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All good.

You can also find tons of instances of people referring to Apple's computers as MACs. And that one is even worse because MAC is an actual computer-hardware term.

So "RAW" may not be a well-known acronym, but it doesn't mean it will never be.

The Brits suffer from the opposite problem: making acronyms into regular proper names. It's endemic over there; their articles are replete with references to the nonexistent "Nasa," "Nato," and other entities. In at least one case in the last few years they did this to a piece of legislation where there was actually a British company with the name they were misusing.

"Radio Shack began selling private label products under the name Realist, but the name was changed to Realistic after some litigation."

Cool story. I wish a few comments like the above had a bit more background. I wonder if the problem with "Realist" was the existence of the Stereo Realist, a popular 3-D camera made from 1947-71.

Edit: Yep! Google's so-called "AI" says:

"Tandy, through their RadioShack brand, could not use the name "Realist" for their private-label products because of a legal dispute with the company that produced the well-known Stereo Realist camera, according to 2080 Ventures. The Stereo Realist camera was a popular 35mm stereo camera produced by the David White Company.

This legal dispute led Tandy/RadioShack to change their brand name from "Realist" to "Realistic". The change occurred in 1954, after Radio Shack had already begun selling products under the "Realist" brand."

R, A, and W don't stand for anything. It's raw data off the sensor, not an acronym. Therefore not capitalized.

You can find millions of instances of any given literacy-impaired error. "Would of" and "your not going to find this" are wrong... but they're out there by the boatload. No need to propagate them further.

Software can't turn a phone into an SLR. It's an asinine claim.

It's not that the application can't bring value to the platform, but they need to better convey what it is. "Making images that look like they're from an SLR" smacks of fakery.

It's just "raw."

How is this a screenshot generator? You have to drag an existing image onto it...

I disagree. I was willing to tolerate pretty much any ad on YouTube as long as it was normal ad length (:15, :30, or even a minute) if they eventually ended and THE PROGRAM RESUMED.

But then YouTube started PERMANENTLY interrupting what I was watching with never-ending commercials or full-on infomercials... forcing me to manually use the Skip button to stop the commercial onslaught and return to the show I was watching. And they forced me to herd the show along like this every few minutes.

I put stuff on to watch while I'm cooking or doing something; I can't run to wash my hands so I can mash the control on the remote, over and over and over.

So that's when I installed a third-party YouTube client that skips ads. Google took someone who was willing to watch ads, and turned him into someone who never sees one. So Google cost itself and the content creators, through its asshole behavior.

Then they had the gall to WHINE about the uptick in ad-blocking. It's right out of the Trump/Putin playbook: attack someone, and then feign outrage and whine when they fight back.

pitfalls

Yeah. I was always pissed that none of the dedicated still-photo film scanners offered a movie-film adapter. I had a Nikon LS-2000 (which sucked, BTW) and it had a film-feed mechanism... but only for 35mm still film.

Then again, those scanners didn't have sufficient resolution for 8mm. I think the LS-2000 was something like 2700 DPI... which would only yield 800 or so pixels across. So it would have also needed an additional lens.

The sound retrieval is a good point. I don't think of sound on old movies.

He asked why a projector is relevant for archiving, not viewing.

The only answer I can imagine is for viewing newly-discovered film to determine its content and condition, in order to decide whether it's worth scanning.

And they typically suck. It's a different story if you want to properly scan 8mm from edge to edge and get TIFFs (or similar) for each frame.

So what? At worst, it's no worse. But by default, it's already way better.

Why? Because all of our E-mail addresses are on thousands of spammers' lists. So if you hammer that list with a dictionary of popular passwords, you're going to get a bunch of compromised accounts right there.

But even worse: When you force non-tech-savvy people to use their E-mail address as their ID, many are going to think they need to use their E-mail password as well. So now if one poorly-run site suffers a data breach, all of its users' E-mail addresses AND passwords are out there. Identity theft ahoy.

Not to mention the loss of people's accounts when they change E-mail addresses; When Apple started requiring that Apple IDs be E-mail addresses, it created a massive problem of people having purchases scattered across multiple accounts because they'd create a new one when their E-mail address changed.

After the outcry, Apple huffily declared that it wasn't going to let people consolidate their accounts.

But back to the point: Allowing people to create a proper user ID as free-form text doesn't preclude them from using their E-mail address if they insist on doing so. But they should be encouraged not to.

This is a good reminder that forcing people to use an E-mail address as a user ID is a stupid and dangerous policy.

Voted down by amateurs who set their Web apps up this way. Killing the messenger won't secure your users' credentials.

Yeah there was no excuse for it. Daley lied repeatedly about his motivation. The real story? That's where downstate politicians flew in, and to spite them he destroyed the coolest GA airport in the country. Meigs was the default starting point for MS Flight Simulator for its entire existence until then.

We're about to see a similar crime now in Santa Monica. This time a lame-duck outgoing FAA administrator, Michael Huerta, struck an illegal back-room deal with the corrupt Santa Monica city council to let them seize and destroy the airport after 2028... if citizens let them get away with it.

Meanwhile, in the Matrix they weren't pretending that it was Chicago. They just kept the street names and so forth in the script when they called for extraction. They're all pretty well-known streets in Chicago. I was looking for a list, when I found something I didn't know: Neo's name came from the club where I had the first shot I really enjoyed (a Kamikaze). There's a timestamp for ya: https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/cf0uv3/til_neo_fro...

From a hamburger's perspective, I'm sure Munich looks like munchin'.

Sure enough, this entire button is devoted to plug-ins... which the vast majority of users are likely to have none of.

Another fine UI choice by today's Microsoft.

But those are not exclusive. Look at the File "dialog" in Word now. Seriously, take a look at this mess and then see if that is "prettier" than a proper File dialog on ANY platform.

That should be MAYOR Daley, of course. But major D-bag nonetheless. His illegal destruction of Meigs Field in the middle of the night ranks up there with some all-time thefts from the public, along with his sale of Chicago's parking meters to a scumbag outfit for 100 years.

Indeed. The compositing tool of choice for this movie and any other effects-heavy movie from the late '90s well into the 2000s was Shake (by Nothing Real, later bought by Apple). The only competition was Nuke, the in-house tool at Digital Domain. It is the last one standing today, since Apple gave up on the high end.

Interesting anecdote I heard: Shake was up for an Academy Award, but Apple pissed off the wrong customer when they discontinued the Windows version (which was used for The Matrix). I won't name the post house, but the owner reportedly sat on the academy's technical committee and tanked Shake's nomination as punishment. Kinda sucked for the team, who of course were blameless.

The real Heart O' the City Hotel is in Chicago, like the rest of the place names in the movie (although the real name is Heart O' Chicago). The Wachowskis wanted to film there, but Major Daley (historic asshole and scumbag, in case you're not familiar) wouldn't let them. I can't remember what the rationale was, but then of course two Batman movies shot there.

The hotel: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh...

Thanks. I particularly hated the burying of bookmarks on mobile, so is there a way to address that?

Mmmm, thanks. I don't remember finding plug-in-related stuff under there. But I'll take a look tomorrow.

If that's supposed to be a puzzle piece, it's a disgrace. Just another symbol of Microsoft's abject design bankruptcy. They had far better icons than that at 16 x 16 pixels 30 years ago.

Hopefully it tells everyone to never use this douchey term again.

Which are what?

"Look at Edge: I wanted to save a PDF I was viewing. Fat chance."

Relevant: I had to quit using Firefox though, because of the brain-dead bookmarks being buried several levels deep in menus, and worse in the mobile version.

I think it's people who lack

1. Experience

2. Aptitude

3. Supervision

And then there are the apologists who attack anyone who calls for better, and almost the entire rest of the population... who

1. Don't take time to convey feedback

2. Can't find a way to convey feedback

3. Can't distill exactly why the product sucks and formulate feedback.

I just wasted a good portion of my afternoon trying to activate change-tracking in Word. The Word UI is an even bigger POS than the rest of Windows. I mean... it's a wonderland of baffling rabbit-holes, to the point where I'm laughing while typing this out because it seems like a prank. MS even eschewed their own File dialog in this thing, to replace it with a page that looks like hand-coded HTML without a stylesheet. Truly incredible.

So I took screen shots. I wrote up a detailed explanation as to why this is defective. And then I used MS's "Feedback Hub" (which vanishingly few people are going to find or bother with) to try to file a report. After typing it all out and attaching files...

"Something went wrong. Please try again later."

And of course it deleted all my work. And it has happened on four attempts throughout the day.

So when companies claim, gee, no one has complained before... it's just another mockery of the recipient.

I recently had to resume using Windows extensively after a long hiatus, and the regressions I had already noticed in occasional use remain an infuriating PITA every damned day. It's not a matter of adjustment to something different. It's a matter of incompetent UI.

The elimination of the standard menu bar in one application after another is a huge one. Look at Edge: I wanted to save a PDF I was viewing. Fat chance.

There's no menu. In the toolbar past the URL box there's a jagged Pac-Man that I guess is supposed to be yet another "gear" icon. Then there's a star with lines in it for "favorites" and then your own avatar and then three dots with a tiny upward pink arrow overlapping part of one of them.

In the upper-left corner of the window there are more boxy icons... let's see what those are... "Workspaces" and "Tab actions menu."

So is "save file" under Gear-Man, the three dots, or somewhere else?

And BTW, WHAT APPLICATION IS THIS? You have no idea which window belongs to which one, because the title bars are missing.

What a truly incredible, pathetic mess. The Mac's single menu bar is a UI blunder, but NO menu bar is monumentally stupid.

Yep, a gantry is exactly what I was imagining too.

That's a great anecdote. I mean... I've seen a dog eat an entire pumpkin. If it won't eat your whitefish... be worried.