And your point would be? Apple made a gazillon times more money than creative did? So what? Doesn't make their prodect any better than the creative, just more popular. Since you are on/. you should know that popular doesn't always mean better.
Take that red headed chearleader that was doing the football team and half the band. Then take that 3rd year art student, you know the girl with the glasses? While the cheerleader was humping everything with a pulse the art student read every sex manual she could get her hands on. Results, the cheerleader could have the football team cumming in 5 mins, but that arts student, she would take you heaven for 2 hours then make your dead grandpaw cum in his grave.
Popular doesn't always mean better, but in the case of the nomad and ipod you might be right.
flamebait. I don't think so. if that would have been flamebait there would have been a few comments about your mama or how lose and easy your sister is. not to mention a few sprinkling of comments about what you and that sheep where doing last night.
in other words, if was flamebait you would fucking know it. that post was informative at the most, interesting at the least. so if your' going to use mod points use them correctly.
ps this post should be moderated as a troll at the most and overraited in the least.
oh.. apple blows! there that should be worth a flamebait point or 2.
Want a iphwn with out the contract. Wait a month or two after the release then check ebay. I pretty much garrent you that some smoe wil have bought this thing, regretted it, and cancelled the contract. They they will ebay the thing for what ever they can get for it.
That or some dumbass will be trying to move a case of hot ones as fast as they can. Ether way, iphwned with no contract.
as for the locks and limits. wait some, some hacker will fix these bugs too.
This is great fucking news. As apple/at&t blow their own balls off with this overpriced toy it will just lead to better and cheaper knock offs. Just like when they hocked up the ipod for 400 bucks for a 20 gb drive. I bough a creative nomad with twice the space at half the cost. While ipod owners where stuck with buying a new ipod for more space I swapped out a 100 Gb drive in mine with a extra poweful 3rd party battery.
The blowPhone will just be the same. Apple will lock it to at&t. Nokia, samsung, or one of the others will come out with a better one, for half the cost that will not be locked into some network.
Or you could just be a true geek and drape it over the ceiling fan and lights along the roof. Or just run it along the floor in plan site. Sure it looks shitty but who gives a fuck? Kind of sucks if you have a cat or a dog that likes the chew on cables though. But on the other hand that problem is fixed real quickly if you leave one of those high voltage power cords along the floor. It can be kind of messy though and there is the smell...
A-fuck'n-men to that. I used to say that using layers is just fucking stupid. I came from deluxe paint on the amiga, it didnt' have layers so I don't need no stink'n layers. I'm now much older and somewhat wiser.
GIMP is 80-90% of the way to absolutely crushing Photoshop
Wow! Must be nice on your planet. I've used both GIMP and Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3. I just opend up GIMP today to see if it has changed. As a pro photographer I can tell you without a doubt that GIMP is no where near what PScs3 can do. GIMP is a nice toy program to us when there is no other choice but to get some real work done people are going to reach for PS.
Crap, GIMP really can't compete with Photoshop Elements. If you can't afford PS for anythign get PSE. Its only a 100 bucks and comes closer to that 80% or 90% mark than GIMP.
It's not made out of cheese. If it was the mice would have become a space fairing civilization long before now. I think its a watermelon and that is one of the seeds.
Nope, your not the only one. Didn't look like no cave entrance to me. I thought it was a bad CCD or what ever they are using on that camera. I'm assuming that they are smarter than me on this subject and it a cave.
Who ctually expects something they print on a inkjet to last forever? Most people keep a digital copy as it and can just print off another copy if needed.
You just nailled my feelings right on the head. I print most of my photos with my Canon i9900. The prints are supposed to last between 30 to 60 years is what I've read. Fuck that, I'm not even going to worry about 5 years. If the print look faded after 5, I'm going to pull it down and print another one.
The new print may even better than the old one. At sometime I'm going to replace the i9900 with a better/newer printer.
Barring corporate machinations and/or government moves, there is no reason to believe that the standard JPEG format won't be supported by computers in 30 years time.
Just 30 years? There is reason to believe that jpeg might not be with us for a lot longer. There are other file format that have been with us longer; ASCII and text format files. Don't get me wrong ASCII sucks but its been with us 40/50 years and there is no sign of it going away.
JPEG might turn out to be the same way. There will be better format out there but jpeg might just hang on because its good enough. Look at mp3. It's 20 years old but still hanging on despite there being better formats out there. Jpeg might still be the same way. Hell, I just now found out the picture view I have will read Amiga IFF images. HOw is that for a fucking dinosaur?
Besides, jpeg isn't that diffcult an format to figure out. If we where bomb back to the stoneage. One day we're on the edge of becoming a space age society, next day we're farming rocks. Say 20,000 years go by and we climb back to present level of technology. So dude digs up a 20,000 old seagate. By some miricle the data on the drive is intact. Some nerd will figure out how to read it and how to decode the images on it.
Never! Underestimate the value of any photograph. Even the day to day snapshots are priceless. You see that a moment you will never get back. It may seem irrelevant when you take it, but the next day it may be price less to you. I took a picture of my mother a few years ago with kodac 3900 3.1 mp camera. I was just bought the camera and was trying it out. My mother died a few weeks later. That picture that I took, that was priceless when I took it, it price less to me.
No, not really. You see, unlike film, images digital images have the potential to last forever. It's a myth that film photographs will out last digital images. Who cares how long digital prints from a printer last? Ten years, a hundred years, the life time of a print is irrelevant. What matters is the life span of the original media; that be film or digital image. As long as you have that you can make prints.
Now here is the kick in the balls. Film degrades. Sooner or later the physical film media will decay into dust. Be it a 100 years or a 1000 years, soon or later that negative will cease to exist. The chemical process of developing the image also speeds that up. You see when you expose a negative the developing solution you start a chemical reaction that starts the process. When you put the negative in the stop bath it is suppose to "stop" the developing process. Well it doesn't. What it does is slows it to a crawl. The image on the negative may last forever to a human but the development process is still going on. One day that image will fade from then negative. The same thing applies to physical prints made from film images.
This is not true for digital images. They have the potential to last forever. As long as we have computers and networks we will always have the potential to view that image. That digital image has the potential to be as good 10 years, 100 years, even a billion years from now. Yeah, I know dvd degrade, harddrives go bad, and file formats will change. That maybe but physical digital media can be backed up and file formats can be converted. Film images can't. Once that image fades front the negative its gone.
Wow. A response that is educated and speaks directly to the point by someone who obviously knows what they hell they are talking about. On Slashdot even. Who'da thunk it was possible?
And they spoke it well in plain english so that everyone could understand it. Instead of having those of us who wish to understand it reaching for a dictionary to lookup meanings of 4 and 5 dollar technical words.
I don't have mod points but I award you 5 karma points. Spend them wisely.
Yeap, same here. I said fuck it after a couple of new caps. I had better things to do, looking at porn and masturbation for one. I had no intention of watching season 3 but I didn't take it off the tivo so it got snarped up.
In a fit of bordom I watched it fuck that rocked. I was back into bsg. After about the 3rd or 4th episode I couldn't take it any more. I watched the rest of the season in FF mode. Tvio it, hit FF and stop the tivo when things look interesting. I could compress 45 mins in to about 15 min with most of the content intacted.
I just said to a friend there is two ways they can end this. It will ether rock or is will suck major honking monkey ass. I hope for the former but I'm just betting there is a monkey out there with a soon to be sore ass.
Personally I would rather them spend the entire seasons budget on half a dozen outstanding episodes, and shit can the rest. Don't even bother with them. Maybe season 4 could be a miniseries two or three 2 hour movies.
I run the corp. mailserver here too. Spaming makes me long for the release of physical violence. Of the 250,000 emails coming through here 85% of them are shit. And that is after the spam filters and rbi blocks.
Fuck rehabilitation. I got some honey and I'm sure we can find some rope. Lets rehabilitate his ass by staking it out in the desert. We can amuse ourselves by placing bets on what will get him first, the sun or the ants. Then we can post the video to youtube as an example to the next spamming asshat.
I had a problem like this once. My ex-Bitch and her boyfriend used my name on a whole shitload of stuff a few years back. I was getting calls from creditors and other scum all the fucking time. I walked in one day and there was a 56 call on my answering machine from the fuckers. Straw, meet camel.
A few minutes of research and I came up with some free call management software, fifteen minutes after that I had my computer screening my calls. Basically what I did was run the phone line to the caller id modem on my box. The call screening software would compare the incoming number against a white/black list. White list and the computer would ring, I turned the ringer off on the phone. Black list and the computer would just simply drop the call. Not on ether and the computer would not ring but let the call through for the answering machine to pick up.
I rigged this thing up in 15 mins. If I can do it that time a retarded monkey should be able to in half that. I used it for a number of years till I just had the phone disconnected. I don't have any links for you but a google search should find you everthing you need.
We could take the high road and say they are right and pay them. But I think it would be better for everyone just to tell them to "fuck off." They are a conquered people and time to start acting like it. Tough breaks but that's the hand their ancestors where dealt.
Besides, this might set a precedent. Think of the chaos this could generate if every little piss ant tribe in Africa or the rain forests of South America got it through their heads there is money in the air. What if it didn't stop with cell phones? What if they started wanting compensation for every radio signal that went through their airspace. What's next? Payments for over flight of air craft and satellite. Where does that can of worms stop? Whoops your moon base is flying over land owned by the noble buttwind tribe of asshat africa, pay us?
You put to much faith in the police to do the right thing then. It's not the big ass police and fbi she needs to worry about. It's Barny Fife and Andy Taylor in podunk alabama in asshat county that she will have problems with. Odds are they will not be plugged into some gobernment database. If she is stopped there the best they might do is a google search or take for gosphel what they read in the newspapers. If it comes off the computer it's just like the word of god to them locals.
There is a good chance she might find her ass in jail in asshat county after a traffic stop because of this.
I have to agree with said parent on ebooks. I faced the same problem as the dude in the article. After a life time of reading I had amassed a whole fucking forest of dead trees. I was simply running out of space to keep them. With ebooks I can carry my whole library on a good side SD card. My preferred ereader is currently mobipocket on a T5. I carry my T5 in a folding leather case that even smells and feels like a book when opened. Hell, when I do open it the case even looks like I'm reading from a small book.
I have found the T5 to be the prefect size for my tastes. The screen is 480x320 and has just the correct brightness and font size that I prefer. But reading it in bright sunlight is still a problem.
My T5 has one other major advantage too. It fits in my pocket real nice. When I slouch off to the can to read I can carry it with me with out someone easy noticing. That wouldn't be the case if I slouch off with a copy of war and peace in my arms at work you know. Someone might notice.
What do you mean? Reading an ebook is just as much a sensual experience of the four of the five senses as reading a dead tree book. I read mine sitting on the can and I can tell you its a joy to four of the five senses. Esp. if that fat slob next door has had a bean barreto for dinner.
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And your point would be? Apple made a gazillon times more money than creative did? So what? Doesn't make their prodect any better than the creative, just more popular. Since you are on /. you should know that popular doesn't always mean better.
Take that red headed chearleader that was doing the football team and half the band. Then take that 3rd year art student, you know the girl with the glasses? While the cheerleader was humping everything with a pulse the art student read every sex manual she could get her hands on. Results, the cheerleader could have the football team cumming in 5 mins, but that arts student, she would take you heaven for 2 hours then make your dead grandpaw cum in his grave.
Popular doesn't always mean better, but in the case of the nomad and ipod you might be right.
flamebait. I don't think so. if that would have been flamebait there would have been a few comments about your mama or how lose and easy your sister is. not to mention a few sprinkling of comments about what you and that sheep where doing last night.
in other words, if was flamebait you would fucking know it. that post was informative at the most, interesting at the least. so if your' going to use mod points use them correctly.
ps this post should be moderated as a troll at the most and overraited in the least.
oh.. apple blows! there that should be worth a flamebait point or 2.
Want a iphwn with out the contract. Wait a month or two after the release then check ebay. I pretty much garrent you that some smoe wil have bought this thing, regretted it, and cancelled the contract. They they will ebay the thing for what ever they can get for it.
That or some dumbass will be trying to move a case of hot ones as fast as they can. Ether way, iphwned with no contract.
as for the locks and limits. wait some, some hacker will fix these bugs too.
This is great fucking news. As apple/at&t blow their own balls off with this overpriced toy it will just lead to better and cheaper knock offs. Just like when they hocked up the ipod for 400 bucks for a 20 gb drive. I bough a creative nomad with twice the space at half the cost. While ipod owners where stuck with buying a new ipod for more space I swapped out a 100 Gb drive in mine with a extra poweful 3rd party battery.
The blowPhone will just be the same. Apple will lock it to at&t. Nokia, samsung, or one of the others will come out with a better one, for half the cost that will not be locked into some network.
Phuck apple....
Or you could just be a true geek and drape it over the ceiling fan and lights along the roof. Or just run it along the floor in plan site. Sure it looks shitty but who gives a fuck? Kind of sucks if you have a cat or a dog that likes the chew on cables though. But on the other hand that problem is fixed real quickly if you leave one of those high voltage power cords along the floor. It can be kind of messy though and there is the smell...
If adding layers is 'bloat', I want 'bloat'
A-fuck'n-men to that. I used to say that using layers is just fucking stupid. I came from deluxe paint on the amiga, it didnt' have layers so I don't need no stink'n layers. I'm now much older and somewhat wiser.
GIMP is 80-90% of the way to absolutely crushing Photoshop
Wow! Must be nice on your planet. I've used both GIMP and Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3. I just opend up GIMP today to see if it has changed. As a pro photographer I can tell you without a doubt that GIMP is no where near what PScs3 can do. GIMP is a nice toy program to us when there is no other choice but to get some real work done people are going to reach for PS.
Crap, GIMP really can't compete with Photoshop Elements. If you can't afford PS for anythign get PSE. Its only a 100 bucks and comes closer to that 80% or 90% mark than GIMP.
It's not made out of cheese. If it was the mice would have become a space fairing civilization long before now. I think its a watermelon and that is one of the seeds.
Nope, your not the only one. Didn't look like no cave entrance to me. I thought it was a bad CCD or what ever they are using on that camera. I'm assuming that they are smarter than me on this subject and it a cave.
Who ctually expects something they print on a inkjet to last forever? Most people keep a digital copy as it and can just print off another copy if needed.
You just nailled my feelings right on the head. I print most of my photos with my Canon i9900. The prints are supposed to last between 30 to 60 years is what I've read. Fuck that, I'm not even going to worry about 5 years. If the print look faded after 5, I'm going to pull it down and print another one.
The new print may even better than the old one. At sometime I'm going to replace the i9900 with a better/newer printer.
Barring corporate machinations and/or government moves, there is no reason to believe that the standard JPEG format won't be supported by computers in 30 years time.
Just 30 years? There is reason to believe that jpeg might not be with us for a lot longer. There are other file format that have been with us longer; ASCII and text format files. Don't get me wrong ASCII sucks but its been with us 40/50 years and there is no sign of it going away.
JPEG might turn out to be the same way. There will be better format out there but jpeg might just hang on because its good enough. Look at mp3. It's 20 years old but still hanging on despite there being better formats out there. Jpeg might still be the same way. Hell, I just now found out the picture view I have will read Amiga IFF images. HOw is that for a fucking dinosaur?
Besides, jpeg isn't that diffcult an format to figure out. If we where bomb back to the stoneage. One day we're on the edge of becoming a space age society, next day we're farming rocks. Say 20,000 years go by and we climb back to present level of technology. So dude digs up a 20,000 old seagate. By some miricle the data on the drive is intact. Some nerd will figure out how to read it and how to decode the images on it.
Never! Underestimate the value of any photograph. Even the day to day snapshots are priceless. You see that a moment you will never get back. It may seem irrelevant when you take it, but the next day it may be price less to you. I took a picture of my mother a few years ago with kodac 3900 3.1 mp camera. I was just bought the camera and was trying it out. My mother died a few weeks later. That picture that I took, that was priceless when I took it, it price less to me.
No, not really. You see, unlike film, images digital images have the potential to last forever. It's a myth that film photographs will out last digital images. Who cares how long digital prints from a printer last? Ten years, a hundred years, the life time of a print is irrelevant. What matters is the life span of the original media; that be film or digital image. As long as you have that you can make prints.
Now here is the kick in the balls. Film degrades. Sooner or later the physical film media will decay into dust. Be it a 100 years or a 1000 years, soon or later that negative will cease to exist. The chemical process of developing the image also speeds that up. You see when you expose a negative the developing solution you start a chemical reaction that starts the process. When you put the negative in the stop bath it is suppose to "stop" the developing process. Well it doesn't. What it does is slows it to a crawl. The image on the negative may last forever to a human but the development process is still going on. One day that image will fade from then negative. The same thing applies to physical prints made from film images.
This is not true for digital images. They have the potential to last forever. As long as we have computers and networks we will always have the potential to view that image. That digital image has the potential to be as good 10 years, 100 years, even a billion years from now. Yeah, I know dvd degrade, harddrives go bad, and file formats will change. That maybe but physical digital media can be backed up and file formats can be converted. Film images can't. Once that image fades front the negative its gone.
Wow. A response that is educated and speaks directly to the point by someone who obviously knows what they hell they are talking about. On Slashdot even. Who'da thunk it was possible?
And they spoke it well in plain english so that everyone could understand it. Instead of having those of us who wish to understand it reaching for a dictionary to lookup meanings of 4 and 5 dollar technical words.
I don't have mod points but I award you 5 karma points. Spend them wisely.
Yeap, same here. I said fuck it after a couple of new caps. I had better things to do, looking at porn and masturbation for one. I had no intention of watching season 3 but I didn't take it off the tivo so it got snarped up.
In a fit of bordom I watched it fuck that rocked. I was back into bsg. After about the 3rd or 4th episode I couldn't take it any more. I watched the rest of the season in FF mode. Tvio it, hit FF and stop the tivo when things look interesting. I could compress 45 mins in to about 15 min with most of the content intacted.
I just said to a friend there is two ways they can end this. It will ether rock or is will suck major honking monkey ass. I hope for the former but I'm just betting there is a monkey out there with a soon to be sore ass.
Personally I would rather them spend the entire seasons budget on half a dozen outstanding episodes, and shit can the rest. Don't even bother with them. Maybe season 4 could be a miniseries two or three 2 hour movies.
I run the corp. mailserver here too. Spaming makes me long for the release of physical violence. Of the 250,000 emails coming through here 85% of them are shit. And that is after the spam filters and rbi blocks.
Fuck rehabilitation. I got some honey and I'm sure we can find some rope. Lets rehabilitate his ass by staking it out in the desert. We can amuse ourselves by placing bets on what will get him first, the sun or the ants. Then we can post the video to youtube as an example to the next spamming asshat.
No she is my Ex because she is a Bitch. Get your story straight before you fire off your pie hole.
Putting them on hold is one solution and air horns are fun, but both tie up value resources. Your time and a phone line.
Not the best solution.
I had a problem like this once. My ex-Bitch and her boyfriend used my name on a whole shitload of stuff a few years back. I was getting calls from creditors and other scum all the fucking time. I walked in one day and there was a 56 call on my answering machine from the fuckers. Straw, meet camel.
A few minutes of research and I came up with some free call management software, fifteen minutes after that I had my computer screening my calls. Basically what I did was run the phone line to the caller id modem on my box. The call screening software would compare the incoming number against a white/black list. White list and the computer would ring, I turned the ringer off on the phone. Black list and the computer would just simply drop the call. Not on ether and the computer would not ring but let the call through for the answering machine to pick up.
I rigged this thing up in 15 mins. If I can do it that time a retarded monkey should be able to in half that. I used it for a number of years till I just had the phone disconnected. I don't have any links for you but a google search should find you everthing you need.
We could take the high road and say they are right and pay them. But I think it would be better for everyone just to tell them to "fuck off." They are a conquered people and time to start acting like it. Tough breaks but that's the hand their ancestors where dealt.
Besides, this might set a precedent. Think of the chaos this could generate if every little piss ant tribe in Africa or the rain forests of South America got it through their heads there is money in the air. What if it didn't stop with cell phones? What if they started wanting compensation for every radio signal that went through their airspace. What's next? Payments for over flight of air craft and satellite. Where does that can of worms stop? Whoops your moon base is flying over land owned by the noble buttwind tribe of asshat africa, pay us?
Tell them to fuck off and be done with it.
You put to much faith in the police to do the right thing then. It's not the big ass police and fbi she needs to worry about. It's Barny Fife and Andy Taylor in podunk alabama in asshat county that she will have problems with. Odds are they will not be plugged into some gobernment database. If she is stopped there the best they might do is a google search or take for gosphel what they read in the newspapers. If it comes off the computer it's just like the word of god to them locals.
There is a good chance she might find her ass in jail in asshat county after a traffic stop because of this.
I'm sorry to hear that. You have my condolences....
I have to agree with said parent on ebooks. I faced the same problem as the dude in the article. After a life time of reading I had amassed a whole fucking forest of dead trees. I was simply running out of space to keep them. With ebooks I can carry my whole library on a good side SD card. My preferred ereader is currently mobipocket on a T5. I carry my T5 in a folding leather case that even smells and feels like a book when opened. Hell, when I do open it the case even looks like I'm reading from a small book.
I have found the T5 to be the prefect size for my tastes. The screen is 480x320 and has just the correct brightness and font size that I prefer. But reading it in bright sunlight is still a problem.
My T5 has one other major advantage too. It fits in my pocket real nice. When I slouch off to the can to read I can carry it with me with out someone easy noticing. That wouldn't be the case if I slouch off with a copy of war and peace in my arms at work you know. Someone might notice.
What do you mean? Reading an ebook is just as much a sensual experience of the four of the five senses as reading a dead tree book. I read mine sitting on the can and I can tell you its a joy to four of the five senses. Esp. if that fat slob next door has had a bean barreto for dinner.