Are The Smartest Minds In Science & Technology
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I'd say you have to be pretty damn smart to be in a position to work on future computers, but operating systems....eh, not so much.
Originally posted by: compnovice
Operating systems; by the looks of it NO...
u have no idea what levels r redhat of being designed at MIT, linux OS is run on several high powered computers that run control entire cities from water supply to sewage waste to managing industrial complexes and so much more.
you're the kind of guy who just play with Windows XP Home.
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If we are saying no, then it doesn't make sense that the smartest scientific and engineering minds are not building our computers and systems.
But in the world of, say Nasa and Technology are the building of systems like these something entirely different, where the world of science and technology that uses computers compared to consumers is an entirely differnt thing?
But in the world of, say Nasa and Technology are the building of systems like these something entirely different, where the world of science and technology that uses computers compared to consumers is an entirely differnt thing?
Ever talk to a stoner dude? Those dudes have the answers to all the worlds problems and no one understands them when they try to explain them to others. They have to be the smartest people in the world.
dullard
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The smartest minds are doing whatever they please. They could be working on computers. Or they could be working on medical devices, writing an Opera, or pumping gas at the local gas station. That is the key with smart minds - they can do as they please. And if pumping gas makes them happy, then they pump gas.
To assume that they all (or even a large portion) are working on computers and operating systems is silly. Yes, some smart minds are working in those fields. But there are many other fields.
To assume that they all (or even a large portion) are working on computers and operating systems is silly. Yes, some smart minds are working in those fields. But there are many other fields.
Originally posted by: fire400
Originally posted by: compnovice
Operating systems; by the looks of it NO...
u have no idea what levels r redhat of being designed at MIT, linux OS is run on several high powered computers that run control entire cities from water supply to sewage waste to managing industrial complexes and so much more.
you're the kind of guy who just play with Windows XP Home.
I agree I do not know much about OS... But wasn't Unix developed in the 60's? and Linux is based on that..
Of course there have been modifications but it isn't a radical new idea...
yllus
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The Linux operating system and the brilliance (?) behind it has little to do with the complexity of the systems being on machines using that OS.
Operating systems today merely react and provide features that software developers push for. A special framework came to be required to program 3D graphics under Windows; DirectX was born (and OGL before it). There's not a special need for the best and brightest to develop Windows or *nix themselves.
Operating systems today merely react and provide features that software developers push for. A special framework came to be required to program 3D graphics under Windows; DirectX was born (and OGL before it). There's not a special need for the best and brightest to develop Windows or *nix themselves.
Ika
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Originally posted by: compnovice
Originally posted by: fire400
Originally posted by: compnovice
Operating systems; by the looks of it NO...
u have no idea what levels r redhat of being designed at MIT, linux OS is run on several high powered computers that run control entire cities from water supply to sewage waste to managing industrial complexes and so much more.
you're the kind of guy who just play with Windows XP Home.
I agree I do not know much about OS... But wasn't Unix developed in the 60's? and Linux is based on that..
Of course there have been modifications but it isn't a radical new idea...
Okay?
What do "radical new idea"s have to do with what he's saying?
Did you miss dullard's reply?Originally posted by: DasFox
So much for trying to find a serious answer around here, sheesh
A mix of the smartest and the merely above-average are working on OS development at MS, Apple, and on linux.
A mix of the smartest and the merely above-average are working on OS basic research at universities.
A mix of the smartest and the merely above-average are working in every other field of science and technology.
No one field has a monopoly on "the smartest" because smart people have different interests. John Carmack works on 3D engines and is certainly smarter than many of the code monkeys in MS' operating systems dev group. John Romero works on making you his bitch and is certainly smarter than . . . . someone else?
amish
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Originally posted by: fire400
Originally posted by: compnovice
Operating systems; by the looks of it NO...
u have no idea what levels r redhat of being designed at MIT, linux OS is run on several high powered computers that run control entire cities from water supply to sewage waste to managing industrial complexes and so much more.
you're the kind of guy who just play with Windows XP Home.
wait, wait, wait. you make fun of him for using XP home but you can't type out a sentence correctly. i take it you don't go to MIT.
your post should read, "you have no idea what levels of redhat are being designed at MIT. linux OS runs on several high powered computers that run control of entire cities from water supply, to sewage waste, to managing industrial complexes, and so much more.
you're the kind of guy who just plays with Windows XP Home."
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