Month: December 2002

New Fox show – Joe Millionaire

Ashley Bischoff5 Comments

Metafilter makes mention of a new show on Fox, Joe Millionaire. There's a bit of a spoiler below, so stop reading now if you don’t want to hear it (granted, it’s a spoiler that will probably be widely known by the audience watching the show).

“Joe” features 20 single women who fly to France in order to win the affection of a hand-some American they believe to be worth $50 million. The twist: The as-yet unidentified man is actually a construction worker with an annual income of $19,000. […]

As a fan of “reality tv”, this could be interesting.

Proposal for Easier Photo Printing

Ashley Bischoff2 Comments

PC World reports that various camera makers are working on a standard to ease photo printing.

A group of six digital still camera makers and printer vendors, including Sony and Hewlett-Packard, have jointly proposed a new industry standard that allows images recorded by a digital still camera to be printed out without using a computer, they announced on Monday.

The DPS standard—which is a name, not an acronym—is being proposed by Canon, Sony, HP, Fuji Photo Film, Olympus Optical, and Seiko Epson. […]

I’m pleased to hear that, though if I buy a new digicam within the next couple weeks (which is currently the plan), I suppose it won’t have that feature. C'est la vie.