Really? So if the numbers look great in the die size of the sensor and the megapixels, but the lenses front focus that's OK? Or they have twice the megapixels on the sensor and the glass is soft outside of the center of the FOV? Focus speed is insanely important to sports photographers. All the megapixels in the world aren't going to change that.

Professional photographers, and most amateurs will tell you to purchase good glass. camera bodies are temporary. Canon and Nikon have the majority of the high-end market for a reason. I can purchase the Canon 24-70mmL lens for around $2K. It will fit on virtually every Canon DSLR that I'd consider using. Anything from a couple hundred dollar Rebel APS to a full frame 5D mark3 for 3 grand.

Will Samsung still be doing that in five years? I don't know. So for most serious hobbyists, to pro photographers, it's simply a big risk. After Samsung has been in the market for a few years, this may change. But not for someone who has half a dozen or more pro grade lenses. You don't toss $20K+ worth of lenses simply because some newcomer to the market puts out a new sensor.

It's just some farmer in the middle of nowhere trying to connect to the internet on their home planet. (S)He tried to save a few bucks by self installing the dish, and is sweeping the sky at full power.

I'm just happy that Monsanto is not one of these drug companies. They'd probably sue everyone on the planet for drinking water that may contain their product and not paying for the privilege of consuming their pollutants.

But to do that you need to reverse the polarity of the warp core and reroute through the main deflector dish. And we haven't even invented the warp drive or deflector technology yet. However charging cell phones wirelessly is the first valid need for such tech, so we at last have motivation to start working on it.

I didn't RTFA, but it would be funny (or smart) if it was all BS and the US didn't have this capability. How many man hours will be wasted trying to find and fix it on North Korea's part. They may even execute some of their top people for not finding a non-existent security hole. Not that I personally find that a good thing, but I'm sure the NSA would.

True. But Scotty and that admiral will be happy to know where it rematerialised.

Are you talking about a television show, or real life?

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or serious. But tape is no where near dead as backup media for business. Very few people used tape for home backup. Spinning disks are still in most homes. I don't think spinning disks will be anywhere close to to being as "scarce" as tape is today. For cheap massive online storage, it's still pretty hard to beat. For streaming video, it's a fantastic solution. And with the way resolution for video is going, spinning disks are perfect.

I have a mix of SSD and spinning disks. I probably have around 50TB of spinning disks for video, music, pictures and documents. I also have 7 external spinning disks for backup. I'd be very surprised if this will change much in the next ten years. Unless some new terabyte plus writable bluray replacement comes along, or prices on SSD take a huge nosedive.

I don't have a smoothie in hand, but I often times drop off my wife at the front door and then park the car. Usually my daughter gets her a wheelchair while I'm parking. Or I get it for her after parking. I usually park somewhere else if there is a close spot. But I don't worry about it in bad weather, or on the off chance she may want to try to get to the car when we leave the store.

But, yeah I know what you're talking about. I see people park there all the time for no good reason. Hell, most of the people that have handicapped tags or placards don't have any reason to get them. I think some doctors just give them out to people if they live to a certain age. Back when my wife was still able to walk from the parking lot to the front door, most people that parked in those spaces looked like they were sprinting compared to her. Because my wife has MS, I never park in the handicapped spots when she's not with me. I know how miserable it is for her to get around, so I'd hate to cause any additional problems for anyone else who may need to park there.

That must be what caused that WHOOSH.

I've been in the marine reef keeping hobby for several decades, though I haven't had a tank set up in some time. I've kept this species for many years. They are call "electric flame scallops" in the hobby. Even though they are clams and not scallops. But I have to wonder who these researchers are to have just discovered that they do not actually produce light. I've known for at least 20 years that these clams produce this effect by moving parts of their mantle to expose a bluish white streaks under the reddish-orange part.

I can't say I've really given it much thought, but is there even enough material in the entire solar system to build a Dyson sphere in the habitable zone? Not to mention enough suitable material. It's going to take more than a planet, or a few moons, I would think.

"You can't believe everything you read on the internet"

-Abraham Lincoln

Um, no. You aren't going to copy it from one vinyl record to another vinyl record. Nor are you going to copy it from cassette tape to cassette tape, like the old days. It will go from vinyl to digital . There will be no further degradation from one digital copy to another after that, unless more compression is used.

If you have new record, a decent turntable and stylus, feeding a good AD converter and something like Cool Edit. You're going to get a pretty good sounding digital file. Certainly no worse than 128 bit MP3's

I hear that's the average 911 response time in some areas of Detroit these days.