A few years ago I saw an article on evolutionary robotic design http://demo.cs.brandeis.edu/golem/. Not only was I impressed with the research, but it was the first time I saw a 3D printer. Nothing but fucking cool!
That's a little short sighted. You may be able to wade through the various media bullshit, but the average joe doesn't have the time, is not that smart, etc. We're all in this together, smart ones and stupid. Hopefully the sheep will look up.
OK. OK. My choice of words were poor. My original intention was not to slam Linus, it was to give some credit to Tanenbaum. Minix was used as a model and reference for developing the initial Linux OS and that's a hell of a lot easier than writing it from scratch. Also, my comment doesn't mean I don't respect Linus and his accomplishment.
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A few years ago I saw an article on evolutionary robotic design http://demo.cs.brandeis.edu/golem/. Not only was I impressed with the research, but it was the first time I saw a 3D printer. Nothing but fucking cool!
That's a little short sighted. You may be able to wade through the various media bullshit, but the average joe doesn't have the time, is not that smart, etc. We're all in this together, smart ones and stupid. Hopefully the sheep will look up.
OK. OK. My choice of words were poor. My original intention was not to slam Linus, it was to give some credit to Tanenbaum. Minix was used as a model and reference for developing the initial Linux OS and that's a hell of a lot easier than writing it from scratch. Also, my comment doesn't mean I don't respect Linus and his accomplishment.
Obviously you haven't read the link yet.
Well Mad Professor! You certainly seem emotional about this. read this
WRONG! He "borrowed" the code from Andy Tannenbaum. www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html