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average file size of a RAW photo on my 5D MKII, 27MB
Thomas Bøhm, Donncha O Caoimh, Tyson Key and 3 other people liked this
It's a conspiracy perpetrated by the hard disk manufacturers ;-)
- LogEx
and worth every byte
- Mauricio
Yup. I am shooting a lot of HDRs, so make that 81MB per shot.
- Mark Interrante
Seagate loves this! I was there yesterday. They wish they could get everyone in the world a 5D MKII. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Ouch, almost twice the size of my 40D RAW images.
- Donncha O Caoimh
Robert, yeah Seagate should love it, I just bought two of their 1.5 TB FreeAgent drives to help manage all of my storage.
- Scott Beale
Ouch. That must come out as a nice-sized TIFF, too.
- Luke Robinson
Do You Remember What We Did On Our Computers When We Had No Internet? - http://profy.com/2008...
Donncha O Caoimh, okyrhoe, Susan Beebe and 16 other people liked this
played and wrote video games on the Commodore 128 and 64
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
oh dan, I have not thought of the people who wrote them, only remembered those who played
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
Lotus 1-2-3
- Hutch Carpenter
Hutch, you really have a great memory
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
BBSes! Compu$erve! Word processors, programming in BASIC, and Coleco games! Lotus 1-2-3, CP/M, and amber screens!
- Nine
Swap meets and floppy disks :)
- Thomas Bøhm
Gregory, great name, deserves a dedicated post.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
@Nine: Thanks for reminding. Where are they now?
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
@Thomas: I often miss floppy disks, they were so cute and delicate and it was so easy to destroy them one had to be gentle :)
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
I know someone who still has his old BBS code stored away on his computer. As for the Coleco games... I think I still have them in a box in the basement.
- Nine
I could play Donkey in BASIC for hours when I was a kid. I eventually graduated to Windows 3.1 and could play Solitaire for hours. For the most part I saw computers more related to work than play. Now it's more a symbol of life... disconnect my internet/computer or the coffee maker and I'll die!
- ilene
@ilene: That's the history of computing in games, really - strange you realized they were for work eventually :) Very passionate remark about disconnecting, are not you worried about this dependency?
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
oregon trail and odell lake ;)
- Adam Singer
ASCII Pitfall!
- Admiral Anika
Jason: Absolutely true, so many things stay unattended because we are all "busy" online. Like, I still have not sorted out my wedding photos for that perfect album - 2 years after the wedding itself. Shame on me :(
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
BBSs.... loved, loved, loved my BBSs. And I was only 11.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
dbase, Lotus 1-2-3, Wordperfect, Clipper, and some assembly for fun
- Nikos Anagnostou
I once lost myvroadband completely for six months. Only switched the pc on for work and the occasional game.
- Roberto Bonini
It's funny but my computer is pretty useless these days without a net connection. I used to have program for everything, but now we turn to the net.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
oooh! Infocom games! Zork, Hitchhiker's Guide, and such! ... man I miss those.
- Nine
Play wiffle ball, nerf football, or play with Transformers.
- Rodfather
Apple Logo with the "turtle".
- Derrick
I loved Logo
- Rodfather
Life was much different without computers. I remember the simple things.. like going outside.
- Rodfather
BBSs, Desqview, Windows 3.xx, SimCity, C programming, 123, WP, Word
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Browse through CD after CD of shareware games I actually paid for! I'm talking about paying for the SHAREWARE version not buying the full version. What was I thinking?!
- Devon Campbell
BBS?
- Head Ov Metal
Print Shop, tried to figure out programming, games - including one that played 'Flight of the Bumblebee' as the background music. Had an Apple IIE.
- Victoria Plautia
I ran a BBS, Grant's Place.
- Grant Bierman
Print Shop was the bomb for making flyers! There has been internet since I started actively using the computer, there just wasn't HTTP yet. I played SimAnts, Telnet to MUDs, Gopher for information, program in Microsoft QuickBasic 10 Print "Alan was here"; 20 Goto 10.
- Alan Le
I suppose a BBS isn't quite the internet, since it was direct dial up... I never knew it without internet, it might have been email and newsgroups and irc, but it was internet
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Thanks to everyone for refreshing our memory, I totally forgot many of the things you mentioned here!
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
We bought them to use for "homework" but all they did was keep us from it. BBS's were kewl. That is where socially networking really began. If you were too poor to call long distance, all your BBS's were local, so think only on a local scale, all your neighboring tech geeks. We had picnics, meetings, all kinds of fun stuff.
- mandyvan
Mandy, that's exactly why I bought my own first computer and it quickly turned out that there are lots of things that are more interesting than homework that it allows one to do.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
I visited my parents this weekend and guess what? They are still using dial-up!!! Can you imagine browsing Gmail or FRF on dial-up? You should either be very-very-very patient person or just close browser and go get drunk :) My notebook seems dead w/o Internet access. It's like having a hammer with no nails to work with.
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Sasha, I know that feeling when you feel your notebook is not worth anything at all without internet :) And it is quite scary when you think of the pace technology is developing: I myself was only able to switch to DCL from dial-up some 3 years ago only and until then we somehow thought dial-up was just fine and spent the whole nights downloading large files. But of course with today's applications I can imagine a frustrated user trying to work with them on a slow connection.
- Svetlana Gladkova
What does 4,500 early adopters look like? Click here to see: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
Kelly W., Mitchell Tsai, Susan Beebe and 31 other people liked this
...now I feel dizzy, and me posting this will only make it worse... :)
- WorldofHiglet
Welcome.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
ok, the option of watching other people's streams just ROCKS o_O
- George Tziralis
I know that I'm one of them but OMG how can you stand this?!
- Orli Yakuel
Orli: I LOVE this. But usually I don't watch it live like that, but just refresh often.
- Robert Scoble
still unfamiliar with FF. mostly on twitter as @2healthguru. thanks for invite and keep up the videos!!
- Gregg
I'm curious about what are your lists looks like? Do you use lists?
- İbrahim Uzun [ j ]
What i keep thinking about when i see this is how can this be used to show others the power of Social Networking (FF and Twitter in particular). Good example Robert.
- David Bisset (sn)
It. Doesn't. Stop.
- Jared Smith
I usually drop into real time mode for a quick peek at what's happening *NOW* and then retreat back to the main FF UI and my custom lists. Good stuff though Robert. Always interesting to see your view of the noise as it flys by.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
hahah, SCARY
- Andre
Jared: now you see what I mean by "the World Wide Talk Show." 24 hours a day. It's crazy! And I'm only following 1/10th to 1/100th of those on FriendFeed (and that's a small number compared to Twitter and Twitter is a small number compared to bloggers and bloggers are a small number compared to humans). Now you understand why the value is going to be in the filtering systems that the geeks make for us.
- Robert Scoble
Brian: real time really rocks during news events like #mumbai or Election Night. Watching what you all were saying in real time then is a lot of fun.
- Robert Scoble
watching it must cause FriendFeed quite a bit of traffic... :) btw, being smart is actually bad, most people don't like you being smarter than them (talking out of experience here, so better don't waste your time to argue...)
- Dorian Muthig
This is crazy! Just crazy stuff! I sometimes can't even follow my own feed of 63! How does RS ever respond to any of our comments?
- jamesdkirk
Awesome, I've embed in my blog autor's profile!! http://www.abc.es/blogs...
- Javier Duro
His is a robot. You actually believed that he was a real human being?! How naive.
- Rolf Schewe
jamesdkirk: I just refresh often and type fast. Rolf: did you have to tell everyone the truth?
- Robert Scoble
so you don't watch the realtime feed and try to interact then? That makes sense.
- jamesdkirk
Scobleizer: The Lawnmower Man!
- Bastard Operator From FF
Whoa, busy, very busy.
- Grant Bierman
jamesdkirk: I really only look at real time feed during news events like Election Night or earthquakes or #mumbai. It's easier to interact just by refreshing the browser and clicking "Comment".
- Robert Scoble
MY GOD, it's full of stars...
- David Bisset (sn)
Strangely enough it doesn't really seem that much worse than mine with a lot less subscriptions. I really don't like or use the real time view though so maybe my feeling isn't really accurate.
- Brian Sullivan
Looks at how good his AI is. He detected my comment and had and instant response. How could a human do that while that firehose of a feed he got is scrolling by?
- Rolf Schewe
Rolf: one thing about human beings: they are far more efficient at pattern recognition than machines are. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Arghhh ...I couldn't stand looking at that for too long!
- Peter Cattell
Robert: Until your model. You almost had me there.
- Rolf Schewe
This is phenomenal for the first 10 sec. But ultimately overwhelming.
- Eric Thompson
Eric, it is pretty crazy, isn't it? It's fun to put it up on a second monitor so you can peek over at it once in a while. It's the ultimate attention diffuser, though. Impossible to do anything else but watch it.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, yes I think there's something intriguing about Friendfeed. I'm amazed that my 16 & 17 yr old daughters haven't found this yet. But they will. They're still texting at the rate of 3000/month. This isn't that different from watching thousands of feeds scroll by.
- Eric Thompson
Way too much noise to be useful.
- JonathanJoseph
Jonathan: I disagree. But, that's why you can choose your own editor(s) here (the people you follow become editors and are "picking" things for you to see by clicking "Like" and commenting on them )and why I say that it's far more important to follow carefully than who follows you. The best FriendFeeders bring you high value stuff and low noise. I'm following 200 of such people in a list. But that doesn't mean there's no value to a high flow list either.
- Robert Scoble
I find the live feed fascinating. Pattern recognition yes, cellular automaton too.
- Nicola Quinn
@Robert. I agree with that, but the realtime stream is far too much to be filtered in any relevant way. FF is great if you use it right (like creating lists) but simply folliowing 4500 in realtime makes it worthless imo.
- JonathanJoseph
Jonathan: there is a TON of filtering still to come to RealTime streams. For instance, I filter mine by making a list, which has its own RealTime stream (only 200 people, all hand selected, are on that). Also, in future you'll be able to filter by talking to the stream. For instance, say you have too much. What if you could say "please only show me items with likes." Still too much? "Show me only items with four likes and at least two comments." And there's lots more, too.
- Robert Scoble
What if you could say "show me only items with 'Mumbai' in them?" Or, show me only items from people who Tim O'Reilly is also following? Or, what if you could say "show me only items from people located in India?" Can you start to see how your RealTime stream could be filtered?
- Robert Scoble
that was actually not as fast as I thought it would be (except when Chris P.'s coupons showed up). Very interesting. I found someone new to subscribe to.
- Laura Norvig
waves! Hi Mom! Hello feed! Umm is this thing on? ;-)
- Tim
Important article to read how Twitter helps emergencies --but HELPS terrorists http://www.cnn.com/2008...
Bart Muskala - AdNerd Sr., David Young, Donncha O Caoimh and 8 other people liked this
Thanks for the sharing.
- stanleyzhang
from twhirl
Terrorists are becoming more and more innovative. It won’t be long before their preparations for attacks include the gaming of news sources like Twitter. All they have to do is be the first to send out tweets as the first bomb goes off and then let the echo chamber do the work for them.
- scott anderson
as usually with innovation, you can have bad or good uses of it...
- duprat julien
the thing is, terror groups don't align themselves with sophistication as this would increase exposure for being discovered and increase likelihood of failure. The best means would be to keep it simple and extremely effective. This paranoia about terrorism needs to stop - if someone is gonna blow something up you stand next to no chance of stopping it via proxy like cutting down on what we can tell each other on whatever service.
- alphaxion
on TV: "I strongly condemn these attacks on innocent people" So you would agree with attacks on guilty people. And who are they then?
Matthew Neale and Donncha O Caoimh liked this
WordPress top developer Donncha O Caoimh is now on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/donncha I can smell new WordPress features already! :-)
Nicholas James, Donncha O Caoimh, Langley Zhu and 22 other people liked this
He lives in Cork, Ireland, and is one of the top developers in the world. Little known fact, I kissed the Blarney Stone with him. True story.
- Robert Scoble
Coool! You're bringing lots of great folks to FF, thanks!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Pics or it didn't happen :)
- Susan Beebe
You believe pics? :)
- Robin Monks
from IM
Susan: I gotta find some. http://scobleizer.com/2005... is the blog post I did. Here's a photo after we kissed the Blarney Stone: http://inphotos.org/donncha...
- Robert Scoble
Wow...his last name is a tongue twister !
- Dana Fosburgh
Is that "top developers in the world" rating on the scobscale? Just curious.
- ·[▪_▪]·
Another little known fact, Donncha had worked for Mullenweg for a few months when I met him in Cork, Ireland. At one point while we were walking around the Castle he turned to me and asked "so, what's Matt really like?" Turns out he had never met him. I thought to myself that the Internet had brought us a wild world where we could work for people we had never met, even in a startup.
- Robert Scoble
You kissed his Blarney Stone? On the first date?
- Mitch Wagner
*_*: it's peer reviewed. Lots of people tell me that Donncha is one of the best. I can't argue with the value the Automattic team has delivered, either. When I walked into the Speaker of the House's office, what did I see being used there? Wordpress. That's pretty damn cool.
- Robert Scoble
wow, that is pretty wild, i.e. not every meeting your management folks in person.
- Susan Beebe
Mitch: I guess you could say that! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Susan: he met Matt a few weeks after I met Donncha.
- Robert Scoble
Nice. Subscribed! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
So this is why I got so much attention today, thank Robert!
- Donncha O Caoimh
Donncha - Yup Blame Scoble!! you learn fast! :)
- Susan Beebe
Surely such an accomplished and talented photographer should have a profile picture - hint :-)
- Andy C
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