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Actually, they outsource, and the ones I've seen are Prius or Beetle. Link.

Actually, he's talking about the Google Streets car ;)

One of my favorite experiences in Russia was going into this massive church and listening to the choir. They were incredible.

If I thought that likely, I'd stick around and post 24/7 (instead of the 20/7 I do now).

She doesn't need it. Her and the old man combined are comfortably in the #2 seat, and reaching Merc will take a while even if he isn't posting.

A lot of new machines ship with Vista and score about 3.0. I consider these usable. My UMPC scores a lousy 2.1, and even that is acceptable, except for the boot time.

My cable internet has never been down in the 18+ months I've had it. In that time my Vonage telephone has never been down. While I have run out of batteries or been in a bad reception zone, my Verizon cell has never disconnected a call except for those reasons. They may not have 99.99999%...

And the other question is, do most people only have stereos that can output CD-quality sound because that is the quality of CDs? If the quality of the most common medium was much higher, would the average person have a better stereo? (Excluding Tannin, of course)

I thought that both of those were only significantly better if you were outputting in more than 2 channels?

It all depends on your recording quality and your playback device. I don't think I own any audio gear that could do better than what CDs provide.

Doing great now.

Landlines are silly, but I need one for my fax. The only thing hooked up to my landline* is my fax**; no handset at all. *Landline actually is Vonage over cable internet. **Fax machines are silly, too.

I've been running it about as long and having a similar experience. Really loving everything. And as the official release approaches, all of my favorite extensions are coming back on-line.

Well that is frustrating. So what you are saying is that the heatsink that makes it compatible with 3.5" brackets won't make it compatible with 3.5" SATA backplanes? Or that once removed, the 2.5" drive won't be compatible with 2.5" SATA backplanes? And that using the drive as a 2.5" drive...

BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions

I just noticed that my workstation has been up for over 100 days (2413+ hours). Sure I have servers that stay up longer than that, but this is my main desktop. Crazy. Server 2003 SP1, See sig for spec.

Target of? Not that I'm disagreeing, keeping the blinds closed reduces all the chances I can think of. Just wondering...

Yup. My place is not very well insulated, but it is usually better to keep the windows and blinds closed until about 3PM. The inside temperature lags behind the outside provided I'm not making too much heat inside (cooking, lighting, projector, etc).

No idea, I was sitting at the yacht club watching the show.

You nephew is very lucky. Driving into deep water is a pretty rotten way to get killed. [mostly unrelated story] The first day of fishing season is when all the idiots come down to the harbor. Some of these guys just bought a boat, some only come down once a year. All of them drink massive...

No kidding. If I wasn't allowed to buy because there was no danger, I would consider it included for free. ;)

After doing my research on the 450D, I was kind of expecting something like this. They seem to have put all the processing intelligence of the 40D in the 450D, making it physically cheaper (body, AF sensors, controls) but still with all the features in there. That is a pretty powerful package...

I notice comments is already filled out for control panel. Making me think that they don't expose it for us.

Mine too. Sorry.

Some clients have installed it on their own systems without issue. I'm still holding off on an official rollout for another week or so.

I didn't want to derail Tannin's laptop thread, but I hadn't thought of this before. Is it possible to boot from a 32GB ExpressCard SSD? Are there any that are fast enough to see the "SSD benefit"? Has anyone here tried it? Googling doesn't reveal much, and the only ones I see are quite slow...

You mean other than renaming it to something useful? (Right-click, rename)

I agree with everything Fushigi said except this. LCD backlights are on all the time, having the crystals block the light requires additional energy. Having a white background consumes barely less power than black.

My opinion is that the biggest choke points are your RAM and your hard drive, and those can be upgraded in your current system. I would max the ram and get to a 7200RPM boot drive and pocket the change. But on inspection, it seems that there is no 7200RPM drive option in IDE?

Voyager ordered. I'll have some info to share when it is delivered in a couple days. Sucks that I wasn't eligible for a new phone, total cost $440.

You do realize that you are referring to a clearly mac-fanatic site, right? I heard about the new iPhone, and although it is almost cheap enough to be worth it as a regular phone/mp3 player, it is far from a smart phone.

Here is a comparison.

Unhacked, the only provider you can get with it is AT&T (due to an agreement with Apple). Also, unhacked, for the moment, there is no way to get 3rd-party programs on it (IIRC, they are going to change that). If you want a better phone, get an LG Voyager. I've used one, and I'm thinking of...

The fact that people even mention that California has earthquakes is ridiculous considering the frequency and damage of tornadoes and hurricanes. Yesterday was a really, really windy one in Monterey, like 30 knots (35mph). I had to change to the small (90%) head sail less than a mile from the...

Thanks Fushigi, I've passed on the suggestion.

Of course, I picked today to go to IKEA and buy some really heavy furniture. And of course, the elevator wasn't working. 88F http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/Palo_Alto.html

Wow, that is a much more professional rig than the pictures I saw.

On my 20D the RAW images were 6.5-7.5MB (8.2MP) On my 450D the RAW images are 15.5-20MB (12MP) Is there a reason that one third more pixels nearly triples the file size?

From when I was looking, it seemed to be the same as a basic cordless phone battery (plug and everything). If you include some images, I could probably find one for you. There was also a few people who modded it to use an external DC brick rigged to a UPS.

The return is ridiculously far from linear, 20k won't actually get you that much.

A client just lost his Palm and it was replaced with a blackberry. He is giving me the opportunity to recommend something else (Treo?). I have practically no experience with any of them. If you could choose which one to support, what would it be? Requirements: Live updates of Calendar, Inbox...

It's more humid than usual here as well (74%) but at least it's only 16C, with a high for the day of 24C.

er, or not :(

I just got on and everything seems fine.

I just got on and everything seems fine.

I see a 4GB iRAM in there...sweet.

That is very cool. I can see taking 5 steps into the garden and then not taking another step for 300 pictures. On my desk right now are some things that would be interesting to see at this level. The live view at 10x magnification should help enormously with the manual focusing.

I don't think that analogy quite holds. When you look at stuff with your eyes, there is a certain perspective*. Things on both the wide and narrow ends present the viewer with something that isn't normal. It's not just different, it is unusual. *I forget what changes, what this is called, and...

Congrats e-Dawg! Is it the in-body IS that makes it so heavy?

If it works I'll feel far too smug, let me know if it doesn't.