1980 Nickel strange coating

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by Glenn Anthony, Jul 22, 2017.

  1. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    Whatever! I don't know the correct technical term to use. All I know is that they are going to start charging users who store their photos on their site to use for displaying them on some other site. Any way you look at it, they won't be free.

    The other drawback to this change is that anyone who decides to migrate their images to another site will either have to update every single image that has previously been posted to sites like CT or they will end up with a big red X where those photos once existed.

    Chris
     
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  3. cpm9ball

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    PHOTOBUCKET LAUNCHES UNLIMITED 3RD PARTY HOSTING PLANPosted by Photobucket Press+ on Jul 6, 2017 in Press Releases | No Comments
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  4. Burton Strauss III

    Burton Strauss III Brother can you spare a trime? Supporter

    And PhotoSuckIt really doesn't care... they are trying to find a business model that pays for storage and connectivity costs. Advertising didn't cut it, so what is left except charging users directly?
     
  5. Muzyck

    Muzyck Rabbits!

    Actually you can still store photos on Photobucket and upload to Cointalk without paying a fee. That is what gets lost in the "whatever" type of distinction between uploading and linking. That is the significant change in the "Third Party Hosting" provision. If the photos are linked when Photobucket puts the block on an account it is for all photos and they will replace the linked image with this (or at least this is what they were doing)...

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  6. ldhair

    ldhair Clean Supporter

    Between CT, CU and NGC, I have posted several thousand images using Photobucket. They are all going to go away if I don't pay the bucket $399 per year to keep them up. I have been watching them slowly go away the last few weeks.
    I'm really sad about this. No way I can find and fix the link on that many images.
     
  7. BlackBeard_Thatch

    BlackBeard_Thatch Captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge

    I just use Imgur and use the Forum Link they provide(BBCode)
     
  8. ldhair

    ldhair Clean Supporter

    That's how it works.
     
  9. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    What coating are you referring about? Nickels do not have a clad layer like Quarters and Dimes.
    Slight red could be Environmental Damage. Nickel changes colors to brown, orange and red when buried.
     
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  10. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    We are raising an entire generation of passive receivers, uninterested in the intellectual effort required to draw their own conclusions regarding what to think and do. They prefer to believe what they're fed, and they're being fed the belief that another layer of software complexity is necessary for online forums.
     
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  11. ldhair

    ldhair Clean Supporter

    It's always been that way. It's not new. Nothing is different from the past.
     
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  12. moneycostingmemoney

    moneycostingmemoney Yukon Coriolis

    Agreed. The perpetual motion of societal progression.
     
  13. SuperDave

    SuperDave Free the Cartwheels!

    I had to write essay answers on Social Studies tests. Now people are posting threads with single-letter words and "fake news" is an actual thing simply because nobody will think for themselves. My sig line is for a reason.
     
  14. Burton Strauss III

    Burton Strauss III Brother can you spare a trime? Supporter

    Yeah and I had to find and cite primary sources. Wikipedia didn't exist and would not have been accepted.

    But even then standards were slipping... I had to write a paper for Wednesday night at the war movies (HIS286, Film Images of the Pacific War) and quoted from the US Army's official history. Prof (Full Professor no less) wanted to know where I had found such a fabulous source. So I gave him the location in the stacks of his own library.
     
  15. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Translation: Yeah, we found out that nobody pays attention to banner ads and nobody wants to see any ad that will get their attention, so they now use ad-blockers. So now you have to pay, even though we previously let you believe you wouldn't have to, so there.

    This change of "space" took longer than many of my predictions to come true, but now it has.

    There is ONLY ONE Internet truth: "If you ain't paying for it, you're the product, not the customer." Hence I EAGERLY fork over my 99 cents a month for paid iCloud storage from Apple.

    All Photobucket users have a great defense - learn how to handle your photo hosting and/or linking another way. "There's no such thing as a free lunch." I have posted quite a few images on CT, and NOT A SINGLE ONE has ever been a hotlink.
     
  16. cpm9ball

    cpm9ball CANNOT RE-MEMBER

    Translate the translation: "Now that we have you by the nerts, we're gonna squeeze until it hurts."

    Chris
     
  17. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Why have you ever expected ANY OTHER outcome? It was never a matter of "if" this change would happen, only "when". The entire Internet ad-supported business model has NEVER been viable, from Day One.
     
  18. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    This is why these millennial jabronies think they can't live without 128 Gigs of storage on their phones. That and stupid games.

    I've had a 64Gig iPhone SE since the day it came out, and a 64Gig iPod 6th Gen that is now out of warranty, and I've never used even HALF the storage on either one of them.
     
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  19. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Dave, we've met. You strike me as being from the "filling up Blue Books with page after page of longhand written brilliance" generation, but just barely. When I got my degree, computers on my campus were mainframes, we programmed in BASIC, and our programs were stored on paper punch tape that went through a reader on a TTY terminal. There were no computer courses at all. Computers were tools one used to run experiment data and calculate polynomial curves to fit the data.
     
  20. Burton Strauss III

    Burton Strauss III Brother can you spare a trime? Supporter

    Hah - piker. REAL Programmers didn't use BASIC - BEGINNERS All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was for lib arts weenies.

    Real programmers could whistle in ASCII and get the ASR-33 teletype's 110 baud modem to respond...
     
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  21. V. Kurt Bellman

    V. Kurt Bellman Yes, I'm blunt! Get over your "feeeeelings".

    Betcha you could make free long distance calls too.
     
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