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Navy shells out for development of missile-killing free-electron laser {Engadget}
Apr 24th 2009 6:26PM Actually, Crono, only the original Nimitz carrier had 8 reactors. It was so massively over-powered that it was reportedly able to outrun every other ship in the battle group at speeds of 50+ knots. Subsequent carriers were equipped with two larger reactor systems.
That said, the first thing I thought is that the US Navy is the best in the world at building mobile nuclear-electric power -- it would be well within their skills to build a class of ship with sufficient continuous power-generation capacity to drive a bunch of these bad boys.
Makes a lot more sense to me to float a heavy cruiser with nuclear-electric-powered FEL armament than, say, loading up a fleet of 747s with vats of toxic chemicals and fly them in continuous orbits off the shore of North Korea just in case. Oh, wait...
XM and Sirius channels merge at long last {Engadget}
Nov 12th 2008 1:45PM Guess what: I just confirmed that the Squizz guys (who are awesome, BTW) are taking over DJ duties for Octane. Guess you're getting a big wad of Squizz whether you like it or not -- it'll just have an 'Octane' label on it.
Angry UNIX sysadmin tries to shut down California power grid {Engadget}
Dec 20th 2007 6:40PM Holy crap -- I used to know this guy. He worked for Excite@Home back in the day as a (you guessed it) UNIX sysadmin. Now that I think of it, he was one of the more drama-prone members of the sysadmin team.
LaCie debuts 2 terabyte Big Disk Extreme+ {Engadget}
Jul 20th 2007 12:37AM That "32MB cache" claim smells like BS to me. I bet the marketing guys looked at the spec sheet for the two 1TB drives inside the box and added up the 16MB of cache on each drive, and voila -- 32MB cache!
Oh, and RAID 0 with a pair of 1TB drives? Yes, please, let's go for the world record on how much data we can lose with a single drive failure. Madness.
IWARD nursebot looks to clean hospitals, fend off intruders {Engadget}
Feb 17th 2007 5:27PM Looks like a urinal. If they put this into service, I give it a week at the outside before some befuddled senior citizen takes a leak on it.
Passport 9500i packs GPS into a radar detector for double the fun {Engadget}
Feb 7th 2007 7:04PM I've actually been hoping for a radar-detector company to incorporate a Bluetooth GPS chipset (preferably something based on the SiRF III) into a high-grade detector so I can reduce the clutter on my dash. Bummer that they decided to keep all of that GPS goodness locked up inside the device instead of sharing with others.
Looks like my wait is going to go on a little longer. I mean, they've tried converging everything *but* a radar detector into those all-in-one GPS satnav units, so it's just a matter of time...
Vista Home Premium loosed in the US, unboxed in Oz {Engadget}
Jan 23rd 2007 11:22AM I find it entertaining that NewEgg's listed requirements show a CDROM drive as required and a DVD drive as "recommended", but the OS ships on DVD media. Wouldn't it make it kind of hard to install the OS if you went with only the "required" equipment? Heh.
Visto scores $7.7 million in phone patent ruling, not stopping yet {Engadget}
Dec 21st 2006 8:35PM I read somewhere else that the award amount doesn't actually mean anything, since the other company (Seven) is taking the case to the federal circuit court on appeal, which could reduce or eliminate the original award.
It's all bullshit anyway -- these patents all look alike, and less-successful tech companies think they can make a business out of suing more-successful tech companies. Sometimes that's true (NTP) but more often it's not.
Microsoft quits the MSN Music store {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2006 5:43PM Microsoft has unwittingly provided a stunningly effective justification for the existance of FairUse4WM and similar de-protection programs.
Project-a-Phone intros ICD-5000 mobile projector / camera {Engadget Mobile}
Oct 23rd 2006 7:36PM I have several of these at work, both the VGA-quality ICD-300 and the megapixel ICD-5000. They're great for doing live presentations using mobile devices, and super useful for documentation screen-shots.
