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Comment Re:Remember the Superconducting Super Collider! (Score 1) 103

It's not even clear there are any further particles to discover. All of the partlcles predicted by the Standard Model have been discovered. At this point we're looking at, "let's bang a bunch of particles together and see if anything interesting happens".

This would be all good and fine, but that's a lot of money to spend when you don't know what you're looking for, or if there's even anything there to find.

Comment Re:well ... (Score 1) 71

Sorry but comparing OSX to BSD is like saying Linux is the most successful OS in the world because of Android.

What would be wrong with that statement? Is Android built on Linux or isn't it? Although it might be technically more correct to say Linux is the most successful kernel in the world, which would be hard to dispute. But it's moot, as we're specifically discussing desktop OS's here.

The two are nothing alike. Actually I'd argue this is worse as Apple has diverged from Darwin to the point of not even mentioning it anymore, and no longer publishes complete source for their OS.

The only thing it has in common with BSD now is that it can run BSD binaries, but then so can Linux.

With one substantial difference. Android doesn't present a shell environment, unix utilities and services, compilers and other development tools. OS X provides a complete BSD environment with all the trimmings where the user can interact with it.

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