MajesticTreeFrog

I would like to try a different approach to this. Anyone who can guess where my name comes from(or even close, or hell, a damn good story that you just make up), gets a cookie.you know you want the cookie.Amorak: you speak Inuit?

It is indeed pretty cool. I wonder what software they used to make it(outside of flash). Maybe painter? or of course photoshop. It would be nice to get your hands on the source files/artwork.

Um, so what? If they win, yay! if they don't, someone else wins. yay! In the end what changes? nothing! yay! does it matter in any way whatsoever? no! yay!

They would have to be a lot more than smart. Lots and lots of smart people have worked on the three big modern OS's, windows and *nix and MacOS X(half unix half mach). Being compatible with all of today's software would be difficult to say the least.

Ok linux users. Which software packages, in your mind, are the best/most necessary for a good linux system.In particular, which OSS application software do you like the most?

I also am downloading a copy of mandrake, in case ubuntu/gnoppix doesn't work out. Here is to hoping.

Hashbang and I think it would be a good idea to add a religion/philosophy section to General Discussion.Hashbang, if you will now please second the motion:

I get the same thing, No cigar and applause. But then again I am using firefox on my mac.

Thats a good idea, but now I have to think about it instead of delegating that responsibility to the powers that be(dang!). Hmmmm......

No, i am not planning on Gaming. I intend to keep a 40GB windows install for gaming/stuff that I need windows for(like photoshop, until I can get that running perfectly under wine).I think I will just go for / and /swap. I use a ton of personal data, but I also tend to install lots of stuff, and I don't like the idea of figuring out how much of each I intend to do. So, since I will be running linux(and therefore shouldn't NEED to worry about massive system failure) I will just use those partitions. Well, maybe another partition called /backup for things I want to have backed up just-in-case(thats what my D:\ drive was for in windows).

How about the mods/admins post some guidelines for how and what we should vote people up/down for.

haven't heard of those guys, may just not be my style of music though. the most underrated artists are the ones not played on MTV(which isn't saying a lot, because it seems that everything on MTV these days is absolute trash).this doesn't mean ALL of them are underrated(there are plenty of independent bands/artists that do indeed SUCK), but a lot of the best music I have heard in recent years has been found on the internet just looking around.For instance, the band Bliss. You can hunt them down on https://www.scene.org/

Photoshop is an 'all-in-one' solution for graphic design. Not just for the web, but graphic design PERIOD. Full version photoshop can do pre-press stuff that other programs simply can't. It can do color matching, and optimize colors and color channels for newsprint and book printers(things most people NEVER need). It can do special stuff for photography, etc etc. For webdesign, you really have more than you need. But the nice thing about photoshop is that its all the same interface, which, while it could be better, is still pretty good. The program actually meant to be used strictly for webdesign is Adobe Imageready which COMES WITH photoshop. Imageready is the thing to compare more closely to Fireworks. This is also why photoshop is more expensive. buying photoshop is actually buying photoshop+imageready.

I tried learning guitar once, but I didn't work at it and never got any good. I would like to learn how to play bass guitar now. Brian, check out http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Its much cheaper than itunes and it sells music in AAC format(but without DRM, so you can do whatever you want with the files). Also, go download Hymn. https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14648/hymn This will remove the DRM from the files you downloaded from Apple.

converting between two lossy formats creates a drop in quality. Ogg vorbis is an open source sound codec. It provides high quality compressed sound encoding at a level equal to or better than AAC, WMA, and so on. Its also free, has no DRM *BLEEP*, and so on and so forth. The ogg vorbis people will also give out encoders/decoders at no charge, and I believe they will even spend time helping manufacturers get their hardware to decode ogg. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ reason why you may not have heard of it is that ogg isn't used by any of the big online music download retailers. This is because Ogg Vorbis doesn't have DRM in it, and the big wigs at the RIAA just can't deal with that(wussies!). That being said, winamp and so on will play it just fine, because its actually a pretty common codec(at least in the free software community and so on).

The other issues for ebook readers are cost and format wars. In terms of cost, ebook readers are still terribly expensive, considering paper books are 5-20 dollars for most 'popular' stuff.On top of that, ebooks have layers of DRM on them because of chickenshit publishers. So, an ebook I download only will play on my particular ebook reader, but not also my friends or my laptop. compare this with a paper book that I can loan to anyone.So, ebooks are still more expensive, and less usefull, than paper books. Its no wonder they don't take off. When the DRM is gone, or so close to gone that nobody notices it, and ebook readers with great battery life come out (like 8 hours), at a cost of no more than 50 dollars, then I think we will see them take off. Oh, and they should all have the same format(or ebook readers support all formats equally well thereby making format irrelevant). Format wars are stupid and annoying for consumers.

Actually, the internet could fail, at least to the point of being basically useless for most of what it is currently used for. Originally, it was designed to have no single point of failure, or even a small number of points of failure. However, there are areas that are the bandwidth 'hubs' if you will for all surrounding areas/regions of teh world. If those were to suddenly lose primary and secondary power(like from an EMP effect from a nuke going off or something), then those regions would lose net access. If all of those things got hit at once, the internet would, for all intents and purposes, go down. Another way things could go to crap would be if all the nameservers died all of a sudden.Granted, none of these things are likely, to say the least. But, at least hypothetically, it could happen.

Actually, Darwin's specific theory is a bit outdated. Modern views of natural selection are much more advanced.Once again, if you want more info on natural selection/evolution, I would be happy to explain to the extent of my personal knowledge.As for creationsim, or even the existence of a creator, thats a different discussion. Too bad we don't have a religion forum or a philosophy forum, because that would be cool to talk about as well.

for outright racing, I prefer NFS:underground. For all the other cool stuff:Burnout 3. No contest.So, depends on your taste a bit.

I am using a different graphics adapter than I was at the time that happened. I currently run on a Radeon 9600XT. So, the partitions I should have are//swap/homeright?also, how big should the different partitions be? Some distros do it automatically, but I might as well learn while Im talking about this.

Actually, I retried Colloquy, and I have no clue why it had such issues the first time, since I am using the same version(same copy even). It works just fine. Still not quite up to the level of mIRC, but then again, nothing is. That being said, its perfectly funtional for what most anyone would need it for. So, for IRC, use colloquy.

The answer is, all species have evolved. In fact, let us go over what a species is really quick. What specifically defines one species from another is somewhat muddy. One definition is that species are groups of organism that cannot(or do not) interbreed with other organisms. So, while you can make a horse and a donkey breed to make a mule, they don't usually do this on their own, therefore they are considered separate species. Other ways of defining species exist, such as appearance, diet, etc.Why the muddiness of the use of the word species? Well, this is where it gets back to evolution. Evolution is where 'species change over time'. A better way of saying it would be 'organic groups change over time'. Species is our way of trying to group as best we can all these shifting organisms. The constant shifting(due to evolution) is part of what makes it hard, because evolution has been blurring and creating new lines of division for well....a long long time.Now, to get back to your question in more precision, all species are evolving. Here I have to decifer what you mean by 'why have some from a species evolved'If by some you mean, some organisms, then here we go:First, evolution happens between generations, not during an organisms life. So, a single dog doesn't evolve. It is born with its genes and those will be its genes for the rest of its life. When it mates with another dog, the genes of those two dogs are mixed. This mix is partially random(to be explained somewhere else), and so if the dogs have a litter of pups, the different pups will all have slightly different genes, even though they came from the same parents.If some combinations of genes are more robust than others, or fit, meaning that they lead to greater chances to breed and create offspring, then those genes become more common, and increase their chances of ending up in subsequent generations. This is why evolution is slow, it is limited by the speed at which different generations of an organism group occur. This is why viruses mutate quickly, and humans do not. A virus may make many copies of itself(I will cover how changes occur here in a moment) in a matter of weeks. A human breeds ~13-whenever YEARS after birth, so species/organism group evolution is much slower.As a quick note, Evolution is NOT improvement. It has nothing to do with the ideas of 'better' or 'worse', but only fitness to produce young. Specifically, evolution is genotypic change(change in genes/gene frequency) over time.Now, back to the viruses. When DNA/RNA sequences are copied, there is a chance for a mistake. The chance is small, and is usually caught in the copying process, but it does happen. Considering the huge length of say, the human genome, it isn't that surprising that every so often mistakes are made. When these mistakes happen, and the resulting DNA is passed onto a new organism, then mutation is said to have occured. Viruses evolve quickly due to the rate of mutation and reproduction. For humans, these mutations happen as well, but such changes are generally not so dramatic as films and tv shows have made them out to be. Many times gene mutations are less fit than the non-mutated version(which after all still exhists after many generations, and is therefore at least decently fit). When not outright unhelpfull, many genes are mixed blessings. For instance, Sickle Cell disease is a genetic disease that occurs when a pair of sickle-cell genes are in the same organism(genes are at minimum paired, and are often written down with letters, like Ss, denoting the two types of the same gene that might exist. The combination is called a genotype, and the result as expressed by the organism is called the phenotype. Multiple genotypes can all result in the same phenotype). In sickle cell, having one half of the bad gene, which we will call s, would give you a genotype like so: Ss, as opposed to none of the gene, which would be SS. Having the genotype Ss makes you MORE fit than someone with SS. These people btw, do NOT have the disease, but instead are carriers for the disease. If two carriers mate, then there is a 25% chance(I can explain this number, but now isn't the time) that their child will get two copies of the bad gene, ss, and they will have Sickle cell. So, even though the disease would normally be culled by natural selection, because having 'half' the disease is helpfull, it is selected for, creating more children who are carriers, while at the same time the unfortunates that get both halves of the gene get a nasty disease.So, in any case, 'some of' a species don't evolve, though they may have more fit genes(passed down from their parents). Organisms themselves are just carriers for the process, during their life evolution doesn't happen(outside of the changes in breeding patters or death preventing the passing down of genes). I hope that answered your question, if not, clarify and I will see what I can do.

Brian, a patch recently came out for dreamweaver to fix the speed issue. That being said, dreamweaver isn't for creating a webpage, but instead creating and manageing an entire sight, with lots of interconnected pages and such. If all you are doing is creating a small site with a few pages and nothing fancy going on, then its overkill.

My one complaint with the ipod is that it doesn't support ogg vorbis playback, which is the format a large percentage of my music is in.

I use fire instead of Adium, you might like that as well. I am going to see if Fire supports IRC, if it does, then that would be fantastic.Hmm, sadly while Fire does support IRC it doesn't do the greatest job of it. IRC is sufficiently unlike other chat protocols that I haven't found any All-In-One chat programs that handle it well.