Seems like this is how Facebook continues to do it. Expose the users without telling them that they're going to do it, wait for the backlash. If there's enough, backpedal on the decision. But only after giving the parties interested in the data plenty of time to mine a ton of it, making the reversal pretty much pointless.
Well played, Facebook. Yet another example of why you don't post anything on the Internet that you don't want known publicly.
Looks ugly. Old customized version of Android. (have to wait for Dell to update it) Too big to comfortably fit in your pocket. Too small to use for an extended period of time.
- Warn users who use over 250GB of data a month. The limit has been in place for months. - Sell me 16Mb which I get completely solid speeds at all times during the day, with 3x the upload speed, at the same cost as Qwests fiber service. - Get the relics off the analog network, which allows them to use their bandwidth better and offer more channels, and more channels in HD.
Beyond that, sure, maybe they're an evil company or whatever, but your facts are skewed and not representative of all experiences in all the markets Comcast exists in.
Maybe it's just me, but I've had nothing but good things to say about Comcast in the Denver metro area. Granted, I've only had to call support twice, and both times it was pretty painful. I don't imagine Qwest is any better, though.
I'm sure if you had a friend that wrote a cool new game and hadn't released it yet that you'd require compensation from them for testing it too, right?
Some people enjoy playing with new things, even if they're not finished yet. They also like providing feedback about how to make such things better.
Just because you think you should be compensated for doing something besides posting on slashdot doesn't mean everyone does. Maybe you'd like slashdot to pay you for your posts too?
I've fought this same battle for a few years. Originally I used Canons software to process RAWs, it was terrible and I needed an alternative.
I tried Pixmatic Raw Shooter when it was free and that worked ok for me, and ran in Wine with minimal issues.
I switched to Picasa when it became available for Linux and supported RAW. It had much better album management, but looking back, the photos it produced looked terrible.
Eventually I switched to Capture One's software. I had to pay money for it, but it worked and it worked pretty well.
Recently I'd been getting fed up with them, their website is terrible to try to get updates from and there's not really a good way to manage albums of photos.
I gave the Aperture demo a shot as I'd just recently gotten a Macbook Pro. I found it very hard to use. Stuff just wasn't intuitive, the interface was cluttered and confusing.
Somewhere along the line I'd tried Lightroom v1 and thought it was very good. I was going to purchase it when it came out officially. I stalled when it came out and waited too long and missed it at the $99 launch pricing. I never did end up buying it and went back to Capture One.
Recently Adobe started up the Lightroom 2 Beta, I'm in the extended beta which will function until it's officially released and I can say with absolute certainty that I will be purchasing this when it's done. Everything about it is miles better than everything else. The interface is easy to use, and easy to get out of your way when you want to concentrate on what the photo looks like. It's got all the tools I feel I need to make it a one stop shop from import to web/print. I can't say enough good stuff about Lightroom 2 to do it justice. I guess my suggestion is that if you're really serious at all about your photos, stop screwing around with trying to find something Open Source and get Lightroom.
Of course YMMV, and that's why there's a demo/beta. Good luck, and good shooting!
Gimp doesn't have GOOD support for raws from my Canon camera. For some reason the Unsharpen Mask filter never seems to produce as nice looking results as photoshop or some of the other applications that are easier to use with raws.
the ADAS system will beep every 10 seconds to make sure you're paying attention, requiring you to touch the steering wheel to inform the car you're still in charge
What happens when you don't touch the steering wheel because you've fallen asleep?
Recently I needed to burn an.ISO image file to CD-Rom. Seemed like an easy task for a simple/modern Operating System like Windows XP.
Hmm, my Windows XP (professional) can't burn an.ISO file to CD!?!?
I'm not sure how hard you tried to burn that ISO, but, just like with linux, you need a seperate program to burn images in windows. There are several free ones available.
gmail is easily the best webmail interface I've ever used. I want to be able to run the gmail webmail client on my own server, looking at my own email. Storage is under my control, I can back it up whenever I want to, I can delete it whenever I want to.
Hell, I'd even be ok with the app looking up ads and displaying them to me. I just want to know that my email is safe on my computer, not somewhere out there in Googleland.
I thought this was pretty boring until I read this part:
Being able to do all of these things from a web browser is definitely a nice parlor trick, but in reality it's not a very easy way to use a computer. The real power of these protocol handlers is unleashed when they're used within various KDE applications. Any of these protocols can be used from the KDE file dialog, allowing files to be opened from or saved to any protocol!
I must say, as much as I don't really like KDE, that's really slick, and potentially very useful. Nice job guys.
(I'll even withold bashing and pro-gnome comments for the sake of sanity)
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Seems like this is how Facebook continues to do it. Expose the users without telling them that they're going to do it, wait for the backlash. If there's enough, backpedal on the decision. But only after giving the parties interested in the data plenty of time to mine a ton of it, making the reversal pretty much pointless.
Well played, Facebook. Yet another example of why you don't post anything on the Internet that you don't want known publicly.
You mean "regular" people would rather do anything other than pay attention to actually driving?
Impossible!
Will probably have a panic attack if he ever sees Jude Law
Looks ugly.
Old customized version of Android. (have to wait for Dell to update it)
Too big to comfortably fit in your pocket.
Too small to use for an extended period of time.
And people wonder why Apple is doing well.
- Warn users who use over 250GB of data a month. The limit has been in place for months.
- Sell me 16Mb which I get completely solid speeds at all times during the day, with 3x the upload speed, at the same cost as Qwests fiber service.
- Get the relics off the analog network, which allows them to use their bandwidth better and offer more channels, and more channels in HD.
Beyond that, sure, maybe they're an evil company or whatever, but your facts are skewed and not representative of all experiences in all the markets Comcast exists in.
Maybe it's just me, but I've had nothing but good things to say about Comcast in the Denver metro area. Granted, I've only had to call support twice, and both times it was pretty painful. I don't imagine Qwest is any better, though.
And I'm glad you don't work for me.
Shoulda sent The Stig with it.
Duh.
Let me help you out:
http://www.microsoft.com/exPress/
http://www.visualsvn.com/server/
Enjoy!
Don't you have some newsletters to be working on in your moms basement about how we never landed on the moon? How do you have time to raise a child?
Seriously? If your sat/cable TV goes out, you're so desperate for TV that you switch to OTA?
Wow.
Tell me why I should care again?
I'm sure if you had a friend that wrote a cool new game and hadn't released it yet that you'd require compensation from them for testing it too, right?
Some people enjoy playing with new things, even if they're not finished yet. They also like providing feedback about how to make such things better.
Just because you think you should be compensated for doing something besides posting on slashdot doesn't mean everyone does. Maybe you'd like slashdot to pay you for your posts too?
I've fought this same battle for a few years. Originally I used Canons software to process RAWs, it was terrible and I needed an alternative.
I tried Pixmatic Raw Shooter when it was free and that worked ok for me, and ran in Wine with minimal issues.
I switched to Picasa when it became available for Linux and supported RAW. It had much better album management, but looking back, the photos it produced looked terrible.
Eventually I switched to Capture One's software. I had to pay money for it, but it worked and it worked pretty well.
Recently I'd been getting fed up with them, their website is terrible to try to get updates from and there's not really a good way to manage albums of photos.
I gave the Aperture demo a shot as I'd just recently gotten a Macbook Pro. I found it very hard to use. Stuff just wasn't intuitive, the interface was cluttered and confusing.
Somewhere along the line I'd tried Lightroom v1 and thought it was very good. I was going to purchase it when it came out officially. I stalled when it came out and waited too long and missed it at the $99 launch pricing. I never did end up buying it and went back to Capture One.
Recently Adobe started up the Lightroom 2 Beta, I'm in the extended beta which will function until it's officially released and I can say with absolute certainty that I will be purchasing this when it's done. Everything about it is miles better than everything else. The interface is easy to use, and easy to get out of your way when you want to concentrate on what the photo looks like. It's got all the tools I feel I need to make it a one stop shop from import to web/print. I can't say enough good stuff about Lightroom 2 to do it justice. I guess my suggestion is that if you're really serious at all about your photos, stop screwing around with trying to find something Open Source and get Lightroom.
Of course YMMV, and that's why there's a demo/beta. Good luck, and good shooting!
The beauty of the internet though, is that you don't have to watch it! Amazing!
Gimp doesn't have GOOD support for raws from my Canon camera.
For some reason the Unsharpen Mask filter never seems to produce as nice looking results as photoshop or some of the other applications that are easier to use with raws.
That's why I don't use Gimp for photos.
Unfortunately for you, with a 14 hour battery it'll last more than 2 seconds.
the ADAS system will beep every 10 seconds to make sure you're paying attention, requiring you to touch the steering wheel to inform the car you're still in charge
What happens when you don't touch the steering wheel because you've fallen asleep?
There's a little known tool in the Microsoft Download Center that lets you mount an ISO as a virtual CDROM. You can get it here:
b d84-7841-4978-96f5-bd58df02efa2/winxpvirtualcdcont rolpanel_21.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/b/6/7b6a
Where's the torrent?
I'm not sure how hard you tried to burn that ISO, but, just like with linux, you need a seperate program to burn images in windows. There are several free ones available.
Personally, I use DeepBurner and it works great.
Google is your friend.
I thought so too, until I looked at the rest of his site and saw this:. htm
http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/index
Your loss. Apparently there's many many many more people willing to do so.
http://www.google.com/robots.txt
Not illegal, I don't think, but generally frowned upon.
gmail is easily the best webmail interface I've ever used. I want to be able to run the gmail webmail client on my own server, looking at my own email. Storage is under my control, I can back it up whenever I want to, I can delete it whenever I want to.
Hell, I'd even be ok with the app looking up ads and displaying them to me. I just want to know that my email is safe on my computer, not somewhere out there in Googleland.
It'll never happen, but hey, I can hope.
I thought this was pretty boring until I read this part:
Being able to do all of these things from a web browser is definitely a nice parlor trick, but in reality it's not a very easy way to use a computer. The real power of these protocol handlers is unleashed when they're used within various KDE applications. Any of these protocols can be used from the KDE file dialog, allowing files to be opened from or saved to any protocol!
I must say, as much as I don't really like KDE, that's really slick, and potentially very useful. Nice job guys.
(I'll even withold bashing and pro-gnome comments for the sake of sanity)