Saw something strange...
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A screen shot? They are modern! We received photographs of screens taken with a digital camera. At least they did not use an analog camera and then faxed the photo (after scanning the photo, doing some photoshop, and printing it again).
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A screen shot? They are modern! We received photographs of screens taken with a digital camera. At least they did not use an analog camera and then faxed the photo (after scanning the photo, doing some photoshop, and printing it again).
Bernhard Hiller wrote:
We received photographs of screens taken with a digital camera.
I've been guilty of that when I need to quickly make some data portable (for my own use only, I would never send that to someone else, if you're going to use email a screenshot would be easier anyways) :-O
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Someone sent me a screenshot of Snipping Tool containing another screenshot. I'm still trying to puzzle out the thought process that led to that.
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I have made a similar picture and uploaded to TinyPic. I have snipped the picture of this thread in IE11 on Windows 8.1 running in VirtualBox with the W8.1 Snipping Tool and snipped again with the Snipping Tool of the W7 host :)
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I have made a similar picture and uploaded to TinyPic. I have snipped the picture of this thread in IE11 on Windows 8.1 running in VirtualBox with the W8.1 Snipping Tool and snipped again with the Snipping Tool of the W7 host :)
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Someone sent me a screenshot of Snipping Tool containing another screenshot. I'm still trying to puzzle out the thought process that led to that.
I've received a screen capture of Microsoft Paint displaying a screen capture :wtf:.
Software Zen:
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How did they even manage it? I can't get it to open twice, and it hides as soon as you start selecting a region :doh: (unless they PrintScreen'd the snipping tool)
1. CTRL+PRINTSCREEN 2. WIN+R => "pbrush" 3. CTRL+V 4. Crop 5. CTRL+S (alternatively, CTRL+A,C if your mail client lets you paste images into mail)
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1. CTRL+PRINTSCREEN 2. WIN+R => "pbrush" 3. CTRL+V 4. Crop 5. CTRL+S (alternatively, CTRL+A,C if your mail client lets you paste images into mail)
Right...I said Print Screen was an option... :doh: I generally see the pattern that a person usually uses one method or the other of getting screen shots, not both. So if they were using the snipping tool, I would assume they somehow used the snipping tool to get the screen shot of the snipping tool.
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A screen shot? They are modern! We received photographs of screens taken with a digital camera. At least they did not use an analog camera and then faxed the photo (after scanning the photo, doing some photoshop, and printing it again).
That's nothing! We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank... Python references aside, I think I can top that. I've actually seen a *system* where they did something about as clever: One program generated contracts from document templates and some data. The resulting doc was then turned into a TIFF image by automating Word, server-side, and print it using a TIFF printer driver. This image file was then run through OCR logic to extract from the document the data that you originally started with in order to generate the document. The reason for this wonderful design? Everything else that was to happen whenever a contract was entered into was tightly coupled to a scanning solution from a time when all contracts were received physically by snail-mail and scanned in order to be processed by computer. The scanning solution wasn't actually very old, but the people who owned it had more influence than the people owning documents. It's amazing what convoluted silliness can survive out there in the wild. And that, in part, is why I can believe Elon Musk when he says it's perfectly possible to build a transportation system that costs 1/10th of a bullet train to set up, is safe, runs on solar, and about twice as fast as an airplane... Of course, our industry still easily gets the top spot for wasteful idiocy. Taking a few bytes of character data and turning it into a TIFF image of millions of bytes most of which are not even related to the data of interest, then doing OCR to get (most of) the data back again (most of the time) is surely serveral million times more complicated, and several million times more work, than almost any straightforward mechanism. Maybe there is hope for the future. If we can be this crazy in software, who's to say existing transport systems, or energy useage in general, isn't simply the result of narrow thinking and attempts to improve what already exists? By starting with a clean sheet, it may well be possible to do radically better in a lot of areas.
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Right...I said Print Screen was an option... :doh: I generally see the pattern that a person usually uses one method or the other of getting screen shots, not both. So if they were using the snipping tool, I would assume they somehow used the snipping tool to get the screen shot of the snipping tool.
Yes. And I think someone was wide awake and wanted to create this littly mystery. AFAIK you can only run one instance of snipping tool. :) One other possibility I can think of is a remote desktop session. You could pull up the tool on the remote computer and then be distracted, say by an email, and then fire up the tool on the local machine. The tool captures remote desktop output just as easily as anything else on screen, so I suppose this way you could end up with a capture of snipping tool showing it's fresh capture.
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I've received a screen capture of Microsoft Paint displaying a screen capture :wtf:.
Software Zen:
delete this;I have seen one where that goes 6 levels deep. X|
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