I don't think Transarc/IBM or whoever seems to be in control of AFS supports AFS servers under Linux, though there are AFS clients (quite popular here at MIT). Still, AFS is notoriously bad at marketing and making use of their technology. If I were to start a distributed filesystem, regardless of how good I think AFS is, I wouldn't go for it... IBM has no interest in spreading AFS to linux
Well, the guy who did the experiment was Stanley Miller, I believe as his Ph.D. thesis. Sad thing is, not only did he get Ph.D. out of this crockpot experiment, I believe he also won the Nobel. I don't believe any scientists today give much credence to the Miller experiment (though for some reason I don't exactly recall why... I guess age, huh..) This is why most of the establishment believes the "building blocks" of life came on a meteor or some other extraterrestrial vehicle.
And besides, even if you have random strands of nucleic acids, you still need mechanisms of replication, transcription and translation... which require huge amounts of protein and RNA. Where does this come from? These complexes just randomly coalesced and on cue, a happy little strand of genetic code happened to meet up? I find this a little hard to accept.
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The MIT student newspaper had an interview with Knuth about these lectures, and gives some insight. http://www-tech.mit.edu/V119/N5 1/knuthtlin.51f.html. Basically just Knuth expressing his religious views.
Yes, and how much does MS charge for the beta? If you pay for it, it should work (and work well), shouldn't it? Well, in an ideal world, I suppose.
I don't think Transarc/IBM or whoever seems to be in control of AFS supports AFS servers under Linux, though there are AFS clients (quite popular here at MIT). Still, AFS is notoriously bad at marketing and making use of their technology. If I were to start a distributed filesystem, regardless of how good I think AFS is, I wouldn't go for it... IBM has no interest in spreading AFS to linux
And besides, even if you have random strands of nucleic acids, you still need mechanisms of replication, transcription and translation... which require huge amounts of protein and RNA. Where does this come from? These complexes just randomly coalesced and on cue, a happy little strand of genetic code happened to meet up? I find this a little hard to accept.
"Oxidizing" is a misnomer...oxygen is not the only oxidizing agent.
Two horribly wrong assumptions:
1) That all bacteria are virulent
2) God's PR has to be through the media