Who says 25MP is the proper amount for a full frame sensor? Sure, you'll get a larger image size, but you'll lose signal to noise ratio which is why the Nikon D3 and the D700 have the best high-ISO IQ in the business. Unless you're shooting for advertising hoardings in a studio where you can control the lighting exactly as you desire, or you're a serious landscape shooter who always uses a tripod, then you won't derive any benefit from 25MP vs 12MP you have now on the D3/D700.
It's not going to happen, because the 4/3rds system is designed to be smaller. None of the current lenses have an image circle that will even cover an APS-C sensor, let alone a full-frame sensor. With it's smaller lens mount diameter, the 4/3rds system cannot support full-frame at all. Everything is designed around that smaller sensor format. In order for Olympus to go full frame, they would have to design a new system from scratch, effectively abandoning all the investment they've made in the 4/3rds system thus far.
The REAL problem is that most pollution is generated not by cars whizzing along, but sitting in traffic in cities or crawling along overladen highways. At those speeds, aerodynamics have very little effect on overall fuel consumption. The long-term answer is to find ways to consume little or no energy when the car is stationary, and for us as a race to find new ways of organising our societies.
Many of us who today commute will in the future be able to do our work without the need for daily travel. The internet is the great enable of telecommuting, and the future is in finding ways for people to travel less. Eliminating wasted travel time will enable us all to regain the leisure time that the pressures of modern life has eroded.
The UK government is planning to track every British motor vehicle's movements using the Galileo system, so that they can issue charges based on where and when you used your car. They'll also be able to issue immediate speeding and parking fines wherever you are in the UK. Galileo's unprecedented accuracy enables this. Big Brother Britain is bad enough already, but this is just too far.
For this reason, I hope the Galileo project fails.
Yup - Firewire is so much faster and more reliable than USB fr data transfer that the only reason people don't rate it is because they haven't tried it. It's sort of a catch 22 situation. My scanner, 2 external hard drives, CF card reader and video camera all connect via firewire 400 and they beat using USB2 any day. Connect two PCs via firewire and you have instant super-fast networking. Connect a video camera and you have an instant very high quality webcam. You'd have to be a fool to use USB in preference.
I agree with much of what you say. You're even right that "Taleban" isn't MUCH closer. I was trying to explain to Rafer why the British media spells it the way they do. The British spelling pronounced in standard English IS closer to the Afghan pronounciation.
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