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Rain passed earlier today, some light clouds, not as clear as could be, but eclipse is visible...@17+ in the low eastern sky, will hit mid-total @21+ in another 10 minutes. http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/JLEX/JLEX-index.html...

put a couple of GeForce 9800 GX2's into your system, the resulting fire should put out lots more BTU than any space heater :geek: http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/04/geforce.9800.gx2.9600.gt/ http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/02/12/geforce.9800.gx2.in.march/

meh, maybe this should go in the toolbox/reference section? :p After listening to this song, or reading the lastest news on the economy, I guess we could use: http://www.lyricsdepot.com/randy-newman/its-money-that-matters.html http://www.findingoptimism.com/software/overview.html Wait, this...

Today's campaign 2008 political/social missive of the day...words of wisdom. (from another perpetual cynic of the modern western value system, course it could have just as easily applied to the 'trial of the century' in the prior century, lol)...

Was a very nice one on the westcoast in the late '70's I think (almost overhead in the night sky ~9PM), sometime in my teen years, was out in the Mojave desert dirt biking/camping, took either negatives or slides with the trusty Oly OM1 or OM2, not as good as LM's...smaller images, using that...

Crazy s**t, only 25yr old and likewise...too much money, nothing to do with it at all. http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080218/NEWS/802180321/1006/NEWS I still think Handy needs to give dd mod power to terminate all of these spam accounts that have shown up today alone.

The King is dead, long live the king. The King is dead, long live the king. Toshiba drops HD DVD, has no Blu-ray plans http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/02/19/toshiba.drops.hd.dvd/

By whose standards is 'normal'? What do you need a larger than 21" monitor for, state the purpose...wide-screen rules! http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/04/gateway-intros-30-inch-xhd3000-hd-lcd/ If you need a 4:3 ratio monitor of 21in size (anything larger is silly, just use a wide-screen, put...

When you have too much money, and nothing to do with it...this ought to make jtr even more ill than Brittany or Paris :D. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aJ8EZTdrItjs Strangely enough, the UAE, according to the article is only #5 for income per capita, must be all those...

Unless there is something special about a hotel, it is a business, correct? If then, most online stores will ship to a business address, yes? What most will not do is ship to a P.O. Box. But then again, maybe it is different for knives. Lots of internet knife forums, I think there is a...

No, you did not miss anything, other than AMD missing something...as in delayed releases of product lines ;). If you are looking to reduce your carbon footprint more, do like Apple did, go for the brand with the greatest watt/performance stats...Intel, just now moving to 45nm process, while AMD...

Can't we all get along, or get a bong, or get decent digital TV, and HDMI Monstercables too :D or in other words, you get what you pay for? (see comments to the story) http://www.dailytech.com/Report+/article10702.htm

Always good to know that others are worse off than me :p. Well at least you haven't gone psycho on me yet (like she did when I was talking to her on the phone and she just snapped ...then again, could have been the vodka, sound of ice cubes clinking in a glass I think she was drinking, hard...

Windows has you brainwashed very well :0....if you only knew the truth. I'm sure Chinese speakers have great difficulty learning English, and Chinese (Winblows) is simple to them in comparison.

So who will be the innovative leader...like Apple:rotfl: and start a 'something random picture thread' for all of these 'drifting' posts on both this PnS & the dSLR thread??? That aside, all the new 24-28mm wide-angle PnS digicams need to be reviewed, as they interest me more than 6x or greater...

Yep, the world would be much simpler/less complicated if everyone (except Merc of course) would just "Get a Mac" :p

Nope, it already happened, nailed and shut...maybe you missed this thread ;). DVD Hi-Def format war near end, Blu-ray wins? http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6919 Or these news items ;). http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/02/15/toshiba.axes.hd.dvd.soon/...

I don't have 100Mps fiber connection, so I don't load up videos, normal usage with Camino (Mac Gecko ;) ) only consumes ~35% of CPU for but a second while opening 1/2 dozen tabs, then drops to 1%. What is sucky is that it holds on to RAM, keeps taking more and more RAM (according to my Activity...

Me circa 1978, post high-school yearbook photographer (Oly OM1 & 2 :) ), was science/pre-med curriculum while dabbling in computers. My CS prof, had an Altair(sp?) box with dual 8in floppy drives :D, with acoustic coupler for command line connections to mainframe university computers. But soon...

I will have to disagree, apples and oranges comparisons for multigenerational differences, even when tested on exactly the same platform, are not useful comparisons. And on what performance parameters would you be making such a broad assertion? You know what the OP is loading/booting, how large...

I think there was some lemon grass in one of 6 dozen or so of the steamed dumplings I got today for Chinese New Years...I'm sure it was from Empress (regular menu item btw), 'fun gor' (each restaurant will have a different spelling and different ingredients...so YMMV). Left West LA area (my...

I take it like last time Merc went away from SF for a few weeks, he's busy driving all over the place in Indiana & S. Illinois lookin for the best pizza? Trader Joes' ran out of 2006 TBD (which is a blend of somewhat over-ripe Zinfandel from any where in Calif, and Petit Sirah), but I did get...

Popular with thrill seekers here in So. Cal., though I live nearby 'The Hump', last time I was there, the overpriced farmed Spanish otoro was uninspiring @$20 for two pieces :(. Not inclined to pay much more for slivers of what kind of looks like halibut carpacio. Besides, I find some women to...

Please provide links to authorities you rely on for such statements, pro- vegetarian biased maybe...just a guess ;) ? Beef Myths & Facts Meat production is wasteful http://www.beeffrompasturetoplate.org/mythmeatproductioniswasteful.aspx

Mass subliminal voting hysteria, all the election advertising is getting to some of the finest minds here in the USA Tannin :D Was supposed to go into the dSLR thread with all the other CF card as HD questions ;). As DD would tell you, Obama's advertising director of operations would say "this...

I think Handy should raise you to mod level status, so that when you have a brainfart/get distracted, you can move your own threads into the proper forum :D

Title of thread you linked to is what timwhit? I see no review of said Samsung SSD. So whoever put an announcement, of a as yet not in production SSD, has clearly misplaced it in the wrong place :D. I merely put it into it's own thread so those who don't read through every single thread here on...

Why not wait a month or two and get a Wolfdale e8000 series, appears the top of the line expensive E8500 will reliably OC to 4.37Ghz...w00t, dats fast? http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale_12.html

When this happens, do you run any frame rate benchmark tests? Have you tried turning off sound (sound driver incompatibility perhaps), to see if there is a substantial jump in fps? Have you tried lowering the resolution, and seeing if you ever get this happening at lower res (or are you limited...

Passing the Buck on Environmental Damage http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/122/2 As it pretends to be a pointing the blame game type of study, besides the fact it is seriously flawed with inaccuracy, not much point in doing such 'studies', IMO...raising thought/discussion...

sux :D (trying to out do dd in shortness of post comprehension)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080201/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_yahoo Data miner extraordinaire M$ messing with my yahoo mail acct, no Effin way. I'll have to delete that acct. What next, M$ & AT&T merger!!! Hell on earth.

Sony's Canon killer FF CMOS :) There you go Tannin, more MP's, better DR (oh I'm sure we will see mumbling about it is only 12bits...a truer Canofile there ever was :) ). http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08013001sony35mmcmossensor.asp

You did see Merc's latest pizza cravings where he said he was going to go for the 'cheese, hot dogs, and bacon' did you not? Don't think you'll change many minds, just like the Abortion issues (though we do note that Whole Foods has eliminated plastic grocery bags from their stores...off on a...

Vignetting explained here (as well as other optical aberrations): http://www.vanwalree.com/optics/vignetting.html Nikon's been improving the capabilities of Capture NX (but seems lots of people think Adobe Lightroom is better) http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1196129492.html Kind of...

€1829 = $2,705.68 USD...hmm, guess I won't be getting that lens after all :(, not even when it's used. Can this price be correct, or are my conversions just all bassackwards???

Ah crap, double crap... I still don't have that lame Canon 24mm TS-E, sure is taking along time to go through post. Rumor only right now, but from semi-reliable source of other leaks on dpreview forums: For only € 1829 (~$1300 USD or about the same as a new 24mm Canon TS-E) if only it were...

Nah, Merc you're not even close to being as far to the left as you think you are, Kerry and supposedly liberal Dems. On the other hand, Kuniicichcichc (how do you pronounce his name?) Brit wife is hardly "hot as hell" if you compare (well alright, she might not be as jiggly as Merc's Roger...

French...quality Champagne, hard liquor is for old farts (but never mind that Jay-Z has a new fav; Cristal still tickles the palate of most impressionable females worldwide ;)...and that's far more important than any mixed hard liquor drink, IMHO and also that of AMC's auction president in his...

Ewwwww! So gross, now I've lost my appetite for dinner :p Not sure how much of Merc's statement above is truthful, since his own reality distortion may be as far off as Steve-0 Jobs ;). There maybe good pizza in his area, and he may just be a whiner ;). Along with pr0n, Merc seems to get into...

Canon sux, Nikon rules...so says Ken :D http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d3/vs-5d-180mm.htm Almost a guarantee, if the 5D gets updated, it will follow the 40D & new Rebel XSi with silly features and bumped MP 'follow-the-leader' mentality adopted from PnS marketing (or else they foolishly...

While I still don't have my TS-E lens yet (supposedly in transit), Canon has updated the Rebel to a 450D model. Brings it up to similar features added to the 40D, and updated features lacking in the previous model that the competitors had, like spot metering. It's now up to what it should have...

small percentage of total market values is called a correction, it is normal, nothing to get your knickers or panties in a bunch over. The markets will rebound in the long term, have always done so. greedy investors trying to make money quick, they lose. 25% drop hasn't happened, and even when...

Well it can't possibly get better, if you have that attitude. If you really want to see boobies, then rent some Russ Meyers movies, they have lots of big breasted women, and the guys are all seriously major 'boobies', lol. Here Merc, this blog entry ought to cheer you up (I note that 'Sciby' is...

^^^ LOL, that didn't work, was supposed to be in the prior post, so 7 minutes after initial try UR SOL! But at least the 1st time period went right to the 5 minute buzzer :p- which I guess proves I just can't keep track of time when I'm hurriedly trying to edit in a link/ and or image I forgot...

Ah, so there is a limit there somewhere, I wasn't able to edit much past 6+ minutes. Now I'm not sure where the timing sequence begins, but I'm going to do another test (what I tried to say I was going to do, but it wouldn't let me edit :). do in the last edit above). post this and then wait 4...

Well it was less than 5 minutes when I tried my latest post edit, though I was able to edit a post previously if I hit submit in less than 10 seconds, lol. Are you sure that 5 minutes isn't somehow counting 5 seconds instead ;) ? Alright since I had a problem, lets see if I can do the edit I...

http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/tilt_and_shift_ts-e.html For those who don't click on links: Which is why I'm not going to take the time to find out if a standard thickness filter induces additional CA, I'll just go with a thin filter, greased up with some Nye lube, like this...

Mouse or track pad, which is it you're ranting about, make up your friggin mind, or stop saying such nonsensical things, lol. And you might learn about how Apple does it on more *modern* models rather than religiously pointing out old short comings on years old technology. 1 finger trackpad, 2...

Doesn't really interest me, but for the SF whiners...maybe :p It's got the slowest Intel CPU (outside of a Mac Mini) ever offered on a Mac laptop, though I don't see the GPU spec's, I'll bet its the X1000 integrated, or whatever it's called...