You do bring up a valid point about equatorial speed needs vs. something more polar. If you were to watch sunset in, say, Iceland and then hop a direct flight to Alaska, it just might be possible, though it is very unlikely such a flight exists.

Passenger jets are not fast enough; you have to fly 1000mph or more to do what you describe. The Concord SST was fast enough; it was typical to leave London or Paris at, say, noon and arrive in NYC at 11am.

For the last few months last year, I sold cameras in retail. I would guesstimate I sold one mirrorless camera for every three DSLR.

Yep, we are perhaps the one place where you could possibly ski, surf, and run a dune buggy over sand dunes, all in one day. And soooo many waterfalls too! Need I mention Portland is known as "Beervana" to boot?

I'd take the discount and raise you a piece of tape over the camera lens. Aww, the software would likely recognize there are never any human-shaped images though.

Truth be told, it was not totally clear if Brandi brought people in or the black Caddy with red leather interior. Maybe it was the combo. I do have to say it was a lot classier than nearby booths with women who were likely strippers by night and were issued t-shirts two sizes too small plus short-short-shorts and…

I should have figured you can buy almost anything on Amazon.

I have worked as a trade show manager and have hired pseudo-booth babes under the direction of my scumbag former VP. I don't care for the practice. Booth babes job is to attract people to your booth so the sales team can pitch.

Where can you buy a weather balloon and how much do they cost? I suppose there are all sorts of sizes and materials....

You beat me. It looks like TF2 and Monday Night Combat styles, only with more curves and smoothing, and gradients.

Does it have an "All Inboxes" feature like Apple Mail? I really love that feature as I can monitor three different email address across multiple services on just one screen.

I had no idea what is Sparrow. I guess we are all supposed to know?

The f5.9 figure was culled from [www.dpreview.com].

No viewfinder — Strike one

I doubt the intent of the testing was to gather empirical data but to make you think of Square Trade — a marketing stunt. Since you watched the video... mission accomplished.

Reminds me of a scene in "Aliens", which I happened to see this afternoon, where the artificial life form on the ship repeatedly stabbed between his and a Colonial Marine's fingers at high speed. Oh, he nicked himself.

My primary computer has 6GB, which I consider the sweet spot. I use a utility to monitor my RAM usage and can honestly say I have never used more than 5.1GB despite having a half-dozen apps running and a dozen browser tabs open.

4GB is the amount you get on a $329 laptop with an AMD E-300 and 320GB HDD. I expect 6GB or more in a $999 Ultrabook.

In order to get the "Ultrabook" brand from Intel, I thought all Ultrabooks had to be priced under $1000 and that is why most are priced at $999 list. To get to the sub-$1K price, that is why we see them coming in with just 4GB of RAM. How can they get the brand if the prices can be over $1K? Call them upgrades to a…

Hmm, pay $50 twice to reach 40K people or to pay $100 once to reach 39K?