admiral_ju00

Jane Goodall and her stunning research on primates. had the pleasure of meeting her at my university a few years back

where can i get one of those?

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH (this wasn't meant for anybody in particular here)

that's absurd

well, if you're only thinking with your Blinky(My Fellow Americans), then as long as he's happy.....

that would be called a Browser Hi-Jacker

don't you mean Linux instead of Unix? Linux is 100% Free(Open Source) many Unix Flavors are not. i'm not sure, but maybe FreeBSD is an exception. and you literally can save yourself a whole lot of trouble and just take the entire Linux kernel and then modify a bit or a lot to produce a different flavor of Linux and christen it with whatever name you want, provided that you adhere to the GPL. yeah

Only if you're going to port the code to a brand cpu chip one that does not have an OS. PC's don't need that for the most part, it's when you make other NEW equipments such as Cisco Routers, Digital Cable boxes, TiVO's, etc. You're making this far too complicated than it should be. You can create a brand new OS from Scratch on ANY OS. Windows, Unix/Linux, BeOS, Mac, whatever, it does NOT matter.

Mr. Filthy [edit] agreed. but i must tell you, i was a bit disappointed at 1st by your previous post as i was hoping you give your reasons, but this definitely rectified the situation. edit: i meant your post #8

interesting....

bleh. one of my favorites is open as many instances of IE as possible thereby causing a memory overflow and crash the computer hardcore there are many others

i still know a few tricks that would be fun(well at least to me it would, but i grew tired of computer pranks )........

and this is why i despise political debates :sarcastic:

Yes, but they can do other things But you can still store information in ROM - Read Only Memmory So the OS does not nor can it write to the ROM, then this is accomplished through the MIPS Cards compiler is a software. Not really understand that, perhaps you can elaborate on that for me. But, Linux/Unix kernel does compile/debug or link source code. Linux/Unix is just an operating system like Windows is. Linux Kernel or Unix Kernel or even Windows Kernel simly means it's the CORE operating system, the foundation of the OS if you will. What is slightly different between the 2, is that in Windows, a compiler does not come standard, well, maybe QBasic on older computers, so one must purchase one such as the case of Microsoft C++ for example. In Linux/Unix, it comes standard with the GNU libriaries as well as many different programming languages, examples of things found naturally in Linux are: Perl, Python, Java, C/C++ (Not Visual) and a host of others.

just remember, if the teacher is not an active in his/her field and aquiring new information, then his/her worth is only as good as the book that they teach from.

that's negotiable and a thing of perspective/preference. some choose to call them vesicles, others call them vacuoles

you can create a new compiler, but like i said in an earlier post, it would be very hard and a long project itself, and use it. but you can also use C possibly, but how are you going to test it? it'll probably won't compile. computers, especially software are Backwards Compatible NOT Forward Compatible. So while working under a 32bit OS you can create stuff for both 32bit and 16 bit, same for 64bit > 32 > 16 > 8 > 4. The reverse is not true. so you can't develop something for 16bit and expect it to work on 32bit or 64bit meaning that the stuff written for a 8bit os might still run on 32bit, but a 32bit application will never run under an 8bit os. why? ms-dos is old, and dead. well, unless you want to rewrite ms-dos(16bit) to yoru own version of ms-dos(32bit) then do it. but still, why?!? command prompt under win2k or winxp is 32bit, i believe

you do that through the use of MIPS Cards, ROM Chips and a Serial connection. i'm a little rusty on the details, but this is the general process: New OS is designed on an existing os, such as windows or unix. the code can be in C/C++ or whatever else is suitable for the task, maybe even Basic. MIPS cards is what will be used to compile the new OS on the new chip/cpu. It is the device that will translate the Code to asembly language (x86 Asembly won't work). Then on a ROM chip, you create some code that'll more or less function as a batch file which will get the stuff from the MIPS card, use the Serial Connection to the CPU and compile the OS on the chip. oh yeah, to port an OS unto a brand new CPU, say one for your Toaster, you MUST have the detailed specs and parameters from the CPU's manufacturer, otherwise you'll have no idea how to make the new os working on that cpu. and to get such a manual on the CPU at hand, you must obtain it from it's company and you must have a damn good reason for needing such a doc.

well, we're on the internet, so let me look it up to make sure: http://sun.menloschool.org/~cweaver/cells/c/vacuole/ http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/SCI_ED/grade10/cells/vacuoles.htm http://www.georgetown.txed.net/faculty/forbes/SheffieldCells/Period%208/animalcellsarahkensleybrandon.htm (surely, you can find hundreds or thousands other websites that say the same thing)

totaly agreed. and if it wasn't for the combined efforts of my wife and son, i'd get rid of the little vermin in a heart beat.