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jcondliffe
Jamie Condliffe
jcondliffe
Contributing Editor at Gizmodo. An ex-engineer writing about science and technology.

But the big question is: would you pony up $2,800 for the thing? Read more

Yeah, I'm with you: My Maps is a pain in the ass. I only really found that out over the summer when road tripping, but they definitely need to improve it. Read more

Damn straight. You really don't wanna rip one of those of speakers. Read more

It's gonna be pretty exciting to see what advances come outta this work. Read more

Well, I guess a mobile phone is has more computing power than old supercomputers, so if you count that.... Read more

I'm going to get the ball rolling and nominate The Settlers of Catan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_of_Catan Read more

I CAN START AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING BLOG WITH YOU. And it would actually be like, good, and shit. Sadly, @I suppose I would be the only reader. Read more

I won't be here in four hours—but I appreciate that you're here in spirit! Read more

Personally I find the whole CEO-getting-pissed thing quite funny. You can't gripe and moan just because you have more competition: the solution is to make your product better. Read more

Yeah, I think that's the point, really: better to have internet, even if it is a little crappy, than none at all. Read more

I'm so flattered you consider me to have a working knowledge! Thanks! Anyway, sarcasm aside, taking your point about BCG: yes, it was simplified for an 800 word blog post (this isn't a text book) and yes, i do understand it. Read more

It's incredibly difficult to get a drug through trials, yeah. There's around a 90% failure rate at each stage of trials usually, the process running from: Drug Discovery > Phase 1 (small-scale trial for safety) > Phase 2 (medium-scale trial for testing protocol) > Phase 3 (large-scale trial for effectiveness and Read more

Ha, I LOVE the ideas of company execs sat around playing a glorified trading card game. Read more