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May was the last date I heard, but they did announce the name for the new cards. The HD 2900 XT will be the high end card, followed by similarly named 2600 and 2400 variants. No prices or specific date. More info: http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/13/amd-names-names -r600-now-the-ati-radeon-hd-2900-xt/

Linux powered? What happenned to Microsoft's origami.

HAHAHAHAHA! I guess intel saw how craptacular MS's other embedded devices were (think mobile phones) and decided to go their own way....

Oh - and what you all came to the comments to get (wtf link to a zdnet blog anyway?) a link to a gallery of pics. It looks surprisingly nice.

Sort of similar theme, I like this one.
You have to diffuse the bomb to stop the alarm. Gets your brain woring so (hopefully) you are wide awake by the time you turn it off and dont go back to sleep. I can't see this one surviving a bad hangover though.

Generally retail stores buy product at 40-50% off of the suggested retail. With a standard retail of $250, and a cost of $158, 250/158 = 0.632. Meaning retail only gets a 36.8% margin.

Try the WL-16IV robot, which apparently can do just that.

Sony showed a 27" AMOLED TV display at the CES in January with a 1,000,000/1 contrast ratio. http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/sonys-1-000-000 -1-contrast-ratio-27-inch-oled-hdtv/ http://uk.gizmodo.com/2007/01/09/ces_2007_sony_ole d_tvs_make_lc.html/ http://news.com.com/2300-1041-6148309.html/ Un-substantiated rumors are that they will be on the market within 9 months...

Yeah, yeah... "OMFGBBQ ITS SONY THEY WILL INSTALL ROOTKITS ON IT!!1 IT WILL TELL SONY WHEN YOU WATCH PORN!!11"

Unfortunately getting a key out of a hardware device is probably at least one or two orders of magnitude more complicated...

In parallel efforts, hackers in both the Xboxhacker and Doom9 forums have exposed the "Volume ID" for discs played on XBOX 360 HD DVD drives. Any inserted disc will play without first authenticating with AACS, even those with Volume IDs which have already been revoked by the AACS LA due to previous hacking efforts. Add the exposed processing keys and you can decrypt and backup your discs for playback on any device of your choosing. Now go ahead AACS LA, revoke the Toshiba-built XBOX 360 HD DVD player... we double-dog dare ya.

"AACS is a high-profile technology and is protecting high-profile content, so we fully expect there will be future attempts," Ayers said.

Each time I read about China and their antics in the media, I increasingly dislike the country. I know we're not entirely free here in the western world, but at least we can make our own mistakes.

Nanny states are bullshit, just come visit the UK in the not to distant future and you'll see what I mean (in fact, regardless of the nature of the previous link, we're already a nanny state).

So the real test would be downloading one of the HD movie trailers from iTunes and trying it on the AppleTV product.

What's the point of using your existing VoIP box?

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Already ahead of you there.

The Macbook (and around 70% of all other portables) is made by Taiwanese company Quanta Computing along with your iPod. Apple products are about as American-made as Grass Jelly.

Does this include the chemicals they used to make exploding laptops?

Although this particular story may not be true the Samsung SCH-W559 does use haptic feedback. Though, I didn't see any mention of punching.

PS.. PC vendors are not scared.. they embrace...

"three of the biggest PC makers" approached Jobs about Mac on a PC.

http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/10/jobs-says-three -pc-makers-are-hitting-me-up-for-os-x/

Feh.

The PC as a out-sized home theater component was probably miscast.

With all those "though controls computer" experiments out there http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/16/g-tecs-thought- control-hat/, you should soon be able to monitor BadPeople thoughts. No need to wait until they walk funny, just nail them.

How can it be one-upping them A-DATA already annouced 128GB SSDs two months ago?

Stop imagining conspiracies of collusion between cutthroat competitors.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-30 -cd-settlement_x.htm
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/21/sony-others-nam ed-in-video-tape-price-fixing-scheme/
http://news.com.com/Samsung+to+pay+300+million+for +price+fixing/2100-1004_3-5894862.html
http://illinoisissuesblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/pri ce-fixing.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/2002/05/10/MN24643.DTL
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2002/May-08 -Wed-2002/business/18699104.html
http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=28734&cgi=produc t&isbn=0767903277

What's more, you don't have to spend long in today's business culture before it becomes *obvious* that there's enough of a critical mass of actors who believe in getting ahead by amassing control over channels and perception (rather than producing/adding value) that the emergence of price-fixing behavior is practically inevitable.

Runs J2ME, so I can use one of the many open SSH implementations, GMaps, lots of great games etc.

Being more open and home brew friendly makes this much more attractive to me than the iPhone.

Does a million dollar cell phone impress you? How about the million dollar martini? (actually, the martini doesn't cost that much because you pick the diamond and they are usually around $10,000, but still).

I agree with you that these things aren't very impressive. They're attaching the value of aesthetics to a functional object, which happens a lot but just isn't special when the aesthetic value completely dwarfs the capabilities of the object. You really aren't buying a $1 million laptop, you're buying a diamond worth close to $1 million with a laptop attached to it.

Engadget
Mobile Magazine (with video)

Synthesis: the act of putting different representations together, and of grasping what is manifold in them in one act of knowledge. http://www.bright.net/~jclarke/kant/concept1.html

why do they have to have screens or physical input devices..
little projector
http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/toshiba-pocket- projector-for-cellphones/
little keyboard
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5731.html

AMD is producing chips using a 90nm process and moving to 65nm, while Intel is moving from 65nm to 45nm. It is very difficult to compete in design when you are working with something 4 times less dense. AMD has always been behind in this area (except when they were using IBM fabs, and they had copper interconnects before Intel).

Simultaneously with this story, I see an announcement that Intel has announced another 45nm processor for ultra low power consumption.

What was that? There are greater than 200 gb HD-DVDs made and working? http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/28/tdk-ok-were-don e-with-the-200gb-recordable-blu-ray/

I'll take your words for it. Here are some words from http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/12/creatives-ceo-d isses-the-ipod-shuffle-thems-fightin-words/

Ever since Creative declared war on Apple late last year we've been expecting a little more of a street brawl between the two. Obviously being number one has made it easy for Steve Jobs to ignore everyone else, but fortunately Creative CEO Sim Wong Hoo (or as Stevie J. probably calls him, "Sim Wong Who?") wasn't above dishing out some salty fightin' words for us in honor of the launch of the iPod shuffle yesterday, calling it a "a big let-down" and "worse than the cheapest Chinese player." This stuff is too good not to blockquote:

"We're expecting a good fight but they're coming out with something that's five generations older. It's our first generation MuVo One product feature, without display, just have a (shuffle feature). We had that -- that's a four-year-old product. So I think the whole industry will just laugh at it, because the flash people -- it's worse than the cheapest Chinese player. Even the cheap, cheap Chinese brand today has display and has FM. They don't have this kind of thing, and they expect to come out with a fight; I think it's a non-starter to begin with."

There are hacks out there to modify the countthe activation timer so that it never times out. The cracking group Parardox also supposedly released a crack that is suppose to emulate a bios to bypass the activation process all together.

while maintaining backwards compatibility with older versions of DX 10 and Windows is a good thing,
Vista and DX 10 aren't going away:

Intel's Crestline integrated graphics to run DirectX 10, NVIDIA's GeForce 8600 series brings DX10 without breaking the bank

Details of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 8600 series have been revealed, with the 8600 GT going for roughly $150 and the 8600 Ultra demanding a $180 price tag... The specs aren't anything to sneeze at, either, with both 8600 cards being built with an 80nm process and 300 million transistors. The GT runs at 350MHz, with 256MB of RAM to call its own, while the Ultra sports a 500MHz core, with 512MB of memory.

while maintaining backwards compatibility with older versions of DX 10 and Windows is a good thing,
Vista and DX 10 aren't going away:

Intel's Crestline integrated graphics to run DirectX 10, NVIDIA's GeForce 8600 series brings DX10 without breaking the bank

Details of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 8600 series have been revealed, with the 8600 GT going for roughly $150 and the 8600 Ultra demanding a $180 price tag... The specs aren't anything to sneeze at, either, with both 8600 cards being built with an 80nm process and 300 million transistors. The GT runs at 350MHz, with 256MB of RAM to call its own, while the Ultra sports a 500MHz core, with 512MB of memory.

I doubt you could find a new mass-market motherboard without integrated DX 9 and DX 10 is in the pipeline. Intel's Crestline integrated graphics to run DirectX 10

Little Big Planet looks like it has some real potential.

This article, though, is about PlayStation Home, which seems something like XBox Live (especially marketplace and achievements) meets Miis, with shiny graphics and a public chat lobby.

You are not the only individual without a cell phone, I'm a fellow non-cell-phone user. One of my biggest complaints about cell phones in general are that they are far too complicated with too many unneeded (by me) features.

One thing I would like to see offered to customers is a cell phone that is just that, a cell phone. It should be designed for ease of use as a cell phone.

sony said Blu-ray wasn't cracked

*puts fingers in ears*
"i dont hear you hackers lalalalalalalala!"

way to sugar coat a story btw..

also.. this q&a session didnt touch the fact that, at least in my region, sony has halted ALL ps2 sales in their vane attempt to push the 5 dusty ps3's off the shelves.

They're probably referring to the keys being discovered.

here's a link to a PDF

http://spikelab.jbpierce.org/Publications/wessberg _N&V_nature2000.pdf

discussing how a monkey was able to feed itself using a brain-controlled robot hand. it goes into a bit of technical detail also - quite interesting (or informative, depending how this post get's modded).

picture in this article here:

http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/18/the-thought-con trolled-robotic-arm/

This thing costs $2k. Why?

Because it needs to be x86, with in turn means that it needs to have a bigger battery, fancier engineering, special cooling. A hard drive because it needs to swap due to Windows memory needs and usage patterns.

Kill off Windows, and then you have a bunch of better processors - PPC, ARM, whatever. Smaller battery. No special cooling. No need for a hard drive. No Windows license. Room for other features - cell phone/modem? Bluetooth hub functionality?

BTW, it has pretty much been done... Too bad it isn't Linux.

There have been issues.

Some are recent.

Both are declared "fixed," but it's a bit unsettling. Contact lists and email are one thing, highly sensitive documents are another.

Use Gaim, X-chat, whatever for the text and VLC for the video.

Yes, and here is what it would look like with the pilot inside

About 230W per card.

Engadget does one with a DirecTV round dish.

This place has a bunch of links, including the above. One is a bicircle which looks kinda cool.

As long as you're using Windows and IE, Netflix's Watch Now offering is superb. It's worked 100% of the time for me. Though I'm no fan of DRM, Netflix took Microsoft's DRM and built something superb. If you want to see what it looks like, you can watch this video