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Feed Engadget: Olympus E-3 DSLR is officially official (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @07:32PM

Yeah, we've been hearing about this one for quite some time, but just as expected Olympus is making its mid-range E-3 DSLR official. Starting at $1,700, you get:

10 megapixel sensor
2.5-inch 230k pixel live view display
"World's fastest autofocus" with 11-point biaxial AF system
Image stabilization, sonic dust cleaning on sensor, shoots up to ISO 3200
3/4 lens mount, takes CF and xD media

We haven't heard when it'll be available, but you can surely expected it in short order.

[Thanks, Zo]

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Comment Correlation implies failure to falsify a theory (Score 1) 190

by s-gen on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @04:46PM (#20485649) Attached to: OOXML Vote and the CPI Corruption Index

Someone had a causal theory that corruption was responsible for certain voting patterns. They invented a test that could perhaps falsify the theory. The test did not falsify the theory.

Is it proved? No. But the correlation (failure to falsify) makes it a reasonable thing to believe unless/until it goes down to a better theory or a better test.

Submission + - You rock? You die (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @12:01PM

coondoggie writes: "You sort of had a feeling this was true and many of you who participate in online death pools count on it, but now a study puts numbers to it: rock and pop superstars die young. In fact they are more than twice as likely as the rest of the population to die an early death — usually within a few years of becoming famous. The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health today published findings based on more than 1,050 North American and European musicians and singers who shot to fame between 1956 and 1999. How long the pop stars survived once they had achieved chart success and become famous was compared with the expected longevity of the general population, matched for age, sex, ethnicity and nationality, up to the end of 2005. In all, 100 stars died between 1956 and 2005. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19027"

Submission + - Bad Science (badscience.net)

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DocDJ

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @02:54AM

DocDJ writes: "Ben Goldacre (who writes an excellent article in The Guardian called Bad Science, which regularly demonstrates how poor the mainstream media is at reporting science) points out the flaws in the recent reporting of research which purported to show the evolutionary basis of 'blue for boys, pink for girls'."

Feed Engadget: Olympus launches the E-3 DSLR? (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday August 28, 2007 @07:32PM

Filed under: Digital Cameras

Remember the unnamed Olympus DSLR of with multiple monickers? We've seen it as the E-P1 and P-1, but now, after what seems like countless months brand-free glass-encased trade show appearances it looks like Olympus has officially titled launched it's E-1 DSLR successor, the E-3. We don't yet know much about it, but we understand it will have a live view LCD, work on the 3/4ths mount standard, and be available at least somewhere in November. (That in addition to the other stuff we heard, like it having a 10 megapixel sensor, 11 point autofocus, etc.) We'll update with information as it continues to trickle out.

[Thanks, Adam]

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Submission + - Potentially habitable planet found

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slpalmer

on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @05:03AM

slpalmer writes: "For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe.""

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