Best of the 00s!

Well, without a Dream Theater release, music just ceased to exist for an entire year. Those were dark times, but mankind survived.

Valarius wrote: 2000: Unfortunately, Music went on a temporary hiatus throughout the year 2000. 2001: Dream Theater - Live Scenes from New York 2002: Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 2003: Dream Theater - Train of Thought 2004: Dream Theater - Live at Budokan 2005: Dream Theater - Octavarium 2006: Dream Theater - Score 2007: Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos 2008: Dream Theater - Chaos in Motion 2009: Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Tough ask

^Why are we still talking about this? 

Hmmm...

topofsm wrote: I'd rather call the first decade from 1 AD to 9 AD than call 1990 part of the 80s

But nobody's asking you to make 1990 a part of the 80s They're just two different ways of counting, the formerly "major" one now being steadily replaced by the one who cares about the prefix. I prefer the latter too, it's only flaw being that it doesn't have proper words for the 00s and the 10s

EDIT: this is the first time I post on MMA and I get a reply before I leave it! Seems like it's growing after all....


Edited by harmonium.ro - 07 Mar 2011 at 1:35pm

bonnek wrote: topofsm wrote: ^I'm just pointing out how counting from 2001-2010 is a strange way of defining a decade, since that would also mean the 90s would be 1991 to 2000 and the 80s from 1981 to 1990, etc. Which doesn't make sense to me. Yes it doesn't make sense, the confusion all started with the bad mathematics of they early Christians They didn't know the number  "0", so when making up the calendar, they went from the year 1 BC immediately to the year 1AC. So the year 0 never existed, which inspired some people to say the new millennium had to start in 2001 as well. I'd say their mathematics still suck, as does their knowledge of the word "millennium" or "decade". Anyway, I just wanted to add my pick for 2010

Huh? Since when were early Christians poorly educated in maths, this being a source of this issue? The Greeks were brilliant mathematicians and they didn't come up with zero either. European mathematics of the time simply didn't have the concept of zero, which was an Indian concept that permeated into Europe only one millenia later.

topofsm wrote: ^I'm just pointing out how counting from 2001-2010 is a strange way of defining a decade, since that would also mean the 90s would be 1991 to 2000 and the 80s from 1981 to 1990, etc. Which doesn't make sense to me.

Yes it doesn't make sense, the confusion all started with the bad mathematics of they early Christians
They didn't know the number  "0", so when making up the calendar, they went from the year 1 BC immediately to the year 1AC.
So the year 0 never existed, which inspired some people to say the new millennium had to start in 2001 as well.
I'd say their mathematics still suck, as does their knowledge of the word "millennium" or "decade".

Anyway, I just wanted to add my pick for 2010

topofsm wrote: I don't understand how the decade could start in '01. Would those same people call 1990 part of the '80s?

I hope that was a rhetorical way to put it, as the answer is really simple.

harmonium.ro wrote: Would those same people call 1990 part of the '80s?

Why would they? The "'80s" are the years that start with 8, '90 wasn't one of them. But '90 is the last year of the ninth decade.




Edited by harmonium.ro - 06 Mar 2011 at 7:47pm

It seems to be a cultural thing... just like in some cultures, the week starts on a Monday while in others it starts on a Sunday.