He's right this time. The wheels have come off the Apple bandwagon and they are going in four different directions. There's no new product. Jobs is gone. Savants abhor Apple's litigous nature. The price has fallen from $700 to $500 as the smart money gets out, -- a major collapse yet shills still try to talk it up hence the subby's Tulip comparo.

There is palpable contempt for Apple out there, I had a young girl come in waving a white Iphone, complaining about the lame hand me down as the parent had gotten a Galaxy. Nothing lasts forever, even Apple's dominance will end some day.

I'm so glad all these ACs and people not in the stock business keep chiming in. Look i don't like Instagram any more than you do. I'mm saying their strategy will fail no matter what. So what if all the post is done on their server, or that people load pictures of all sorts of things advertisaers might find desirable, or whatever thing you will reply with next to try to sound smart. It still won't work.

Stock photos have to be DESCRIBED using captioning and IPTC tags. Thise are entered by the photographer or an editor. It is as time consuming as the original shoot. To see how those work, check the returns for a photo search via google images vs any stock house.

Second, no legit client is going to license these toxic (legally ) images EVER. What sort of model release can hold up that is from a click thru EULA with the guy clicking thru signing releases for everyone in the picture? This is an instant legal nightmare.

Third let's not even get into unintended consequences such as an athlete losing his scholarship for their endorsement of a commercial product.

Anyone licensing photos from Instagram deserves every lawsuit they are hit with.

100% of the photos are crap, no legit client is going to buy a heavily processed cellphone photo with unsigned model releases.

There is no money in stock photos unless your name is "getty". Specifically regarding Instagram/Facebook, the shitty ovreprocessed greasy lensed Iphone snaps of random people are not going to attract any significant sales even if sold by Getty.

When 1% of the resumes are attracting 80% of the job offers, there's a problem with picky-ass employers expecting perfection for peanuts

As with cell phones, stores could charge a $35 restocking fee. Often the returned item isn't pristine and has to be formatted and sold as "refurbished" at a loss.

There are sd cards that are wifi capable. I assume you can write to them (they were meant to deliver images real time from camera to computer), no need for hardware development.

Green has by far the greatest apparent luminosity per milliwatt of power, for example you need about 100mw red to equal the aparent brightness of 5mw green.

Also, the green lasers are well collimated for mass produced DPSS and have the tightest beam. Other colors than red come out as a line and not a dot requiring wild and expensive aspherical collimator designs for a tight beam at any distance. Near IR dissipates and the dot cannot be seen past a few dozen meters so they are not a threat against aircraft. Defending against green would cover about 95% of aircraft threat and filtering 532nm is easy and cheap.

A photograph IS an original work, whatever the subject.

The area you're straying into is licensing and releases. Many subjects, and all people, require releases before commercial use of the photo.

I looked at this as I, like the subby, have terabytes of porn to sort.

But $19.95 for a beta?

There are differences. One is Google is not goading people into using its cloud with a walled ecosystem. And in Android:

"A remote wipe removes all device-based data like mail, calendar, and contacts from the device, but it may not delete data stored on the device's SD card."

The flash memory isn't what's holding it back. Sounds like whatever software you're using to bridge your locked-down device to the computer is slowing down the process.

Many devices hook up directly via USB2.0 and/or have removable flash cards which download at 2GB/min, these may save you a lot of time if this is really a problem.

You can save a lot on state sales taxes online. That amount can be substantial, even on a carrier subsdized iPhone.

But you do miss out on the whole Apple love-in thing and/or being seen at an Apple store in order to raise your social standing.

Those of you in Vegas know you have two newspapers, the RJ and the Sun.

The Denver Post cancelled their contract with Righthaven while the RJ rewrote their contract with Righthaven such that it now has ownership and can sue as proxy.

If I were you I would not support the scum at the RJ - or their advertisers - who support this type of chilling effect on free speech.

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