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From: Tom Harrington on 8 Apr 2010 16:07 In article <hpl5fq$m62$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > The younger generation has finally dragged me into the social nitwitting > "revolution." > > But after a mere four days on FaceBook, I've already been reprimanded > for not displaying a photo. There's an iSight staring me in the face, > so I clicked a "take picture" icon on FaceBook. I didn't see how it > could work with any reasonable security set-up, but I clicked it anyway. > > Large box appeared with one word inside (loading or working or something > like that--not on screen anymore). Nothing else > happened for fifteen to thirty minutes, then I shut down. I don't know where that is in Facebook and I can't find it right now. In the past I've seen that kind of thing working via Flash. It had to get permission before it was allowed to take a picture. Maybe you have ClickToFlash or some other Flash blocker installed and the picture system is failing as a result? In any case, using PhotoBooth and then uploading the resulting photo should work fine. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Jolly Roger on 8 Apr 2010 16:47 In article <hpl5fq$m62$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > The younger generation has finally dragged me into the social nitwitting > "revolution." > > But after a mere four days on FaceBook, I've already been reprimanded > for not displaying a photo. There's an iSight staring me in the face, > so I clicked a "take picture" icon on FaceBook. I didn't see how it > could work with any reasonable security set-up, but I clicked it anyway. > > Large box appeared with one word inside (loading or working or something > like that--not on screen anymore). Nothing else > happened for fifteen to thirty minutes, then I shut down. You shut down what? Hopefully not the entire computer... The camera function is based on Flash. No surprise, then, that it's buggy as heck. You're better off taking the snapshot in Photo Booth, and using the Facebook "Upload Picture" facility, frankly. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Ian Gregory on 8 Apr 2010 18:12 On 2010-04-08, Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > In article <hpl5fq$m62$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > >> The younger generation has finally dragged me into the social nitwitting >> "revolution." > > I've always ignored such things, on the grounds that such sites, AFAICT, > demand to own everything you upload Clearly they have to ask you to give them a non-exclusive right to distribute, otherwise they could not legally run their own site. Beyond that, I have not heard of any that ask you to give up your own right to distribute. Ian -- Ian Gregory http://www.zenatode.org.uk/
From: Wes Groleau on 8 Apr 2010 21:27 On 04-08-2010 16:07, Tom Harrington wrote: > Wes Groleau<Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: >> so I clicked a "take picture" icon on FaceBook. I didn't see how it >> could work with any reasonable security set-up, but I clicked it anyway. >> Large box appeared with one word inside (loading or working or something >> like that--not on screen anymore). Nothing else >> happened for fifteen to thirty minutes, then I shut down. > I don't know where that is in Facebook and I can't find it right now. The word was "Loading" and the link/icon is right under the space with the gray silhouette where they think my picture should be. > In the past I've seen that kind of thing working via Flash. It had to > get permission before it was allowed to take a picture. Maybe you have > ClickToFlash or some other Flash blocker installed and the picture > system is failing as a result? Neither. And for that matter, when I clicked the same icon on the iPhone facebook app, it did activate the camera, and after I "snapped," it returned to facebook and asked me to click "upload." Interestingly, when I did so, it created an "album" on facebook, but did _not_ put the picture in the frame above the "take a picture" link! Then when I click 'edit' on the picture frame, it won't let me take the picture from the album--it wants me to upload one from the computer! Sounds like it's as well-thought out as one gem from the IRS (see .sig) -- Wes Groleau To err is human, ... http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=3029
From: Warren Oates on 9 Apr 2010 08:39
In article <4bbe3d58$0$24219$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > It is interesting to find a generation who swear by facebook and nothing > else, and they don't care to use email to inform people privately of stuff. We used to use the telephone. It's private, and in times of crisis or tragedy there's always someone (family or close friend) who's willing to do the 'phoning. Does the telephone not work anymore, now that everyone seems to have one in his pocket? -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer |