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Of course if can fit into a lot of devices if those devices are designed for it. Would it have killed them to make it backwards compatible with the hardware that already exists? I'm sure it has all sorts of lovely features but is it really too much to ask for the designers of this shit to think about future proofing their designs as well as backwards compatibility?

Short answer, yes.

The interfaces for the two card standards are completely different, just as the interfaces for PCI devices were completely changed electrically to PCI-e to increase speeds, and just as the interfaces for ATA and SCSI were completely changed electrically to SATA and SAS to increase speeds.

If you're happy with a 50 MHz, 4 lane parallel bus for I/O, go nuts. Nobody is going to stop selling SD cards anytime soon. But exotic encoding schemes will only take you so far. UFS starts, with a single lane, at 362MB/sec -- faster than the HD312 mode in UHS-II.

You may as well pine for UDMA (ATA Mode 6) SSDs because NVME M.2 is "just what everybody was asking for" and "Would it have killed them to make it backwards compatible with the hardware that already exists?" You have storage compatible with the hardware that already exists -- for the new hardware, such as 4K and 8K video recording devices, that storage really does not cut it.

The SD card format is 17 years old. They future-proofed the horse until it finally fell over and died of old age. You might finally have to accept the transition to an automobile.

There are also whiteboards that automatically scan and optionally print copies of what is on the whiteboard. Everyone gets consistent, persistent notes.

I don't know if there's a generic name, but Panaboard is the brand I've used.

It's nice to have proof of what was and wasn't mentioned during meetings.

IP cameras have become quite cheap, depending on your needs. If you get PoE models they are also far easier to run than traditional cameras, as a single CatE cable can get the job done. I've set up small systems a number of places including my house, and it all works quite well and easily. While you can go the open source route, I found the easiest way is with some Mac software. You can even do it without network DVR software and use cameras that capture to onboard SD cards. I find that inconvenient, but it can be a good backup if your cameras are mounted out of reach but your server isn't.

Checkout, in no particular order:

• Vivotek
• Axis
• Panasonic
• Y-Cam

There's a product for every need. Cheap, $50 indoor lit-room only solutions to $2000 pan/tilt/zoom IR illuminated outdoor vandal proof units.

TrendNet makes affordable PoE switches. 10/100 is fine, an individual camera stream is maybe 2Mbps for a high res stream.

I use SecuritySpy on a Mac. Even watching 8 cameras it uses

Place cameras where you can get good shots of faces as they come through doors. Maybe one of your driveway or street in front to get a car. They won't stop the break in, although visible cameras outside may be a deterrent, but they will give you a fighting chance of catching the person who did it.

Oh, and get a dog with a loud bark. Most robbers don't want to find out if it is a small dog or big dog!

An article about a "beauty re-touch" function without pictures? How useless is that!

I found two examples on the internets and the most obvious difference is a blurring/smoothing filter applied to the regions with skin tones. I'm not convinced this makes anyone more beautiful (the womans white teeth look a bit creepy).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/workshop/5432481125/
http://panasonic.net/avc/lumix/compact/fx78_fx77/img/touch/retouch_image.jpg

I think I still prefer the brown-paper-bag-over-the-head approach for making people beautiful. That, or beer.

Someone should build a P&S that takes interchangeable lenses and then offer a kit with a 500mm mirror lens and a few 2X teleconverters, just to piss off the Kuwaiti heads of Ministries of this and that and the other thing.

You mean something like a Panasonic G2 with a 100-300mm lens?

Someone should build a P&S that takes interchangeable lenses and then offer a kit with a 500mm mirror lens and a few 2X teleconverters, just to piss off the Kuwaiti heads of Ministries of this and that and the other thing.

You mean something like a Panasonic G2 with a 100-300mm lens?

http://panasonic.net/avc/toughbook/why_toughbook/ Ask anyone in the milatary or law enforcement field, these Toughbooks are the best. Panasonic have been leades for a long time. They supply the Toughbooks to the troops in the desert.

There are models that meet MIL-STD-810. Have you seen any of these tried in your environment? Some of them have already been mentioned such as the Panasonic Toughbooks and HP Elitebooks.