Forum: Site Suggestions and Help
12-13-2012, 11:26 PM
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Woo hoo! Burn, baby, burn!
I just signed back into post this.
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Forum: General Talk
06-12-2012, 05:15 AM
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I am keeping what I've got. And, no, sorry, before anyone asks - me not blindly worshiping this latest fashion accoutrement from Apple does not preclude me from commenting in this thread.
Whoa, did Windows 8 get released yet?
Also, Windows 8 - again, the iGrocers keep forgetting this - is software. I guarantee you someone'll stick an optical drive in there, make it work. Software is infinitely malleable.
The Macbook Pro is hardware. It's case, as was the last will and testament of St. Steve of Cupertino, Patron Saint of Veblen Goods, Hissy Fits and Marketing, is unyielding to such endeavours as mounting an optical drive.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
06-12-2012, 03:24 AM
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Mother of Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed...is that Andrew G with a Canon 7s and the f0.95 in the main pic?
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Forum: General Talk
06-12-2012, 12:44 AM
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Forum: General Talk
06-11-2012, 11:41 PM
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Let's see...
No ethernet, no firewire (sorry, audio and video professionals), 'cept via adapter dongles (whoops, some much for the clean design!) No optical, either. Again, that's another external drive you have to lug around with you!
High-res screen...that doesn't actually run at high-res, yet the GPU still renders at the native res. Couple with a fat 2.7Ghz i7 (3.7 with TB,) that's gonna lower the sperm counts of a lot of Macheads. Ok, so that's not necessarily a bad thing.
RAM soldered onto mobo, too.
Starting price: $2k.
I think Apple, once again, have excelled at producing an excellent coffee-shop machine, perfect for uploading your Instagram "art" and working on your screenplay at Starbucks. Oh, but you still the cachet of the "pro" moniker, even though there's bugger-all professional appeal in the Macbook Pros.
HA! Apple's "leading the pack" on EVERYTHING, yet it's only got 802.11n wifi (Asus has 802.11ac lappies out already) - and before anyone says "Yeah, but there's no other 802.11ac products out yet!", I've got one word for 'em: Thunderbolt. There were no Thunderbolt devices when Apple released it, didn't stop them harping on about it. Been, what, a year, and so far all we have is about a dozen external storage solutions and a few other trinkets, all due to Apple's avaricious locking-down of the tech, in a vain attempt to hold a monopoly (worked well with Firewire, eh?)
They've only just, grudgingly, accepted USB 3.0, something PCs have had for a while, and is rapidly becoming more popular than TB ever will hope to be. Once again, while Apple may lead the world in thinness and, um, trackpads, it's up to the great unwashed masses of the computing world to actually create a useful computing environment.
Again, Thunderbolt's one saving grace will probably be...PCs now that the monopoly is finally being broken thanks to MSI and Asus and their Thunderbolt-enabled mobos. Now the tech can actually get into the hands of people who will use it, are interested in it as something useful rather than some abstract bullet point in a keynote they can harp on about down at the café.
This balanced view brought to you by Lithos, your premiere source of reality. Any offensiveness in the preceding article is entirely your own problem. And fault.
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Forum: General Talk
06-11-2012, 10:26 PM
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Ah, this is what I missed about Pentax Forum's: as soon as someone posts something completely unrelated to US politics, an American will inevitably steer the conversation in that direction.
I'm going to call it Pentax Forum's Law!
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
06-11-2012, 09:18 AM
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Yeah, that spindle that came with my Paterson...sure, um, I know exactly where that is...
Some other customer at Ted's, when he saw me buy the Paterson tank and take the spindle out and ask what it was said: "Oh. That's the spindle. You stick it in the middle of the tank and spin it to agitate the film, then about five minutes after you first use it you take it out, lose it, and never, ever see it again."
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Forum: General Talk
06-10-2012, 11:21 PM
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Ah, the US: will spend a trillion dollars to build a fighter aircraft to protect its citizens from a threat which doesn't exist, won't spend a cent fixing a citizen's broken leg.
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Forum: General Talk
06-10-2012, 11:17 PM
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I thought corporations were people over there?
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
06-10-2012, 06:37 AM
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Well, not so much an FA as an M - it's just the M 40mm f2.8 with AF and aperture control added, and that's it.
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
06-07-2012, 10:20 PM
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They got Tubgirl as their celebrity spokesperson, I see.
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Forum: General Talk
06-07-2012, 09:17 PM
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I'd pass, and wait for the call from Gillard to follow a SASR patrol. 'Course, if it's SASR, you're gonna be gone much longer than a night, probably.
SEALs have been done to death. Besides, I'm a patriot.
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Forum: General Talk
06-07-2012, 09:15 PM
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Yeah. But car dealers and record stores don't inconvenience me as much as cinemas and Hollywood...and make me want to "steal" from them.
TBH, it's the other damn patrons that keep me away from movies. I still have nightmares of about those idiots that brought *sandwiches*, wrapped in *foil* to snack on. And they were a large group with a *variety* of sandwiches, which were *unlabeled* so the first five minutes was taken up with "This is chicken - I don't like chicken. Where's the one with ham?"
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Forum: General Talk
06-06-2012, 05:19 AM
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He must've been a bouncer back in civvie street...
Great photos.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
05-25-2012, 10:13 PM
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The Sony Tax is still a thing, and still exists.
For cryin' out loud, they still put Memory Sticks in their cameras!
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Forum: General Talk
05-25-2012, 09:45 PM
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Where's the Jesus Nut on the last pic?
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-25-2012, 08:20 AM
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Still moving the brooms out of the closet?
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
05-25-2012, 07:58 AM
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Those Hasselblads start at about the price of a small car...apparently my uni owns one, of course, but guess what they use it for? Scanning images for a billboard.
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Forum: General Talk
05-25-2012, 07:56 AM
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That lady on the cover was pretty damn hot...
Wait, Time Magazine: am I doin' it right?
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
02-26-2012, 12:02 AM
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I added the bit your neglected to copy, Doc...
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Forum: General Talk
01-06-2012, 07:20 AM
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“You can use the donate button to raise money for a sick cat, but not poor people” - ah, good to see PayPal stay true to its founder's whackjob libertarianism.
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Forum: General Talk
12-19-2011, 12:24 AM
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If you're looking for poor functionality and bloat, there's always iTunes.
I cannot help but notice Flash only became truly crap in people's minds after the iPhone was announce. Might just be a coincidence. Or not. My money's on Apple making a play for Adobe, Adobe telling Apple where to stick it, and Steve, in his classically petty and brattish way, using his marketing skills to turn the Apple hivemind against Adobe.
(And of course Flash is crap, but I've known that since before the iPhone. Still, I've had less problems with it than I've had with Quicktime.)
Also, I love how it's acceptable for Apple to use Unix, but as soon as someone else does something Apple does, out come the lawyers.
Don't know if you've heard of it, but there's a little program called "Photoshop" that's pretty good.
But selling overpriced hardware does?
I remember Nikon encrypting their white balance data, so that if you made a RAW viewer, you'd have to pay Nikon for a licence for the decryption key...go figure.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-17-2011, 10:30 PM
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That's generally how marketeers think, though: Our Marketing Lineup = The Market.
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Forum: General Talk
12-17-2011, 09:43 PM
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This. Times a million. And Apple still insists on using Quicktime on their site.
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