Remember Folks When snapping pictures, HOLD THE CAMERA STEADY!!! With my DC290 I am notorous for jiggling the camera before the shot is fully taken, due to the delay between pressing the button and the exposure being taken. End result: Pictures have lovely streaks and are blurry. Some camera are better than others (The Toshiba's are pretty good about this in my experience, and my Kodak is pretty bad) so the user needs to remember to HOLD STEADY when taking pictures. My Guess... Prolly a newbie used to a 35mm camera snaping picts. HTH
Even Worse... I have the mp3's of that record (They sound awful, but what do you expect from a record) I would have to dig a bit since I burned them off to a CD. If I could find them, I bet anyone could... There out there. Sorry, no link though, maybe next Christmas:-) hobiewahn
I am absolutely Floored that a network would even air something as inaccurate and bogus as this. The Government is going to have enough problems with stupid morons freaking out about y2k, they dont need a network television freaking people out even more. Now, all the other networks are going to come out with their y2k copy movies so they can ride the bandwagon. I think back to the first time the "War of the Worlds" was aired over the radio. People started to freak out becasue they thought Earth was actually being invaded by Aliens. Mass Hysteria breaks out easily, and is something that can spread like wildfire. If things keep up as it is, I think that y2k could be interesting, not due to massive computer failure, but to stupid people having panic attacks.
I think we should all email/call/write NBC and tell them how irresponsible they were.
Conspiracy theorist approach: NBC is affiliated with M$. M$ is using this to make people freakout about y2k. After people freak out Billy Gates is going to use this opportunity to push M$ solutions, and state that he needs totalitarian control of the country in order to fix things in a hurry. After that happens, he will ban any other software because it is not y2k compliant, and then persecute everyone who dares to use something else. He will setup "Windowization camps" where people are forced to use M$ software for 18 hours a day, and then are brutally beat until they claim Bill Gates as the supreme ruler of the universe. He will sequentially brainwash everyone in the world until he has total power over everything...
A nice Alpha will run circles around both of these chips anyday. Now that Compaq is putting resources towards Alpha Linux, I think it will have even more of a footprint in the market.
(Then again, this only works if you dont consider cost to be an issue)
Is it just me or was there a CRAPLOAD of typos in that article? You would think that Time would at least proofread what goes on their webpage.... Then again, it could just be the OCR software.....
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Remember Folks When snapping pictures, HOLD THE CAMERA STEADY!!! With my DC290 I am notorous for jiggling the camera before the shot is fully taken, due to the delay between pressing the button and the exposure being taken. End result: Pictures have lovely streaks and are blurry. Some camera are better than others (The Toshiba's are pretty good about this in my experience, and my Kodak is pretty bad) so the user needs to remember to HOLD STEADY when taking pictures. My Guess... Prolly a newbie used to a 35mm camera snaping picts. HTH
Even Worse... I have the mp3's of that record (They sound awful, but what do you expect from a record) I would have to dig a bit since I burned them off to a CD. If I could find them, I bet anyone could... There out there. Sorry, no link though, maybe next Christmas :-) hobiewahn
That would be cool to take a vacation there, too bad they are probably millions of miles away :(
I am absolutely Floored that a network would even air something as inaccurate and bogus as this. The Government is going to have enough problems with stupid morons freaking out about y2k, they dont need a network television freaking people out even more. Now, all the other networks are going to come out with their y2k copy movies so they can ride the bandwagon.
I think back to the first time the "War of the Worlds" was aired over the radio. People started to freak out becasue they thought Earth was actually being invaded by Aliens. Mass Hysteria breaks out easily, and is something that can spread like wildfire. If things keep up as it is, I think that y2k could be interesting, not due to massive computer failure, but to stupid people having panic attacks.
I think we should all email/call/write NBC and tell them how irresponsible they were.
Conspiracy theorist approach:
NBC is affiliated with M$. M$ is using this to make people freakout about y2k. After people freak out Billy Gates is going to use this opportunity to push M$ solutions, and state that he needs totalitarian control of the country in order to fix things in a hurry. After that happens, he will ban any other software because it is not y2k compliant, and then persecute everyone who dares to use something else. He will setup "Windowization camps" where people are forced to use M$ software for 18 hours a day, and then are brutally beat until they claim Bill Gates as the supreme ruler of the universe. He will sequentially brainwash everyone in the world until he has total power over everything...
be afraid, be very afraid...
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(I just wish my phone number had DSL)
It will be interesting to see what kind of pricing stucture this has, it will probably have big $$ with it at first...
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forget these x86 chips, just buy a nice Alpha
A nice Alpha will run circles around both of these chips anyday. Now that Compaq is putting resources towards Alpha Linux, I think it will have even more of a footprint in the market.
(Then again, this only works if you dont consider cost to be an issue)
Is it just me or was there a CRAPLOAD of typos in that article? You would think that Time would at least proofread what goes on their webpage.... Then again, it could just be the OCR software.....