That was my initial reaction to the article also. But after a couple of reads (as opposed to a couple of reds), my interpretation is that they're ripping out the entire genetic structure (RNA/DNA) and synthesizing a new set entirely from scratch.
As I responded to another post, I'm unsure as to how much of the actual cell structure (aside from the membrane) will remain...i.e., nucleus, mytochondria, etc..
I'm viewing it as 'creating life' in the sense that someone who 'creates software' doesn't actually build the computer from sand, program the O/S in machine, and design & implement a compiler (at least not typically - I have a handful of friends who always seem to sidetrack themselves down that path...).
Perhaps I'm misreading this, but my understanding is that they're stripping out all of the reproductive and regulation mechanisms (RNA/DNA) and then synthesizing a new set from scratch. So they aren't building the cell membrane, but they are building the mechanisms that actually make it a living entity. I'm unclear as to whether they will keep things like mitochondrea intact (or for that matter, the cell nucleus).
On the morning of Monday, November 18, 2002, a mixture of processed hybrid corn (marketed under the tradename of 'Corn Flakes') was deliberately mixed with a bowl containing nearly 1 cup of homogonized liquid dairy product (milk).
Before any government oversight committees could intervene, the potentially lethal mix was ingested by an unsuspecting 4th grader in Nashville, TN. Although scientists are poring over the data from this incident, the long term effects of this gene jumping remain to be seen.
In a brief press statement made later in the day by White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, the Bush administration "...sees no cause for alarm and is convinced that this type of behavior has no demeritous consequences."
It should be noted that President Bush has been a long standing supporter of agricultural product consumption and has previously sat on the board of several dairy and corn committees.
Okay - I know this has already been hammered on endlessly, but - after reading the switch story - I just couldn't resist...
My laptop came with 512 MB of RAM, a 15" screen, a DVD player, and Windows XP Home Edition preinstalled, for $450 less than a comparable iBook. My recommendation is to go straight to Windows XP Professional; the extra features for mobile users are worth it.
First off, I noticed that she chose not to include the extra $250-$300 for XP professional upgrade in the cost...
AppleWorks (previously called ClarisWorks) pales in comparison to Microsoft Office XP. There's no equivalent for the versatility of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint®.
It's also $75 and free on certain models (iMac/iBook, e.g.) - and MS Office is also available for the Mac .
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 does more for me than Netscape Navigator ever did
Finally, IE is the default browser on the Mac. And, being a daily user of IE5/OSX & IE6/Win2k, I can attest to the fact that IE5 on the Mac is more feature rich (auction tracking, autofill button, font+- as examples). Of course, IE5 on the Mac doesn't pop a window up everytime I pause over an image...but I'm thinking that's a plus.
About the only thing she forgot to put in there was And my Windows XP machine wasn't created using child labor plus it's dolphin and spotted owl friendly.
I can just see the new XP boxes: "Contains no harmful asbestos or cyanide laced CDs. Can your OS say that?"
Build a quality OS or crush the competition. Pick one.
My XDarwin no longer works with the 10.2.1 update. It doesn't report any problems via the console log (sure would be nice if I could turn on verbose or debug [or maybe I mean it would be nice if the option would spit out from -help]), just the usual startup followed by 'Quitting XDarwin'.
I reinstalled XFree86 + the 10.2 patch. No joy...
Anyone else?
why would a multibillion dollar corporation, who have a million times more resources then the average linux programmer, not bother to make a similar tool for windows if it's so useful?
Ummm....so the fact that they haven't gotten around to copying something yet means it's extraneous? Man - I guess TCP/IP was pretty useless until August of 1994.
Could it be that maybe, just maybe, they don't have the time to port absolutely everything to Windows at once? Look at how long it's taken them to get caught up with Mac OS 9 and Solaris 2.5 (for example).
Design a quality OS or crush your competitors. Pick one.
So, the real question to my mind is-- why hasn't the process side of the house for PowerPCs kept up with intel?
That's an easy one. Intel isn't getting these speed increases purely through process. They're busy making longer pipelines so they can crank up clock speed. I.e. they're sacrificing performance for GHz. Take a look at the P4 arch & you'll see what I mean...
So what do you do for users behind a NAT firewall or running through a load balanced proxy server? IPs can, and oftentimes do, change from one click to the next.
Man, has someone ever indoctrinated you. A little too much time spent in college perhaps?
Why is Worldcom in this mess? Because they have been encouraged to please their shareholders at the cost of their core business vision.
Who's watch did this happen under? Can you say "Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago"?
Who's going to clean it up? Probably not anyone in power right now. The Democrats are too busy looking for campaign mud to sling to actually do their job. The Republicans are too busy fending off the Democrats, attempting to fight a war, and watching out for their business buddies to do anything about it.
Ain't gonna get better soon....if Shakespeare had been born later he might have said "First thing we do, let's kill all the politicians".
Look, this has absolutely nothing to do with MS profits on OS X. This is about MS getting nervous that a company with 5-8% market share is a threat to them. Period.
Office is an okay suite. It's fine for simple to moderately complicated work (although Excel can be f*cking infurating at times...whatever). If you're looking for serious documentation tools, you sure as hell shouldn't be using Word. And spreadsheets have their limits - pass them & you're looking at a customized app solution of which their are many possibilities. And IE does nothing incredible that other browsers don't do. It comes on the Mac so I use it. I'm certainly not married to the thing.
Because at that time I bought 98, MSs was playing the moving-target game with their file formats.
There have been 2 extremely expensive updates in the 3 years since I bought it that did nothing for me. In fact, their POS Entourage not only doesn't support Exchange, but it had serious IMAP bugs in it.
What can we expect from MS in the future?
Continued threats of dropping Mac support - particularly if things go well for them in the courts, Linux in the desktop market, and/or Apple in the desktop market. Nothing like some competitors to weaken the monopoly argument.
A return to the ever changing Office file formats.
A drop of WMP for the Mac and a bigger push of Windows Media - particularly if they can find a way to seriously break MPEG-4.
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As I responded to another post, I'm unsure as to how much of the actual cell structure (aside from the membrane) will remain...i.e., nucleus, mytochondria, etc..
I'm viewing it as 'creating life' in the sense that someone who 'creates software' doesn't actually build the computer from sand, program the O/S in machine, and design & implement a compiler (at least not typically - I have a handful of friends who always seem to sidetrack themselves down that path...).
Perhaps I'm misreading this, but my understanding is that they're stripping out all of the reproductive and regulation mechanisms (RNA/DNA) and then synthesizing a new set from scratch. So they aren't building the cell membrane, but they are building the mechanisms that actually make it a living entity. I'm unclear as to whether they will keep things like mitochondrea intact (or for that matter, the cell nucleus).
At least that's my take...
Good point. I guess I'll have to switch from Windows to a Unix variant...
On the morning of Monday, November 18, 2002, a mixture of processed hybrid corn (marketed under the tradename of 'Corn Flakes') was deliberately mixed with a bowl containing nearly 1 cup of homogonized liquid dairy product (milk).
Before any government oversight committees could intervene, the potentially lethal mix was ingested by an unsuspecting 4th grader in Nashville, TN. Although scientists are poring over the data from this incident, the long term effects of this gene jumping remain to be seen.
In a brief press statement made later in the day by White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, the Bush administration "...sees no cause for alarm and is convinced that this type of behavior has no demeritous consequences."
It should be noted that President Bush has been a long standing supporter of agricultural product consumption and has previously sat on the board of several dairy and corn committees.
Do you really have to use Windows for your VPN? Your shop write an inhouse, PC only product?
As if MS has any...
My laptop came with 512 MB of RAM, a 15" screen, a DVD player, and Windows XP Home Edition preinstalled, for $450 less than a comparable iBook. My recommendation is to go straight to Windows XP Professional; the extra features for mobile users are worth it.
First off, I noticed that she chose not to include the extra $250-$300 for XP professional upgrade in the cost...
AppleWorks (previously called ClarisWorks) pales in comparison to Microsoft Office XP. There's no equivalent for the versatility of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint®.
It's also $75 and free on certain models (iMac/iBook, e.g.) - and MS Office is also available for the Mac .
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 does more for me than Netscape Navigator ever did
Finally, IE is the default browser on the Mac. And, being a daily user of IE5/OSX & IE6/Win2k, I can attest to the fact that IE5 on the Mac is more feature rich (auction tracking, autofill button, font+- as examples). Of course, IE5 on the Mac doesn't pop a window up everytime I pause over an image...but I'm thinking that's a plus.
About the only thing she forgot to put in there was And my Windows XP machine wasn't created using child labor plus it's dolphin and spotted owl friendly.
I can just see the new XP boxes: "Contains no harmful asbestos or cyanide laced CDs. Can your OS say that?"
Build a quality OS or crush the competition. Pick one.
By your application, if we baseline the x8x at 4.77Mhz in 1982, there have been ~13 18month periods since then, so:
4.77Mhz * 2^18 = 1.25THz
8bit * 2^18 = 2^21 = 2097152 bits
Seems like an awfully cheeky headline.
My XDarwin no longer works with the 10.2.1 update. It doesn't report any problems via the console log (sure would be nice if I could turn on verbose or debug [or maybe I mean it would be nice if the option would spit out from -help]), just the usual startup followed by 'Quitting XDarwin'.
I reinstalled XFree86 + the 10.2 patch. No joy...
Anyone else?
Ummm....so the fact that they haven't gotten around to copying something yet means it's extraneous? Man - I guess TCP/IP was pretty useless until August of 1994.
Could it be that maybe, just maybe, they don't have the time to port absolutely everything to Windows at once? Look at how long it's taken them to get caught up with Mac OS 9 and Solaris 2.5 (for example).
Design a quality OS or crush your competitors. Pick one.
That's an easy one. Intel isn't getting these speed increases purely through process. They're busy making longer pipelines so they can crank up clock speed. I.e. they're sacrificing performance for GHz. Take a look at the P4 arch & you'll see what I mean...
I think a better title would've been How I and my Smith Corona Saved The World From USPS.mail.
Yeah, yeah. And my dad can beat up your dad. Woo hoo. I suppose I won't get invited to your birthday party now, eh?
So what do you do for users behind a NAT firewall or running through a load balanced proxy server? IPs can, and oftentimes do, change from one click to the next.
Why is Worldcom in this mess? Because they have been encouraged to please their shareholders at the cost of their core business vision.
Who's watch did this happen under? Can you say "Are you better off now than you were 8 years ago"?
Who's going to clean it up? Probably not anyone in power right now. The Democrats are too busy looking for campaign mud to sling to actually do their job. The Republicans are too busy fending off the Democrats, attempting to fight a war, and watching out for their business buddies to do anything about it.
Ain't gonna get better soon....if Shakespeare had been born later he might have said "First thing we do, let's kill all the politicians".
dU
Office is an okay suite. It's fine for simple to moderately complicated work (although Excel can be f*cking infurating at times...whatever). If you're looking for serious documentation tools, you sure as hell shouldn't be using Word. And spreadsheets have their limits - pass them & you're looking at a customized app solution of which their are many possibilities. And IE does nothing incredible that other browsers don't do. It comes on the Mac so I use it. I'm certainly not married to the thing.
For the type of work that Office is suited for I can just as easily use Appleworks which has "word processing, spreadsheet, page layout, painting, database, and presentations " , reads the latest Word & Excel formats and it's only $79. (BTW, it was (is?) also available for Windows including an XP udpate).
What do I currently run? Office98. Why?
What can we expect from MS in the future?
dU