I just love the Canon experience whenever it's time to update the firmware on my 7D. It is such a hassle. Just when I thought I had this process down Canon throws me another curve. This time the EOS Utility program (I am using a MAC OSX operating system), kept telling me I am "Out Of Memory." NOT!!! So I finally figured out that there was an updated version of the EOS Utility program out there on the Canon website. After downloading that I was then able to update the camera firmware. I'm not sure if this process would be any easier on a PC. All I know is Canon makes it very hard to understand their process and gives you no information on when updates are available or required in this case. This has probably been covered before on this site but I am fairly new here. Sorry if I am bringing up old news. OK.....I got that off my chest.

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Leave it to you to add a moronic propaganda point to a serious discussion. the pretense that gun control will leave guns in the hands of criminals, who will then ravage a defenseless population is about the stupidest propaganda anyone can invent. NO surprise that you embrace it, then support it with one of your rightist cartoons.

First of all, no one is a criminal until he had committed a crime, therefore it is impossible to take guns out of the hands of only criminals.In your world everyone would be armed, and there would be a wild west shootout society such as the US is today. The countries that have moved to take guns out of circulation have managed to keep them out of the hands of criminals and others alike. Why don't you just look at some easily found tables of murder rates and see for yourself. There is no need to speculate ignorantly as you have about the effect of conscientious gun control when there are existing models of it already in place.

I once noted that discussing policy with you was like trying to explain particle physics to an amoeba. You have done nothing since then to change my mind.

For years colleges and universities have been selling worthless degrees. Things need to change. People are getting degrees where there is little work, tremendous competition and little pay and running up huge debt doing to do such.

I am almost 61, have 2 graduate degrees, and have told my children to forego college for now, but find something they are interested in, and get a certificate in that discipline, whatever it might be. My youngest has shown an interest and proclivity for graphics. I told her to attend one of the top notch art schools here in NYC and take their certificate in graphics arts.
The cost is a fraction of what a BFA would cost her, and it gives her the luxury of finding out within the first year if she really wants to go into the field.

That said, maybe I'm old school, but I was brought up to believe that college was a place to teach you how to think, not get a job. I know times are changing, but with business cycles, the rapid changing of technology, it is foolish to think you can major in something in college, and that will be your career for life.
Witness the proliferation of MBAs in the 1970s-1990s. Boy, oh boy, I had friends making obscene amounts of $$$ right out of grad school.

Most are unemployed now, or under employed in some field other than finance.

Again, learn to think, learn to adapt, and you'll be fine.

News item on MSN news;

Town in US orders residents to own a gun

"Every household in the town of Nelson in the US state of Georgia has been ordered to own a gun.

A new law just passed by the local council makes it mandatory for the head of every household to possess a firearm and ammunition.

The vote was unanimous. "We're making a statement," said city council member Jackie Jarrett. "If you plan on doing us harm, we'll be armed."

http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/georgia-town-orders-residents-to-own-a-gun-617299

Can someone enlighten me as to who or what the town council think they need protecting against or are they planning a Switzerland type militia? :!: :?:

Meanwhile - in Maine a similar proposed law has been rejected. :shock:

I recently had the pleasure of examining a small private collection of old photographic prints, some of which dated back to our Civil War, 150 years ago.

One group of prints particularly interested me. They were 16x20 inch contact prints from 16x20 glass plates. The prints were dated about 1910. They were over a century old, and most were cityscapes photographed from high elevations. The detail in those old prints was absolutely astounding.

Judy - I also don't trust hard drives, CDs, or thumb drives.
Out of each shoot, I choose the best ones and have them printed.
PhotoTex

The question comes to mind, will our digital images of today be so readily available a century hence? If so, in what form?

Thirty years ago, images were stored on 5½ inch floppy disks. Can anyone read such a disk with today's hardware? Then came the smaller 3½ disks. They are becoming rare and while I still can read them today, what happens when the present equipment wears out?

Then came CD's. But CD's I burned five years ago are unreadable today. The local IT guys tell me the laser tracings have deteriorated. Is the same fate awaiting DVD's?

Many recommend archiving via external hard drives. Will the microscopic magnetic tracings on the disks survive for a century? And, if so, will there be hardware and software available to render the images useful?

Today, I can look at some old photos and see my grandparents as children. Will future generations be able to do the same? Or will our digital images of today disappear like the morning mists?

I am concerned about the obvious ephemeral qualities of digital imagery. I am old-fashioned. I am reducing all of my most treasured digital images to paper prints. For the moment, that is the best solution for me.

I am sure our UHH Forum experts have other opinions and maybe better solutions.

I would like to read some comments.

I have had the problem. It is not a matter of "just eat less". You have to change your lifestyle and thinking. I ate when I was tired, nervous, board, when something looked good and other times that had nothing to do with being hungry. I went through counseling to solve the problem, a "diet" won't do it.

Morbid obesity is different from most people who just eat too much.

Obesity is the bane of this American society we live in. I have absolutely no problem with the company a person works for requesting that his/her employees stay in shape - it is both good for the employee (extends life, stops the onset of disease, increases happiness, etc.) and it is great for the employer (a lower health insurance cost, a more productive workforce, a better emotional atmosphere - leading to better work results - in the workplace). Of course, I am also very much for hiring those people stricken by illness or disability, and they should be exempt from the most stringent requirements. :thumbup: