Uh, the Second Law of Thermodynamics basically says that the more energy you put into a system, the faster it falls apart. That's why clay tablets from Babylon are still readable millenia after they were made while your VHS tape of your grandparent's anniversary 30 years ago is a total loss. And how are you going to read those CDs/DVDs/HDs in the computer systems of just a decade or so from now? Just the interface problems alone make it doomed. Can your computer read a 8 inch floppy drive now? How about a 5 1/4 inch? Heck, most modern motherboards can't even support an internal 3 1/2 inch drive, and that is what a lot of photos were stored on just a decade ago.
Thanks, but I'll keep my film. It's a lot more stable and archival.
Yes, but that's for 35mm format. You're talking roughly $3 per frame for the developing alone, no prints.
Where are you taking it to get developed? I go to CVS and they develop my C-41 color (no prints) for just $2.99! I haven't checked Wally-World to see how much they charge yet.
Heck, you can develop C-41 at home for far less than $3.00 a roll!
I spent $22 for 10 rolls of Shanghai GP3 120 black and white film just this week. That comes out to... hmmmm.... $2.20 a roll. And I can develop it at home using Caffenol-C for less than $0.25 a roll. Then scan it at 2400 DPI on my scanner and print on my inkjet with the CIS ink system I installed. Way less than $14k for something that has planned obsolescence built into it. And I can archive my negatives and not worry about stray cosmic rays or power glitches taking out my pictures....
My library system will get multiple copies of best sellers, then sell off the excess once the demand for it goes down. Double whammy, loaning the books, then second hand sales! They need an end-user agreement like software does. You don't own the book, the book company does!
Wow, you sound like a shill saying that. Get real, the Chinese Communist Central Committee doesn't care as long as they can get our money and get away with it. As soon as we find out, some poor middle management schmuck gets put up against the wall and shot. Remember, Lenin said "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." We sure are making the job easy for them....
Cherrypal.com manages it with their Cherrypal Africa at just $99.00. OLPC just keeps adding and adding onto the design and that keeps raising the price.
Maybe they should just buy the laptops from Cherrypal and install their OS onto it.
Because if you default on the mortgage, they can take your house. Education repossession technology is still in beta. Even when it works it and rarely returns anything of value.
Heaven knows, my degree is worthless. I've been out of college for 12 years and never found a job even remotely related to my major. And now that I'm on disability, they still are hounding me for money I don't have!
And there are investors in Europe that are trying to get an old Polaroid factory back up and running producing instant film. Fuji is STILL producing instant film. 35mm film production is still going on. Kodachrome is dying because it is expensive and environmentally hazardous to develop while it's replacement Ektachrome is still in production. The death of film is highly exaggerated.
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A text-only medium -- like usenet?
Are there even any ISPs that offer Usenet anymore?
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Just because they can publish something doesn't mean they SHOULD.
But what you think is good is often different from what is good.
More like Chaotic Neutral. They don't care if what they do is good or bad, just that they do it.
Of course the President's not worried, his job CAN'T be outsourced (yet....).
Not to drift off topic, but B-movies never died, they just became "Direct-To-Video" in the '80s....
You are all infringing on my "Using marks, characters, and pictures to transfer information between two parties" patent. My lawyers will be in touch!
maybe i missed something but 2.99 doesn't sound much less than 3$.
He quoted "per frame", which is one photo. I was quoting per roll.
Uh, the Second Law of Thermodynamics basically says that the more energy you put into a system, the faster it falls apart. That's why clay tablets from Babylon are still readable millenia after they were made while your VHS tape of your grandparent's anniversary 30 years ago is a total loss. And how are you going to read those CDs/DVDs/HDs in the computer systems of just a decade or so from now? Just the interface problems alone make it doomed. Can your computer read a 8 inch floppy drive now? How about a 5 1/4 inch? Heck, most modern motherboards can't even support an internal 3 1/2 inch drive, and that is what a lot of photos were stored on just a decade ago. Thanks, but I'll keep my film. It's a lot more stable and archival.
Yes, but that's for 35mm format. You're talking roughly $3 per frame for the developing alone, no prints.
Where are you taking it to get developed? I go to CVS and they develop my C-41 color (no prints) for just $2.99! I haven't checked Wally-World to see how much they charge yet. Heck, you can develop C-41 at home for far less than $3.00 a roll!
I spent $22 for 10 rolls of Shanghai GP3 120 black and white film just this week. That comes out to... hmmmm.... $2.20 a roll. And I can develop it at home using Caffenol-C for less than $0.25 a roll. Then scan it at 2400 DPI on my scanner and print on my inkjet with the CIS ink system I installed. Way less than $14k for something that has planned obsolescence built into it. And I can archive my negatives and not worry about stray cosmic rays or power glitches taking out my pictures....
I sure hope he's not talking about sending physical letters. I've tried it once and the lag was incredibly high.
Yeah, but the chance of a hacker intercepting the message is practically nil!
My library system will get multiple copies of best sellers, then sell off the excess once the demand for it goes down. Double whammy, loaning the books, then second hand sales! They need an end-user agreement like software does. You don't own the book, the book company does!
Rumor has it that GENOM is working on a combat Boomer....
Wow, you sound like a shill saying that. Get real, the Chinese Communist Central Committee doesn't care as long as they can get our money and get away with it. As soon as we find out, some poor middle management schmuck gets put up against the wall and shot. Remember, Lenin said "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." We sure are making the job easy for them....
Cherrypal.com manages it with their Cherrypal Africa at just $99.00. OLPC just keeps adding and adding onto the design and that keeps raising the price. Maybe they should just buy the laptops from Cherrypal and install their OS onto it.
Obviously then my Meteorology degree is worthless....
Because if you default on the mortgage, they can take your house. Education repossession technology is still in beta. Even when it works it and rarely returns anything of value.
Heaven knows, my degree is worthless. I've been out of college for 12 years and never found a job even remotely related to my major. And now that I'm on disability, they still are hounding me for money I don't have!
They can copyright all they want. I'll just eat open source food like Tex-Mex.... Michael
Next, ASCAP will want you to pay for that song you have stuck in your head....
I love standards. There are so many to pick from!
Isn't the one on the right a little short to be a Stormtrooper?
Their new layout has a 100% feedback and hundreds of people have it as "A++++++++++++++!!!"
Damn, and I thought I was a cynical prick about business.
And there are investors in Europe that are trying to get an old Polaroid factory back up and running producing instant film. Fuji is STILL producing instant film. 35mm film production is still going on. Kodachrome is dying because it is expensive and environmentally hazardous to develop while it's replacement Ektachrome is still in production. The death of film is highly exaggerated.