Those who wish to paint a less alarming picture point out that success in battle requires the integration of new equipment with existing capabilities and doctrines, many of which remain deficient.
That same picture also clarifies another point that people never think of, which is whether we are born big or small.
There's no representation from Africa or Asia, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences point out that the purpose of the category is to identify great cinema, not to distribute nominations evenly throughout the world's film-makers.
The valuation picture has improved to the point that we may consider an upgrade in the coming weeks.
The technology also has a social networking function: while Ms Carden has difficulty dialling telephone numbers she can easily point to a picture of her friend Emma on the screen which will start a video call.
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The whole idea was that the speaker would talk for a while, and then occasionally show a slide that illustrated a point with a picture or a striking image, or made a set of numbers clear with a bar graph or a pie chart.
Another new feature for 2012 is a zoom microphone that changes the focal point to match the picture so that what's seen can be more clearly heard.
In Creative mode, the Zoom is at the full 8X, and you can tap on the viewfinder to set the point around which the picture can be refocused.
But it is the starting point, the big picture, the tiny bundle of information that gives users the context to appreciate and understand the most challenging and rewarding works of journalism.
The fundamental picture remains pretty tricky at this point.
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Once the GPS data is linked to the pictures and prepared by a program on the computer, your trip can be shown as points on a map or aerial photo, with each point linking to a picture.
The chief executive of Centrica, Sam Laidlaw, says I am painting a misleading picture - that I failed to point out that British Gas's residential supply business had an unusually weak first half last year, and that profits were therefore returning to nearer the norm.
With Kodak and others starting to support Wi-Fi, perhaps more ad hoc picture sharing can take place at the point of capture.
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There's the rub -- and the point where this fresh, lively picture falls in on itself.
"At one point I tried to take a picture of a young boy attacking a camera, " Sussman wrote.
As a picture of things to come, the opponents point to the Cannabis Buyers' Club in San Francisco, founded in 1991, which at one time claimed 12, 000 members.
In case it wasn't already clear how small the Android-powered console is, the folks at Ouya included the picture you see above to further illustrate that point -- the thing is really small.
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To some extent, the skeptics have a point but that is not the whole picture.
The decline in U.S. unemployment to the lowest point since January 2009 complicates the political picture.
Throw in a rushed development process that recycled areas to the point of nausea and you get the picture.
Wu contends critics who have complained that the price point is too higher are missing the larger picture.
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Or picture a tight left turn on Yosemite's Glacier Point Road where in the east iconic Half Dome suddenly appears against a backdrop of the snow-capped High Sierra.
In fact, we should expect Navman to start offering guided city tours whereby you can download an itinerary of coordinate-tagged photos for your destination city -- just tap the picture and hit "go" to navigate to a point-of-interest.
The real point is that I was attempting to paint a picture of where technology was headed and what the world of capability of information technology would look like around the end of the first decade of this century (and then at the end of subsequent decades).
After a while, we get the point: because children are the principal audience, the picture needs a PG-13 rating.
"Not only does the new PENTAX Q10 have a tiny footprint but it packs a powerful punch when it comes to picture taking, especially when compared to any smart phone or digital point-and-shoot camera, " explains John Carlson, Sr.
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The ideal picture would be one in which consumer demand neatly slackens just at the point that exports and investment pick up.
My point is, is that if you look at the overall picture of Hispanic assimilation, Hispanics are assimilating as quickly and as thoroughly as every generation of immigrants has.
The point is, there are (another comment on my profile picture) a lot of distractions (Facebook message going into further detail about previous text regarding laptop) to contend with when trying to set aside time for any work that requires deeper thought than snapping off email replies. (Posting new chart on I Love Charts).
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