What is the killer feature of Windows 8, the one everyone wants?
Smaller memory footprint, generally faster, many CPU optimisations to take into account newer silicon (e.g. being able to switch off unused cores predictably, assigning threads in a sane manner, etc), much better file copy and task manager interface, removing aero in favour of a cleaner UI style, etc.
There's no single big flashy feature added, but there are a lot of nice improvements to Win7. Any for anyone other than those who hunt around the start menu with a mouse rather than using the type-to-run function that's been there since Vista, it takes all of 10 minutes to get used to (or to install a start-menu replacement for the luddites).
Using it as a development system potentially allows you to bypass much of the DRM to do your own thing
Taking bets now on whether 'registering with Microsoft' to turn your console into a devkit entails regular (or continuous) sign-ins when running unsigned code. Couldn't let people run what they wanted on consumer devices without some way to limit it, because piracy might somehow spontaneously occur!
May appeal to the geek, but Mom ain't ever going to figure this one out.
Other way around. It won't be much good for locally stored media (without the likely rapid proliferation of workarounds and possibly modified firmwares), but it is aimed squarely at The Youtubes and similar streaming services.
Try flipping back to an earlier part of an eBook, and then returning to your original place.
If you can't do that, then the issue is with your software, not the format. Being able to flick back between two (or more) bookmarked positions instantly is one of the really useful features of ebooks. One example I use almost every day is in laptop disassembly manuals: to get to one part (say, the HSF assembly) there are certain other parts that need to be removed in order. The location for that specific part will have a section listing links to the parts that need to be removed to access that part. Clicking one of these links, stepping through that sub-process, then hitting the 'return to last position' shortcut is far faster than flicking through a printed manual.
We're here on the West Australian coast, which is now the deadliest coast in the world
Yes, the deadliest coast in the world. 16 attacks (not all fatal) in... a decade. And how many millions swim off the coast every year? Even if you take Australia as a whole, on average the number of people killed by sharks per year is: one
If you want to avoid being attacked by a shark, I'd like to sell you this tiger^h^h^h^h^h shark repelling rock. It's much cheaper than a brand new wetsuit, and statistically equally as effective!
The problem was that my wife is a "power user" for the web, with dozens of web pages open, and Firefox was caching so much stuff that just the Firefox memory usage was well over 4 GB of RAM.
I have the opposite issue: My current firefox session has over 360 open tabs (a bad habit of using them in leiu of bookmarks), but uses less than 1gb of RAM, of which I have 16gb available.
Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!