Just on seatbelts... in an accident, if you're not wearing a seatbelt then you're a missile in my car. Quite possibly on a ballistic trajectory that intersects with my windscreen or my head. You wear a seatbelt or you get out of my car. And if you're driving, you're still a missile in an accident if you don't wear a seatbelt, and still as likely to be a missile on a ballistic trajectory that intersects your windscreen or my head.
Wear a damned seatbelt.
The one caveat I'd add to this is -- at least in the Nikon world where I live -- that you probably need to decide up-front on sensor size. Yes, you can put a DX lens on an FX body, but you're not using the full-size sensor to its capacity.
Some people might be perfectly fine with owning both FX and DX gear -- a small DX body with a couple of lenses is pretty easy to lug around and you can save the FX and big glass for other jobs -- but not everyone wants to spend that sort of money on it.
OP, definitely look into an SLR system. And as others have said, it's hard to go wrong with Canon or Nikon. I went Nikon (only because I already had a couple of lenses), but I otherwise might have been just as happy with a Canon. SLR gives you a metric arse-load of flexibility. I've shot stuff on my D3 that I would never have been able to shoot on a wee point-and-shoot thing.
Absolutely. I'm no pro, and I do like to buy (albeit infrequently) prosumer-grade stuff, but having said that I would totally recommend an SLR. And "but I've gotten to the point where the images produced by my smartphone aren't cutting it" is very unlikely to stop at just-better-than-smartphone-camera. If all you want is something that's only better than a smartphone, then you'd just save the money and make do with a smartphone.
It only takes one aspergers inflicted admin to make a good long term contributer throw their hands up in the air and say "fuck that shit".
Instead, try: "It only takes one aspergers inflicted user to make a good long term admin throw their hands up in the air and say "fuck that shit". Not that I'm casting aspersions, but is this going on, too?
Memo Australian Government: this is how you make your intergoogle filter work. It comes with the advantage of completely screwing up any credible e-commerce in the country, too, which is handy when you want your economy to be all about being someone else's quarry.
How are the laws unjust? The piracy is still happening, the fact that the pirates also buy stuff shouldn't be a mitigating factor.
When the laws are intended to stop a disadvantage that isn't happening in the first place, they are unjust. The fact that pirates also buy stuff doesn't mitigate the losses and the economic damage cause by the losses because the fact that pirates buy stuff means that there is no loss.
It'd be great to be able to drag officers from DBCDE, OPTUS and Telstra through an inquiry and make them all prove that there was no financial inducement to implement this filter.
Interesting to see that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Liberals don't know how to create a Slashdot account.
If you're claiming that a fibre cable won't support 100Mb/s data rates, you must think we're a bunch of drongoes.
If NBNCo is going to do any filtering, then you'd have a legitimate gripe with it. But that's not the story here. The story is that Telstra and OPTUS have agreed to implement Conroy's intergoogle filter without his having to have a law passed.
If NBNCo did it, we'd be fucked. As it is now, we can just use a different ISP.
The rate at which they can pop up versus the rate at which you can knock them off... not a good strategy. You guys turned that prick into a celebrity. You'll turn the next one into a celebrity. But you need to neutralise him a metric buttload more quickly than you did this clown.
The problem is that detection of this particle is very costly, involving a particle accelerator the length of nearly 35 football fields and a matching scale beneath it.
Are those imperial football fields or metric football fields? It's hard to convert to Libraries of Congress without knowing.
I don't know why this particular event is getting so much attention.
Well, it is the "god particle", you know. Once it is discovered -- I guess "revealed" is a better word for this one -- once it is revealed, it will be the trumpet call of the Lord or some such bullshit.
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Just on seatbelts... in an accident, if you're not wearing a seatbelt then you're a missile in my car. Quite possibly on a ballistic trajectory that intersects with my windscreen or my head. You wear a seatbelt or you get out of my car. And if you're driving, you're still a missile in an accident if you don't wear a seatbelt, and still as likely to be a missile on a ballistic trajectory that intersects your windscreen or my head. Wear a damned seatbelt.
Read "The Sentinel" by Arthur C Clarke.
You've see how whales are slaughtered, right?
It's not having "too many" customers that will kill a business. It's failing to serve them that will do it.
Because bad drivers use gadgets when driving and in doing so risk their own and others' lives.
The one caveat I'd add to this is -- at least in the Nikon world where I live -- that you probably need to decide up-front on sensor size. Yes, you can put a DX lens on an FX body, but you're not using the full-size sensor to its capacity. Some people might be perfectly fine with owning both FX and DX gear -- a small DX body with a couple of lenses is pretty easy to lug around and you can save the FX and big glass for other jobs -- but not everyone wants to spend that sort of money on it. OP, definitely look into an SLR system. And as others have said, it's hard to go wrong with Canon or Nikon. I went Nikon (only because I already had a couple of lenses), but I otherwise might have been just as happy with a Canon. SLR gives you a metric arse-load of flexibility. I've shot stuff on my D3 that I would never have been able to shoot on a wee point-and-shoot thing.
Absolutely. I'm no pro, and I do like to buy (albeit infrequently) prosumer-grade stuff, but having said that I would totally recommend an SLR. And "but I've gotten to the point where the images produced by my smartphone aren't cutting it" is very unlikely to stop at just-better-than-smartphone-camera. If all you want is something that's only better than a smartphone, then you'd just save the money and make do with a smartphone.
He's also not obliged to beat nine colours of shit out of her, either.
I couldn't watch all the video. That man is an oxygen thief, pure and simple. I hope he dies in a fire.
Depends. Diesel, yes. Petrol, well the Coke's extra.
Because "I was just pulling your leg" is a great morality play, right?
Instead, try: "It only takes one aspergers inflicted user to make a good long term admin throw their hands up in the air and say "fuck that shit". Not that I'm casting aspersions, but is this going on, too?
What "power"? It's a bunch of dots on a screen! Or did you get arrested by Wikipedia or something?
Memo Australian Government: this is how you make your intergoogle filter work. It comes with the advantage of completely screwing up any credible e-commerce in the country, too, which is handy when you want your economy to be all about being someone else's quarry.
Because they're awaiting instructions from Fred Nile?
When the laws are intended to stop a disadvantage that isn't happening in the first place, they are unjust. The fact that pirates also buy stuff doesn't mitigate the losses and the economic damage cause by the losses because the fact that pirates buy stuff means that there is no loss.
To wash down the shit sandwich the James Webb people have just had to eat.
It'd be great to be able to drag officers from DBCDE, OPTUS and Telstra through an inquiry and make them all prove that there was no financial inducement to implement this filter.
Interesting to see that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Liberals don't know how to create a Slashdot account. If you're claiming that a fibre cable won't support 100Mb/s data rates, you must think we're a bunch of drongoes. If NBNCo is going to do any filtering, then you'd have a legitimate gripe with it. But that's not the story here. The story is that Telstra and OPTUS have agreed to implement Conroy's intergoogle filter without his having to have a law passed. If NBNCo did it, we'd be fucked. As it is now, we can just use a different ISP.
The rate at which they can pop up versus the rate at which you can knock them off... not a good strategy. You guys turned that prick into a celebrity. You'll turn the next one into a celebrity. But you need to neutralise him a metric buttload more quickly than you did this clown.
"Hairy Hardon".
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I hope they use t3h Monsta Kab3l.
Are those imperial football fields or metric football fields? It's hard to convert to Libraries of Congress without knowing.
Well, it is the "god particle", you know. Once it is discovered -- I guess "revealed" is a better word for this one -- once it is revealed, it will be the trumpet call of the Lord or some such bullshit.
Seriously, Leon Lederman made a big mistake with that book title. (No, I don't like "champagne bottle boson", either, and I'm surprised that the French haven't sued someone over it anyway.)