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The introduction of the Canon XL2 doesn't change anything. I still want the Panasonic AJ-SDX900 but with a starting price of $27k, it may have to wait.
In the mean time, making due with the Canon XL2 looks like an easy arrangement. Lots of adavanced features make this camera a nice step in the right direction.
The incessant whining of the Democrats proves one thing: they are just little children who were never disciplined growing up. Nor were they taught manners. Or ethics. Or sportsmanship.
Just shut up already.
Writing is foundational, at least in the fields I'm interested in. Programming is writing where the audience is a compiler. Screenwriting is the source code for filmmaking. Neither writing is interesting in its own right. They both require additional processing to create something usable by the intended audience.
Nobody (outside of Hollywood) stands around the water cooler regaling coworkers about the great script he read over the weekend. Nor will you find hush reverence for C++ code from an end user. These types of writing are not end products in themselves but provide the basis for creating them. As such, the writing is far less fun than say writing a short story.
Short stories and other narratives are entertaining to write. A clever turn of phrase or the snarled description of inner turmoil can be a treat to create. You can show your paragraph (or sentence, even) to someone else and get a valuable reaction. Not so with source code or screenplays. Screenplays are all visuals, dense and terse. Source code, likewise, is all business.
Get too clever with either and you lose your audience.
(2005-07-04) Cable News Network (CNN) says that the presidential election results in Georgia are still too close to call. With 100% of the vote counted, including all provisional and absentee ballots, George W. Bush leadsby a narrow 59% to John Kerry's 41%.
Although Kerry conceeded the election on November 3, 2004, CNN has refused to give up the fight. "It's not over!" yelled Wolf Blitzer. "We will not rest until this election is overturned, regardless of the effect on the nation and the world. We deserve to win because we're right, damn it! I mean, Kerry deserves to win. Right, that Kerry guy should be President."
In just under twelve hours the polls open here in the Damp Northwest. One thing seems clear: the polls are wrong.
The next two years will (should?) see the polling firms retooling their models in a futile attempt to keep from fading into a quiet extinction. There may be an expansion of electronic markets like Iowa that replace the pollsters.
Please just let there be no lawsuits over ballot counting. Please?
Let us return to the glory days of the Republic when the winner was chosen on election day, by the electorate, not weeks later by the courts. Bad lawyers, bad!