You should look closely at Photo Mechanic. It's not free or OSS, but it works very, very well. It is more of a metadata manager than a photo management database - it doesn't maintain its own database; it uses your existing folder structure.

It doesn't do any retouching, but it is flexible in letting you edit (select/reject), sort, and manage metadata for tons of photos. This sounds like the sort of software you're looking for.

It's practically the standard in the news/media photography industry, and it's widely used in other pro photographers' workflows.

Floppy drives are also still used in many low-end lighting control consoles (for theatre/dance/music/entertainment) which are still widely used and even sold today. The ETC Express line is the first that comes to my mind, but there are many, many others.

The mid- and high-end controllers nowadays have USB ports, but these consoles will be around for a very long time (especially in schools, etc. where replacing [relatively] expensive pieces of equipment like this happens once every twenty years or so..)

Once you have a network of contacts on Twitter, it can actually be useful (and fun). My "Twitter-isn't-actually-useless" example is that I found my current job through my Twitter network.

Oh yeah. I am still reeling.

My first thought when reading the story was, "unhackable...yeah, that'll last long."

My second thought was, "wait, Adobe CS4 on a netbook?!?!" To use Photoshop comfortably, I need a fast multicore processor and several gigs of RAM, not to mention a big screen. Trying to use it on my netbook would just be absolute torture.

You must be new here.

Mod parent up!

I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that police chiefs in Britain can now prohibit photography (and confiscate cameras) if they deem it necessary for security, or something like that.