Re-read the parent post in the voice of the guy who narrates movie trailers, it makes it much more fun:
"In a world... where the IT wars are not over. The tyrants of the new era are gathering their forces..."
"In a world... where other companies fight it out for the low-margin leavings, IBM will bide their time, and strike when the iron is hot. From the wounded they'll take the noblemen and heal their wounds..."
As I understand it (and I could be wrong), on BSD ZFS is several versions behind. That means lots of bug fixes are missing. It is also missing the in-kernel CIFS server, which is key to serving files to Windows systems. It is also missing iSCSI, and de-duplication.
I gather you're not in the software development field. Software is spec'ed in the US and farmed out to low-cost programmers overseas. There is no new generation of programmers getting entry level software development jobs in the US. In one generation we will no longer have the ability to develop software on a large scale; Just as we no longer have the engineering infrastructure and ability to go back the Moon.
We go one better. We allow an infinite level of 'undo's on any move. After an attack, either player can decide that attack or even the entire turn didn't count and the board is rolled back to a previous state. The benefit of this is we play really sharp games with few sub-optimal moves. The downside is we've never yet finished a game.
Comedian: "I just flew in from Chicago... and boy are my arms tired! hahaha" TheCycoONE: "Given the average mass of a resident of Chicago, and comparing it to the minuscule amount of lift that could be generated from human arms, even with vigorous flapping motions, we can extrapolate the following formulas to show the improbability of this occurrence..."
> Great... except that if you know Cobal you can just demand a truck load of money and get it because there are so much fewer developers than there are jobs.
Hint: If you are putting it on your resume, you'd better spell it right.
The point isn't that Linux will work on every possible device. Of course it may not work on some device, although it works on most.
The point is that your operating system installation and application settings aren't baked in. On Windows you can't copy your hard drive onto a different system and have it work. Your Operating System has been hard coded to your hardware and your application settings are stuck in the registry.
On Linux you can just copy the hard drive onto a new system and the Operating System will figure out, when you boot, what drivers it needs to use. Your application settings are portable and as a bonus they get backed up when you back up your user's data.
On Windows it is a huge time wasting chore to try to move your applications to a new computer. You basically can't and have to reinstall all of them. And forget about moving the Operating System. You can't.
I will bequeath my computer to my heirs along with instructions to enter new data every... let's say 108 minutes. As parts break they will have to replace them in time for the next input. See you in 80 years.
No it hasn't your writable element has no executable code and is not part of your boot chain. It just stored data. Even if a virus/trojan somehow figured out that your boot partition wasn't persistent and saved a copy of itself to your mounted data partition, what good would that do the virus? If it doesn't get executed it will just sit there.
It is my pleasure to be helping you today. I understand you are trying to move your factories from China to India. Just a moment and I will bring up your account. Ok I will look up moving your factories from China to India in our knowledge-base. Have you tried plugging in your factories?
> an often overlooked icon in our world. I've read books on Tesla and I've read his patents and he truly was a remarkably gifted man. Yet I didn't hear about him until college. > And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.
Yes! Tesla has been overlooked and neglected and we need videos of drunks puking into toilets while telling us the fascinating history of Tesla. Tesla deserves that much, doesn't he? Tesla was a genius that deserves respect and honor. Respect and honor, such as that shown here by a drunk laying on the floor alternating between details of Tesla's life and moaning that he is too drunk to go on.
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Re-read the parent post in the voice of the guy who narrates movie trailers, it makes it much more fun:
"In a world... where the IT wars are not over. The tyrants of the new era are gathering their forces..."
"In a world... where other companies fight it out for the low-margin leavings, IBM will bide their time, and strike when the iron is hot. From the wounded they'll take the noblemen and heal their wounds..."
"The prize is great - it's literally us"
Sure, I'll elaborate.
As I understand it (and I could be wrong), on BSD ZFS is several versions behind. That means lots of bug fixes are missing. It is also missing the in-kernel CIFS server, which is key to serving files to Windows systems. It is also missing iSCSI, and de-duplication.
> now ZFS is now production ready on FreeBSD 8
I do not think that means what you think it means.
> Software comes from the US, for now at least.
I gather you're not in the software development field.
Software is spec'ed in the US and farmed out to low-cost programmers overseas. There is no new generation of programmers getting entry level software development jobs in the US. In one generation we will no longer have the ability to develop software on a large scale; Just as we no longer have the engineering infrastructure and ability to go back the Moon.
There's definitely something wrong with you.
You're not the only one playing with those rules; But unfortunately we don't seem to see the pattern yet and just keep sending in more troops.
wtf? declaring AFTER you see the dice results?
We go one better. We allow an infinite level of 'undo's on any move. After an attack, either player can decide that attack or even the entire turn didn't count and the board is rolled back to a previous state. The benefit of this is we play really sharp games with few sub-optimal moves. The downside is we've never yet finished a game.
Comedian: "I just flew in from Chicago... and boy are my arms tired! hahaha"
TheCycoONE: "Given the average mass of a resident of Chicago, and comparing it to the minuscule amount of lift that could be generated from human arms, even with vigorous flapping motions, we can extrapolate the following formulas to show the improbability of this occurrence..."
In related news, Parker Bros is releasing a new edition of RISK that uses a single coin instead of 5 dice. Heads you win, tails you lose.
> Great... except that if you know Cobal you can just demand a truck load of money and get it because there are so much fewer developers than there are jobs.
Hint: If you are putting it on your resume, you'd better spell it right.
We need an Electrical Grid Cybersecurity Czar. How can we get anything done without a CZAR?
> Helicopters do not fly. They beat the air into submission with the rotor and the air allows them to go up.
No, that's how Chuck Norris flies.
You try it first.
Looks like sticking your dick in a belt sander.
No thanks.
Brought to you from the 'What could possibly go wrong' department.
You have a flawed understanding of 'infinity'.
Infinity plus one is not greater than infinity.
Neither is 'infinity and beyond'.
The point isn't that Linux will work on every possible device. Of course it may not work on some device, although it works on most.
The point is that your operating system installation and application settings aren't baked in. On Windows you can't copy your hard drive onto a different system and have it work. Your Operating System has been hard coded to your hardware and your application settings are stuck in the registry.
On Linux you can just copy the hard drive onto a new system and the Operating System will figure out, when you boot, what drivers it needs to use. Your application settings are portable and as a bonus they get backed up when you back up your user's data.
On Windows it is a huge time wasting chore to try to move your applications to a new computer. You basically can't and have to reinstall all of them. And forget about moving the Operating System. You can't.
I will bequeath my computer to my heirs along with instructions to enter new data every... let's say 108 minutes.
As parts break they will have to replace them in time for the next input.
See you in 80 years.
Apparently my keyboard is a better model than yours. I can hit keys multiple times in any combination I like.
Incorrect. The keyboard, mouse, and audio input insure it is indeed a Turing machine with infinite input.
No it hasn't your writable element has no executable code and is not part of your boot chain. It just stored data. Even if a virus/trojan somehow figured out that your boot partition wasn't persistent and saved a copy of itself to your mounted data partition, what good would that do the virus? If it doesn't get executed it will just sit there.
Not so.
Mount your Windows partition and save your statements. Or save them to a USB key.
It is my pleasure to be helping you today. I understand you are trying to move your factories from China to India. Just a moment and I will bring up your account. Ok I will look up moving your factories from China to India in our knowledge-base. Have you tried plugging in your factories?
> an often overlooked icon in our world. I've read books on Tesla and I've read his patents and he truly was a remarkably gifted man. Yet I didn't hear about him until college. ... because tesla wasn't The American Inventor Thomas Edison that every American School child Must learn about.
> And yet one of the few routes we have to raise public awareness about him is very well filmed and choreographed internet videos
Yes! Tesla has been overlooked and neglected and we need videos of drunks puking into toilets while telling us the fascinating history of Tesla. Tesla deserves that much, doesn't he? Tesla was a genius that deserves respect and honor. Respect and honor, such as that shown here by a drunk laying on the floor alternating between details of Tesla's life and moaning that he is too drunk to go on.
Enlighten us, Internet drunk man!
> I think 'deleterious' is the word you were looking for.
Why? "delirious " is a perfectly cromulent word.
Amen.