"If you don't give people a choice [in the Apple stores], people will take their money somewhere else."
Honestly, Apples are overpriced for what hardware and software they contain. Sure they may use a stable UNIX based OS, but you can get just that with any respectable Linux OS (Debian, Ubuntu, etc., depending on the person's preference.)
"... without some uppity online geek telling you to RTFM..."
In essence, you're doing just the 'uppity online geek' is telling you to do. TFM gives you the pieces and expects you to find out how to piece them together, while this just has the convenience of said commands and scripts already pieced together.
Well... The 'alien' part needs to be put into perspective. Since this hypothetical bacterium originated from here, why would it be alien to us? Or would it be alien since it would evolve on another world?
It's always possible, but the one of the most well known catalysts of life that we know about so well is water.
There's also the feasibility of water on Ganymede[http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_phillips_europa_030315.html], which means aside from our very own planet, we know that there is/was water/ice on Mars, and there's the possibility of life on the presumably geothermal warmed subterranean oceans on Ganymede.
All it really takes are some minerals, water, and heat to form even primitive life.
Life is much more resistant than we thought to things such as the vacuum of space. All we need to do is find it.
Well... The first game I've played was Pong on an Atari 2600 back when I was 3. Games today are really still a game of Pong. Though... Players are trying to avoid the ball now...
And the ball's become a grenade...
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Didn't they try this with the Live Search Club?
I'd advise against the Linux-powered flamethrower, as I almost melted my face off trying to recompile its kernel.
Whatever happened to the other 507?
"If you don't give people a choice [in the Apple stores], people will take their money somewhere else."
Honestly, Apples are overpriced for what hardware and software they contain. Sure they may use a stable UNIX based OS, but you can get just that with any respectable Linux OS (Debian, Ubuntu, etc., depending on the person's preference.)
"... without some uppity online geek telling you to RTFM..."
In essence, you're doing just the 'uppity online geek' is telling you to do. TFM gives you the pieces and expects you to find out how to piece them together, while this just has the convenience of said commands and scripts already pieced together.
Well... The 'alien' part needs to be put into perspective. Since this hypothetical bacterium originated from here, why would it be alien to us? Or would it be alien since it would evolve on another world?
It's always possible, but the one of the most well known catalysts of life that we know about so well is water. There's also the feasibility of water on Ganymede[http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_phillips_europa_030315.html], which means aside from our very own planet, we know that there is/was water/ice on Mars, and there's the possibility of life on the presumably geothermal warmed subterranean oceans on Ganymede. All it really takes are some minerals, water, and heat to form even primitive life. Life is much more resistant than we thought to things such as the vacuum of space. All we need to do is find it.
I tried to compile it, and all I got was a segmentation fault.
... As long as nobody hacks it from a spinning telephone booth.
We can build him. We have the technology.
You comment just reminded me of the 'Special' stages from Super Mario World on the SNES.
A post about robots on /. and no "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag?!
Well... The first game I've played was Pong on an Atari 2600 back when I was 3. Games today are really still a game of Pong. Though... Players are trying to avoid the ball now... And the ball's become a grenade...
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