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Google calls for FCC to force open access rules or block Verizon's 700MHz bid {Engadget}
May 6th 2008 10:27PM Sorry Google. You are plenty well off enough to have bid for the channel yourself if you wanted it. Instead you bid up the price in an attempt to pull a little corporate shenanigans.
I've got no sympathy for you. And given how you drove up the price on purpose, never intending to write a check yourself, no one else should have any sympathy either.
ASUS gets really official with 17-inch G70 gaming laptop {Engadget}
May 2nd 2008 8:38PM This is a shot right over the Dell 1730 and Alienware M17x bows. Things the Asus has that the others do not:
8ms screen
dual lamp screen (tired of stupid dim laptop screens I am!)
Normal, fast and "turbo" clockspeeds from the company that brought overclocking too the masses
Decent sound (Maybe it's like the Xonar DX and does EAX 5?)
Dual screens, main and aux data (though the 1730 has something similar)
The only thing that might have been better would be a high brightness LED backlit screen, but the above will do!
Western Digital launches world's fastest SATA disk: the 300GB VelociRaptor {Engadget}
Apr 21st 2008 9:38PM That heatsink makes it look like they were headed for a 15k drive.
Intel's quad-core QX9300 laptop CPU in Q3? {Engadget}
Mar 14th 2008 8:45PM Hopefully you can overclock at least 2 of the cores when you are plugged into the wall. This combined with 1066 DDR3 SOdimms should be quite a machine.
Dell's 24-inch 2408WFP monitor with DisplayPort (and everything else) now available {Engadget}
Jan 17th 2008 8:30AM Nice looking stats anyway. Input lag could still be a hanging issue (forgot what site out there was keeping running measurements on that).
What bothers me is the 400cm/m brightness is very good, but the 30" models can't match this and cost more...it makes the 30's overpriced, imo.
Good monitor to see some testing on.
Netgear launches bevy of new 802.11n products {Engadget}
Jan 6th 2008 2:21PM 100 Ethernet only is a shame
Finally can turn off those stupid led's = good
Broadcom chipset is kinda meh, one of the worst performing 11n chipsets
Dual radio 11g and 11n is a good approach
8 antennas but only 2 transmit channels kinda makes me think about snake oil.
Opera files EU antitrust suit against Microsoft for bundling IE {Engadget}
Dec 13th 2007 8:40AM If you are so much of an idiot as to not be able to download a browser for you new MS OS based system, too bad.
The EU is taking a reasonably respectable organization (itself) and turning it into a farce. No Ipods in France. MS probably has 75% of it's legal staff living in the EU now (probably is the real desired outcome from all this litigation). And there isn't one positive useful event they've managed to show after years.
And what's worse? Other companies who thought about doing business in the EU are starting to reconsider. That eventually leads to products not available in the EU, which is really the long term effect of all this litigation, a kind of economic isolationism. Power to the people.
Fact is, the EU knows its businesses can't compete without the courts and laws in place to protect them. That is the real admission that has to hurt. And it's one they are showing every time they act this way.
Sharp's LC-32GP3U gamer LCD in living color {Engadget}
Dec 6th 2007 9:39PM 2560x1900 and I'd have jumped on it.
MIT student arrested for fake bomb at Boston's Logan airport {Engadget}
Sep 23rd 2007 9:12AM Just goes to show that intelligence and wisdom can be quite removed from each other.
Even if (and I don't think I can quite believe the story line)it is "art", there are appropriate and inappropriate places to demonstrate "art". An airport these days is not a place for demonstrations of art, humorous jokes about "what if something bad happened" but rather it is a place to be very serious and be very conservative about what one wears, says and does.
This isn't new. And clearly she's not dumb (MIT). But whatever her true internal motivations, she made a definite mistake, one which if she's watched any news at all over the past several years, she should have been able to see coming. If security is concerned about what you are drinking in a cup, to think you could wear electronics on your person and not be in trouble is a gross misjudgement.
She'll have her chance to explain this to a judge and perhaps a jury in due time. Then she can try to convince them that she had some grounds of reasonability...
Sony's back for more, running BioShock DRM with a rootkit {Engadget}
Aug 25th 2007 5:00PM Just added this game to the list of "won't ever touch"
Thanks for warning us. Bye bye Bioshock :)
I'll pass the word along to others not to touch it. I don't even want to see their apology. They knew perfectly well what they were doing.
eol for them.
