Only a Mercedes driver would do this sort of things.
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While both V8 engines are normally aspirated, there is a difference between good German engineering and poor German engineering where it were made over 50% larger for a miserable 8.7% more power. Even at its original 510bhp, it is still only 23% more power.
I was in a used camera shop with a friend this afternoon who was trying to sell off some of his film cameras and a couple of lenses. The salesman commented that it is now very difficult to sell off film cameras as most people who started off using digital cameras even with the high end SLR ones don’t even know basic photography at all and would not know how to shoot with film cameras.
Here are a few of them… These people actually don’t even know how digital cameras work even when the resulting photos are staring at their faces!
By God, people, you have spent US$4000 for a D2X! Spend another US$15 on a flicking elementary photography book and read up on some basic exposure metering for Heaven’s sakes!
A friend sent me the link. Which type of person are you? Here is the test in Chinese.
A 20 years old Korean artist. Her latest concert DVD - DoA the Live.
I have never bought any of her CDs or DVDs. The only recollection of her performance were glimpses on TV which showed her as a very talented and energetic dancer singer. Since this DVD is a Japanese code 2 edition everything was printed in Japanese. To be honest, I had no idea what’s in it and I was expecting a good dancing performance with an average rock singing voice.
As it turned out, it is in a jazzy soft rock style (I should have guessed with the familiar English song titles). There were hardly any dancing by BoA herself but instead, and to my biggest surprise, she just sat there for several songs and just sang away with a few slow songs! She was really showing her excellent singing talent which her much faster rock songs never revealed! A true vocalist. Perhaps she is changing her style I don’t know, as I am not familiar with her previous songs and performances but it is all for the better.
Why would I wanted to point out and reference the use of the Chewbacca defense in South Park by attorney Johnnie Cochran within my blog?
I don’t know!
This does not make sense!
Announced along with the Nikkor AF-S DX VR 55-200 mm F4.0-F5.6G IF-ED. Besides being 10MPix vs 6MPix, 100-1600+Hi ISO vs 200-1600+Hi ISO, and 3fps vs 2.5fps, the rest of the specs for D40x and D40 appears to be the same.
Do I want one? With the prices of flash memory cards plummeted to such low prices lately (HKD$198 for a 150X Transcent 2GB SD card), I wouldn’t mind the larger resolution making each files much larger; however, not unless the D40x is similarly priced as the D40. Any higher price would make more sense in getting the D80 instead.
As for lenses, it would have been nice if the 18-55II had VR.
As for the AF-S/AF-I only auto focusing on both D40s, some people may still think Nikon is silly to have this kind of bodies without having many of their older lenses especially their prime lenses revamped to AF-S. I however think now that Nikon has two AF-S/AF-I only auto focus bodies, they would have to start revamping their older lenses to AF-S soon.
Despite this hugh budgeted 2003 Korean movie being seemingly familiar and many reviewers’ made-so comparisons, it is no Blade Runner! At best, all the usual could-have or supposed moments of “dark scenes” from other movies are being ledgibly bright and clear in Natural City with exceptional Hi-Fi quality sound recording.
Although the surroundings are of some poor immitations of Blade Runner with several scenes taken from several streets of Hong Kong, the plot can’t escape the usual Korean love film where 99% of the time are 2 person dialoguing scenes, and that at the end of the day - just about everyone died.
Gun fight scenes between the MPs and the Cybogs were stupid at best. Made Terminator looked awesome. Sam (Robert de Niro) said it right to Spence (Sean Bean) in Ronin that could be applied here in Natural City - “You’ve fxxking ambushed yourselves!”. The groups of MP practically shot themselves down. It was that stupid. Give Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon) a Baretta and he would have killed off all Cybogs before they could touch him.
Acting wise there was hardly any but it was in a plot setting where everyone may have less feelings towards other people.
Unless you are a big (and I mean very big) fan of any of the actors/actresses or utterly thirst for more Sci-Fi(ish) movies, I don’t recommand it. I should have spent this HKD$68 for the 2 disc DVD set toward a good edition of Blade Runner.
WhaUSay?!