$200 USD at B&H (or pretty much anywhere), solid body for a sub-$200 camera, nice construction, can meter a lot of lenses (D, G for sure, AIS maybe), can be used full auto, (mostly) full manual, and everywhere in between. It's a lot of fun. You might want to spend another $100 or so and get an N75, but after a long time of speculating and pricing out my options I decided it wasn't worth the extra cash.
BTW, if you live in Canada, it's STILL cheaper to get the camera from B&H in NY and have it shipped to you. Go figure. Film camera warranties are a bit more international than digital, so that's not really even a concern, but for another $30 USD I got a 7-year international Mack warranty. Win-win.
A friend of mine applied for an IT job with "DoubleplusC" as a programming language. Needless to say, after explaining the humour to the interviewers he got the job. (Soulless bastards they turned out to be)
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You are scared. Be honest, say "I am scared of other operating systems".
How about: I don't *like* other operating systems? That's the one concept that you Mac and Linux fanatics don't seem to get. In my experience, WinXP just *works*. I've used both Linux and OSX extensively, and WinXP is the only one I keep on coming back to. -1, Micro$oft Lover
Another vote for a space heater. I've got one with "Frost Watch" that automatically turns on when the temp is at or below 4oC; it doesn't even need to be running all the time in order to make sure that those pipes don't burst. Yay! (it's a black & decker)
Gotta love the editorial for this piece. Yes, WC3 exp is a strange choice (it *doeS* have violence, however, as well as some pretty... interesting cutscenes), but the rest of the recommendations were spot on. Why is this such a big deal? We're talking about children here; AFAIK kids don't have the same rights as adults do, esp. when we're talking about violent video games!
If I download an MP3, but it's from Britney Spears and I promise that I deleted it after I heard the opening few seconds, will I still be persecuted for my error?
From the above responses, I gather that the posters are either 1) not parents, or 2) have twenty children and are jaded by childbirth.
I want to be there when my first child is born. I want to experience the magic and wonder of birth (I know, I know, women, you may kick me if you must). I want to hold my baby boy as soon as possible. And yes, I want to know if my wife miscarries, because if she does I don't want her to be alone for two or three hours (if I'm in a class or whatever).
If the kid decides to come early (as in, a month early - it's possible) and I'm in a class, well, I'd consider that to be an emergency. Or if I'm at a movie with some friends (again, it's a month early), I'd like to know instead of having my wife in the hospital by herself.
Let me mention that we don't have any family in the city we're living in. So all the responses which basically say "women have been having babies for thousands of years without cell phones" is completely beside the point - they haven't (as a general rule) been having babies without even a single relative.
But hey, thanks for the sensitivity. You all have been completely wonderful and understanding. You've convinced me, through trite sarcasm, that there's no such thing as a true emergency, and that cell phones in such an instance should be greeted with the immediate cessation of life for the user. Thanks for showing me the light!
(Lest we forget that banks still have landlines, and hundreds of portable jammers couldn't stop them...)
Sometimes, though, cell phones are absolutely necessary - my wife is pregnant, right? What happens if I'm at a movie or at school when she goes into labour? Not only would she be royally pissed off once I actually got out of the movie/class (some classes are 3 hours long), but what happens if something went wrong?
Regulation isn't going to help. Jammers like these aren't going to help. What would help is people all punching out a guy with a live cell phone in a theatre if it wasn't a critical call. Let social engineering do the work.
That kind of attitude is pretty lame - "I'm too lazy to remember to turn my cell off; can somebody else do it for me?"
If people like you actually turned off your freaking phones in theatres and at school, maybe jammers as described in the article wouldn't need to exist...
Handheld vid recorder rips of films have horrible quality. Bad audio, bad video, ambient theatre sounds, and whiny kids make vid recorder rips... unbearably unpleasant to watch.:)
Thank goodness eDonkey won't be flooded with these crappy versions of movies anymore. Straight to DVD Screener rip, baby!
I can't believe nobody has asked this question: what's the point? Humans write poetry in order to express a thought, idea or emotion; it's just as hackneyed if I read a bunch of Frost or Empson poems and slice and dice 'em together to create my own masterpiece, so why is it better that a computer can do so?
When I read poetry, I like to have the illusion that what I am reading was carefully thought about and created; trying to find meaning in a computer generated poem is as pointless as trying to find meaning in a book from Borges' Library of Babel.
"OK, I'll admit it, it seems slightly harder to get into an R-rated movie like T3 today than it did 10 years ago, to get into, say T2. In some ways they actually seem to be checking IDs."
KOToR was released both on the XBox and (much later) on the PC. Despite my initial misgivings, it's a great game on the PC. As long as companies continue to support the PC, even as an afterthought, I don't think there's going to be any problems.
If I had a nickel every time I heard"PC GAMES ARE DEAD!"...
"Hey Guido, I'm gonna make you an offer you can't refuse. Gimme five bucks, or my friends here with their big fucking baseball bats are going to practise on your kneecaps, tough guy. And no, wiseguy, you can't get a receipt. By the way, same time next week?"
So you own a T30 - have you actually picked up an iBook? I could probably use a T30 as a lethal weapon, whereas an iBook is far too dainty for the task. I haven't used a TiBook.
Can you tell that case longevity is extremely important to me?:)
I think that a good solution to R-rated games at any rate are 1) parent supervision when purchasing, and 2) computer in a public place. There was a discussion on/. a few weeks ago that dealt (rather well) with this topic.
Here's a thought: why is there a difference between an adult video store and a local game store? Maybe they should have a "back room" at the local EB where they carry the mature games -- and not let kids back! This might seem extreme, but employees at EB or Babbages are getting paid minimum wage, and how many teenagers go video game shopping with their teenagers, really?
No. Wrong. Nothing war with war vid games. The problem was the attitude of the grandparent. "If you want to have different video games, next time win the war!" Sorry if most of/. readers are American, but this kind of ignorant attitude is completely inappropriate. Is insulting a defeated combatant an accepted activity in the US now?
The Japanese screwed up and did a lot of things that they're still paying for. The Americans in the Pacific war were no better. This is not a joking matter. Video games based on this era are, for the most part, very serious affairs -- the makers of Call of Duty, MOHAA and Commandos 3 took their games very seriously and respected the period upon which their games are based. I challenge you to find a video game where these atrocities are made light of!
"The Japanese and Germans slaugheted over 40 million people for no good reason - just for their sick and demented pleasure... Face it, the good guys won WW II.."
Forgot to include the USSR with the US and UK, did ya? Exactly how many people did Stalin kill?
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BTW, if you live in Canada, it's STILL cheaper to get the camera from B&H in NY and have it shipped to you. Go figure. Film camera warranties are a bit more international than digital, so that's not really even a concern, but for another $30 USD I got a 7-year international Mack warranty. Win-win.
A friend of mine applied for an IT job with "DoubleplusC" as a programming language. Needless to say, after explaining the humour to the interviewers he got the job. (Soulless bastards they turned out to be)
How about: I don't *like* other operating systems? That's the one concept that you Mac and Linux fanatics don't seem to get. In my experience, WinXP just *works*. I've used both Linux and OSX extensively, and WinXP is the only one I keep on coming back to. -1, Micro$oft Lover
Another vote for a space heater. I've got one with "Frost Watch" that automatically turns on when the temp is at or below 4oC; it doesn't even need to be running all the time in order to make sure that those pipes don't burst. Yay! (it's a black & decker)
Gotta love the editorial for this piece. Yes, WC3 exp is a strange choice (it *doeS* have violence, however, as well as some pretty... interesting cutscenes), but the rest of the recommendations were spot on. Why is this such a big deal? We're talking about children here; AFAIK kids don't have the same rights as adults do, esp. when we're talking about violent video games!
If I download an MP3, but it's from Britney Spears and I promise that I deleted it after I heard the opening few seconds, will I still be persecuted for my error?
I want to be there when my first child is born. I want to experience the magic and wonder of birth (I know, I know, women, you may kick me if you must). I want to hold my baby boy as soon as possible. And yes, I want to know if my wife miscarries, because if she does I don't want her to be alone for two or three hours (if I'm in a class or whatever).
If the kid decides to come early (as in, a month early - it's possible) and I'm in a class, well, I'd consider that to be an emergency. Or if I'm at a movie with some friends (again, it's a month early), I'd like to know instead of having my wife in the hospital by herself.
Let me mention that we don't have any family in the city we're living in. So all the responses which basically say "women have been having babies for thousands of years without cell phones" is completely beside the point - they haven't (as a general rule) been having babies without even a single relative.
But hey, thanks for the sensitivity. You all have been completely wonderful and understanding. You've convinced me, through trite sarcasm, that there's no such thing as a true emergency, and that cell phones in such an instance should be greeted with the immediate cessation of life for the user. Thanks for showing me the light!
Sometimes, though, cell phones are absolutely necessary - my wife is pregnant, right? What happens if I'm at a movie or at school when she goes into labour? Not only would she be royally pissed off once I actually got out of the movie/class (some classes are 3 hours long), but what happens if something went wrong?
Regulation isn't going to help. Jammers like these aren't going to help. What would help is people all punching out a guy with a live cell phone in a theatre if it wasn't a critical call. Let social engineering do the work.
If people like you actually turned off your freaking phones in theatres and at school, maybe jammers as described in the article wouldn't need to exist...
Thank goodness eDonkey won't be flooded with these crappy versions of movies anymore. Straight to DVD Screener rip, baby!
Kay, that's cool. Just curious :)
Why? Out of pure curiousity, why are you doing this? What's the gimmick?
When I read poetry, I like to have the illusion that what I am reading was carefully thought about and created; trying to find meaning in a computer generated poem is as pointless as trying to find meaning in a book from Borges' Library of Babel.
In 2012, when the game actually comes out, ask me again.
Did anybody else read the title and think "Bite my shiny metal space station ass?"
This might be because... you're ten years older?
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week.
If I had a nickel every time I heard"PC GAMES ARE DEAD!"...
"Hey Guido, I'm gonna make you an offer you can't refuse. Gimme five bucks, or my friends here with their big fucking baseball bats are going to practise on your kneecaps, tough guy. And no, wiseguy, you can't get a receipt. By the way, same time next week?"
Best way is still just to grab the headers and complain to the account from which the e-mail came.
Can you tell that case longevity is extremely important to me? :)
Right on. Centrino notebooks (like IBM's T40 even) are able to for 5-6hrs without breaking a sweat -- and the T40 is a full-fledged desktop killer.
I think that a good solution to R-rated games at any rate are 1) parent supervision when purchasing, and 2) computer in a public place. There was a discussion on /. a few weeks ago that dealt (rather well) with this topic.
Here's a thought: why is there a difference between an adult video store and a local game store? Maybe they should have a "back room" at the local EB where they carry the mature games -- and not let kids back! This might seem extreme, but employees at EB or Babbages are getting paid minimum wage, and how many teenagers go video game shopping with their teenagers, really?
The Japanese screwed up and did a lot of things that they're still paying for. The Americans in the Pacific war were no better. This is not a joking matter. Video games based on this era are, for the most part, very serious affairs -- the makers of Call of Duty, MOHAA and Commandos 3 took their games very seriously and respected the period upon which their games are based. I challenge you to find a video game where these atrocities are made light of!
Forgot to include the USSR with the US and UK, did ya? Exactly how many people did Stalin kill?