In Mac OS X the HFS+ filesystem is implemented as a kernel extension. A kernel extension can be a driver (video, USB devices, etc.), a filesystem (HFS, FAT, AFP, NFS, etc.), or kernel-level features (ipfw, ppp, etc.).
Your point is not proven by saying "haha you don't know it's a driver!" You actually need to reference something other than your opinion to make a statement useful. I have a small hope of that happening, so I hope you learn from your elder and understand the traditional sense of the term rather than using it as some small group of code monkeys do (what the Linux kernel folk refer to as a "driver" is merely an "extension" or a "plug in"; a driver drives something and a filesystem cannot be driven).
Last time I checked filesystems were also operatining system components. Often these components might be referred to as drivers.
Then you didn't check hard. Again, HFS+ is a specification of how to write data to media in order to organize another collection of data. The implementation is what handles the defragging. There are no drivers involved as drivers are the software component of a hardware/software union and there is no hardware involved at this level (just logical organization).
As stated in the article, this is a feature of the HFS+ code in Panther. The filesystem cannot have a defrag feature as the filesystem is just a specification. The implementation of that specification, however, can do most anything to it.:)
Works great.:) No one's seemed interested so it's not seen many updates, but works great the way it is. If someone wants to write some up I'll happily host them. It's real simple to write. I almost made an editor for it as well, which would be rather simple, too.
That's not called "minority" that's called "life." It's nothing more than social tiering and has nothing to do with race, which is what the word "minority" brings to the discussion.
And, yes, in south Texas white people are harassed by Hispanic cops and the other way around. It's life.
It's clear how little BBC you pay attention to if you think their bad view of America is just concerning the war. It's been there for twenty years or more.
When you so casually relate being "right-winged" to being stupid/backward it's quite obvious that trying to remedy the situation with examples or facts will be a useless endeavor.
In fact, trying to convince anyone of anything over, of all places, Slashdot is an exercise in futility even Hitler[*] couldn't appreciate.
* This post qualifies for discussion failure under Godwin's law.
Because it's just damned funny when you lose work due to crashes, time due to corruption/rebuilding, sanity due to everything looking like a damned web browser, and productivity by sorting through 60 program options for the one thing you use daily.
A lot to laugh about, sure.
I laugh because I have a Mac with none of those problems. I laugh at people with those problems now. Those people are not laughing, in general.
Good stories and interesting characters are far more important than skin and special effects when it comes to keeping geeks interested.
You say this now.. yet Firefly bombed and it had those in abundance. Hell, it had good chars, plot, AND special effects and it tanked.
Sure, it has its own story, and conspiracy theories abound, but the fact is that for whatever reason people didn't watch it, and it was the best Sci-Fi in years. Hell, I even got my wife hooked once we got the DVD set. She's just as depressed as I am that no more are coming out. She hates Sci-Fi. At least we own the DVDs...
So, anyway, no, it's not just a good story or plot. It's that AND getting it popular. We may think we rule the world, but we couldn't keep many of our favorite shows on the air:
* Firefly * Farscape * I-Man * [insert ten other Sci-Fi Channel series here] * [now] Enterprise
Then when the Star Trek movie loses $45M as a project, well, it's no wonder they think we don't exist.
Apple quite purposely made a disposable product with a life just long enough to keep people barely happy enough to buy again. As with computers, I think such products should have a government mandated company paid-for disposal program.
A simple way to replace the battery would fix the problem, but would lose Apple money.
-sigh- Just a little research, please? For $99, Apple will replace the battery and they will correctly dispose of the old one. Done.
So I remember about ten years ago watching Mr. Wizard. He got himself a nice pound or two of potassium (or sulphur?) and, hands in gloves, hurled that thing onto a "dead" lake. It immediately blew itself about 50 feet into the air and came down again on the water only to do it again, and again, and again.
Quite the sight. Whichever kid they got for that episode, however, needed a new pair of pants after the first bang. He was was walking a little funny afterwards.
Q: Why doesn't Apple make the battery easily replaceable? Or use different batteries, like AA?
A: Because if they did either, the size of the batteries and/or the access panels and mechanisms required to access the battery would make the unit significantly larger than it is, likely by several millimeters in thickness at a minimum, and would also affect other dimensions, as well as weight. It was an engineering decision to use an integrated battery; if it were not integrated, the unit would not have the small, sleek form factor that makes it so attractive in the first place. Additionally, the iPod's battery is indeed replaceable, as has been discussed above.
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The point is that the term file system is used for more than one thing.
No, it is not.
one of the Jaguar updates
10.2.2.
It's a feature of the HFS+ kernel extension in Darwin 7, which is the version of Darwin included in Panther.
In Mac OS X the HFS+ filesystem is implemented as a kernel extension. A kernel extension can be a driver (video, USB devices, etc.), a filesystem (HFS, FAT, AFP, NFS, etc.), or kernel-level features (ipfw, ppp, etc.).
Your point is not proven by saying "haha you don't know it's a driver!" You actually need to reference something other than your opinion to make a statement useful. I have a small hope of that happening, so I hope you learn from your elder and understand the traditional sense of the term rather than using it as some small group of code monkeys do (what the Linux kernel folk refer to as a "driver" is merely an "extension" or a "plug in"; a driver drives something and a filesystem cannot be driven).
Last time I checked filesystems were also operatining system components. Often these components might be referred to as drivers.
Then you didn't check hard. Again, HFS+ is a specification of how to write data to media in order to organize another collection of data. The implementation is what handles the defragging. There are no drivers involved as drivers are the software component of a hardware/software union and there is no hardware involved at this level (just logical organization).
As stated in the article, this is a feature of the HFS+ code in Panther. The filesystem cannot have a defrag feature as the filesystem is just a specification. The implementation of that specification, however, can do most anything to it. :)
But if you send it in two pieces, that's fair use!
... or .. umm ...
something.
I, for one, welcome our ... oh never mind.
shut the fuck up
Some nerds have no sense of humor whatsoever
Irony knows no bounds.
As far as a program that uses text files and makes a CYOA thing, that's already done: Multiple Endings Story Engine
:) No one's seemed interested so it's not seen many updates, but works great the way it is. If someone wants to write some up I'll happily host them. It's real simple to write. I almost made an editor for it as well, which would be rather simple, too.
Works great.
That's not called "minority" that's called "life." It's nothing more than social tiering and has nothing to do with race, which is what the word "minority" brings to the discussion.
And, yes, in south Texas white people are harassed by Hispanic cops and the other way around. It's life.
Minorities. That's rich. The whole concept is flawed as with about five major races and 280 million people there's no real "minor" group anymore.
If you want to tread that road, however, I'm a white man in South Texas. "Minority" enough for you? =D
It's clear how little BBC you pay attention to if you think their bad view of America is just concerning the war. It's been there for twenty years or more.
When you so casually relate being "right-winged" to being stupid/backward it's quite obvious that trying to remedy the situation with examples or facts will be a useless endeavor.
In fact, trying to convince anyone of anything over, of all places, Slashdot is an exercise in futility even Hitler[*] couldn't appreciate.
* This post qualifies for discussion failure under Godwin's law.
They call it as they see it.
The problem is the blood-colored glasses they view America with.
More like "News for turds and stuff that splatters."
Yes.
Because it's just damned funny when you lose work due to crashes, time due to corruption/rebuilding, sanity due to everything looking like a damned web browser, and productivity by sorting through 60 program options for the one thing you use daily.
A lot to laugh about, sure.
I laugh because I have a Mac with none of those problems. I laugh at people with those problems now. Those people are not laughing, in general.
Good stories and interesting characters are far more important than skin and special effects when it comes to keeping geeks interested.
.. yet Firefly bombed and it had those in abundance. Hell, it had good chars, plot, AND special effects and it tanked.
You say this now
Sure, it has its own story, and conspiracy theories abound, but the fact is that for whatever reason people didn't watch it, and it was the best Sci-Fi in years. Hell, I even got my wife hooked once we got the DVD set. She's just as depressed as I am that no more are coming out. She hates Sci-Fi. At least we own the DVDs...
So, anyway, no, it's not just a good story or plot. It's that AND getting it popular. We may think we rule the world, but we couldn't keep many of our favorite shows on the air:
* Firefly
* Farscape
* I-Man
* [insert ten other Sci-Fi Channel series here]
* [now] Enterprise
Then when the Star Trek movie loses $45M as a project, well, it's no wonder they think we don't exist.
In Soviet Russia ... oh, never mind.
What is Vipul's Razor?
It compares your mail to everyone else's spam to see if it's spam, too.
(Was that so hard?)
Apple quite purposely made a disposable product with a life just long enough to keep people barely happy enough to buy again. As with computers, I think such products should have a government mandated company paid-for disposal program.
A simple way to replace the battery would fix the problem, but would lose Apple money.
-sigh- Just a little research, please? For $99, Apple will replace the battery and they will correctly dispose of the old one. Done.
Damn you. I just snorted Taco Bell.
So I remember about ten years ago watching Mr. Wizard. He got himself a nice pound or two of potassium (or sulphur?) and, hands in gloves, hurled that thing onto a "dead" lake. It immediately blew itself about 50 feet into the air and came down again on the water only to do it again, and again, and again.
Quite the sight. Whichever kid they got for that episode, however, needed a new pair of pants after the first bang. He was was walking a little funny afterwards.