My four year old daughter received a dresser from her grandparents. We are cleaning out the old one for her little brother. When she got a peek into the top drawer of the old dresser she asked, "why are you keeping all my garbage in here"? My wife had been stuffing the drawer with drawings and such from our daughter.
I think it's cool, just not $250 cool.
- Rodfather
Think of it this way, wouldn't you like Instagram, 360 Panorama, iMovie, and a 3G connection on your DSLR? You can make a quick and dirty movie and share it right away.
- Rodfather
I have a friend who would actually really dig this. (He's a professional photographer too.) He just wouldn't be interested in it for that price point.
- SAM
If someone really needs to carry a $3000 lens around, why wouldn't he just carry a camera as well? It looks good but of no use.
- Faraz Mullick
I don't think a person would be limited to using it with $3000 lens, what Rodfather said is a good use case, and some people appreciate the novelty. Of no use to you would be reasonable.
- SAM
Hooking up a SLR lens to an iPhone and calling it a DSLR is a bit like sticking a prancing horse logo on a Fiat 500 and calling it a Ferrari.
- Brian Sullivan
Who called it a DSLR? It's a lens mount.
- Rodfather
Other than the price, what is the actual objection to this product?
- Bren
from iPhone
Rodfather- I thought that was implicit in your earlier comment.
- Brian Sullivan
No, you're tripping. I wouldn't mind having an OS in a DLSR.
- Rodfather
As the owner of a 6MP DSLR, I don't really see what's ridiculous about 5MP pictures through a good lens.
- Bruce Lewis
Rodfather -- so your comment earlier has nothing to do with this product -- you were just daydreaming about a product that you wish existed?
- Brian Sullivan
It says exactly what it says. Why such much hate? There's even a group that makes movies on the iPhone only. For them, it would be a cool addition. You can use lenses you have sitting around and make a movie with different lenses. What's so horrible about that?
- Rodfather
Bruce -- adding a big lens to a 5MP iPhone does not turn it into the equivalent of a 5MP DSLR -- not even close. Size in MP matters a lot less than size of sensor -- and iPhone's sensor is very small.
- Brian Sullivan
Rodfather - no hate implied -- at least not to you. I just think the product is ridiculous.
- Brian Sullivan
No answer to my question? Okay.
- Bren
from iPhone
Bren - to me seems to a solution looking for a problem -- it is technology for technology's sake -- -- just because it is possible to do something it doesn't always make sense to make and try to sell a product that does it.
- Brian Sullivan
I think Rod has already made a compelling argument against that, Brian. Maybe it's just me, but your vitriol for this product seems disproportionate to your stated complaint about the product. As I understand it, the only problem (aside from price) is that *you* don't have a use for it.
- Bren
from iPhone
I see it as just a lens mount. That's it. On a side note, this reminds me when people started making adapters for consumer video cameras to mount 35mm lenses. This was huge. Only around 4 years ago too. That was the first time people could use interchangeable lenses on a relatively cheap video camera. It opened up so much more possibilities for students and indie filmmakers. Now that...
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- Rodfather
Bren - not sure it was intended as vitrol or should be characterized as such, I don't know how else I can assess and present a point of view except as well .. my point of view. I definitely have no use for this product (or for an iPhone for that matter)
- Brian Sullivan
"ridiculous department of idiocy" struck me as fairly vitriolic for a product that is, in reality, simply not useful to you. Again, maybe that's just me.
- Bren
from iPhone
How does this fit with those of us who use Google Apps accounts for personal use? I have one setup for all my family members to use.
- Skyler Call
from Android
Well, the new host name means a new rebirth, so no history for the new item. Anyway, you never loose history since it is contained in Nagios logs, so...
- ↂGiorgiँ Zarrelliↂ
As you can see from the manual: File Name: avail.cgi Description: This CGI is used to report on the availability of hosts and services over a user-specified period of time. In order for this CGI to be of much use, you should enable log rotation and keep archived logs in the path specified by the log_archive_path directive.
- ↂGiorgiँ Zarrelliↂ
This means that the cgi used for reporting are actually using online archived logs, so, something like sed -i 's/old_host/new_host/g' logfile.log should suffice.
- ↂGiorgiँ Zarrelliↂ
I don't think it is, he's gonna share a post with me and i'll get an notification e-mail about it and click on the link from the e-mail,then, I'M IN. (saw it on TNW)
- batuhan icoz
LisaLenea at gee-mail. w00t! I'm unemployed! Gimme something interesting to play with for a few days. :) And THANKS!
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
from Android
marybaumcreative@gmail.com - and then when I'm logged in as that, I can go around +1ing people (like you) like crazy until it's time to go do stuff as Apps again.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
Weirdly, I found posts promising Profiles for Apps users 'within weeks' back in MARCH.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
still valid? gbabun [at] gmail [dot] com.
- Bojan Babic
caitlinmoen@gmail.com :) if it still works, thanks!
- Caitlin
Don't waste one on me... I have a Google Apps account!!! Ugh.
- Skyler Call
still available? one for me please. marun2 [at] gmail [dot] com
- MohanArun
merynstol@gmail.com - Thanks in advance.
- Meryn Stol
Thanks. apparently I screwed this up by trying to accept from my ipod touch last night during the tiny window when they were still accepting new users. Now I have to wait until they have not "temporarily exceeded capacity." Oh well, see you soon!
- Laura Norvig
I am really disappointed that Google is moving on without Google Apps users again. I have never even seen Buzz and now they are excluding me from Google+ (http://www.google.com/+...) too.
"With this extension, you can now 'Google +1' all websites especially those who doesn't have one installed. +1 buttons let people who love the content can recommend it on Google search."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
text messages are great for quick important info that you can get without having to read your email or answer your phone. "Running late for the gig; tell the sound guy xyz..." etc. Otherwise gets annoying.
- Neil Alexander
I still send them from time to time to my luddite friends and when I'm abroad.
- Eivind
One of my friends turned off her texting. It's annoying
- Shevonne
This person has never sent or received a text. I also don't turn on my cell phone until I need to make a call. I don't seem to have missed a thing.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
My rule is this: If you have a question in need of answering, call me. If you just want to pass on some information that I can get anytime today when I have time, SMS is fine.
- Skyler Call
At one point, SMS got so out of hand with my family and friends that I turned off the sound that plays when one was received. Later I would get frantic phone calls about not answering their messages promptly.
- Skyler Call
Unfortunately, the people I work for now use SMS to communicate with me throughout the day. I am still trying to convert them to Google Talk. Google Talk is free to use, plus I can respond from my desktop keyboard which is tons faster and easier.
- Skyler Call
"By going to General settings under More actions > Manage site and clicking on Automatically adjust site for mobile phones, your Google site will be automatically adjusted whenever it’s viewed from an iOS or Android 2.2+ device:"
- Skyler Call
"Chrome 14, only available in the Dev and Canary channels right now, adds a security feature that could affect a lot of sites. If you're visiting an SSL site that loads some scripts using unencrypted connections, Chrome will refuse to load the scripts."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
This sounds great but it looks like it is causing problems for lots of people.
- Skyler Call
We still use a right pointing arrow for play despite the majority of media not spooling tape. Icons transcend
- Johnny
from iPhone
What Skyler said. I think as things become more abstract, there really are no better ways to communicate them in a simple icon. Even if todays kids have no idea what a floppy is, that icon is familiar.....what Johnny said. LOL.
- Rahsheen?
Hell, the icon for Compose is usually paper and pen of some kind, isn't it? :)
- Rahsheen?
When amateur photographers get together, they talk about cameras; when serious amateurs get together, they talk lenses; but when pros get together, they talk tripods.
I wanted to be an astronaut, but only because my friend Chris had said he wanted to be one. Secretly, I just wanted to do whatever it was that my Dad did. I had no concept of my Dad's career at the time, only that he worked at a lot of places. I never did get to be an astronaut, but I got my secret wish, and followed my dad into prototype wiring.
- Le Slip Anglais
With LB, if no vidalia available. Candy onions, they look like a spring onion on steroids.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Depends on what you are using them for. Soup, caramelizing, onion rings, browning meat, etc. either white or yellow, never red. Hamburgers? Red.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Maximizing a window should be easy and precise. In Windows 7 there are at least three ways to do this. I cannot find one in OS X.
- Skyler Call
Clicking + does not cause the window to fill the entire screen. It only makes it get larger, depending on what larger size you previously dragged the corners out to. There is no button that makes hit fill the entire area that I can find.
- Skyler Call
3 seconds vs 15 seconds means little when I use a computer for 9+ hours... Also, I come from the age of Atari ST-40s where launching the word processor took 9 minutes. I'm not a time snob
- Johnny
(and that ignores the hardware question. SSDs mean more to boot times than the OS. My boss's Macbook Air loads within seconds. Stick Chrome OS on spinning hardware and the 'instant' nature of it may be reduced)
- Johnny