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Remember the old days and VPS II? :)

By most accounts 1D MK III is quieter than the 1vHS at 10FPS. That one was terribly loud at 10FPS and not so bad, but still loud, at 7FPS. After you use the fast cameras like F5 (w/9 cells), 1vHS (w/NP-E2), 1D MK II etc, for some time, the sounds are second nature. Current Canon bodies tend...

Which gear are you using now for wildlife and what are your main limitations?

No, it must use a rear filter. The newer Canon long teles (with IS) use a 52mm rear filter and the Sigma one may be larger, but not that much. The front of modern long teles (Canon and Nikon at least) have a built in UV filter to protect the front elements. The newer ones have a slight...

Heh, I considered posting about the 200-500/2.8. :) It is really more of a showpiece lens than a practical one. It is too large and heavy to use on a monopod for sports and Sigma already has the 300-800/5.6 for the birds. The 200-500 won't fit as an airline carryon. As ISO 6400 and beyond...

Yeah, I heard the same at three businesses already. What, is Microsoft so stupid they never considered that DST would ever change in the future? Savings time return to standard time was dispensed with as recently as the 70s to save fuel. Before that was during WWII wacky DST and DDST, and...

At 1AM is it time to go to bed or go out on the town? ;)

It's already starting. The calender is off though corrective patches were applied and people are of course complaining. Great. :(

Sometimes the concept is more important than the money.

Oh my! The error messages fooled me. I was not allowing enough time for the OS to go though all the drivers, etc. and load. TI10 finally loads after nearly 3 minutes. :) Thanks.

People who have a lot of gas spend less on electricity.

Where is the average so low? About $300/month is typical for ordinary 3-bedroom home, nothing fancy. I suppose it depends on where one lives.

Apparently he was a member here for a while, but not in a few years. http://www.storageforum.net/forum/member.php?u=120 I was still more active on SR not long before that time.

Did you look at Joe's site? I mean Joe from SR, aka Radboy.

So for those of us not making a buck off of the IT resource requirements, and not intersted in the politics, what effect is there? Can I just run Chronos as usual or will the files all have incorrect dates if read by a future computer?

Wow, a blast from the past! Whatever hapenned to Joe, or is he around under another name?

I want to be able to make and restore partition C: images from the computer. True Image 10 offers this and also restores the MBR and Track 0 needed for Photoshop, etc. Unfortunately in the full version it hangs on drivers after the reboot to restore C:. The safe version works fine from CD or...

That is a good thing considering the literacy level of a typical user in PST. ;)

It was down again in the afternoon.

Sorry, Paugie. We miss you too. :(

Yeah, I guess it was. Now, I'm not sure it is so safe. Somebody is probably keeping track of all this surfing and it will come back around.

I'd expect a faster CPU, but the gaming kids probably have bigger hard ons for the WD 10K drives. The gauche appearance of the case seems about right. ;)

Perhaps he is referring to IS? Some of the old-style IS lenses experience rapid image drift when stabilization is engaged on a tripod. For example IS should be turned off when the Canon 300/4 IS and 100-400 IS are used on a tripod. Teles introduced in the past 7 years or so do not have this...

There are no side visors, either? That is ridiculous. I predict that 7-10 years down the line there will be many of these cars with cracked windshields/roofs being driven around.

Another gem from Rockwell. :rolleyes: He should just buy a P/S and leave the photographers alone.

More bits is better when using curves that squeeze details from the highlights and especially the shadows. Of course extra bits are only useful if the sensor has sufficiently low noise to provide meaningful data, which is presumably the case. I'd have less interest in the extra bits for...

Well, I thought it was fairly expensive. There isn't any on the free TV, only PPV or whatever you all do (DVDs or tapes??).

Whatever. I have better things to do with money than spend it to watch other people copulate.

Of course teen boys live in the fantasyland, but I don't quite see the obsession for an adult. I mean after a while it would get boring - naked women are basically all the same. Since I never order the pornos, maybe there is something missing.

Why does the computer power up and boot when the USB flash drive is removed with the power off? There is nothing in the BIOS I can find. It is very annoying.

I don't see anything and the download never gets to the 160Mb mark. Based on the comments, perhaps it is better not to view the videos.

If you are a true boron like me, not interested in the pornogs or the cars, then what?

Site has been down occasionally, but briefly, as has always been the case. Status quo...

Whatever happe

Flash memory prices are falling rapidly. http://www.sandisk.com/Corporate/PressRoom/PressReleases/PressRelease.aspx?ID=3723

ReadyBoost? What is that, an ED treatment? :)

The Ultra II is rather slow. Consider the Extreme III (2x faster) or Extreme IV (4x faster). I'm not sure how well the adapters perform however.

Tony, Buy the 1D MK III now and get a 1Ds MK III later if needed. Unless the latter is designed with a substantially lower pixel pitch, you will be better off with the former for most wildlife. The 1D series 1.25x crop factor is undesirable for landscapes however.

I think Tony will really like it compared to the 20D. The 1D MK III's resolution is slightly less, but given the high ISO performance it will be reasonably usable with 500 and 2x. Generally 1D MK II/n users are happy with the announcement, but 1Ds MK II users since 2004 are mainly disappointed...

I'm not a PJ or sports photog, nor do I need to shoot in caves. Canon still has nothing to compare to the linear density of the D2X and no decent long zoom like the 200-400VR. At least if new Canon had 12MP at 8FPS, or better yet 14MP at 7 FPS, it would be of some use. Of course that would...

I had a Montenegro last time - some unknown kind of Mercury (Ford???). Not too bad, really.

Yeah, most of us were up late last night waiting for the official announcement and reading the white paper, etc. The 1D MK III is a terrible disappointment for people like me, still waiting for the 1Ds MK II's replacement. :(

Why don't you just buy a normal car?

That is crazy and very lucky. Don't they check the detailed weather reports?

I doubt that info could be made public without approval from the suppliers. Usually there are some contractual obligations to that effect. Sometimes it is in the Quality Agreement.

It should be backslashdot then. :)

So if I decide to become a construction worker, then I should buy a big Chevy truck, is that it? ;) But if I have to move up to New Hampshire for 2-3 years, what would be a reasonable car for a normal driver?

Is all that stuff really needed for driving on pavement even in snow? A guy at work has one of those Subaru type of station wagons with just normal (rather small) tires and drove over some pretty snowy/icy roads, passing stuck vehicles without much problems. It made me nervous though.

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I saw that linked somewhere, too. Interestingly there was no heat factor failure correlation up to 50 °C.