In any case, thanks to its relative age, this high-end dSLR now goes for $200 less than its original $1300 launch price, from Buy.Com.

Olympus E-3 Digital SLR Camera – 10.1 Megapixel – 2.50 Active Matrix TFT Color LCD ($1050 from Buy.Com)

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What do you think of the ad? Verizon Wireless seems pretty confident about their wireless broadband network, so they’d better live up its claim of mobile net superiority! The Droid “Pretty” ad feels like a kick-ass answer to Apple’s “there’s an app for that” campaign, featuring witty and pithy messaging the Mac maker is known for. While personally appealing, I’m not really sure how the target market (geeks?) would react.

In any case, now I’m mindlessly trying my best to mimic the robotic “drrrooooidd” sound bite. Thanks Verizon!

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The ADS emplacement definitely won’t fit in anyone’s pocket—a truck is required to move this baby around—but the granddaddy of pain beams also works like the promised hand held versions: by directing 94-GHz millimeter-wave radio energy, it creates a burning sensation in the skin of its targets, the aim being to stop groups of people (like soldiers, or say, rioters) in their tracks without causing permanent injury. Definitely an effective tool if it works as promised, at least until its (probably institutional) potential targets develop their own countermeasures, anti pain beam defense if you will.

Unless your a large-scale legitimate institution with a proven need for the ADS, it’s most likely difficult to get exact information on availability and pricing. Aside from ethical concerns, I also wonder if spreading this technology for the sake of business is wise. After all, once robots make their move to usurp their creators and enslave humanity, won’t this kind of weapon prove very useful for the AI overlords? What’s the point of killing humans, when you can shepherd them like sheep and keep them alive for your own nefarious purposes?

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I’ve got a few things to say about that!

“It’s a laptop. They’re all portable.” – Try lugging around a 15.4″ laptop!

“Apparently the screen size wasn’t a big factor for her.” – Well, maybe Lauren was smart enough to realize that you need to strike a balance between portability and screen size?

“What is ‘do programs fast’?” – I guess something we tech-savvy people like to call “responsiveness”? You know, like when you launch an app, it launches fast?

“$970? Really?” and “They go way under the price limit…” – Don’t tell me you never tried to save money? Budgets aren’t ironclad you know, especially when you can get something you need for much less than what you allocated.

“For about $150, you can get a 1 terabyte external drive” – Oh, but I prefer having everything right on my laptop. An external hard drive is always a good buy, but not when your anticipating your everyday storage needs around it.

“Vista’s garbage” – No it’s not. Admittedly Microsoft dropped the ball upon Vista’s launch, but the updates made up for that, performance-wise at least. And guess what? If Lauren bought

“You don’t need 10 gigabytes of RAM to run it smoothly.” – Wait wait wait. You do know that the Vista on Lauren’s chosen laptop, can only support a maximum of 3.25GB? So 10GB is kinda pointless.

“I really don’t get what Microsoft is trying to do with these commercials, they’re stupid and they make no sense.” – They’re trying to appeal to a market eager for sweeping yet easy-to-package generalizations. You know, just like the I’m a PC ads.

“At least they had a cute girl in this commercial.” – On this point I agree!

The only point I concede is the Apple’s better battery life. Apple’s laptops do have better battery lives! But that doesn’t make up for the illusion of smugness some of Apple’s customers like giving off.

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Two more ads for those who continue reading.

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