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Bought a Cougar Vortex PWM fan for my dad's pc since it is sitting on my desk humming at me. Impressively quiet but no way in hell it is 17.3dbA.

I also was under the impression that in top dog spot sits a Nikon. Not based on performance, but performance per $

So much faster to move between.

Windows manages lists pretty well in the taskbar, way better than having tons in each program.

The BBCode Mode must not reset itself very well. Haven't checked all permutations, but I usually have a ton of pages open as I fucking think tabs are useless.

Mother fucker. Why does that periodically do that to me.

The white glass is a giveaway. <img data-cke-saved-src="http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/tongue.png" src="http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/tongue.png" class="bbc_emoticon" title=":P" />

Let's have a discussion. In the context of my initial comment, it was due to the fact Canon has a higher market share and unless something major happens more room for upward growth. Why would someone building a DSLR system chose to go the Nikon route? In almost every price point I find the Nikons to be lacking. There are a few gems, however, in most cases the Nikon product attemps to take from Canon. They also have what I would consider a failed game of oneupmanship when it comes to their design. They keep bumping up the mega pixels, but don't come close to what makes a larger impact on how the photos turn out. In a way I see it like BMW and Benz. But with one caveat. You are stuck with the major investment(glass)and will be forced to go with that brand for some time. Long term I see more reliability from Canon as I would Bimmer. Interesting. My perception is similar, but nearly backwards at the same time. The Nikon that is slightly cheaper than the Canon I was looking at was way less capable, but spending a small percentage more <20% yielded a camera that did way more. I figured this was due to the classic leap frog effect of having non-synchronous releases meaning that they periodically trump each other. Figured either would be just fine to use and long term I'd be happy. What I see is lacking is the Sony. If they didn't accept KM glass then they'd be fucking useless IMO. I also hate their whole business model. As for why I chose Canon even though for $200 more there was a much better Nikon? Very simply as a favor to my parents. They run Canon and this way I can loan them glass when they travel and they don't have to buy it. Figured either would do exactly what I needed. It absolutely killed me at the time though since the Nikon shot video and the Canon didn't. I can't say how much I regret that decision and how much video of my kids I've missed and of course extra money I wasted on a separate video camera.

Quelle fromage

I don't agree. Has NOTHING to do with it. They are around because they are the only mechanism that allows real glass to be mounted on. The megapixel wars in cameras are retarded since most of the lenses on the front can't resolve even a portion of what the sensor can. As soon as we defy Physics and make lenses that resolve better and are smaller the SLR will start to disappear. The other huge advantage of an SLR is noise performance. Exactly where a FF beats a crop although this advantage is short lived and will at some point be moot. The glass on the other hand won't be. My take is to buy a lens you will have later in life and a used camera body. Of course ease of use and P&S are about the same, but the results won't be. Hmmmmm. Why aren't mirrorless more popular? Just because of legacy? I don't buy it because they could make the lens mount on mirrorless match the DSLR lenses. Noise and lenses available.

I don't agree. Has NOTHING to do with it. They are around because they are the only mechanism that allows real glass to be mounted on. The megapixel wars in cameras are retarded since most of the lenses on the front can't resolve even a portion of what the sensor can. As soon as we defy Physics and make lenses that resolve better and are smaller the SLR will start to disappear. The other huge advantage of an SLR is noise performance. Exactly where a FF beats a crop although this advantage is short lived and will at some point be moot. The glass on the other hand won't be. My take is to buy a lens you will have later in life and a used camera body. Of course ease of use and P&S are about the same, but the results won't be.

The wife and I are both horrible at remembering to take pictures. She wants to get a camera to use for occasions, vacationing, etc. I would assume plenty of landscapes, buildings, pictures of the two do us taken by someone else, etc. Budget... I was thinking 500-600 but she thinks its too much for a camera. She also wants to be able to point and shoot and not worry about all the settings. I want good pictures and would love to play around with it. She doesn't want an SLR based on what you are saying. $500-600 is used territory. Cheaper has a used requirement.

What about the camera on her phone isn't enough?

Defeats the purpose. Point & shoot or DSLR. Of course the caveat being if you can live with a single prime. Can you go into detail more on living with a single prime? Wife already is balking on the idea because we don't "need" one for what we do. ie, no zoom whatsoverBut do you mean buying a camera that has a non removable prime lense? No. Basically buying a 1.8 50mm and a body

I would be REALLY hard pressed to recommend Nikon unless it is the 3000 for video. They make everything harder to do, and there is a smaller used market. They are great cameras with fine glass, but unless you know why you want a Nikon over a Canon, you want a Canon. My co worker loves his Sony, and that has some distinct advantages, like FPS. But it is a dog in a lot of other ways. There is only one camera that is interesting to me that is not Canon and it would only be for landscape or astralphotography. Neither would persuade me to jump ship unless it paid me. Interesting, I've found that most believe Nikon's are easier to use. No experience myself.

I would be REALLY hard pressed to recommend Nikon unless it is the 3000 for video. They make everything harder to do, and there is a smaller used market. They are great cameras with fine glass, but unless you know why you want a Nikon over a Canon, you want a Canon. My co worker loves his Sony, and that has some distinct advantages, like FPS. But it is a dog in a lot of other ways. There is only one camera that is interesting to me that is not Canon and it would only be for landscape or astralphotography. Neither would persuade me to jump ship unless it paid me. Interesting, I've found that most believe Nikon's are easier to use. No experience myself.

If it's on a public network than the traffic could be intercepted. You would need to tunnel the vnc service through SSH if you wanted to connect via a hotel or airport type network and have it be safe. If that's needed I can make a guide for setting everything up, but it'd take a few days for me to try it out in windows. Thanks for the offer. Let me crawl before I fly ie, don't spend the time

perhaps Kyle considers that eye candy

99.9% of the time I'd be at home or be porting in from an Android device

Remotely I'd mostly be in a hotel, but if that sacrifices security I can limit the locations.

We'll see in the AM. Has another 4 hours to go. Thanks for the help. Assuming I copy a complete boot drive onto another drive and then swap them the system should boot like the original no?

Had planned on installing all the software to run off the SSD C drive and all data on the Z drive. Have backed up the Z and will sync every few weeks and was going to use Macrium to duplicate the bootable drive. That being said, would ripping it in Linux make more sense? I really want everything copied so if he fucks it up and can just rip it back independent of the data.

I have a hard time with the make an access tunnel for one computer and having it not be for anyone else more clever than me. Perhaps that door is already readily there though. Obviously if I could see/control my dad's computer remotely it would save me the time of setting up a webex and such. Considering I am building it right now installing anything I want on it is easy.

Fuck. Actually thinking about it, the value would be huge to me. I currently write a different graphical user interface for my tablet when the one on windows would be fine. Fucking tablet communication is a third party software that farts ALL the time.

Most important would be while I am in the house. Working over the net has some value as well though.