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BBC reports on new Hasselblad
newshound wrote:
On 6/25/2016 5:37 PM, RichA wrote: On Saturday, 25 June 2016 09:13:59 UTC-4, newshound wrote: On 6/24/2016 5:49 AM, Rich A wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36598977 Think I will wait for the 2 1/4 square sensor :-) It won't be "affordable." It used to be said of Rolls Royce cars that if you needed to ask the price, you couldn't afford one. That actually referred to J.P. Morgan and the price of a yacht, many years ago. Mort Linder |
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BBC reports on new Hasselblad
On 6/27/2016 10:33 AM, Mort wrote:
newshound wrote: On 6/25/2016 5:37 PM, RichA wrote: On Saturday, 25 June 2016 09:13:59 UTC-4, newshound wrote: On 6/24/2016 5:49 AM, Rich A wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36598977 Think I will wait for the 2 1/4 square sensor :-) It won't be "affordable." It used to be said of Rolls Royce cars that if you needed to ask the price, you couldn't afford one. That actually referred to J.P. Morgan and the price of a yacht, many years ago. There is a local story floating around Oyster Bay, that J.P Morgan was seen taking deposit cans & bottles out of a trash can. At that time someone yelled: "Things slow at the bank, Jack?" -- PeterN |
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BBC reports on new Hasselblad
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 02:42:45 -0700 (PDT), Whisky-dave
wrote: On Sunday, 26 June 2016 21:53:11 UTC+1, RichA wrote: On Sunday, 26 June 2016 16:32:29 UTC-4, Davoud wrote: J. Clarke: When it can outrun a 1988 Trans Am then I"ll be impressed. If an '88 Trans Am could outrun my 1.6 litre Miata on a twisty road I would be impressed. If it could stop from 80mph five times in succession without the brakes catching fire I would be even more impressed. Drag-strip performance does not make a complete performance car. It takes little effort to get more horsepower out of a lot of cars (Muscle cars, Japanese sports cars) than the Bugatti and no, they aren't race cars for a twisting race track, but for $80,000 or so they can become race cars. The $100,000 GT-R is faster in acceleration than the Bugatti, up to a point and can be made much faster with about $25,000 more put in. 0-100 kph in 1.513 seconds ain't bad. No idea where the shopping would go. https://www.ethz.ch/content/main/en/...eltrekord.html Its only a bit over 1g - 1.3g to be more precise - so it's not likely to worry the shopping. More importantly it reached 100km/hr in less than 30m and its not worth loading the shopping into the car if you are only wanting to go that distance. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On 28/06/2016 02:33, Mort wrote:
newshound wrote: On 6/25/2016 5:37 PM, RichA wrote: On Saturday, 25 June 2016 09:13:59 UTC-4, newshound wrote: On 6/24/2016 5:49 AM, Rich A wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36598977 Think I will wait for the 2 1/4 square sensor :-) It won't be "affordable." It used to be said of Rolls Royce cars that if you needed to ask the price, you couldn't afford one. That actually referred to J.P. Morgan and the price of a yacht, many years ago. There were mythical stories that Rolls Royce cars "never broke down". The story usually went along the lines of a wealthy British expat in some colony where RR car actually did break down on some jungle or desert track, contact made with RR dealer, RR flies engineers out from mother England, they arrive in helicopters, get the car running and bugger-off back home. Honest owner never receives a bill so contacts RR to be told that "but sir - you appear to have made a mistake - Rolls Royce cars never break down". The reliability of Rolls Royce and true cost for repairs is reflected in resale value - not very good is an understatement. The common saying about cars like that is: "if you can't afford to buy a new one - then you won't be able to afford to run a used one". |
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BBC reports on new Hasselblad
On 6/27/2016 6:44 PM, Me wrote:
On 28/06/2016 02:33, Mort wrote: newshound wrote: On 6/25/2016 5:37 PM, RichA wrote: On Saturday, 25 June 2016 09:13:59 UTC-4, newshound wrote: On 6/24/2016 5:49 AM, Rich A wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36598977 Think I will wait for the 2 1/4 square sensor :-) It won't be "affordable." It used to be said of Rolls Royce cars that if you needed to ask the price, you couldn't afford one. That actually referred to J.P. Morgan and the price of a yacht, many years ago. There were mythical stories that Rolls Royce cars "never broke down". The story usually went along the lines of a wealthy British expat in some colony where RR car actually did break down on some jungle or desert track, contact made with RR dealer, RR flies engineers out from mother England, they arrive in helicopters, get the car running and bugger-off back home. Honest owner never receives a bill so contacts RR to be told that "but sir - you appear to have made a mistake - Rolls Royce cars never break down". The reliability of Rolls Royce and true cost for repairs is reflected in resale value - not very good is an understatement. The common saying about cars like that is: "if you can't afford to buy a new one - then you won't be able to afford to run a used one". Here is a non-Apocryphal story. I was retained on a matter by a Rolls dealer, out of town. It is the usual practice on out of town deals to discuss the anticipated issues over lunch. At lunch time the owner explained that he could not go out to lunch, and said take a Rolls. I asked if I could bring something back, he said whatever you are having and we could eat in the office. I too the Rolls to a drive up window at Arbys. He got my message and things went very well. -- PeterN |
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On 29/06/2016 19:43, RichA wrote:
On Monday, 27 June 2016 18:44:23 UTC-4, Me wrote: On 28/06/2016 02:33, Mort wrote: newshound wrote: On 6/25/2016 5:37 PM, RichA wrote: On Saturday, 25 June 2016 09:13:59 UTC-4, newshound wrote: On 6/24/2016 5:49 AM, Rich A wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36598977 Think I will wait for the 2 1/4 square sensor :-) It won't be "affordable." It used to be said of Rolls Royce cars that if you needed to ask the price, you couldn't afford one. That actually referred to J.P. Morgan and the price of a yacht, many years ago. There were mythical stories that Rolls Royce cars "never broke down". The story usually went along the lines of a wealthy British expat in some colony where RR car actually did break down on some jungle or desert track, contact made with RR dealer, RR flies engineers out from mother England, they arrive in helicopters, get the car running and bugger-off back home. Honest owner never receives a bill so contacts RR to be told that "but sir - you appear to have made a mistake - Rolls Royce cars never break down". The reliability of Rolls Royce and true cost for repairs is reflected in resale value - not very good is an understatement. The common saying about cars like that is: "if you can't afford to buy a new one - then you won't be able to afford to run a used one". How about the ones where in the 1920's, Oklahoma indians (on whose land they found oil) would park their Rolls at the kerb when the ashtray was full and go buy a new one? In my country, various myths were circulated by colonial settlers about the native peoples' inability to understand the value of money and material things, probably because it made the concept of taking things from them by stealth, extortion, and theft palatable. |
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On 6/29/2016 3:43 AM, RichA wrote:
On Monday, 27 June 2016 18:44:23 UTC-4, Me wrote: On 28/06/2016 02:33, Mort wrote: newshound wrote: On 6/25/2016 5:37 PM, RichA wrote: On Saturday, 25 June 2016 09:13:59 UTC-4, newshound wrote: On 6/24/2016 5:49 AM, Rich A wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36598977 Think I will wait for the 2 1/4 square sensor :-) It won't be "affordable." It used to be said of Rolls Royce cars that if you needed to ask the price, you couldn't afford one. That actually referred to J.P. Morgan and the price of a yacht, many years ago. There were mythical stories that Rolls Royce cars "never broke down". The story usually went along the lines of a wealthy British expat in some colony where RR car actually did break down on some jungle or desert track, contact made with RR dealer, RR flies engineers out from mother England, they arrive in helicopters, get the car running and bugger-off back home. Honest owner never receives a bill so contacts RR to be told that "but sir - you appear to have made a mistake - Rolls Royce cars never break down". The reliability of Rolls Royce and true cost for repairs is reflected in resale value - not very good is an understatement. The common saying about cars like that is: "if you can't afford to buy a new one - then you won't be able to afford to run a used one". How about the ones where in the 1920's, Oklahoma indians (on whose land they found oil) would park their Rolls at the kerb when the ashtray was full and go buy a new one? Do us all a favor. Don't do any business in the US, and spew your venom elsewhere. As Me said, that story was a myth perpetrated by people like you for avaricious reasons, and to try to justify there own prejudices. -- PeterN |
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BBC reports on new Hasselblad
On 6/30/2016 2:22 AM, RichA wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 June 2016 08:30:19 UTC-4, peterN wrote: On 6/29/2016 3:43 AM, RichA wrote: On Monday, 27 June 2016 18:44:23 UTC-4, Me wrote: On 28/06/2016 02:33, Mort wrote: newshound wrote: On 6/25/2016 5:37 PM, RichA wrote: On Saturday, 25 June 2016 09:13:59 UTC-4, newshound wrote: On 6/24/2016 5:49 AM, Rich A wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36598977 Think I will wait for the 2 1/4 square sensor :-) It won't be "affordable." It used to be said of Rolls Royce cars that if you needed to ask the price, you couldn't afford one. That actually referred to J.P. Morgan and the price of a yacht, many years ago. There were mythical stories that Rolls Royce cars "never broke down". The story usually went along the lines of a wealthy British expat in some colony where RR car actually did break down on some jungle or desert track, contact made with RR dealer, RR flies engineers out from mother England, they arrive in helicopters, get the car running and bugger-off back home. Honest owner never receives a bill so contacts RR to be told that "but sir - you appear to have made a mistake - Rolls Royce cars never break down". The reliability of Rolls Royce and true cost for repairs is reflected in resale value - not very good is an understatement. The common saying about cars like that is: "if you can't afford to buy a new one - then you won't be able to afford to run a used one". How about the ones where in the 1920's, Oklahoma indians (on whose land they found oil) would park their Rolls at the kerb when the ashtray was full and go buy a new one? Do us all a favor. Don't do any business in the US, and spew your venom elsewhere. As Me said, that story was a myth perpetrated by people like you for avaricious reasons, and to try to justify there own prejudices. -- PeterN I never said it was true, literalist moron. Read you own statement. Thank you for the compliment. -- PeterN |
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