Haven't really followed this, but I do work with lasers in labs at work on occasion. Are you guys at least wearing safety goggles and being a little careful? That shit is scary, and putting blind spots in your retinas is only one of the potential problems you're dealing with.

@Adam: or just... you know... 5%

@Applerain: and the cleavage!

@Graviton1066: Yeah she meant "activated" instead of "upgraded" - confusing

@irishfighter: I'd rather the box supported 1080 though, especially for streaming locally from a PC where bandwidth isn't a factor. Calling this a bandwidth decision isn't really fair, they could still stream over the internet at 720, rather than forcing the box to be 720...

anyone know if it's 1080?

So I knew Ford owned a portion of Mazda, but apparently Toyota owns the rest? And they owns Subaru??

How come there's two 26s and no 25?

@tomsomething: Most of that is a solved problem. The military uses lasers for their training, and they take curvature of the earth and gravity into account. Probably wind too.

@MrFizzle: Sort of correct, but if you have enough torque anything can happen. If you pop the clutch in your econobox you probably stall, but try it in a diesel truck with tons of torque.

@My X-type is too a real Jaguar: Agreed. The motor can certainly turn over, it's just they have a clutch switch to keep it from doing so. If the switch is broken or just not implemented in said truck, it'll do that for sure. It's not uncommon for cars 15+ years old to work like this.

@Gotlactose: You can approve of the picture, hopefully not have to crop much, and save to a document. Then you can take 2nd pic, approve, save to same document. Then email as multi-page PDF. But agreed, it should go straight from camera snap to keystone/crop with no click.

Or use the recent, awesome GeniusScan for iPhone. Take a pic and it detects the borders and keystone corrects. Then you can save as photo, email it to yourself as PDF, whatever.

Is it true that fragmentation isn't much of an issue? Still seems like it'd be faster to read large files that aren't spanned around the flash, because you can burst read it. Maybe the DMA stuff is plenty smart and fast enough for this though since it usually has to deal with slow(er) seek times. I'd think that…

@jadawan: Agreed. I took exactly the same sequence, but ISO 1600 and f/2.8 and there's tons and tons of airplanes, and a few good meteors.

Should have imported a heavier car...

@YourStarDoesNotMakeYouRight:

I had a friend that didn't put plates on his new truck for a couple years. As long as the car looks new CHP has better things to do. It's not like it wasn't registered or he didn't have insurance. Pretty sure it's a decent way to avoid parking tickets too.

@yertle: yeah maybe I should read your entire article first. So yes, same cave. Channel Islands diving is nice, love the kelp beds and relative warm-ness compared to NorCal. Also really fun to kayak along the islands, in and out of caves. I definitely recommend that if you get back.

Is that the cave on the north-east side of Santa Cruz island? the one that they can fit a large-ish boat in?