Who gives a fuck what you think qualifies for the word OS. It's just a word.
Any application that runs on your computer is based on this "word". And NO, a browser is NOT part of any OS, it is just an application that runs on that OS. You may say that this is pure theory, and "irrelevant" for you, the user (or should I say looser?). Now lets see how it works in practice: under Win98 when the explorer crashes, it pulls down the whole system because it is so well "integrated" in it. So you have to restart. As a winblowze user, you may say that this is an absolutely normal behavior, you must restart your computer frequently to use it "well".
That's the bigest bullshit of M$.
The main reasons behind building a modular OS are scalability, stability and ease of maintenance (this latter one concerns just the developers).
Now who gives a fuck about what an Anonymous Coward thinks? Name yourself and prepare to be flamed!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but one can patent only one's intellectual property. If somebody discoveres a gene, that doesn't mean he invented it. If he makes a synthetic gene, it's OK to patent it, but it probably will be useless. We, humans, have all genes that defines us as being humans, adding some synthetic genes most likely will turn us in something... weird...
On the flip side, there's absolutely no reason to believe that over the lifetime of the entire galaxy that no species has arisen which doesn't want to expand
OK, I must admint I'm a little pessimistic about how many *intelligent* species could arise. The fundamental requirement for intelligent life to evolve is an extended period of almost perfectly stable conditions. It took life 3.5 billion years to produce us, on other planets evolution may be slower. We know what happened to dinosaurs, even Jupiter could not save them, and it could be worse.
Suppose there are "humanoid" species, willing to expand. The article says there are about 30 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, but it is just about 16 billion years old. Then "filling the galaxy" means filling 2 planets every year. This is highly unlikely...
"Why they aren't here?"
"They are here, just hiding" - FALSE! If they are willing to expand and fill the galaxy, they would simply blow us off the planet. Anytime in our history a superior civilization met an inferior one, that was catastrophy for the latter. And they was both humans. Expansionist aliens would treat us as we treat animals, or worse.
Maybe they are not here, because they are fighting each other in an endless war, or have destroyed each other.
Maybe interstellar flight is much more difficult than we think it is. What about navigation close to light speed? "Generation ships" are possible but maybe only a few individuals would accept it. They won't ever see their destination, only their chlidren will (IF the mission succeeds). And they literally have to put their lives on it.
They found better places to go.
They can terraform any planet, and don't need to travel so far.
all you need is *one* successful species to fill the galaxy over a relative short time frame
The fact that humans and any other life form on Earth fills the available space for it doesn't mean that alien life forms have the same behavior. Maybe they are not as expansionists as we are.
On the other side they would need a huge amount of energy to fill the galaxy, and if they have such an energy source and the appropiate technology, they could make anything they need.
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Any application that runs on your computer is based on this "word". And NO, a browser is NOT part of any OS, it is just an application that runs on that OS. You may say that this is pure theory, and "irrelevant" for you, the user (or should I say looser?). Now lets see how it works in practice: under Win98 when the explorer crashes, it pulls down the whole system because it is so well "integrated" in it. So you have to restart. As a winblowze user, you may say that this is an absolutely normal behavior, you must restart your computer frequently to use it "well". That's the bigest bullshit of M$.
The main reasons behind building a modular OS are scalability, stability and ease of maintenance (this latter one concerns just the developers).
Now who gives a fuck about what an Anonymous Coward thinks? Name yourself and prepare to be flamed!
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Is this a new feature? Do _all_ compilers have it? No, this is a GNU C library specific feature, and of course not _all_ compilers have it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but one can patent only one's intellectual property. If somebody discoveres a gene, that doesn't mean he invented it. If he makes a synthetic gene, it's OK to patent it, but it probably will be useless. We, humans, have all genes that defines us as being humans, adding some synthetic genes most likely will turn us in something... weird...
On the flip side, there's absolutely no reason to believe that over the lifetime of the entire galaxy that no species has arisen which doesn't want to expand
OK, I must admint I'm a little pessimistic about how many *intelligent* species could arise. The fundamental requirement for intelligent life to evolve is an extended period of almost perfectly stable conditions. It took life 3.5 billion years to produce us, on other planets evolution may be slower. We know what happened to dinosaurs, even Jupiter could not save them, and it could be worse.
Suppose there are "humanoid" species, willing to expand. The article says there are about 30 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, but it is just about 16 billion years old. Then "filling the galaxy" means filling 2 planets every year. This is highly unlikely...
"Why they aren't here?"
"They are here, just hiding" - FALSE! If they are willing to expand and fill the galaxy, they would simply blow us off the planet. Anytime in our history a superior civilization met an inferior one, that was catastrophy for the latter. And they was both humans. Expansionist aliens would treat us as we treat animals, or worse.
Maybe they are not here, because they are fighting each other in an endless war, or have destroyed each other.
Maybe interstellar flight is much more difficult than we think it is. What about navigation close to light speed? "Generation ships" are possible but maybe only a few individuals would accept it. They won't ever see their destination, only their chlidren will (IF the mission succeeds). And they literally have to put their lives on it.
They found better places to go.
They can terraform any planet, and don't need to travel so far.
They don't live on planets.
My stomach is a lot more important to me than Uranus (or Pluto).
So you are eating to live, or you are living to eat?:)
all you need is *one* successful species to fill the galaxy over a relative short time frame The fact that humans and any other life form on Earth fills the available space for it doesn't mean that alien life forms have the same behavior. Maybe they are not as expansionists as we are.
On the other side they would need a huge amount of energy to fill the galaxy, and if they have such an energy source and the appropiate technology, they could make anything they need.