[ale] Life on the Other Side

Neal Rhodes neal at mnopltd.com
Mon Oct 10 13:14:43 EDT 2016


oh heck, while we are having a pillow fight....

I'm doing a talk later this week about evolution of basic consumer
cameras from 1920 to date. 

Who was the genius at Apple and Google that collectively decided that
smartphones will NOT HAVE: 

        - a tripod bushing to fit a standard tripod and every other
        similar device made since.... dirt.  like every other camera I
        have ever owned or collected. 
        - a shutter button you can find.
        - a eyelet for a wrist-strap to avoid dropping the darn thing
        over a cliff while groping for the non-existent shutter button.
        - some kind of little ridge for your fingers to help grip the
        darn thing, like every other camera I have used in the last 20
        years. 
        

one has to wonder if these morons even spent 30 minutes at a camera
store before deciding how to make a smartphone. 

regards as always. 

Neal 

On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 11:07 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:

> I'm wondering if there's a GPL v. 3.1 with a clause like "this can't
> be run on a system that relies on closed source, proprietary software
> for it's basic operation".
> 
> I guess the sledgehammer wielding savior of the servants of the
> computer overlords has, as Orwell made plain, become "more equal" and
> now rules the animal farm.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 10, 2016 9:48 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>         Wow.  It's tough out there.
>         
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>         
>         https://medium.com/@Pier/why-i-hate-ios-as-a-developer-459c182e8a72#.726x28bb7
>         
>         
>         
>         -- CHS
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