Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"We need a digital camera that can be switched on and fire off that first shot fast. It's not a commonly tracked statistic on any review site, and nobody seems to have this information for every camera. We were hoping other readers could inform us as to what small digital cameras can fire off their first pics in under a second (ideally under half a second). It needs to be small, but mostly, just really quick in operation. Thanks!"
I am an average user with minimal tech expertise, but i do understand all the cogs working here; M$ are the software monopoly, like it or not. Linux is not mainstream and apple is for the hardware, especially after bootcamp. Nobody posting here is serioulsy going to stick with XP. its old, and if one thing in the tech market is a constant, then its change (IBM ad inspiration here (:) Many people here are wrong, ENTERPRISE will include everything inclusive of the features in lower end versions. This is the version that everyone will have- like XP pro, any users who know how to save themselves hard earned cash will use piracy to obtain the best version, XP home users are thin on the ground these days, and it will turn out the same for low end vista versions. As usual everyone will ignore the EU and the -N versions will be simply disregarded - i hate the eu, im a brit :)
There was a good point earlier about manufactures deciding what versions will be pre installed on machines. The answer to this will be that the manufacturers will no longer decide. With HD DVD and BLu Ray (ignoring the issue over blu ray support in vista for the moment) m$ will issue all the versions on a single disk, and when you buy the computer, you choose the liscense you want, and you then install the OS with the license you purchased.
Now, to this issue of yearly maintenance subscriptions... M$ will be forced to drop it, and even if not, then 3rd parties will rival it and consumers will support those instead. Monoply maybe, but M$ does occaisionally listen to their consumers, and judging from the support it has here, they are gonna have a hard time marketing it. I am downloading Public Beta 2 in April/May, so I'm sure most questions will be answered then. One things for sure, XP is dead, and once people realise they are sitting on a bag of bones, vista will inevitably become the new global OS.
I support piracy, so all i hope is that Vista is piratable!
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