Posts by DF118 596 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Mar 2011
Surely that should be "on the same topic", "continuing the theme" or somesuch phrase rather than "as an apt topic" which comes very close to (but crucially does not actually) mean what you intended it to, given that the topic itself has not changed?
Mine's the one with the well-thumbed, all-weather copy of Fowler's.
You're right you didn't confuse me, but you do sound a little confused yourself. Either that or I was off that day in troll school where they taught us that an earnestly sarcastic reply was the same as being "called out".
What gave me away? Was it the troll icon? Shucks, hope I have better luck next time.
I think what JimC was referring to was using Dolby C during recording and switching NR off completely during playback, which would force a lot of (admittedly messy) high end back out through an otherwise woolly-sounding system - be that because of crappy tape, crappy front-end, or both.
" Why do iphone owners complain about the battery life on android phones (without even discriminating by make or model)? It's like when mac users tell me my pc crashes 5 times a day."
So true. I can't remember the last time my PC crashed, and I get about 4 days between charges with my "Android phone".
The fast-then-sluggish thing is pretty old news and relates more to the lack of TRIM awareness in older Microsoft OSes than it does to in-drive wear levelling. Put it this way, the "64"GB Crucial on this box is packed almost to the gunwales and is running just as fast as it did on day one, which was over a year ago.
Ha! Nice try, however you're more likely to end up an organ donor as a car driver* or pedestrian than you are as a cyclist.
Still, never mind the facts when you want to get your bigoted oar in eh?
* Excluding motorway miles, but then cyclists and pedestrians don't do any of those anyway.
Not even just the later stuff and G-series, but Minolta's first edition autofocus lenses too were universally (with the exception of one or two non-associated kit lens runts) well designed and manufactured. The primes, and constant-aperture zooms like the 70-210 f4 in particular were outstanding. They fall down a little on absolute sharpness in comparison to the competition, but on the flip-side of that they were colour-profile matched across the entire range and gave better colour rendition than the vast majority of consumer lenses both at the time and since.
At first I thought their profusion of models would hinder them, but Sony seem to be really upping the ante in the consumer market and I'm glad to see their kit doing well. I get the impression they are concentrating their R&D on building a loyal following lower down the food chain instead of pouring money into pro/prosumer kit at the top end for minimal gains against the Canon/Nikon behemoth. Still, I'm very interested to see what they're going to come out with next at the top end, if only because it means I might be able to get my grubby paws on a cheap second hand a850/900.
Sony really need to get their lens range and pricing sorted out though. Charging through the nose for a better-than-average lens just because it has a blue square on the side is not the way to win customers. Before anyone jumps down my throat: I know there are no really big omissions from Sony's range (excepting fast telephoto - generally the province of aforementioned pro/sports market anyway); I know there are lots of third party lenses available; I know there is the entire Minolta back catalogue (the vast majority of which are very, very good lenses indeed) but in the face of what Canon and Nikon have to offer, Sony's in-house range is paltry.
Considering Side-Line is a genre mag supposedly dedicated to alternative/industrial/EBM etc. (and it's not even very good at being that) I'd be wary about taking anything they say (which was undoubtedly gleaned from "insiders" specific to a very small portion of the alternative music industry) and projecting it on to the larger music industry.
This whole thing has been blown way out of proportion to the credibility of the original story.
Tis a good app, with one annoying bug (for me at least). It consistently mis-counts the number of unread items in my inbox. I currently have zero unread but it's telling me I have 8.
That minor flaw is totally outweighed by the mere ability to specify IMAP sent/deleted/junk folders, which my default mail app couldn't even do.
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