It's funny because it's true. I was dead serious, it works for me.

Nah. Buy good tools, crap tools are an invitation to frustration.

To avoid pilferage, paint them pink, and optionally add a little glitter as well.

What makes you say I didn't? Slackware for several years and then Fedora. Best server OS but for desktop absolutely unusable.

I just see no point in upgrading to Windows 8. Windows 7 has been the best OS I've used in the last 20 years - and I've tried almost everything.

I agree with you on the Office ribbon thing - we went through the same thing here - but the thing is there was enough plus sides to upgrading to offset it. What exactly is the plus side of Windows 8?

I would think that environmental concerns are something the government should be regulating. It's not something that free market can solve because the cheapest typically will win and that usually is the worst option.

I agree on the food thing but it's a different issue altogether.

Except it doesn't really work that way. And either way - Romney included those in his 47%. Without it his number is wrong.

Hasn't Fox News been pulling this trick for years? It's awful how people get money from the government - except, of course, our viewers who are primarily on medicare and social security. Ignore the man behind the curtain.

That may be true but makes no sense in context. Why would he follow up his comment about Steve Jobs being a pioneer in digital music "sales" with how he listens to Albums at home. He was clearly talking about the quality of digital music - not how it is sold.

How does he figure that? Digital Music was around for years before the iPod and mp3 players existed 2 years before it was released. He definitely was a pioneer in marketing it but not in the technology itself.

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or what but you realize that when you take a million dollar life insurance policy out it isn't so that your family is rich if you die. It's to replace the years of missed earning opportunities with your passing.

If you are a serious shooter then you know that there are tons of things buried in menus already that you have to take your eye away from the viewfinder from to use. I am not talking about getting rid of everything - just making the stuff that is already menu based easier to use.

Focus and Zoom are controlled by me moving adjusting the lens directly. I am not sure how that could be changed by software.

Well like I said - the stuff that you are changing constantly - like aperture and shutter speed - you need to have the same controls for. And maybe even still basic functionality in the existing buttons but more advanced in the touchscreen. I mean as somebody who loves playing with HDR I would love more complex and flexible bracketing options without having to do anything but click my cable release because every time I have to touch the camera again there is a risk of movement.

I agree on the editing right now but what if Nik decides to start developing Silver Efex for droid or Photomatix puts HDRPro on there. Right now the editing tools suck because they are put there by Nikon or Canon. With an Android OS you have a world of top notch developers adding new functionality.

Spoken like a real non-photographer. Do you really think that photographers are going to abandon the thousands of dollars of equipment just for a more compact size?