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"The post behind this joke. [slashdot.org] Here it is:"
Thanks for that post. The typical/. comments were fun to read with the benefit of hindsight. It's amazing the similarity with the posts here. And as the saying goes that past performance is no guarantee of future results. But no doubt it will be interesting to read all the comments in this post 10 years from now too.
"Apple invests a lot of time and money in removing control elements to what an individual needs to make the device a fluid part of their lifestyle."
Then why do they make you go in and change your monitor profile to gamma 2.2, white point D65 so your video and photos on the web look like they are suppose to? And how many users don't even know they are in the wrong color space? Where is gamma 1.8 used today anyway that the average user will encounter?
I've seen a goat eating a blackberry bush before. It ate everything - the stem, leaves and thorns. It must be that leather tongue. It cleaned out the whole blackberry patch.
"I still buy DVDs, even when the Blu-ray disc is available..."
Same here. But I haven't seen anyone mention another reason. My sound system is Dolby 5.1. Many BD disks I have managed to rent didn't have digital 5.1 in English but rather DTS. They offer 5.1 in other languages. So I may get a better picture but only surround sound quality. That sucks. I'm not ready to buck up for new sound.
And another reason is the local rental store only has one, two or three at most new releases of BD on the shelf. If your not their the moment they put it up for rent, you don't get it. So I stopped even looking to rent BD disks. I just go for the DVD.
"I still have pictures my father took back in the 50's not to mention I still have his old camera."
Good point. How many people are going to have their digital files 50 years from now let alone pass them on to their next generation? A few who maintain a rigorous backup system might but that doesn't mean the next generation will. Negatives are tangible; easy to pass on.
I still shoot a 20 year old medium and large format cameras as well as a 57 year old TLR I had to compete for. A $4k digital camera isn't going to be worth squat 20 years from now. Now one will want to shoot them even if you can still find a memory card for it. It will end up in the garbage dump. Not that digital doesn't have its place as a convenient small format color camera and for people making a living with them.
And film will live on in Black-n-White. To this day desaturated color or color converted to some ISO standard rarely looks like the real thing. Mostly because people don't understand BW much anymore and you don't get to use colored filters to alter tones like the real thing.
"...1 second or so that it took to open the "Save file as" dialog..."
It takes 2 seconds for a menu to appear on my work XP laptop when I click the Start button. It takes forever to open a Word document. Virus scanning is now part of the Office experience and can't be disregarded. And this is on a more modern computer. What is your point.
Yeah, but it suffers from an ergonomic oversight. Unless you have delicate, sensitive fingers of a surgeon, you can't feel the home-row position. But other than that, it is decent.
You could add one more layer of security. With your access point running OpenBSD's pf, it could have rules that require you to authenticate via a SSH login to a restricted account before it would let you send anything out of the other end of the access point.
"lack of sophisticated tools (ala the automated HDR and Focus stacking in PS or 3D in PS Extended)"
Features that have ruined landscape shots. Most everyones digital landscapes all look like fantasy pictures and the are all the same. Same tools, same sensors and same colors. Boring.
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"The post behind this joke. [slashdot.org] Here it is:"
Thanks for that post. The typical /. comments were fun to read with the benefit of hindsight. It's amazing the similarity with the posts here. And as the saying goes that past performance is no guarantee of future results. But no doubt it will be interesting to read all the comments in this post 10 years from now too.
"Yup, I've have even cheap plastic ones go though the washer and dryer more than once and they still work."
Well, I can tell you with first-hand experience to not try that with your cell phone even once.
What a deal. All he has to do is go up there and get it and he can sell it for 10X what he paid for it on Ebay!! Oh, wait a minute...
"As a married guy, I have experienced "lust in my heart" from time to time. Is that the same as cheating?"
I dunno. Tell your wife about those lustful desires and if you end up sleeping on the couch tonight you'll know!
I still have 10.5.X so I wouldn't know. And, besides, wow, finally in just the recent months does not make up for years!
"Apple invests a lot of time and money in removing control elements to what an individual needs to make the device a fluid part of their lifestyle."
Then why do they make you go in and change your monitor profile to gamma 2.2, white point D65 so your video and photos on the web look like they are suppose to? And how many users don't even know they are in the wrong color space? Where is gamma 1.8 used today anyway that the average user will encounter?
It is simple math. For a given time zone offset (zone description,ZD, in navigation terms), your local mean time:
LMT = UTC ± ZD
"But does she dye there too?"
No. And no need to. She has a Brazilian wax. I've seen the shots.
"...but once you're dead who cares. Right? :)"
Are you kidding? That's when his work becomes its most valuable. He'll be rich!
I've seen a goat eating a blackberry bush before. It ate everything - the stem, leaves and thorns. It must be that leather tongue. It cleaned out the whole blackberry patch.
"Just do not try to play Quake over it."
You can if you upgrade to the high-speed Red Tail Hawk network. Much, much faster. It eats Pigeon networks for lunch! .
"The OS course at the University of Washington I took used the Windows Research Kernel."
The UW? If they didn't, I doubt they would ever see another "donation" from Microsoft.
"That won't happen until we have Windows RE."
Great, now even your robot will catch a virus.
"I still buy DVDs, even when the Blu-ray disc is available..."
Same here. But I haven't seen anyone mention another reason. My sound system is Dolby 5.1. Many BD disks I have managed to rent didn't have digital 5.1 in English but rather DTS. They offer 5.1 in other languages. So I may get a better picture but only surround sound quality. That sucks. I'm not ready to buck up for new sound.
And another reason is the local rental store only has one, two or three at most new releases of BD on the shelf. If your not their the moment they put it up for rent, you don't get it. So I stopped even looking to rent BD disks. I just go for the DVD.
"Michael sold 750+ million albums."
Probably 75% of the sales go to teenage girls who love overdubbed, synthesized music and guys who look like girls.
Putting a Letus Ultimate 35mm adapter on your video camera gives you the same DOF capabilities.
"I still have pictures my father took back in the 50's not to mention I still have his old camera."
Good point. How many people are going to have their digital files 50 years from now let alone pass them on to their next generation? A few who maintain a rigorous backup system might but that doesn't mean the next generation will. Negatives are tangible; easy to pass on.
I still shoot a 20 year old medium and large format cameras as well as a 57 year old TLR I had to compete for. A $4k digital camera isn't going to be worth squat 20 years from now. Now one will want to shoot them even if you can still find a memory card for it. It will end up in the garbage dump. Not that digital doesn't have its place as a convenient small format color camera and for people making a living with them.
And film will live on in Black-n-White. To this day desaturated color or color converted to some ISO standard rarely looks like the real thing. Mostly because people don't understand BW much anymore and you don't get to use colored filters to alter tones like the real thing.
"The earth is egg or potato shaped..."
Too technical. Call it what it is. An Oblate Spheroid. Something Newton had predicted way back then.
Wake me up when it can harvest 1.21 gigawatts
it's easier to say "120 dB" then "a trillion"... " Then why not say 12 bel instead of that big 120 dB number?
"...1 second or so that it took to open the "Save file as" dialog..."
It takes 2 seconds for a menu to appear on my work XP laptop when I click the Start button. It takes forever to open a Word document. Virus scanning is now part of the Office experience and can't be disregarded. And this is on a more modern computer. What is your point.
Yeah, but it suffers from an ergonomic oversight. Unless you have delicate, sensitive fingers of a surgeon, you can't feel the home-row position. But other than that, it is decent.
You could add one more layer of security. With your access point running OpenBSD's pf, it could have rules that require you to authenticate via a SSH login to a restricted account before it would let you send anything out of the other end of the access point.
"They're [Microsoft] selling more than the other HD capable console."
Hence, the OP said, "...the world will eat up whatever second-rate crap they're fed and they'll keep on asking for more."
"lack of sophisticated tools (ala the automated HDR and Focus stacking in PS or 3D in PS Extended)"
Features that have ruined landscape shots. Most everyones digital landscapes all look like fantasy pictures and the are all the same. Same tools, same sensors and same colors. Boring.