Wild Homes

you've got an instant momentum creator!? could I use it to instantly create... hype?

actually, for the rather clumsy, hands-off manner they're going about it (it seems like the readers are doing most of the work), Gizmodo is actually digging deeper on this than Engadget is. The company has provided three or four addresses in the span of one day, the business records for the brothers involved seem dubious at best... I don't know if these people are frauds but if you're willing to put your money into their scheme, I've got a nice infinite energy machine I'll sell you real cheap.

@Beers:

No, that's not strange, and it's not the same thing at all. Boot Camp is a solution to allow Macs to run Windows, and Microsoft signed off on the idea. Had Microsoft refused to permit Apple to move ahead with this particular use of its software, Apple would not have been able to proceed. Now, Mac owners would most likely have been able to work around the absence of Boot Camp by means of some other, community supported kind of virtualisation (not altogether unlike the Hackintosh movement, in spirit); but there would be no commercial solution for it.

Moral of the story? Do business legally. If end users want to violate EULA terms, it's one thing, but when companies do it wholesale, that's another thing entirely, and one of those two are less likely to go unopposed. I'll let you guess which one.

John Mayer here.

@Ryan. Could you be a more pompous fool? You honestly thought you were right, that only you knew this to be firmware 2.0, and all the other Engadgeteers were just dumb? WTG with the epic fail.

I gotta bolt, dudes, I'm meeting Moby and Rachel Bilsson for pizza.

I'd use it to comment on Engadget, because mah iPhone lags something hideous on blog text entry bubbles, for some reason.

Ryan,

Really enjoy the redesign-- congratulations are in order for your whole crew! I do second the aforementioned suggestion of having the comments sync to one shared thread for Engadget-family posts shared across the main site, HD, mobile, TUAW, etc... It would totally improve the whole community. Please consider it! And again, good work!

happy birthday!

happy birthday engadget!

happy birthday, engadget! make it a good one!

happy fourth birthday engadget! I love this site more than Drawbaugh likes cutting Steve off!