Try darktable - I switched a few years ago and haven't looked back. www.darktable.org google 'darktable from a to z' for a full youtube tutorial

citation needed. English is spoken more widely because it is everywhere. It is easier to learn a language when most of the media that you consume uses it.

What a prefect pun

That's the thing. Watching Castle and seeing that Rick Castle has an iPhone, or that Detective Beckett has a Palm Pre? Eh, whatever. They're probably going to have a cell phone, like most of the people in the US. As long as you're not throwing that device into my face really obnoxiously, I don't care what it is.

Especially if the phone doesn't fit the personality/work/hobby. e.g. in Tron Legacy, Sam is running around with a Nokia N8. Surely a Unix geek as would choose a N900 :)

One of the reasons Nintendo gave for region-locking the 3DS was for differences customizing each region for the best experience, like language. So, clearly, since Europe has so many languages, the need to pay more. I guess.

Why would you need region locking for that? If someone needs the extra language then they will buy the localised, more expensive, version. If people do not care and would rather buy the cheaper english version then probably localisation isn't needed after all.

Funny how people blast Wii gamers because it's not as "shiny 3d" as the Xbox360 or the PS3, but when the topic switches to 3D movies the Wii gamers are suddenly right, i.e. the content is more important than the presentation.

What makes you believe that the sides do not switch between arguements?!

"consumer-grade hardware"

Speak for yourself. Some of us use enterprise-level hardware for our Linux machines.

Well, 1 should be self-explanetory, 3 has been done before, 5 doesn't go into a nice layout, neither does 7, and 9 is a lot of monitors.

4) Vista SP 1 fixed a lot of performance-related bugs. In other words, pre-SP1, Vista was slow and buggy: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistadesktopui/thread/30c9c7f3-2cc4-426a-9db9-885086ff183e/ That bug for example was fixed, but the crucial point is, it was there when Vista was rolled out and everyone and their dog wrote reviews. Recovering a ruined reputation is hard.

Of course Atheists are charitable. Altruism is a human trait that we perpetuate in spite of any religious conditioning. Some of the most thoughtful and kind people I know are atheists.

Though, I will add, the bit about the lawsuit is rather excessive. While, yes, I see why there are laws that govern things like handicap accessibility in buildings and jobs, but when you're playing what is, essentially, visual media... that's starting to stretch it. Thanks to nerve damage sustained from a Hot Wheel car when I was a kid, I am unable to diverge my eyes.... maybe I could sue the Magic Eye people.

The CDC estimates 22M cases among Americans through mid-October. The actual number is probably close to 30M by now, which is nearly 1 in 10. Since most people know roughly 100 other people, that means the poll averages should be closer to 10, not 2-5, and *certainly* not "none at all." Most people who picked the "None" option are either willfully ignorant or woefully uninformed.

Okay, if you want to take that approach (and personally, I consider the CDC as full of shit on this one - No way have they actually confirmed 22M cases, they've gone by MD reporting, which currently consists of "You have flu symptoms? Go away. Swine flu. Have a script for Tamiflu, and consider yourself yet another statistic"), let me clarify my answer of "none":

If I know anyone with the swine flu, then, as per my expectations, it counts as nothing worse than every other yearly flu contracted by millions of people. No one that I know dead, no one that I know knocked on their ass any harder than by any other flu, no one that I know who even felt the need to go to the doctor for treatment.

So Swine Flu? I can't with 100% certainty say "none". I can, however, say with 100% certaintly that no one has caught the media-feeding-frenzy, FUD-of-the-year plague-to-end-all-plagues.

Oh, I understand. You jumped straight into a thread without understanding what it is about.

You try to discredit me through attacking my character, instead of attacking my premise. I don't think you even understand my premise.

I never suggested there was less malware for Windows than OS X (cause obviously Windows is littered with it). I never suggested to ignore bugs (where did you get this from?). All I suggested was that Windows Vista/7 has many security features built in that Mac OS X does not. And it is of my opinion, for example, a person surfing with IE8 in Vista/7 is more secure than that of a person surfing Safari on OS X. However, I still think you are more likely going to be targeted on a Windows platform than an Apple one - so while the security of product might be better or on par with Mac OS X, it will be more likely of the 2 to have malware.

Being a target does not make a product less secure, but rather makes security problems more likely to arise.

I do think it's a baseless and obviously biased claim when people say Mac OS X security is fantastic, and in the same breath say Windows is so far behind in this department. This people are usually Mac fanboy's or M$ bashers.

You, I think, are just an idiot.

I just tried Moses' online demo for French-->English. 'J'aime pas le chocolat' is translated to 'I am not chocolate' and 'Je n'aime pas le chocolat' to 'I do not like the choclate'
I guess state-of-the-art is still far from perfect too. The GP's point still stands.