Wait 'til Amazon hear about this...

I expect you will receive a certain amount of harassment from the police if you try to arrest and jail somebody too.

It's good to hear that the Windows users out there are suffering as much as us Gnome3 users. Why is it so hard to understand, most of us don't even want to be aware of the UI, it should 'just work'.

Isn't that why we invented writing? I regularly take lessons from dead people in that temple to collective conciousness we call the library.

specifically, when two devices find one another, what is the point?

This has to be the ultimate Slashdot question. On other fora, I think devices just follow their...um...BIOS.

Can we at least pretend this is an international space station? If we're going to list the crew, why list only the US members? The current crew aboard the ISS are: Dan Burbank (US), Oleg Kononenko (Russian), Anton Shkaplerov (Russian), Anatoly Ivanishin (Russian), Andre Kuipers (Dutch) and Don Pettit (US).

Did I read that correctly? You seriously think you can get a degree by reading one textbook? It takes a little more than that. Fortunately, your university will have a large building somewhere on campus full of books (you might know the coffee bar). As a student, you can borrow these books, for free. You will find a great many texts, specializing on different parts of your course. Reading some them will greatly enhance your grades.

I was about to make similar comments. The oldest books in my collection are from 1941 and 1943, and it still work well without recharging. They're considerably older than I am. There are plenty older books still in use, but I don't use anything older because my field (RF engineering) is relatively young. Think about this timescale, Ipad fanboys. Seventy years is not so long. And we haven't even started to talk about eye-strain and LCDs yet...

Keep it legal, and everyone wins.

(1) software has a potentially longer lifetime than hardware

Are you serious? There are plenty of bridges still in use from long before computing was even imagined. Consider these as a starting point. Respect to those engineers.

The problem is surely that you're making enemies. Not of governments, but of people. Why is it that US soldiers are so unpopular in Afghanistan? They weren't too popular in Iraq either. Why have they not been welcomed as liberators?

You're kidding right? I can honestly say it has never found anything for me when I've tried it (Windows 7). It is dog-slow and the results are always irrelevant.

Debian Wheezy user here. I stuck with Gnome 3 for almost a week ("give it time, you'll learn to love it" they say). I now use XFCE and like it. What is it with the Gnome guys? Why do they think it makes sense to build something so unusable, and then tell us users that we're the problem, we need to "change our workflow"? I expect Windows to treat me like an idiot, I don't expect the same from the open-source world. Congratulations Gnome, you're exactly as crap as Unity.

Really? I have an LX3 and it is excellent in low light. I have a photo showing the Milky Way somewhere that is a bit noisy - but it was taken by pointing the camera straight at the sky - no telescope!

This is excellent advice. Buying a camera is easy and difficult for the same reason: they all work pretty well. For most of us, the difference between a cheap point-and-shoot and a fancy DSLR is actually rather small. The highest value is in having the camera with you, so it should be small and light. I used to use a bulky SLR in the days of film (a big brass Russian Zenit). It was fun and swapping lenses and filters around for different effects interesting. Now I have a compact digital with one lens (with zoom), and I take more photos. If you want to leave some room to experiment with the technical stuff, get a camera with a good manual mode, so you can set the aperture, shutter speed, etc. But honestly, I use these for maybe one or two in every hundred photos. I enjoy letting the camera figure out those settings, so I can spend my effort in composing the shot. I have a Lumix LX3 and love it, but there are many other good cameras out there. But as the parent says, make sure you hold a camera before buying it. Lots of menus are bad - you need to be able to find those buttons without even looking. And whatever you buy, practice with it lots.