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Comment Seems to be the way of it (Score 5, Insightful) 140

Seems like this is how Facebook continues to do it. Expose the users without telling them that they're going to do it, wait for the backlash. If there's enough, backpedal on the decision. But only after giving the parties interested in the data plenty of time to mine a ton of it, making the reversal pretty much pointless.

Well played, Facebook. Yet another example of why you don't post anything on the Internet that you don't want known publicly.

Comment Re:Almost $800 to watch TV. (Score 1) 286

- Warn users who use over 250GB of data a month. The limit has been in place for months.
- Sell me 16Mb which I get completely solid speeds at all times during the day, with 3x the upload speed, at the same cost as Qwests fiber service.
- Get the relics off the analog network, which allows them to use their bandwidth better and offer more channels, and more channels in HD.

Beyond that, sure, maybe they're an evil company or whatever, but your facts are skewed and not representative of all experiences in all the markets Comcast exists in.

Maybe it's just me, but I've had nothing but good things to say about Comcast in the Denver metro area. Granted, I've only had to call support twice, and both times it was pretty painful. I don't imagine Qwest is any better, though.

Comment Re:One thing I wish they'd fucking fix (Score 1) 856

I'm sure if you had a friend that wrote a cool new game and hadn't released it yet that you'd require compensation from them for testing it too, right?

Some people enjoy playing with new things, even if they're not finished yet. They also like providing feedback about how to make such things better.

Just because you think you should be compensated for doing something besides posting on slashdot doesn't mean everyone does. Maybe you'd like slashdot to pay you for your posts too?

Comment Lightroom wins (Score 2, Interesting) 271

I've fought this same battle for a few years. Originally I used Canons software to process RAWs, it was terrible and I needed an alternative.

I tried Pixmatic Raw Shooter when it was free and that worked ok for me, and ran in Wine with minimal issues.

I switched to Picasa when it became available for Linux and supported RAW. It had much better album management, but looking back, the photos it produced looked terrible.

Eventually I switched to Capture One's software. I had to pay money for it, but it worked and it worked pretty well.

Recently I'd been getting fed up with them, their website is terrible to try to get updates from and there's not really a good way to manage albums of photos.

I gave the Aperture demo a shot as I'd just recently gotten a Macbook Pro. I found it very hard to use. Stuff just wasn't intuitive, the interface was cluttered and confusing.

Somewhere along the line I'd tried Lightroom v1 and thought it was very good. I was going to purchase it when it came out officially. I stalled when it came out and waited too long and missed it at the $99 launch pricing. I never did end up buying it and went back to Capture One.

Recently Adobe started up the Lightroom 2 Beta, I'm in the extended beta which will function until it's officially released and I can say with absolute certainty that I will be purchasing this when it's done. Everything about it is miles better than everything else. The interface is easy to use, and easy to get out of your way when you want to concentrate on what the photo looks like. It's got all the tools I feel I need to make it a one stop shop from import to web/print. I can't say enough good stuff about Lightroom 2 to do it justice. I guess my suggestion is that if you're really serious at all about your photos, stop screwing around with trying to find something Open Source and get Lightroom.

Of course YMMV, and that's why there's a demo/beta. Good luck, and good shooting!

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