Oops. Can't argue with that. I must be confused about something I read about a year ago in Bill Bryson's book "Mother Tongue". I thought he mentioned something about the meaning of these two words having been confused. I would go and check, but my copy of the book is currently 50 miles away at the bottom of a box ready to be shipped to Scotland. And so it goes...
Well if we're going to be picky about grammar etcetera...
I'm fairly sure it's 'jive', not 'jibe' that the original poster means. Although it could go either way, I suppose. Opposite meanings, y'see.
Just remember, I didn't start it:-)
Disclaimer: Two beers down may be too many to be able to communicate in a grammatically correct fashion...
The last thing I want to do is start a flame war. However... we all know that Apple is losing (big time) in the MHz war. We also all know (I imagine I'm preaching to the converted) that Apple keeps a strict lock on their hardware (proprietary business model etc. etc.). So if us poor Mac (and Linux, honest) users could actually overclock, we might get pretty good performance out of out powerPCs. Or am I simplifying the pseudo-CISC to pseudo-RISC comparison? Anyway, might explain the increasing number of fanless CPUs Apple is selling nowadays...
It's pretty much the same thing that drives me to learn about Linux (and any other system in which you can 'get under the hood'). I submit that that's true for many of us. Of course, Linux is hardly the Geo Metro of the OS world:-)
Sorry I can't be more specific right now, but I seem to recall something about one research group claiming that they had identified around 200 genes, based on the Mycoplasma genome (minus various 'redundancies') which they thought might be sufficient to get a self-replicating unicellular organism. They were asking the wider community whether making such an organism would be ethical (if so, they then planned to attempt it). Does anyone recall what became of this effort? I remember being a little skeptical about how practical it would be, simply because we don't know whether a given gene performs all the functions necessary for that class of genes...
I quite agree, but wish to underline:
People who pay the same taxes we do, but who still don't get to vote. Now, wasn't taxation without representation something of and anathema around here once upon a time? Just a thought.
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Just remember, I didn't start it :-)
Disclaimer: Two beers down may be too many to be able to communicate in a grammatically correct fashion...
Check out geneontology.org for more on a project, still in its comparative infancy, which aims to bring all of this together.
I quite agree, but wish to underline: People who pay the same taxes we do, but who still don't get to vote. Now, wasn't taxation without representation something of and anathema around here once upon a time? Just a thought.