Re: Ahh, nice try
Useless for me too. I'm a train driver and need a vehicle that can carry upwards of 300 people whilst running on standard guage rail track.
It would appear that GM haven't considered my needs at all in designing this.
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Jim - is that an educated response or one based on "This is a compact therefore any D-SLR is better"?
Numerous reviews by extremely experienced photographers have stated that the NEX-& is a superior camera to most, if not all, budget D-SLRs and the equal to many of the semi-pro ones available. (The ones it's not the equal of, it generally surpasses).
I'm interested in the NEX-7 myself to replace my LX-3 and to partner my 1Ds II and I'd be interested to hear your reasons why the NEX7 is lacking.
I must admit to strongly suspecting that you are not fully aware of the critical acclaim the NEX-7 has been receiving...
Steve
You just told us why:
"Yes they are portable just like a netbook
Yes they are as powerful as a full blown laptop
Yes they are more practical than a tablet"
Whether or not that's worth paying more for is up to you. If not, don't buy it, but these things hardly make them a "fashion item"
Steve
I love your satire: You know full well that a lot of Internet users don't have the brain power or comprehension skills to not jump to the conclusion that "I like a lot of the openness I see in Facebook or Google, and how things can interplay on the Internet." = "LETS MAKE APPLE AS OPEN AND SECURE AS FACEBOOK" and so you get in there first. Well said.
Steve
not read the original study, but nothing in here to suggest causation or a correllation. i.e. watching porn causing a crap life or crap life makes them watch porn?
Also - 20% would rather watch porn than be at it with a woman - so 80% would rather have the real thing but presumably aren't getting it?
Also - a lifestyle involving 'extreme' or 'excessive' porn causes trouble? Is that like saying the majority of people into armed robbery said that it ruined their lives, leading to legal trouble, job loss and social exclusion?
Inquiring minds...
Steve
Nothing wrong in a language which only has 'goto' for flow control. How do you think assembler implements those fancy 'Do..While' and 'For...Next' structures? That's right - 'IF...THEN', manually decremented/incremented counters and 'GOTO' - much that same as you'd have to do ti in BASIC.
If you understand how it works at a low-level, it's easier to appreciate it at high-level.
Steve
Nice machine, and all these posts about iPads have convinced me that I must have been dreaming on those occasions in the past when I've connected physical keyboards - wirelessly and wired - to my iPad.
Nothing against the Asus, but bear in mind that you have a couple of options to use a keyboard with an iPad.
Steve
"If this is a replacement for the 20d, where does that leave the 30d, 40d, 50d and 60d ..."
It isn't - it's a replacement for the 20Da
"At this price point this cannot be a regular DSLR"
Well done - you kept up this far.
"and therefore really only appeals to Astrologers"
...keep going...
"anyone looking for a regular Canon DSLR will go for a regular 60d or one of the 1000 range, and certainly not this."
Congratulations - you've worked out that this camera is different!
"Best of luck with this niche market turkey Canon.........."
Amongst astrologers, the 20Da is highly respected, so it probably will be.
Might go and post a comment in a story about a new SSD that this can't be a normal hard drive and that people who want a tradional hard drive will look at tradional hard drives and that at this price, it'll won't appeal to people who value cost/gigbyte over performance.
Sorry - not much patience today...
e.g. A 15-year old boy and girl are sleeping with each other. Therefore they are both vile, filthy paedos. Then one has a birthday and is now 16. They are still a vile, filthy paedo but the other one suddenly isn't overnight. They then turn 16 are suddenly both are beautiful young lovers.
Of couse, if they lived in another country, then neither of then might have been paedos in the first place. Or they might still be.
Or if they were on a cruise ship crossing into national waters they might both have been transformed to/from vile, filthy paedos instantaneously.
See? Black and white.
This was touched upon in the book 'Freakonomics'. The actual risk of danger is overshadowed by the horror/disgust of the possible outcome e.g. John and Mary won't let their little girl play at her friend's Ashley's house, as Ashley's father has a gun and the girls might find it. and start playing with it. She can, however, go and play with Kaitlin, whose family has nice house with a pool. This is despite the fact that apparently, the pool is 500 times more likely to kill their daughter than the gun.
The headline "Little girl dies in pool accident" evokes commants of "What a shame" and feelings of sadness. "Little girls dies after playing with friend's father's gun" causes outrage and horror and a determination to get tough on guns.
Steve
You don't get it, do you?
"Extemely (sic) Limited but looks nice." - your paraphrase, not theirs. So "Looking nice" is a bad thing now, is it? Besides, it didn't say that; it said that the interface was very slick, which is a different thing altogether (it also didn't say "Extremely limited").
So what's with the mentality that Good GUI = nothing more than eye candy = something to be sneered at? Perhaps anything with a CPU in it should have nothing more than a command line interface? (Command line? those are for script kiddies. Real men use assembler).
"the department's chief information officer at the time, Christine Connelly, warned that it would be cheaper for the DH to keep its contract, rather than extricating itself from the deal, as CSC could seek substantial damages."
Who negotiated a contract so bad, that if the supplier fails to deliver they can sue you for terminating it?
"Apparently we've given up on making cars people want to buy (e.g. good fuel consumption, low maintenance, etc.) and now make ones that look like something from a Japanese version of Dragon's Den."
Quite. Let's get the people responsible for design, styling, ergonomics etc and put then to work on engine design and the mechanical bits...
Rememebr that bit from HGTTG when the hair stylists were trying to invent the wheel - "OK - you tell me what colour it should be!".
Don't forget...
"These people are almost certainly also child abusers, and stole the iPad so as to access the loving family photos on it which have been embedded with Apple's clandestine user-tracking software (aka GPS data). The drug-pushing, terrorist, movie-stealing paedophiles will then track down the children in the photographs and abduct them, to bring them back to their apartment and abuse and eat them whilst playing video-games and watching their pirated movies"
Personally - and I know that for others, this may not be true, I feel that Macs give me better value for money. My early Intel MacBook Pro is still fast & reliable and I don't have to spend my precious home time (working abroad during the week, when it's used by my wife) to fix it at weekends (I program IBM mainframes in Assembler - the technical challange of fixing PCs/Macs is trivial). I've spent in excess of 15 hours over the last few months fixing friends' Windows machines. (addressing slowdowns and HDD upgrades).
Yes, it was expensive, but £1700 for a no-maintenance laptop that is still running fast after 5 years is good value. Hopefully my 18 month old coreI7 macBook Pro will be as good.
I have more and more friends asking me about Macs and I generally recommend them with the caveat of the high initial cost (although lower TCO perhaps) and if they have any essential PC software (AutoCAD, for one friend) then the Boot Camp/ Parallels situation.
I also think that creating home movies, photo books and calenders etc is easier and much more fun with iLife but again, YMMV.
Steve
...that the guideline may state 'past convictions are no evidence...' etc etc, but a juror's thinking is subjective. Perhaps the evidence against the defendant is almost irrefuteable, but that the jurors found him/her not guilty beacause "such a smart/nice young/old man/woman. I don't believe they could have done it so I'll ignore the evidence and let them off." Perhaps if they had known that the defendant was, in fact, capable of the crime then the result would have been different.
I'm not saying that all past convictions should be releaveled, but it's certainly not black & white. The same rule should also apply to wintesses/victims etc.