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If you like Beagles, come check out my set of doggy pictures.

 

Went and tried out our new cameras. I just put the pictures up on Flickr.

The only cats I like are LOLcats.

There’s a side-story brewing in the “Vista Capable” lawsuit against Microsoft, with NVIDIA playing a supporting role. Judge Martha Pechman ordered a 158-page bundle of internal Microsoft emails unsealed, and in them, Microsoft documentation appears to suggest validity to complaints of early NVIDIA driver issues with Vista. NVIDIA’s G80 architecture endured a delayed driver rollout, and according to Microsoft’s data, the drivers were the cause of over 479,000 crashes, or 29 percent of all crashes Microsoft logged. Arstechnica wonders if that could have played a role in public perception painting Vista as a buggy and unstable OS, but admits there’s a lack of information to say conclusively.

So there’s this idea that is going around that any system that Apple can put together is all a photographer needs for flow and processing. Why? I can’t figure that out, but at any rate…it’s not true. Apparently you don’t get all your colors.

Apple settles “millions of colors” class-action lawsuit

By Slash Lane

Published: 09:00 AM EST

Apple has settled with two professional photographers who had charged the company with falsely advertising the quality and capabilities of its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook displays.
The out-of-court settlement, for which terms were not disclosed, brings to a close a 10-month old class-action lawsuit filed by San Diego, Calif. residents Fred Greaves and Dave Gatley.
In the suit, first reported by AppleInsider last May, the pair cried foul on the part of Apple’s marketing lingo, which advertised that both the MacBook and MacBook Pro included displays capable of supporting “millions of colors” and offering views “simply unavailable on other portables.”
Instead, they charge that the Intel-based notebooks were only suited to display the “illusion of millions of colors through the use of a software technique referred to as ‘dithering,’ which causes nearby pixels on the display to use slightly varying shades of colors that trick the human eye into perceiving the desired color even though it is not truly that color.”
Greaves and Gatley, both professional photographers, argued that the misrepresentation was critical given that members of their profession rely on the accuracy of the displays for properly editing imagery. They asserted that, even at their highest resolutions, the notebook displays are unreliable for post-production purposes.
In addition to false advertising and misrepresentation, the photographers also charged Apple with violating the Unfair Competition Law and the Consumer Legal Remedies Act for its failure to properly address and rectify the situation.
There’s no word yet on the steps necessary for other proposed class members to take advantage of the settlement.

Sun Microsystems picked up Innotek not too long ago. Now the virtual environment that has allowed me to run Linux within a window on a Vista machine–now allows running Vista and Linux within the MacOS (beta).

And it’s free.

From Mental Floss

Hehe.

Nevermind the nonsense noise and barrage of high hats and beats, many of the representatives of the industry just, well, I’ll just let you read this little interview (warning: bad language) by XXL Magazine of DMX (cleaned up, of course, for your reading pleasure).

Are you following the presidential race?
Not at all.

You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton.
His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama, yeah.
Barack?!

Barack.
What the f**k is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?

Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.
Barack Obama?

Yeah.
What the f**k?! That ain’t no f**kin’ name, yo. That ain’t that n**ga’s name. You can’t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the f**k outta here.

You’re telling me you haven’t heard about him before.
I ain’t really paying much attention.

I mean, it’s pretty big if a Black…
Wow, Barack! The n**ga’s name is Barack. Barack? N**ga named Barack Obama. What the f**k, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his f**kin’ name. Ima tell this n**ga when I see him, “Stop that bul****t. Stop that bul****t” [laughs] “That ain’t your f**kin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.

So you’re not following the race. You can’t vote right?
Nope.

Is that why you’re not following it?
No, because it’s just—it doesn’t matter. They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do. It doesn’t really make a difference. These are the last years.

But it would be pretty big if we had a first Black president. That would be huge.
I mean, I guess…. What, they gon’ give a dog a bone? There you go. Ooh, we have a Black president now. They should’ve done that s**t a long time ago, we wouldn’t be in the f**kin’ position we in now. With world war coming up right now. They done f**ked this s**t up then give it to the Black people, “Here you take it. Take my mess.”

Right, exactly.
It’s all a f**kin’ setup. It’s all a setup. All f**kin’ bul****t. All bul****t. I don’t give a f**k about none of that.

We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.
I mean, either way it doesn’t matter. I don’t care. No one person is directly affected by which president, you know, so what does it matter.

Yeah, but the country is.
I guess. The president is a puppet anyway. The president don’t make no damn decisions.

The president…they don’t have that much authority basically?
Nah, never.