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This is sort of confusing. Any picture you can upload to that service is already a "raster" picture (as opposed to a vector picture). I think what they mean is that they just blow up really huge?

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I think the important part is that it's half-toned (little dots of varying radii according to color and intensity) rather than just making each pixel into one big square. So really its a misnomer. Should be halftonabator or ditherbator, if only those rhymed with masturbate. (TEE HEE!)

Where does it say you can't upload vector images? And, really, we're dinging someone for coming up with a product name that isn't perfectly descriptive now?

I made this great new device called the "Automatic gasoline car to electric car converter." It takes your gasoline car and cleans the outside of it with soap and water! It shines when it comes out the other side!

What do you mean the name is misleading? Are you really dinging me for coming up with a product name that isn't perfectly descriptive??

You should email 37Signals about your profound disappointment at how ineffective their "Campfire" product is for making S'mores.

Campfire is a metaphor for collaboration, that's different. He's named his product something specific that's materially incorrect.

Oh, my bad, I should have realized that, when you called out failing to capture the technical difference between rasterization and half-toning in a whimsical name for a service used to make dorm room posters by saying it was the same thing as describing a carwash as a magical engine conversion machine, we had entered the realm of literal equivalency.

Surely the name was supposed to sound like "masturbator". I don't think it can have mass appeal with that name, odd choice.

I think a name sounding like "masturbator" is nicely aligned with their domain name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homokaasu

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