Yes, I used to play with a similar utility - although intended only for personal annotation, not entirely unlike the Highlights addon - a few years back. The main issue is the lack of a large community. 500 people, say, annotating random pages means it's very unlikely that two people within that group ever see the same page + annotations except for possibly major sites.
That's why I was a bit more enthused with Google's offering - it at least had the potential of reaching many millions of users.
Note that it isn't necessarily a case of failure either.
I was surprised to see Google Desktop go away - but it does make sense. Vista+ and Mac both have desktop widgets, and XP+ have a desktop search utility from Microsoft already. I suspect the same applies to Macs. Not to mention that Google sees 'the cloud' as a major strategy, and searching 'the cloud' is more important than a user's desktop.
So while perhaps Google's offering may have been preferable, there's plenty of alternatives and little incentive for Google to continue its development.
In fact, the only one that I used and failed, is Sidewiki. Unfortunately, the first result for 'Sidewiki alternatives' yields a piece of SEO scum.
The idea was sound, but I guess not very liked by webmasters, prone to dickwaddery, and difficult to turn into money.
Or perhaps it's Apple wanting us to think it's a smear campaign. After all, it's not entirely unthinkable that it is a smear campaign against Apple - but what if that's what Apple is counting on.. what if that's what Apple wants people to think.. in order for them to dislike Samsung, Gizmodo, Google, and the entire rest of the cellphone/tablet world, to the point of repeating the phrase over and over. Now that would be a sneaky smear campaign
On-topic.. it does seem rather odd that there's a lot of talk about a 'stolen' iPhone 5 prototype, but it seems not a single shred of evidence.. not even a photo of the thing.
With DirecTV, Starz is an optional package. A package a friend of mine canceled shortly after getting a Roku box, considering that had Netflix and she can watch movies through that.
Personally, I was already disappointed with the streaming Netflix offering (see older comment), but with this change it's just going to be much worse.
Soon Netflix's streaming offering will just be one 'recent' half a year old) A title with the rest filled with B and C titles, the odd A title from 5+ years ago, and a lot of anime series.
The Roku box is still great to access content in general, but Netflix? Humdrum.
A valid excuse, mind you, but an excuse all the same.
The original poster pointed out that if it were made 'impossible' to get such shows by means of making it illegal, that the solution should be to seek out media where the copyright holders allows sharing or even promote it.
In your case it's 'impossible' to get Game of Thrones (I'm sure you can get the DVDs eventually - but I understand the impossibility being directly related to watching it in timely enough a fashion that you can discuss it with others across the globe and also avoid any spoilers) so the solution would be the same - seek out other media.
But your post demonstrates exactly what I was saying was the more likely sought solution - people won't seek out that other media unless they are very strongly convinced in either A. going legit for the sake of being legit or B. going for different media for the sake of 'sticking it to the MPAA/RIAA man'. It's more likely that they'll just find ways to minimize the odds of getting caught downloading/uploading and still be able to acquire the highly popular media they enjoy.
More specifically: "Earlier this year, Libyan officials held talks with Amesys" - France / 'European' "other companies including Boeing Co.â(TM)s Narus" - USA / 'North American' "telecom company ZTE Corp. also provided technology " - China / 'Asian' "VASTech SA Pty Ltd [...] provided" - South Africa / 'African'
So, I guess that leaves South American, Australian and Antarctic as the only continents' possessives that needn't be shamed?
GP was referring to the still all-too-common practice of USD prices being translated to GBP (and EUR, for that matter) not by performing an actual currency rate conversion, but by a simple s/$/£/g substitution.
2. How do you distinguish the legal from the illegal content?
You're right - we can't 100% distinguish that. Especially not when somebody may have a personal video up on YouTube and in the background happens to be a piece of footage from a film on a TV, and the copyright owner of that piece decides to present a copyright claim.
And because we can't make that distinction, we might as well download:
It is sadly telling that your comment - advocating going completely legit by such means as finding alternative media - currently sits at +4 Insightful, with the very first reply - advocating continuing illegal behavior but in a way that would make it difficult for you to be caught - sits at +5 Interesting.
As hopeful as I am that people would follow your example - which in the end 'hurts' big media more - I rather suspect they'll go with the alternative.. can't very well miss that latest episode of Game of Thrones just because there's 3 minutes of Where are the Joneses available for free-as-in-beerspeech.
I had actually been talking to Cnet all week, since the writer found the full backstory (especially the small claims part) interesting. He asked me if he could publish it, and I asked him to wait until I had heard something from Apple. Despite all my attempts I never did, so I finally said sure go ahead.
Then did Apple contact me . . . . directly, by phone. Quite possibly because Cnet contacted Apple PR to ask for comment before publishing. Their representative was very pleasant and polite actually, and we chatted for a while. He promised to call me back an hour later with a resolution. When he did they wanted to send an agent from Charlotte directly to me to recover the laptop immediately, tonight, and I didn't feel comfortable with that. Not based only on a phone call, with nothing at all in writing, and in the middle of the night (by the time they would reach Raleigh).
I said I needed to consult my lawyer, since I had promised I would do so before taking any action regarding the machine, and that we will take the matter back up first thing in the morning. I'll let him handle the matter from here rather than dealing with Apple directly, and hopefully everyone will be happy with the outcome. I actually rather like Apple and their products, so try not to bash too much guys! They haven't really done anything wrong at this point.
Will Bayfiles pass information about uploaders on to third parties? If we are legally obliged to turn over information about the origin of a file, we will fulfill that obligation. The legal circumstancees will be evaluated individually in each case. Without a legal basis, no information will be given to third parties.
Also from your list you forgot the easier monetization. This seems to be set up like many other such services, with premium accounts for those wanting immediate / faster downloads, etc.
Honestly, most people over here (NL) are either stuck in the world of Shareaza and the like, or have moved on to 'news' servers (where for $10/month the 'news' is the latest album/movie/game/application/ebook releases).
Personally I'm not sure why they'd be doing that. They're going strong with Android - which, while heavily Google-influenced, is under governance of the OHA - while on their lower-end systems they've got their own OS already - Bada.
Though if there's any chance of WebOS going forward, Samsung would be a good place to start. Them or Huawei, perhaps. Not seeing HTC being interested.
0030 on Friday is the morning of Friday, 30 minutes after midnight, which is the start of the day. There is no ambiguity.
You'd think that, but go look at some event listings. It's very common to see something like:
Event schedule Wednesday, 21/9
11.00am - Item A
11.50am - Item B
01.00pm - Item C
01.50pm - Item D
...
10.30pm - Item X
11.20pm - Item Y
00.10am - Item Z
Where the 00.10am definitely refers to the event following the one at 11.20pm. I.e. an event on Thursday, rather than Wednesday.
But per your logic, it would actually have been in the wee hours of Wednesday well before all the other scheduled events.
Per automated logic, this would also have been the case. Except if they assigned it a different date specifically - but then you run the risk that it wouldn't be shown for the event schedule of Wednesday at all, but rather on that for Thursday.
The document is indeed very revealing, and damning. It wouldn't fly here in NL either, especially because of the gay/lesbian part.
I guess one other interesting thing is that this filter is publicly available at all. If we can see it, clearly their students should be able to see it - albeit perhaps not from the school network.
Which means that kids are just going to go out of their way to either evade the list (rot13 will do), or trigger it creatively in ways that will get calls placed to their parents (who, preferably, would be let in on this by the student and will just have a hearty laugh).
That said, I suspect that e-mail sent from/to their network are always viewable by staff anyway, and they probably do search them / spot check them for certain individuals that teachers have brought up in meetings already.. this tool just makes it easier (well, lazier).
I'm all for the 24-hour clock, although I doubt we'll be saying "X at sixteen hundred hours" like the military any time soon.
What bothers me, though, is event calendaring.
If a movie theater runs a sneak preview of a movie at 00.30 on Friday, what does that mean? Are they saying it's in the night of Thursday on Friday at half past midnight? Or is it the night of Friday on Saturday at half past midnight?
am and pm don't help there. 12.30am listed for the Friday is still just as confusing, as would be 0.30am.
It all falls apart even further with naive calendaring systems that do accept 0.30 as being the next day, and so list the event for Saturday. So if you're looking at Friday's late night shows, there will appear to be none past midnight. But if you clicked through to Saturday, you'd see them listed there as the very first show of the day.. followed by closing hours, and then firing up again at 10am or something.
Thus the 25th hour; make the notation 24:30 and the problem is solved. There's 24 hours in the Friday, and it's 30 minutes past that Friday's 24 hours. I.e. it'll technically be on Saturday - but they can still list it for Friday's opening hours. Automated systems will no longer have to worry about ambiguity either.
Then again.. that would pose a problem for the PCB I'm designing at the moment.. it doesn't have space for a 25th hour. Damn. Back to the drawing board:|
No, I just plan not to feed the world pipe dreams:)
There's a difference between a project that is entirely feasible but in the end doesn't pan out for whatever reason, and a project that nobody expects to work - or if it does work to be impractical in reality - and have fail for exactly the reasons people say.
That said - you're right. Given his new direction, I wouldn't think he'd want potential clients to see, as one of the things, a much-hyped and publicized product that ultimately went nowhere. Unless that brought in a lot of VC - then that's exactly what I'd want to see;)
Shit, I'm no fan of firearms (cue/queue the "only outlaws" crowd), but you seem to be catching a lot of flack for a perfectly reasonable line of thought if you already have a handgun anyway.
Like it or not, there will be looting. The riots in London weren't too long ago and that was with people still semi-around to somewhat protect things. Who's going to protect property in an evacuation, exactly? Is Bloomberg going to devote one half of the forces at his disposal (does that include the national reserve now?) to evacuation and the other to protection? Does that mean he's going to put some portion in harm's way?
Of course that same evacuation also complicates the matter for you... how are you going to defend your home if you've just been mandatorily evacuated? Or are you going to refuse and will threaten to shoot the evacuation personnel if they try to force you?
Anyway, the storm should last for just a day or two and there will very likely be bigger worries than somebody's 72" plasma TV having been looted by some guy now gored onto a billboard by a tree branch 5 blocks down.
In that, he's like many entrepreneurs, who spend a portion of their time persuading the unconvinced and painting pictures of the rosy future, despite inconvenient facts that may contradict that vision of the future.
Well, true enough - but apparently the editors aren't inclined to make them rectify the singular form before publishing either:)
By the way, great blog. Can I call it a blog given its back-end (cadre) nature? Anyway, I spotted the apparently missing node (vertex, spline knot point, etc.) in Bodoni's letter 'd' immediately. I guess Computer Modern at least got that one right:D
You're missing cases where you have data other than an actual image that you want to manipulate. Like a heightmap.
I think that falls under the 'computer graphics' bit - although I suppose land survey groups may also use bitmap graphics here and there (they mostly deal with vector contours, no?)
But even in those, 32bit per channel is quite a bit. Suppose 1bit = 1mm. 2^32mm = 4,295km (That's four thousand, not four point etc.) Way higher than any mountain on Earth. Conversely, if you were to map the height of Mount Everest to the full 32bit spread, each bit would be just over 2 microns.
Given how ridiculously large 2^32 is, 2^64 in imaging(-related) data is just completely insane in all but the most academic of contexts.
are you sure you can't get a better digital frame for $100 these days?
Quite sure.
For one thing, the vast majority of the digital photo frames out there do not have built-in batteries. That means you can't just pass it around (without strangling people with the cord). For another, most don't do video beyond a subset of 640x480. Add another.. say somebody likes the picture, and would like a copy? Most digital photo frames, you're screwed. Remove the card, stick it into a computer, find the picture again, etc. This thing? I wouldn't be surprised if, as part of the standard slideshow, you could just send it off to whoever. Add to that it's got internet capabilities, etc.?
Nah, it's way better than a digital photo frame, at not much higher a price.
I think GEGL might be a good aid in points 1 and 2 you made, though. I do hope they'll be making use of it to work at the resolution on display (manipulate only a few pixels) and 'render' that to the full res in the background, and tiled management so that if I do work on a small piece of a gigapixel image, it doesn't try doing so on the full copy in RAM (and inevitably swap file), but just the tiles I'm hitting.
In the mean time, I guess I keep adding RAM and speeding up the SSD RAID.
Reasons for not buying a TouchPad, a more than capable piece of hardware that is perfectly functional, lets you browse the interwebs, run photo slideshows, play media files, etc. etc. so even if it's not exactly a Galaxy Tab it still makes for a kick-ass digital photoframe?
1. Hardware: Bulkier, lower battery life, just one camera. 2. Software: There's not as many apps for WebOS as there are for iOS or Android (note later adjustment*) 3. Not-an-iPad: If you already have an iPad, why bother?
When I read it, I didn't think he could be any more transparent in his love for the iPad and disdain for everything else - * but then I just looked up the article again for this post and he has adjusted it to glorify the iPad some more.
It's hilarious. I hope people get Android running on it, as he'll have to eat most of his words. But even if that doesn't pan out, at $99 it's still a steal. For a financial news site to have a staff member brush it off smacks of lack of insight. And if he really needed a financial gain reason, he need but look at the people selling their TouchPads on ebay, at > $99
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Yes, I used to play with a similar utility - although intended only for personal annotation, not entirely unlike the Highlights addon - a few years back. The main issue is the lack of a large community. 500 people, say, annotating random pages means it's very unlikely that two people within that group ever see the same page + annotations except for possibly major sites.
That's why I was a bit more enthused with Google's offering - it at least had the potential of reaching many millions of users.
That said, I'll check for that extension - as well as the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation list.
Note that it isn't necessarily a case of failure either.
I was surprised to see Google Desktop go away - but it does make sense. Vista+ and Mac both have desktop widgets, and XP+ have a desktop search utility from Microsoft already. I suspect the same applies to Macs. Not to mention that Google sees 'the cloud' as a major strategy, and searching 'the cloud' is more important than a user's desktop.
So while perhaps Google's offering may have been preferable, there's plenty of alternatives and little incentive for Google to continue its development.
In fact, the only one that I used and failed, is Sidewiki. Unfortunately, the first result for 'Sidewiki alternatives' yields a piece of SEO scum.
The idea was sound, but I guess not very liked by webmasters, prone to dickwaddery, and difficult to turn into money.
Or perhaps it's Apple wanting us to think it's a smear campaign. After all, it's not entirely unthinkable that it is a smear campaign against Apple - but what if that's what Apple is counting on.. what if that's what Apple wants people to think.. in order for them to dislike Samsung, Gizmodo, Google, and the entire rest of the cellphone/tablet world, to the point of repeating the phrase over and over. Now that would be a sneaky smear campaign
On-topic.. it does seem rather odd that there's a lot of talk about a 'stolen' iPhone 5 prototype, but it seems not a single shred of evidence.. not even a photo of the thing.
With DirecTV, Starz is an optional package. A package a friend of mine canceled shortly after getting a Roku box, considering that had Netflix and she can watch movies through that.
Personally, I was already disappointed with the streaming Netflix offering (see older comment), but with this change it's just going to be much worse.
Soon Netflix's streaming offering will just be one 'recent' half a year old) A title with the rest filled with B and C titles, the odd A title from 5+ years ago, and a lot of anime series.
The Roku box is still great to access content in general, but Netflix? Humdrum.
Which, of course, is just another excuse.
A valid excuse, mind you, but an excuse all the same.
The original poster pointed out that if it were made 'impossible' to get such shows by means of making it illegal, that the solution should be to seek out media where the copyright holders allows sharing or even promote it.
In your case it's 'impossible' to get Game of Thrones (I'm sure you can get the DVDs eventually - but I understand the impossibility being directly related to watching it in timely enough a fashion that you can discuss it with others across the globe and also avoid any spoilers) so the solution would be the same - seek out other media.
But your post demonstrates exactly what I was saying was the more likely sought solution - people won't seek out that other media unless they are very strongly convinced in either A. going legit for the sake of being legit or B. going for different media for the sake of 'sticking it to the MPAA/RIAA man'. It's more likely that they'll just find ways to minimize the odds of getting caught downloading/uploading and still be able to acquire the highly popular media they enjoy.
More specifically:
"Earlier this year, Libyan officials held talks with Amesys" - France / 'European'
"other companies including Boeing Co.â(TM)s Narus" - USA / 'North American'
"telecom company ZTE Corp. also provided technology " - China / 'Asian'
"VASTech SA Pty Ltd [...] provided" - South Africa / 'African'
So, I guess that leaves South American, Australian and Antarctic as the only continents' possessives that needn't be shamed?
Yeah.. flamebait submission topic.
GP was referring to the still all-too-common practice of USD prices being translated to GBP (and EUR, for that matter) not by performing an actual currency rate conversion, but by a simple s/$/£/g substitution.
You're right - we can't 100% distinguish that. Especially not when somebody may have a personal video up on YouTube and in the background happens to be a piece of footage from a film on a TV, and the copyright owner of that piece decides to present a copyright claim.
And because we can't make that distinction, we might as well download:
After all, perhaps the movie studios relinquished their copyrights to the public domain. We just can't make that distinction!
It is sadly telling that your comment - advocating going completely legit by such means as finding alternative media - currently sits at +4 Insightful, with the very first reply - advocating continuing illegal behavior but in a way that would make it difficult for you to be caught - sits at +5 Interesting.
As hopeful as I am that people would follow your example - which in the end 'hurts' big media more - I rather suspect they'll go with the alternative.. can't very well miss that latest episode of Game of Thrones just because there's 3 minutes of Where are the Joneses available for free-as-in-beerspeech.
Remember that prototype MacBook with what appeared to be a SIM card clot and antenna popping up on e-bay? /. never covered it. )
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20092180-248/3g-equipped-macbook-prototype-pops-up-on-ebay/
( I'd link to a Slashdot article but Google's failing to find it. Or maybe
Welp, they want it back. Rather suddenly, coinciding with cnet's requests for comments from Apple.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20099494-248/apple-wants-its-3g-macbook-prototype-back/
source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=13272429&postcount=38
yes/no
Of course, they'll point out that they adhere to the DMCA and that anybody complaining should really just go through its steps (which, as you point out, is what offers a lot of protection for 'pirates', despite the flak it gets for abuse). And if the uploader was in some random internet café, then that information won't be of any use either.
Also from your list you forgot the easier monetization. This seems to be set up like many other such services, with premium accounts for those wanting immediate / faster downloads, etc.
Honestly, most people over here (NL) are either stuck in the world of Shareaza and the like, or have moved on to 'news' servers (where for $10/month the 'news' is the latest album/movie/game/application/ebook releases).
Well, reportedly, Samsung is still interested in WebOS. Where before they were interested in licensing it off of HP ( http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/29/hp-confirms-its-in-talks-about-licensing-webos-samsung-tipped/ ), they may now just grab it outright.. even if only as a precautionary move to the recent Google-buys-Motorola move ( http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-webos-rumors-reignite-amid-ex-hp-pc-vp-grab-29174760/ ).
Personally I'm not sure why they'd be doing that. They're going strong with Android - which, while heavily Google-influenced, is under governance of the OHA - while on their lower-end systems they've got their own OS already - Bada.
Though if there's any chance of WebOS going forward, Samsung would be a good place to start. Them or Huawei, perhaps. Not seeing HTC being interested.
You'd think that, but go look at some event listings. It's very common to see something like:
Event schedule Wednesday, 21/9
Where the 00.10am definitely refers to the event following the one at 11.20pm. I.e. an event on Thursday, rather than Wednesday.
But per your logic, it would actually have been in the wee hours of Wednesday well before all the other scheduled events.
Per automated logic, this would also have been the case. Except if they assigned it a different date specifically - but then you run the risk that it wouldn't be shown for the event schedule of Wednesday at all, but rather on that for Thursday.
Hence 24.10.
The document is indeed very revealing, and damning. It wouldn't fly here in NL either, especially because of the gay/lesbian part.
I guess one other interesting thing is that this filter is publicly available at all. If we can see it, clearly their students should be able to see it - albeit perhaps not from the school network.
Which means that kids are just going to go out of their way to either evade the list (rot13 will do), or trigger it creatively in ways that will get calls placed to their parents (who, preferably, would be let in on this by the student and will just have a hearty laugh).
That said, I suspect that e-mail sent from/to their network are always viewable by staff anyway, and they probably do search them / spot check them for certain individuals that teachers have brought up in meetings already.. this tool just makes it easier (well, lazier).
I'm all for the 24-hour clock, although I doubt we'll be saying "X at sixteen hundred hours" like the military any time soon.
What bothers me, though, is event calendaring.
If a movie theater runs a sneak preview of a movie at 00.30 on Friday, what does that mean? Are they saying it's in the night of Thursday on Friday at half past midnight? Or is it the night of Friday on Saturday at half past midnight?
am and pm don't help there. 12.30am listed for the Friday is still just as confusing, as would be 0.30am.
It all falls apart even further with naive calendaring systems that do accept 0.30 as being the next day, and so list the event for Saturday. So if you're looking at Friday's late night shows, there will appear to be none past midnight. But if you clicked through to Saturday, you'd see them listed there as the very first show of the day.. followed by closing hours, and then firing up again at 10am or something.
Thus the 25th hour; make the notation 24:30 and the problem is solved. There's 24 hours in the Friday, and it's 30 minutes past that Friday's 24 hours. I.e. it'll technically be on Saturday - but they can still list it for Friday's opening hours. Automated systems will no longer have to worry about ambiguity either.
Then again.. that would pose a problem for the PCB I'm designing at the moment.. it doesn't have space for a 25th hour. Damn. Back to the drawing board :|
No, I just plan not to feed the world pipe dreams :)
There's a difference between a project that is entirely feasible but in the end doesn't pan out for whatever reason, and a project that nobody expects to work - or if it does work to be impractical in reality - and have fail for exactly the reasons people say.
That said - you're right. Given his new direction, I wouldn't think he'd want potential clients to see, as one of the things, a much-hyped and publicized product that ultimately went nowhere. Unless that brought in a lot of VC - then that's exactly what I'd want to see ;)
Shit, I'm no fan of firearms (cue/queue the "only outlaws" crowd), but you seem to be catching a lot of flack for a perfectly reasonable line of thought if you already have a handgun anyway.
Like it or not, there will be looting. The riots in London weren't too long ago and that was with people still semi-around to somewhat protect things. Who's going to protect property in an evacuation, exactly? Is Bloomberg going to devote one half of the forces at his disposal (does that include the national reserve now?) to evacuation and the other to protection? Does that mean he's going to put some portion in harm's way?
Of course that same evacuation also complicates the matter for you... how are you going to defend your home if you've just been mandatorily evacuated? Or are you going to refuse and will threaten to shoot the evacuation personnel if they try to force you?
Anyway, the storm should last for just a day or two and there will very likely be bigger worries than somebody's 72" plasma TV having been looted by some guy now gored onto a billboard by a tree branch 5 blocks down.
Ain't that the truth.
Anybody remember DiamonDisc?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/13/019202/Synthetic-Stone-DVD-Claimed-To-Last-1000-Years
The guy that wanted to make that available to market is now little more than a SEO/PR chap.
http://www.cranberry.com/
With zero mention of the DiamonDisc.
Well, true enough - but apparently the editors aren't inclined to make them rectify the singular form before publishing either :)
By the way, great blog. Can I call it a blog given its back-end (cadre) nature? Anyway, I spotted the apparently missing node (vertex, spline knot point, etc.) in Bodoni's letter 'd' immediately. I guess Computer Modern at least got that one right :D
That's sad, as 'data' is quite happy (in so far as nouns have emotions) to be singular depending on context/use case:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/data
And despite what reference.com says about the plural form being predominant in scientific/academic writing, I see it written as singular quite often.
E.g.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anature.com+"data+was"
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asciencemag.org+"data+was"
That's not to say that GP is right in calling wtf on the plural form, of course.
I think that falls under the 'computer graphics' bit - although I suppose land survey groups may also use bitmap graphics here and there (they mostly deal with vector contours, no?)
But even in those, 32bit per channel is quite a bit. Suppose 1bit = 1mm.
2^32mm = 4,295km (That's four thousand, not four point etc.)
Way higher than any mountain on Earth. Conversely, if you were to map the height of Mount Everest to the full 32bit spread, each bit would be just over 2 microns.
Given how ridiculously large 2^32 is, 2^64 in imaging(-related) data is just completely insane in all but the most academic of contexts.
Quite sure.
For one thing, the vast majority of the digital photo frames out there do not have built-in batteries. That means you can't just pass it around (without strangling people with the cord).
For another, most don't do video beyond a subset of 640x480.
Add another.. say somebody likes the picture, and would like a copy? Most digital photo frames, you're screwed. Remove the card, stick it into a computer, find the picture again, etc. This thing? I wouldn't be surprised if, as part of the standard slideshow, you could just send it off to whoever.
Add to that it's got internet capabilities, etc.?
Nah, it's way better than a digital photo frame, at not much higher a price.
and add: unified transform tool.
I think GEGL might be a good aid in points 1 and 2 you made, though. I do hope they'll be making use of it to work at the resolution on display (manipulate only a few pixels) and 'render' that to the full res in the background, and tiled management so that if I do work on a small piece of a gigapixel image, it doesn't try doing so on the full copy in RAM (and inevitably swap file), but just the tiles I'm hitting.
In the mean time, I guess I keep adding RAM and speeding up the SSD RAID.
32bit per channel isn't out of the realm of sanity - think computer graphics.
But 64bit? That's pushing it more than a little.
http://www.anyhere.com/gward/hdrenc/hdr_encodings.html
Maybe if you wanted to capture in a single scene the darkest material ever made, in the shadow of a nuclear explosion.
Or reveal insight as opposed to whatever they feel rings true with their own marketing belief.
Take Forbes...
Thinking Of Buying A $99 TouchPad? Don't
Reasons for not buying a TouchPad, a more than capable piece of hardware that is perfectly functional, lets you browse the interwebs, run photo slideshows, play media files, etc. etc. so even if it's not exactly a Galaxy Tab it still makes for a kick-ass digital photoframe?
1. Hardware: Bulkier, lower battery life, just one camera.
2. Software: There's not as many apps for WebOS as there are for iOS or Android (note later adjustment*)
3. Not-an-iPad: If you already have an iPad, why bother?
When I read it, I didn't think he could be any more transparent in his love for the iPad and disdain for everything else - * but then I just looked up the article again for this post and he has adjusted it to glorify the iPad some more.
It's hilarious. I hope people get Android running on it, as he'll have to eat most of his words. But even if that doesn't pan out, at $99 it's still a steal. For a financial news site to have a staff member brush it off smacks of lack of insight. And if he really needed a financial gain reason, he need but look at the people selling their TouchPads on ebay, at > $99