Leno is a loathsome human toad... he's tainting bikes everywhere with his name being tossed around while showing this bike. I wish he'd just stick to his ridiculous car fetish.
@za7ch After watching the video I laughed at his blatant inability to exercise at least a bit of intellectual honesty when asked "what good has come from the FLOSS movement"... his answer is ridiculous: "nothing." That's absurd.
The first things that came out of his mouth should be obvious when pointing to his motivation: "a fountain of wealth & opportunity."
Now if his motivations are all about monetary profit and climbing the corporate ladder of success than maybe he should have picked a different field of devotion. The Internet will be a success when it's spread further to all of humanity and we can all join in *collective* sharing and learning. There is *great* opportunity with this, but maybe not in his specifically narrow bourgeois system. (and THAT is good).
From this review I can easily see a flaw in his logic which seems to be the premise of his entire thought. That flaw: individuals have original ideas.
Examples: "Teenagers, Lanier contends, are the most affected, as they manage homogenized identities on social networking sites rather than cultivate an original idea of who they are."
That's what we are, copying machines. In culture, in art, in music, in biology... everything we do is built on top of the old and the previously copied subject.
He comes across as sort of FUDish, "them teenager whippersnappers copying and aggregating, not like we used to do, we were originals!" Nonsense.
"Lanier describes as 'mashup' culture -- where nothing is quite a whole work but rather snippets of things remixed together -- leads to aggregation of aggregators such as FriendFeed, where it's hard to tell the source of a work, idea, or quote, and where there is barely any context, if any at all."
To that I say, Lanier ol' boy, lighten up. This is the way it has always been and now it's only easier for the masses to join in at the table to ctrl+c/ctrl+p... and that's good.
@DoctarPeppar It converts an HDMI signal into a mini DisplayPort signal. Sadly a cheapo adapter from NewEgg won't do the trick if one is wanting to convert HDMI to DisplayPort, otherwise one could save probably 140 bucks.
Having been on the beta testing team since mid-April I can attest to the fact that Valve is extremely responsive to getting things working and smooth with regards to Steam and their first party titles. It's a wonderful experience and it's a great sign of the future to come.
When tasks take about half the time they used to because the speed increase I actually don't use the phone for as long (extending battery life). When the phone is idle it doesn't bleed power anymore than it would at stock 500MHz.
Dead Island is back with haunting debut trailer, Deep Silver to publish
Feb 16th 2011 4:12PM (Joystiq)Please make it happen. I Would totally play that game so hard.
BlackTrail BT-01 is the $80,000 electric bicycle of your dreams (video)
Aug 4th 2010 11:18AM (Engadget)LaCie's XtremKey tested... emotionally (video)
Jul 16th 2010 7:50PM (Engadget)Book Review: You Are Not a Gadget
Jul 13th 2010 4:01PM (Engadget)After watching the video I laughed at his blatant inability to exercise at least a bit of intellectual honesty when asked "what good has come from the FLOSS movement"... his answer is ridiculous: "nothing." That's absurd.
The first things that came out of his mouth should be obvious when pointing to his motivation: "a fountain of wealth & opportunity."
Now if his motivations are all about monetary profit and climbing the corporate ladder of success than maybe he should have picked a different field of devotion. The Internet will be a success when it's spread further to all of humanity and we can all join in *collective* sharing and learning. There is *great* opportunity with this, but maybe not in his specifically narrow bourgeois system. (and THAT is good).
Book Review: You Are Not a Gadget
Jul 13th 2010 3:41PM (Engadget)Examples: "Teenagers, Lanier contends, are the most affected, as they manage homogenized identities on social networking sites rather than cultivate an original idea of who they are."
That's what we are, copying machines. In culture, in art, in music, in biology... everything we do is built on top of the old and the previously copied subject.
He comes across as sort of FUDish, "them teenager whippersnappers copying and aggregating, not like we used to do, we were originals!" Nonsense.
"Lanier describes as 'mashup' culture -- where nothing is quite a whole work but rather snippets of things remixed together -- leads to aggregation of aggregators such as FriendFeed, where it's hard to tell the source of a work, idea, or quote, and where there is barely any context, if any at all."
To that I say, Lanier ol' boy, lighten up. This is the way it has always been and now it's only easier for the masses to join in at the table to ctrl+c/ctrl+p... and that's good.
Belkin's AV360 Mini DisplayPort Converter lets you play Xbox 360 on iMac, costs as much as an Arcade
Jun 24th 2010 11:50AM (Engadget)Keanu Reeves gets a URL shortener in his honor, can stop being sad and get back to being excellent
Jun 22nd 2010 11:07AM (Engadget)Me too. :)
Valve says Apple, NVIDIA and ATI are working to improve Mac gaming performance
Jun 17th 2010 9:11PM (Engadget)Super PreKernel is the one-touch way to make your Pre or Pre Plus fly (video)
Apr 22nd 2010 11:13AM (Engadget)When tasks take about half the time they used to because the speed increase I actually don't use the phone for as long (extending battery life). When the phone is idle it doesn't bleed power anymore than it would at stock 500MHz.
Super PreKernel is the one-touch way to make your Pre or Pre Plus fly (video)
Apr 22nd 2010 11:09AM (Engadget)