Beginner to Prosumer: point-n-shoot to SLR-like (olympus c8080, knica-minolta a2)
Prosumer to Professional: SLR-like to SLR
Unless you are a really, really serious photographer, a DSLR is a waste of money, because it will cost you 2-3x what an equivalent SLR-like camera will by the time you get an equivalent number of lenses, etc...
I don't know if you've ever tried the two for serious work, but The Gimp is a looooong way from the current version of Photoshop. And, by the time they catch up, Photoshop will, in all liklihood, have advanced further.
Isn't that what a "video"phone is?
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Pricing is another matter that Citron refused to discuss. VoIP provider Packet8 offers a video phone for $499, with no additional charge for video services. Citron called the Packet8 device "a phone with a camera slapped on it."
And theirs will be what, A Ferrari with a naked woman lying on it? No, probably a phone with a camera slapped on it.
What drives feature development with Open source isn't market demand or anticipated market demand, it's the whims of the individuals developing it, which may or may not be related to market wants/needs.
Were you to get a 3rd C&D on this ISP and get unplugged for 30 days, you could always haul them into court and demand to get reinstated, but by the time you got your hearing, the 30 days would be over.
I think "most" is a stretch. Some. Or a majority of the fastest I'd agree with. What percentage of the Fortune 500 still uses big iron for mission-critical computing? A few years back, that number was north of 90%. I no longer have access to the subcription service that could give me a more recent number, but I'd bet it's still north of 80%.
Big tasks that require lots of cpu, i/o performance, and reliability, for the most part, still run on big iron. Fat-pipe networking will stay proprietary for some time to come, I'd bet.
Can some XORP chingadera replace a soho or med-size office switch/router? Sure, but I'd offer that those products are already at commodity-level
pricing, so what's the point in switching, other than as a hobbyist.
I write a big check every year. That's a big check after all the withholding bs. As for the Constitution, I believe the first sentence has the phrase, "promote the general Welfare". That costs money. And, the more you "promote", the more it costs. The same thing with "common defence".
Do I like paying taxes? No, does anyone? But until a better system gets instituted, I won't bitch about the one we have. Will I advocate/devote time & money to somebody who wants to puch a better (in my mind) system? Yes. Will you, or will you just pine for the "good old days", which any casual student of history will tell you, weren't so good.
Yeah, and in the past when people went broke they went to places called poorhouses. In the past, infrastructure sucked. In the past, infant mortality rates were very high. Yeah, let's all go live in the past.
Really? I see a lot of Opels in Europe & Australia and mainland China has a ton of GM's. One thing you don't see much of in mainland China is Japanese cars. I guess the Chinese have long memories.
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No, I'm, talking about the cheapo lenses the OP is referring to. A shitty lens on a great camera will take shitty pictures
Why put cheap glass in front of a great sensor?
Prosumer to Professional: SLR-like to SLR
Unless you are a really, really serious photographer, a DSLR is a waste of money, because it will cost you 2-3x what an equivalent SLR-like camera will by the time you get an equivalent number of lenses, etc...
I don't know if you've ever tried the two for serious work, but The Gimp is a looooong way from the current version of Photoshop. And, by the time they catch up, Photoshop will, in all liklihood, have advanced further.
And theirs will be what, A Ferrari with a naked woman lying on it? No, probably a phone with a camera slapped on it.
On another front, I wonder if we'll see the new Trojan line of laptops soon? I'll take a pass on a lubricated one, though. :)
What drives feature development with Open source isn't market demand or anticipated market demand, it's the whims of the individuals developing it, which may or may not be related to market wants/needs.
IBM is a company focused on growing its services biz and Apple has none.
Apple is primarily a B2C company and IBM is B2B.
Cultural differences make east vs west like the definition of homogenized
Steve Jobs and his amazing ego
Yeah, except for a few trivial things, it could happen. Hey, frogs could grow claws and live in toilets too!
Apple GOOD
Microsoft BAD
We don't need more open source, we need more open minds.
Philips announced they were doing it in March. http://optics.org/articles/news/10/3/8/1 At that time they were doing it too.
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Philly is a big city. I'm sure it has lots of attorneys on staff and easy access to the courts.
I think "most" is a stretch. Some. Or a majority of the fastest I'd agree with. What percentage of the Fortune 500 still uses big iron for mission-critical computing? A few years back, that number was north of 90%. I no longer have access to the subcription service that could give me a more recent number, but I'd bet it's still north of 80%.
And if it is done, it will be a closed solution, much like Google. I don't see Google's solution up on Sourceforge and I doubt I will any time soon.
Can some XORP chingadera replace a soho or med-size office switch/router? Sure, but I'd offer that those products are already at commodity-level pricing, so what's the point in switching, other than as a hobbyist.
Remember when Kim Polese was considered one of Time's most 25 influential people? WHat happened to Marimba... oh yeah, BMC bought them at a fire sale.
about 40% of the time
which, come to think of it, is remarkably similar to my day job (getting paid for bending over)
Or, perhaps you'd like to share.
It's easy to do "nationwide" when all of the nations are smaller than some of our states.
Oh, and to answer your ignorant question, yes, you can with any major provider.
Do I like paying taxes? No, does anyone? But until a better system gets instituted, I won't bitch about the one we have. Will I advocate/devote time & money to somebody who wants to puch a better (in my mind) system? Yes. Will you, or will you just pine for the "good old days", which any casual student of history will tell you, weren't so good.
Yeah, and in the past when people went broke they went to places called poorhouses. In the past, infrastructure sucked. In the past, infant mortality rates were very high. Yeah, let's all go live in the past.
Really? I see a lot of Opels in Europe & Australia and mainland China has a ton of GM's. One thing you don't see much of in mainland China is Japanese cars. I guess the Chinese have long memories.
My bet's on the latter.
Ask your average homeowner if police and fire services are free.