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As a result, the Apple brand means something.

The additional load on the freezer is guaranteed to add more heat to the house than the ice water can take away. That's hardly a nitpick, and it's precisely the opposite of mental bankruptcy.

Home freezers actually have very low capacities (BTU ratings) compared to even modest window AC units. The average home freezer would probably take a day or two to produce the mammoth bucket of ice that the site says only lasts a couple of hours.

This is horrendously inefficient and probably not very effective either. It may be a neat engineering project, sort of, but it's not an example to be emulated, that's certain. It's not even very original.

If one is hell-bent on using the freezer to keep cool in the summer, one might be better served by applying the ice (or a newfangled gel-filled "ice pack") directly to the back of one's neck.

is that why they are so expensive? http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/printer s/index.php#drug-dealers-hide-drugs-in-printer-car tridges-107734

The whole "no display flash MP3 player" crap was tried before and was panned. The iPod Shuffle is nothing more than a brand extension for people who want to say they own an iPod but can't afford a real iPod.

Even my $20 Discman has a more useful display than the iPod Shuffle does. It's not like it's difficult to put a screen and a kickass battery in the same form factor as a Shuffle, but Apple doesn't want you spending your money on such frivolities when you could be buying a higher-end player.

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

It is very true.

I thnk a real pity about this is that it seems to require the room to be so dark. can anyone think of a solution for this?

How about Sony's Black Screen .
I guess now they'll call them blackboards again.

Another electric car which may be of interest is the Venturi Fetish:
http://www.venturi.fr/us/fetish/specs/specs.php3
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/venturi-fetish-fir st-production-electric-sports-car-022314.php

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000180020920/

http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/samsung-develops-t hin-crt-television-024892.php

I can't wait to see how ATI's new dual card solution (which they call MVP) stacks up against Nvidia's. Because the link to more info is jacked up, here is a link to a Gizmodo entry with links to more information.

gates has only a single gene in his entire body that i envy - the one that gave him THIS. O_o

...shiny metal ass

You can buy a small bts (base station transceiver) but that is only half of it. A bts is not designed to connect to the pstn. You would still need a GSM switch. Nortel makes what they call an e-cell which is meant for small buildings or inside malls. It costs $30,000. You are probably better off using WiFi or something like this.

Just using the Happy Hacker version? It's cooler anyways...

They did... Gizmodo recently carried this blurb about it. Mind you, it's MORE expensive than the Das Keyboard with a somewhat different aesthetic in mind.

They did... Gizmodo recently carried this blurb about it. Mind you, it's MORE expensive than the Das Keyboard with a somewhat different aesthetic in mind.

If what you say is true, it's not news and it just goes to show the power of free software. Everyone has to deal with legacy equipment using Winblows. Despite the great efforts by M$, using such equipment is not too difficult and happens routinely. Free software efforts have managed to decode M$ formats, a task which well funded companies were not able to do as well or as quickly. The ability of free software to keep up with that kind of crap is miraculous. Free software is able to deal with other people's stupidity and malice. As demonstrated here, relying on M$ to get things done is stupid, but it's possible that the Linux World Expo had crufty projection equipment and did not let anyone boot anything else. So what?

Microsoft's poor performance is a self inflicted discgrace. Despite their monopoly power over hardware makers, which results in every hardware maker on earth creating drivers for M$, M$ routinely fails to deliver. Recommendations of daily reboot, four minitue to own times when connected to a network and the BSoD the happens all too frequently are symptoms of M$'s inability to deal with their own anti-competitive complexity. They have put so many barbs in for everyone else, and have so long neglected real quality issues that their products are unstable and essentially unusable. We're not talking about any old schmoe here, we're talking about a Microsoft Representative who should have the best support and upkeep possible. When people like that, or Bill Gates himself, the blame is easy to place.

Actually, I wish they would release that cool "couch" keyboard they developed. But of course, it'd have to be wireless.

This think put it best I believe.

...it was clear from the talk that Nintendo--the company so afraid of piracy that they shut down emulator sites and made their game discs in the Gamecube spin backwards--has no intention of letting fledgling developers copy their own content to the Revolution and play it.

It's funny how the kotaku's brian got RSVP'd into the press conference, but, Joel from gizmodo got barred from entering. :)

Oh well, I think engadget's a better blog then gizmodo anyway :)

Am I crazy, or isn't apple making an iPod Cell Phone w/ Motorola... like here: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/motorola /index.php#motorola-confirms-itunes-mobile-softwar e-launch-for-july-102830

Call me crazy, but Billy may be right that cellphones will beat iPod, but my money is on the Moto winning the market.

that's fine with me, as long as i can install iTunes on it I will be happy ;)

Check it out.

Ps3 outperforms Xbox2

did a search on google and found these reviews:

Sharp's Zaurus SL-6000L: A Free Software PDA
Zaurus with VGA Screen, Wi-Fi Now Available in U.S.
Sharp Zaurus SL-6000L Linux PDA
Review of Sharp Zaurus SL-6000
Sharp Zaurus SL-6000L Review

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here are all the reviews from customers on amazon.com.

... As this silly design was already covered more than a week ago at a more appropriate site for hardware fanboyism and unpaid product advertisement.

I could care less what "data format" is used

Are you sure about that? HD-DVD means a royalty to Microsoft for every unit sold.

Agreed. I think that a lot of the hysteria surrounding cell phones (for example, the ability to turn gas stations into firebombs) is bogus. Likewise, a large reason behind aircraft cell phone bans seems to be that they cause problems for providers when attempting to peer with every single mast over the tri-state area at the same time.

But as you state, you simply don't know what radio waves interfere with which electronics under what variations of a given condition. As for bluetooth, various implementations of it are specced to 2m, 10m, 30m, 100m & up. But as to how far the traffic can actually carry...

That said, I still think the best reason to ban cell phones on planes was laid out by a letter to the editor in a recent economist: because they're (really fucking) annoying. Do you want to spend 8 hours surrounded by "HI, I'M ON A PLANE"?

I can't be certain if this is a hoax or not. But there was a hoax earlier about controlling an Aibo with a PSP.

hoax

This sounds extremely familure to the already-on-market TDA (Tactile Digital assistant). Is this a Microsoft copycat?

Come on slashdot, you can do better than this...


No, no they can't.
If you want up-to-the-minute news, you hit Gizmodo, Engadget, heck, even Fark had this!

Reasons for buying? Gaming isn't one of them:

• I already own a D-Link router. It stacks nicely and they don't take up more desk space, look bad, etc.
• Gigabit routing. All my new Athlon64 boards have gigabit NICs on them.
• Wireless G. I just bought a new Athlon64 laptop and wanted wireless. Works a treat.
• Price. For gigabit and Wireless on the same device, it was the only competitor on the radar screen.

P.S.: Gizmodo posted about this piece of hardware no less than four months ago. Old news, editors. Old news.

Reasons for buying? Gaming isn't one of them:

• I already own a D-Link router. It stacks nicely and they don't take up more desk space, look bad, etc.
• Gigabit routing. All my new Athlon64 boards have gigabit NICs on them.
• Wireless G. I just bought a new Athlon64 laptop and wanted wireless. Works a treat.
• Price. For gigabit and Wireless on the same device, it was the only competitor on the radar screen.

P.S.: Gizmodo posted about this piece of hardware no less than four months ago. Old news, editors. Old news.

I'm no Sony fanboy (in fact, I'm more of a nintendo fanboy), but that argument was ridiculous.

However, you can try this.

Of course it's Sony, so it's locked down with DRM and a proprietary format noone else uses but as they apparently have changed their ways recently (They opened up Blu-Ray and it even supports MS's VC-1, their new harddisk player supports mp3 etc) there's still hope =)

Oh they'll buy it allright.. they'll buy it and like it

it feels better if you paid premium for it.

then you can let all the little annoyances slide too... or at least not admit that they exist at all since who would say otherwise?

I got an ibook.. so yes, I have a mac, I'm not talking out of my ass here, it has it's flaws - and it is far from perfect that mac fans make the macs out to be. but it is forbidden to say the bad word about the iProduct.

But even then, they have to enter the numbers on by the silly "Stylish, but not very functional" keypad to get them into the phone contact list in the first place! Unless they connect their phones to something else, like a computer, to enter their numbers. Few users do that. Also, I use my cell phone just by dialing the number, and most others I know do this too. There's no good reason not to have the numbers in the usual place.

Some companies still get it, like Avaya.

The author of the Tremor codec and OGG itself would disagree.

There was even a /. story on the issue. :-D

Aww fuckit. I need an answer.

Our cell contract is up in a couple of months, and I'm happily shopping around for a new carrier. I'm just having trouble finding answers to common questions like:

Which cellular carriers are the most geek-friendly?

Which carriers are least likely to cut out features we'd like to retain?

Which carriers still use SIM chips?

Which carriers allow you to use data cables to offload pictures from their camera phones as opposed to forcing you to pay an extra fee to email the pictures to yourself?

Browsing the individual carriers' webpages and digging through a myriad of FAQs isn't yielding much in the way of answers.

At first I thought you were kidding. Something along the lines of...

Slashdot's Hardware Section

I read both (and others) daily and seems like at least one thing from Gizmodo shows up on the front page here per day. Nothing wrong with that, but when I'm bored and trying to find new "news" and other interesting things, it's just a drag to see the same thing proliferated across sites.

I did the gratis ipod offer and got one for free, without spending a cent on any offers.One of my frinds, who was a 'referral' got charged $100 for not cancelling a trial offer on time.

The gratis offers are well regarded. Gizmodo has an article about the program:
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/free-ipods-how-to- beat-the-system-sort-of-017801.php and so does wired:
http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html

They do also have a program for mac minis: http://www.freeminimacs.com/?r=14398898

I know this will bring the thunder down on me, but it's too funny.

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

I'm also sure I'm not the first to post this link.

Also, gizmodo.com called, and said that they think it is lame how many slashdot stories are yesterday's news on their site.

The submitter's comment seemed familiar to me. Gizmodo posted this yesterday:

"Flat network cables aren't anything new, but I'm pretty sure ones like this are. Japanese accessory king Elecom today announced the "LD-VAPF/SV05" network cabling, coming in at 1.4mm thick."

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/14mm-th ick-gigabit-ethernet-cable-035823.php

Since most Gizmodo entries aren't copied to Slashdot, I'm assuming it's not the same person. Maybe I'm wrong, and if I'm not, it's not that big a deal... but is it so hard to write your own copy? There's no excuse for stealing prose from another site.

For some reason your post reminds me of this.

With one of those and one of these my mini MythTV dreams will be complete...

You obviously haven't been keeping up on your mac rumours. Mini-OS X may be on the way. Of course, only time and lawsuits will tell if this rumour is true.

A-frickin-men. I mean, why does Mozilla Foundation have such a push to PDA devices when Firefox/Thunderbird isn't exactly "perfect" yet for the desktop? There's lots of stuff that they can devote and focus on without worrying about devices that 95% of the populace dont use at all... as a personal anecdote: of the 100 people who were at our wedding reception, I'd say maybe 10 or so might own a PDA, and I'd bet only 2 or 3 of them actually use it even monthly... and this is in Silicon Valley! Seriously, MoFo struck gold with Firefox, and now they're going off into irrellevence with their quest for cutting edge again... why?

Personally, I feel that development of XUL into a premiere cross-platform development environment would be much more worthwhile (esp. since Firefox has so much recognition now) effort... the tools exist now, but the documentation and development environment just don't cut it yet.

Leave Opera alone to battle PocketIE in the PDA browser market... even Sony agrees that the PDA market is not worth their time. I'd honestly donate more knowing that my funds in Mozilla Foundation were going towards the right goal (maybe they could focus their donation efforts a la MandrakeClub?)

During our discussion, important value and ethical issues arose in the design and use of such "relational robots." These robots are meant to create bonds and simulate "authentic" relationships. They react to voices, track their owner's eyes, respond and project emotions, and so on. Yet, they remain robots - all these actions and reactions are programmed - pre-determined. So, how do the designers decide what emotions to program and which to omit? In an effort to be realistic, My Real Baby gets happy as well as sad. If you bounce her when she's happy, she gets more happy; if you bounce her when she's fussy, her fussiness only increases. How should she react, then, if she is abused? It is not hard to imagine a child (especially one who is herself a victim of abuse) to violently shake, strike or otherwise "abuse" the doll. How should this evocative object respond? Should she show pain? Begin to cry? Eventually "pass out" or even "die" if the abuse continues? How "real" should the robot be in order to create an "authentic" relationship?

[In the end, the designers wanted the doll/robot to react as a child would, with pain and sadness. However, the company's lawyers stepped in and were concerned that any type of response by the doll might encourage further abuse (stimulus-response theory), and they didn't want to be accused of actually encouraging abusive behavior. In the end, the doll simply did not react to abuse.]

Other ethical dilemmas related to the design of such robots included whether they should be capable of deception or betrayal, two common features of human relationships. Or, should they "die." On one hand, the experience of death as part of the life cycle is an important part of psychological development and would add to the "authenticity" of the relationship. On the other hand, one of the benefits of these robots seems to be the avoidance of the emtional damage that can happen when a "real" companion (whether a human friend, or even a companion dog) dies.

You're right. If someone intends to build a reliable modern GUI over Linux, they're definitely going to need some booth babes if they're going to get anywhere with all of this.

This isn't the 90s Fancy nick names just don't cut it anymore.