox, I want to say Millenia or something like that, not completley sure though.
At least it had more storage than this :P
