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Old 09-21-2004   #10 (permalink)
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Information/Complexity: bacterium vs. Windows OS

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Originally posted by: TeleMad
How about this....bacteria aren't as large as an OS! Gee, guess the OS wins another one! :-)
Didn't hear the starter's pistol.

But the comparison is not entirely correct. An OS is constructed of lots of independant programs and subroutines. Thus we would need to compare it to a more complete ecostructure not just one cell of it. Esp something as bloated as Windows anything.
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Not that density is really an issue, but bacteria are in trouble because their information density is basically fixed.
We are doing a comparison based on current existence, not future proises.


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