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SlackmasterK wrote:

Well, since the thread got  bumped anyway...

Since I'm the only developer on my project, I just make 3 backups:
 - Another folder
 - Dev server in another state
 - Home (shhhh)

Eh it's still a good idea to use source control even if you're the only dev.

I mostly use a derivative of Perforce.

I'm on my annual read of the Dune chronicles (not including the stupid prequels).  I actually hate the books because they killed all scifi for me, everything else pales in comparison.

jamie wrote:

well ya you can.. its just the focus

basically all small cameras take pics of things ...flat

SLR just means... depth /  burred BG but focus on object...

* sometimes you wish you could get flat on them though

I don't think you need an SLR for aperture priority, I've seen several point-and-shoot cameras that do that.

I think its hard to find a camera that takes bad pictures, you don't need an expensive SLR, I've seen brillant night shots even from point-and-shoot cameras.

Here's some cool pics I took during my Ireland trip a couple weeks ago on a point-and-shoot Canon.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7366949@N06/sets/72157604324814573/

Although its near impossible to mess up shots like these.

corona_coder wrote:

You can kill tracker in Ubuntu and it not bring down the system.  Thats called superior design

And in Vista running a file indexer doesn't hurt disk performance because of actual support for I/O prioritization.

Got a Win Mobile phone recently too, they rock cause of the huge software library.  But can anyone recommend an instant messaging program that doesn't use SMS?

Vista machines have much less of a tendancy to become spyware-ridden pieces of crap like XP machines do, so I recommend it for family members and such. 

Bas wrote:

If there are no major architecture changes, but more fine-tuning of what we already have in Vista, then 2009 sound fine to me. Besides, three years between versions used to be just fine.

I think it will depend on the sucess of Vista SP1, if there's still a lot of issues after the service pack it will obviously delay development quite a bit.  The EU could also decide to be huge jerks (and probably will).

2009 makes sense, as long as they stick to features that don't require epic testing they should ship on time.  Vista was slow-going because of lots of large internal changes like entirely new display/audio/network stacks.  Probably necessary work from a long-term engineering standpoint, but hard to test, and sell.  Win 7 will probably be pretty PM-driven like Office and be all UX and fit and finish stuff.