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Only if played through a system with danceable cables of course ;)

To worry about if OSNews and Gizmodo are right. The company has built up the "cult of Jobs" over the years to almost mythic status, and if they are right and Steve Jobs is dying and isn't long for this world the stock price is going down the crapper.

While you,I,and the guys here at Slashdot know that one guys does not a company make, too many of the press and public have built up the "Steve=Apple" mythos and it will slaughter their stock price. They should have been diffusing this for years instead of milking it to add to the "Apple Cool" branding. The only way I can see them not getting blasted all to hell in the market if Steve is really dying is to bring back the Woz to keep the mythos lovers happy while they have him "groom" a successor to the throne. Otherwise 2009 could mean some seriously bad times for Apple ahead.

IANAL (sounds like a new apple product, no?)

Click it and look, I promise it isn't goatsecx

Well, according to these reviews of the Dell Inspiron Mini 12, vista already can run on a netbook with an intel atom processor and 1 GB of RAM, sluggishly, of course, but none the less... http://gizmodo.com/5093030/dell-inspiron-mini-12-review Also, Dell doesn't ship the Mini 12s with Vista anymore, they now, more sensibly, ship them with XP or Ubuntu.

If they do it for the Xbox360, then it might stand to reason that Media Center might follow? Dunno, the whole article is nothing more than speculation at this point. But it's from someone (Shane Kim) who, if anyone knew if it were a possibility/in the pipeline, it would be him.

Gizmodo insight!

Some of the newer LEDs can go above 100 lumens/watt.

One thing about HPS is that it spreads light everywhere, whereas LEDs are more directed, which you want in a streetlight facing down. Omnidirectionalness can be fixed with good fixture design, but most cities use crummy fixtures.

I'm pretty sure he wasn't saying it impressed him because it was awesome; he meant it was impressive because Apple had done it first and given the idea credibility: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/next-gen-ipod-patent-has-touch-surface-on-back-259271.php

Then I thought "Duh, why didn't anyone else think of it?"

Just reiterating what someone else pointed out:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/next-gen-ipod-patent-has-touch-surface-on-back-259271.php

The above is from May 2007...

Addonics NAS is a $55US device with a USB on one side and RJ45 on the other. I dont know anything about it other than it was written up recently on Gizmodo

"For only $55, Addonics claims that this tiny gadget can easily turn any USB storage device into a full-fledged Network Attached Storage (NAS) server with support for both SMB and FTP access."

In fact, Gartner analyst Steve Prentice told the BBC recently that the mouse will be dead in three to five years.

Notice that it's only pundits and "analysts" that make stupid and outrageous claims like these. If you actually pay attention to computing history (instead of pretending to write about its future), you'll see that it takes closer to eight years for any technology to completely replace the one before it from introduction to almost complete market saturation.

The primary domain of the mouse is the desktop computer, but the mouse isn't going anywhere because there's nothing to replace it. A touchscreen certainly won't because nobody wants to keep their arm hanging in mid-air for hours on end. The closest thing would be Microsoft's paper-thin multi-touch trackpad but so far as I've been able to tell, nobody is planning to manufacture such a device. I'd love to have a giant touchpad in lieu of a mouse, but apparently I'm alone in that wish since nobody makes or is even planning to make one.

Really?

The XBox 360 has mouse and keyboard out of the box. Check it out. And I know that's a peripheral/hack, but hey, it works. At any rate you can be surprised. :) Or at least entertained or intrigued if you like. Whatever works.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Analysts-iPhone-Has-Neither-Security-nor-Relevance/

http://gizmodo.com/5042332/huge-iphone-security-flaw-puts-all-private-information-at-risk

http://forums.techarena.in/web-news-trends/1050689.htm

BAUD.

Imagine being a one-throat Paul Hardcastle, being 25 instruments at once. That could almost be the Borq Queen, except the vocal cords could span space, time, and reach out to beings such as dogs.

If he goes hunting, he could "talk dog" while on the move. "Rrrrr... Cut 'em off to the left, Tigger!"

"RRRR-Roger That. Roof!"

But, Christmas carolling could be quite interesting if an ensemble of such-equipped singers got "jacked" into morphing the Little Drummer Boy to the Little Humpmer Boy "I want you to Hummmmp me til i cu cu cu cu. BEAT on my BUM... Pee on my Drumm..." Or, make "Oh, yah, weeee" emit.

It's reminding me of the 51 line bus in Alameda, where the androgynous voice (sounds almost like one of the Talosians) announces, "Ahprohching Fiifth and Brawdway"... Hell, that announcing voice ought to be on MUNI in San Fransideshow. It would tickle the tourists someting fierce.

Now, match that up with the Granny Gun/Palm Pistol:

http://gizmodo.com/5069173/palm-pistol-grandma-is-going-on-a-toodle-shootin-rampage

And the AARP will be in conniption fits, if the thing automatically calls Medic Alert with: "Help, I've mistaken my Palm Pistol for my insulin injector," or, with, "Help, this thing is really an enigmatic enema..."

Apple did actually license clones at one point, but only for a brief period of time...

The Motorola StarMax computers in the mid-90s. I used a couple of them at work. They weren't bad computers, just ugly. Like fugly ugly. The deal died when Apple refused to continue the partnership.

There's an interesting interview with Dale Blankenship of Motorola just before the partnership ended, where he makes some comments about the future of Apple-clone partnerships. Remember, Apple was in the crapper, with Steve jobs gone, Windows 95 on the rise and OS 9 looking old and tired.

One of the reasons that the Mac-compatible vendors are so important is that it improves the perception of the Mac OS as stable and having long-term support. Part of what has happened to Apple is self-fulfilling prophecies; i.e., "As a user, I'm afraid they might not be successful, so I won't buy their machines", which makes them unsuccessful. User confidence is critical, and I think the other vendors (and Motorola, in particular) help restore that.

In contrast to this previous legitimate partnership, Psystar smells like a venture capital scam, or the Phantom console all over again.

Not so long ago, there was a story about a pilot who was guided into landing by an air-traffic controller through a series of text messages after all the plane's electrical systems failed.

The anti-virus recommendation was over a year old
http://gizmodo.com/5100996/false-alarm-apple-mac-os-x-anti+virus-recommendation-is-old

As digg and gizmodo point out... http://gizmodo.com/5100996/false-alarm-apple-mac-os-x-anti+virus-recommendation-is-old

Since Greenpeace already said that they were targeting Apple not because Apple was worse than any other manufacturer, but because they get the most headlines when they slam Apple, I don't see why we should pay any attention to them at all.

To apple's defense, this publicity is pretty real...

http://cache.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/iProduct.gif

It's not a real home theater until you pay 40 grand for the cables.

This is Slashdot. Only Doritos are allowed on keyboards.

First they government wants to set up a nationwide firewall, now this? WTF is going on down there? I mean, I thought the *U.S.* was bad. Isn't Australia supposed to be all European open and sophisticated, unlike us puritanical Americans?

Dean Kamen invented one some time ago as well.

http://gizmodo.com/370698/colbert-first-vid-of-dean-kamens-miracle-water-distiller

The problem is that it's not just the software industry.

"flyingcars"

Wait, so what would happen to that tag once we have flying cars?

That was quick!
http://gizmodo.com/5087570/amd-has-no-interest-in-netbooks-none

I swear, I've heard this before.

The gizmodo Hitachi song competition has already been mentioned below, but the winning entry is just amazing.

I see Lego announcing a change in which country it resides in, to one more favorable towards corporations in trademark laws. That or outsourcing few plants to China to stay competitive.

Have you seen any of the Gizmodo videos?

http://gizmodo.com/5022769/exclusive-inside-the-lego-factory

99% of their plant is mechanised, from grey plastic chips coming in right the way through to coloured plastic blocks all neatly sorted and warehoused coming out. Not really the kind of thing that lends itself to Chinese mass production.

This has been done:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/hard-drive-dying-dance-track-winner-151666.php

A couple years ago, Gizmodo had a contest to make music out of Hitachi dead hard drive sounds. :D http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/hard-drive-dying-dance-track-winner-151666.php

link. Peru gets xp.

Tons of geek toys at Gizmodo.com. I'll have one of each.

VMWare Promises Multiple OSs On One Cellphone

Just the other day I was having problems getting World of Warcraft working in Windows Mobile on my Heier Black Pearl Micro while at the same time using VMWare to host a wiki on a completely secure LAMP stack. Seriously guys, it's 2008--we've defeated our greatest fear (the polar bear) and we've elected an African American president--so why are cell phones still in the stone age? Is it really too much to ask for me to be able to play my favorite game and host some simple PHP pages while driving down the highway accepting incoming phone calls?

That you are using an old operating system incapable of dealing with this new hardware is not the fault of nVidia.

There's

a FUCKLOAD

of problems that are I'll never buy anything with an Nvidia card in it again.

I'm pretty sure Apple invented the iPod.

That was Kane Kramer. http://gizmodo.com/5046463/apple-admits-british-man-invented-ipod-in-1979-uses-him-to-win-patent-lawsuit

I voted for DRE-700

Every academic and industrial research worker now uses laptops for presenting research papers at conferences, now that digital overhead projectors are now standard (just plug the external video cable into the laptop, set up dual display and everything is exactly the same when the presentation was prepared).

For those who are in the field of 3D visualisation/animation/rendering research, having a laptop that can do high-performance 3D graphics is a big gain. Instead of just presenting screenshots, pre-rendered movies, it is possible to have the actual application running in real-time.

You can get upgradeable graphics cards for laptops now (the MXM standard). There are also mini-desktop units (Shuttle XPC) which can be transported as carry-on luggage on an airplane.

ASUS offered an external PCI-Express card connected using a docking bay

MSI Luxium also did the same.

For me, the ideal solution would be to have the docking bays on the underside of the laptop with additional power cables plugging into the main power brick for the laptop. It is a real pain having to go through airport security and take out the entire contents of your laptop bag (cables, PCI cards, DVD's, connectors, and USB dongles, power bricks) just to put them all back in again.

There is also the Epoq EPP-HH01, "an aquardly cubed hen's egg projector" (2.2 x 2.2 x 1.6 inches). It's cheaper by a couple hundred dollars (USD), and would still fit in your laptop case. It's not available yet, but it could fit in the hands of your wee little dwarf clients.

Climbing the scaffold looks like a serious workout, especially with that damned monkey smashing the barrels directly on your head.
Real-Life Donkey Kong

Erm, they also gave out disks, and some have installed it on lower hardware. See here where they install it on a Celeron lappy. Microsoft demonstrated it running on a netbook. I can't remember where, but I recall reading a review of Windows 7 where they installed it on a laptop with 1 gig of ram, and said it ran as smooth as XP on the machine.

Not to mention, giving out a laptop with known devices and hardware for a pre-beta built isn't exactly out of the ordinary. That way Microsoft can ensure that all the devices and drivers on that laptop are actually supported (remember: PRE-BETA). Not to mention the specs for those computers aren't exactly out of the ordinary now, and will be either standard or 'underpowered' two years from now when Windows 7 will be released.

But your point is moot anyway, since they've already given out installer discs, and people have installed it on a variety of hardware and still were impressed with the performance.

Yes, this is a pain in the butt, but as others have noted, it's nothing new. I've been having this issue since my first AT&T (formerly Cingular), i.e., GSM, phone. There is a trick to fix this though: magnets. Simply loop your speaker wire through a magnet, as this article indicates.

Better yet, go buy some audio equipment that doesn't suck. There use to be these things called "stereos" that were designed to reproduce a recording with reasonable fidelity. I have never heard any cel phone interference from any reasonable stereo.

"Computer speakers" are barely above telephone grade audio reproduction - yes, even the pricey ones with the dinky little box on the floor they call a subwoofer. Musicians work pretty hard to make those recordings, it'd be nice if people would give them a chance to not sound like crap.

Yes, this is a pain in the butt, but as others have noted, it's nothing new. I've been having this issue since my first AT&T (formerly Cingular), i.e., GSM, phone. There is a trick to fix this though: magnets. Simply loop your speaker wire through a magnet, as this article indicates.

You should read Gizmodo more.

Yes. They sold all 1.5 million pre-orders. I don't doubt that there are no lines. Anyone who really wanted one already ordered it.

Do I even need to bring this up? http://gizmodo.com/5035456/blue-screen-of-death-strikes-birds-nest-during-opening-ceremonies-torch-lighting

Here's a Flowchart on how Applications get permission to enter the App Store.

http://gizmodo.com/5051273/how-apple-picks-which-apps-make-it-to-the-app-store

I wouldn't mind owning some of Apples products. I readily admit they by far outdo almost anything out there.

But, these are sexy machines, too:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/14/2391134.htm

http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/flybook_vm_laptop.html

http://gizmodo.com/5043374/samsung-x360-laptop-is-super-skinny

I've been using XP for years and it has never crashed. Never seen a BSoD, never froze, software has never stopped working. Completely smooth. Stop promoting the instability stereotype. Windows ME was years ago, times have changed.

Just so you know what one is if you should ever see one, they look like this. Apparently times have not changed quite that much.