{"id":295,"date":"2006-04-05T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T16:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=295"},"modified":"2006-04-05T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T16:04:29","slug":"a-rare-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"A rare opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was out and we saw an amazing sight: To the west was a brilliant sunset, and to the east that sunset shone into a storm and created a huge, vibrant double rainbow that reached across the entire sky.  In all my 34 years, I&#8217;ve never seen one like it before.  I didn&#8217;t have my digital camera with me, but I did have <a href=\"?p=156\">my phone<\/a>, which has a built-in camera.  We pulled over and I started shooting.  Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Today I uploaded the pictures to find out how they turned out.  I then found out something interesting: My phone can take pictures at the &#8220;high&#8221; resolution of 640&#215;480, the &#8220;medium&#8221; of 320&#215;240, or the &#8220;low&#8221; of 160&#215;120.  Laying aside the fact that the &#8220;high&#8221; resoultion is lower than the &#8220;low&#8221; resoultion of most self-respecting cameras these days: Guess which of the three is the default?<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/sprint_pcs_sucks_1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/sprint_pcs_sucks_2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/sprint_pcs_sucks_3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/sprint_pcs_sucks_4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/sprint_pcs_sucks_5.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<div class=dmnotes>\nDear Sprint PCS: <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to have a camera with three settings, &#8220;small&#8221;, &#8220;miniscule&#8221;, and &#8220;useless&#8221;, can you <strong>at least<\/strong> have it set to &#8220;small&#8221; by default? For crying out loud.  What possible use could anyone have for 160 x 120 pictures?\n<\/div>\n<p>What a bloody shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was out and we saw an amazing sight: To the west was a brilliant sunset, and to the east that sunset shone into a storm and created a huge, vibrant double rainbow that reached across the entire sky. In all my 34 years, I&#8217;ve never seen one like it before. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}