James Cox › Comments

it's ridiculous. How do they expect to compete? - Zee.

Precisely Zee. O2 must be ever so pleased. - Roberto Bonini

well they won't, obviously. it's just newbies getting into the net neutrality debate. they're going to get lynched - James Cox from IM

anyhow, it's all good- this has to mean that getting unlocked phones will be easier… so then running it on t-mobile uk will be much simpler, especially given that it is such a better network - James Cox from IM

But Zee, consider. Do newbies even know that non-orange streaming services exist (apart from youtube)?? - Roberto Bonini

+1 James. @Roberto honestly, I'd say YouTube and Spotify are enough to be pissed off about - Zee.

Agreed Zee. I dislike restrictions in all its forms. I'd steer well clear of Orange on principle alone. - Roberto Bonini

The strain on the O2 network, at least in London, is palpable. Most people chalk it up to increased data usage driven primarily by iPhone. The hope was that with Vodafone and Orange in the game that things would settle as the usage flattened across the services. Looks like that’s less likely to happen, now that Orange is providing a sub-optimal user experience. This kind of “protectionism” feels a lot like the music industry, before it got burned. - George Nimeh

when i switched to tmo about 5 years ago, i was told during the sales pitch that tmo were investing a million pounds a month on their data infrastructure, to build for the future they knew was coming. i believed them- and still do; in areas they've got 3g, the data rate has been pretty decent and continues to be. It also makes sense: when money was cheap, they upgraded their network. now money is expensive, it's impossible to invest. So don't expect anything to change for a while! - James Cox from IM

"Not to be used for other activities (eg using your handset as a modem, non-Orange internet based streaming services, voice or video over the internet, instant messaging, peer to peer file sharing, non-Orange internet based video)." Why does it remind me of this? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - John Craft

Although I agree with what's being said, I think this is just the old T's & C's for Orange Internet services pre the iPhone. They will change them or not enforce them. That being said, Orange is actually the worst uk network in my view and the 750mb limit just goes to show they really do not understand this marketplace. Personally I think that Vodafone will be the network of choice for the uk come Feb when they start selling it. And I for one will be porting over as soon as I can. - Keith Bennett from BuddyFeed

@James, I've tried an iPhone on tmob uk and it's not as good a service as O2 tbh. All the networks upgraded in recent times to build proper 3g services. In my experience, Vodafone is by far the best for any Internet service. - Keith Bennett from BuddyFeed

I wonder if twisting o2's arm may get me a slight reduction. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

tinychats? dmu2? - James Cox from IM

sorry man, i'm off to school. don't forget to pos in dmu2^n. good luck. - Mo Tabesh

I'm certain cylonpete hasn't voted. n00b. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - James Cox

CyclonPete only had two turds to vote on, but was either too lazy to read the rules or too posh to vote. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

fazfazfaz must think this is a post1/comment1 group. He obviously didn't read the rules or is too posh to vote: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

I just sent fazfazfaz a flickrmail. Hopefully that will fix it. Thanks for looking out for these Roger. - Thomas Hawk

mohsenweb forces us through three pages of view whored gifs before we can tell him he is a total non-voter. What an asshat? http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

I sent him a flickrmail. - Thomas Hawk

And what's with eric.duminil? Looks like he doesn't get the part about voting on what's in the pool before dropping his turd. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

I sent him a flickrmail. - Thomas Hawk

How about people who don't read the rules and are not adding tags when voting? Pietro Brezzo is doing just that. - Steve Dorsey

fuckers! - Mo Tabesh

spdorsey: i make a mental reminder to shit over their photos when no tags are left - James Cox from IM

I did the same thing when I first voted (first time only). I learned quick. Heh. - Steve Dorsey

Yashinski blesses us with this non-voting entree, as well as introducing DMU to his version of gif whoring. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

doesn't seem to be in the pool anymore. - Thomas Hawk

Thanks Mo, for removing this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

thank you for reminding it man. - Mo Tabesh

stokesUP: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

done. - Mo Tabesh

sleep of reason: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

Seth chen: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

done! - Mo Tabesh

SamikRD: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

silwar star: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Roger

done! - Mo Tabesh

because half the game is to whip you into shape. so step to it! :) - James Cox from IM

Josh, we want everyone to play. However, if you aint smart enough to read and follow the rules, you aint smart enough to learn the game. Don't ever forget, view whoring is considered very poor form when everyone comments on your turd but you don't return the favor, and non-voting is an autodelete. - Roger

i was one of the fucks invited by TH, and look at me, i am famous now! - Mo Tabesh

now now mo, don't get carried away - James Cox from IM

hehehe - Mo Tabesh

Mo was a noob once, now he runs the place. :) - Thomas Hawk

jesus, i think that's all you do....sit around sucking off your corgi, waiting for people to break the rules - Ryan Pendleton

another total non-voter: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - meckimac

maybe a photo - James Cox

http://www.pezeshk.us/cms... - johnny action

wtf? - James Cox from IM

bioengineered "pets." I wonder what their lifespan is. - johnny action

kind of creepy in a way, very 'AI' like... reminds me of patricia piccininis artwork. - charlotte

dmu2n^n will go on again. i don't see any reason to stop, it's becoming more and more popular. we sure need a few apps, it's a hell of a work for admins right now. - Mo Tabesh

k. i'll have a think - James Cox from IM

now that you're at it, remember the biggest pain in the ass is counting the votes. the other is making threads. - Mo Tabesh

yeah. i suspect that the easiest thing to do is not actually use too much of flickr's infrastructure - James Cox from IM

the forums aren't very good for it :/ - James Cox from IM

and fmail is a huge pain in the ass when we want to send mass reminders. very very painful. - Mo Tabesh

at the moment i am hoping to get people volunteer to do some of the work. i don't think i have the energy to run that group like this. - Mo Tabesh

yeah. i'll put something together… like csratr but a little more. why not huh? - James Cox from IM

we can always experiment. anything that makes voting easier, makes the group more popular. the whole thing is based on voting. if people stop voting, the group dies. - Mo Tabesh

yeah it's a bit draconian but you could have it do something like "minimum number votes to enter next comp" etc - James Cox from IM

or just do it the dmu way. label non voters as view whores. :P - James Cox from IM

policing the voting is a nightmare, there is no way in hell we can do it manually. it has to be an honorary system. - Mo Tabesh

yeah, doesn't have to be hard. i'll have a look - James Cox from IM

cheers, i'm off to bed. congratulations by the way, that was a good last minute entry. glad you made it. - Mo Tabesh

ok will do… almost up - James Cox from IM

et voila, mo. beat that. :D - James Cox from IM

actually mo, i secretly like your photo. it's really good, the sort of thing you might see in a hotel foyer. :P - James Cox from IM

damn! I was 2 mins late. - Ryan MacLean

Kind souls let me in anyway... - Ryan MacLean

yay ryan! - James Cox from IM

though i am not sure the title is right ;) - James Cox from IM

thanks man, commons are awesome. by the way, you know the dmu2^n game round 1 is tomorrow, and you are up against me, right? let me know if you have trouble getting in there. - Mo Tabesh

er, i didn't know we had enough players. OMG. can you jump into tinychat for a sec ?? - James Cox from IM

haha, that's an awesome comment sarah. :) - James Cox from IM

What software are you using? I've always found this tutorial to be helpful when you're trying to make an HDRi that isn't over-the-top with saturation and grey midtones: http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tut... - Ryan MacLean

i don't have a VPN accessible. if i did, it would help. :/ - James Cox from IM

it's proxy time ;) - Ryan MacLean

yep. need to find myself one - James Cox from IM

I use bitvise tunnelier to turn ssh sessions into proxy sessions. YMMV. - Ryan MacLean

yeah, i might try that… sometimes it works so i keep getting my 'annoyed' flag reset - James Cox from IM

Haha, yeah that sucks. You're sure it's routing, not DNS? Tried OpenDNS? - Ryan MacLean

it's routing; yahoo has a definite peering problem with telefonica. - James Cox from IM

Ah that sucks. The only way would be a tunnel of some sort: VPN or proxy. - Ryan MacLean

yep. may do that, we'll see. - James Cox from IM

Nerrrrrds. ;) - Stephanie Keating

Hehe, look who's talking :) JC - I might be able to help later on, busy ATM. - Ryan MacLean

ryan: no worries. I'm pretty handy with it all. That said, if anyone had a vpn handy, i'd use that, since it's so much simpler. Plus, Hulu. :) - James Cox from IM

You've got mail. - Ryan MacLean

thanks ryan, lets see if i can reply... :) - James Cox from IM

did i sign up yet? via you? - James Cox from IM

yea you did. - Mo Tabesh

is this any different then f64? help a n00b out... - Ryan MacLean

not now that the dmu are all admins at f64 - bluetick

i'd have to say one thing i enjoyed about f64 was an entire group of different people and we've somehow managed to take it over.... - bluetick

yes, it's different from F64. same idea, but different. - Mo Tabesh

Hmm, so both are very similar to DMU now, but it's a tree instead? I'm guessing there's some history behind the f64 takeover, but does DMU^2 garner interest from people outside of DMU? - Ryan MacLean

it's a one-elimination game. anyone can play. it has nothing to do with dmu. - Mo Tabesh

So... to pose my question a different way: are there members there that are not in DMU? - Ryan MacLean

http://twitter.com/chrisni... is the address of the list btw. - Chris Nixon

@meckimac - of course! - meckimac

@travispuk - travispuk

@smithy92 - smithy

jakes_world or jakes.world? who knows? :) - Jakey

cool. Thanks for putting this together! - Thomas Hawk

@chrismartino - Chris Martino from iPhone

Why do all of your names start with @? - Stephanie Keating

@Stephaniekeating is the protocol on Twitter. - Thomas Hawk

@motabesh - Mo Tabesh

@AlmondD - Almond Butterscotch

@imajes :D - James Cox

That's the list updated. Cheers folks http://twitter.com/chrisni... - Chris Nixon

@StefanBa - Stefan Baeurle

That's you added Stefan - Chris Nixon

@gbenedict - Greg Benedict

Done Greg. - Chris Nixon

riclib - Ricardo Liberato

You were already there Ricard :) - Chris Nixon

@toomanytribbles - toomanytribbles

@monventri - Ventri

@troyholden, @calibersf - troyholden

that dude is a total douche. - James Cox from IM

Hehe, I'm a pretty big douche, myself, but figured it might be fun to discuss this in as many places as once :) - Ryan MacLean

you're a semi-sized douche, ryan - James Cox from IM

johnny's revenge voting pushes him over the top - James Cox from IM

At least have the decency to agree with me! REVENGE!!! Yeah, I'm pretty sure his vote on mine was mimicking something I had said to him almost 6 months ago now. - Ryan MacLean

he copied a vote i made on one of his onto one of mine. word for word. that's douchy. and whatever. i'm too douchy to agree ryan ;P - James Cox from IM

Heh. So... that makes three off us! Something's gonna be clean, for sure. - Ryan MacLean

I just love to mock y'alls dumb-ass comments. Like the dimbulb who thought one of my framed pics was a "pic of a pic - plagiarism." That was precious. and then he uploads a photo of somebody's wall art or graffiti. That's not being douchy, that's just giving it right back to ya. But I never delete a pic if it's a good one, ever. If I delete you, don't flatter yourself into thinking it was 'revenge.' It was 'cause your pic was crap. - johnny action

no johnny, you're a douche. You ignore people's comments and throw them back. Seriously, the culture here is be hard, critique well, but don't just throw stuff back if you don't agree with it. That photo of yours looked entirely like a gallery-wall-point-and-shoot, and i wasn't the only one who thought it either. You don't like my stuff? fine, but don't bother repeating my comment word for word. show's you lack creativity. grow a pair. - James Cox from IM

JA is good people. don't start a fight for no reason. he wants to frame his shots, you don't like it, delete it. just play the game. relax. - Mo Tabesh

Cox, I laugh at your lack of subtlety, really. How old are you...eleven? Taking yourself this seriously on an internet social networking forum is a sign of insecurity, at best. And taking ME seriously shows a lack of imagination on your part that is best not explored any further for fear of really embarrassing you. Yeah, I'll grow a pair alright tough guy. Now go save my photos!!! - johnny action

now you've done it johnny went from aloha to action. and for the record, i've saved most of ja's frames - once i got two signed framed pieces for the price of one.... and two tickets to a gallery opening in honolulu. - bluetick

hell yeah, bluetick's got class. and balls. - johnny action

no. i am not sure what is the problem! - Mo Tabesh

i double checked. it is open to public. do you have problem loading the group page? because i had this problem earlier. - Mo Tabesh

james, you are a member now. i can see you on the front page. - Mo Tabesh

yeah, it just took me ages. flickr keeps timing out for me. it's just my connection - James Cox from IM

yea, unfortunately you a #33. but i have a couple of ideas, you probably get to play. do you want me to sign you up for alternate #1? - Mo Tabesh

sure, i mean… i spent long enough trying to get in - James Cox from IM

mo, let's go for 64 - no problem - bluetick

sorry man. you should have sent me an fmail. - Mo Tabesh

first 24 hours we already got 32, give it some more time - bluetick

yea bluetick, i was thinking about that. 64, or even if we get only 16 extra, we can run a "minor league" just to make sure everyone gets to play. - Mo Tabesh

mo, 70% of hits to flickr.com timeout for me - James Cox from IM

OK, james, i posted your request in the sign up thread. - Mo Tabesh

saved = 149, deleted = 146, save percentage = 50.51% - Thomas Hawk

Thomas, you know you don't have any deleted photos in the pre dmu2 dmu, only saves? - Ricardo Liberato

really? Nah, I've got plenty of deletes from there. here's one: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Thomas Hawk

saved = 2, deleted = 36, total = 38: save % = 5% (abysmal) - Chris Martino

saved = 19, deleted = 106, total = 125, save percentage = 15.2% (How does MO have more saved than me!? - Ryan Dearth

30 submissions, 6 in the lightbox, save 20%, 5 of the 6 are bw, which makes me think. Also 5 of them are HDR, which makes me think again. :-D - Thomas Strini

181 deletes vs 76 saves = 29.5% - meckimac

deleted = 15, saved = 5, save percentage = 25% ... I think I'm way too selective about what I throw in the group. - Stephanie Keating

Submitted = 2, saved = 0. :P - James Cox

I used to be selective, but now i just throw whatever is new in and don't even pay attention to the commentary much any more. Part of the reason I haven't submitted in ages - Ryan Dearth

I've upset 47 people, driven 15 to drink, but only caused actual tears 7 times. - Chris Nixon

Lost count 100 saves ago... - Ricardo Liberato

saved = 1, deleted = 2, total submissions = 3 (in two days, my bad, got excited, so I'm just voting today) - matthew thomas

submitted 5 (I think), saved 2 - Steve Dorsey

I don't know. Submitted a lot. Saved 2. Percentage too low to calculate; my watch calculator doesn't have that many zeros. I can't help it if you people have no taste! :-) - Jeremy Brooks

Submitted = 14, saved = 0 going for a record, loosing-est percentage (the more I lurk in dmu, the less I take/ or submit photos, as I can anticipate the comments) - Ventri

i think i've submitted about 7 and have been saved twice... - Ryan Pendleton

yep, quite a few actually. - Thomas Hawk

ivan: who's got it on their feed? - James Cox from IM

Clearlight, you should hook your Twitter into your friendfeed account as well. That way we can see what you tweet as well without having to go to Twitter. - Thomas Hawk

just did a moment ago. how's tricks? - Clearlight

good. Getting ready to take the kids out trick or treating. - Thomas Hawk

yeah, what are you going as? lemme guess... a photographer? - Clearlight

I don't think you added your twitter stream to your friendfeed account, I think you did the reverse. Your Flickr account is the only account listed in your profile. http://friendfeed.com/clearli... - Thomas Hawk

Yeah, a photographer for me. With a 50mm lens because my 135s in the shop. - Thomas Hawk

Also just back from trick or treating. My little forest fairy is tired now and will go to bed. - Stefan Baeurle

ah, you americans. glad you're having fun :D - James Cox from IM

hahaha th, you rock. i think it's the local isp, not flickr :D - James Cox from IM

took me 4 attempts to actually send my photo to DMU, so everyone please do vote for it in recognition of my attempts at success - James Cox from IM