that's true, we really don't know what we have, except that it may be worth a lot (not in $$$). further advances, baby steps, will get us to the point of understanding what it means on more than a very trivial scale. genomics, or whatever you want to call it, is a young science. there's still a lot of ground to be covered
It's not "brute force sequencing of the human genome" that matters, it's the fact that the cumulative advances of technology have allowed us to sequence our own fucking genome. regardless of how it gets done, the simple fact that we can now decode and manipulate our own DNA is a pretty big step for any species.
but i tend to agree, this is an ignorant question. there have been numerous advances in the past 10 years or so, each one is just a step that leads to another.
I'm truly glad somebody has taken the time to express these very same sentiments that I have had during the past week as I try to install linux for the first time.
i'm glad you're here, welcome to a new world that is *nothing* like your former windows one. don't expect things to be windows-like or as "easy as windows" cuz it's not. look beyond that. what distro are you using? none of them are terribly difficult to install, if you really really need hand holding, try mandrake
I know that in time I will become proficient at linux, but that's because I have the technical inclination to do so. Forget those people who just want to "get something done" (like my mom).
i hope you will, and maybe someday you'll look back on your post (and emily whatsherface's rant) and think, "man, was she blowin smoke out her ass", i'm glad this os gives me choices and freedom
It's about clicking a box to turn on the sound without having to install additional software
even windoze must have additional sound drivers installed, and it's usually not as easy as modprobe sb. try tracking down drivers for win2000.
McDonalds is not a success for it's "endless selection," but it's consistency of product. You can go to any McDonalds in the world and get the same exact thing. That is one of the primary driving factors to it's success.
people will buy anything for their kids. don't count out happy meals and slick advertising. the debian jr project seems to be kinda slow, but the idea remains. i'd like to see kids grow up using linux. people have "grown up" with windows, and are stuck in that windows mentality, that this is the way the computer looks, these are the options i have. my kid (due in a few days), will grow up with linux (and other unices). i'm sure he'll see windows, but i want him to see the rest of the os world too. it's been said many times: "all oses suck. just in different ways." find the one that sucks the least for you.
it's late, and i'm goin to bed. sorry if this doesn't make much sense. good luck with your new box:)
...the entire future of computing rests on that one geek who printed out all the source to debian potato!
if printed source code was all that remained (in some weird freak case where all cd data was destroyed (maybe an electromagnetic blast, followed by hordes of mutant rats that eat silvery coated plastic), one thing would be for certain: there would be a lot more free software users!
maybe this has been talked about before, but what about moving napster/etc to a place like Sealand,an island off the british coast that has claimed it's own independence since 1967. A company called HavenCo plans to host colocation services there.
Since that they owned such a big chunk of Corel, they were probably able got a good look at all the source code to the Linux OS! No wonder they are selling it off. They got what they wanted! Are they ever sneaky!!!
uhh, so they paid 60 million to look at free source code?
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that's true, we really don't know what we have, except that it may be worth a lot (not in $$$). further advances, baby steps, will get us to the point of understanding what it means on more than a very trivial scale. genomics, or whatever you want to call it, is a young science. there's still a lot of ground to be covered
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It's not "brute force sequencing of the human genome" that matters, it's the fact that the cumulative advances of technology have allowed us to sequence our own fucking genome. regardless of how it gets done, the simple fact that we can now decode and manipulate our own DNA is a pretty big step for any species.
but i tend to agree, this is an ignorant question. there have been numerous advances in the past 10 years or so, each one is just a step that leads to another.
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I'm truly glad somebody has taken the time to express these very same sentiments that I have had during the past week as I try to install linux for the first time.i'm glad you're here, welcome to a new world that is *nothing* like your former windows one. don't expect things to be windows-like or as "easy as windows" cuz it's not. look beyond that. what distro are you using? none of them are terribly difficult to install, if you really really need hand holding, try mandrake
I know that in time I will become proficient at linux, but that's because I have the technical inclination to do so. Forget those people who just want to "get something done" (like my mom).i hope you will, and maybe someday you'll look back on your post (and emily whatsherface's rant) and think, "man, was she blowin smoke out her ass", i'm glad this os gives me choices and freedom
It's about clicking a box to turn on the sound without having to install additional softwareeven windoze must have additional sound drivers installed, and it's usually not as easy as modprobe sb. try tracking down drivers for win2000.
McDonalds is not a success for it's "endless selection," but it's consistency of product. You can go to any McDonalds in the world and get the same exact thing. That is one of the primary driving factors to it's success.people will buy anything for their kids. don't count out happy meals and slick advertising. the debian jr project seems to be kinda slow, but the idea remains. i'd like to see kids grow up using linux. people have "grown up" with windows, and are stuck in that windows mentality, that this is the way the computer looks, these are the options i have. my kid (due in a few days), will grow up with linux (and other unices). i'm sure he'll see windows, but i want him to see the rest of the os world too. it's been said many times: "all oses suck. just in different ways." find the one that sucks the least for you.
it's late, and i'm goin to bed. sorry if this doesn't make much sense. good luck with your new box :)
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if printed source code was all that remained (in some weird freak case where all cd data was destroyed (maybe an electromagnetic blast, followed by hordes of mutant rats that eat silvery coated plastic), one thing would be for certain: there would be a lot more free software users!
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why the hell does adding a dvd-rom jack the price up by $325.00!
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maybe this has been talked about before, but what about moving napster/etc to a place like Sealand,an island off the british coast that has claimed it's own independence since 1967. A company called HavenCo plans to host colocation services there.
may be a longshot, but you never know
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uhh, so they paid 60 million to look at free source code?
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and why the hell openlinux?
plus it could use a beltclip
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it's really annoying at 800x600
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i can see it used for just randomlly looking for interesting things tho (like fansubbed anime
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do you really want to de-uuencode every mp3 you get, and have to worry about part 323 of 3242 not being in the thread? sorry not for me
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heh i'd pay the 40 bux for it anyhow, it's hella fast
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also the Karma Whores, a lesser known work but worth checking out
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