Posts by Anthony Steele

Screeching rails close London Tube station

Dangerous noise levels

The London Underground will have to face up sooner or later to the way that that some sections of track do generate unsafe levels of noise, and so expose a large and captive audience to potential hearing damage. It's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Psychologist invents new uber-wiki

Neither new or important

Source control tools like SVN and TFs already have tools to go through the history and attribute each word to a particular revision by an author at a particular time.

This is not new. And it's not that big a deal. Wikipedia keeps this information in the history, but at present you may have to do a lot of processing to extract it.

If this guy thinks it's a breakthrough, he's a twit and doesn't need reporters to take him seriously.

Pentax K20D digital SLR

updates and lenses

1) the K20D is not "the end of an era" for most, it's just an update to the excellent Pentax K10D. My wife has one of those and makes good use of it.

All I wanted to know is how the K20D compares to the K10D, price, features and user experience. Sadly the article gives none of that.

2) to Giles Jones: The third-party lenses from Sigma and others that I have looked at all seem to come in Cannon, Nikon and Pentax mount. It's true that you see far more Nikons and Cannons around than Pentax, but the K10D was hard to beat at the £500 price point and Sigma and others supply a good range of third-party lenses.

At the £5000 price point no doubt the Nikon D3 is the business. I'd like to see how the K20D compares to others at £900.