I dunno about the government - Tax rates have dropped like a stone for over a decade... But it's okay, because look at all the jobs that are being created!!!!

We're at a point where for all but the most demanding professional applications, the image quality between the two brands doesn't make a goddamn bit of difference, and it really comes down to price, what lenses you own, and which ergonomics you prefer. Either brand's top stuff is going to be far more capable as a…

Still waiting for a cinema system built around a 645 or 6x7 format. You'd probably need liquid nitrogen to keep it cool, and an army of monkeys to constantly switch out the 512gb SSD's as they filled up every few seconds.

I think they're just printed onto some thin substrate, but I figured that substrate was glass.

That sounds even more breakable than before.

That seems really...weird. I don't see how guys can even sit on them all the way without their ...equipment...touching the sides or the water. That's very unsanitary.

Alderaan.

Is there really much difference between 60hz and 120hz imagery? The images on TV are almost always at 30 or 24fps with pulldown - Some 30 stuff is still "60i" which uses two interpolated fields at half res to form a 30fps image every other frame. Unless it's something like sports, or a video game, I think that 120…

I used a macbook Retina (not mine unfortunately) recently with Final Cut. That 2 hour interval is enough to make my 13" 1280x800 seem completely cluttered, inadequate and small by comparison. For something like Photoshop, the differences are even more noticeable.

Of course they have tight budgets. That's why it costs hundreds of times more for the military to do something that could, quite often, be put together with a few hobby shop kits and a trip to Home Depot. Not saying an anti-mine sub could be built that way, but there's no way some of that stuff -really- costs what…

100 bucks was probably worth a lot more in DaVinci's time, too. After inflation (and ignoring the fact that the dollar and the camera hadn't been invented) you could probably film The Avengers on what 100 bucks would have been worth in the 15th century.

Why won't Google release a browser or desktop-based version of their voice recognition system? It seems good enough to understand pretty much anything I say to it. Its accuracy is somewhat bipolar though - usually it either gets the whole thing right, or "uncle cat's farm has a senate lava India guitar."

She's wearing glasses. SHE'S WEARING FREAKING GLASSES. They told me I couldn't fly because I don't have 20/20 (even though it's pretty damn close). Bastards!

Which is why I haven't touched an S107 since I got my new little heli. It would be awesome if you could put a more articulate swashplate assembly on there, maybe a collective rather than varying the speed, but you can't ask much for something molded out of plastic that costs 50 bucks after shipping.

It's okay, they have apparently have a pile of them just laying around in some warehouse in upstate NY.

My V911 seems very similar to the Blade helis. The Hong Kong site I ordered it from shamelessly mentioned it was a knockoff of something else, but never said what. I wonder if it's these people's heli that they ripped off.

When you went to the bank, you didn't sign a 35 page form (or click OK) saying that any and all money in the bank and safe deposit are really just being 'licensed' to you for single use applications, and that all ownership reverts to...well, someone that's not you.

This is nothing more than a ripoff Syma s107 helicopter, which easily sells online for under 20 dollars. The 107 isn't a bad copter, but I prefer my v911 with a single set of blades and a swash plate - same size, only a bit more expensive, but it's about 5x faster, maneuvers as quick as your reaction times let it, and…

I've never really understood the point of flying 3D. Every time I've ever seen it demonstrated, they flip the helicopter over in mid air and just whip it back and forth. It's impressive for about 20 seconds, but then you want to see it do other things- most of them which don't involve being upside down.

This is why I often shoot with manual focus. I can tell by both contrast of the image in the finder, and feel of my lens where the focus is set.