Comment Re:1tb hard drive (Score 2) 83
Flickr was never intended as a photo STORAGE service. It was intended as a photo SHARING service.
Comment Paying for a service (Score 1) 83
I have a hard time generating sympathy for people upset about losing access to a service they weren't actually paying for.
Comment Re:My favorite part (Score 1) 310
I'm on a Mac with Chrome, got the same "Desktop" and "Unknown".
Comment Contract fab? (Score 4, Insightful) 216
So, HP has a processor that they use a contract fab to build. It's just that in this case the fab belongs to Intel. Big whoop.
Submission + - No more film movie cameras. (creativecow.net)
phil reed writes: Creative Cow Magazine reports that Manufacturers of movie cameras have quietly discontinued production of film cameras. There are still some markets — not in the U.S. — where film cameras are still sold, but those numbers are far fewer than they used to be. If you talk to the people in camera rentals, the amount of film camera utilization in the overall schedule is probably between 30 to 40 percent. However, film usage is dropping fast, which has ramifications up and down the production line. Archivists are worried.
Comment Re:Tech predictions = futile (Score 1) 249
Linux runs on lots of hardware but isn't remotely dominating the operating system market.
Every Android phone is running Linux under that pretty user interface. In terms of units in the market, that means Linux is well on its way to swamping every other operating system out there.
Comment Re:Where's the signed model release? (Score 1) 344
Actually, I now get to retract my statement. It turns out there IS a "likeness" clause in the user agreement. I will now enter a period of re-evaluation.
Comment Re:Where's the signed model release? (Score 1) 344
The limited right granted to Facebook to use my Intellectual Property (i.e. copyrighted pictures I have taken) says nothing about the right to use my likeness. That's a completely separate issue. That's why photographers (I am one) get model releases. Facebook and Starbucks do not have a model release from me, therefore they do not have the right to use my likeness in any advertising.
Comment Where's the signed model release? (Score 1) 344
If Facebook or Starbucks cannot show me either a model release with my signature on it, or a place where I specifically authorized the use of my image in advertising, then if my picture appears in a Starbucks ad somebody will be looking at a pretty significant lawsuit.
Google Caffeine Drops MapReduce, Adds "Colossus" 65
An anonymous reader writes "With its new Caffeine search indexing system, Google has moved away from its MapReduce distributed number crunching platform in favor of a setup that mirrors database programming. The index is stored in Google's BigTable distributed database, and Caffeine allows for incremental changes to the database itself. The system also uses an update to the Google File System codenamed 'Colossus.'"
Comment Re:Anger. (Score 1) 764
I'm thinking of multitasking, a full featured browser, being able to use true software (FLOABT) rather than "apps", the ability to load other operating systems on it, etc.
What's the difference between "true software" and "apps"??
Would you need to load other operating systems on your TV? Why?
Comment Re:It's a big responsibility (Score 1) 764
How many smart phones and PDAs were around before the iPhone?
It's interesting. Just before the iPad came out, I spent a little time looking back at reviews of the iPhone as it was hitting the market for the first time. The vast majority of them were saying things like, "It will never be as good as a smartphone, since it doesn't run Outlook". Funny how today, instead of not being as good as a smartphone, it's actually redefined the smartphone market and everybody else is running to follow the iPhone trail.
Comment Re:I don't get it. (Score 1) 764
Ask Wordstar, Wordperfect, Lotus 1-2-3, dBaseIII, Netscape, and countless other companies what fat lot of good the early lead did for them?
Ask iPod. The Zune's going to crush it too, any day now.
Any day now.
Any day now...
Comment Re:Google is catching on fast (Score 5, Funny) 347
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582
An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"
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