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When you stop to think about it that’s kind of hard to believe – I mean it doesn’t really fit the image of a car thief. But it’s true, modern car thieves do use laptops and their targets are very expensive and very high tech cars indeed.

You can read more about it at Electronic Insecurity

Well they do but they don’t.

There was a time when I took photos with a view to printing them but these days I nearly all my photographs are taken with a view to publishing them on the various Web sites I run. Sites like Hervey Bay Gossip and Aussie Motoring are packed with photos I take.

Because of the constraints of bandwidth and download time those photos are all published in file sizes of less than 60 or 70 kb and taken with a 4 megapixel camera. For ordinary Internet use and a 4 megapixel count and file sizes of the size I use are quite adequate even though there is some loss of detail.

But there is a demand for high-resolution photography where you can zoom in on a single feature and see every detail quite clearly. For that you need a pixel count in the billions and something like that doesn’t come from a camera.

Instead photos of that quality come from a computer running software that uses hundreds of photos stitched together with allowances made for a number of variables including things like the movement of the sun.

This northern summer Microsoft is aiming at producing a 10 gigapixel picture and you can read about it here

IT industry research firm - Gartner Group - is now forecasting that Vista won’t see the light of a general release day until sometime during the second quarter of 2007.

Should we be surprised - on past performances further delays from Microsoft should be expected.