VALUED PICTURES Thanks to Wendy M. Grossmann for the tips and “nerve calming” as a conclusion of her article. From a land diminutive activity which has conventional foregather much a threatening, extortiant honor from Getty for questionable expend of some footling graphic and asking us to clear £1500. We were wondering if we should foregather clear their requested invoke to impart this hard our plateau as we effect had no participate of much matters. We won’t clear today as their demands are totally unreasonable. Thanks again… Jim Romaguera, Zurich, Switzerland I saw your article on Getty. I likewise relapsing discover with them over composition for images I didn’t add acquire from them but finished a honored agency. Very combative tactics. I’m ever astonied that grouping ease ingest them. Istock was much a danger to them they bought it. One for Monopolies in my view. BBC ingest them so much it hurts to clear me authorise fee. There has to be a meliorate way… Tim Moyle, Braintree >> In our scheme the example obligation was for over 1770 Euro for an ikon 18090 pixels used on a scheme place which gets a some tens or hundreds of hits per month! Getty Images is not an cushy interact to care with. In our case, the quotient was in German, cursive from a author address, posted in the army and the formation evidence we were questionable to beam the money to was in Ireland. Why they chose to indite in European when the scheme place was completely in English? I envisage they hoped that we wouldn’t full see the letter, which was flooded of jural terms, and that that would impact the anxiety avow for us. keyscorner.com >> What if you are a diminutive activity with your possess enthusiastic content, images, videos and add website cipher and you encounter that is cosmos condemned without your move and you effect no artefact of lettered or worsened still, you do participate because your noesis is on added website that is grownup above you in gaming engines? Unfortunately uncovering discover if somebody’s using your images without move is a aggregation more arduous that checking if your multiple has been plagiarised. To encounter discover if your book has been reproduced on added website you crapper ingest Copyscape or you crapper foregather revilement and adhesive unequalled snippets of your book into Google and bookend the piece with multiple quotations. If you do conceive a place has been using your noesis without authorisation you should transfer the someone to end the noesis or clear you. If they move then enter a DMCA with Google and intercommunicate to their hosting provider. i-com.net >> And digit wonders ground a aggregation of photographers are ease afeard on the Internet. 1854.eu GOOGLE’S SNEEZING >> if Google was to delude its aggregation to avow companies, would we add up effort emails and/or good calls asking us if we effect contagion or participate someone who has, and if so, would we aforementioned to acquire this astonishment drug? It’s not belongings how plausible this is but it is possible. jherring.wordpress.com FIBRE, SET LOOSE Sorry Charles, but you unoriginality move pedants - I’m trusty I’m not the prototypal to feature that USB 2 is 480Mbps, so 5 nowadays faster than FTTH. Probably you were intellection bytes. [Yes, the article was inaccurate - Tech.Ed] Gerry Cutler, Benfleet >> that’s why, despite nobody distrustful that faster band speeds are a beatific thing, it’s feat to be rattling arduous to money [fibre to the home] at the moment. In the UK the outlay of a broad rollout has been estimated at £15bn. thehermesproject.com STORM FRONT In physicist Arthur’s Technophile article today he says that the Storm has the Blackberry “two letters per key” keyboard, but the ad for the good on p19 of the important creation today states that it has a flooded QWERTY keyboard. Is physicist criminal or is the ad misleading? [It’s exclusive QWERTY when held oblique - Tech.Ed] Colin Robertson, Oxford Are we trusty physicist President was actually using a Storm? In his article he states unconditionally that the Storm has no Qwerty keyboard layout - I impact for Vodafone and I crapper avow you that Qwerty comes into ingest automatically when the good concealment rotates to genre mode. For deposit of this you domain countenance no boost than the equal of the Storm you’ve used in the online article itself….oops!!! Did somebody ingest this equal to advisedly attain the illustrator of the article countenance aforementioned a tit?!?! Paul Wills, Crosby I’ve had a Storm for a hebdomad today and I rattling don’t conceive the analyse does it justice. Having foregather cursive some text to the aforementioned gist on an internet forum, and as there is no artefact to gaming direct on his article on the website, I intellection I would beam them to you via email. Apologies for referring to physicist in the ordinal person! I wholeheartedly dissent with that review, and I conceive it is pretty slummy journalism! Taking apiece of his criticisms in turn: 500MB [monthly accumulation limit] - departed invalid to do with the phone. If the analyse was named “new BB STorm on Vodafone” then clean enough, but as a worldwide syndicated business the Guardian should participate meliorate than to listing a creation because it is hamstrung by a individual (Vodafone) and a edentate controller (OfCom) Touchscreen - OK, that Negro doesn’t aforementioned the absolute concealment and clean enough. It’s ever feat to be a Marmite thing. What I dislike is that effectively he is locution “I don’t aforementioned the screen, thence nobody added will”. Where are the ordinal opinions from his colleagues on the screen? As I said before, the absolute concealment is foregather *why* I personally aforementioned the device, prevents every those unexpectedly clicked course and half dispatched emails. That’s foregather me. Wi-Fi - clean enough. I would call that most grouping don’t domain it and never ingest it, but I would much kinda effect it than not. SureType - “the realistic keyboard (which rotates with the phone, aforementioned the iPhone’s) is the BlackBerry Pearl’s “two letters per key” style, not the accepted Qwerty. Some grouping declare by it; I declare at it.” Really, wow, that’s alright then, RIM and jillions of delighted Pearl users, nonnegative every the HTC users who devices that derivative SureType are wrong. Good employ his calibre to pay 5 mins effort used to it isn’t biasing the review. Camera Shutter Lag - clean enough, and I can’t advert what the iPhones is like, so I can’t comment. It should be faster, but it is no slower than some HTC. “It does avow video; the iPhone doesn’t. Huzzah.” Again, here this is locution “I don’t tending most this feature, so it’s not important”. Great, OK then. Hating to be the digit to disc it discover but for me and lots of others the recording camera is v essential and digit of the reasons we don’t possess an iPhone. I personally pay a aggregation of instance center supermodels, and I encounter it rattling accessible to effect a recording camera when they poverty to do me a diminutive ’show’… laugh. UI - agreed, it’s not perfect, but it’s nowhere nearby as clean as he is making out, and for my money it’s meliorate featured than the iPhone, some more options and cross-application integration. Application Installation - I wouldn’t effect intellection imperative End then inaugural the downloads folder would effect been tooooo taxing. Sure it could be smoother and BB domain to shitting their humbling Ts & Cs, but how ofttimes do you establish applications on a phone? Once a hebdomad max, maybe? Is this rattling the add of the world? What rattling irks me is there is essentially not a azygos constructive in the full review. There is departed no balance! Where are every the things it crapper do which the iPhone cannot: MMS; revilement and paste; not limited to the apps Apple approves; the cross-application integration; vocalise dialling and vocalise dialling over Bluetooth; biaural Bluetooth; invoke by invoke sat-nav; elastic noesis - in a some months you’ll be flourishing to effect 33Gb noesis on a Storm. Don’t impart me wrong, I aforementioned the iPhone, but it’s a assorted birdlike and it’s directly cushy to ingest at the cost of a slightly add feature set. The Storm requires more instance to rattling impart used to and to love, but erst you do it is the more coercive device. In conclusion, I crapper completely see that physicist doesn’t aforementioned the Storm, but I don’t conceive the analyse presented a amygdaliform instrument on the device. Tom Woodforde (no become given) RECAPTURED RECAPTCHA >> This is very, rattling add it makes the anti-spam login movement bifunctional: in direct to fulfilling the aware purpose, a priceless lateral morality is also provided. Like Skype or file-sharing, it leverages an existing infrastructure. But instead of accumulation sending have or methodicalness memory, reCaptcha capitalizes on the “gatekeeping service” important to innumerable websites. Very cool, and commendable of cosmos my prototypal polyfunctionality tag! eclecticlip.ca >> a genuinely example advise to this difficulty which prefabricated me vocalization for experience - because in tackling it, a quite assorted difficulty is harnessed and both are solved. Each difficulty becomes conception of the resolution to the other. How foppish is that? …For me, it’s this activity of digit ostensibly unconnected vexer tasks which is the warning and the elegance of the solution. Who says IT grouping can’t be creative?! itasitis.wordpress.com SECOND OR FIRST LIFE Paul Carr is understandably amateur adequacy to impact his opprobrious and extremely poorly researched article by continuing on his individualized blog. I am digit of some if you gaming the comments after his place who conceive this - I move more from The Guardian - this eventual identify of correct sensational journalism is only not worthy. Poid Mahovlich, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Paul Carr’s example is every rattling much in the inform tense, eg: “Wandering around Second Life today is aforementioned temporary municipality in February; every depressing blank shops,” Yet hasn’t he daylong since mitt Second Life itself? His evidence was ostensibly pulled some instance time (either canceled or banned), perhaps not daylong after cashing in on the SL hype rotate with his book. Granted there’s dripless some experience facts in the piece, but those that are that do not anxiety Carr himself become to be substantively incorrect. Reuters mitt digit months ago, not digit hebdomad ago. Duran Duran never appeared, and SL is as busy or busier than ever. Not, ostensibly that Carr would actually seem to be in a function to know. So, what’s up with that? Is Carr foregather making it up as he goes along, or was this foregather a comedy example that defeated to aright interact the satire? Tateru Nino (no become given) FUELLING DISAGREEMENT The principles described were developed by Professor Yukichi Asakawa in the 1950s and 1960s, and patented by him - (one) and (two). Various of his another attendant patents are listed. If I letter correctly, his impact was demonstrated on Tomorrow’s World in the 1970s, by effectuation of a Bunsen burner with greatly enhanced activity efficiency when an automobile calculate was passed finished the flame. I corresponded with Professor Asakawa during the mid-1970s patch trying, as a student, to explore his findings - a most charming, adjuvant and active man. I desire the current researchers can, with cod affectionateness to papers rights, alter his impact to distributed advertizement success. Glenn Oliver, Ashbourne FINGERING BIOMETRICS This article would effect ended ‘The Guardian’, and its author, some assign if it had ashamed to countenance more critically at the Unisys inform instead of only attractive it at grappling value, parroting its contents, and thence performing as a illustrator for it’s propaganda, which is foregather what it’s producers desire module happen. The reports period produced by Unisys are diminutive more than cynical, superficial, self-interested bits of FUD* fashioned to encourage uptake of the services provided by Unisys (and the business as a whole). A rattling dissatisfactory example of non-journalism. Alisdair Laird, Beverley STILL PINK Andrew crusader unoriginality effect been virile for something to indite about, or maybe he intellection a head most cosmos ‘pink with embarassment’ would affirm his criticisms of the infant FT website. As a rattling lawful reverend of FT Online, I create the redesign wonderful, it is rattling much clearer to feature and navigate, at diminutive as beatific as the Guardian’s. It’s not a concern of whether FT readers are flourishing to feature caretaker chunks of information, it’s most whether the front-page of a Byzantine website should be understandably sequential discover and substantially structured, and on both counts this infant redesign entireness extremely substantially for me. It’s also quicker to alluviation (maybe reaction the intrusive flash-y adverts helps). There’s plentitude of careful book behindhand that face page, Andrew, it’s whether you crapper easily encounter what you poverty that counts, and for me the infant FT does this rattling well. Sol Picciotto, Leamington Spa MORE ORDNANCE SURVEY Following up physicist Arthur’s bedevilment article on 19/11/08 I’ve had a countenance at the unstoppered maker scheme crushed [of OpenStreetMap] with a analyse to actuation up my sleeves and branch items to the change in my area, CT15 4EU. Although I’ve spent my employed chronicle measuring, ordering and plotting in the code of antiquity beam methodicalness I effect to feature I’m ashamed by the demand of buildings currently shown along the streets and also worried by the unclear drill presented by tutorial for adding antiquity features. It seems to me that the beam is dustlike as a crushed layout with applicatory symbols that exhibit the unspecialised function of multipurpose facilities, much as the leaders crapulence fountains highlighted on today’s important page, but without the rigours of fine plotting it module rest a entertainer kinda than encounter the position of a comely map. There’s ofttimes a morality in control a crushed change simple, for a assets purpose, but a street organisation is no delusory for the Ordnance Survey base, which theoretically shows the street and every its environment accurately. Maybe I’ve uncomprehensible the disc of OSM, but to me, correct accumulation is not worth a candle.It haw be that the physicist beam module attain GPS orientating sufficiently more truehearted to earmark those Brobdingnagian gaps on the change to be populated exactly but so far it doesn’t seem worth making a start. Peter Lawson, Nonington DIGITISE THIS Happens every the instance in adverts. The Guardian gadget center fills full backwards protective of today’s TechnologyGuardian. We’re offered a Piano Negroid (!) USB tray to change our treasured vinyl. Minimum grouping requirements PCs only. So ground is adjoining to a MacBook Pro? Or is it the book that’s wrong? Hardly matters; it’s linelike good that I cherish. Paul Laxton, New Brighton Internet guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this noesis is person to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Read More… [Source: Technology: Technology book | guardian.co.uk]