Nikon And Bill Gates - A Match Made In Heaven

[CoolToolGuy]

A note from CES in Las Vegas:


In his keynote speech, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates showed off the possibilities of shooting pictures on a high-end $5,000 Nikon digital camera and sending them instantly to a PC — without wires. He then gave the clear impression that all Nikon consumer level point-and-shoot digital "Coolpix" cameras would have this feature this year. That was news to Nikon reps, who had no new Wi-Fi cameras on display and said they wouldn't have any in the coming months.
"Bill went a little far," says Jerry Grossman, Nikon's vice president of marketing.

What Nikon will have this year is one Coolpix Wi-Fi camera — probably by the holidays.



With Nikon's track record, the camera might be announced by the 2005 holiday season, with delivery at some future date.

The full article:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-07-ces-side_x.htm

Have Fun,

[lensmen]

and it is going to crash twice a day with the "blue screen of death"

[Cadwell]

and it is going to crash twice a day with the "blue screen of death"

We're talking Nik*n here... it'd be the "off-blue screen of death" ;)

[robertwgross]

So, let me get this straight.

I'm shooting a wedding with my Nikon, and the camera freezes up. I have to reboot from floppy disk?

---Bob Gross---

[Jon]

. . . if you don't need to reimage the camera.

[Longwatcher]

So, let me get this straight.

I'm shooting a wedding with my Nikon, and the camera freezes up. I have to reboot from floppy disk?

---Bob Gross---

Plus it will take you the rest of the weekend to reset your preferences, which you will also have to do after every firmwear update.

And not to forget being infected with a virus that will spread with every picture sent over the internet.

On the dangerous side, Microsoft maybe getting set to buy Nikon, give out free cameras for two years until nobody else can compete and then "for the convience of the customers" design them so they only work with MS windows to kill off the remaining camera manufacturers. Not like it hasn't happened before and isn't happening again with "free" anti-virus software.

[Bodog]

Also, Bill retains the copyright to your images... ;)

[Bodryn]

Ah, poor Bill. He couldn't run for dogcatcher and win. If you really want to see what the guy is like, read a book called "Barbarians Led By Bill Gates" written by a software developer who left Micro$oft after 13 years because he just couldn't take Bill anymore. At least be thankful that Bill is no longer CEO, he's just chairman. I'm still mad at him for taking software off the market rather than offer it at greatly reduced prices. I'm enraged because he ran every other OS out of the mainstream market and forced this clown of a faulty operating system down our throats. And then with Win XP you have to register it with them or it quits working. Grrrr! My next computer will probably be a Unix based Mac OS X.

[csondagar]

at least the camera will offer:

- fast startup - in about 6mins
- fast transfer photos from camera to computer - 1% to 99% in 0.0183 secs and the last 1% in 23mins and 42 seconds

and now with improved windows xp security service patch and beta version of ms antispyware your computer will never be hacked or infected with viruses. instead your camera will.

[Lisard]

If Microsoft starts making software for digital cameras and it will become an industry's standard like Windows - I AM GOING BACK TO FILM!!!!!!

[gramps]

If Microsoft starts making software for digital cameras and it will become an industry's standard like Windows - I AM GOING BACK TO FILM!!!!!!
I'll be back to film also...............now I know why I kept my A1

[defordphoto]

Aw, come on, Bob. You know better than that! You'll have to [ctrl+alt+del] to get it started again.

With a wireless keyboard that won't work because it was the wireless module that caused the OBSOD. :shock:

[Bodryn]

Is it true that Bill :twisted: is working on a thumbnail sized chip that can be inserted directly into the brain?

[CoolToolGuy]

Is it true that Bill :twisted: is working on a thumbnail sized chip that can be inserted directly into the brain?
Geez, so you can transmit images from your brain to your PC? Then we won't even need the camera! :rolleyes:

Have Fun,

[JAZZ D.P.G.]

Actually, he is after all the unused computing power in the brains of the average consumer!

He'd be further ahead going after the brains of policticians, more bang for the buck!

Download pictures? No, your whole life! (Arnie's Total Recall)

[Jon]

Actually, he is after all the unused computing power in the brains of the average consumer!

He'd be further ahead going after the brains of policticians, more bang for the buck!

Download pictures? No, your whole life! (Arnie's Total Recall)
You're assuming that they have any unused capacity, that they're not already running at (or over) their design limits (sorta like XP on a Z-80 with 64 K and SSSD floppies).

[JAZZ D.P.G.]

Hey careful with that one, I think I have a Commodore 64 around here somewhere!

[blinking8s]

Hey careful with that one, I think I have a Commodore 64 around here somewhere!

thats the best thing ive heard all day..that is just AWESOME