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  1. Re:great example. Removeable, interchangeable sche on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    ZFS plays just fine, the problem is in order to fully benefit from ZFS, ZFS must manage its own redundancy. You can still use RAID5 on your SAN, but you'll still want RAID5 with ZFS, which is just that much more wasted space. You also get the disadvantage that when a drive dies in the SAN RAID, performance will take a bigger hit than it needs to be, because the hardware RAID has no idea how the file system works.

    In most situations, you're better off having each layer completely independent, but in the case of ZFS, it seems that when you don't make the layers entirely generic, but make them specialized to each other, the end product is much greater than the sum of the parts.

  2. Re:above, below, and at the same level. ZFS is eve on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    Certain required features could not be done if they were separate features. In order to properly do certain things, the 3 layers must understand each other. I'm not talking about "fun" features, I'm talking about problems that have been plaguing data centers and there was no other way.

  3. Re:Empirical Data Trumps Information Theory on Information Theory Places New Limits On Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    Space can move faster than light, but nothing else can move through space faster than light. We can see galaxies moving away from us faster than light, but we will never be able to get to them and eventually they will be beyond out light horizon and no new information will come from them.

  4. Re:Obviously. on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Egg whites have one of the best amounts and balance of amino acids and other proteins, and the yolks are full of antioxidants and other great stuff as is needed to create life. I have also been told by several different wellness teachers at my Uni that whole eggs are great for you unless you have a pre-existing health issue. Kind of like saying peanuts are bad for you because some people have allergies.

  5. Re:SSDs will outpace platter drives on WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    HP is working on a "Unified" memory where both the memory and storage is one massive pool of mram. The first gen servers will use partitioning to break up the pool between storage and memory, but later the OS will dynamically map pages on demand. They're expecting to start selling in the next several years, the tech is ready.

  6. Re:SSDs will outpace platter drives on WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Durability has already been solved tech wise via several different methods, now they just need to figure out how to incorporate it into their mass production.

  7. Re:ARM's number is up on First Intel 14nm Broadwell Core M Benchmarks Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Some time back they were comparing Intel's newest low power CPU to ARM's. They both had nearly identical idle, but Intel's CPU consumed about 50% more peak power, but had about +80% peak performance, and was x86. Not to say that is the case this time, but Intel has already been dipping into ARM territory.

  8. Re:Gibbs Free Energy on Information Theory Places New Limits On Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    High energy systems self organize all the time in order to increase entropy. What do you think a tornado is? Too much energy differential, so a vortex forms to help entropy along. Welcome to life.

  9. Re:Thermodynamic equilibrium is not required on Information Theory Places New Limits On Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    High energy systems tend to naturally self organize in order to increase the rate of entropy. Life also increases the rate of entropy.

  10. Re:Empirical Data Trumps Information Theory on Information Theory Places New Limits On Origin of Life · · Score: 2

    We also assume information cannot travel through space faster than c, so we put a restriction on how fast DNA can spread. Or should we assume this is wrong until we prove that it cannot happen via empirical evidence?

  11. Re:Helium? on WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Vacuums don't conduct heat very well.

  12. Re: We really need on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    I misconfigured my DNS once and didn't realize for over a week that I was getting sent to YouTube servers in Germany. 1080p was streaming just fine. I eventually got sick of waiting the 2-3 seconds it took for 1080p to buffer when I started a video. Normally I have no hesitation at all because I have a YouTube pop about 250 miles from me.

  13. Re:You should see on 3 Short Walking Breaks Can Reverse Harm From 3 Hours of Sitting · · Score: 1

    Pre-fapping before the jpeg fully loaded, only to get Rick Rolled with some guy.

  14. Re:Dangerous Technology on Intel Releases SD-Card-Sized PC, Unveils Next 14nm Chip · · Score: 1

    Needs more salsa.

  15. Re:The split has taken place, but not for this rea on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    Most people with 96core servers don't considered a single-threaded kernel a good thing. OpenBSD is great for your dual core CPU, but expect more cores mostly a waste. But yes, OpenBSD is stable as bedrock in the midwest.

  16. Re:Nonsense on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    When your 16 core desktop CPU with 64GB of memory and 90k IO/sec SSD is mostly idle? Not much. Wait until you bottleneck one of your resources, then it'll be different.

  17. Re:Big deal on Scientists Regenerate Rat Muscle Tissue · · Score: 1

    You don't actually gain more muscle cells, you just make your current cells bigger and stronger.

  18. Re:We really need on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    Size doesn't matter, if it did, then no one in the world would have broadband by your logic because the average density of the Universe is too low.

  19. Re:Seriously? on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    Rebuilding a large network from scratch is always going to be expensive.

    Less expensive than upgrading a DSL or Cable network. The per house cost to build a new fiber network is almost a magnitude less than the cost of doing an upgrade of a copper network.

  20. Re:Seriously? on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    I guess you haven't tried YouTube 60fps or 4k. Depending on the video, you can be downloading 40mb/s and barely staying in front of the buffer.

  21. Re:Contacting BBC, via VPN on BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    A benefactor of educating people is EVERYONE IN THE WORLD. Maybe the UK should stop educating it's populace lest the world benefit from more smart people.

  22. We managed to get 1 pound defined as 0.45kg. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I guess this also means a slug is 0.45kg, as it would make no sense to say it's 1/32 of a lb, when a lb is 1/2.2 of a kg. Bah!

  23. Re:Where to draw the line on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 1

    BSD software did not get closed, the fork of BSD got closed. The BSD software will always be open, if it's not open, then by definition, it is not BSD.

  24. Re:No thanks on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 1

    Extremism has no place in a free society.

  25. Re:Mercury is in your flu shot on Surprise! More Than Twice As Much Mercury In Environment As Thought · · Score: 1

    Different kind of Mercury. The kind is most industrial is the kind that your body can't get rid of, so it just builds up. The kind in shots/jabs is a kind your body can expel quite quickly.