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Re:I Blame DRM
That's a sale lost, then...
I guess they'll have to choke back the tears
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Re:Show us the machine!
Ask and you shall receive.
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.hackaday.com/media/2008/08/kidney-machine2.jpg
This is from Hack-A-Day's writeup.
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Re:Gorilla Arm Syndrome
You mean the TRON MCP desk? http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/02/desk-tron.jpg
Yes, I wanted one in 1982 and I still want one now! -
Jason Voorhees...So water may not be the only thing fueling this car. They use a chemical reaction to crack the water, and then use the hydrogen from the water and oxygen from the air to run a fuel cell. The real questions are: What is in these membranes? How long do they last? What does it cost to renew the membranes? They certainly didn't scrimp and save on publicity. They even hired Jason Voorhees to drive their car!
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WTF?
Lake zombie Jason,
scary machete killer,
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Re:Really...
Like the old joke "the watch is tiny but look at the battery I have to carry in a suitcase" take a look at this photo.
That's the CPU in the foreground, passively heated, oo groovy. But wait, what's that huge heatsink with the fan ?!
Intel have offloaded all the power requirements into the northbridge. That way they can say "our CPU is 2.5w matey".
Oh, and it was supposed to ship June '08 but that's been quitely cancelled so no MSI Wind for you for the near future. -
Re:Creepy AOL+Yahoo merger image
That image is just fscking hilarious.
Now s/AIM guy/Steve Ballmer
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Re:Why is that a problem?Steve's keynote slides explicitly show that Xcode can publish the code to your personal iPhone for testing purposes. This image from Engadget's coverage (see the 10:30am post for context) shows an iMac remote debugging on the phone using an iPod dock. Whether that means an end user can load an app without going through the store is hard to say. The only non hacked way of distributing apps without paying $100 seems to be old shareware/open source method, postage
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Re:Why is that a problem?
Steve's keynote slides explicitly show that Xcode can publish the code to your personal iPhone for testing purposes. This image from Engadget's coverage (see the 10:30am post for context) shows an iMac remote debugging on the phone using an iPod dock. Whether that means an end user can load an app without going through the store is hard to say.
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Re:Back it up.
"Erm," how about reading the headline of the article you're quoting? "Apple's 10 million iPhone sales target by end of 2008 would surpass most other smart phone sales"
Still don't believe me? Why not go straight to the horse's mouth: "1% market share in 2008, 10 million units and we'll go from there."
Here's a pretty diagram for you even.
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If this is a Linux laptop ...
... why does it come with a Windows-key on the keyboard?
Take a look for yourself.
Couldn't they have put a little penguin on it instead? -
Requirements omit to mention Windows 3.1Come on, who'd buy a first-gen iPod without checking to see if it would work with their XP box? Or a Newton without checking to see if it could data transfer with Windows 3.1? That's a poor and downright misleading comparison. The listed product requirements mention XP and Vista, but didn't (and at the time of writing still don't) mention anything about incompatibility with 64-bit versions. So they list the ones they support, and don't list the ones they don't support?
What a shocker.
The official name of the 64 bit product is Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
That name is not listed on the iPhone page, don't expect it to be supported. -
No.. requirements list itself omitted the info.Come on, who'd buy a first-gen iPod without checking to see if it would work with their XP box? Or a Newton without checking to see if it could data transfer with Windows 3.1? That's a poor and downright misleading comparison. The listed product requirements mention XP and Vista, but didn't (and at the time of writing still don't) mention anything about incompatibility with 64-bit versions.
It's reasonable to assume that- unless otherwise stated- the requirements in Apple's list would be both necessary and sufficient. It's not like it says "see this obscure Apple doc for more details". Apple probably kept that on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'... -
Re:But will it talk to my car?Yes we know from the review WSJ made. Wrong. Some kind of music ringtone management is coming. Well i do con list every time i have to shelve 500 bucks for an item. Apparently reading comprehension is unreasonable to you as well. There's nothing wrong with a pro/con list--just don't fill it with bullshit. Because that would be unreasonable. So it would fit in beautifully with most of the rest of that list. Thanks for making my point.
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Re:I will buy a Mac
I am wondering where the EA Sports line is though
It's right here. (Well, okay, there's a lot there... more specifically, it's around the 10:10am mark. In the pic you can see that they're even giving the boxes their own little "MacDVD" header, just like console games and (lately) PC games have their own individual headers. -
Re:It's all about the looksMake your own Samsung Upstage
1. Take one mobile phone which you enjoy the user interface and functionality.
2. Take one MP3 player which you also enjoy the quality, interface and music availability
3. Apply a thin smear of 5 minute aryldyte to the backs of each device. Wait 30 seconds and ensure tacky.
4. Firmly press each device together. Hold in place with soft jaws, wait 10 minutes.
5. Enjoy new Samsung Upstage.
Here is one we made earlier.
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It's subsidized.Cell phone companies are willing to provide incentives to acquire customers. The value of these incentives are frequently upwards of $300, given in exchange for a two year contract (some of that incentive will go to your sales rep as commission). What difference does it make to Cingular if they give this incentive as a service discount, or as a phone subsidy? The incentive here is "you get an iPhone". No upfront discount, no service discount. Cingular pockets your $300. It's still subsidized in that Cingular would otherwise charge you $800 for the phone without a contract to cover their profit margin. Remember, if the phone is sold without subsidy, it is also sold without a contract. Jobs' keynote speech introducing the iPhone noted explicitly that it will require a two year contract. (evidence)
This is all just a play on words from Mac fanboys to distract from the sticker shock and make Apple look "revolutionary". The bottom line is that it will be subsidized by your back-end service fees just like every other phone on the market. -
Patents
Jobs said that they've filed for over 200 patents on the iPhone overall, not multi-touch specifically. You can see it in his slide here:
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/med ia/2007/01/dsc_0232.jpg -
Re:Seriously.
You may not be a fan of the interface [...] but you'd have a hard time convincing anyone that the user interface is bad.
Many phones and PDAs have sucked in the past, and I thought apple's would be the same, but when I saw this picture I thought: That is how a phone UI should be designed. Look at those large, clearly labelled buttons. I've never seen a phone with such a clear interface.
Of course, before dropping ~$500 on a phone I'd want to know it was nigh-on impossible to damage the screen - the last thing you want to do is crack your screen while going on dodgems or something... -
Re:What you have really been waiting for.
Yeah, but can they beat over 200 patents for advances like a touch screen?
It may be the coolest gadget around, but its no Newton!
Ah. Memories. Very heavy Memories..
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Installing the software...
From the engadget article:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/13/installing-the- zune-sucked/
A few pics down... http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/med ia/2006/11/zune_software_03.jpg
wtf?
A sig changing moment. -
WideScreen
The widescreen stuff looks kind cool!
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iTow
Anyone notice the new Apple iTow in the background of this picture: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/me
d ia/2006/09/dsc_0827.jpg Isn't that Ballmer's car? -
Blown Out of Proportion
I'm going to argue that this comparison between the cell batteries and this hard drive are not apt.
I'm not an electrical engineer but to the best of my understanding, batteries have complex chemicals and, ultimately, are a large capacitor storing energy with nothing but a insulator between the two negative and positive charges. Should these insulators decay, then disastrous effects can take place. Have you seen the pictures for the Dell laptops? Some of them are basically the entire battery slot burned out (top and bottom) with melted plastic, circuit board and screen. We're talking potential bodily harm here.
Again, I'm not an electrical engineer but as I understand it, hard drives are merely rotating discs or platters with a reading arm accessing them while they spin at high speeds. If something goes wrong, it grinds to a halt. There is minimal electronics and circuitry on them and that's what's malfunctioned here. We're not talking flames shooting out the side of a case or possible bodily harm but instead just a chip reaching it's melting point, producing a flash and growing carbon as it dies. And why does this article say "Maxtor" when this is most likely an isolated incident?! I mean, catastrophic failures happen in computer products no matter what the brand name is. Mean time to failure, right? Any microcontroller has this risk. Why doesn't the article list the age of the drive and the conditions it was operating under? I am most interested into whether or not this is under normal use and whether or not it happened immediately or if it's 2 years old.
Honestly, compare these two images: Blown up Hard drive from the article and a Dell laptop result.
I hardly find the two comparable. I've seen burned out hard drives and burned out computer components and, honestly, you have more to worry about from a cheap power supply than you do a Maxtor hard drive. When those burn out, they tend to take the things they're connected to with them. -
A sceptic writes
The picture seems to show about 60 solenoids around a small pool of water. When they're all clacking away they'd make one heck of a din. The writing looks amazing, but I can't see e.g. a hotel wanting this thing in the lobby unless it can be made very quiet.
Also, do you remember how yogic flying made the news a few years back. The photos seemed to show these guys hovering in mid-air, but in fact they were just "bottom-hopping" up and down and someone clicked the shutter at the top of their bounce. I'd like to see a video of this pool to check that the writing isn't only readable for a tiny fraction of a second.
