seriously, dont bother. I use RHEL at work. It's really cool and has a bash shell that is way better than Cygwin. But i can't play music (you don't get mp3 codec by default and I haven't been able to figure out how to install it). Many YouTube videos don't play (I'm not sure why. They work fine on windows or a Mac). I can't get flash to work in the browser which renders things like rhapsody useless (I followed all the instructions given to me by adobe and google chrome but it still doesn't work).

The fact is that Linux looks better and better each year, gets more and more user-friendly but at the end of the day it doesn't do most of the stuff that non-techies do with their computers (listen to music and watch cat videos). I'm sure it's possible but I'm a reasonably smart dude who is comfortable in a unix environment and I haven't been able to get it to do any "fun" stuff. Your friends are going to hate it.

... and when you have someone replacing the word "arrest" with "kill" you're dealing with horrible exaggeration

maybe you should stop visiting slashdot. you know, because it's a site that you didn't write :)

jealous much?

jar jar was taken

digital audio, regardless of the bit-depth and sampling rate, will NEVER truly represent the analog wave form. the analog wave form is the music in its purest form. your ears are analog and so is the sound source (the guitar amp or piano). even if you are playing a digital synthesizer, at some point, the sound will get converted to analog (headphones or speakers) so your ears can hear it. digital audio turns that smooth analog wave into a stair-step. again, it will never completely, truly and accurately reproduce the analog wave. we are stuck in a format with the CD that is 16-bit, 44.1KHz. higher bit-depths and sampling rates will create a stair-step that is a closer representation of the analog curve, but it will never be exactly there. there's a point as you approach the limit where it's unlikely that anyone would be able to tell the difference but, given the move toward easily downloadable distribution, no big player is giong to invest in that 48-bit, 192KHz format (or whatever - i just made up those numbers). I think this is why vinyl is the best option (and I'm not a "vinyl guy" - I have maybe a dozen or so records and 10,000+ digital audio files). despite its flaws, it's readily available and produces the full sound of the source material in a way that the CD (or mp3, etc) cannot. it's weird to think that we'd already reached the peak of audio fidelity without even realizing.

OK - first off: you can't turn fat into muscle. you can lost fat and gain muscle but one doesn't turn into the other. second (this one is actually a question) for years and years I've heard people say "muscle weighs more than fat" - can anyone tell me definitely how much more? is it 1% more? 50% more? 600% more? "more" is not a very useful term (in this case) without quantification

does the carpet match the pubes?

you're kidding, right? VLC and WMP have offensive user interfaces - I actually really, REALLY like iTunes - I hated it at first (when I was switching from winamp) but now, it would take a lot to make me switch back.

Frakin' cry babies. Suck it up, wipe off your crocodile tears, and make something awesome.

telling a "cry baby" to wipe off his "crocodile tears" doesn't make any sense - if he's a cry baby, he's crying for real - if it's crocodile tears, then it's fake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_tears

where is the unintentional pun here?

how is this a "money grab" if battle.net is free?

give it a rest, bro - you speak as if people would choose linux if they "had a choice" - majority rules and the majority wants something familiar and has no interest in linux despite how much a few hundred slashdot nerds like to tout that it's ready for mainstream desktop acceptance - yawn.

not really, but I do live just a few blocks from the address shown on this dude's blog - there are WAAAAAY worse neighborhoods in chicago - this is hardly sketchy at all

I've been using AT&T now for 10+ years - people complain about them, I've never had an issue - maybe I could pay a little less, or have one or two minor things better, but they've always worked for me - I pay my bill on time and when I hit "send" the call connects - then, the iphone showed up and I wanted one and I got to have it - yay - I stood in line for one june 29, 2007 - they sold out of 8GB ones, so I bought the 4GB - I still have it - I wanted the 3G, but the app store & 2.0 firmware alone last summer were the big sellers, so I skipped that generation - it's now been 2 years and I'm eligible for an upgrade - this is the way it's always been with AT&T - stick around, and you'll get a deal, but you don't get discounts every time you ask for one - is that a huge loss? not really. if you have a 3G already, ask yourself how badly you want the 3GS features - if you want them badly enough, pay for them - if not, then wait - it's only 1 year out of your life in which you'll still have a super cool phone - you'll be fine