Image size may be better for digital, but not necessarily quality... I'm sure it will be someday.
However, digital cameras are either a) Flimsy, cheap, and full of bells and whistles but difficult control over the basics of photography (focus, shutter speed, aperture) or b) too expensive for most people. Most of the non-SLR ones have really limited aperture ranges, which is a severely limiting factor for people who want creative control over their photographs as they're taking them. Not everything can be fixed in photoshop.
I just picked up a voigtlander vitomatic ii from 1956 that works beautifully and has excellent optics. I use it every day. What are the chances that 50 years from now, the Nikon D1 will still work? Storage formats change frequently. Transport connectors and speeds change frequently. Are we still going to be using USB and FireWire 50 years from now?
It's useless until I can click on an image and select "block images from this server" from a contextual menu. Until then, copying prefs around is more of a pain than it's worth.
Funny, I use Mozilla on OSX and Win2k, and I can't get shockwave to work at all. Flash, yes, but not shockwave, and OSX, at least, Shockwave's installer only lets it install for IE.
I agree that it's getting there, though. People stop criticizing me for using it when I show them the image & popup blocking.:)
Right after I got my Powerbook G3 (no floppy), I bought Peak and SFX Machine, one of which came on a floppy and the other required a floppy for authorization.
I think you probably hit the nail on the head with this. People are too quick to assume evilness.
"They're just like Microsoft!" whatever... Often times, things happen for legitimate reasons. Like it or not, if this product breached legal or contractual restrictions, then Apple did exactly the right thing.
I also was intrigued by the VWs when I was car shopping this weekend. However, it seems that although they get twice the gas mileage, they put out 3 or 4 times the emissions. If you want good mileage, they're a good car. If you're trying to be environmentally friendly, they're not.
Wow, they were really thinking ahead when they named their protocol!
My weird Earthlink experience
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My problem with getting off Earthlink was that they didn't seem to know about me (in spite of the fact that they were continually charging me). However, it turned out that I was somehow on some "Sprint Single-Billing" plan, which meant that I was a Sprint Customer, not an Earthlink customer, apparently. Which is pretty interesting because I signed up on Earthlink's website and never had any kind of Sprint service until about a year after I signed up.
When I asked them how I ended up on this weird Sprint plan, they told me I must have called them (meaning earthlink) and specifically asked for it! I had never even heard of it before!
So, they (of course) transferred me to Sprint, I was on hold for 45 minutes, and then they claimed to never have heard of me either. Amazingly, 10 minutes of yelling at them and my account mysteriously (already) existed, and then I was able to get it cancelled and no longer be billed for the Earthlink service.
All in all, the most disgusting thing to me about the entire earthlink experience was that, in spite of their commercials saying how no spam gets through earthlink, I had received dozens between the time that I signed up for the account and when I actually checked the mail there for the first time.
Any "object oriented extension" to C is going to be somewhat of a hack. I disagree about the syntax being uglier than C++; the simplicity of Obj-C made it a hell of a lot easier to learn than C++ for me. I did try; it just never made sense to me (the way Perl no longer makes sense to me, in spite of the 7 years I spent working with it). For me, Objective-C is like Java with named parameters and the speed of native code.
I do like Python, though, and also wish that there was a decent smalltalk w/ native GUI for OS X. Hopefully someday. Squeak is fun and cute, but realistically those things pretty much completely kill any opportunity to use it professionally. It sucks that all these great technologies are being relegated to obscurity because of...
I was trying to figure out how to end that sentence, and all I could come up with was Microsoft and FUD. I've been reading too much Slashdot!
Windows are overrated. I didn't ask for one at this company, since I was one of the newest employees when we moved to a real office, but they gave me one.
I spent 2 weeks trying to figure out how to keep the horrible glare from the sun off my screen. We have these pin-holed blinds that allow enough light in to burn out my eyes, and my boss doesn't like it when I stack up a bunch of boxes to block out the light... I've had to move my huge and unwielding to an ergonomically suboptimal position so I can stand to look at it during the day. People always joke that they can find me a windowless cube, and unfortunately they always think I'm joking back when I tell them that I would love it.
I've been very interested in this idea. Unfortunately, there are apparently 3000 books on the subject, not a single one of which has a name that indicates that it is the first in the series. In fact, the names don't even seem to indicate that they are a series.
The solution to the web browsing speed problem is easy. Don't use a crappy, half-assed browser like Explorer. It was great under OS 9, but pretty abonimable under OS X. The first version was really bad; the entire program would lock up while loading a web page, which would take minutes. I don't think there's more than one thread in that program.
I use OmniWeb 99% of the time and Mozilla for accessing my bank's site. I browse a lot, and it doesn't seem slow to me. Chimera is nice too, as others have noted. Yeah, they've all got flaws, and for some reason that sends people running back to IE which has the most serious flaws of them all... It's unusably slow unless you've got broadband (on not much better if you do) and it's extremely buggy. try searching through a page, click a link, go back, and search again... *maybe* it'll remember where it last found a result, maybe not. But people seem to think that having a font style ignored (and a much more readable one used instead) is a more heinous flaw than having to wait 20 times as long for a page to load.
My frustrations with IE are similar to my feelings about Starbucks. I think their coffee sucks, and there's often a much better local joint nearby. Everybody goes to Starbucks ostensibly because "at least I know the coffee will be hot" or "at least I know the muffins will be fresh," when the real reason is because they're familiar with the brand name and they're afraid to try something their not used to. FUD.
I think I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning... Need a donut...
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Step out of the car with your hands up, or face immediate deresolution!
That's not enough, someone may randomly have a thought that happens to have been thought before...
This is October... You were supposed to post that on April 1st :)
However, digital cameras are either a) Flimsy, cheap, and full of bells and whistles but difficult control over the basics of photography (focus, shutter speed, aperture) or b) too expensive for most people. Most of the non-SLR ones have really limited aperture ranges, which is a severely limiting factor for people who want creative control over their photographs as they're taking them. Not everything can be fixed in photoshop.
I just picked up a voigtlander vitomatic ii from 1956 that works beautifully and has excellent optics. I use it every day. What are the chances that 50 years from now, the Nikon D1 will still work? Storage formats change frequently. Transport connectors and speeds change frequently. Are we still going to be using USB and FireWire 50 years from now?
And make sure that nothing about the scene or the position of your camera has changed.
This is not even "thinking different." "Thinking different" would be writing your own DVD authoring software to distribute with those drives.
That's almost as good as the "If you walk off the cliff, you could fall" signs
sorry I missed your post the other day... hopefully you'll find this.
It's useless until I can click on an image and select "block images from this server" from a contextual menu. Until then, copying prefs around is more of a pain than it's worth.
I'll use Chimera the instant they implement image & popup blocking.
I agree that it's getting there, though. People stop criticizing me for using it when I show them the image & popup blocking. :)
That was, however, the last time.
"They're just like Microsoft!" whatever... Often times, things happen for legitimate reasons. Like it or not, if this product breached legal or contractual restrictions, then Apple did exactly the right thing.
Does anyone know if iTunes or DiscBurner can do Disc-At-Once burning? 0-second gaps between tracks?
it was the first mp3 player that didn't suck... Not to mention firewire, capacity, and size :)
I also was intrigued by the VWs when I was car shopping this weekend. However, it seems that although they get twice the gas mileage, they put out 3 or 4 times the emissions. If you want good mileage, they're a good car. If you're trying to be environmentally friendly, they're not.
rarely will grandma want to 'apt-get' either :)
Wow, they were really thinking ahead when they named their protocol!
When I asked them how I ended up on this weird Sprint plan, they told me I must have called them (meaning earthlink) and specifically asked for it! I had never even heard of it before!
So, they (of course) transferred me to Sprint, I was on hold for 45 minutes, and then they claimed to never have heard of me either. Amazingly, 10 minutes of yelling at them and my account mysteriously (already) existed, and then I was able to get it cancelled and no longer be billed for the Earthlink service.
All in all, the most disgusting thing to me about the entire earthlink experience was that, in spite of their commercials saying how no spam gets through earthlink, I had received dozens between the time that I signed up for the account and when I actually checked the mail there for the first time.
I do like Python, though, and also wish that there was a decent smalltalk w/ native GUI for OS X. Hopefully someday. Squeak is fun and cute, but realistically those things pretty much completely kill any opportunity to use it professionally. It sucks that all these great technologies are being relegated to obscurity because of ...
I was trying to figure out how to end that sentence, and all I could come up with was Microsoft and FUD. I've been reading too much Slashdot!
I did preview this, but I apparently forgot something. That should have read "My huge and unwieldy monitor" :)
I spent 2 weeks trying to figure out how to keep the horrible glare from the sun off my screen. We have these pin-holed blinds that allow enough light in to burn out my eyes, and my boss doesn't like it when I stack up a bunch of boxes to block out the light... I've had to move my huge and unwielding to an ergonomically suboptimal position so I can stand to look at it during the day. People always joke that they can find me a windowless cube, and unfortunately they always think I'm joking back when I tell them that I would love it.
So, where do I start?
Update: The donut didn't help :)
I use OmniWeb 99% of the time and Mozilla for accessing my bank's site. I browse a lot, and it doesn't seem slow to me. Chimera is nice too, as others have noted. Yeah, they've all got flaws, and for some reason that sends people running back to IE which has the most serious flaws of them all... It's unusably slow unless you've got broadband (on not much better if you do) and it's extremely buggy. try searching through a page, click a link, go back, and search again... *maybe* it'll remember where it last found a result, maybe not. But people seem to think that having a font style ignored (and a much more readable one used instead) is a more heinous flaw than having to wait 20 times as long for a page to load.
My frustrations with IE are similar to my feelings about Starbucks. I think their coffee sucks, and there's often a much better local joint nearby. Everybody goes to Starbucks ostensibly because "at least I know the coffee will be hot" or "at least I know the muffins will be fresh," when the real reason is because they're familiar with the brand name and they're afraid to try something their not used to. FUD.
I think I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning... Need a donut...