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Do Digital Photos Endanger History?
Ant writes "Experienced photographer Jayne West wrote her degree dissertation on the
historical impact of digital capture. She
argues that the use of digital photography in
news reporting means we could lose a
valuable pictorial record of history." Much of her argument seems weak to me (precisely because digital photography allows the instant culling West talks about). The digital storage itself, though, perhaps ought to make us nervous.
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I just filled up my diaper with urine 15 minutes ago, the most soaked Pampers 6 ever, and you people have the never to worry about Digital Photos and History?! Pampers 6 are much more important.
Get some priorities people!
Last story of the night? Anyway, to recap:
- IP banning is futile and stops no troll.
- IP banning is destructive and frustrates users.
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Photographers who are in love with black-and-white bug me. It's obsolete. Blah blah blah Ansel Adams blah blah blah the lighting is better blah blah fuckety-blah blah. Who cares what photographers like? I just want a fucking picture of what the story's about, mmmkay?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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thinkgeek has turned really lame. is it just me, or are the advertisements they use on slashdot just fucking stupid? who would pay this much for this shit? hello pricewatch.com?
who gives a shit about caffeinated drinks...coke works great and it's only 99 cents per two liter with no shipping.
the latency associated with some dot-com "companies" has apparently hit thinkgeek. thankfully they will die very soon.
for great troll tuesday!
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GPL considered harmful.... Yes, the explicit purpose of the GPL is to hurt programmers' livelihoods. See Richard Stallman's essay, "The GNU Manifesto," for a frank statement that this is the case. Mr. Stallman does not care whether the programmers harmed by the GPL are working for Microsoft or trying to eke out an honest living despite Microsoft; he wishes to put all of them out of business. Trouble is, it's much easier to hurt the little guy than it is to hurt Microsoft, so guess who suffers?
It is, in fact, ironic just how much the FSF's strategies resemble those of Microsoft.
Microsoft seeks to put other companies such as Netscape out of business by giving away free equivalents of every product they make. The Free Software Foundation seeks to put other companies out of business by giving away free equivalents of every products they make.
Bill Gates has all the money he wants but is motivated by a lust for power and control. Richard Stallman has all of the money he wants but is motivated by a lust for power and control.
Microsoft has a vast hoard of software whose development and licensing it controls. The FSF has an even larger hoard of software whose development and licensing it controls.
Meet the new boss -- same as the old boss.
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i can't think of any good points of digital photography.
it's lower quality, and always will be
prints are wonderful
instant gratification is silly
the cameras on the market are absolute crap compared to pretty much any 35mm slr cameras
etc
ask any real photographer about digital and they'll laugh in your face. if not spit in it.
this woman is insane. I used to work as a PJ and, despite carrying BOXES of film in my car boot (each box had 50 rolls of 36exp HP5), I would still get into trouble sometimes. A digital camera with a built in HDD can hold tons of pics, and AFAIK, PJs working today download via Firewire to their laptops when they get a chance. This woman's dissertation is clearly complete shit.
That was classic intercourse!