Archives for the day Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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We’re well aware the first three words on the Xbox Live service status box are “up and running,” but those issues are continuing to persist, and if our flooded tip jar and the Xbox Live forums are anything to go by, they’re probably not just “intermittent”. If you’re (still) seeing issues, as always feel free to shout it out, as well as hit our poll so we can keep track of just how severe this stuff is. (So far, of those polled who’ve been trying to use Live, roughly 75% responded that they’ve been experiencing moderate to severe issues.)
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We’d already heard about Central Japan Railway Company’s not-so-near-term intentions to deploy a speedy new maglev system in the country, but it looks like it’s just now getting official with things, and it’s still promising to have it up and running no sooner than 2025. By then, there should be 180 miles of track stretching from Tokyo to central Japan, which’ll accommodate a maglev train capable of topping out at 310 miles per hour, apparently making it the world’s fastest. That, as you might have guessed, comes at a fairly hefty cost — $44.7 billion, to be specific — which makes some similar, but decidedly less speedy systems pale in comparison. As The Register points out, however, while Japan’s train will be the fastest maglev system, it won’t quite keep up with the fastest conventional trains around, or whatever else might be around in the year 2025.
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Engadgetdamus bids you greetings. With MMVII in the can, we can only direct our ponderations to what fantastical gadgets and events await in the new year. We beseech you, foretell the year’s events and present your predictions. Will Android be an out of the gate success, or a slow starter? Will Microsoft without Bill Gates be worse (or better) off? Will Vonage see Jan. 1, 2009? And will we all have multi-touch DisplayPort monitors by then? Will consumers turn on Apple? Will Palm give up the ghost? Can we finally dump our spinning-disk drives in favor of SSDs? Only your latent Engadgetdamus knows what will transpire in MMVIII — let him speak.
See also predictions for 2005, 2006, and 2007.
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