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You know, here's your problem. The Mac, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a PowerBook and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

You know, here's your problem. The Mac, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a PowerBook and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

You know, here's your problem. The Mac, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a PowerBook and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

You know, here's your problem. The Mac, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a PowerBook and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

You know, here's your problem. The Mac, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a PowerBook and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

You know, here's your problem. The Mac, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a PowerBook and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

You know, here's your problem. The Mac, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a PowerBook and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

You know, here's your problem. The Mac, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a PowerBook and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

You know, here's your problem. The Mac, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a PowerBook and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Unattractive squares should stick to Linux and Windows. Macs are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why is Slashdot portscanning me?

Why is Slashdot portscanning me????

Surprise. I'm actually an Xbox fanboy, and was wondering if anyone seriously thought that the Xbox was a failure anymore. As you can tell from some of the other replies, some people just love living in denial.

I was asked to review this title for the Winnipeg Free Press.

Link to scanned copy of review.

Do you mean, something like this? http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5306/image6me4r b3zp.jpg

These are pretty decent quality and give a good idea of what the controller could do as well.
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/6853/wheel24to.jp g
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5766/gun4qc.jpg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8940/revfish8qs .jpg

These are pretty decent quality and give a good idea of what the controller could do as well.
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/6853/wheel24to.jp g
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5766/gun4qc.jpg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8940/revfish8qs .jpg

These are pretty decent quality and give a good idea of what the controller could do as well.
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/6853/wheel24to.jp g
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5766/gun4qc.jpg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/8940/revfish8qs .jpg

It's problems with the (dated) compression algorithm indeed. With divx movies I never notice the slaughtering of the colour part of the image - except when it shows police lights. They contain only colour - and only the red/blue channel at that, so the logical thing would be to compress that in a different way. But from what I can tell, all video codecs always just convert to a luminance channel and 2 colour channels, and use plain jpg with 2:2 subsampling or more.

A note on Subsampling: it's another word for for dividing the colour channel detail, with a single-tone (sepia, or things like stones) image you can have 4:4 without any noticable errors. (It could be a few bytes actually, if it was possible to save it as greyscale together with an overlaying colour)

With nature photos which I figure the algorithm was calibrated from, you almost never see high saturation. In the beginning of jpg there was no option for 1:1 subsampling, remember those pics where people have put some red text which are all blocky/fuzzy?

Uhm, I'm not very coherent. And as for those green fields, they get converted to too low quality, the squares don't fit together with shades at all - jpg2k tries to solve this by blending the blocks together (giving some 10 times higher processing time too), but it still doesn't solve the other problems. It can actually look worse than jpg - I tried to compress a 20mb (3000x2000) image to 1mb, and even rezising it down 33% there were the new "blending errors" visible at darker/undetailed parts (it did look better at 100% size with detailed/bright areas - but the overall was worse). Same thing goes for grainy images - the blending feature just blurs up the picture.

Maybe we want image examples:
1. Colour heavy pic. All are 62kb.
Colour quality high (80% quality, 1:1 subsampling)
Low (90%, 4:2. quarter on horizontal, half of vertical. so 1/8 colour detail)
None (92%. With this you could have a gradient that wouldn't take up much storage)

2. Low colour. Both at 90%, only colour quality differing, 150kb vs 180kb. What you should do is switch view between them, not that stupid side-by-side thing.
High
Low
Colour errors get noticable at contrast areas. This is the rule even for mono-toned pics. Here I see errors at the middle upper. Checker-like, going from brown to grey.

That's all for "ways in which compression fucks up weird musicvids" for today.

It's problems with the (dated) compression algorithm indeed. With divx movies I never notice the slaughtering of the colour part of the image - except when it shows police lights. They contain only colour - and only the red/blue channel at that, so the logical thing would be to compress that in a different way. But from what I can tell, all video codecs always just convert to a luminance channel and 2 colour channels, and use plain jpg with 2:2 subsampling or more.

A note on Subsampling: it's another word for for dividing the colour channel detail, with a single-tone (sepia, or things like stones) image you can have 4:4 without any noticable errors. (It could be a few bytes actually, if it was possible to save it as greyscale together with an overlaying colour)

With nature photos which I figure the algorithm was calibrated from, you almost never see high saturation. In the beginning of jpg there was no option for 1:1 subsampling, remember those pics where people have put some red text which are all blocky/fuzzy?

Uhm, I'm not very coherent. And as for those green fields, they get converted to too low quality, the squares don't fit together with shades at all - jpg2k tries to solve this by blending the blocks together (giving some 10 times higher processing time too), but it still doesn't solve the other problems. It can actually look worse than jpg - I tried to compress a 20mb (3000x2000) image to 1mb, and even rezising it down 33% there were the new "blending errors" visible at darker/undetailed parts (it did look better at 100% size with detailed/bright areas - but the overall was worse). Same thing goes for grainy images - the blending feature just blurs up the picture.

Maybe we want image examples:
1. Colour heavy pic. All are 62kb.
Colour quality high (80% quality, 1:1 subsampling)
Low (90%, 4:2. quarter on horizontal, half of vertical. so 1/8 colour detail)
None (92%. With this you could have a gradient that wouldn't take up much storage)

2. Low colour. Both at 90%, only colour quality differing, 150kb vs 180kb. What you should do is switch view between them, not that stupid side-by-side thing.
High
Low
Colour errors get noticable at contrast areas. This is the rule even for mono-toned pics. Here I see errors at the middle upper. Checker-like, going from brown to grey.

That's all for "ways in which compression fucks up weird musicvids" for today.

It's problems with the (dated) compression algorithm indeed. With divx movies I never notice the slaughtering of the colour part of the image - except when it shows police lights. They contain only colour - and only the red/blue channel at that, so the logical thing would be to compress that in a different way. But from what I can tell, all video codecs always just convert to a luminance channel and 2 colour channels, and use plain jpg with 2:2 subsampling or more.

A note on Subsampling: it's another word for for dividing the colour channel detail, with a single-tone (sepia, or things like stones) image you can have 4:4 without any noticable errors. (It could be a few bytes actually, if it was possible to save it as greyscale together with an overlaying colour)

With nature photos which I figure the algorithm was calibrated from, you almost never see high saturation. In the beginning of jpg there was no option for 1:1 subsampling, remember those pics where people have put some red text which are all blocky/fuzzy?

Uhm, I'm not very coherent. And as for those green fields, they get converted to too low quality, the squares don't fit together with shades at all - jpg2k tries to solve this by blending the blocks together (giving some 10 times higher processing time too), but it still doesn't solve the other problems. It can actually look worse than jpg - I tried to compress a 20mb (3000x2000) image to 1mb, and even rezising it down 33% there were the new "blending errors" visible at darker/undetailed parts (it did look better at 100% size with detailed/bright areas - but the overall was worse). Same thing goes for grainy images - the blending feature just blurs up the picture.

Maybe we want image examples:
1. Colour heavy pic. All are 62kb.
Colour quality high (80% quality, 1:1 subsampling)
Low (90%, 4:2. quarter on horizontal, half of vertical. so 1/8 colour detail)
None (92%. With this you could have a gradient that wouldn't take up much storage)

2. Low colour. Both at 90%, only colour quality differing, 150kb vs 180kb. What you should do is switch view between them, not that stupid side-by-side thing.
High
Low
Colour errors get noticable at contrast areas. This is the rule even for mono-toned pics. Here I see errors at the middle upper. Checker-like, going from brown to grey.

That's all for "ways in which compression fucks up weird musicvids" for today.

It's problems with the (dated) compression algorithm indeed. With divx movies I never notice the slaughtering of the colour part of the image - except when it shows police lights. They contain only colour - and only the red/blue channel at that, so the logical thing would be to compress that in a different way. But from what I can tell, all video codecs always just convert to a luminance channel and 2 colour channels, and use plain jpg with 2:2 subsampling or more.

A note on Subsampling: it's another word for for dividing the colour channel detail, with a single-tone (sepia, or things like stones) image you can have 4:4 without any noticable errors. (It could be a few bytes actually, if it was possible to save it as greyscale together with an overlaying colour)

With nature photos which I figure the algorithm was calibrated from, you almost never see high saturation. In the beginning of jpg there was no option for 1:1 subsampling, remember those pics where people have put some red text which are all blocky/fuzzy?

Uhm, I'm not very coherent. And as for those green fields, they get converted to too low quality, the squares don't fit together with shades at all - jpg2k tries to solve this by blending the blocks together (giving some 10 times higher processing time too), but it still doesn't solve the other problems. It can actually look worse than jpg - I tried to compress a 20mb (3000x2000) image to 1mb, and even rezising it down 33% there were the new "blending errors" visible at darker/undetailed parts (it did look better at 100% size with detailed/bright areas - but the overall was worse). Same thing goes for grainy images - the blending feature just blurs up the picture.

Maybe we want image examples:
1. Colour heavy pic. All are 62kb.
Colour quality high (80% quality, 1:1 subsampling)
Low (90%, 4:2. quarter on horizontal, half of vertical. so 1/8 colour detail)
None (92%. With this you could have a gradient that wouldn't take up much storage)

2. Low colour. Both at 90%, only colour quality differing, 150kb vs 180kb. What you should do is switch view between them, not that stupid side-by-side thing.
High
Low
Colour errors get noticable at contrast areas. This is the rule even for mono-toned pics. Here I see errors at the middle upper. Checker-like, going from brown to grey.

That's all for "ways in which compression fucks up weird musicvids" for today.

It's problems with the (dated) compression algorithm indeed. With divx movies I never notice the slaughtering of the colour part of the image - except when it shows police lights. They contain only colour - and only the red/blue channel at that, so the logical thing would be to compress that in a different way. But from what I can tell, all video codecs always just convert to a luminance channel and 2 colour channels, and use plain jpg with 2:2 subsampling or more.

A note on Subsampling: it's another word for for dividing the colour channel detail, with a single-tone (sepia, or things like stones) image you can have 4:4 without any noticable errors. (It could be a few bytes actually, if it was possible to save it as greyscale together with an overlaying colour)

With nature photos which I figure the algorithm was calibrated from, you almost never see high saturation. In the beginning of jpg there was no option for 1:1 subsampling, remember those pics where people have put some red text which are all blocky/fuzzy?

Uhm, I'm not very coherent. And as for those green fields, they get converted to too low quality, the squares don't fit together with shades at all - jpg2k tries to solve this by blending the blocks together (giving some 10 times higher processing time too), but it still doesn't solve the other problems. It can actually look worse than jpg - I tried to compress a 20mb (3000x2000) image to 1mb, and even rezising it down 33% there were the new "blending errors" visible at darker/undetailed parts (it did look better at 100% size with detailed/bright areas - but the overall was worse). Same thing goes for grainy images - the blending feature just blurs up the picture.

Maybe we want image examples:
1. Colour heavy pic. All are 62kb.
Colour quality high (80% quality, 1:1 subsampling)
Low (90%, 4:2. quarter on horizontal, half of vertical. so 1/8 colour detail)
None (92%. With this you could have a gradient that wouldn't take up much storage)

2. Low colour. Both at 90%, only colour quality differing, 150kb vs 180kb. What you should do is switch view between them, not that stupid side-by-side thing.
High
Low
Colour errors get noticable at contrast areas. This is the rule even for mono-toned pics. Here I see errors at the middle upper. Checker-like, going from brown to grey.

That's all for "ways in which compression fucks up weird musicvids" for today.

Yes this is true.

The nano is a trash object. It scratches easily when in a pocket with nothing else

this is my nano after one week of use and it was in a pocket only with nothing else but some pocket fluff and maybe a candy wrapper.

What to do about it? Apple will not replace it. I don't see why I should have to have a second rate product without getting support. It should be replaced with a scren that doesn't scratch.

You can't even read the screen on it. Or the writing.

Yes, he means one of these.

I, for one, prefer the four-legged kind.

Here's a classic Dilbert, helping the boss solve a network problem.

http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tokenring 6om.gif

http://img310.imageshack.us/img310/5150/screenshot 2vj.png

BUSTED

I'm glad they moved all the way up to HTML 4.01 instead of that crazy XHTML crap that ALA basically handed to them.

Really.

Want some direct proof? Here is a simple example:

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/1103/aaa9lo.gif

The explanation is simple. The publisher of this book has opted in to the program to allow some pages of the book to be shown, similarly to the way that pages of the same book can be downloaded from Amazon.

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Why no radio? Well, it makes sense to us Apple users. The iPod, and the entire Apple experience, is intuitive for a certain kind of person. Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities can sit in front of a radio-free portable media player and just "get it," but accountants and everyday pencil-pushers don't have a prayer. Squares should stick to Rios and DJ Dittys. iPods are for different thinkers.

Evidence?
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7792/img08079iy .jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3600/img10156rv.j pg
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/2539/soho0uj.jp g
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5614/img66606pq .jpg
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6756/img64271jj.j pg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5082/bleeder0wq .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1672/img85083cm .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7234/img82642ay .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/787/img60047ow. jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4819/img58719td .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9681/img46882wk .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8519/img45081gg .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3102/img39464ta .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7783/img07414pv .jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5816/img07328rd .jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5096/img07309mk .jpg

Versus:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3118/ms1by.jpg
http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/7789/linuxnylug boothsized0hs.jpg

Seriously, I'm screaming because why hasn't anyone even verified the article yet? Google's response was that they don't even show a full page! That's a total, utter, complete, L-I-E. They show tons of pages. Just like amazon.com. Sign up and see for yourself at print.google.com

Want some direct proof? Here is a simple example:

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/1103/aaa9lo.gif

I see I must resort to diagrams:

Diagram of Earth with a Stalk at a Pole


What's holding up the stalk? It certainly isn't "centrifugal" force.

1) Create an enclosed dome-shaped LCD with a radius of at least 2 meters and pixels as small as those found on standard desktop displays. Think the top half of a sphere closed with a flat floor. Easier said than done, but stick with it.

2) Make a sphere of flexible, transparent plastic and thread it through a small gap between the walls and floor of the LCD dome. This plastic floor will act as a 360-degree treadmill allowing the dome's occupant to walk in any direction without moving from its centre.

3) Develop sensors (Pressure? Motion?) and software that will notice when the occupant walks and alters the LCD background and transparent treadmill to give the sensation of movement while keeping him stationary.

4) Oh, you'll also need a photo-realistic graphics engine capable of pushing a few billion pixels every frame.

I think everything but 4) is entirely feasible with today's technology. I drew a cross-section to make things clearer: blue is the LCD dome; yellow is the transparent treadmill.

I think it's about time they made a gtk version, how can someone enjoy using opera when it looks like this? http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/9744/2005092016 03161280x1024scrot7m.png