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Photonic breakthrough could mean 60x faster internet speeds {Engadget}
Jul 16th 2008 10:29AM Didn't HAL have photonic circuits, I remember Bob Balaban pushing in clear glass circuit cards in 2010 to bring the discovery back online...... Uh oh......
DISH Network details HD only TurboHD packages {Engadget HD}
Jul 11th 2008 9:09AM Where the hell are Spike and FX......
Bill Gates: top ten greatest hits (and misses) - the Microsoft years {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 5:21PM I too am an Apple and Windows hybrid user. I use OS X for final cut pro, duh. and Adobe CS3. And Vista for just about everything else, well except the xp I have running on my mac in VMware Fusion, so I can access our exchange server.
All that being said OS X excels in the creative world, but is far behind in true productivity in a business environment. Adobe Creative suite runs much faster and smoother on a mac and final cut blows anything you can run on a pc out of the water. However, real business apps are terrible on the mac. You don't really use OS X, you trick it so that the OS thinks it wants to do the same thing as you.
VISTA is perfectly fine OS if you have decent hardware to run it on, but I think Microsoft was a victim of their own success. XP was so unbelievable good, that Vista had to be a panacea to be successful.
DARPA's Vulcan engine combines turbo jet with scramjet, faces will melt {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2008 2:58PM These things will run on biofuels, as will all jets. Branson flew a 747 across the pond on corn oil a few months back.
DARPA's Vulcan engine combines turbo jet with scramjet, faces will melt {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2008 2:55PM Interesting. Weren't the J58's on the SR-71's very similar to these? A turbojet inside of a ramjet? Built those in 1957. 50 Years later the skunkworks guys are finally being caught up to. This Vulcan is essentially one step past the J58.
Sony intros STR-DG520, STR-DG720 and STR-DG820 AV receivers {Engadget HD}
Jun 23rd 2008 10:49AM Looks like Sony is going after Onkyo's low end with these 3. The 820 looks like a direct competitor to the TX-SR606. I do like Sony's simple look, 4 knobs and 12 buttons on the front. As opposed to my Onkyo TX-SR606's 28 buttons and 2 knobs. The $100 lower price point doesn't hurt either.
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending June 15th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
Jun 22nd 2008 11:07AM Jumper, yikes a terrible movie, rented it on Blu and didn't even watch the whole thing. You can certainly tell that Blu-Ray sales are dominated by the PS3 crowd. Planet earth still in the top ten, talk about HD legs. In other news the only Blu-Ray disc in my PS3 for the last week: MGS4.....
Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid priced at $40,000 {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2008 3:39PM IT IS a hybrid
From Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English
Main Entry: hybrid car
Part of Speech: n
Definition: an automobile with more than one power source, such as an electric motor and internal combustion engine or an electric motor with battery and fuel cells for energy storage; also called hybrid vehicle
Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid priced at $40,000 {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2008 3:34PM I concur, for me I live 12 miles from work and the volt would be fine. However the point I was trying to make is that I think we should be able to do better.
Here's the biggest issue. I drive 12 miles to work, which is about 6000 miles a year for my commute. (5 days x 50 weeks x 24 miles round trip) So if gas is $5.00 a gallon and my vehilce gets 20 MPG thats $1500 a year in gas to get back and forth to work. (6000/20) = 300 gallons x $5.00 = $1500.
It going to take 10 years to make up the $15,000 price premium over a 20 mpg $25,000 car.
Again, I think we can do better.
Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid priced at $40,000 {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2008 3:12PM The problem is....
Plug in hybrid is great, but this thing only gets around 60 MPG on the highway once the gas motor kicks on. And what about heat and air conditioning? I bet the 40 mile range drops to under 30 running ac. Why not just make a small car, the 1991 geo metro had 53/58 mileage. The only car to meet this was the Honda insight.
