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TGS07: Time Crisis 4 impressions {Joystiq Playstation}
Sep 26th 2007 7:49PM Please, please release Big Buck Hunter for PS3!
HP NOT launching new PC brand this year {Engadget}
Apr 6th 2007 7:38PM Please, please let it be Wang.
Judge favors Nano-Proprietary in Canon licensing quandary {Engadget HD}
Feb 23rd 2007 2:08PM If the technology is worth something, ie, it works at a reasonable price, we'll see it. Everybody in the deal wants to make money and will figure out how to do it.
Helio's first dedicated store opens its doors {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 22nd 2006 4:11PM Any chance of a Helio phone with tethering capability or, even better, bluetooth tethering? Any way to do so with the Drift? (maybe not with the hybrid card being pushed) Anyone used the Drift?
Justin mentions the product portfolio expanding, targeting power users. Does that mean a smartphone or blackberry type product is on the way? (I suppose the Drift is _kind_ of blackberry like, from what I know about it.)
Yeah, a lot of questions.
Engadget HD giveaways: win a Samsung HL-S5679W DLP with LED backlight {Engadget HD}
Nov 21st 2006 5:29PM Right now I'm limited to the Tandy Color Computer II, aka, TRS-80.
But if I win the TV, I may have to break down for some more hardware. PS3 if they fix their Blu-Ray issue, and XBox 360 with HD-DVD. Mmmmm.
Day 8 of Engadget Mobile's 30 days of cellphone giveaways {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 21st 2006 2:33AM Punch my keys
Day 7 of Engadget Mobile's 30 days of cellphone giveaways {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 19th 2006 6:09PM It's time to retire my old LG.
Wikipedia haters unite! {Download Squad}
Dec 13th 2005 4:00PM I know very little about the specifics of the issue, but here are two points: 1. If we care at all about the goals behind legal concepts such as libel and slander, then we need some way to enforce rules against making false statements about people that harm them. You can love technological advancements and still realize that it can be used to do bad things. 2. As far as ways of protecting rights, lawsuits are historically a pretty mild, but efficient, way of doing so. Nobody who runs wikipedia is being sent to prison, the government is not shutting their servers down, and most importantly, the purportedly injured parties are not waiting outside of somebody's office with pitchforks and axes. Lawsuits are often a way that the otherwise powerless protect their rights and interests. Sometimes lawsuits are abusive. You hear about those lawsuits, and they are often silly and offensive. You don't hear about the millions more where a serious, valid, conflict was mitigated effectively by courts and lawyers. All that said, it does seem like a class action is a pretty blunt tool, and if I had the time to do further research, I wouldn't be surprised to find an unscrupulous opportunist behind it. I also wouldn't be surprised to find the lawsuit thrown out summarily, if that is the case. Any system is fallible and can be abused. Didn't Churchill say something along the lines of democracy being the worst form of government imaginable, but that it's better than all the other ones we've come up with? Maybe lawsuits are the worst way of solving disputes imaginable, but it's probably the best we've come up with. All I'm saying, is the lawsuits are not the problem, disputes are the problem, and lawsuits are one of the better systems we have for dealing with real world disputes. It beats having Njal cleave someone's head in half with an axe.
