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Dell fails to distract anyone {Engadget}
Sep 9th 2008 7:12PM Damn that actually looks good (following the read link). Now to persuade the other half I need a new notebook ...
Supercomputer Huygens beats Go professional: no one is safe {Engadget}
Aug 15th 2008 3:12AM The computer was an IBM Power 575 Hydro-Cluster system peaking at 60 trillion calculations per second (Teraflop/s), posessing 3328 Power6 processor cores at 4.7 GHz, a total memory capacity of more than 15 TB, and almost 1000 TB disk capacity. I find it somehow oddly comforting for the human race yet, that it managed to only narrowly win given that huge 9-stone handicap...
Airplane Mechanic Causes $100M Damages After Pushing Wrong Button {Switched.com}
Jul 24th 2008 3:19AM Okay, the reporting was ATROCIOUS. They make it sound like some mechanic was scrubbing the cockpit floor then accidentally hit a button with her broom.
The 706 was suppose to be getting a COMPRESSOR WASH (http://www.amtonline.com/print/Aircraft-Maintenance-Technology/Compressor-Washes/1$4435). She's not a "cleaner".
According to one of the eyewitnesses: "Somehow the left engine throttle was at max power, Igniter breakers were not pulled, and
the hydraulics were not on and brakes were bled down, and finally the
torque links were not connected." "started the engine of a CRJ-701ER N706EV - which ran up to 'a high power setting' causing the jet to jump its chocks." http://discussions.flightaware.com/viewtopic.php?p=57136&sid=74fa72101c8d57441b15c82afa8b35ed
GO READ THE THREAD. This is inane.
Western Digital intros 2.5-inch 10,000RPM VelociRaptor HDD {Engadget}
Jul 23rd 2008 9:31PM @Towncivilian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_time_between_failures
Western Digital intros 2.5-inch 10,000RPM VelociRaptor HDD {Engadget}
Jul 23rd 2008 9:23PM @Arm51: Actually, the link you gave points to the 3.5" version (WD3000*G*LFS) which has indeed been out for a while now - this is about the 2.5" version (WD3000*B*LFS).
GLFS: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=459
BLFS: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=494
Samsung i900 Omnia vs. HTC Touch Diamond... fight! {Engadget}
Jul 6th 2008 6:53PM @roole
That is because Anoldcarsnickname has a valid point and has made good reasoned comparisons. I added a positive to his comment ranking. All you know how to do is to make yourself look the fool fanboi, and you wonder why people low rank you. Go home and stop piddling over your own feet.
Anti-terrorist drill reveals Segway attack plan, legions of embarrassed patrolmen {Engadget}
Jul 3rd 2008 11:49PM Probably better than thou ...
SSDs save battery power, right? Wrong. {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 10:06PM There are fundamental flaws with this argument. Tom's Hardware conducted this review with flawed testing. It says "Read The Article" - I did that, and came to the same conclusion as many who commented on the original article itself.
The geist of it is: The experiment was done measuring a repetition of tasks through a period of time. However if you did the task 3 times faster than your competitor, you'd have to divide your power usage per period of time by three. Otherwise the results don't make sense.
This is beside the other obvious mistakes like "If a SSD is consuming a maximum 1W of power, then there is no possible way it can drain a fixed number of Wh from a battery faster than another drive that draws a minimum of 1.1W of power."
I think the majority of articles from Tom's Hardware is essentially good - this particular article drips of sensationalist news one normally associate with "technical writers" from your local rag.
World's first iPhone 3G on sale in New Zealand a day before the US {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2008 2:29AM Clak would be one of the aforementioned freaks lining up outside the Apple store.
Intel's 2.8GHz Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000 gets tested {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2008 7:11PM @Bender Bending Rodriguez
"At 2.8GHz with a full 6MB of L2 cache and a TDP of 35 Watts, this chip is currently Intel's fastest notebook CPU for the performance enthusiast, gaming, and multimedia markets, aka the Desktop Replacement (DTR) crowd."
