I will buy an Apple PowerBook G4 17" w/ Superdrive instead.
Forgot to add, Canon has great customer service
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I have sent in my Canon EOS 10D for a sensor cleaning after 5 months owning it. It had some dust that would show up on > f/11 shots -- not much. I sent in the camera FedEx to one of their service centers and got it back in one week. They did a great job cleaning it -- like it was when it was brand new maybe even better. Best part, it didn't cost a dime, just my cost to ship it. They sent it back on their dime, no questions asked.
After dealing with other companies and horrible customer service, I was nervous about sending it. Canon passed the test for me. I will be buying their DSLR cameras in the future...if I can afford it! But at least my investment in lenses won't go wasted, I will be able to use them on the future models.
Canon EOS 10D is wonderful
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The Digital Rebel is the same as the Canon EOS 10D minus a bunch of features. The pictures are amazing from the Canon Prosumer DSLRs, but you will go nuts buying lenses! That's where Canon makes its big money. Decent lenses cost > $500. It takes about three to get a good range of 15-300mm for shooting. One catch, since the sensor on the Rebel/10D is smaller than 35mm, you have to multiply the lens by 1.6. So my Sigma 15-30mm is actually a 24-48mm which means I lose some of the wide angle of the lens but I make it up with my telephoto lens, a Canon 70-300mm USM IS, it gets a boost to 112-480mm. Just for fun I slap on a Tamron 2x Pro Teleconverter to get a very slow 960mm super telephoto -- great for shooting the moon with manual focus (AF can't handle that extreme). If you are on a budget, the Canon 50mm 1.8 prime is a steal at $65.
I wish I could blow $7,500 because the Canon EOS 1Ds makes me drool everytime I hold one at the camera shop. It has a full 35mm sensor and firewire. Oh, so pro! The Digital Rebel is really nice but the $500 more for the 10D is worth it. Think of it costing an extra good lens.
Are you saying that the UK has a population of 280 million? The number of immigrants that come into the US every year would overwhelm the population of the UK. We are talking shear numbers not percentage.
If you are suggesting the factual farce that is Bowling for Columbine as a source for your critical thinking on this subject, we can safely ignore your logic. And yes Doomdark, Terrorists are looking to use atomic material. And calling the one nation that allows the most foreign immigration "xenophobic" is plain stupid. If we feared and distrusted other countries as your surmise, we wouldn't welcome their citizens to our country in overwhelming numbers.
It is if the previous person that was occupying your country thought it was fun to put people feet first into plastic shredders because you publicly disagreed with their political views. People in China today are being throw in jail or re-education camps because they disagree with the current political structure. To me that is pretty hard core communist.
Boy do I smell sour grapes. Despite your excitement of the Chinese making it into space 40 years after the Russians and the Americans, the average Chinese citizen will have less freedom than the average Iraqi. Blasting into space will not bring Chinese political prisoners out of the painful shadows of their torturers. At least the money and effort of the Americans and their coalition will bring freedom to a people. The money spent by the Chinese government is a nice PR stunt but it will do little for the common man's ability to be free in China.
It still works on my Sony T68i cell phone everyday. I sync it to my Mac on a daily basis and control iTunes with it. Its a good technology for things like this.
"He jokingly refers to himself as Linux's hood ornament".
Wrong! That would be "GNU/Linux's hood ornament". And if truly follow Stallman, that would be the bug that hit the hood ornament because its all about him! HIM! HIM! HIM! Muhahahaha! Now where's my HURD so I might smote thy kernel.
Does anyone have a comparitive on the cost of operation for each system, i.e., cost to power the nodes, cool the nodes, cost to manage the nodes, etc? Is an Apple or a Dell "supercomputer" cheaper to run?
Stupid question: Are these really supercomputers or superclusters? I always think of a computer as one unit not a collection of units.
I have a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse that is powered by double-a batteries. On night, I was surfing the web and heard a loud POP. No, I wasn't surfing porn. I spent 5 minutes wondering where this loud sound came from. I looked at my tangled mess of power strips plugged into power strips. I looked all over and found nada. Then thinking I had just imagined the sound or had my ear pop for some reason, I went back to surfing but my mouse wouldn't work. Sure enough, one of the brand new, brand name double-a batteries exploded in the mouse. It destroyed the inside electronics of the mouse. Thank Microsoft uses a sturdy plastic in them or it could have been a very painful right hand.
Remember, batteries are full of energy -- DUH! One defect and BAM! you have a little bomb after prolonged use. One reason you shouldn't throw them in a fire unless you are really drunk and have track shoes on.
As American, I want to apologize about currency and your confusion using it. We should know how confusing numbers are to Europeans. That is why we are releasing European friendly bank notes now.
On your next trip to America, just remember this simple little mathmatical formula:
1 is less than 5 is less than 10 is less than 20 is less than 50 is less than 100
If this still proves to be difficult, just hand over your wallet to one of us and we will audit your currency for you...for a small fee.
I ordered HL2 a while back on Amazon so it would be a surprise when it arrived. I went and checked the order and it still says Nov. 8th delivery. I hope it isn't delayed but that's ok if it is, I just noticed that HALO for the PC is waiting for me tonight.
Verisign should have its right to manage the.com,.net and.org TLDs revoked permanently. No ands, ifs or buts. They have stepped over the line. They have had the opportunity to down sitefinder weeks ago and they thumbed their nose at all of us.
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Bad scientist, bad, bad scientist! Go cure cancer or something useful!
I will buy an Apple PowerBook G4 17" w/ Superdrive instead.
After dealing with other companies and horrible customer service, I was nervous about sending it. Canon passed the test for me. I will be buying their DSLR cameras in the future...if I can afford it! But at least my investment in lenses won't go wasted, I will be able to use them on the future models.
I wish I could blow $7,500 because the Canon EOS 1Ds makes me drool everytime I hold one at the camera shop. It has a full 35mm sensor and firewire. Oh, so pro! The Digital Rebel is really nice but the $500 more for the 10D is worth it. Think of it costing an extra good lens.
Are you saying that the UK has a population of 280 million? The number of immigrants that come into the US every year would overwhelm the population of the UK. We are talking shear numbers not percentage.
If you are suggesting the factual farce that is Bowling for Columbine as a source for your critical thinking on this subject, we can safely ignore your logic. And yes Doomdark, Terrorists are looking to use atomic material. And calling the one nation that allows the most foreign immigration "xenophobic" is plain stupid. If we feared and distrusted other countries as your surmise, we wouldn't welcome their citizens to our country in overwhelming numbers.
Where do you live? I will call my congressman.
It is if the previous person that was occupying your country thought it was fun to put people feet first into plastic shredders because you publicly disagreed with their political views. People in China today are being throw in jail or re-education camps because they disagree with the current political structure. To me that is pretty hard core communist.
Boy do I smell sour grapes. Despite your excitement of the Chinese making it into space 40 years after the Russians and the Americans, the average Chinese citizen will have less freedom than the average Iraqi. Blasting into space will not bring Chinese political prisoners out of the painful shadows of their torturers. At least the money and effort of the Americans and their coalition will bring freedom to a people. The money spent by the Chinese government is a nice PR stunt but it will do little for the common man's ability to be free in China.
Apple's iSync works beautifully with BlueTooth enabled devices such as my Sony T68i phone.
If its dead, what is going to replace it?
GNU/SCO/Linux. Remember that Stallman rules them all!
Wrong! That would be "GNU/Linux's hood ornament". And if truly follow Stallman, that would be the bug that hit the hood ornament because its all about him! HIM! HIM! HIM! Muhahahaha! Now where's my HURD so I might smote thy kernel.
Stupid question: Are these really supercomputers or superclusters? I always think of a computer as one unit not a collection of units.
You owe me a new set of retinas.
Remember, batteries are full of energy -- DUH! One defect and BAM! you have a little bomb after prolonged use. One reason you shouldn't throw them in a fire unless you are really drunk and have track shoes on.
Oh yea that hurts from a culture that gave us Benny Hill.
Dude it was a joke. Take your ritalin.
They ask. In America, we are courteous. And we don't call them "Blind Americans", we refer to them as visually impaired.
Post your predictions when this company goes belly up. My guess is March 12, 2004.
On your next trip to America, just remember this simple little mathmatical formula:
1 is less than 5 is less than 10 is less than 20 is less than 50 is less than 100
If this still proves to be difficult, just hand over your wallet to one of us and we will audit your currency for you...for a small fee.
I ordered HL2 a while back on Amazon so it would be a surprise when it arrived. I went and checked the order and it still says Nov. 8th delivery. I hope it isn't delayed but that's ok if it is, I just noticed that HALO for the PC is waiting for me tonight.
It's broke. Just put a sign on it and someone call the super.
Thanks for the correction.
Verisign should have its right to manage the .com, .net and .org TLDs revoked permanently. No ands, ifs or buts. They have stepped over the line. They have had the opportunity to down sitefinder weeks ago and they thumbed their nose at all of us.