I would disagree only in that you can find some good interchangeable lens cameras for not horribly expensive that still don't break the megapixel bank. An enthusiast that wants to take pretty pictures can only get so far with a fixed optical zoom, fixed aperture camera on a smartphone.

One thing that is slightly misleading about the following:

I'd even go one single generation back and do a T3i instead of the T4i, because there wasn't much change and the physical buttons aren't that hard to learn. Then do a basic study of what the shutter speed does and how it affects the image, what aperture/f-stop is and how it affects the image, and what ISO does and how…

Where did the space-flight genre go? Such classics as Tie Fighter and FreeSpace II have gone the way of the dodo, and games that try to revive the genre tend to try and be MMOs that miss the mark on the magic those two games and their series held. Is there a serious difficulty in making these games that discourages…

The difference between digital and physical media is that it's much simpler to create yourself a copy and still have the person purchasing from you think they're getting a legitimate copy. You can repeat this process over and over and over again and profit without the distributor receiving its due at all or with any…

One critical piece you are missing here: the father, while he really wants to show his kids said movie, is not entitled to it without providing the compensation asked for by the content creators/distributors. Whether that compensation is reasonable or not is not part of the equation; he legally has no right to…

Not to mention working that high is perfect for post production work, like special effects. Much more attention to detail before it's down-rezzed for delivery. Working in standard def sucks, and even only with 720p reference footage i want to shoot myself sometimes.

Snap-zooms can look cool if used right. The NBSG series used them quite well for impact as a faux-doco shooting method.. Even in the cinema world they have their place.

Er, wasn't that Blinx on the original XBox?

Put it this way: while it IS small at only 9" or so, do we have many computer monitors that go that high-rez at even 21-24"? Much less in that small of a space? If Apple's suppliers really figure out how to do this cheaply, then just imagine: it'll be to computer monitors next. Apple is definitely pushing the…

I am SO excited for this.

I think I saw some statistics about sales actually INCREASING on iTunes when they removed the DRM. Here's one company saying that it did for their music. [arstechnica.com]

To Battlestar's credit, though, they suddenly lost funding for their fifth season and had to wrap up a LOT in the season they were just starting.

T3i (600D) has magic lantern too, now, arguably making it better for video for a couple or reasons:

Oh my gosh, YES. You know that Freespace 2 has been open sourced, right? So people have been upping the graphical quality and making campaigns and TCs for it for a while now. [www.hard-light.net]