Comments on: Breakfast Links: Word of the Year, Garbage & Marvel http://comments.deasil.com/2007/11/15/breakfast-links-word-of-the-year-garbage-marvel/ escape colon w q Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:46:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Breakfast Links: Word of the Year II, Returning Kids & CommandShift3 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/11/15/breakfast-links-word-of-the-year-garbage-marvel/#comment-7812 Breakfast Links: Word of the Year II, Returning Kids & CommandShift3 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:30:09 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/11/15/breakfast-links-word-of-the-year-garbage-marvel/#comment-7812 [...] word of the year. w00t. The reason for this is that it was voted online. Compare and contrast to locavore, the word of the year for the New Oxford American Dictionary. Not voted for online. My favourite is [...] [...] word of the year. w00t. The reason for this is that it was voted online. Compare and contrast to locavore, the word of the year for the New Oxford American Dictionary. Not voted for online. My favourite is [...]

]]> By: Poyla http://comments.deasil.com/2007/11/15/breakfast-links-word-of-the-year-garbage-marvel/#comment-7059 Poyla Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:51:23 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/11/15/breakfast-links-word-of-the-year-garbage-marvel/#comment-7059 We are still coming up with words associated with agriculture? Wow, were pretty slow on that boat huh? Let's get with it and round off that category... Alex, I will take agricultural terminology for $1000. We are still coming up with words associated with agriculture? Wow, were pretty slow on that boat huh? Let’s get with it and round off that category… Alex, I will take agricultural terminology for $1000.

]]> By: felix http://comments.deasil.com/2007/11/15/breakfast-links-word-of-the-year-garbage-marvel/#comment-7048 felix Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:28:40 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/11/15/breakfast-links-word-of-the-year-garbage-marvel/#comment-7048 Michael, that is very interesting theoretical information. I may investigate that, for research purposes only, just to verify that what you say is true... :) Yeah, it's pretty cool, the quality seemed good enough - but two things, I don't love subscriptions, although I can see why it might make sense in a situation like this, but more to the point, I'm not sure they really have all the things I want to re-read. Let me know if you do get the sub! Michael, that is very interesting theoretical information. I may investigate that, for research purposes only, just to verify that what you say is true… :)

Yeah, it’s pretty cool, the quality seemed good enough - but two things, I don’t love subscriptions, although I can see why it might make sense in a situation like this, but more to the point, I’m not sure they really have all the things I want to re-read. Let me know if you do get the sub!

]]> By: Michael Natale http://comments.deasil.com/2007/11/15/breakfast-links-word-of-the-year-garbage-marvel/#comment-7043 Michael Natale Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:19:46 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/11/15/breakfast-links-word-of-the-year-garbage-marvel/#comment-7043 I'm sure part of Marvel's move here is also to try and seduce back people who already trade comics digitally (although illegally) on the torrent networks. In case you hadn't heard of this, I am told that scanners scan the books into JPGs at very high quality - most even do color correction, etc to make the pages really look nice. They then archive them into special archive formats (essentially renamed ZIP or RAR files). Then you can view them using a handful of apps available just for this purpose. Or so I am told. I of course would never participate in such blatant theft, especially of creative material. I may check this out, its cheap enough and I spend that much each month on sillier things. Though the samples they have look great, once you zoom in the text gets a bit fuzzy. I am hoping this is because they're samples and not an indication of the quality they are charging a premium for. I’m sure part of Marvel’s move here is also to try and seduce back people who already trade comics digitally (although illegally) on the torrent networks.

In case you hadn’t heard of this, I am told that scanners scan the books into JPGs at very high quality - most even do color correction, etc to make the pages really look nice. They then archive them into special archive formats (essentially renamed ZIP or RAR files). Then you can view them using a handful of apps available just for this purpose.

Or so I am told. I of course would never participate in such blatant theft, especially of creative material.

I may check this out, its cheap enough and I spend that much each month on sillier things. Though the samples they have look great, once you zoom in the text gets a bit fuzzy. I am hoping this is because they’re samples and not an indication of the quality they are charging a premium for.

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