http://io9.com/5083673/princeton-scientists-discover-proteins-that-control-evolution

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/60/95O56/index.xml?section=topstories

However Apple’s strength is in what they deliver to the end customer, not what they put into their machines actually. Apple shouldn’t be advertising X GB RAM, Y GB Storage et al. They should be saying, n Desktops, so many graphics accelerators, making it still look more friendly than the IBM PC Clones.

Apple seems to be confused about using open source vis a vis building everything themselves. They have finally decided to keep as much of Mac OS X to themselves leaving application developers a better chance to play.

While Apple builds PC platform solutions for end-user-computing, PsyStar is clearly a value add player. Ironically PsyStar has a better idea of what they are trying to do; improve user experience irrespective of the operating system and hardware they have. So I don’t believe there’s a death sentence for them.

A new chip takes at least 18 months to come off the block (and Apple might’ve started much earlier, Apple isn’t second to Intel in keeping secrets.) Looking at their previous products, Apple has never deployed a custom processor on any of them, I do not believe that their first shot at it would be too successful. They should continue delivering what they deliver best, user expectation, user experience and prestige value through their brand.

Haiku, AmigaOS and AROS are also planned, but rathaxes need
to implement more feature before that.

Thanks,
The rathaxes team.

Some manufacturers have started experiments to offer customized high-featured laptops on top of Ubuntu based frameworks. But, they haven’t entered the market in full swing. (I am talking about face recognition, remote control, finger-prints with a laptop shipping with Linux.) But these are a tiny portion of it.

Back when the Desktop got freed to almost No Operating system Microsoft bettered their deal with OEMs to provide Microsoft Windows XP. Now with Microsoft

What kind of platforms does rathaxes support presently …?

Rathaxes is a programming language dedicated to describing device drivers.(Domain Specif Language, as SQL is for database)
It provides a set of keywords and functionalities making device drivers programming an easier and faster process. Even if you don’t need cross-platform, it takes away all the boring parts of the development cycle. Moreover, the security provided by the syntax of the language will avoid many common bugs and will facilitate the testing and debugging of the driver.

The Rathaxes file is not directly converted into the driver, but in C code the developper may then compile with the native tools of the system in order to obtain the driver.
This might seem an unnecessary extra step, but that way we don’t have to change the targeted system, we just generate the C code from the .rtx description to the driver code following perfectly the different api provided by the system.

To include this knowledge about the different systems, Rathaxes also has a back end language to manage templates of code extracted from various systems. each system has its own set of templates that can be maintained easily either by the Rathaxes project or by the OS maintainers.

The final output of the whole operation is not one cross platform driver, but a clean, human readable, robust C code for each selected OS, but you only have to maintain one set of code for all OSes, the rtx files. That could lead to a unique database of drivers, and new opérating systems would just have to create their set of templates to benefit of all that has ever been written in Rathaxes.
It won’t solve the problem of closed or missing datasheets, but at least it will make an improvement on the quality of ported products and encourage this porting.

No need to learn every os out there, no need to use a generalist language such as C, you just describe your device and the software logic attached to it.

We’re planning on having a public release during the begining of 2009. The project is opensource and welcomes any feed back or constructive critics so feel free to contact us, or ask any questions :
contact at rathaxes dot org .

Thank you for your attention, have a nice day

What I have understood is the world economy has insofar been strong enough to withstand issues like Natural Disasters (check the 2004 and 2005 calendar for them.) These years the sentiments of the people were not hit and the markets still went high.

The War in Iraq did cost the Feds a lot of money in Defense Sped the liquidity crunch as it did not reach a quick conclusion in terms of the intended goals.

To state that the Subprime Mortgage Crisis cannot be dealt with using countermeasures is bullshit. This is speculative shrinking of perceived wealth in a free market. You can blame anyone. In fact, half the world will be starting a blame game.

However, the solution is to address the credit crisis. To do this one has to buy time and that is exactly what I propose, buying time without shutting down trading. Each trader gets credit points for buying, loses them for selling; loses credit points for any transaction. The credit points that can be spent per day or even per hour can be restricted to avoid high speed meltdown. This lets the investors also think through their strategy and avoid the bailout. The index management can also reach heavy sellers and work with them to avoid further crisis. Looking forward is possible and we can avert further crisis.

So dead space is not really on the must have list …