[ale] Life on the Other Side

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 13:14 -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:
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> oh heck, while we are having a pillow fight....
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> > I'm doing a talk later this week about evolution of basic consumer
cameras from 1920 to date. 
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> > Who was the genius at Apple and Google that collectively decided that
smartphones will NOT HAVE: 
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> > >     - 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. 
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>     - a shutter button you can find.
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> >     - a eyelet for a wrist-strap to avoid dropping the darn thing
over a cliff while groping for the non-existent shutter button.
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> > >     - 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. 

+1 for each point.

At least no one has taken pictures of ghosts (https://xkcd.com/1235/)
with a smart(?)phone.

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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:

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    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.

    


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    On Oct 10, 2016 9:48 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

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        Wow.  It's tough out there.
    


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        https://medium.com/@Pier/why-i-hate-ios-as-a-developer-459c182e8a72#.726x28bb7

        

    


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        -- CHS
    


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