That this got posted vs. the thousands of similar stories that happen in a given year was that it happened on Facebook... lame story. Moving on...

Why through their entire post did they not once tackle one of the prime reasons to get DSLR's, and that's image quality? Lets assume for a moment that we have a brand new professional photographer that's somehow never bought body or glass in their lives. Would you in all your wisdom, or trey or whomever recommend picking up these cameras to do real work? In 2 years?

Maybe a more apt question, can one buy lenses in these limtied formats with anything near the level of variety in the SLR world? Yes, it sucks that there are two basically incompatible standards that one will only buy deeper into as time goes by, but at least one knows that the investment is future proof, the lenses made with good quality components to last.

When I see these pseudo-dslr cameras, the first thing I think is great, now there's 6 incompatible lens standards, everyone is running in different directions, nobody seems to have a good message for why these camera supplant the quality that even mid-range DSLR's accomplish, and in 5 years, will any of these platforms still be here? Forget the cameras themselves, becase even Trey admits that the technology is not here today. Or will the lenses even last that long?

I hated 7 too until I found http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
Now, I'm more or less happy as a clam. There are still some annoyances that I needed to work around through heavy modifications, but at least now it looks 90%+ like XP was.

Flip that coin one more time. If Sony Was somehow godstruck and began acting like a responsible consumer driven company, would you still ever support them? It seems silly to have a decade old grudge over a company who's executives are most likely working for their competitors now. Now I don't know for sure if Sony's really wised up over their retarded past mistakes, but I find it silly that people get so emotional over a nebulous blob of an entity with so many working parts, anything could jade one. Customer Support is a big one. One bad disgruntled rep could stale the relationship with otherwise loyal customers forever.

Wow, you can't be happy with anything. Flip it around. Android allows for third party contact syncing to and from anyone with enough initiative to do so. Say the same thing about our SIG's namesake. No integration with anyone who isn't your namesake company.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2337307?threadID=2337307&tstart=0

At least with Android phones, if you have Exchange, you can sync against exchange out of the box. If you have a Google account, you can sync with Google contacts out of the box. If you have some other custom provider, you can write or ask for someone else to write it. Just because Google hasn't held everyone's hand by writing an adapter for 1000 different contact,calendar,etc.. providers, it doesn't mean that someone else couldn't. The API's are open and freely usable. (Except for Facebook sadly, but they invited it upon themselves.

Your baseless and petty attacks show just how philosophically biased you really are.

This type of story isn't new and i'd imagine its pretty common. When you know there are corner case bugs unpatched that were only 1 in 10,000,000 chance of being triggered in a given flight, do you still want to risk relying on your software for your life or death? Nah. What those engineers weren't doing was listening to the Boeing engineer's list of bugs and that they'd be doing the exact same thing whenever a new system's hot off the assembly line.

We have computer controlled trains in my city, and the rumor mill kept chupring away that the engineers would never touch them with a ten foot pole, but to my knowledge there's never been a serious derailment or automation related fatalities (lots of jumpers sadly, but I guess that comes with the territory).

Hell, 300 clams for a support license / year is penuts. CentOS gives you didly, besides patches if and when they decide it. Well, you may find that 300 a big damn deal, but for people making real money, the ability to get help and real assurance contractually is important. I wouldn't run my business on

You are crazy. I'm a Java developer, who uses Linux, and I'd neer consider OpenJDK as any sort of alternative to SunJDK. Its pretty much the first thing I install on my Linux boxes. The Oracle/Sun supplied JRE is a lot more stable, and I'd assume is better performant as well.

"4. you don't need fancy regulation to crack down on good ol' fraud, you just make it harder for small players to comply"

It wouldn't help anyways if federal prosecutors don't actually do anything about it. The number of Sarbox related lawsuits as a result of the latest crisisis? I think its bordering on 0.

1. Stability
First time importing my songs: Crash
Second time importing my songs: Went fine

2. Online Integration
All the help / addons / web integration stuff seems to be no-show. The pages are 404's, empty, or wiki not found's...

3. Video Playback (or lack thereof)
Attempted to load some videos and it constantly complained about not having the codecs to play them. The 'solution' given was to visit the Wiki page... which doesn't exist...

Well, at least the media playback and selection works more or less after getting started. Its not in a state which I'd consider switching, but it has at least some potential.