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Bit condescending there Merc, some people are on a budget...you heard about the recession by chance? all the previous banter on the 9600 is for not, it's in the past, 4770 blows it way in performance/price considerations. 4770 will compare well with either 4850 or GTS250 when overclocked. xbit...

Going to disagree with you there Merc, *many* a pro works from home on Xeon based Mac Pro's which are no that noisy. Many a 'consumer'/Pro work from home or on the road with a MBP 17in (sure you can get a Dell with a more accurate screen....if you want to spend more $$$, yeah that's right...

Just to cause a pandemic fear in everyone :p Least everyone who did not see that post in ^^^ the: Why is the site always slow? thread So, site might be unavailable for days even, should some problem occur in the transition.

Tamaflu is reported to be effective in ameliorating the symptoms, but the newly available test that only takes 24hrs to confirm, is not yet widely in use. Currently takes 3-4days, at which point Tamaflu is not nearly as effective. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu In...

Pwn2own is what I think you're referring to. If you're interested in security, the more vunerable in theory Mac/Safari is recommended by the guy who won the competition. For those who missed it, we discussed this to a degree on jtr's help thread: Regedit, cmd not working in XP...

Lots of browsers have add blocking, but the ad spammers have found their ways around that on many. Current version of Camino, they keep updating it ever 3mo or so, with supposed improved ad blocking, but those pesky ads keep popping up. How do you know what "will" show up in something that...

Agree, but if they do *everything* to start, then you end up with massive bloatware. Been using Safari 4.0 beta on my OS X 10.5.6 partition, it does run a bit faster with my pokey dialup...however, all that iCandy stuff (and my old laptop doesn't even have a GPU that allows some of the iCandy to...

Please excuse SD. In case you haven't read recent news, there is a social disease that is sweeping the internet, has reached near pandemic proportions called 'twitteritis'. It is obvious from SD's recent posts, as well as others here on SF, they are infected with this serious social disease :p...

MMMmmm...uhhh...uhhh...ah...mmmMMM>>> kimchi. I prefer the cuttie daughter of the mother who make the traditional staple, but when without, might as well drown myself in misery with some kimchi...right Merc? :p Made by the experienced hands of low wage Latino immigrants of course, so to be...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090428/ap_on_re_us/us_swine_flu_us jtr is busy learning microprocessor programing, no swine flu yet, but he's close to Queens, could be the 1st SF member to get it. One of the 2 deaths in So. Cal. has been determined to not be swine flu. Still it remains to be...

Well it's here, announced just shy of May, you should have waited a few weeks like I said :p...class leading $100 for gamers on a budget...with some caveats: Review: http://www.techspot.com/review/163-radeon-hd-4770/page13.html

You are mistaken, tell that to the families of young *healthy* adults in Mexico city that have died, more everyday (from complications, pneumonia). Much more transmissible? Umm, a lot of birds were killed in Asia...entire chicken population in Hong Kong area, IIRC, millions upon millions...

I bolded the 'other' potential problem ares of concern. Tv metering is what again? Shutter speed priority??? Both Tannin and Ken Rockwell would likely say you don't need the RAW, can get by with jpg. But we know the D40 is an older image processor, so with Nikon, lots of processing in camera...

Based on Wiki info? OSX only natively supports certain drives, and those drives need to have the correct firmware to operate correctly under OSX. With each new update of OSX, more drives are supported, but if you have an unofficial drive, you need to make sure the vendor says it runs under...

"Hey, to you" (Justin Timberlake impersonation) I missed the intro... hope the "12" in the pseudonym doesn't represent current age :D

lmfao, the prior posts about (not Handy's) are like a word association thread game or dare I say it...Twitter exchanges!, you say a word, I say the next word (or two) that comes to mind...hilarious! "got it" Me: "me too" LM: "what?" Me: "High BP/borderline HBP" Me: excesses of my yut...

Whips N chains :D Oh Gawd, thongs are the most grotesque of human apparel evah devised! Butt floss, sliding into the never zone of human excrement...ewww! When I'm at the farmer's mkts and see women in low cut jean bending over and their thong's little triangular wedge is quite visible (bc...

I was visiting this wholesale Chinese importing company that did primarily aquarium products but also lighting sources like linear flourescent tubes used in more modern enviros (US is behind as would be expected ;) ) like Japan & EU. Was talking to the company director/US president, started...

I disagree, and it's more of a subjective area where you cannot tell someone else they're doing it wrong. Many times you don't have the luxury of composition regardless of film or digital capture. Many times you don't have the luxury of the correct lighting. Subjectively, I don't like the "pro"...

9 other members currently online here on SF, and not one of you has anything to say, nothing <140 char? How do you ever expect to get to a minimal 5k entries count on your twitter accts at this rate? :p Or 1 million followers like Aston?

Guess is was something in the pizza thread, can't remember. Someone (was it Handy?) was commenting on how fetching "Yumm-O" annoying, gravely voiced Racheal Ray is/was....yuck-0. So it brought up this silly bit of food porn writing by someone jtr should be familiar with (from comments by me)...

Are these nekkid models, or what? :p If so, you'll only make Merc more depressed :). Sounds like food poisoning, if it went away that fact, was that vicious over such a short amount of time. Could have been any number of food items, did you eat out/get food in a restaurant earlier in the day?

We'll actually the NDA expired last night East coast time, dpreview had their story up ~11PM last night. I did not post the rumor of the announcement on nikon rumors yesterday, because the rumored spec's didn't seem too hot. Basically a competitor for the Canon 500D...heh 5000/500 which is which...

What do you mean by "highest settings" be more specific. Never planning to upgrade to W7, or are you planning to, or keep it @32bit? DDR400 is slow memory for your MB...consider that as a possible limiting factor, rather than huge amounts of GPU ram? That said, without more specific info (which...

Interesting... link

Canon rumors.com says there will be an 1D type AF in the 60D... whenever that comes out. For now, freelance/pro nature photog Ethan Meleg likes the 50D (scroll down to the redwoods images to see the old VW camper, circa 1990? he's using): http://ethanmeleg.blogspot.com/ Well, the T1i/500D is...

Super Talent Ships First 512GB SSD, MasterDrive RX Series Offers SLC Option *note* was going to put in a Stereodude "link", but figured most of you would never bother to click on it :D. Yawn, $1500! Get back to me when they release 512GB SSD's @<$1/GB. For all of you who will not live for...

Snips from cnet interview with Chuck Westfall...what you'd expect from a company PR guy :). http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-10213645-39.html Samsung has their PnS you can buy next month with OLED. But initial shots of the display trade show models, indoors at least (where you'd expect to be...

Well I was in a K-town supermarket yesterday, and in the cosmetics section & at the end of an isle big posters for the #1 soju export, Chum-Churum(sp?), scantily clad Hyori was mighty appealing to me :D. I think I agree with Merc, clearly there are plenty of guys who would take pictures...

I'm sure Merc would try to dissuade you, and get you instead, to consider the 1.5TB Samsung.

Either you've been spending too much time with ^^^Lost...or too much time perfecting UR tweet skllz, eh? (was that less <140char? :p )

Apparently Samsung is interested in acquiring Sandisk. USB flash drives are way too low in capacity. 6Gb/s SSD SATA drives should come around by year's end.

In 2 wks on Nova. Nova progs are usually good, but...the "Car Talk" guys? Car of the Future http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/car/ After tonight's Nova, Frontline: America's sucky health system (my title) Sick Around America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundamerica/ Good luck...

On Nova tonight @8PM (already started on the US East coast time zone) You can of course watch the streaming vid. version online. Been theorized/debated before...comet impact at the end of the last Ice Age. Last Extinction http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/clovis/

Obama Admn says Clocker's beloved Volt is basically still born. Tesla's sedan is targeted @$58k, assuming massive amounts of aid/investiment...better economy. Chrysler to be sold to Fiat, or go bankrupt. GM will likely cut or sell Hummer division...it's about time! Not good news for Clocker...

"link" Do you know how to Cut N Paste and article title into something useful as a descriptor that might induce someone to click on the "link"? The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=1 too bad...

...or you can get a few of these, with no fan :D PhotoFast G-MONSTER PCIe SSD http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/photofast-intros-256gb-to-1tb-g-monster-pcie-ssd/ Price of a 103in TV, that is :p.

I'll bet you any Wallstreet or Big Auto parachute plan, I can saturate that SATA1.5Gb/s bandwidth with ease, and you'll notice the difference with just a consumer HD cam. editing session. Put down your still cam dd, go with the youngsters and go HD video...then you'll be wantin, hurtin for...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface dual link dvi in theory supports 30in (2560x1600 res) monitors. 2 dual link dvi outputs on all of the Quadro line, sans the new Display Port models. Nvs 295 (~$130) is aid to support 2 30in monitors via DL DVI. higher end multi-monitor...

http://ati.amd.com/products/firepro/firepromatrix.html http://ati.amd.com/products/firepro/specs3700.html click on the pdf link at this ^^^ for the 3700 (cost ~$80) and you'll get a matrix for 10 different model # in the line with other port configurations/type of supported outputs

Alright, IR has a better preview, notes on what you lose by not buying a 50D, dumbed down 500D to avoid cannibalizing 50D sales..sadly again. http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/T1I/T1IA.HTM perhaps answering dd's HDR dilemma :

Rumors were only partially correct. No commander dial, no articulating LCD :(. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0903/09032504canoneos500d.asp WTF, 1080p...but, is this a misprint? 20fps??? So really, it only does 720p @30fps. Higher (theoretical) ISO @12.8k, higher than the 50D? Well that's a...

Darn, I forgot to bid by the deadline :p http://www.canonrumors.com/category/photography/canon-500d/ @750K the reserve was not met. Ah well, might as well get the 2009 model with an additional 100hp and only $600k. Heh, probably can beat Shaq's early version. LMAO, Q & A at bottom of...

I don't really care what they name it. What's remarkable is the $250M urine to water processing system, 2nd one being installed on the current Shuttle mission. The one they took up last year is malfunctioning. Sheesh, that's more than AIG bonuses. 2nd time going up on a Russian space capsule...

Sorry, no ideas... :(. Did you read this article on dp? Feature: Apical dynamic range interview http://www.dpreview.com/news/0903/09031801apical.asp In other news (so I can keep my post total down, and appear to not write 140 char. or less 'twitter' style replies :D ): I might be...

Pwn2Own trifecta: Hacker exploits IE8, Firefox, Safari http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934 Heh, MacBook/Safari fell in seconds :D Word to the wise, if you don't absolutely need to have your computer on 38hrs straight with a live internet connection, turn it off(or disconnect your...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29760888/ Gold digger...maybe? incroyable Speechless?!?! Makes Paris *almost* seem palatable... almost (nearly impossible) :p Well I suppose given his estimated net worth of $300M+, he can afford to marry another 2 of these women before he even has to start...

Hmm, looks like Merc's browser of choice isn't all that secure either: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1085175&st=0&sk=t&sd=a For some reason, I'm getting these annoying popup windows from imdb.com that I didn't get a year ago, Camino doesn't seem to be able to block them...

^^^...you should also click on Merc's anti-malware link above :p Oh joy, Internet Exploder 8 is now officially avail for d/l. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx Don't want to make light of jtr's problems...just thinking about Hello, I'm a PC, I'm a Mac TV ads...

Porn must be of some tangible value, otherwise Merc's fav producer wouldn't be spending the $$$ on a Red One camcorder to record pr0n in 4k res.