admiral_ju00

A Genetic makeup is no where near equivalent to what a Blueprint is. Many of your info is unfound, and flawed. Your use of biological vocabulary does not make the information of your post more creditable, especially to a subject which you've already had a pre-determined conclusion.

Experience? Here's a concise history of Linux I just found. *long read* http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/index.shtml

Uhm, your labs? Gov't grant? What research? You grow closer to the goal by the day?? I'm not trying to make you doubt your own ideas, knowledge, etc, but You have set some clearly ambitious and impossible goals for yourself. Unless you have a Ph. D at 14, and a research staff equally qualified and experienced that you haven't told us..........

Well, let me ask you this. How would MICROSOFT CORP. feel if YOU rip their kernel (any part or all of it) and embed it in your own system? When you answer this, you'll answer your own question.

Here's one Co. where you can buy an Alpha system. Oh by the way, I do not think you'll be able to afford one, even their cheapest system. http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/ What? There is no FreeBSD for a Mac. Well, at least not as a standalone system. MacOS X is built is on FreeBSD, I believe, but it's like 40% Unix, 60% Mac OS. There IS Linux for Macs. http://www.penguinppc.org/ http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/ Plus there are a few more. Search the web. Oh by the way, you might want to make frequent visits to this page: http://freshmeat.net/ http://slashdot.org/

I overheard these two guys talking in my Uni, last year, sounded interesting, so I got a little closer. One was a Marine, E5, and the other guy challanged him to eat a spider which was lying on the floor(dead) for a dollar. It was a Barn Spider. The other guy did it.

I think you're looking for this: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/SS1_touchdown_040621.html

What are the pre-reqs for writing reviews?

You'll be suprised by how little does the overall temp has to inc or dec in order to wreck havok on the ecology as we know it. I dunno if you were ever introduced to the Snowball Earth Theory, but it's quite intriguing. Here's a linky: http://ecosystems.wcp.muohio.edu/studentresearch/climatechange02/snowball/articles/Background.htm Also, according to this, Nuclear Winter theory was 1st presented in the Journal Science in 1983 by Carl Sagan. So if you have the access to Science Online, then you should get that paper. http://nyny.essortment.com/whatisnuclear_rioc.htm Other than that, I couldn't find anything on the web that's comming from a pure scientific paper/perspective. So I'd hit the journal for details.

1) The post above should fill help you out. 2) The only open source Unix is FreeBSD, do not lump all Unixes into the Open source thingie, not a good idea. Unix was around much longer than any other OS, so it is stable because it has more then 4 decades of revision, and use. 3) You know, I never had the pleasure to compare Windows NT's source code(or anyother Windows code with the exception of Windows 95) to Linux/Unix. Quite frankly, because it is very difficult to get your hands on one - legally, that is. So, officially, the only people who get to see the code for Windows(any version) are those that are directly employed by the Microsoft.

Precisely. Once upon a time, a man named Linus Torvalds thought that Unix was wayyyyyyyyyy too expensive. So, he borrowed a few ideas here, a few things there and eventually arrived at what is now known LINUX. It is Open source and Non-proprietary. It can be bought for a very very cheap price, or downloaded for free. Between Unix and Linux, many things look similar but there are also many that aren't. Same difference really when you start playing with different flavors of Linux. Not all are 100% alike.

Well, the new Alpha systems use Unix. It is proprietary and will NOT work on your system. Question: why are you making this soooo much complicated than it ought to be???

We could(and probably should) do that here. That sounds like fun.

Well, Unix was always a commercial application/system, so if you want to use it, you Have to buy it. No downloadable ISO. No eval versions exist of it either. Back in the day, especially for a soft. developer, under Unix, you had to buy not only the Unix, but also the libraries, binaries, and other such fun stuff. I guess this is very similar to what Microsoft is doing now. If you want to use their Visual C++, buy that, but if you need the other goodness for it, buy MSDN subscription (which is quite expensive, but not as expensive as the stuff for Unix was/is. I believe that was on the order of 10's of K.). As far as the compatibility, that would depend on the system of Unix and computer that you have. Which is why FreeBSD is: 1) So cheap as compared to other versions of Unix 2) Can be run on any PC. Now, take Sun's Solaris, for example, you can make it work on a regular PC(the usual means for it to run is on a Sparc), but most likely you will loose the functionality of half of your hardware, IF you can get it to run at all. Installing Solaris(or any other Unix) on a PC is a Biatch, trust me. You have to have the drivers for your devices, if not, you Have to be able to write them yourself, etc. The list of supported devices under Solaris is extremely limited, because of the fact that it is a Proprietary software(OS) and it requires the use of Proprietary gear. As far as the software, if it is done in C, or C++ **Not Visual C++**, then there's a good chance it'll recompile & execute w/o a problem.

You're right in the way that not ALL Linux distros are fast. Some are pure crap, some are in the beta stage, some have pretty unstable and or crappy kernel. For example, Fedora. That is a brand new kid on the block(it is derived from Red Hat) and the kernel is not very good yet. They promise with their next kernel version, these bugs will be fixed. Why do you want to buy FreeBSD? Because it's Unix, not Linux. Unix has been around for a long time and is very powerful and very good, especially for app development and network(ing) applications. Mandrake is also derived from Red Hat and I despise Red Hat. It was good to start out with(back in 95), but now I hate it with a passion. Mostly since their version 5, that filthyfied me and I will never again touch it, or it's close uhm, siblings.

I believe its their reaction with the Van Allen belts in the Ionosphere, and the other radiation belt in the Magnetosphere that causes this phenomenon. Oh yeah, it is also these Low and Extra low wavelenght frequencies that deflect Radiation out of the Earth's magnetic field.

All you ever want to know about Nebulas(have some more links, but too lazy at the moment to go digging for them) http://astronomynotes.com/evolutn/s1.htm http://blackskies.com/neb101.htm http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/space/stellardeath/stellardeath_contents.html

I'm assuming you mean for a PC platform, as opposed to a mac. The two that I use and love myself are: SuSE and Slackware. Other great flavor is(, in my opition anyway) Debian. Go here and pick a distro. http://linuxiso.org/ However, if you got an extra $100 bucks lying around, get FreeBSD. That is Unix, a very cheap, but excellent. 1)Because it does not crash, or rather, it can crash, in most cases it'll be a user error, or user assist, but you can recover it very very easily. 2)Because it's open source, and as it seems you have an interest in software development, that is a definite plus. 3)It's Fast About the only thing I can't do in Linux/Unix is play games, at least not what I want to. The current selection of games for the _nix platform is very small. So no C&C4 or Battlefield 1942, for me in linux. Also, need to mention this: 'till just last year, I ran an FTP server on my, I kid you not, P1, 133MHz / 32MB ram Slackware system. This is the same computer that was dying back in 96 under Windows 95, but ran perfectly under linux from 98 - 2003 as a server and a gateway.

err... We're talking about two entirely different geological periods here. The fault is mine. For some reason, I misread mooeypoo's original post and made the connection to dyno's in my reply. But my post in #12 is still valid when it comes to permian mass extinction, that however, is an entirely different matter. On a side note, I seriously need to start practicing the art of proofreading. :embarrassed:

Good question. It could hold many clues and answers or I guess depending on how extensive their analysis of it may be. Several things come to mind. Taking into account that this core goes back some 740,000 years ago and did go through the past 8 ice ages, maybe it can tell us how these things were formed or moved. What the conditions were like, ofcourse the general composition and other particles in it may be useful. Also, right around the same time (+/- 50,000 years) there is evidence of man-made fire. It may even have bits and pieces of DNA, especially if they could find some mtDNA, that would be great.

I believe the current theory on this sais that there may be both, the MACHOS ans the WIMPS.

Actually, I was and to a degree, still am of an opinion that between your post and Tesseract's, there wasn't that much room for debate.

Well, that's the answer to the problem right there. People with limited computer knowledge will think that a tech who has just fixed their computer is a God. You also need to include the Media, since they do tend to over-emphasize things.

I'm the A type. Although one thing that is kind of bugging me is that (so far) 90% of the threads(there weren't many to begin with) that I start, these threads simply die off - no response and are generally completely ignored.