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Oh yes, LM. Two reasons: first, it's a crop from a larger original. I'd have needed 800mm or more to get nothing but the bird in frame. (I could have done it with the digiscope (~2500mm in 35mm equivalent terms) but didn't have it with me, and would probably not have got it set up fast enough to...

Look, just one more thing. Would you rather go to a party and met girls? Or go somewhere else and do this? I know who I'd rather meet.

Tea threatened that I would have something to say on this theme a few posts and a couple of days ago. Parties are horrible things a lot of the time. It isn't that there is anything wrong with the idea of a party as such, rather, it's that in the vast majority of cases, the majority of other...

That's east to fix, Liam. 1: remove hard drive. 2: remove floppy drive 3: remove optical drive 4: discard remainder, replace with real parts. Simple!

The swellingest part of Tea is her head, of course. But apart from that she's fundamentally a nice person.

In general, you are supposed to put your best tyres on the rear, so as to avoid oversteer. But that's crap. Put your best tyres on the front, because the front does most of the steering and almost all of the braking. Just remember that your rear end is likely to step out sideways in the wet and...

Ahh, it's around. Somewhere.

Um ... yes. Look, I just said that the expensive watch people were stupid, OK? I didn't say that I wasn't stupid, just that they were. So I'm stupid too, OK?

Longines.

Quite sure. Oh, no wait. I do have one that I wear to weddings and funerals. Haven' been to either in quite a while.

Nope. Why bother? Especially not with those stupid expensive ones.

I used to be normal about watches. Like I usually wore one. Used it to tell the time with. Mostly, I liked digital ones. Never spent a lot on them, just wanted to know what time it was. Trouble with analogue readouts is that it's too easy to glance at it carelessly and be a whole hour out...

UMA = Unified Memory Architecture = shared memory video.

1: Announce in hope. 2: Wonder if the announced product line has anything much to do with the designs you have in development. 3: Announce something else, just in case. 4: Keep working on the new designs. Change things as you go along because some of them work better than others. 5: Announce...

The key advantage will be to reduce inventory costs. Right now, the absolute minimum we have to carry in stock is: UMA Socket A (Gigabyte) UMA Socket 754 (Gigabyte or Epox) Socket 754 (Gigabyte K8NS) Socket 939 (Gigabyte ... er ... can't remember the number) Give me a cheap UMA 939 board (and...

Good lord no! An average professional photographer spends 40% of the working week going to other people's weddings and/or product launches and/or car accidents, and 58% of the week buggerising around trying to find people wiling to give him money in exchange for pictures. Oh yes, and 2% of his...

They lost the plot with Testbed 3, and, it seems, are utterly determined to maintain the silliness no matter how much evidence stacks up. The strident tone of the intro is in itself a giveaway: if you really have a better way to measure performance, you wouldn't have to shout so much about it...

No saltys down here, CityK. Bit too cool for them. Besides, they like water. The Wimmera has practically no water. The water in the pictures of Tea's above is pretty much all the same thing, the Wimmera River, which is a bit of a strange one. In the natural state it is ephemeral, flows for maybe...

Essentially, I don't watch TV. But dimly remembered from back before I had a life (well, about three lives actually, but I'm trying to squeze them into one) these are the first ten things I remember watching at least semi-regularly. RULEZ: Must be a series not a oncer. I've added hints for the...

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Fair enough, Merc. I do make exceptions from time to time, and your recommendations carry a lot of weight with me. (Except, of course, when it comes to video cards!)

For me, that's exactly it: written entertainment. I don't have a VCR, nor a DVD player, and barring a few isolated instances each year, don't watch television. Life is too short to waste great scads of it watching movies on TV.

Reminds me of Osbourne. (Australian company, probably nothing to do with the US Osbourne.) They had something like 20% of the Australian market and their new CEO decided to double their market share. (!) His method? Buy on credit, sell on a pay-now, get-your-system-later basis, and price stuff...

Should I try that post again? Nahhh ... mutilated as it was, I think the point is clear enough. (Who? Me? Proofread?)

Nice to know that Acrobat 7 is better, Merc. Acro 5 is getting a bit long in the tooth but I'm damned if I'll crud-up people's machines by loading Acrobloat 6 on them, so it sounds like 7 is the way to go.

Nope. Not win-win. Don't you get it? More fossil fuel use = global disaster. It's really, really simple. You dn't need to buggerise around the edges of the problem by using less foreign oil, you need to use less. It's like being too fat. There is only one real and practical answer: eat less food.

Well, I always did used to call it the Useless Serial Bus. :(

Errr ... do you guys get it? It doesn't matter if it's easy and cheap to convert coal to oil, it's not the point. The point is using less fossil fuel. Any fossil fuel. The fact that we are starting to run out of the easiest and most convenient one is all-but irrelevant. If you keep burning...

Cute. And I usually avoid Flash the same way I avoid heavy traffic, TV evangalists, and ATI video cards. What confused me for a while is that it shows the correct time. "How can it be showing Saturday PM, just after 9 o'clock?" I wondered. That's the time here. Seems that it knows about time...

Hmmmmm .... I sure hope his Visual Basic coding is better than his HTML coding. (Or whatever language it's written in. Looks like he's doing the web page with MS Office, which can be relied upon to output horrible code that breaks browsers every time.)

Wow! Lunar Mist, you have an extraordinary memory! (But there were some good posts in there - hey, with working material provided by the Quantum PR Department goons, it wasn't hard to raise a chuckle or two. Was it Maxtor or Quantum that had the drive "especially designed for the Pentium III"...

Actually, I was thinking it was in poor taste - the original remark, I mean. But no matter, Buck is big enough and ugly enough to deal with it, methinks.

No-one who has not studied at least several of the humanities and/or social sciences could ever be properly called "educated". People who have studied only within one narrow and restricted realm are not really people at all, not in the sense of being intelligent, situationally-aware human...

I'm sure that the optics will be plenty good enough for me, LM. I only publish on-screen (very rarely print, and never large format print), and in any case I'm coming from good quality consumer-grade digicams - Nikon Coolpix 4500s and a Canon Powershot A95, both of which seem fine to me. I'll...

The Samsung 200GB and 250GB drives are two-plater units, Mubs. I assume that other makers have similar products.

It's archival storage I need, no great need for read-write. (Well, backup obviously, but CDR does that just fine.) (Only a combo drive in my Thinkpad, the DVD-R was $400 extra this time last year when I bought it.) No spare USB ports - scungy IBM only give you two, which get external KB and...

It's a classic dumbed-down-for-morons UI, with a whole stack of stuff stripped out because they think people are stupid. They are, unfortunately, right in most cases.

Dateline: Friday last week. I ordered a 20D, a 100-400 IS, and (on your recommendation) the 17 - 85 IS too. I am now officially broke.

120GB in a laptop drive. Very tempting! Upgrade now? Or wait till Samsung release one? But if I wait, Hitachi (or someone) will probably have a 160GB out. Do I really, really trust any drive that doesn't have a Samsung badge anymore? Not really. I'll wait. But Fujitsus were always pretty...

Yup. Seems like a fair enough beef to me. Secret EULAs suck.

Err ... what are they talking about? 28th September on the dateline? I down loaded a Seamonkey alpha months ago. But great news nevertheless. The Firefox UI is, bluntly, a pile of crap. Mozilla eats it. The king is dead. Long live the king!

Toshiba's website is useless. Try looking for a driver for the wireless LAN chip that the scumbags do not include with the notebooks they sell despite prominently advertising "wireless LAN" for them, and which you have to buy seperately for an extra $140 and then wait three weeks for and which...

Yup. That's the path I'm following, Will. Looks like I should stick to it, at least for now. If I ever need the sort of stuff Bill posted about (which I might before too long), then the transition should not be too painful.

Hmmm ... a very interesting point of view in that article you linked to Doug. In a nutshell, it boils down to three points: 1: HTML is a crappy and bastardised sort of language with a lot of limitations and is (in the author's opinion) dead in the water. 2: XHTML in its present form is...

(sorry. won't happen again.)

The Soup Nazi recommends CloneDVD 2. Copies, shrinks, and burns all in one go. Unlike DVD Shrink, it allows you to retry if you have a read error (like a scratch or something).

But even with them, you can apply patches and stuff to maintain HPFS compatibility. Not that it matters, as most OS/2 users these days are presumably running JFS instead. Very nice file system.

You mean no-one guessed already? :)

1: I defy you to tell the difference in a proper double blind test between 68F and 69F. Hell, I don't reckon you could reliably tell the difference (under scientific test conditions) between 32C and 33C. Nor could I. of course. 2: Now there is another extraordinary thing about this backward...

NTSC is a dated, horrible, inferior old standard that would have been abandoned along with the inch, the Farenhight degree, and the fluid ounce many years ago if it wasn't still used in a technically backward and deeply conservative country called .... No no, wait. I think they still use those...