November 18, 2005
Sony needs to get a grip.
Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit.
Removing Sony's CD 'rootkit' kills Windows.
Sony accused of leading price-fix cartel to stop cheap deals on web.
What did I say earlier about image being all in the entertainment industry? It counts for a lot in the Technology industry too. The fricking idiots. It's like Sony has a death wish or something.
Dear Sony,
Here's the deal, this is how it works: Make a product - find customers to sell product to. Keep the customers happy - so you get a good reputation and customer comes back for more products, they tell their friends who in turn, buy more of your products, those friends go on to tell their friends and so on. You get rich. BUT: make rubbish no one wants to buy - or piss customers off - they stop buying -and you will go broke.
See where this is heading?
Not hard to understand is it?
Posted by groc at 01:03 PM | Comments (1)
November 13, 2005
Sony backs down with DRM
Mmmmm. Sony-BMG were told this would happen - that hackers/virus and trojan writers could exploit computers infected with their XCP 'protection' (I'd call it malware). Now they've damaged their image (and isn't image everything in the entertainment industry?) lost sales, all to stop a few stray copies of really rubbish music getting onto the peer to peer networks. As if people couldn't tape it off the radio anyway. Sony must really like shooting themselves in the foot. Just think what a great company it could be otherwise. After all it's been their stupidity that has been the real key to Apple's massive success with the iPod.
In other news: Justice Dept. proposes tougher copyright laws.
As if America's jails weren't bursting at the seams already they're liking the idea of sending anyone who even tries (and fails) to copy a cd or dvd to jail? How seriously retarded is that?
But then once you look at the record of the man (Alberto Gonzales) behind such a deeply stupid and troubling proposal. Links: one. two. three. four.
Well... what can I say?
Posted by groc at 11:04 AM | Comments (0)
September 22, 2005
watch Dr Who on your mobile
Um. Sort of. But only if you have a particular make of mobile phone and you're very rich and -well, to be frank, stupid enough to pay so much for it. Will there be a way for you to put your own content onto blank cards to play on it? Because until there is, I can't see this taking off.
(Then again, as it's all bound to fail, then not so long down the line these things will probably end up in a bargain bin for next to nothing. Mmmmm.)
Another thing I don't understand is people paying so much money for stupid ringtones and naff wallpapers... What the hell is wrong with (some) people? They're like sheep begging to be fleeced...
Posted by groc at 11:40 AM | Comments (0)
September 14, 2005
I predict...
(after reading this article) that in a few years time hundreds if not thousands of people will start having class action suites against Apple for their iPod - (and all the other companies that make portable music players too) for making them deaf in later life. You do know that the ear bud style of headphone is the worst design for causing this sort of problem don't you?
Posted by groc at 08:38 PM | Comments (0)
May 04, 2005
maaaacz
I particularly like number 10, sorry if I offend, but the hardened MacZealot is a deeply uncool creature (all fanaticism is uncool) and nothing steers me faster away from any mac than a ranting raving MacUser. That and all that horrible white plastic.
Go back a page on the article and read the 10 reasons why the mac will survive - if you happen to like that sort of thing.
Which reminds me - I'd better turn off the comments on this entry.
PS. what is all this fuss about widgets about? They look a bit gadgety-for-gadgetry's sake to me. A silly desktop toy that's pretending to be indespensible.
Posted by groc at 04:41 PM | Comments (0)
March 31, 2005
top ten
Following the maxim: the more things change - the more they stay the same. All because they're too fricking lame-ass lazy to just fix it once and for all.
My "favourites" are:
the Power failure crash,
(having to remember to save things - is dumb. It's counter-intuitive. Yes, you and me are used to it now - but you look at someone who's never used a computer before - or if you can remember the first time you laid hands on a computer... when you do something anything - you expect it to be there -somewhere. You don't expect it to totally vanish completely when you shut the program down. The only advance we've had is the dialog box asking you if you want to quit without saving. A sudden power failure doesn’t save you from losing hours of work. Palm applications don’t ask you to save things - aren’t computers supposed to be better than PDAs?)
'Dumb sorts',
(the hours I've spent having to rename things like adding zeroes at the start f numbers or redating things (mostly yy-mm-dd) just to be able to get a proper ordered list)
URL naming bug
(%20 - which I call "with 32 and soon 64 processors -why the fuck can't we have spaces in file names? I'd add - why did they have to have the 'dot-suffix filename' - why not something a bit less common like any one of those other lesser-used puncuation marks rather than the extremely common full stop/period.")
Posted by groc at 06:27 PM | Comments (0)
March 22, 2005
dumb kids
Computers in the classroom make kids dumber...
Computers and the world of high tech certainly seems to make politicians dumber - especially when it comes to the ID card...
LSE report: ID scheme will be a costly, dangerous failure.
I went to a No2ID meeting yeterday afternoon. More of which later.
Posted by groc at 12:22 PM | Comments (0)
February 19, 2005
yuck
I saw one of those new Mac things in the 'flesh' (as it were) yesterday - one of the white plastic things - where everything is behind the screen and it stands on a aluminium stand. Costs nearly two thousand pounds.
I thought it looked tacky.
Posted by groc at 03:37 PM | Comments (5)
January 06, 2005
sky+ bugs+ and rippoff+
Looks like it's way too soon to start thinking of throwing out your good old tried and trusted video recorders just yet.
Posted by groc at 02:21 PM | Comments (1)
December 22, 2004
update
Right - I've closed all comments off older than 7 days (this particular spammmer was targeting archive entries)* and I've now turned comments back on... but as soon as the first bit of spam comes in they're going off again until I find a more elegant solution...
*mt-close2 did work eventually , only it took about ...what? something like 10 or more repeated goes to complete the job.
Sigh - I really do have better things to be doing with my time other than this...
Why haven't blogsters and blogster-software writers got together to start hunt and kill parties on these spamming people?
We also need to kill that tiny percentage of deeply stupid people who actually do buy P 3 N 1 S 3 n L ArG.ing Pot10ns and R-0-L-e-X-s and use those on-line gambling casinos - the very people who make it profitable for the spamming Scum to do what they do. We need to kill them and totally remove them from the gene pool altogether. I bet in Merika they're exactly the sort of people gullible enough to have voted for Bush in the last election too. They've got to go.
Posted by groc at 08:16 PM | Comments (0)
what a nice man
Posted by groc at 07:12 PM | Comments (0)
December 16, 2004
CSS sucks.
As once again with with this current reinstall of MT I’ve been thrown into the grim and mucky world of CSS-based page layout, I feel compelled to moan about one of the biggest annoyances I have with this whole CSS thing:
The <div> tag, or more specifically </div>.
In html every mark up tag like for example for bold, <b> has it’s own end tag </b>.
See why that is? It’s so -when in a line or block of text you know when whatever it applies to starts, and when you want it to stop. Brilliant isn‘t it. Simple - effective, easy to understand.
But then ‘they’ invented this whole new div tag - mainly to save the web world from drowning in a sea of font tags and table-based layouts (because table-based layouts in particular are deemed as super eeeevil for some reason)*. But div tags apply to everything to formatting text to making (uh-uh) containers and place holders for things. In a style sheet you define and name a class or identify a div tag. Clever. Oh except all those new div tags -no matter what class or id or whatever - are all ended in the same, one single way </div>.
Er… so how you are you supposed to know what end div tag is applying to what? Answer: you don’t - it usually all comes down to trial and error. (or else using another computer program that will help point it out to you. How very intuitive *that* is.)
This genuine example comes from my MT main index template:
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="clear: both;"> </div>
</div>
Think you’re ending a div class that just applies to a bold headline? Ooops where’s that whole layout column suddenly gone?
Would it have killed ‘them’ to have developed it so that when you create/name a new div tag it automatically had it’s own built in end tag? Something like <div=“white container”> to be followed </div=“white container”> to turn it off.
Nah. That would’ve been too simple and made far too many people‘s lives easier. They just couldn't think that far ahead.
Grrrrrr.
OK - sorry. Rant over. Now I’ve got to go back to puzzling why exactly my right side bar is cutting short, and snipping off content. I’ve never had much joy with the default templates and layouts MT comes with. So much so at the moment I’m beginning to think they (the people behind MT) should be paying their users to use MT in compensation for the grief they cause.
*I'm also not sure how it can really help when the CSS style sheets themselves get massively bloated - like all the default MT ones are. (I printed mine out once - it came to about 10 pages of A4!) Does the browser have to load up the entire style sheet before it can render a page or is it intelligent enough only take out the little bits and bobs it needs as it goes along?
PS. if anyone dares to send me a link to CSS Zen garden or anything else where there’s lots of pretty-pretty CSS layouts (for usually static pages with no dynamic content) - I promise I shall track you down and torture you - before slowly killing you. Have you got that?
Comments on this issue have now been closed - due to me being tired of being patronised by CSS evangalists.
Posted by groc at 10:24 AM | Comments (13)
spammmmmmmm
my new minor irritation is the constant trickle of spam I'm now getting for 'cheating housewives' - whatever they might be. According to one (actually four - (and probably more that that I haven't opened) different 'senders', subject lines, etc. But the exact same message) of the most recent:
"4 Cheating-Wives have been matched for you in your area:
1) Jessica, 120 lbs, 5'9, 36c, 10 miles away, available Dec 17-19th
2) Laura, 127 lbs, 5'8, 36d, 8 miles away, available Dec 16-18th
3) Tabatha, 117 lbs, 5'6, 34b, 19 miles away, available most nights (husband works midnights)
4) Sandra, 134 lbs, 5'9, 36c, 21 miles away, available most week nights (looking for side-fling)."
Of course, as you’d might guess, in actuality they’re all in California, America. Quite a few extra miles away. Which begs the question why do they even bother to send spam to dot UK addresses? I mean I can’t expect them to know that I bat for the other side - but knowing what country someone is in should count for a lot.
My second bugbear is; why is it I only get the sort of spammer who relentlessly sends the same products/services - e.g. mortgages (again American only being sent to a UK address) and now cheating Housewives spams over and over and over again? (I'm guessing everyone is getting the same v-i-a-g-r-a and fake R-o-l-e-x spams at the moment) Can’t I get a little variety here? How am I supposed to get inspired for another round of Spam Monsters if the spam I’m getting isn’t up to the job?
They have no consideration these people.
(I remember recently reading about a spammer being busted in America and that masses of their equipment (T-lines, servers etc.) hidden away in their normal suburban home was consificated. I couldn't help thinking 'what is wrong with those people' - with that amount of equipment they could have easily set up a legitimate business -even as a ISP or web host, and they would have been raking it in, and at the end of the day they wouldn't have ever ended up in prison. Criminals are just so dumb.)
Posted by groc at 02:28 AM | Comments (0)
November 27, 2004
HM Gov & IT
Not very good with the whole thing are they?
Posted by groc at 05:38 AM | Comments (0)
November 05, 2004
moby torturing
mwha-ha-ha...
and ooooh... want one but ohhhh ...rippoff prices.
Posted by groc at 06:30 PM | Comments (0)
October 25, 2004
Honest
I was only teasing about the mitten wearers - but now I'm not so sure.
Posted by groc at 02:22 PM | Comments (0)
October 24, 2004
digital stuff
via Pete Ashton >>intriguing Wired article: The Long Tail.
I've long had a set of ideas floating around my head that I've long been meaning to pull together and put into a more coherent essay, but have been too lazy to do. Ideas about how digital files and the internet change everything about traditional economics... and how it much it disgusts me how many dinosaur industries spend so much time, money, reseearch, expertise, to do all they can to cripple them in order to make them as much like ...let's say oranges*, all they can. Simply because oranges is all they know how to sell. It creates such total absurdities such as - software on CDs that comes in ridiculously huge empty boxes. Product activation. Regions on DVDs. Macrovision-crippled DVDs. DRM crippled CDs. Suing file sharers and downloaders. Shutting down the original Napster, trying to shut down the other P2P networks. Suing individual Universities and even Military bases for having computer networks that people can share files over. P2P shows people at their best, sharing freely and generously with anyone and everyone, while it shows capitalism and the laws support it at it's worse. I like to think that the deep seated problem is that the whole capitalist system is slowly starting to unravel at the seams. (It's most certainly - most alarmingly corrupt.) That a whole paradigm shift is occuring in the undercurrents. Unfortunately it's almost certain to get a lot worse before we ever see it getting better. Those dinosaurs aren't going to go down quietly with good grace any time soon.
*I originally had this down as apples - but I thought that might confuse the mitten wears. (It's about now they write in the comments box how 'apple rools', 'buy a mac.' 'I love my mac' etc.)
Posted by groc at 03:08 PM | Comments (0)
October 23, 2004
5 days later
and my phone line is still f*cked.
Never a fan of BT at the best of times but this is beyond a joke.
(long rant to come later.)
Posted by groc at 11:38 PM | Comments (0)
October 21, 2004
US passport holders can Privacy
Mmmmm. Okay - we're all being told all over the place that 'Identity Theft' is one of the biggest things we have to guard against in this day and age. So the Americans go on to have this bright idea to put a RFID chip in all their passports that will tell any reader device that asks for it - the name, address and even a photograph of it's owner. All this can take place all without the owner ever knowing about it.
American Passports to Get Chipped.
Anyone get the impression that the Boss Monkeys who think up these schemes are altogether a teensy-bit too in love with new technology at the expense of having any common sense?
Posted by groc at 08:42 PM | Comments (0)
October 18, 2004
obscure formats
Robbie's next album is to come out on a MMC card.
I love obscure formats, once upon a time there was even an album that came out on micro-cassette, and anyone remember the Philips DCC digital compact cassette? That lasted all of about a week. I've even seen proper Minidisc albums on sale in our local branch of MVC (they must have kept them well hidden -because before that sale I'd never seen them before.)
Posted by groc at 05:36 PM | Comments (3)
October 14, 2004
google desktop
google your desktop. But, but, I don't have Word, Excel (shudder) or powerpoint (spit), nor do I use Outlook or outlook express... nor do I chat much. Oh well, I'm sure everyone else will find it useful.
Posted by groc at 09:01 PM | Comments (0)
October 11, 2004
In one corner---
we have Micosoft getting all cosy with the entertainment industry in order to foist DRM into everything. In the other: "One Canadian's Wireless Neighbourhood Network Could Someday Serve Us All".
Unfortunately in our country the very notion that you can get ahead by co-operating as well as by competing is one that has been knocked out of us since those heady greed is good, every man for themselves Thatcherite-driven 80s. So I dont hold much hope for the latter happening here any time soon.
Meanwhile elsewhere David Byrne and a few like-minded friends put forward a whole new way of looking at music copyright issues. Y'see the main thing the music industry simply doesn't understand is that it's more about the artists and the music -not the money.
Posted by groc at 10:57 AM | Comments (0)
September 26, 2004
Fight for
I like Bill Thomson's articles I does.
Posted by groc at 02:46 PM | Comments (1)
September 25, 2004
Whooooo
Totally strange webnet links java browser thing (found via my referal logs) which makes me wonder what strange things have they might have got planned with the GoogleBrowser.
'Xciting.
Posted by groc at 07:56 AM | Comments (0)
September 15, 2004
file naming
The wild and wacky world of file sharing has brought it to my attention just how many different and conflicting and confusing and ultimately annoying ways there are naming a simple file
you could go for
the directory structure
/name of artist/album/track number - name of song
(I think that's my preferred choice, it's neat and simple -up to a point)
but if it's a file on it's own do you go for
artist_name - track number - title of track
or
track number - artist - track title
or
track title - artist -and ditch the track number.
do you use spaces (which some antiquated OSes baulk at) or -hyphens- or _underscores_ or CapitalsWithinTheTitle or do you use (brackets?) or even [square ones?]
I DO KNOW ONE THING -THAT ANYONE USING NOTHING BUT ALL CAPS NEEDS TO BE TAKEN OUT AND SHOT - THE MORONS
or th0se trYin8 hArd 2b "cl3v3r2" and "l33t" -they need a damn good shooting too.
Oh.and.i.really.hate.it.when.people.get.happy.with.the.full.stops.stop.it.with.the full.stops.
After all that Windows Media Player likes it's own way of going about things, as does WinAmp, as does iTunes -none of them compatable with one another. I do know that trusting any one of them to go through your system and organize everything for you is a sure route to disaster.
(On another point -I'm getting sick of having all these different programs on my 'puter that all pretty much do the same thing. Well, actually they all play the one single propriety file that the others don't -but then try desperately hard to do everything else. Real player (Ram and RM) should just stick to streaming files -but now it's an obscenely bloated CD, MPG playing cd-burning, web browsing monster, WMP (wma and wmv) as well, iTunes too (acc)... oh you get the idea). Bloat bloat bloat, compete compete, and my poor computer groans under the strain of it all. I won't mention that each has their own propriety DRM system -because I'm likely to get hysterical by then.
Sighs.
Posted by groc at 03:27 AM | Comments (1)
September 01, 2004
imac
From my friend Jamie:
"Remember that they've changed the name from iMac to Veet.
It doesn't count as widescreen if you just chop a bit off the bottom."
Posted by groc at 11:31 AM | Comments (0)
August 31, 2004
Oh.
There's currently a horrible smell of creamed jeans and damp panties wafting across the blogosphere. It's a laptop on a dodgy hinge people -please get over it ASAP.
Posted by groc at 06:45 PM | Comments (1)
August 30, 2004
so that's what happened to
that alternative OS -beOS it became YellowTAB.
Posted by groc at 01:19 AM | Comments (0)
August 26, 2004
bruup bruup
Mobiles have become the 21st century equivalent of the Swiss Army knife. Apparently.
Posted by groc at 07:05 PM | Comments (1)
July 27, 2004
freebies
cutting edge microsoft downloads. Any good to anybody?
Posted by groc at 07:43 PM | Comments (4)
July 07, 2004
format wars
After reading this article I think I'll be sticking to my mpg-playing CD player (that only cost 40) for a while longer yet. They can all stick their various DRM systems where the sun don't shine. So ner.
Posted by groc at 10:41 AM | Comments (1)
July 04, 2004
I want...
You know those post-it note programs that let you leave virtual sticky notes on your desktop and unfortunately ONLY on your desktop? Well I want someone to write something similar that shows inside directories/folders actually it should to be an intregral part of the OS -not something that's a separate program. Im always wanting to be able to leave quick little general notes for myself on stuff -like what the files are and what theyre for, and reminders on what I need/want to do with them etc. and I want to be able to have those notes readily and instantly accessible. Yeah, I know you could have a manky old text file but thats not what I want -cause thats just crap that is. I dont want to have to launch notepad or wordpad when I want to quickly read something.
Also, while I'm in the vague vincinity of the subject ... with my Handspring Visor/palm pilot thing it's always bugged me that you can't list addresses by first name first. Well. not without cheating like I've had to -by putting both names on the one line. Which is crap. I wonder if they've changed that in later models? (I'm starting to have gadget lust for a new one with a colour screen...)
Posted by groc at 02:29 PM | Comments (0)
July 02, 2004
Busting the
Posted by groc at 02:19 PM | Comments (4)
June 29, 2004
mousie!
Now if only these came as standard. And I was very, very rich -enough so to be able to buy one of those over-priced mac things to go with it.
Posted by groc at 07:19 AM | Comments (3)
June 18, 2004
Digital Rights Management systems are bad
Cory Doctorow speaks wise:
1. DRM systems don't work
2. DRM systems are bad for society
3. DRM systems are bad for business
4. DRM systems are bad for artists
5. DRM is a bad business-move for MSFT
But will anyone listen?
Posted by groc at 05:56 PM | Comments (0)
May 21, 2004
ID cards are so old hat
This is the next stage - Spanish night clubbers show the way forward.
We're all living in a science fiction novel now aren't we?
Posted by groc at 11:27 AM | Comments (4)
May 07, 2004
NHS to trial linux
Oh look, a glimmer of sense in a wicked bad world... because I for one can't help thinking that our NHS/taxpayers money should *not* be going towards making that obscenely rich American Mr Gates even richer.
[via meriwilliams]
It's oldish news, so I'm wondering how they've been getting along with that. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft salesmen haven't rushed over there and started offering deep price cuts and other freebies to try and keep the NHS hooked... because that's how Microsoft operate.
Posted by groc at 07:37 AM | Comments (3)
March 15, 2004
I'll be back....
After finally getting up enough bravery to fit the DVD writer I'd been bought as a Xmas pressie but only to find the shock of it killed off my already-ailing motherboard completely. Grrrrrr and argggh and grrrr and argh again. But not to worry, after much begging and pleading a nice shiny new computer is on it's way - I hope. Complete with a 17 inch monitor (although I really need something like a 21 inch one). Yay. I've also now got enough bits and from old computers to reconstruct a new old one Frankenstein-style to act as a back up should this ever happen to me again. I've never had much luck with that old Tiny computer have I? Good riddance.
Life sure isn't the same without a 'puter and internet access that's for sure...
Posted by groc at 10:41 AM | Comments (9)
February 29, 2004
wizard OS
barbieOS and Windows No
Oh, remember when I was joking about wondering what we'd all have to start calling those holes in walls with glass things once Microsoft had claimed the exclusive use of the word 'Windows' to itself, and not only that word but also any variation of it even by a single letter? It turned out that the US Legislature had already displayed the same level of common sense ages ago. It's just a pity that Dutch Judge didn't think the same way. What is the Dutch word for Windows? If I was Lindows I be cheeky and start calling the Netherlands branch of the company by that name.
But the US court case goes on...
Those poor lawyers have got to eat, gotta keep them in work...
Posted by groc at 05:31 PM | Comments (1)
February 24, 2004
powertoys
(I'm just storing the link here incase I lose it again.)
Posted by groc at 04:18 PM | Comments (0)
February 22, 2004
SMS text porn?
How completely & utterly sad is that?
Sadder still it turns out they're likely just sexing up a computer! Suckers!
Posted by groc at 06:43 PM | Comments (3)
February 16, 2004
cultishness
Coo. I passed this building nearly every day. But not being an Mac devotee (they're all too fricking over priced if you ask me...) I just went 'oooh look -they're building a big Mac store'. I didn't even bother to take a photo. This would possibly been as a hangable offence amongst some Mac devotees. No honestly, the OTT fanaticism of some hardcore Mac devotees is really starting to scare me...
Talking of Mac fanatics -Archontic ('couldn't-be-asked-to-do-a-blog-no-more') David passed this link on to me.
Carrying on with the iPod theme I read this interesting little interview with Jim Griffin who points out it would cost at least $20,000 to fill an iPod from the iTunes Music Store. Which is all the more pertinent when you consider there's a certain record company hell bent on not letting anyone even legitimately rip their own mpgs from the CDs they buy (or even to be able to play them in their ordinary car CD players!) Just how short-sighted and brain dead is that exactly? Sigh. Now there's a record company that deserves to die.
Posted by groc at 08:41 PM | Comments (3)
January 26, 2004
want
It's exactly what you need if you're on holiday and want to take lots of digital photos.
Posted by groc at 08:20 PM | Comments (7)
favicon
Ok so why is my nice new favicon happily showing up in Firebird but not doing so in Internet Explorer? Huh?
I think it might be broken that's why.
Posted by groc at 07:38 AM | Comments (13)
January 23, 2004
iPod battery life & UK MPs
Um. 79 for a battery replacement scheme? Er... now how is it all those mobile phone makers can make nice teeny tiny rechargable batteries for their nice teeny tiny phones which can be easily replaced by their owners and make replacement batteries that don't cost an arm and a leg but those almighty Mac people -can't?
Wonder if it's linked to the same reason why mac mice only have the one button? It's as if they're afraid that if a mac user had to be told how to 'right' or 'left' click -they'll fall over and if they ever had to use a scrolling wheel mouse ...why, their brains would really hurt -lots.
So having to puzzle out how to open up a flap and find that space where the battery slots in could have quite dire consequences to the ordinary Mac user, why their brains would just fuse up altogether. Far better send it off to let a specially trained expert do it. For a price.
After I'd just written the above I then found out exactly why in this article. It's quite simple: we're all being gouged on the price of rechargable batteries. Grrrr.
Posted by groc at 07:49 PM | Comments (6)
January 16, 2004
dontcha just love that DRM
Posted by groc at 09:29 PM | Comments (0)
Let's have a whip round
I say let's track them down and chop their typing fingers off. Let's have a whip round to set a few hitmen onto them. It'd probably only cost each of us about 10p each to raise enough bounty to do that.
Or is the mystery explained?
On a lighter note it was certainly nice seeing this repeated tonight.
Posted by groc at 03:42 AM | Comments (0)
January 15, 2004
jumping the gun
Simply because Kodak is to turn it's back on making any more 35 mm film cameras* it doesn't sound the death knell for film photography quite yet. Otherwise they'd stop making their film stock as well wouldn't they?
*It isn't as if Kodak was ever particularly known for making high quality 35mm cameras is it? As to why APS never took off? well, a quick look to compare it's prices for developing and printing that particular format over ordinary 35mm prices will provide some quick (and bleedin' obvious) answers there. Kodak also misfired somewhat with their photo disc system too didn't they? As to whether they'll manage to continue to make their mark in the digital photography world in face of such stiff competition remains to be seen...
Call me when the super-cheap 15 or 25 mega-pixel SLR camera is here and I might start taking the death of 35mm film a bit more seriously.
Posted by groc at 11:02 PM | Comments (0)
artspam
Reimagining the Ordovician Gothic: Fossils From the Golden Age of Spam.
When life gives you lemons -make lemonade.
When your inbox gives you spam -make art of it?
Mmmm no, I still think knee-capping the bastards would be much more gratifying.
Don't forget my spam monsters - please spread the word....
Posted by groc at 08:49 PM | Comments (0)
January 07, 2004
Sigh.
just past 12pm and I've already got 7 different spams from those evil and utterly moronic Paris Hilton/free teenz moviez/incest porn website people. I must have had nearly 500 spams from them by now. Yet for all their efforts I still feel no interest whatsoever in ever visiting their site. Odd that isn't it?
If Microsoft ever wanted the world to forgive them their sins and win hearts all round, all they'd have to do is use some of their billions to put hitmen onto the worst of the spammers. (That idea could backfire though since once they got the taste for it they might extend the idea to put hitmen onto all their rivals like Steve Jobs and the linux people too...)
(buqgqwrh2m@aol.com f04dmkl@aol.com umcyyi@aol.com)
Posted by groc at 12:16 PM | Comments (0)