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If I'm ever involved in this sort of thing, I will insist that the sign is configured as a secondary display.

Aside from looking better when things go wrong (since dialogs usually appear on the primary screen), it also gives you a local display that can be used for a settings window or something. Given the cost of these things, one more monitor is not going to break the bank.

Yes none of this generations systems has any significant backwards compatibility.

Yes see;
http://www.techeblog.com/index...

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No but Sony and Microsoft seem to think we are.

Lego?

Some bars are more progressive than others

LG Prada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LG_KE850_Prada_Hauptmen%C3%BC.jpg
Knight Ridder Tablet http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/the-tablet-newspaper-what-people-in-1994-thought-the-ipad-would-look-like

Um, NO. It was a standard firewire connector on both ends. http://media.techeblog.com/elephant//ul/23125-450x-r_5.jpg [techeblog.com] I know, because I owned one. And, at first the filesystem was NOT obfuscated, to boot. the filenames were merely truncated, not turned into random four-letter filenames like it did later on.

So you mean they added the proprietary connector and obfuscated filesystem as a value-added feature later on?

I see...

Um, NO. It was a standard firewire connector on both ends. http://media.techeblog.com/elephant//ul/23125-450x-r_5.jpg I know, because I owned one. And, at first the filesystem was NOT obfuscated, to boot. the filenames were merely truncated, not turned into random four-letter filenames like it did later on.

The GNOME 3 UI looks very similar to the Android 3 UI. Maybe the GNOME team is trying to "bridge the gap" and bring a smart phone style user interface to the general purpose PC market. Unfortunately, this strategy will most likely fail due to the differences in input method. The PC keyboard+mouse system is vastly different than a smart phone multitouch screen system.

CmdrTaco needs to try harder then for his WoW needs:

http://media.techeblog.com/images/ipad_worldofwarcraft.jpg :-)

Apple will also be releasing this new accessory.

Your keyboard from back in the day?

Ugliest OS: $ANY_LINUX_DISTRO Seriously show me a pretty one. I can make a linux pretty, but I'm talking about defaults. Often with some of the most amateurish desktop backgrounds. People make better art with MS Paint. No really they do. http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/incredible-ms-paint-artwork

Linux mint

Best OS: Android IMHO it is more sophisticated than it's competitors. Before you mod me down iPhone fan bois, Android has brought genuine multitasking to the smartphone platform amongst other things. Oh and the aftermarket firmware and themeing community is thriving. It's not great, but it's the newest thing thats making alot of hackers, tweakers and gadget addicts learn to love again. Hopefully an official Google phone will re-center the AOSP and do more than keep the project alive, but really ramp things up.

Worst OS: Solaris without a doubt. In my own experience it doesn't perform like linux does now, ZFS is cool but just confuses me and the userland is the most horrible thing ever.

Ugliest OS: $ANY_LINUX_DISTRO Seriously show me a pretty one. I can make a linux pretty, but I'm talking about defaults. Often with some of the most amateurish desktop backgrounds. People make better art with MS Paint. No really they do. http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/incredible-ms-paint-artwork

It will be implemented badly. They've already stated it will only do gross motions and have limited resolution. It's the 2d camera version of the Sega Activator.

While a lot of people like flailing about, I rather prefer to be a tool and play from the couch.

Finger/hand tracking would be awesome. Limb tracking, not so much.

Nokia's "open" strategy will pay off big time in the long run. At the moment, their major threat is the iPhone, which inherits all of apple's strengths (RDF, UI design) as well as it's weaknesses (software/hardware lockdown).

The next-gen Nokia phone on the other hand (successor to the N900) will get all the hardware features of the iPhone, but with the openness of a linux software stack. Want to make an app that downloads podcasts? Fine! Want to use your phone as a modem? No problem! In fact, no corporation enforcing their moral or business rules on how you use your phone, or alienation of talented developers!

Maemo and Qt being open source will ensure that the software features of the Maemo platform quickly eclipse those of the artificially limited iPhone platform. Maemo's based on Debian - so Nokia automatically gets just about every open-source software package in existence available on their platform.

I think this is the most serious threat that the turtleneck sweater brigade have yet seen.

Cardboard PC Case by Lupo.
Another article, from Gizmodo.

PC cases are one thing, but please don't take it too far!

i thought GI Joe had a jet powered wing but I couldn't find it. Doesn't matter, this nut has nearly been cracked by Jet Man. Give that guy the 10m. http://media.techeblog.com/images/swissman_6.jpg

Have you tried Outside?

It really works like you describe. The only drawbacks are that it takes up most of your time, and when you die only once you get a permban.

Spectraview 2000 sounds shiny, as if it was developed with NASA technology.

Could this be what you are referring to?

Space suit of the past more like!

Seriously, come back when we have sexy space suits!

Here are some more case mods (these are categorized as the Weirdest case mods).

The Fan Case Mod

Soviet TV Case mod

And Borg cubes, guitars, BBQ, beer cases and
toasters, Darth vader helmets and F117 flight decks

Here are some more case mods (these are categorized as the Weirdest case mods).

The Fan Case Mod

Soviet TV Case mod

And Borg cubes, guitars, BBQ, beer cases and
toasters, Darth vader helmets and F117 flight decks

It may not be a nuke, but there's a gameboy in Nintendo's NYC store that survived a barracks bombing (no clue as to which side's barracks it was, though.) It's on display there, still playing Tetris to this day.

here's a pic and a flash video of it:
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-fully-functional-gulf-war-gameboy#more-6645

Pretty badass...

Yeah, like Pierre Scerri, who spent 15 years making a scale model of a Ferrari 312. Not only did he make the body, he learned to make glass in order to create the headlights, and learned to make rubber to make his own tires. It's almost unbelievable.

I heard (from a Korean) it was released in Korea before iPod (was released there?)...

(Note, the Techeblog site fracks with my Mozilla Firefox browser in that it DELAYS my getting off their page and back into my Slashdot tab... I suspect some fracked up ad code, cookies/java/other code interrupting my keyboard and mouse...)

http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Samsung-Introduces-an--iPhone-Killer-/story.xhtml?story_id=0210017RZFZR

http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/09/14/samsung.croix.for.vodafone/

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/samsungs-iphone-killer-f700

Now, on the techeblog site, someone remarked that the phone was not touchscreen capable.... Their comments were in February.

The MacNN site has commentary that it is touchscreen.

The NewsFactor site article is also in Feb 07. See "Features Galore" section.

But, as for regular phones, check out things that kick the pants off US-market phones (tho I realize most of the cell phones here ARE from Japan or Korea):

http://au.kddi.com/english/product/index.html

http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/en/

http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/en/product/3g/815t/index.html

I used to have a Vodafone phone that had a multicolor strobe emitting from the camera flash. It was independently activated.

http://www.sharp.co.jp/products/v402sh/

When I lost it I wanted to DIE.

The original appears to be down, try http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/vid eo-matrix-goggles-worst-invention-ever-

Who wants to sit around their office at night when they can get one of these for when they're away?

From my understanding, most of the problems that Geek Squad resolves can be solved by selling the consumer MORE stuff. e.g. (New Computer, Memory, Harddrive, Software). Geek Squad was probably a good concept when it started, but it appears economic pressures have pushed Best Buy into the GREED ZONE. If only Walmart wouldn't have started selling those nice new high-margin LCD panels at cut-throat prices.

Oddly, I quit shopping at Best Buy for two reasons, 1) Lack of Product Knowledge in Salespeople, 2) The Loss Prevention Guy that stands at the door and makes you feel like a criminal when you enter and exit.

/not the same exact software, design, and features...but closer than anything else.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/sam sungs-200000-machine-gun-sentry-robot

South Korean Samsung builds a death dealing automated machine gun robot and then they are worried
about humans abusing robots??!!

Slashdot reported on this piece of shit and the trash company that makes it a couple of months ago
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/ 14/0132216

I'm waiting on one that can do similar to this;

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/vid eo-incredible-beer-launching-fridge#more-7853

The Lexus (in the US) has that feature. The BMW does too, although I'm not sure if that version is available in the US. You can see a video of it in action here.

This isn't entirely a new idea. Tokyo already has space-efficient parking garages that stack cars using turntables and elevators. I think the images atop this link are fake, but the video appears real and this appears similar to what I saw from outside.

As for the lack of a MS digital out on the xbox 360, have you read the specs for the next rev 360 which is in the pipes? You should.

Check some details here:

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/vid eo-xbox-360-zephyr-gets-hdmi

It's as if these companies and corporations don't have proper protocols or procedures for cancellation.

Not really. The whole point of the article (and much of the comments here) is that these systems have been specifically designed to make the cancellation difficult. AOL are particularly bad; there was a case in the media (and here on /.) where a subscriber recorded the bullshit he went through trying to cancel. Most of the time it's completely artificial hurdles that they put in place to keep the customer.

I can't do most modifications that I think would be fun, and still legally drive on the freeway, and I can't even put it up on blocks in most neighborhoods that I'd want to live in. ... what modifications do you want to do? Install a turbine?

What is your problem with "putting it up on blocks?"
a) You would need to do this why?
b) Who is going to stop you? If a neighborhood committee or something thinks it's an eyesore, well, there's a reason God made garages and backyards.

Did anybody else follow the links which point to the source of the article?

The original slashdot story link
http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/samsung_develo ps_machine_gun_sentry_robot_costs_200k.php

which has a link to a story
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/sam sungs-200000-machine-gun-sentry-robot

which in turn links to
http://www.gorobotics.net/The-News/Military/South- Korea-Develops-Machine%11Gun-Sentry-Robot/

that has a link to probably to the original story at
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060 928-042215-5882r
by AFP

The original doesn't have an image nor video but as story it's far better than the article (rip off) mentioned in slashdot story.

The I-Tech VKB reacts exactly like a real keyboard.

I hoped so, wished so, but the videos I've seen defy this.

You can see that you have to type slowly, and, it'll miss some keypresses.

Still, it's really cool, and portable: You don't have to carry a keyboard around with you.

The Wii dev kit comes in under two grand: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/wii -development-kit-under-2000

Well it looks nice. But will it explode?

I wonder what the software would end up doing with this: M.C. Escher's Waterfall. Would the program self-destruct like that robot in Star Trek?

Automating your dorm room?! Sheesh... Whatever happened to building your own jet-powered VW Beetle?

There is no moderation option for "contains a serious factual error," so I'll reply. EA had absolutely nothing to do with Duck Hunt; Duck Hunt was made by Nintendo for the NES and came as a pack-in title for systems with the light gun. And you may very well get your wish, since Nintendo was demonstrating a new Duck Hunt title at E3, along with gun-grip attachment to the Wii remote: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/fir st-look-duck-hunt-wii

and the PS3 devkit is something like $16 million.

Tech e Blog posted photos of a possible Apple iPhone Concept

I have no idea regarding the validity of these photos, they could be 100% doctored, but I'll just provide the link and the /. community can judge for theirselves.

Dan

Tech e Blog posted photos of a possible Apple iPhone Concept

I have no idea regarding the validity of these photos, they could be 100% doctored, but I'll just provide the link and the /. community can judge for theirselves.

Dan

"Skadet of Slashdot made great use of a boring Monday morning by transforming an ordinary blurb on Techeblog into a front-page Slashdot article. He even hacked it to include hyperlinks, with a special add-on link to display the blurb in its original German. Do you remember when you actually had to click the links to really know what the story was about? More Slashdotters should integrate the entire article's text into the summary.