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Damn, LA is starting to turn into Seoul (behind looking like Mexico city in many parts ;), tagging is up 50% from just a few years ago, notorious tagger with BA degree from local art school was just busted by his PO for violating probation and tagging again, video posted on Youtube...dumbarse...

Well I see Samsung/Korean old-school sexist commercialism works well in the modern world :). I didn't think she looked all that great, but she's not wearing as much makeup as some, looks better than the one on the right in the Samsung laser printer announcement (too bad they are not available...

LED & reg. Billboards All of these have changed since I took them during the last mini-heatwave weekend, 3-4wks ago. Was in the mid 60F's @8-9PM, I was walking around with the lightweight tripod, knowing I'd never get these shots without it...long exsposures, no way to handhold. Amtrak, guess...

Are you on dialup right now dd, reason for dbl post, cause SF site is *very* slow right now (wasn't that way earlier in the day)? Pix look much better than I could take with my 4yr old 5MP PnS Oly. I should take some pix of the LCD screens/subby in LA sometime...now if I could just find a body...

Prototype currently, we'll see if they actually have it in production before 2009. Spanks all HDD now and in the future, but will it cost less than current 128GB SLC drives, which are still very expensive, cost more than any 15k rpm HDD? http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/9401.html (well...

Nikon 24mm/3.5. Newer design, more elements, longer barrel, higher IQ; but still from what I've read, can't compare to either 90mm TS of either Canon or Nikon. I haven't seen any adapters that allow Nikon TS lens to work on a Canon body, only the other way around, IIRC. You'll see from the link...

Do you have some examples/links @F2.8? From this on a 1Ds MkII Canon body, looks *much* sharper than T/S 24mm @any aperture. http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?FLI=0&API=0&Sample=0&FLIComp=0&APIComp=0&LensComp=349&CameraComp=9&SampleComp=0&Lens=249

1/2 way around the world and dd's still silly :bglaugh: 4x5 sheet film, medium format (don't you read Ken Rockwell :p )...or 8x10. real men like Ansel Adams. Last time I used the OM2 was in 2000, took fine picts during the daylight, that on a 10-15yr old silver oxide battery replacement for...

Current Canon rebates http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1211257339.html 40D is $200 off, 5D $300 Difficult to consider the 450D at current newly released price of $800 for the body alone, when with rebate the 40D goes for just $140 more, only thing the 450D has over the 40D is an extra...

Higher prices for oil based fuel should do the trick (only then will the knee jerk, poorly planned for 'alternative' fuels bandwagon be realistically jumped on with bad consequences for a decade or two until, the best/better solutions work their way through the survival of the fittest-bun not...

what time of day/night is it exactly? I guess that means no real-time video from Russia via a lappy webcam then :( ? It you're on dialup, then yes a sucky connection, anything faster is bliss in comparison. So is that city 90% just like SF? (except for more vodka).

:confused: You are up @7AM PST?, it's 2 days later, so we can take it you are in Moscow, which is not on the 'east coast'. Aren't there something like 5 or 6 time zones from east to west? In other news, last surviving member of the Kennedy political family dynasty will die of brain cancer...

Interesting your perspective dd, from my aging eyes, SF and LA have always been distinctly different, maybe similar 'west coast' vibe, but I see plenty of differences...I like SF a bit better, FWIW. Seattle different still, and while I just shoot through Portland on my way to Seattle (driving)...

How Irrelevant Imagery Can Influence Basic Male Choices http://ts-si.org/content/view/3093/992/ Sex and financial risk taking...seems to go hand in hand, ehmm, with males :p Sex, financial risk linked in brain http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-04/05/content_6593405.htm edit: just...

Something Random: LA metro more advanced than NYC? Video to watch at this link, wondering how good the sync is on these when the subs are traveling at speed? Now all they have to do is add Universal Studios "surround sound" to these ads :D...

Webcrawlers/spiders mostly I would guess. Still, up to 226 members recently, the spammers are relentless :(. Google’s CAPTCHA busted in recent spammer tactics

News flash dave, you look like a tourist, anything you have not a close grip on is screaming "steal me" (best hope they don't rob you too :( ). Will you make it onto the internet (SF) everyday as per usual, via a lappy & wifi at the local Starbucks :D , and post up some pix from Russia with love?

http://www.bevmo.com/productlist.asp?No=30&N=168+41+4294956624&Nr=Store%3A99&area=beer Coopers extra strong vintage, with a few years on it to smooth it out:drinka: But in the heat of summer, I prefer something a bit more 'crisp' with less body...but still with good texture of being...

Going to be difficult to justify a Super Talent 120GB SSD @$699, when you can get in excess of 2.5x storage capacity, for less than 1/2 that price in the new Travelstar 7k320 (which is back down to normal levels of power consumption, 25% less than the prior 7k200 of one year ago). Hitachi...

The dark side of the economic boom in China http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-fg-suicide24apr24,1,6385946.story I would recommend Merc not read this thread/article, too depressing.

The new "low-carb" diet ;) so stop eating meat & cheese & dairy products, become a vegan & a "locavore" (eat locally produced foods)...toss that BBQ ddrueding :p. *note* LATimes typically removes stories from their website within a short time period, so they can make you pay for archived...

Still too expensive, 40MBs write speed is only equiv to 5.4k rpm notebook drives, but lower in price than previous SSD's...maybe next year price will drop in 1/2 again, with incremental performance increases? http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/05/06/super.talent.120gb.ssd/

LOL, Speed Racer? Get Smart remake of the lame TV Series...uggh! Love Guru, possibly the worst Mike Meyers movie yet...still Sincity Pt2, or anything with J. Alba is worth the DVD rental someday, just for the drool factor :D HiDef trailer on AOL...

Probably true, but there is no way to harness that solar radiation w/100% efficiency. Nuclear fission or fusion are the best bets for the future (cept in Russian contracts :p ). Brazil energy independent for how long, as long as there is a sizable population that doesn't use much energy, ok. But...

NSFW-timwit alert I'll take the red one on the left ;), no I mean the one on the right :p http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_details.php?id=15918 You know what, both of these pictured printers, being laser tech, are too tall for my liking (short, skinny little Asian babes work for me ;) )...

Of imported oil, IIRC California currently gets ~30% from Saudi sources, next largest source, Venezuala?. Oil companies are reporting record profits so I won't cry over their 'low-profit' margins when they are still making billions (sure the countries in the mid-East where the oil fields are are...

$42.98, incl shipping for 20 of what I presume are labeled as 2200mah AA hybrid cells from Pro Power (oddly enough, when you go to the Accessory Genie website, the same 20 are $5 more?) Pro Power 2200mah LSD AA Get an amazon visa card, get instant $30 credit, price for 20 of these cells comes...

http://earth2tech.com/2008/04/22/pictures-of-dells-eco-bamboo-computer/ Well, why not? probably durable enough to last the average life span of 0.8 yrs of the average consumer PC :p. On a side note, I was researching a trip to HK- which will not likely happen soon :(, and I found it...

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/04/21/lenovo.thinkpad.t.all.wide/ No comment from me :D

only two things could get Merc back here as bait. 1st one you can't get him :p. 2nd is good pizza. Time to start the annual 'Pizza pledge drive for Merc' thread?

So I was looking at the resolution charts for the new XSi/450D Rebel. Using F2.8 on the 200mm L lenses as a comparison with the same on the 5D, it's not looking all the great...seeing how they are both same MP, roughly. So that's the difference btw FF and 1.6x crop, and a generation or two in...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/17/macs-run-vista-better-pcs There you go jtr, for that M$ Train sim- Vista only, you should get a Mac (well not really, PC's are easier to upgrade) ;) Let the dismissive flamin begin :D

Geeezsuuus, holy E'fn Christ! This is the fastest dialup d/l I've ever seen! :p 7:54 sec for 10MB!!! (ooops, sorry, got too excited, I meant 7:54 minutes per Camino under OS X 10.3.9, cause even Safari 3.01 under 10.5.2 didn't seem much faster on a dialup connection on my older lappy :( )...

1Ds III...killer coming soon? http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1021&thread=27581087 Could a D3x be ready for the Bejing Olympics, probably not. But soon enough a Canon killer will be released. Just wonder if they will undercut the price of the 1Ds III at all, and drop the...

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/04/15/seagate.vs.stec/

What's your viewing distance that you are comfortable with on the 56in DLP? I find I can easily be 10ft away from any 50in LCDTV. If you are putting this on a table/dresser to match up with the height of a large bed, I'd wait and go for the 46in (will probably cost ~$2k+ initially :( ) Sony...

Samsung FF dSLR in the works? Will the sensor be used in an upcoming Pentax FF dSLR? Will this be the added competition needed to finally get 1/2way affordable, smaller/slimmer (as opposed to reduced width in entry level dSLR's) & lighter weight FF dSLR's to the masses? Darn, I can't wait until...

imdb? Is that a quote from Merc, sometime earlier before he stopped posting here? If that's *your* feelings, seems you and Merc are sinking in the same boat then? There is nothing that can make you smile or laugh even in your worst hours of misery- sometimes just something little can be really...

Yeah, I read that. But if he's got an Edmund's Sci 433Hz w/remote temp/humidity sensor, or similar inexpensive radio clocks that have no external antenna, it doesn't matter (btw, the ES model I have does have a short 3in swivel position antenna and it still can't pickup the signal). I have the...

I take it jtr finished his taxes.^^^ Hmmm, how do we get this animated roflamo.gif into the smiles section? Ah crap, can't get it to work, won't even display as an attachment

Pro gear are heavy tanks, got to be the Govenator to wield those regularly. Thats why all us plebians wait for the lighter, slimmer, smaller plastic bodied <$2k FF Canon or Nikon's bodies to come out, or maybe Oly with more compact 35mm lens history, since Sony/Minolta line of lenses are too...

Umm, cause we do no your history... and wasn't Jessica Alba engaged @21 only to break it off with the handsome hunk of her co-star in Dark Angel, after ~2yrs. Now she's preggers, about to give birth, and they're still not married...not that I pay much attention to that, just the random news...

Can't find any good deals on low self-discharging batteries these days. CostCo doesn't regularly stock Sanyo's, but now Circuit City (haven't been in to a Best Buy store in ages), and other stores that carry AA NiMH rechargeable are starting to stock these newer LD batts, Bed & Bath national...

Yes! http://www.micron.com/about/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=0A177262EFA2B68E (as in , yes they will be painfully expensive when they 1st hit the market ;) ). 2GB DDR3 'in production' (but none I could find with Google) now. Data rates support up to 1333Mbs, just in time for Monteviña 1.5v v 1.8v...

:rofl: Ya got that right, 'bout only thing you got right, lol ur an idiot, yet another Nazi-Bush rant again...this from the former penal colony- takes all kinds. Especially those who have a terrible lack of knowledge about the USA or any of it's presidents, or the general history of the world...

It's been state law in Calif for several years now, that both fluro bulbs and HID's, which contain mercury in small amounts, are now classified as hazardous waste no matter who the user is, and must be removed from standard trash to be handled by a approved hazardous waste facility. Residential...

Care to post up some facts to back your claims? "Uses up power like mad", wouldn't make any sense to have a 50w CPU that had 45w RAM. Q9300 has a TDP of 95 watts. Sorry, it can't come close to the L5420- 50w is not merely an easily brushed aside *minor* reduction, "lower power envelope"; it is...

http://www.intel.com/products/processor/core2quad/specifications.htm Also at Tigerdirect, same price http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3584440&sku=CP2-DUO-Q9300&CMP=ILC-FPM05 Not very awesome, IMO. Xeon L5420 just announced at similar price range...

MHZ2 BJ series, 1st announced 320GB lappy drive @7.2k rpm with same power draw as other lappy drives, must be using 3 platters, though the pdf spec sheet doesn't mention that...at least it's a standard height 9.5mm...

Perhaps post your question on dvnation's SSD forum? http://www.dvnation.com/vForum/showthread.php?t=43 Could be any number of bottlenecks, including the raid controller; you see similar bottlenecks happening with various I/O systems, different Mac's have different FW performance, etc...