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LaCie's Network Space 2 will assimilate your data, resistance is futile {Engadget}
Nov 4th 2009 9:28AM Borg Queen to LaCie NS2: "You are an imperfect being, created by an imperfect being."
HTC Hero having intermittent text messaging problems? {Engadget}
Oct 26th 2009 3:47PM Aww, crap, not the kind of thing you want to go "First!" over ... not that I would do that anyway.
This weekend everyone that I normally text with got all mad at me for blowing them off ... I was wondering why Saturday was such a "slow" day. It's working OK now but this is unacceptable. Sprint must have been having some issues though. I'm not buying this "it's the Hero" stuff. The problems started when all of the sudden my phone was shown to be roaming while in the home area and then the time zone was automatically updated to be in South America and one hour off. WTF?
Toshiba Cell Regza 55X1 and Regza Next concepts hands-on (video) {Engadget}
Oct 5th 2009 2:50PM "None of them are accessible, leaving you only an external USB drive as an expansion option."
None of the IS accessible.
"Linguo IS dead!" ... *shuts down*
TUAW Talkcast tonight at 10 PM EDT - be there or be square {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 5th 2009 9:52AM Be there AND be square!
TUAW's iPhone app: it's alive {Engadget}
Aug 29th 2009 2:09PM I said, TUAW, huh
Good God, y'all
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
Say it again
Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D W1 slammed in early review, company responds point-by-point {Engadget}
Aug 24th 2009 1:08AM "Worst ... camera ... ever!"
I think we all know The Comic Book Guy wrote that review.
How would you change Nokia's N97? {Engadget}
Aug 15th 2009 12:55PM I don't "usually" wish for someone to die but I really wish Nokia would just croak. I have purchased more phones from them than I care to remember (most recently the N80 and N95 8GB) and I'm done being disappointed. They build a nice phone, put some good specs on it, then they promptly ABANDON it and go after the next thing. Where are the software and firmware updates? Why include OTA updates if there won't ever be any (in two years of owning the N80 and one year of the N95)? Their desktop comm apps are pathetic (although they have improved in UI and stability considerably in the last few years). I go to s60.com recently to look for new apps and to see if they're doing anything to respond to the iPhone frenzy ... yeah, they did ... they shut s60.com down. They now point you to symbian.org (I saw web sites in the early 90s that looked more high tech) and nokia.com ... the latter points you to s60.com for your app needs. Seriously.
The iPhone is not practical as a _phone_ to me but it's an amazing little device with a wonderful user experience. I just may have to pull the trigger one of these days and get one. It's either that or the HTC Fuze or the HTC Hero. It's so sad that none of these really gets me excited enough to go for it. Perhaps we should all go back to using a phone for what we really needed it for in the first place: to make calls.
I apologize if this appears out of place. All I'm thinking is, this is a very expensive, very well equipped phone that will most likely fail to meet any of its expectations and promises. At this point the only thing you can expect is to be let down and abandoned by Nokia. Maybe owners get a better experience in Europe where Nokia isn't an outsider in the carrier arena.
MSI trots out colorful VR220 YA Edition ultraportable {Engadget}
Nov 19th 2008 4:53PM Now, now ... let's not forget racist, ignorant, low-brow, delinquent, underachieving, maladjusted ... dang, only six derogatory terms ... work is frying my brain today.
T-Mobile plans to be serving 21 markets with 3G by middle of next month {Engadget}
Sep 18th 2008 3:08PM I believe you meant
contract.terminate();
I'll let you decide if you should add a check to ensure that contract is not null. Those NREs (or NPEs if you're old school like me) can be a real bitch.
C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN DOS RUN!
O3b satellites to enable connectivity for the world's "other 3 billion" {Engadget}
Sep 11th 2008 3:10PM The orbit is neither GEO (geosynchronous) nor GSO (geostationary). At (roughly and on average) half the distance of GEO/GSO, MEO would have half the one-way latency of 240ms (233ms to be exact, for GSO) or 120ms. I don't really get Eric's dizzying "user input" scenario of "from your computer, to the satellite, to the ground, back to the satellite, then back to you." Latency is parallel across multiple links, not serial, so you don't add them all up. It's only the lag until the first byte arrives, not for all subsequent packets as well. Also, this isn't your typical TCP communications we're talking about. Satellite comm hardware uses much greater packets that cause fewer ACKs to be sent for a much larger chunk of data. Look up "TCP acceleration."
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