And it's not "moss-coe", or "moss-cow", it's "musk-va".

I have super wide feet - I wear New Balance 5E width shoes, and they're snug. I never could run because everyday shoes gave me painful bunions.

No.

My $2000 Powerbook G4 lasted 7 years, 4 of those in grad school. I wrote my doctoral dissertation in coffee shops, and also coded and ran analyses on it (thank you Fink Project, open source, and free developer tools). Ditto in my postdoc. It was my do everything machine. I had all my music on it, and also all my work.

1. RAM. CPU doesn't buy you multitasking responsiveness as much as being able to fit all running programs in RAM.

I have 3GB on my old mac mini, and I am almost always out of memory. I must be ADD or something - multiple tabs and windows in the browser, Safari, image editor, Aperture, VLC, possibly iMovie. I always have to quit one or two. And if I run into a Flash-heavy site (or Netflix), it gets even worse. And don't get me…

It's great when watching on a phone, tablet, or rotateable LCD monitor.

Two can play at that game.

"Distort"? You should try some A/B tests with and without a filter. Just don't use a $1 filter.

Re your first para: absolutely agree. The most important thing about a photo is the composition, IMO.

Re "P" and "Auto" - such bull. Try shooting in a fast-moving situation: you want the camera in such a state that you can bring it up to your eye and squeeze the shutter immediately. No dicking with the control wheel. Who cares how you get a proper exposure? You want to do zone calculations for every shot?

Hear hear. I shoot live music a lot in clubs and bars, and it's much better to get beer on a UV filter than the lens itself.

Can you find the soldier in this picture?

No, that's Westminster Bridge.

IMO, the sensible thing would be what the iPhone does, which is to quickly fade the music to almost inaudible while the alert is played, and then raise the volume back. It's perfectly clear and unmistakable.

There's a (new) London Bridge in London, England. There's the old London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. That's the Tower Bridge.

Why is that stupid? I'm listening to music with the phone in my pocket, and I want to know when I get a text message.

brilliant.

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