Free Switched iPhone app - try it now!
AOL Tech

Jon Acheson

Member since: Dec 24th, 2005

Jon Acheson's Latest Comments

Blog Activity
Blog# of Comments
Joystiq36 Comments
Engadget451 Comments
Download Squad1 Comment
Engadget HD2 Comments
Joystiq Playstation104 Comments

Recent Comments:

Bill Gates expects the web to be the best single source of education within 5 years (Engadget)

Aug 9th 2010 12:39PM @Ethan For the big hundred people in a lecture hall type classes, it wouldn't really matter if you were live or remote. On the other hand, those classes are the very first thing I would eliminate if I was trying to remake higher education, because they vary between "tedious" for rote memorization classes, and "completely useless" for anything that requires you to learn how to actually do something. Really, they're obstacles put in the way of your education by universities that don't want to have to provide expensive facilities for majors like science and engineering.

Terra-Gen lands major funding, expects to complete America's largest wind farm next year (Engadget)

Jul 26th 2010 10:57AM @wobbles It's not even 3000 MW, if you read the fine print, this farm will only put out 570 MW. Which is kind of pathetic for a billion dollars.

By way of comparison, Grand Coulee Dam puts out an average of 2300 MW, with a peak capacity of 6,800 MW. An average nuclear power plant puts out 1000 MW per reactor.

Plextor ships PX-B120U USB-powered Blu-ray drive for $100 (Engadget)

Jul 21st 2010 12:39PM This would be more tempting if it came with a solution to the awful DRM issues that Blu-Ray has on PCs.

Entelligence: Five gadgets that could have and should have done better (Engadget)

Jul 19th 2010 10:38AM The thing that killed the hobbyist PC market wasn't game consoles, which had existed alongside them the whole time. It was Mom and Dad giving the kids their hand-me-down PC when they upgraded. After that started happening, there was no need for hobbyist PCs like the Ataris or Commodores.

Tec Hideoto portable cassette player time-travels from 1994, gets USB audio for its trouble (Engadget)

Jul 13th 2010 6:01PM @ashwinkn Or you could buy a cable with headphone jacks on both ends, and just plug your tape player's headphone out into the microphone port on your computer. For like $5. Look for Audio Patch Cable.

Next Apple TV to offer 99 cent streaming episode rentals? (Engadget)

Jul 12th 2010 3:31PM @NYPunkGeek Exactly. If I wait for something to go on sale at Wally World, I can undercut that price, and own the DVDs instead of renting them.

HP / Palm buyout officially complete -- get ready for webOS printers (Engadget)

Jul 1st 2010 10:58AM How about WebOS on a PDA?

Palm Foleo lands on eBay, can be yours for a relative song (update: sold!) (Engadget)

Jun 30th 2010 12:30PM @Mr Itcher The concept of a small ultraportable notebook was great, making it tied to a cellphone was not good.

PVI bets the farm, changes name to E Ink (Engadget)

Jun 21st 2010 10:35AM With color E-Ink rapidly approaching the marketplace, why wouldn't they want to brand themselves with the name of their leading product?

E-Ink has just begun to take off.

New Hotmail, Microsoft Office 2010 available now (Engadget)

Jun 16th 2010 4:10PM What are we waiting for? SERVICE PACK 1.

Seriously, it does not EVER pay to be an early adopter of Microsoft software.