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Apple to add LED BLU displays to all MacBooks in 2009 says paper {Engadget}
May 21st 2008 10:03AM Man, playing with my LED display technology is like playing with my emotions.
Lenovo X300 vs. Apple MacBook Air... Fight! {Engadget}
Feb 15th 2008 9:30AM Ports, drives, performance, RAM, and some screen real estate are important to me. That's why I use...a 15" MacBook Pro. If I were forced to choose between either of these machines as my primary, I'd probably go with the X300, but since that doesn't describe anyone in this market segment, maybe I'll WAIT TO SEE WHAT PEOPLE SPEND THEIR MONEY ON and avoid the useless activity of passing judgment on "which is better."
Spy bill passes Senate with carrier immunity {Engadget}
Feb 13th 2008 6:06PM A. A conservative is against government interference in the market (and lots of other things).
B. Making telcos retroactively immune to prosecution constitutes market interference.
C. No senate republican voted to strike the bill's immunity provision for telcos.
D. No senate republican is against government interference in the market.
E. No senate republican is a conservative.
So I can see how this issue makes a perfect jumping-off point for the whole "Democrats are communists" trope.
Will the iPhone SDK offer a built-in simulator? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Feb 8th 2008 9:07AM That's a good point, but I still think a software simulator is the best hypothesis.
1. There should really be a scaled-up hardware sim for each of the other (Nxx, Mxx) platforms.
2. I get the feeling the simulator will have a crucial behavioral difference from an OS running on the actual hardware. Namely, a simulator is far more likely to run unsigned code.
Hello Kitty AR-15 assault rifle makes you wish it was Photoshopped {Engadget}
Jan 17th 2008 3:02PM This dude took a garden-variety AR-15 (however beautiful in its simple elegance) and turned it into functional art. Points for the ironic mashup, and points for the attention to detail. The pattern on the clip is mad tasteful. I wonder whether the paint on the barrel is heat safe, but overall this is kick ass.
iRobot awarded $286 million military contract {Engadget}
Dec 18th 2007 2:47PM I hope my friend gets a piece of that sweet, sweet money cake.
B&O teams up with Aston Martin -- but that's not why we're smiling {Engadget}
Dec 11th 2007 12:16PM 1. ...because what I said was "an Aston Martin is a Corvette"?
2. A Corvette may be a meat head's penis extension, but at least the hp/$ is reasonable. An Aston Martin is a semi-classy financial analyst's penis extension that doubles as a lure for a trophy wife. A douche wearing a suit and muttering "shaken not stirred" to himself during rush hour is still a douche.
3. The article isn't even about a *nice* Aston Martin. It's about an Aston Martin that someone tarted up like a cheap whore for the sequel to Tokyo Drift.
B&O teams up with Aston Martin -- but that's not why we're smiling {Engadget}
Dec 11th 2007 9:24AM We took a vette front end, kicked a big ass hole in the front, slapped it on a 350Z body shell, and threw in a prerelease 2009 STi wing for some sp[r]ice. That'll be...ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS.
iPhone SDK already seeding to select devs? {Engadget}
Nov 27th 2007 3:51PM Thanks to the two commenters who actually said something relevant to the post. My questions:
1. Who is getting an early-access version?
2. Why doesn't my employer's premier ADC membership entitle us to try it out?
I understand the logic behind a beta release, but I don't see why the largest, most experienced shops should get yet another competitive advantage.
Microsoft backports Vista features for new Windows XP SP3 beta {Engadget}
Oct 9th 2007 9:34AM My personal machines have been Macs for a while, and until recently I booted NT/2k/XP at work. I now run Eclipse or Parallels to develop software for XP, Vista, and a variety of other platforms. Still, one man's opinion, and people should use whatever they like using. That said:
Vista is a collection of cool lab experiments, some of whose masters eventually learned to beat them into submission, some of whom are now rampaging through the user and developer community and eating people's brains and productivity.
Yeah, it's a little like when XP first came out. It's also a little bit like when OS X first came out. The problem with that excuse is roughly the same as in the XP case:
IT'S the SAME F*CKING UNDERLYING CODE BASE! HOW DID THEY BREAK SO MUCH SH*T?
UAC's too easy a target, so here's a better example:
Vista so radically changed how drivers are loaded, some of Microsoft's own drivers still have crashing or stuck IRP bugs in them. And we're not talking about boutique hardware here; stuff like 1394 is broken.
And just to be clear, I have a lot of respect for engineers at Microsoft. Their driver peeps *really* know what they're doing. And I have reason to suspect that their OS developers are solid coders too. But that only serves to underscore how "questionable" some of the high-level design tradeoffs were at the product management level. It will get a lot better, but there's really no excuse for how bad it is right now.
For the record, there's an extensive list of things that still suck in OS X...just not numerous or severe enough to make me prefer using anything else.
@Luke: If Vista is "for advanced users," I guess that explains why there's roughly one major corporation in the USA using it: Microsoft.
