fyngyrz commented on Leica's $11,000 Noctilux 50mm f/0.95 Lens Is a Nightvision Owl Eye For Your Camera

"Canon makes two ƒ/1.2 lenses: a 50mm and an 85mm."

fyngyrz commented on Build Your Own Large Hadron Collider in 1.62 x 10^28 Easy Steps

"Best headline EVER"

fyngyrz commented on Lightning Review: Logitech DiNovo Keyboard Mac Edition

"Strike 1: Spongy keys -- no good for serious typing Strike 2: Bluetooth -- historically short range on mac Strike 3: Batteries -- gonna die when you need it Strike 4: No numeric keypad -- no good for serious typing Strike 5: Black."

fyngyrz commented on Netflix's Shipping Systems Have Been FUBARed Since Tuesday

"EBone... ...more likely it laughed itself into a coma at the idea of the absolutely horrible quality of streaming media trying to compete with the 36 Mb/s (and up) data rate of bluray... Yeah, that's probably it."

fyngyrz commented on Sanyo Eneloop Batteries Go Cs and Ds

"These are 1.2 volt batteries, not 1.5 volt; consequently, they deliver less energy than standard batteries for most circuit designs; flashlights will be dimmer, audio devices will not be as loud, r/c cars won't go as fast, flashes won't recharge as fast. They may last longer in service due to more current capacity, but longer lasting does not mean higher performance."

fyngyrz commented on AT&T All But Confirms iPhone Exclusivity Extended Until 2010

"It's no problem."

fyngyrz commented on Japan Has Subnotebooks For $1 With Data Plans

""American carriers, are you paying attention?" No. American broadband suppliers, are you paying attention to the fact that you're supplying a trickle to the rest of the world's "flood"? No. Americans, are you paying attention that all your telecomm traffic is now wide open to continuous government monitoring, and that your 4th amendment is currently "out of service"? No. In other news, Hollywood starlets flashing coochie bring Google's image search engine to its knees."

fyngyrz commented on Money Can't Buy Taste: The Tackiest $150,000 Home Theater You'll Ever See

"I think when Adam says 'tacky', what we are meant to understand is that he is deeply, deeply jealous. ;-)"

fyngyrz commented on Are You More Interested in a New Macbook, OS X 10.6 or a New iPhone at WWDC? Do You Even Give a Damn?

"newer, more powerful mini; cheaper, same power mini; mini with non-integrated graphics; mini with ability to handle more memory; 4-core mini; mini with SSD; micro-mini; But most of all, if I really had my druthers, I'd like to see OSX for general purpose machines."

fyngyrz commented on A Year of Tortured Patience: Holding Out for the Second-Gen iPhone

"Doesn't matter to me -- Apple's choice of ATT means no iPhone here, period, because ATT doesn't serve the area. So I bought an iPod touch, connectivity is via wifi, which works fine. I'd sure *like* an iPhone, but good ol' Apple, they've made *that* won't happen."