and yet its one of the most popular sites on the net. Maybe we don't read/. for the colors. Maybe just maybe we read it for the content. I'm not talking dupes and misrepresentative articles. I'm talking about the comments that/. readers leave. I learn more daily from/. than I ever did in school.
Any word on pricing per album?.99 a song is cool if I only want a few songs but it becomes moot if an album is 15 songs. Also, I'd really like it if they would rapidly introduce the stuff you don't hear on radio. I'm tired of all the music I want being a special order.
dude, I'm 26 and have to look up a howto for a hello world program. So, mad props to be doing this so young. Just, when you get to puberty don't forget the ladies. good luck
I won't do a point by point rebuttal to your comment, many others already have.
I just want to say that I admire your having posted something in the first place knowing the flaming you would surely get in return.
I do have two things I want to say. regarding wanting to know the face of god. for me, science is not an attempt to prove the randomness of existence but is an attempt to prove god. god loved thomas too you know.
As for being gods in training, two things. 1 perhaps evolution will eventually lead us to godhood. if god created everything isn't it possible he created evolution as well? perhaps he's interested to see what we do on our own. 2 aspiring to godhood might also sound a bit like sacrilege.
just a thought. my fantastical idea is that god started the whole shebang. Lets say god doesn't know where he came from. he only knows that he always was. So, he starts off existence. he allows evolution. tries to make the world he's created as capable of sustaining and replicating itself on its own. perhaps he's hoping we will evolve to godhood. maybe then he'll have half an idea for where he might have come from. being god must be lonely you know.
Most people I know who don't believe in evolution simply refuse to believe in a lot of scientific proof that the earth is very old, for instance.
I worked as a clerk for the 2000 census with just such a person. She homeschooled her kids and was a strict creationist. Lovely person. I enjoyed talking to her more than anyone. (Census clerks tend to be very bright people) The only issue was once we were discussing astronomy and the things about astronomy I find the most fascinating she simply could not accept. Case in point, light-years. If the Earth really was created only a few thousand years ago then the horsehead nebula must be a fake because the light could not have traveled here from there. We shouldn't be able to see it if you accept that its at the distance that it is. She'll accept the distance but not the timeframe. Needless to say many of our conversations ended with my head just imploding.
I'd like to see somone from MS say "golly, Linux ain't windows but it sure as heck is impressive." I just wish the hate and animosity just for the sake of hate and animosity would go away so we can all get back to work and fun. I say this to both camps, MS and OSS.
The issue I believe is that strict creationists (emphasis on strict) refuse in many instances to believe the very tenets that make modern medicine and other sciences possible.
Here's an idea. you want to be a programmer but, you don't believe in Arabic numerals. I leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.
touche. and I agree. Also, have you seen the recent brouhaha on a few mac sites, I think it was mac journal regarding developers actually expecting users to pay for software?!? the nerve.
just so we're clear, os x 10.1 was actually system 11 10.2 was system 12 and panther will be system 13. this isn't a difficult concept to grab. the minor point releases are upgrades, the middle point releases are the 129$ new systems. whats the big deal? windows upgrades every 2-3 years and it costs about 200$ mac upgrades every year and it costs 100$. griping is only justified when comparing with OSS systems. the windows and mac systems cost the same over time. (give or take 50$) whine about something new.
I believe you'll find the reason for Mac's broadband centricity (i think thats a new word) is that while the majority of Computer people are still on dial-up (me), a majority of mac people are on broadband. I saw a poll somewhere.
amen brother. NetNewsWire has changed the way I browse. The only thing that bugs me is that its not so easy to find the url for sites that do syndicate. Only reason I have PA's url is cause tycho linked it one day not long ago. You can't find it easily on the site. and thats how I think it is with alot of sites.
ok, I can't stand this anymore. Is everyone on slashdot trying to tell me that if they saw what neo saw they wouldn't say "whoa"? fucking liars. whoa. thats what you say when your world is turned on its head. jesus. shut the fuck up. i would say whoa. hell I said whoa while watching the matrix.
not a flame on the original poster. just yours was the dozenth time I'd seen a "whoa" comment.
One question: Isn't Canada also one country that charges a tax on CD-Rs allegedly to pay back record companies for MP3 trading? Which leads to independent artists are being taxed for doing their own records instead of playing the record contract game.
I just had a thought about this. The complaint about the CD charge in canada hurting the indie recording artist. Um, why don't they just give recording artists a refund at the end of the year that adds up to the cd-r tax that they'd paid throughout the year? Is that a tough concept?
Course if that doesn't work we could always just burn down the halls of legislation until someone gets the point that laws are meant to protect the people, not punish them.
This is one of the cooler "News for Nerds" articles I've seen in a while and its completely unreachable at 4 in the morning because of the slashdotting.
this is no longer humorous. As much as I often enjoy the +4 comments on certain articles reading slashdot is pretty much no longer worth the frustration of not being able to RTFA.
Can't wait till this article moves down the frontpage.
dude, I desperately want to come to your house and help you install a distro. Seriously, if you lived anywhere near by I would be glad to give you a hand. I hate to see anyone having that hard a time with what it is to my mind one of the best things going in the tech world.
all i can tell you otherwise is to keep plugging away at it. You'll get the "it all makes sense now" epiphany at some point. There was a time when even Linus had no idea what he was doing.
you must be psychic. on top of your excellently sting commentary, have any of these clown shoes that bitch about/.'s lack of objectivity ever noticed that THIS IS NOT AN OBJECTIVE SITE!!! It is opinionated. In many cases to the extreme. I like it that way. I agree with a number of the opinions. If you don't then start your own damn site. Lord, these friggin high user number people get on my damn nerves. Why don't they just keep their opinions to themselves and be more objective?
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and yet its one of the most popular sites on the net. Maybe we don't read /. for the colors. Maybe just maybe we read it for the content. I'm not talking dupes and misrepresentative articles. I'm talking about the comments that /. readers leave. I learn more daily from /. than I ever did in school.
:)
by the way autopr0n, love your site.
gracias, excellent.
:)
Guess I have a reason to finally get cable and repair my credit.
Any word on pricing per album? .99 a song is cool if I only want a few songs but it becomes moot if an album is 15 songs. Also, I'd really like it if they would rapidly introduce the stuff you don't hear on radio. I'm tired of all the music I want being a special order.
dude, I'm 26 and have to look up a howto for a hello world program. So, mad props to be doing this so young. Just, when you get to puberty don't forget the ladies. good luck
rock, meet hard place
I won't do a point by point rebuttal to your comment, many others already have.
I just want to say that I admire your having posted something in the first place knowing the flaming you would surely get in return.
I do have two things I want to say. regarding wanting to know the face of god. for me, science is not an attempt to prove the randomness of existence but is an attempt to prove god. god loved thomas too you know.
As for being gods in training, two things. 1 perhaps evolution will eventually lead us to godhood. if god created everything isn't it possible he created evolution as well? perhaps he's interested to see what we do on our own. 2 aspiring to godhood might also sound a bit like sacrilege.
just a thought. my fantastical idea is that god started the whole shebang. Lets say god doesn't know where he came from. he only knows that he always was. So, he starts off existence. he allows evolution. tries to make the world he's created as capable of sustaining and replicating itself on its own. perhaps he's hoping we will evolve to godhood. maybe then he'll have half an idea for where he might have come from. being god must be lonely you know.
I worked as a clerk for the 2000 census with just such a person. She homeschooled her kids and was a strict creationist. Lovely person. I enjoyed talking to her more than anyone. (Census clerks tend to be very bright people) The only issue was once we were discussing astronomy and the things about astronomy I find the most fascinating she simply could not accept. Case in point, light-years. If the Earth really was created only a few thousand years ago then the horsehead nebula must be a fake because the light could not have traveled here from there. We shouldn't be able to see it if you accept that its at the distance that it is. She'll accept the distance but not the timeframe. Needless to say many of our conversations ended with my head just imploding.
ya got me. I didn't rtfa, just the /. propoganda. now what about the the OSS side? :)
I'd like to see somone from MS say "golly, Linux ain't windows but it sure as heck is impressive." I just wish the hate and animosity just for the sake of hate and animosity would go away so we can all get back to work and fun. I say this to both camps, MS and OSS.
The issue I believe is that strict creationists (emphasis on strict) refuse in many instances to believe the very tenets that make modern medicine and other sciences possible.
Here's an idea. you want to be a programmer but, you don't believe in Arabic numerals. I leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.
um, use google much? just add the word "browser" or "database". clears things up.
touche. and I agree. Also, have you seen the recent brouhaha on a few mac sites, I think it was mac journal regarding developers actually expecting users to pay for software?!? the nerve.
just so we're clear, os x 10.1 was actually system 11 10.2 was system 12 and panther will be system 13. this isn't a difficult concept to grab. the minor point releases are upgrades, the middle point releases are the 129$ new systems. whats the big deal? windows upgrades every 2-3 years and it costs about 200$ mac upgrades every year and it costs 100$. griping is only justified when comparing with OSS systems. the windows and mac systems cost the same over time. (give or take 50$) whine about something new.
I believe you'll find the reason for Mac's broadband centricity (i think thats a new word) is that while the majority of Computer people are still on dial-up (me), a majority of mac people are on broadband. I saw a poll somewhere.
amen brother. NetNewsWire has changed the way I browse. The only thing that bugs me is that its not so easy to find the url for sites that do syndicate. Only reason I have PA's url is cause tycho linked it one day not long ago. You can't find it easily on the site. and thats how I think it is with alot of sites.
ok, I can't stand this anymore. Is everyone on slashdot trying to tell me that if they saw what neo saw they wouldn't say "whoa"? fucking liars. whoa. thats what you say when your world is turned on its head. jesus. shut the fuck up. i would say whoa. hell I said whoa while watching the matrix.
not a flame on the original poster. just yours was the dozenth time I'd seen a "whoa" comment.
I just had a thought about this. The complaint about the CD charge in canada hurting the indie recording artist. Um, why don't they just give recording artists a refund at the end of the year that adds up to the cd-r tax that they'd paid throughout the year? Is that a tough concept?
Course if that doesn't work we could always just burn down the halls of legislation until someone gets the point that laws are meant to protect the people, not punish them.
heh, no one ever expects Ian Murdock to be reading their posts :) Personally, it sounded like news to me.
:)
oh and uh thanks for Debian.
This is one of the cooler "News for Nerds" articles I've seen in a while and its completely unreachable at 4 in the morning because of the slashdotting.
this is no longer humorous. As much as I often enjoy the +4 comments on certain articles reading slashdot is pretty much no longer worth the frustration of not being able to RTFA.
Can't wait till this article moves down the frontpage.
well, fuck. Thanks for the heads up.
I don't listen to any of that shite anyway.
When impulse or bluenote put their stuff on copyprotected cds I'll give two shits.
dude, I desperately want to come to your house and help you install a distro. Seriously, if you lived anywhere near by I would be glad to give you a hand. I hate to see anyone having that hard a time with what it is to my mind one of the best things going in the tech world.
all i can tell you otherwise is to keep plugging away at it. You'll get the "it all makes sense now" epiphany at some point. There was a time when even Linus had no idea what he was doing.
You ought to read the Nutshell book then. It's described by the author as being the geekier companion to the Missing Manual book.
you must be psychic. on top of your excellently sting commentary, have any of these clown shoes that bitch about /.'s lack of objectivity ever noticed that THIS IS NOT AN OBJECTIVE SITE!!! It is opinionated. In many cases to the extreme. I like it that way. I agree with a number of the opinions. If you don't then start your own damn site. Lord, these friggin high user number people get on my damn nerves. Why don't they just keep their opinions to themselves and be more objective?
why does everyone assume I have a credit card?