Fred

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Ask Engadget HD: DISH Network or DirecTV? (Engadget HD)

Jan 20th 2008 1:48PM I have been a Dish promoter to all of my friends and really anyone who would listen. I've always felt their technology plans were far ahead of DirecTV.

This changed with DirecTV's HDPC-20. This is (conceptually) the equivalent of cablecard abilities (just with sat instead of cable) and will allow an amazing amount of whole home integration that only Cable offered. I�ll cancel Dish when the HDPC-20 is available.

Merry Christmas: win two round trip tickets on JetBlue + noise canceling headphones (Engadget)

Dec 31st 2007 1:22PM I'd be happy with a set of Phoenix to NY tickets. My wife's parents live in CT and she hasn't seen them in almost a year now. Would be a cool surprise for her.

Joyswag: Joystiq's Legendary Halo 3 Giveaway (Joystiq)

Oct 2nd 2007 11:53AM Realistically... I think the Brutes.

Joyswag: Joystiq's Legendary Halo 3 Giveaway (Joystiq)

Sep 27th 2007 11:41PM Totally would be like 50 grunts... it would be like eating popcorn.

Win a super rare signed 300-Edition Xbox 360 Elite and 300 HD DVD! (Engadget)

Aug 12th 2007 10:34PM I haven't seen it as I am building a new house, am stuck in an apartment, and my hometheater is in boxes in a building. Soon... sooon...

I can't bring myself to go to movie theaters as the sound is usually horrible, sticky floors and so on... If I'm lucky enough to find a good theater, there is always some idiot telling his buddy about how his girlfriend is a pain, there is a party this weekend, and oh yeah this move is GREAT!!!

....can't do it anymore...

Even at $199, Rock Band: SE for 360 lands on Amazon's bestseller list (Joystiq)

Aug 7th 2007 2:11PM So if you had to choose beetwen the PS3 vs or the 360 version, which way would you go?
Wireless guitar in PS3 is cool (although I'm sure that could change)
Some of the factors to weigh would be:
360 controllers are supposed to be supported if you have that equipment. [Advantage 360]
360 (MS Live) online service robust and easy. PS3 Online service free. [seems like a draw]
dlc may be different [advantage unknown]
DLC pricing may be better on PS3 as it is shown as real dollars instead of points.

I'd imagine the PS3 could eventually handle bigger/better songs/instruments.

What does everyone think?

Virb - MySpace done right, and we have 100 invites to give away! (Download Squad)

Mar 24th 2007 11:32PM I like the simplicity as well. Myspace is an evil anti-gumbo. Sometimes a lot of ingredients is not a good thing.

Best Buy admits it has two websites: Could be misleading customers (Download Squad)

Mar 3rd 2007 12:37PM Everyone needs to relax a bit. I agree that BestBuy can be totally retarded at times but let's Occam's Razor this thing a bit first.

Every large business has an intranet site. Every company I've ever worked for since the late 80's has one. This is not unusual and these sites serve to provide all kinds of internal employee information from Human Resources info to internal forms and proceess information.

Would a retail company with so many employees allow them external internet access? Probably not from any "floor" stations.

Would BestBuy want to add the additional burden of internal lookups to their external web servers? No.

Would any company want to tie up any amount of expensive bandwidth with employees looking up the online ads? (They don't pay 45 bucks a month like consumers do.)

If I had to guess at how this happened I would think that BestBuy has on their Intranet a copy of the online ad so that when employees go to call it up it's served internally instead of hitting their external sites. This copy may not be updating correctly or they may just have a crap process around updating it.

To report that this site is intentionally fake and meant to mislead customer is not responsible at this time given the current facts. Their recent bad press and customer issues are probably even more of a reason they would not intentionally do this.

I'm not saying they don't suck and am not defending them. I am simply trying to point out that there is not always malice behing stupid computer/IT errors.

I've worked in the field at the top (or near it) of many IT organizations and it would horrify some people to know how many of these types of things happen and are caught just before they blow up.

This is, of course, a good argument for having that online ad up on your phone when you go into the store so you can show them what the real ad says.

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