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Commented on Steampunk for engineers in IEEE Spectrum
I have a very similar miniature steam engine, if not the exact same....
Commented on Intel: Nehalem is now Core i7
I thought it was a Hebrew name as well, it sounds like one for sure, but it's actually the name of a tribe of Native Americans and a river in Oregon....
Commented on Wal-Mart: you can't scan century-old photos of your ancestors because copyright lasts forever
I would have stayed and made a fuss. I know it's futile, but sometimes ignorance just cannot be left to spread....
Commented on Bell Canada: We have to screw up other ISPs' connections or our retail customers will suffer by comparison
Bell doesn't have control over CTVglobemedia anymore. They sold off huge chunks of it a few years back, and retain only 15%. Woodbridge owns the largest share now, 40%....
Commented on Why hardware ebook readers are a dead end (for now, anyway)
I'm not interested in an ebook reader until they have ones with two "pages", and folds closed like an actual book. Reading a book on only one "page" just doesn't seem right for me. Plus, it sucks for comics, which...
Commented on World's most complete recorded music collection on eBay
It's about 1,000,000 times larger than the collection at your local radio station....
Commented on Some—But Not All—of the Horrible Motherboard Box Art We Found
All this goes through my mind each time I walk into the local PC component warehouse... I wish it were possible to ban 3D Studio or Maya in Taiwan....
Commented on Music video roundup from the 1960s
I really, really like those movies of Françoise Hardy... France had a certain, irreplaceable aesthetic back then....
Commented on O Canada! The Canadian DMCA version of the national anthem
Great. I'd managed to completely flush the unfunny horror that is UserFriendly out of my brain. Now I'm aware of it again. Thanks....
Commented on President Bush's travel entourage
That's a pretty big entourage... but how many of those people are COOL? He could just be hangin' with a gaggle of dorks....
Commented on Gutsy ad-campaign for Buckley's vile, foul, miraculous cold-remedy
Buckley's is, indeed, vile. I dreaded my mother giving it to me as a child. But it's a part of our culture. And it works. Last winter they had a stand setup at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto doing video...
Commented on Photo-bans at pop art shows -- irony impairment, or Dadaism?
Last week I got lectured for taking a cellphone photo out of the the window of a museum... Apparently, the space is copyrighted. At least that's what the guard implied....
Commented on Netherlands bans magic mushrooms
According to my dad, who is dutch, the only people who really used shrooms in Amsterdam were the foreigners. So, this rule doesn't really affect the Dutch, and there's not much opposition to it....
Commented on New GOP logo is funny
To me the elephant has a crazed look, like a circus elephant that's finally snapped and is ready to rampage. You all know what happens next in that situation....
Commented on Accounts of trying to gets bats out of house
I had to deal with a bat in our townhouse a few years ago. Here's documentation of removal attempt 2/3: http://www.lunarworks.ca/pics/bat-jar.jpg It's a LONG story, so I'll cut the many details: This was its second appearance. (We'd ejected it the...
Commented on Video compilation of television logo signoffs
Man, one of the more pleasant memories of the '80s, all that proto computer animation and synth for little things like that. The CBS Special Presentation one is a classic beyond classics. Here's one that should be familliar to those...

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Ritergal commented on Why hardware ebook readers are a dead end (for now, anyway)
My primary concern with the Kindle is that you don't actually own the rights to the title you paid for, you own the right to read it within your own account. You can't transfer it to another device, or pass it along to a friend. I'd like to see this technology evolve to the point you can download ebooks from the library the same way you can now download audiobooks. I want to be able to store my stash offline. I'm ready for this technology, but I want more control than Amazon/Kindle gives me today....
bethanie commented on Wal-Mart: you can't scan century-old photos of your ancestors because copyright lasts forever
So funny! I just got home from Walmart. I tried to down size a huge phot of my son from like 11 years ago, and the Walmart employee asked if I had a "copyright release." I looked at her like she was crazy and told her "no, this is my son." Like a dummy. Anyway, next thing I know the Walmart Manager walks up and says "Mam, you can't copy that, it's against the law." I looked at her as I continued to scan the photo, and she said "if you print that, we will rip it up. Oh my...
bethanie commented on Wal-Mart: you can't scan century-old photos of your ancestors because copyright lasts forever
Oh yeah, I found that you can "copyright" photos before 1978. ???...
billythekid commented on Wal-Mart: you can't scan century-old photos of your ancestors because copyright lasts forever
I needed to scan 500 photos for my grandparent's gold anniversary and I had the same problem with Walmart. Not only that, you can only scan one photo at a time. If you just have a few photos, I would definitely just buy a cheap scanner. I actually found a online service and they did a great job and shipped the photos back to me by my deadline. Here is the website: www.scanapix.com. There are also other sites that do this but I never tried any of them....
Antinous / Moderator commented on Wal-Mart: you can't scan century-old photos of your ancestors because copyright lasts forever
The trouble with that is that you've defined yourself not as a photographer, but as a copy shop. Charge for your services as a photographer, not for something that anybody can do at home. If you pursue a business model that hasn't changed since the advent of home printing, you're out of business. Customers are not going to accommodate an archaic billing practice....

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