[ale] Life on the Other Side

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 13:38:03 EDT 2016


And every fscking camera app I have ever seen is RIGHT HANDED.  When taking
a picture with the phone horizontal, I have to consciously remember to turn
the phone around so the software button is on the RH side, or my pictures
will be upside-down on your monitor. Argh!!

-- CHS


On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 13:14 -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> +1 for each point.
>
> At least no one has taken pictures of ghosts (https://xkcd.com/1235/)
> with a smart(?)phone.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> https://medium.com/@Pier/why-
> <https://medium.com/@Pier/why-i-hate-ios-as-a-developer-459c182e8a72#.726x28bb7>
> i-hate-ios-as-a-developer-
> <https://medium.com/@Pier/why-i-hate-ios-as-a-developer-459c182e8a72#.726x28bb7>
> 459c182e8a72#.726x28bb7
> <https://medium.com/@Pier/why-i-hate-ios-as-a-developer-459c182e8a72#.726x28bb7>
>
>
>
> -- CHS
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/ <http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale>li
> stinfo/ale <http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale>
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/ <http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo>li
> stinfo <http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing listAle at ale.orghttp://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists athttp://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
> --
>
> James P. Kinney III Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a
> jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a
> dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark
> Twain http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20161010/35a69270/attachment.html>


More information about the Ale mailing list