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This new network is also reliant on Microsoft DRM, which rules out Mac OS X and Linux. How nice for Microsoft.

Maybe they'll include HDMI output, like microsoft is doing for this year's revision of the X360.

But now how about the fact that Apple ripped off the design from LG's Prada?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/14/lg-officially-c alling-apples-iphone-a-copycat/

Or is ripping off other company's products ok as long as it's Apple that is doing it?

Just wait until the VMware guys get DirectX 9 working at speed. Then move that to other operating systems.

Imagine being able to play your Windows games, but on an OSX box. Or Linux someday. It would be fantastic. Just make a VM, install your XP on that...then the game. And disconnect the virtual network card so your VM doesn't get pwned.

Sorry, sources...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Access_Conte nt_System#Processing_key_retrieval_and_Arnezami_co ntribution
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=121866
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/13/hackers-discove r-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-processing-key-all-hd-t/

Online or in the store, it takes hours of searching to find a Wii, a Wiimote (sans Wii Play), a Nunchuck, a 2000 Wii Point Card, or a Wiimote Glove and someone's writing an article about the magic being gone from the Wii? I had to buy Wiimotes and Nunchucks from 3 different stores just to get two extra sets. That's 4 items from 3 stores! I searched at least 6 stores for a 2000 Wii Point Card for a birthday gift! And the magic's gone? Are you friggin kidding me?!

If the magic is gone for any game console, it's the PS3. I saw at least 4 of them on the shelf at my local Best Buy the other day. Think Jack Tretton will still give me $1200 for each one? I seriously doubt it. The funny thing was that I saw two kids looking them over, but none of them was rushing to their parent about the awesome find they had in their hands. Why? Because it's not an awesome find anymore. It's yet another boring, stale game system with better graphics. Big whoop-de-do. How about some actual fun, Sony?

It's chic for the gamers to be goo-goo over the PS3. The Wii has been, and probably will be for a long time, considered an also-ran by the "experts." The problem with that viewpoint is that the Wii is actually fun to play. It doesn't require countless hours of mastering a certain button combo just to get started. I, and my far-from-a-gamer fiancee, started playing Wii Sports in a matter of 5 minutes. Why? Because it makes sense. We all know how to swing at a tennis ball, swing at a baseball, throw a bowling ball, swing a golf club, and punch. Try that with a PS3 game.

Granted, games like Madden football on the Wii are just as complicated as the other system versions, but that's only if you want to be All-Madden level. If you're fine being a rookie, just swing your arm and throw a pass. Raise your arms up to catch the pass. Swing your arm to kick the ball. Again, it all makes sense and you can start basic game play in a matter of minutes, not hours.

The fact is that the Wii will remain successful because there are a lot of people out there looking for a game system that's just fun, much like Nintendo's original game system. There are a large number of people who are tired of WoW-type games that require a life investment. They want to be able to turn on the system, play for 10-15 minutes, have fun, and be done with it and that's what the Wii offers and will continue to offer.

The magic is far from over. It's just beginning.

I read your comment as being an assertion that each padlock should have its own unique key, which, let's face it, is reasonable. But since car manufacturers are unable to reliably provide unique keys to their, far more expensive, vehicles I'd suggest that even then it's a form of security through obscurity. But that's aside from the point I want to make.

Padlocks are arguably less secure than user-name/password protected equipment (lock-picking and key-bumping, mechanical destruction with tools and so on) but their prevalence allows it to be impracticable to try all possible keys. Randomly assigned user-names and passwords are probably an order of magnitude more secure (though obviously it depends on the computational power available to an attacker) however this causes its own problem. If the randomly assigned details are set at the factory then what happens when the factory messes up its packaging, with the wrong details being sent with the router?

That's the only reasonable, so far as I can see, use for obvious factory-defaults, to allow guaranteed (so long as the firmware's not been messed up by the user in the meantime) access to the router's configuration panel. But, while in the default state, it shouldn't be allowed to connect to an external network in order to prevent/reduce potential harm to the user's network.

Did you get your $1200 from Sony yet?

Don't feel bad if you didn't - you're not the only person waiting...

No mention of Wireless HDMI?

In the mean while, the inquirer continues its series of posts of articles about external video card connections.

Me? I fly with proprietary fibre solutions! Well, I would if i were dirt rich.

Having your graphics display remote from the consoles they are attached to is absolutely amazing. I wish we could wire our entire office with decent thin clients.

In July 1939 at a contest in Asheville, North Carolina Ted R. Elroy set a still-standing record for Morse copying, 75.2 WPM.

get into some real hacking.

Get something like this (hint: there's a much cheaper one with backlight that costs only about 50 bux), read this, lean to program the MCU, add some Flash memory, learn to hack the BPU and get goin' already.

No wonder the military too are going COTS, they can't hack up anything themselves anymore unless millions of dollars are dumped into the project.

Heck, even the famous voting machine scanner from the Netherlands was in fact a hacked TomTom navigator (you can prolly find them by the roadside by the dozens, tossed out the window by some bored SUV cowboys)

I can't wait to get my hands on this one. (just a concept, but one can wish!)

Well it is also outselling HD-DVD movies in the first 2 weeks of 2007. There were also 12 Blu-Ray movies releases this week and only 1 HD-DVD movie. I agree it's too early to declare a winner, but it's not as ridiculous as you're trying to make it sound.

HD-DVD has only one studio that is doing HD-DVD movies exclusively, and that is Universal. Apparently Universal has been very tight-lipped about release dates for their HD-DVD movies while the Blu-Ray making studios have been willing to list many of their upcoming dates. This has lead some to hypothesize that Universal will jump ship.

So like I said, it's still too early, but as of this second Blu-Ray seems to be sitting in a better position than HD-DVD is. Could definitely be the Blu-Ray camp spreading FUD I guess, but if it is, it's working.

So, this chip is good for computation although not necessarily processing.

Notice how intel has stated it is setup for general purpose. Also, it could be said a computation is a process that happens over time. Here, with this cast, it obviously parallelizes the overall computation within one CPU.

We already know where intel plans to take this. They have released early statements:

An earlier article compared extra cores to rayseg computation:

Add Another Core for Faster Graphics

From that previous article, it stated a 3.2GhZ P4 could give 100 raysegs. At that point, it predicted 450 raysegs potential for what is now the current quad-core technology. The 450 raysegs are enough to real-time raytracing on a common screen size (assume 1024px768). A little math, and you could see 800 raysegs performance would make a smooth real-time raytrace at a 1024px768 screen size.

Let's speculate: The cores inside the 80 core cast don't seem to have HT or dual SSE units. We can presume each core is able to achieve 50 raysegs. Times that by 80 and you have 4000 rayseg potential. That is at least over a 800% performance increase for rayseg computation.

Another articles that states a 5 year plan seen for this technology to market:

Intel demonstrates 80-core processor

That articles states: "The long time frame is required because current operating systems and software don't take full advantage of the benefits of multi-core processors. In order for Intel to successfully market processors with CPUs that have more than say, 4 cores, there needs to be an equal effort from software programmers, which is why producing an 80-core processor is only half the battle. On paper, 80-cores sounds impressive, but when the software isn't doing anything imaginative with them it's actually rather disappointing: during a demonstration, Intel could only manage to get 1 Teraflop out of the chip, a figure which many medium- to high-end graphics cards are easily capable of."

Another words, we'll see a new implementation of SMP in the OS level before most applications will be able to take advantage of the 80 core cast. Most SMP programs were written with full access and bandwidth to all memory. Now, they will have to modified to handle distributed memory. The past typical one kernel per core design may not be the most efficient anymore.

There are some better pictures at engaget:

  http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/motorolas-motor izr-z8-a-symbian-kick-slider-with-hsdpa

Set to market it as the winner? They've been doing it for over a month now without the help of your puny "statistics"

Though the guy's insurance should handle the discussions with Dell, I like how the following guy found a crafty way to stick it to dell:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/10/disgruntled-del l-customer-finds-crafty-path-to-lawsuit-settlemen/

This covers up to iTunes 7 or so...
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/04/29/1554231.s html?tid=107&tid=141&tid=187&tid=188
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=316 65
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/29/hymn-is-back-fa irplay-on-itunes-6-finally-cracked/
http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=155 3

Wanna find a multitude of unencrypted AAC files? http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=AAC&audio=on

Please cite that FairPlay has been not been cracked and illicit copies are NOT ABUNDANT. Otherwise, I assert teh laws of teh internets. (anything that can be copied, will be, and en masse.)

Keychain computers - OS and Apps on your car keys with your data files.

Right now you can keep your Linux Operating System, and a bunch of Apps all on a USB Memory Stick.

This can put your whole system in your pocket.

As memory density increases and price declines, a 64 GB Flash Drive Memory Stick will come about at reasonable prices.

With More than 50 GB hanging from your keys - all your data and system files can boot and run on any machine.

Walk up, plug in - run your system.
Shutdown - everything is saved to your USB Flash Drive. Even in encrypted files if you wish.

No hard drive needed. Better security - easy to back up. Finger Print reader to boot. Even play MP3s (Think the creative MuVo MP3 player / USB Drive combo).
These will be the walk about systems used by many people.

Only to be out done by the Ultimate Expression of technology,
an Apple iPhone version of the OQO computer system:
An iPhone that is a phone/information device in your pocket,
and a full powered desktop system when plugged into it's base station dock.
(and with Samsung's 10 Megapixel camera phone camera (photos/video)

The Ultimate Singularity in all devices rolled into one:
Desktop Power, Cell Phone, 10MP Video/Photo Camera, email, voice mail, chat, web browsing, MP3 player, video player.

About the only thing NOT in your pocket is a printer and coffee maker!

The real trick is that the All-in-one pocket gizmo functionality is not compromised,
each of the individual functions should work as good as or better than the stand alone devices,
and all the functions should work seamlessly together - multiplying the usability 10 fold.

And stop making the Darn things Thinner, Smaller, and Swoopier!!!
Give us a Battery that actually lasts 24~48 hours run time at full operating power! (watching movies while chatting with a friend and downloading files in the background).
I honestly don't mind a phone that is 8 mm thicker - if that thickness gives me plenty of run time.
Recharging should be a once a week experience, not a once a day necessity.

Plus PS3 has that blinking issue...maybe good for "3D" movies (ref to old vid cards that came with "special" LCD glasses).

The blinking issue that only people with 1080p televisions using HDMI have? Right, well apparently the problem is really HDCP handshaking and not the PS3 or the TV necessarily, and how does your 360 look with HDMI? Oh right, it doesn't have that yet. I bet you can buy a $200 add-on for it though, or just a whole new console in 6 months. But believe the hype, the $400 360 has so much more over the $600 PS3/Bluray player!

But a wooden one is so tempting.

Let's get some things straight:

• Sony will never release videos on HD-DVD until 2 years after Blu-Ray's actual demise, regardless of what the other studios (Fox, Disney, etc.) do.
• Warner Bros. does have a hybrid disc format called Total HD
• If the rumors about how much Universal execs hate Sony is true, this could be a very long format war, with the winners being Total HD and players like the LG.

Think about it. If every movie came with both formats and every player played both formats, would anybody really care anymore? Nobody does with DVD+-R.

Dual format players will win this war. As soon as this sells below $500, all other makers will follow. Right now it sells for $1200.

"Well this is more like it. After waiting forever between the initial announcement and first retail availability of the first wave of HD disc devices, LG's BH100 really rocketed to the shelves, and has just participated in its first unboxing (that we've heard of) mere weeks after the announcement at CES. We're a little disconcerted by that big front-and-center dent on the box, but the unit itself looks just dandy, and gadgetaholic promises a full review in the coming days. But that's not what you're here for, you just wanted to see this little guy ripped from his Styrofoam cocoon and flap his little Red and Blue wings, so hit the read link for the whole event. Fly, BH100, fly."

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/lgs-bh100-super -multi-player-unboxed/

OEM Linux disappeared from Walmart.com because a) sales were poor b) and the price uncompetitive.

There are enormous economies of scale when you build and market for the OS with 95-98% market share and whose only real competitor in the domestic market is the closed hardware and software platform of the Mac.

There is no mass migration to Linux. The PC in the home has become more than e-mail and the web. TouchSmart The lessons the Geek never learns.

The Windows advantage in drivers is not going away.

The carriers won't lock you out of a device that they carry which is about the only way you will get your hands on this since Seagate won't be selling them directly. Of course that means that the retail price will include a big fat carrier markup.

When you said 'flip-up' I thought you were talking about the E70. A hybrid of that and the N800 should be a decent shape for a gaming phone.

Engadget says 10 hours of continuous use.
Source: Here

Waiting for SED may very well be a dumb idea, but not for this reason. Toshiba is on longer involved in SED. Canon is buying out Toshiba's interest:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/12/canon-set-to-bu y-out-toshibas-display-stake-sed-production-in/

Either way ... it sounds like if/when SED every ships, it's likely to be too late. If you're really wanting to wait for something new/cool, you should probably be looking at OLED.

Google [doesn't] cache images

But engadget does...

. . . and actually did some real innovation . . .

seeing as LG already has a dual format player on sale RIGHT NOW for 1200, I think its very possible.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/lg-bh100-hd-dvd -blu-ray-hybrid-player-in-the-wild-and-on-sale/

BTW, no it's not the Korea you might have in mind, so don't flame.

"Everyone knows that, even at $600, Sony is selling the PS3 far below cost. "

We don't know that.

We know about this:
      http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/18/playstation-3-c osts-900-sez-merrill-lynch-mob/

But that assumes price points that simply don't hold up under any kind of scrutiny. Most of it appears to be uneducated guesswork. My guess is the PS3 breaks even for Sony and allows the retailed to make some profit.

Companies like the "we are selling cheaper than it cost to make" stories because it makes some people feel like they got a real bargain. At $600 the PS3 is no bargain. They're still about $100 too high for the thing, at least compared to the competition.

Re: the monitor problem

Projectors keep getting smaller all the time, imagine propping up your sketchpad with a blank page showing and projecting your screen onto from a device the size of a cell phone.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/hands-on-with-m icrovisions-itty-bitty-projector/
The technology's not quite there yet, but it seems like this scenario is rapidly approaching reality.

Anyone can hack into your brain right this day. It can take the form of social engineering, indoctrination, culture, advertisement. People are constantly trying to break into your mind and place ideas there with the explicit intent of "programming you" to do something they want you to do, and I'd wager that's a more real concern that some physical tampering. Heck, I am doing it now by introducing this idea that wasn't there before. Are you aware of the the things you "know"? Do you have any idea of how much of that "knowledge" is belief rather than fact? (you don't need to answer me, these are rhetorical questions).

On the other hand, since we are speculating about something not even remotely feasible for the foreseeable next 10 to 20 years (this is one of my beliefs, not a fact) I'd bet that any wetware interfaces would have to be regulated under the same category that critical systems are. One would not, and legally can't use plain vanilla Linux, Windows or OSX for certain applications where the failure to operate properly may result in injuries or loss of human life, such as in some medical and military settings. One needs specially certified systems, so in all likelihood any computational devices that they placed in your brain should operate under those standards and not under shrink-wrap commercial software with guarantees that disclaim suitability for any particular purpose.

You can go and get elective surgery like lasik at discount prices (I did!) but even then they have to perform very thorough studies lest you walk out blind. And you should strive to get informed when undergoing any such process, which are fundamentally different from purchasing consumer electronics (which you should also ideally research at least a little, but if you blow it buying a cheap Chinese knock-off gadget, the most you usually stand to lose is money [and even Brand companies sell exploding batteries sometimes, don't they?]).

Remeber kids, [meme]You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate for[/meme]. So it stands to reason that anyone considering stuffing electronics and software inside their skulls should research the risks it entails, and to protect the Darwin Award would-be-candidates from themselves there would be medical regulations in place at least similar to those that exist for other elective surgery procedures. And that's assuming it would ever attain the status of elective. I think that the world is drifting towards 1984 rather than Neuromancer, so extrapolating from where we stand now it seems unlikely that anyone could purchase brain implants in back alley shops that wouldn't be regulated leaving them exposed to unauthorized tampering.

Out of all the 30GB hard-disks bought last year, 10.2 percent bought for the purpose was Zune to be used as an external hard disk,


Check the reviews and hacks. It takes a registrey hack to use it as an external hard drive. There are much better choices for players that double as USB drives. The Creative Zen has a partitioning option to set aside part of the disk for use as a USB drive with no registery hacks needed. The 80 Gig Zen is not that much more expensive than the 30 Gig Zune.

If you did get a Zune to use as a USB drive, here is some info on the hack.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/24/zune-usb-drive- hack-splained/

Perhaps you're thinking something like this? http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/the-pc2tv-echov iew-fm-think-itv-but-not-by-apple/ It has the added advantage of "Anything you can view on your computer you can stream to a display wirelessly" over other devices like the Apple TV

Someone's competitor plans to launch a product with a 2% advantage over the product you can already get, mere years after something with a 100% advantage was demonstrated, and within only 8 months of something with 200% advantage!

Someone's competitor plans to launch a product with a 2% advantage over the product you can already get, mere years after something with a 100% advantage was demonstrated, and within only 8 months of something with 200% advantage!

for example, here's one link:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/project-grizzly -inventor-crafts-real-world-halo-suit-for-militar/

Apple "iPhone," huh? As we're all aware, that's the name of the new Linksys VoIP phone which Cisco (Linksys' parent company) owns the trademark to. So what's next? Another protracted legal battle for Apple? Oh hells no, son. After Steve dropped their latest i-bomb, Cisco told MarketWatch that they've been in "extensive discussions" with Apple recently and "it is our belief that Apple intends to agree to the final document. We expect to receive a signed agreement today (Tuesday)." Sweet.

If Mac OS X is truly the foundation of the iPhone, buggy apps shouldn't be able to do the things you and Steve are warning against.

So? This is also true of any Java phone, which has perhaps the best security model in any shipping operating system today. The whole idea that buggy apps can trash your phone is bizarre. I think it must only be true of "smartphones" that are also PDAs and have their own platform like Symbian, PocketPC or whatever. Most phones only do Java and they have no security issues beyond bad UI design (modal install dialogs, for instance, which are exploitable). But that's easy to fix.

I was fully going to switch to this phone in June. No joke. But this statement by Jobs has certainly installed boundaries for my imagination running wild with this device's potential.

It's a nice phone. But as far as I can tell it's no more stylish/amazing than the W950i. For those who haven't used the SonyEricsson consumer phones before, they have a very Mac-like UI with all kinds of nice transitions, effects, great artwork etc. Also very easy to use. They have 3D accelerators too so if the fancy 3D effects are well received I expect SE to add them to their phones as well Meanwhile, these phones are also pretty cheap if you get them on contract and appear to be a strict superset of the iPhones features - that is, they do everything the iPhone does, and also more. My W800 has been a great experience and I'd not hesitate to upgrade to the 950 when I get a new phone. Incidentally though I believe SE have little penetration in the states, they completely own the UK. You see them everywhere. And why not - they are really great phones.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-k e850-separated-at-birth/

It's coming... all we need is a tuner card that can accept CableCard (and hopefully version 2, later on). Well...and maybe something to force the cable companies to give us a CableCard instead of requiring us to use a set-top box.

Once a CableCard 2.0 capable device hits the market, SageTV and Myth users will be the ultimate beneficiaries.

No, it most certainly isn't.

It's $500 and requires a commitment to a two year contract just for that price. It's locked to one operator, who may or may not be any good where you live. Its capabilities are nice, but not so significant that for the vast majority of people a compelling reason can be found to purchase one over a more conventional unit from an experienced manufacturer. There are things we already know about and nobody in their right mind can be happy about. Sealed, un-replaceable batteries in a cellphone? A non-programmable smartphone (not even Java, apparently)? (Just what was the point of putting OS X on it?) Integration with Yahoo and Google Mail, but nothing else, not even corporate email clients like Exchange? (Mail.app can do it, so don't tell me it isn't possible.)

There are many aspects we simply don't know about it yet. For example: does it do voice recognition? That's pretty critical, and wasn't mentioned at all during the keynote. I'm guessing it doesn't. What do you think?

While it's quite possible Apple will come up with a "Revision B" that's clearly compelling, the high price, carrier exclusivity, and questions still to be raised over the over-all package will mean that this version, at least, will remain one of the more questionable business decisions Apple has made. The entire thing to me looks like the victory of ego over common sense.

Well done Jobs. You've just undermined the one serious success Apple has had in a couple of decades (the iPod and mobile music market) by producing a toy for the wealthy person who lives alone (no spouse to ask "You're spending WHAT on WHAT?"), is not currently in a mobile phone contract, lives in an area where Cingular has good coverage and capacity, has a small enough music collection that 4gigs will store it, and doesn't mind spending $500 on something that'll cease to have acceptable battery life in 18-30 months. If I were an Apple shareholder, I'd be getting out right now.

I have been unable to find any details of this new plan. You'd think some news source somewhere might have mentioned this.

Could you provide a link? The only info I found says that Cingular will announce the plan you need to get with the iPhone later. Nothing says that they won't make you get one of their existing plans.

Cingular's release:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/10/cingular-kickin g-rear-and-taking-names-for-iphone/

http://www.engadget.com/2005/08/05/sprint-ppc-6700 -is-the-htc-apache/

I have the Cingular 8125, which is basically the same thing as Sprint's version.
running windows mobile 5.0 and a 200mhz processor, it is SLOW...although usable.

I do love my phone, but i think i'd love iphone much much more. it's everything that i would do to my phone to improve it!

Seems to me like Apple hasn't managed to create something which improves upon the FIC-GTA100 (except perhaps in the style department). http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/07/fics-linux-base d-fic-gta001-gsm-smartphone-encourages-hacking/