So, now, the Linux machine is more expensive, and perceived to be worse.
This is not good if you want Linux to succeed in the marketplace. Well, this strategy of being worse and costing more seems to have worked well for Microsoft all there years.
What I'd like is some simple tweaks to the interface.
For instance, the ability to delete photos by range (e.g., this photo and all previous ones). Useful when you download the photos to the computer, forget to delete them from the camera, and discovers that after taking one more photo: shit! Now you have to delete all the other 400 photos one by one.
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This is not good if you want Linux to succeed in the marketplace. Well, this strategy of being worse and costing more seems to have worked well for Microsoft all there years.
What I'd like is some simple tweaks to the interface.
For instance, the ability to delete photos by range (e.g., this photo and all previous ones). Useful when you download the photos to the computer, forget to delete them from the camera, and discovers that after taking one more photo: shit! Now you have to delete all the other 400 photos one by one.
They are already doing that, e.g. encrypting the firmware in the 350D model.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=23803446
Sir Newton, is that you?
Isn't it unfair to compare Ubuntu 8.04 to Fedora 8?
Fedora 9 will be launched soon, they could have used the beta.
Fedora 8 could be compared to Ubuntu 7.10
No, Rails is ugly.
Ruby is not just beautiful, but great.
Rails is just making bad publicity for Ruby.
I was expecting the big-foot icon.
Neither.
What I find it ridiculous is this counter-intuitive behavior of a self-resizing text area.
Until now I thought I was a bug of the 2.4 version.
How can basketball work without gravity? It plays a key role in the play.
Not to wonder.
You see, there's this lucrative spam business, that survives only because of this same kind of people.
He's talking about the map data (roads, cities, borders, etc), not satellite and aerial images.
Funny?!!
That was supposed to be a troll.
You mods never get it...
Ignore it?
Well, the title of the post alone is not that offtopic.
Looks like we'll celebrate the end of the dark microsoft empire sooner than I expected.
Nice, and the new reply system is great, but I think there's too much vertical space wasted by the gray "Replay to This" and "Parent" buttons.
Right.
For example, the electrons move slowly on the wire, yet the light turns on "instantly" after you press the switch.
The only thing that has no dimensions is the abstract mathematical concept of a "point".
Even a single proton has dimensions.
Yes, you can't measure the black hole, but it's not the same as it having no dimensions.
They talk about preventing information sharing at the "Tech Museum of Innovation".
...Vista victim.
what does youtube has to do with this story?
there are plenty other better uses for this tech.
Now, imagine the size of the squirrel!
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/UsYour.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/your.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-You're-and-Your
Now try again:
http://www.english-zone.com/verbs/your1.html
The nVIDIA engineers who designed the chips are, well, pretty busy designing chips.
Yes, we can make better drivers for Linux, and maybe Microsoft can make better for Windows.
Even if that is not the case, they wouldn't be responsible for quality of the drivers.
probably won't make into hardy heron