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D3x tops 1DsMkIII in *all* DXO sensor performance metrics...still would have been a Canon killer if the price was thousands less. So when do we expect the 1DsMk4 upgrade? http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/eng/DxOMark-Sensor/DxOMark-reviews/DxOMark-review-for-the-Nikon-D3X DR of 13.7 only at...

I see SD & Toshiba are sharing facilities, but using different means to an end? http://www.physorg.com/news150477991.html Truly hilarious, Sandisk has the tumerity to think they can establish their own marketing standards like M$....pullease...

Why are you limited to 'even' a weekend? If you don't know, you need to find out. IE, you should visit *all* of the sites, if you intend to make a system wide upgrade. Because like Chewy said, you name will be mud if you upset the system, and people can't get work done...those with no patience...

Honeymoon? ....there's a pt2 to this post coming up, dd style :D

Speak English damn it, this is the USA! (was that too racial? :P ) -18.4°F wind chill (so what, 5-10°F w/o wind chill factor?). Going to visit Merc?

Thickness to be announced... remember the earlier large capacity 2.5in notebook drives would only fit in older/thicker notebooks, thicker than now standard 9.5mm. Can't tell from the image in jtr's link---and that's probably not the target market. This from a company that says this on their...

You would think that now with Bush gone, Tannin would be elated with the greenie Obama and Dem party controlled congress now in charge...where's the anti-USA ranting Tannin now? With a near term record projected $42Billion state deficit, the Govenator fighting it out with both the controlling...

^^^source please? At the highest price oil hit last summer, consumption was only off IIRC ~10%. Consumption would have to drop more than 1/2 to levels where our dependence on oil is minimal. Won't happen in our generation, certainly not even with 2 terms under Obama. Now that oil has dropped to...

Probably should go in a long SR post, but I've said it before...anyone, can anyone get me a Startrek style phaser? Really should have keep that 'Starwars' anti missle program going that Ronald Regan started. Pedestrians and transit vehicles/or trains, etc don't mix well. Those with the 'power'...

In your humble opinion. Care to elaborate in Part III, your parameters for decisions making...more info? :p Maybe this will help, but I'm just guessing, not knowing enough info about the business needs of ur co...

LOL, I knew there was a part II to this opening thread post, classic DD :D Any other additional info you might like to share before I fumble over myself with useless posting :p ? <iPhone rocks, why not covert to that & MacOSX at the same time :p>

Wait until Lost tries to type with the toes :D. VR software only works well for those who can enunciate.If not, they don't work so well, take forever to 'learn' your voice, make so many frequent errors, not worth the frustration of correcting it all.

If you're a SDK member, you'd have had beta of Snow Leopard since WWDC back in June. SL is/will be shipping by summer Apple has said (though rumors have it shipping sooner since Open CL spec is finalized and nvidia provides support now), Winblows 7 won't make it until later in the year, if not...

Had to beat LM to it :p.... No, but seriously; these sound great--- sometime, somewhere in the future. Considering I've read on blogs that Toshiba's new 512GB SSD is expected to be priced around $1500...I won't hold my breath for a low priced SDXC 2TB card anytime in the next 5yrs :(...

^^^Hmm, tomorrow Apple is rumored to update the aging Mac Mini with just those specs :), don't need to spend any time at silent PC review :p

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/31/60minutes/main4694713_page4.shtml Was watching the repeat of the PBS Nova program last week, search for absolute zero, how sometime in the future (our lifetime) computers may be made as "quantum" computers from superconductors, Bose-Einstein condensate...

January 26, 2009 Happy New Year! http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2009.htm But the new year, starts technically @23:55, Jan 25th here on the West Cost of America...so when to celebrate :p ? Makes a difference. Jan.25th is a Sunday, if Chinese celebrate on the westcoast on the 26th, then...

LG announces world's first 480Hz LCD TV display Can't wait for the LM "where are the 1Ghz LCD TV's" thread :p. Marketing hype...well at least the S. Koreans aren't getting PC with their continued use of cute young thangs to market these electronic toys to men/boyz...

Bought my cell phone 8yrs ago to the day, w00t---Happy new years :p Li-Ion battery still seems to have enough capacity. Down a bit, maybe as much as 50%, but most consumer LI-Ion batteries are designed for only a few years of life. Want to get a new phone (can't read the glass LCD display very...

Merc, you misspelled Sony :p Sony LCD HDTV's @CostCo Matsushita is no more, it's all Panny now :D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic Well considering Apple Computer Inc. (Panasonic has 10x the employee's as Apple, yet Apple is more profitable)...

Hmmm, judging by the juxtaposition of LM's post, I'll assume the question is directed @dd specifically. IE, do they have HD adult content available in the hotel dd is @? Rather than do they have HD adult material in general :D...

On the UPS site, after final delivery, the tracking page link just gives a shortened history. At least on pages I've looked at recently, if you click on a tab somewhere in the window of that page, you get a more detailed version that shows arrival and departure scans for the cities/locations/UPS...

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/12/22/intel.x25.m.160gb.ships/ *yawn* Sheesh, why would anyone pay a premium for one of these when a 7.2k HDD can do that for likely 1/4th the price with 2-3x capacity??? Too slow. Samsung & Toshiba to ship much faster write capability 256 & 512GB...

NR off @ISO 6400. comparison with the latest, greatest high MP, full-frame dSLR's Canon 5DmkII $2.8k Nikon 3Dx $8k Looks to me like Nikon could have done the marketing hype high ISO game, like Canon is playing. In other words, @ISO6400 they are both fairly close. Only difference Canon's 5D...

Somewhere, way back in this thread; I provided a link to a discussion of how visualization is compromised/affected by various settings/nature of browsers and internet standards. Viewing the same image, from the actual file offline can be a significant difference. Define 'detail'? If you where...

2 different issues. RU using 450 or 20D? Maybe get a Nikon :D (ssssh, don't tell Tannin). More fine detail/textures w/Canon, but depends on how much pixel peeping/cropping you do. D90 is pretty good...way less noise @medium high ISO/12.5 EV DR compared to nearly 2stops less for the Canon 450D...

Not exactly as much vaporware as Samsung...but how much will this cost? $2k??? Once again, pushing the limits of SATA 3Gb/s standard, will definitely need 6Gb/s standard next year. (btw, Samy's announcements always have the young thangs...what's with Japanese marketing dept these days, I thought...

:b-day::bow::bow::bow: We're not worthy, Happy B-day Handy....who would have thought it would have lasted this long, tx for the memes, this little corner room/café on the Net.

Edit to my prior post ;). I was thinking, HTF is this possible? (link below). Merc's ave. maybe 6 posts/day for 7yrs straight! Impressive. Think honold was a little higher than that per day for a few yrs @SR. Seems SR has been on the Net since 1997? Now considering I've seen a lot of Admn at...

Mortage meltdown pt2 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/12/60minutes/main4666112.shtml According to this Tilson guy 60min interviewed, "Alt-A" and "option ARM." , are the next wave of foreclosures coming up this upcoming year and into 2010-11. Asset bubble will last 3-5yrs, with risky...

Tryin (but prolly unsuccessfully) to tangent, jack back to SR, the SSD thread :D. Old newstory, GQ Megan Fox covergirl, WR's fav babe of the hour: http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_7458 Sounds a bit too freaky for jtr or me, not that we'd ever even get close to her...but...

Ok, now I get it "SSD" state of the product...Sexually Starved for Dating, lol. You can't meet people if you keep to yourself, in college, in work unless you work involves travel, networking with employee's of other companies...in the case of Merc, think he needs a consulting job for the local...

Exactly how much is Sony charging for royalties as of today, given 5mo later from the start of this thread, you can now buy (a crappy one, but then so were most of the cheapy DVD players when they were 1st on the market) for only $150. Give it 5 more years and I'd expect BR to become a commodity...

This one is way cooler/geekier...and only costs 23x more :D http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/12/10/buffalo.external.240gb.ssd/

This has what to do with the state of the art of SSDs? :p Snow Leopard is going to kick arse next year (spring?)...glad I don't have to deal with all that Winblows crap Merc is deeply rooted in spending a good portion of his waking life to. And Dell is charging an extra $150 to put XP on their...

Please excuse LM's blogger style one word posting. What one might infer (but obviously not everyone :0 ) is that LM meant by that one word question: "What is worse (worst)?" ...in reference to CougTek's >" But there's worst " Meaning, what is worse than Merc's entire life so far, sucking...

INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/09/apple-macbook-pros-nvidia-bad Early production runs of the new 'unibody' 15.4in MacBookPros could have a problem(as well as older body current 17in MBP since they use the...

What % of people view most of your images as 'prints'??? I still have my used Canon T/S 24/3.5 in box, in need of a low priced FF Canon body...doesn't that count? *snif* *snif* :p Best all-around FF body, is the D700; bet Tannin would disagree on that...but we haven't seen the reviews of the...

yer getting married tomorrow and you already have kids? Just as bad as Jessica Alba (wait, did she get married yet?) :p Online the day before the wedding..no bachelor party? Not the answer you want to hear, iChat & a 'green' new MacBook (built-in iSight cam) will make you geek star...

From Galbraith: http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-9318-9761 ... and a staggering $3k price differential that has Rockwell's blood boiling. I say, just boycott all of the expensive dSLR's, we need a <$1.3k full-frame Rebel, damn it! Even the D40 @$400 is too much. Course...

You want to talk about fun, you can't handle fun! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedEx I would imagine you could get the same kind of excuses from lower level employees at each of the above. Could be the boneheaded UPS driver (over the years, no matter who the various dumbarese, BF lazy...

More than enough time to get in some early Blk Fri. sale shopping, return the XSi for the BlkFri sale priced D60 :p D700 vs F5, which is better- film or digital Neekon :D http://fwd.five.tv/videos/challenge-blow-up-part-3 ^^^"my, that's a big one" I'd like to have that printer, or a 4k+...

Best is subjective, X25-E is old news (check the "News" forum once in a while ;) ), limited capacity. Sam's 256GB SSD-disruptive performance...cost? QT rocks! (on a Mac, superior OS as you know ;)...get Snow Leopard Q1 '09).

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/processors/world-exclusive-intel-s-dual-socket-nehalem-ep-platform-benchmarked-487131 Too confusing, two different sockets, which CPU's go into what, Xeon = Nehalem EP? http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3461&p=3...

Why don't you submit 400/hr then? I'm sure jtr would gladly take 400/hr--- as would many, and wouldn't even get our panties in a bunch over his assinine personality quirks. Hardly qualifies as a 'boss from hell' candidate...sorry to say. For that kind of money, speaking of Dilbert and other...

If it's costs less than 3x ($1.5k) the Intel Xtreme 80GB SSD, then we have a winner. It's a year late, since Samsung announced they'd be shipping such a drive, but how long before the 512GB SSD's (that you don't need to sell off a kidney for) come to market...

Image Quality: What's Really Going on in the Sensor? (A solution is at hand) http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1226923202.html ^^^interesting stuff from DxO Labs. Note 'real' ISO, from what the manufacturers are doing. The D700's 25.6K ISO setting is really much closer to true 12.8k! See...

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Coming to a Sony Ericsson camphone near you. http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_details.php?id=17019 http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_pics/17019/SONY_IMX060PQ_2.jpg

If you're into low IQ I suppose....Jessica Simpson. Asia Carrera, Merc knows about big breasts and higher IQ's...but what happens when they get older and out of shape (big breasts)? Fuggly. Who's gonna look better (breast wise) in their 40's or 50's, sans 'enchancement' visits to...