*Fading photos* Photopoint comes up blank, frustrating digital camera users

msNBC ^ | 01.05.01 | Lisa Somebody that tells us squat!

[Registered]

Frankly, I'm surprised this story isn't all over the place. 1.2 million users just sitting around picking their noses?

[Registered]

Oh, here's a great link to eBayers that are picking their noses waiting for Photopoint news...

[Timesink]

The safety and integrity of our members’ photos has always been, and will continue to be, our number one priority."

Of course, even your number one priority is meaningless if you go out of business.

[Registered]

Perfect illustration.

Caption reads, "I just paid my Photopoint bill, wonder when they'll come back online?"

[Howlin]

“We’re still probably three, four years away from where digital cameras will outsell film.

Well, on the one hand, I'm ahead of my time.

On the other hand, I've been had.

Maybe some day some nice, kind person will tell me how to upload my pictures to my Road Runner web site (she sez, in her best Blanche DeBuis accent.)

"I've always depended on the kindness of strangers."

[Registered]

Well, I'm probably not the best person to instruct you, I lack patience when it comes to "instructing others"...so if you're not willing to email me the pics along with your domain, user id and password information you might want to look elsewhere ;-)

[Howlin]

Well, geez, I'll leave the password to my Zone Alarm at the end of this thread. Then help yourself! (They're all yours anyway :-)

[Registered]

Another caption, sung to the Dr. Pepper theme.."I'M A PICKER, YOU'RE A PICKER, WOULDN'T CHA LIKE TO BE A PICKER TOO?"

[Registered]

Just send me the information Darlin and I promise to chew it up and forget it once I'm done...oh, and send me your credit card numbers along with SS#, DOB, and home phone. Thanks.

[jrherreid]

Or how about "Digital camera, $300. Adobe Photoshop, $100. Paying $20 a year to store your pictures on a nonexistent website, priceless."

[Skibane]

NO ACCOUNTABILITY ON THE INTERNET: Reason Number 73 why the Net PC was another one of Larry Ellison's bad ideas!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Then again, there's always Photoisland.com.

 

[Bush2000]

NO ACCOUNTABILITY ON THE INTERNET: Reason Number 73 why the Net PC was another one of Larry Ellison's bad ideas!

"The network is the computer"; hence, the network is down.

[Howlin]

Just use Laz's like we all did during the last Freepathon.

[agitator]

One panicked user told him every photo he’d taken of his toddler was stored on Photopoint.

What a maroon.

Has it occurred to anybody besides me that paper is as close to permanent as we know it for photographic purposes but digital is is only as good as the technological standard? When was the last time anybody broke out their Super 8 movie projector? That was 25 years ago. How many people still have turntables that work? RLL hard drives and first generation IDE went away 10 years ago. People act like computers have been around forever when I remember multitasking with Desqview under DOS 3.1 and Windoze is effectively a whole 8 years old. Anybody wanna guess on how long current digital storage technology lasts?

[Chapita]

Can't digital photos be stored on a floppy or CD?

[Uncle Sausage]

Try Ofoto at ofoto.com. It's run by Kodak (lots of opportunities to buy prints) so it should be the last one standing, it's free and apparently no mb limit. I've got 19 albums there, one with 162 images and another one with 138. It provides a decent way to share photos with friends and family.

I store my images on my hard disk and a Zip disk as well. Hope to get them on a CDRW someday.

[agitator]

Yeah, digital photos can be stored on floppies or cd's but if you had stored digital photos on a 5-1/4" floppy 7 years ago, do you have a 5-1/4" drive to read those floppies today? My point is that paper sits there. If it's good quality photographic paper, it will still be sitting there 100 years from now. If you don't revise your digital media storage to the latest hardware and software standard every time a new standard arises, one of these days, you're not going to be able to see those pictures anymore. The National Archives is having a fit over this very problem.

[Uncle Sausage]

Transferred my Super 8's to video ages ago ('course thats obsolete now, too) but still have the films and projector; still have a turntable that works and still have a computer with a 5-1/4. Still have about about a thousand prints in a box somewhere. Gonna index them someday, too.