edit: well AA bateries should be much cheaper, but! I put ONE canon battery in my dslr...capacity 2000mAh...i went to a trip to ukraine for 7 days...made over 400 photos...and I had to change my battery on 7th day on my way home...
im not familiar with prices in US, but here original chargers and batteries are quetly expensive...but! ther's very good eshop in new mexico, http://sterlingtek.com/ , I've ordered 2 batteries from there (around 2 years ago), they came to me (central Europe) within a week and they are as good as original AND the original one has capacity 1390mAh! two batteries which last for over a week for $25? silly
also I've ordered new charger from hong kong because i thought i've lost my original (i've found it few weeks after the order)...it cost me 7,50€ including shipping...a brand new charger...
the only advantages of AA batteries are that you can get them almost everywhere, buy as much as you can, use the same charger for multiple devices and...thats all....you have to use more batteries for one device, all my life i see that AA batteries (even 2500mAh) last very short time (compared to these)
actually that might be true...only real difference between photo quality that body makes is visible in high ISO modes and mpixel count itself...more mpix gives you advantage when printing large images and cropping it...in sense of colours, bodies are very similiar...or while shooting in RAW a computer software helps you makes a photo perfect (imho shooting primary JPG with dslr is great sin)
lenses are very important and its more than a half job of creating an image...lens quality (+ filters) gives you real difference in colours, vignetting, chromatic aberatinos, image sharpness... so invest more money in those
think about hundreds of thousands people connected at the same time, using server database hdd and cpu...imho its working pretty well...
and for chat - facebook chat is now accessable by jabber protocol, so configure your IM client for that and you can chat from there - you don't have to visit the website... i've got jabber plugin in my miranda IM configured to chat.facebook.com and everything works perfect
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actually I like this last one...nice soft colours and composition....but you should leave your house for once and shoot something more interesting than bottles