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Black Friday Giveaways (part 4): Archos 5 and DVR Station {Engadget}
Nov 28th 2008 4:26PM I can always find a use for something with a screen.
LG debuts 13.3-inch XNOTE P310 premium laptop {Engadget}
Nov 5th 2008 4:47PM I consider myself fairly adept at finding why things can be humorous to others, even when I don't exactly find it funny but I fail to with your comment. How was this comment even a slight bit funny to you? It's not, not to anyone, probably not yourself but that brings me back to square one -- why would you even bother to post it? Why would you want to even take the viewing pleasure of two fine young Korean beauties and put some stupid Jackie Chan reference to it and theft.
Really, just consider what you did and think how stupid that was and try not to make history repeat itself.
No really, your comment is probably one of the worst I've read on Engadget in a long, long time and we all know that's saying quite a bit.
Microsoft gets official with Windows Azure cloud OS, platform {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2008 10:53AM Better be ready for the second coming of the 60 second shutdown...
Ask Engadget: What's the most reliable wireless router? {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2008 11:06PM My friend uses a trusty Linksys WRT54G with DD-WRT on it. I wanted a bit more power and memory so I went with the WRT350N, it's got a strong processor and tons of memory. I do a lot of SSH tunneling along with a 10MBit downlink so I need something to process a lot more throughput.
Definitely use DD-WRT (or OpenWRT if you must). I'd never use stock firmware or buy one that couldn't run DD-WRT. Simple as that.
Interactive Mirror dazzles onlookers, never lies {Engadget}
Oct 23rd 2008 11:34AM Add alcohol and this gets tons more amusing.
Intel: ARM's the reason the iPhone... sucks? {Engadget}
Oct 22nd 2008 2:40AM Of course Intel would say that, however let's not forget what happened on 4/23/2008! P.A. Semiconductors bought out by Apple. What happened on 6/11/2008? Steve Jobs saying "...the acquisition is meant to add the talent of P.A. Semi's engineers to Apple's workforce, and help them build custom chips for the iPod and iPhone..." at WDC.
So actually... it seems like they are going back to the PPC architecture in a sense on their new acquisition.
Ben Heck apprentice strikes again with DarthCast {Engadget}
Oct 15th 2008 5:59PM Right before the battery dies, it should go "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" as the screen turns off.
ATM skimmers: now with SMS notification built right in {Engadget}
Oct 10th 2008 3:15PM Or the fact that a device as 'necssary' and 'commonplace' as an credit card reader with aforementioned jammer might not only interfere with other devices, but also ones that may critical such as say.. PACEMAKERS?
The point is that it would be difficult to justify a jamming device through the FCC for commercial use, and after you did it could have adverse effects on nearby equipment.
Apple introducing new manufacturing process, MacBook 'Brick'? {Engadget}
Oct 9th 2008 9:18PM Just to add a bit about the whole DOS/Windows history of Copy/Paste.
Copy and Paste came in two standards, the Apple standard and the IBM standard. The Apple standard is what we know today as CTRL+Z,X,C,V for Undo/Cut/Copy/Paste respectively. IBM uses a combination of SHIFT+INSERT,DELETE,HOME instead. If you ever look into some old DOS applications like QBASIC's editor, you will see these shortcuts in the Edit menu.
CTRL+C is break, and I think it makes sense that it was kept in that way in general. It works in Windows just fine, I don't get what you are saying. Do a simple ping in command prompt with the -t option set and press CTRL+C whenever you want to stop it. Sure, you can't copy and paste into the command prompt the same way but you can right click and select 'Mark' and then select your text, right click again and then right-click paste. I agree, it's more work and not as intuitive, but it does work. If you really need to work with file paths you can do just like you would with UNIX (!) and press TAB to cycle through folders. Try it for yourself, do "cd C:\W" and press TAB after the W. Lookie there!
Here is the ironic part to me, we are arguing about who invented what when it comes to Copy and Paste, Apple did, blah blah blah, but hey could they implement their primordial functionality and their latest firmware please? I'm not a hater, I have a 3G iPhone and I love it but I mean come on...
Ford MyKey lets parents control their kids' driving habits {Engadget}
Oct 6th 2008 3:07PM Just like with any feature, there will be a way around it (bypass it, disable it, etc) even if it is an aftermarket solution. Look at the vettes with the aftermarket shifter that lets you bypass the CAGS (Computer Aided Gear Shift) so you can shift like a normal human being.
