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@miakotamatsue By your logic, anyone who drives a car nicer than yours must be a better driver - or he's a loser.

Or anyone who eats at nicer restaurants than you usually do must be a better chef - or he's a loser.

Must be great going through life with a gigantic chip on your shoulder like that.

@SomEngangVar B&H, buy this stuff online, it's way cheaper than buying it locally. Plus, you can fridge film and it'll last just about forever.

I'm currently shooting Ilford Delta 100.

@HDD If your budget is a bit constrained like mine, the R-series has also insanely great optics. Tack sharp wide open - I simply have not used better lenses from anyone else.

I'm disappointed that killing your way through is an absolute requirement now. I've always enjoyed the challenge of going through a level without any kills or alarms.

They upped the ante in Double Agent by counting even knockouts against your stealth score, which forces you to actually sneak around like a ninja - which was great fun.

The demo feels a lot too much like a one-man Rainbow Six - a series of isolated, tactically challenging engagements where the objective is to make everyone very dead.

It's not really Splinter Cell...

@rlay001 I'd rather have lower pixel density - I don't like how Canon's gone on the whole megapixel race while nearly everyone else has been cutting back.

The 5DMk2 vs. the D700 for high-ISO performance is night and day, and the only reason this is the case is because Canon insisted on a whole lot more megapixels that nobody will use.

I love Canon lenses, but if I were going to go for a full-frame right now...

@think before you react

At $17.99 a month I'd have to get subscription to a lot more than WSJ. Maybe if they all got together and gave me a NYT, Newsweek, WSJ, and Economist for $17.99 a month they'd have a deal.

As it is getting a single paper every morning just isn't worth that money to me.

I don't. Max Payne is at its core a giant homage to film noire - there's nothing film noire about the lush jungles of Latin America. The whole thing feels like they just wanted a big name attached to [random third person shooter].

The SEC filing may be a CYA move. Remember, in the US at least non-compete agreements cannot be enforced if the employee is *fired*. If these guys were fired because they wanted to defect to EA, it is in Activision's interest to sue them, no matter how frivolously, since their non-compete is still in force if they can allege wrongdoing.

If these guys are just plain *fired*, they can basically pick up their stuff and move to EA no questions asked, which I suspect is not something Activision wants.

"While dedicated personal navigators are almost always superior to their converged competition"

Yeah... No. I hate dedicated GPS units - they are slow, buggy as all hell, and have touchscreens that aren't worth the plastic they're made of. Every time I go home to visit the folks I end up using their GPS unit, where I have to jab at the screen just to make it sense touches, and even then it usually thinks I'm hitting the next button over.

There are two ways this can play out:

- Apple, Google, RIM, Nokia, etc, bring lane guidance, real navigation capabilities to their phones, and Garmin/TomTom/Magellan will just keel over and die.

- Garmin/TomTom/Magellan somehow manage to *drastically* improve their software by leaps and bounds, and stops putting shitty hardware in their flagship devices (resistive touch, seriously?).

Based on history I'm banking on the former.

Dammit, based on that trailer I bet Kane turns out to be an alien and is all behind the whole Tiberium shit.

I miss contemporary C&C - Tiberian Dawn was and always will be the only real C&C.