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Scribbling On Digital Photos
JagsLive notes a patent application filed in the US by Nokia for a way to 'scribble on the back' of digital photos. Nokia's approach is similar to the iPod's Cover Flow, except that Nokia users will be able to flip through their snaps, select one, and then turn it over and annotate the back just using SMS-like text entry. The scribble becomes an integral part of the saved photo.
now if it only came equipped with a bot who could sit through tedious hours of Uncle Fred and Aunt Tillie's vacation at Atlantic City and toss out pithy random thoughts to write on the back of each one. Think of the advances in civilization we would have!
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
Seriously, we need to have people that grant patents with some experience in the field they're granting patents.
Next thing you know, we'll be asking for those running for President of the United States to have like, you know, some real experience.
Thank you, I'll be here all night.
Hey, it's a great idea! Photographers especially are going to love it. They'll be able to jot down the f-stop, aperture, time, date, camera, lens, whether they used a flash... you could even tag your photo with GPS coordinates! Imagine the possibilities!
Er, or go to Flickr and look at them realized.
We are. Now it's "+ a smart phone."
Geez, keep up, hey?
Until it can make 8x10 color glossy photos with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was...
AND
output to a braille tty, well then, I'm just not interested.
man, I feel like mold.
Of course now, with patents, "Hello world" could have been patented when it was first written.
A method operating on a digital computer for greeting the planet Earth, or alternatively the metaphysical universe, through text parameters sent to the computer's standard output.
Then, of course, a separate application for the above "on the Internet."
There's a perfect xkcd for my sig but I'm too lazy to look it up. sudo someone go find it.
std::cerr "Hello World\n";
There you go, bypassed your patent.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Epic fail
Close. They're enforcing LOLspeak. We'll have LOLCats, LOLBrats, LOLandscapes, LOLis-this-thing-on, LOLflowers, and (of course), LOLporn.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
and (of course), LOLporn.
im in ur vag1na makin ur babiez
10 FILL MUG WITH COFFEE
20 DRINK COFFEE
30 GOTO 10