The_Mather1

No one with 64-bit Win 7 and a Realtak internet port can see it.

Lei... Tinypic... Are you blind or something?

It loads now. The problem is the incompatibility between the Win 7 64-Bit Realtek network driver and the Tinypic data packages.

Lei, you are telling TIF to load the pictures from a URL that doesn't exist, you have to upload them first, you can't just link to your harddrive. Iey, I sugguest uploading the .png file again, but instead use another host such as imgur or photobucket.

Well [cabbage], turns out it's a packet/driver error. The Win7 Pro 64-bit version of the Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller network port driver is apparently incapable of handling the packet format employed by Tinypic. And I can't fix it because I have no older driver to roll back to. And what you're talking about is the same company, not the same ISP server, that's like saying with mobile broadband I connect to the same cellular mast wherever I use it. And there is indeed a cable between my house and the EB HQ a km or two away, because I have fiber-optic cable, something which they're the only one to employ here yet.

No, but I don't think anyone else here has EB as their ISP. Because you know ISPs seldom cover an area larger than a city.

Yes, because the problem would have to be somewhere between MY ISP and one or more of the tinypic servers.

It's not they that do it, it's tinypic. And this is a network based error, else the pics would load as corrupted.

Leaving it for a few days is not going to work, it won't just suddenly stop not working. It's not my cookies or something like that either, I've had problems with it on the MSPFA forum as well, being unable to read one of the fanadventures in any browser unles I'm at school. Lei, this is not an URL: http://c/Users/Celeste/Pictures/Photos/Gifs/for_loneshadowlynx_by_rocket_out-d4acen3.gif You have to upload the .gif for anyone apart from yourself to be able to view it. Archi, twitter works by you following people, when they tweet something it'll show up for you on twitter as a small banner that says the number of new tweets and loads them when you click on it, when you tweet it will show up for your followers. It's practically the same as a Facebook wall, except with character limitation and no commenting and liking and it's entirely public, to respond to something you have to reply with a tweet of your own.

Nope just checked, it'f [bleep]ing timypic that's [bleep]ing up. And in Lei's case it's just that she linked to the picture's location on her harddrive... -.-

The problem is not on my end, it's not my computer that is unable to render them, they just never load, leaving my browser in a perpetual loading state. The problem could be between my internet provider and the image hosts, but in order for that to be fixed they would have to be reuploaded. You don't happen to have them uploaded on imgur and just linked to here, do you?

It's also on Twitter. And Iey, Lei and Nex, I think you should reupload your avatars, they don't load.

He's actually working on that. The gifs and flashes are going to represented by series of pictures, though, so the internet version will probably still be better. It's going to be a book, not a comic series, so it can't really be used for comparison here. On an unrelated note I just ate a slab of meat the size of my head and gained 0.3 BMI in the process... And I'm sort of wishing for a dessert.

If Hussie somehow managed to pack the gifs and flash objects into a physical comic then I'd probably subscribe to it and I'd definitively rather do that than subscribe to any other comic.

Because they reach a niche audience, and only the internet can deliver? :razz: Gamer comics, for example. A lot of humor that very few people are going to get. I mean, what newspaper is going to print a black comedy Pokemon comic? There's a very small audience for that kind of thing. Also because readers would rather pay by having an add on each page than by paying actual money, and that way the artist will have a steady income while still working at a pace they're comfortable with. I'm pretty sure MSPA has almost as many readers as Donald Duck & Co, if not more.

As usual they just started the trend, not the tech.

Actually HTC beat him to that when they were under a different name. What they made looked more like PDAs but they were phones, my dad had one of those maybe 5 or more years ago

I'm not cheering, I'm just looking forward to a brighter future.

I'm just saying, a lot of people have committed suicide over things in which computers took part, and they would probably never have been using computers in the first place if not for him making the first graphic OS. Also there are probably some that have killed themselves because they didn't want to live in a world where such a hipster company could get so big.

Just get an Android, they've got more free stuff anyways and are much easier to use. They also have a "desktop".

iPhones/Ipod Touchs/Ipads have Youtube and Gmail already set up, all you need to do is set up your password and BAM, it's all set up. You can download a google+ app (ten seconds max) and enter your password and BAM, it's all set up. Also iPhones have skype without requiring a jailbreak. You need more than a password to log into the account. And Androids have the registering/logging in to the Google account as part of the setup of the phone itself, after that the phone automatically signs you in to any Google service. And yeah, it was only for iPads that Apple removed the Skype app because it was too convenient. Nex, if you count being the cause of their suicide then I'm pretty sure that makes a LOT of people.

Those are apps designed for it, that's just like saying GameBoys are compatible with millions of other things. With "whatever those [bleep]ed up ports that iProducts use" I was not talking about USB and Firewire, those are the computer-side ports, I was talking about those that port iPods and iPhones (and presumably iPads) have at the bottom so that you can put them on top of docking stations. Most things that have those also have USB ports, so do almost everything else. And while you can just use the cable that comes with the device, it's not an international standard (just an Apple standard) and so you can't get a replacement at every electronics store and the convenience is gone. They did the mistake HTC did not, and developed a cable that while innovative, is not compatible with any existing standard. If you lose the cable for your iPhone you have to go search for a new one, if you lose the cable for an HTC you can just reach into any pile of data cables and there's a 25% chance you grab one you can use at the first attempt.

"Everything works together"? Can you even tell me one thing the iPad works together with? Also yes, I'm aware that Windows sucks, but it's better than MacOS and no one buys Windows phones anyways. Google however has everything work exactly the way it should right away. Androids, Youtube, Gmail, Google+ etc. they're all made so that you only need to enter your email and password and BAM, it's all set up. Also Androids have Skype without requiring a jailbreak. Oh, and more things have a mini/extUSB than whatever those [bleep]ed up ports iProducts use are called. I'm definitively changing OS the moment Google comes out with a non-Linux-based one.

He was the face of Apple, even if the products don't change quality (if that is even possible), the public response will.

iMacs are a bit too "mainstream" today to really say most of the users are mainstream. Normal people will soon begin to understand that they're basically getting robbed when it comes to price versus quality however. And while I do admit that iPods have earned their fame, I still believe the iPhone fad will die down and in the end hTC, Android and maybe Samsung will rule the smartphone market. hTC because of their experience (having made smartphones for years already), Android because of the sheer size and innovation of Google and Samsung because they were the phone company that adapted to the fad the fastest out of the big ones.