A Mac OS X called iAlertU takes advantage of the motion-sensing abilities of the MacBook Pro laptops and is absolutely cool and useful. It is an alarm activated by any attempt to pick up the laptop or interaction with the keyboard, trackpad, mouse, or power adapter. Also activates the laptop's built-in camera in an attempt to snapshot the prevaricator. Grand.
Now, how would Jon Katz drivel about cool but not mainstream computers (made by Apple) would transpose to cool but not mainstream OSs (like Linux)? The only thing that one could guess it would be is... more vacuous drivel!
What about giving (or using, if they already have it) disk space on a central server? In a university, it should be trivial to find a networked computer to access those stored data... Moreover, home access would also be trivial.
The reliability would be good, for server iron is usually better than average... --
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The developer tools have been a separate install option in the MOSX lineage. I run MOSXS and the developer tools came on a separate CD.
Apple will make the tools available later (free registration required), as stated by Ernest Prabhakar (Darwin product manager) to the Darwin announcement list on 09/14/2000:
The Public Beta does include the basic command-line utilities as well as Terminal.app ( as well as lots of cool non-Darwin code.:-) However, it does not include the compiler or build tools. Those (as well as all the GUI-based developers tools) will be available for free download (registration required) from the Apple Developer Connection website in mid-October [http://developer.apple.com/member ship/macosx.html]. Again, people interested the latest code or general Mac OS X development may wish to join one of the paid Developer Programs, which generally get free access to pre-release software (on CD) as well as technical support and other goodies.
There are already tiny little "machines" that produce oxygen from carbon dioxide; they are called photosynthetic bacteria. Their genetic make-up is fairly well known and easy to re-engineer; they are cheap to produce in large quantities (they happily take care of that themselves). Why not use bacteria instead? --
In the first place, it is not easy to create a cell, be it bacterial or be it any other type. Cells are amazingly complex. In the second place, creating a new cell involves being able to make all the ancillary parts in addition to DNA. In the case being discussed, only the DNA is synthetic and the ancillary parts are provenient from dead natural bacteria. Therefore, what this researcher is about to do (or just has done) doesn't seem to be that impressive. A question: If I were to, say, write a new kernel but borrow all the other parts from pre-existing sources, would I have created a new OS? ZP --
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A Mac OS X called iAlertU takes advantage of the motion-sensing abilities of the MacBook Pro laptops and is absolutely cool and useful. It is an alarm activated by any attempt to pick up the laptop or interaction with the keyboard, trackpad, mouse, or power adapter. Also activates the laptop's built-in camera in an attempt to snapshot the prevaricator. Grand.
% mplayer -ao pcm:file=20050603_totn_03.wav 'rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net:80/real.n pr.na-central/totn/20050603_totn_03.rm'
Should work if one has mplayer but does not have realplayer.
With the billions of inhabitants this planet has, are we concerned with robot workers?
of the sixth post on this very page?
Now, how would Jon Katz drivel about cool but not mainstream computers (made by Apple) would transpose to cool but not mainstream OSs (like Linux)? The only thing that one could guess it would be is... more vacuous drivel!
What about giving (or using, if they already have it) disk space on a central server? In a university, it should be trivial to find a networked computer to access those stored data... Moreover, home access would also be trivial.
The reliability would be good, for server iron is usually better than average...
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We only can learn from our mistakes.
Enjoy!
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We only can learn from our mistakes.
There are already tiny little "machines" that produce oxygen from carbon dioxide; they are called photosynthetic bacteria. Their genetic make-up is fairly well known and easy to re-engineer; they are cheap to produce in large quantities (they happily take care of that themselves). Why not use bacteria instead?
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In the first place, it is not easy to create a cell, be it bacterial or be it any other type. Cells are amazingly complex. In the second place, creating a new cell involves being able to make all the ancillary parts in addition to DNA. In the case being discussed, only the DNA is synthetic and the ancillary parts are provenient from dead natural bacteria. Therefore, what this researcher is about to do (or just has done) doesn't seem to be that impressive. A question: If I were to, say, write a new kernel but borrow all the other parts from pre-existing sources, would I have created a new OS? ZP
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