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We can run round the market share game for the next couple of years, but you would missed the news. Vista, if you believe optimistic web stats, clocks in at 8%. There are plenty of sites that will also show you 8% or better GNU/Linux. Slight heaves in the landscape sometimes demand a broader perspective to understand. Because M$ is all marketing and perception, the slightest change can be their downfall. The hype wave about "strong Vista demand" is all about you missing Vista's market failure. M$ will follow, because their development and business model is wrong.

What's important is that M$ has lost it's ability to push, and the M$ game is over. Vista was pushed like the company's life depended on it. They advertised like crazy, got bogus reviews written up, demanded every vendor sell nothing but Vista it blew up in their faces. Everywhere you go, you hear the same thing about Vista performance. Sales fell through the floor, equipment makers and vendors lost real money and pushed back. Fanboy purchases and channel stuffing are over. If M$ could not sell to the back to school crowd, they can't sell to anyone so sales are going to go nowhere but down. Vista is not the future and M$ might go down with it. M$ can't threaten to whack anyone when they are not making money for anyone but themselves. This was all so easy to predict, now here we are.

Vendors are looking for something to fill the massive gap left by Vista, and free software fits perfectly. It's got eye candy, stability, security and it's free and have competitive service. What more can vendors ask for?

I've got one final image for you. I GNU you would have Vista. See you later M$.

It's sister site, run by the same people, bayimg does. (Unless the copyright laws that apply to it make an absolute exemption for user-submitted content.)

If there was really something at all these places with all these people not only there should be some phone camera shots (dot in the sky) but even some more decent stuff, some professional and a lot of amateurs are always present at events like that, and while it is difficult taking a photo like that is definitively possible.

Take a look at this: http://bayimg.com/NAhogAabi (no, no goatse).

I'm just an amateur with a decent mid-to-low end reflex (EOS 350) and lens (75-300mm optical, not stabilized), that was the first time I tried stuff like that, yet when I saw a Dragonfly continuously flying a 20 meter loop in full sun over shallow water some 10 meters below me (I was standing on the side of a cliff in Sicily) I was able to select high ISO (1600, that's why the image is so grainy), LOW exposure time (1/2000), manual focus, point to the end of the loop (lowest speed), zoom somewhat right (EXIF says it was optical 200, which on that camera means really 320mm focal length), click some 10 times and get four good images like that in various positions of flight.

And you really think if there was something to see there would be no photographs ?

[I posted this last time FoxIt was mentioned but it didn't get seen] This may be slightly OT, but please don't mod it as such. I use FoxIt and I have a problem. Whenever I open the solutions file for a textbook I use for school, the text is barely readable. Yet in Adobe Reader, it's fine.

See screenshot [bayimg.com]

Any ideas? I like FoxIt, but I can't use it!
Note: The zoom is set to the same on both, zooming on FoxIt doesn't help the issue. Also sorry the screenshot is so small, I uploaded a larger one but BayImg didn't like it for some reason.

The irony of this page (click for 100% scale) is astounding.

I had to snap a shot before Adobe pulls their ad.

Believe me, I know.

This may be slightly OT, but please don't mod it as such. I use FoxIt and I have a problem. Whenever I open the solutions file for a textbook I use for school, the text is barely readable. Yet in Adobe Reader, it's fine.

See screenshot

Any ideas? I like FoxIt, but I can't use it!
Note: The zoom is set to the same on both, zooming on FoxIt doesn't help the issue. Also sorry the screenshot is so small, I uploaded a larger one but BayImg didn't like it for some reason.

Everything coercive is optional in one way or another, isn't it? It's hard to tell what their intentions really are because they are such quiet and nice people. Whatever their intentions, we can be sure that they will keep you save!

Everything coercive is optional in one way or another, isn't it? It's hard to tell what their intentions really are because they are such quiet and nice people. Whatever their intentions, we can be sure that they will keep you save!

The spirit was always there, even if you can't see him. He's the embodiment of digital restrictions!

I kind of like the hysterical Twitter is Erris posts better myself. Links take effort and are so OMG!

Google Pack: hide icon

Also, try googling "disable ipodservice".

Granted, the iPodService thing shouldn't be so hard to turn off, but come on. If you're knowledgeable enough to care, you ought ot be able to do something about. Otherwise, get Winamp 2.95.

The punishment for fraud is restitution, compensation, fines, and sometimes jail.

I've not heard of any small or even medium sized OEM looking to market to the everyday PC consumer "switching to Ubuntu as their OS of choice".

Is Acer big enough for you? Vista has let them, and they claim everyone else, down. If there was money to be made from M$ in the future, no one would dare say or do these things, but there's not. Non free has failed and $200 gnu/linux computers are going to take over the market.

Here's what it looks like:

• Microsoft TCO, part 1
• Microsoft TCO, part 2

I've not heard of any small or even medium sized OEM looking to market to the everyday PC consumer "switching to Ubuntu as their OS of choice".

Is Acer big enough for you? Vista has let them, and they claim everyone else, down. If there was money to be made from M$ in the future, no one would dare say or do these things, but there's not. Non free has failed and $200 gnu/linux computers are going to take over the market.

Here's what it looks like:

• Microsoft TCO, part 1
• Microsoft TCO, part 2

I predicted Dell's announcement three days ago. Vista has failed in the market place and the vendor revolt is on, as evidenced by bold statements from the fourth largest PC maker. With vendors now backing gnu/linux, M$'s monopoly is over. Good Riddance, this will be good for everyone.

The tipping point is here.

I guess when your primary business model is going down in flames, you need to co-opt someone else's.

It would be great if M$ would GPL their work and become a normal software company instead of the freaky, paranoid monster it is. Fat chance. This site is pure PR to sell yet another SDK for non free crap.

M$ needs to do something, because Vista is a marketplace flop and the vendor revolt is on. Without vendor support, what do they have? Nothing.

One day, it will. You might wonder if it will ever run Vista well. My bet is on GNU/Linux.

In the mean time, you can keep the $3,800 price difference and get something like this, that weighs 2lbs and comes with gnu/linux installed.

What was that prediction about a $200 price point for PCs? Oh yeah, that's right - non free software won't be able to compete when the price point drops to $200. The world is looking better every day.

At least that's what Roughly Drafted told me.

Sometimes, spending is just throwing good money after bad. They can't make Zune a winner because rented and dissapearing music just aren't cool. Even less cool is the idea that billboards will be able to "squirt" adverts onto your player or what your player might tell them in return. Minority Report was supposed to be a horror story, not a business model.

If you provide a food nugget on a varying number of presses, e.g., 1 press=win, 3 presses=win, 10 presses=win, 4 presses=win -- it'll punch the bar all day.

What you see at work here is the power of an intermittent reward. A reward that's given every time is soon despised but one that has to be worked for always has value. Perverse, isn't it? It explains much of the crazy loyalty of M$ fans and their dissatisfaction with things that just work. Intermittent positive reward is the most powerful kind of training.

Slot machines are the ideal gambling machine. In a game of even chances, the side with the most resources will eventually win. Casinos are allowed to tilt the odds in their favor. They still win, but they do best when those odds are expressed as purely as possible as the result of a long series of trials. That is, the casino is most assured of taking all of your money on a greater number of small bets than they are with a small number of large bets. The ideal slot machine would cost nothing to run and accept pennies and exist everywhere, so that anyone could drop their money in at any time.

If you provide a food nugget on a varying number of presses, e.g., 1 press=win, 3 presses=win, 10 presses=win, 4 presses=win -- it'll punch the bar all day.

What you see at work here is the power of an intermittent reward. A reward that's given every time is soon despised but one that has to be worked for always has value. Perverse, isn't it? It explains much of the crazy loyalty of M$ fans and their dissatisfaction with things that just work. Intermittent positive reward is the most powerful kind of training.

Slot machines are the ideal gambling machine. In a game of even chances, the side with the most resources will eventually win. Casinos are allowed to tilt the odds in their favor. They still win, but they do best when those odds are expressed as purely as possible as the result of a long series of trials. That is, the casino is most assured of taking all of your money on a greater number of small bets than they are with a small number of large bets. The ideal slot machine would cost nothing to run and accept pennies and exist everywhere, so that anyone could drop their money in at any time.

most businesses aren't planning on moving to Vista any time soon. My guess is that many of them will just skip it entirely if the next version of Windows, which presumably will be what Vista SHOULD HAVE been, is right around the corner.

M$ won't last that long

Deviate_X provides fanboy irony:

Its amazing how people can get facts so wrong when its practically written in your face.

Ah, but the more fundamental observation is that M$'s new OS did not drive sales or growth. As noticed by The Register, M$ has managed to grow despite Vista but not by much.

I've got a few images to help people like you get the idea. You will have to adjust your bay image settings to remove your corporate blinders, because someone marked these images as offensive within seconds of their post. Study carefully:

• Vista Tanks, PC Guy Somehow Survives.
• The average PC loaded with Vista. Everyone loves car analogies.
• The Cost of M$ Part 1.
• The Cost of M$ Part 2.

As Vista tanks, so does M$'s option pyramid scheme. They are already missing their own expectations, soon they will be missing Wall Street's, then it's all over for them.

Deviate_X provides fanboy irony:

Its amazing how people can get facts so wrong when its practically written in your face.

Ah, but the more fundamental observation is that M$'s new OS did not drive sales or growth. As noticed by The Register, M$ has managed to grow despite Vista but not by much.

I've got a few images to help people like you get the idea. You will have to adjust your bay image settings to remove your corporate blinders, because someone marked these images as offensive within seconds of their post. Study carefully:

• Vista Tanks, PC Guy Somehow Survives.
• The average PC loaded with Vista. Everyone loves car analogies.
• The Cost of M$ Part 1.
• The Cost of M$ Part 2.

As Vista tanks, so does M$'s option pyramid scheme. They are already missing their own expectations, soon they will be missing Wall Street's, then it's all over for them.

Deviate_X provides fanboy irony:

Its amazing how people can get facts so wrong when its practically written in your face.

Ah, but the more fundamental observation is that M$'s new OS did not drive sales or growth. As noticed by The Register, M$ has managed to grow despite Vista but not by much.

I've got a few images to help people like you get the idea. You will have to adjust your bay image settings to remove your corporate blinders, because someone marked these images as offensive within seconds of their post. Study carefully:

• Vista Tanks, PC Guy Somehow Survives.
• The average PC loaded with Vista. Everyone loves car analogies.
• The Cost of M$ Part 1.
• The Cost of M$ Part 2.

As Vista tanks, so does M$'s option pyramid scheme. They are already missing their own expectations, soon they will be missing Wall Street's, then it's all over for them.

Deviate_X provides fanboy irony:

Its amazing how people can get facts so wrong when its practically written in your face.

Ah, but the more fundamental observation is that M$'s new OS did not drive sales or growth. As noticed by The Register, M$ has managed to grow despite Vista but not by much.

I've got a few images to help people like you get the idea. You will have to adjust your bay image settings to remove your corporate blinders, because someone marked these images as offensive within seconds of their post. Study carefully:

• Vista Tanks, PC Guy Somehow Survives.
• The average PC loaded with Vista. Everyone loves car analogies.
• The Cost of M$ Part 1.
• The Cost of M$ Part 2.

As Vista tanks, so does M$'s option pyramid scheme. They are already missing their own expectations, soon they will be missing Wall Street's, then it's all over for them.

Actually, Opera is a little bit better than other browsers I've used on the point of password security.
Screenshot for illustrative purposes; it gives you the option to associate the password with a unique URL instead of the entire domain. Quite handy sometimes, like for instance, if you have GMail plus a few Google Apps domains.

The ever present AC troll begs:

Please make some more jokes with inside references.

Sure, after all I'd do anything for my fans.

Vista Tanks, PC Guy Somehow Survives

or

For fanboys the big Vista ticket is a matter of pride, to be had at any price.

The ever present AC troll begs:

Please make some more jokes with inside references.

Sure, after all I'd do anything for my fans.

Vista Tanks, PC Guy Somehow Survives

or

For fanboys the big Vista ticket is a matter of pride, to be had at any price.

The ever present AC troll begs:

Please make some more jokes with inside references.

Sure, after all I'd do anything for my fans.

Vista Tanks, PC Guy Somehow Survives

or

For fanboys the big Vista ticket is a matter of pride, to be had at any price.

Quick summary of the spoilers

http://bayimg.com/album/OaAaDAAAb

http://bayimg.com/album/oAaADaAaB

http://bayimg.com/album/OaAaDAAAb

http://bayimg.com/album/oAaADaAaB

http://bayimg.com/jadhAAABp

It's like eating a whole stick of butter with mayonnaise to dip it in. MS "richness" can't be good for you.

It makes you think of "Super Size Me" doesn't it?

The only thing OOXML does for M$ that ODF won't is make M$ rich.

There's nothing really new here. M$ has issuing the same bullshit about translators and "different purposes" for months. They won't ever tell you what their different purpose is, of course, or what good translation that will never be perfect is. They just blather on about how "rich" OOXML is. M$ nonsense is never more obvious than when they are trying to force the market into their next generation of M$ only crap.

Fewer people are believing them. Lots of people grudgingly moved to 98 when forced. I can't print what they thought when forced from Word Perfect to Word. When XP rolled out, I was amazed to actually hear someone blithering M$ party line about how "XP was based on the NT kernel, so it's like solid." I have not heard anything but negative comments about Vista and Office 2007. Still, I'm sure there are a few softies that must have M$ and will cling to it at any cost.

It's like eating a whole stick of butter with mayonnaise to dip it in. MS "richness" can't be good for you.

It makes you think of "Super Size Me" doesn't it?

The only thing OOXML does for M$ that ODF won't is make M$ rich.

There's nothing really new here. M$ has issuing the same bullshit about translators and "different purposes" for months. They won't ever tell you what their different purpose is, of course, or what good translation that will never be perfect is. They just blather on about how "rich" OOXML is. M$ nonsense is never more obvious than when they are trying to force the market into their next generation of M$ only crap.

Fewer people are believing them. Lots of people grudgingly moved to 98 when forced. I can't print what they thought when forced from Word Perfect to Word. When XP rolled out, I was amazed to actually hear someone blithering M$ party line about how "XP was based on the NT kernel, so it's like solid." I have not heard anything but negative comments about Vista and Office 2007. Still, I'm sure there are a few softies that must have M$ and will cling to it at any cost.

Zunenberg.

http://image.bayimg.com/ca/dh/da/ab/i.jpg Location: Eugene, Oregon. Internet: Comcast.. just the regular residential plan.

Nope. TPB does not host any illegal content. All they have on there site is what is ostensibly text files saying "this guy (ip address) has this file (file name)".

bayimg.com is a place where you can host all your images. We do not censor them. We believe in freedom of speech, it's of utter importance to us. As long as your pictures are legal they will be hosted here, but we reserve the right to remove images due to technical reasons though. If something crashes here, you better have a backup yourself - hopefully that won't happen. Usually we know what we're doing. BTW - If you tag your content, we would like you to know that we did not build this site for any kind of porn. There are so many places on the net that host porn and we're on another mission here than hosting your fap material. Put the porn on Imagefap.com or some other site instead if possible, ok?

Nope. TPB does not host any illegal content. All they have on there site is what is ostensibly text files saying "this guy (ip address) has this file (file name)".

Where I'm from the trolleys are all chained together (blurred out some kid on the pic and added black circles around areas of interest).
To unchain one you have to insert a 10 or 20 kroner coin into a box on the trolley. You get your money back (the coin pops out) when you return the trolley and chain it back up. I think it works quite well. Low tech.

Did anyone else notice this screenshot in the video?

http://bayimg.com/LAcLFaabd

It shows an iPhone with 75GB of storage. Earlier in the video they show the storage as 8GB.

Any speculation as to a hard drive version becoming available sometime soon?

So after some looking at the sources I find that its because bayimg uses javascript to render the portion of the thumbnails page that has the thumbnails. After some more experimenting, I find that the following URL will retrieve the first page of thumbnails for a given tag:

http://www.bayimg.com/ajax_tags.php?&tag=TAG

http://www.bayimg.com/ajax_tags.php?&tag=vietnam

To view the next set of thumbnails one could always choose the last thumbnail, and on its full-image page click on the "next" link.

Or...
As far as I can tell, the page uses the POST method to take page numbers. So I keyed in the following as a web-page, pointed Blazer at it and saved the whole page within Blazer using the book-mark option. Thereafter I only need key in the tag and the page number to view thumbnails:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Bay</title>

<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

<script>
<!--
function setfocus() {
document.f.q.focus();
}
// --></script>
</head>
<body text="#000000" onload="setfocus()">

<form action="http://www.bayimg.com/ajax_tags.php" method="post" name="f">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tbody>
<tr align="center" valign="baseline">
<td width="75">&nbsp;</td>
<td nowrap="">BayImag.com</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center" valign="middle">
<td width="75">&nbsp;</td>
<td align="left">tag:<input type="text" value="vietnam" framewidth="4"
name="tag" size="55" maxlength="256"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="75">&nbsp;</td>
<td align="left">page:<input type="text" value="1" framewidth="4"
name="page" size="55" maxlength="256"><br>
<input type="submit"> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
<br>

</body>
</html>

Nice large image suitable for printing posters at http://bayimg.com/iabHhaAbk

http://bayimg.com/CabbmAabg

here is a screen shot in case the cache disappears, hosted at bayimg http://bayimg.com/DAbbEaABB

By sheer coincidence, I had my camera with me and snapped a picture of him at the stoplight before we got the green.

Somebody has a sense of humor:

http://www.bayimg.com/tag/lolita

Child porn? This is about FREEDOM!

Look at societys important uses (above 14pt in the tag cloud):

furry, child, hot, bonton, humour, candid, lolita, yuko

Umm.... well im sure bonton is something about democracy and not something involving 12 year olds, right.... guys???

http://www.bayimg.com/MaaCKaAbf/
Seriously..