And yes, before anyone who visits my site today says so, it was a slow news day, I myself didn't care all that much for my jokes today, but as Groucho said in Animal Crackers, 'Not all the jokes can be good ones. You've got to expect that once in a while.' Hit the archives for better material.
...I already made fun of it hours ago. Pretty sad when a stupid little joke site beats the news site. On the other hand, had this been an actual attack, I wouldn't have made fun of it, and/. still wouldn't have posted the story as the editors would have been heading for the hills.
While you may think the color brown is unhip, you must understand that from a designer's and marketer's POV brown has been a 'HOT' color for at least the last year.
We know. But this is precisely why a piece of electronic hardware should not be that color -- it is going to look dated fast. When you follow a hot trend, you get burned very quickly as the market turns elsewhere by next year.
A little bird told me that the current implementation of Time Machine operates on a much simpler and backwards-compatable principle. It doesn't need ZFS.
That makes sense since Time Machine will be out with Leopard, and so will ZFS, but most people will not run ZFS drives. Apple will still have to support Time Machine on all the other machines as well. But going forward, it sounds as if ZFS will be ideal for apps such as Time Machine, and in time those apps will run much more efficiently when people move to ZFS.
"For Mac geeks of a certain persuasion, the first mention of a soon-to-be-revealed feature of Leopard during the WWDC keynote set off a mental chain-reaction. That feature was Time Machine, and the name alone was enough to cause one particular phrase to hammer in the mind of many people, including me: "New file system in Leopard!" It was even a bingo square. In fact, it was my personal favorite bingo square, and the one that I most looked forward to marking.
But let's back up a bit. Why should the mere name "Time Machine" scream "new file system" to anyone? And why the excitement about a new file system in the first place? What's wrong with HFS+, Mac OS X's current file system? It's got journaling. It supports arbitrarily extensible metadata. It can even be case-sensitive to satisfy the Unix geeks. Does Mac OS X really need a new file system?
In a word, yes. HFS was a state-of-the-art personal computer file system when it was first released...twenty-one years ago. HFS+ is only eight years old, but it's built on many of the design decisions of HFS. Progress marches on. Today, there are new capabilities that the best modern file systems have, but that HFS+, even with all of its recent additions, does not. Here's a short list.
Efficient storage and handling of very small files.
Logical volume management through a pooled storage model.
Improved data integrity using checksums on all data.
Snapshots.
So it's about the snapshot ability of ZFS, and that's exactly what will be needed for Time Machine.
How am I not letting others live their lives? I am not making anyone do anything. I made a suggestion, something that happens in a civilized society. Those who hear me can either take my suggestion or not, but either way I have done my part to advance the discourse.
You might find it amazing, but I am able to concentrate on being the best person I can be and simultaenously offer comments.
All those events you listed are valid grounds for humor now in the right context (in other words, hold back the Holocaust jokes if you happen to be at a bar mitzvah). But if you were walking around the World Trade Center while bodies were falling to the ground, and making jokes at that moment, you would have gotten punched in the nose (and worse). There's a time and a place for even the darkest humor, and I'm all for it. But give me a break! While the disaster is currently unfolding?? While people are dying as we speak?
Hey, it didn't offend me personally because I have a very strong sense of humor, and I'm not offendable. I like dark humor. But I am also empathetic, something I see lacking in much online discussion. And my empathy for what those poor folks must be going through right now, hearing the spouses breaking down in tears for their lost loved ones, and thinking about the hell that is about to face tens of thousands of people there, and I felt that joking about them was too soon. If some non-empathetic person created an encyclopedia entry to make it seem like it's OK to joke about the dead as they are dying, well fine. I'm guilty for being empathetic. I sleep well at night.
As a local resident, I defer to your local expertise. But while you joke on, may I suggest you get out if you are able? As you say, the flood waters are coming, and this bad situation is going to get much worse for you. Please be safe.
Folks, think about what it would be like to be forced from your home and told not to come back for a month, knowing that all that time your house is partially underwater, and fairly toxic water at that. Think about the suffering that must be going on at this very minute by people who were unable to evacuate, and now find themselves unable to even walk out of the city. Think about the tens of thousands of people stuck in the Superdome who have been without air conditioning, most power, in stifling heat and dark, with little notion of when they will ever be able to return to their homes, or even if they have homes any more. Think about those who are crippled, or sick, or elderly, and who are stuck in this slow-motion disaster.
Think about the fact that a major U.S. city that many people love is slowly being destroyed almost completely. Think about how when all is said and done probably thousands of people will be dead from this. Think about how a husband feels knowing his wife is dead, or a wife feels seeing her husband die, or a parent who sees a child sicken and die.
Think I'm being overly dramatic? Think again. This is going to wind up being the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, and what I'm seeing on/. are jokes? I know the usual flippant response is 'hey dude, this is a valid response to tragedy.' Yeah, I understand that, but man, people are actively dying right now. How about just a tad more respect at this very moment, and then make your jokes? Why not wait to see the full impact of this disaster before you reflexively respond with sarcasm and wit? Please.
And to carry it further, there are certs and there are certs, just as there are top universities and there are regional schools of average quality. Some employers demand only Ivy League degrees -- they can afford to be picky, and they make the assumption that it was harder to get a degree from Harvard or U. Penn than it was to get one from State U.
So too there are Microsoft certifications, and then there are certifications in, I dunno, Cicso-specific technology, or Oracle knowledge. If you have a job opening requiring very specific technical knowledge, you will naturally look for that specific cert rather than some general MS "I took a test too!" cert.
Indeed, I have a 1st gen iPod bought at the very end of 2001 (or possibly January 2002, I'm not exactly sure, but it's right at that time). So it is now three-and-a-half years old, soon to be four. Still going. No problems at all.
Frankly if the battery on this thing ever dies, there's no way I'm thinking it's defective. Just old.
I think this cycle will only speed up over time. As globalization increases, and companies get used to finding the low-cost supplier wherever on the globe they are, I think they will start to play one country against another. Why not? Let's all race to the bottom as we look for the best price. "We were hesitant the first time we tried it, but once we saw how it worked we got used to the idea. Now we don't hesitate."
So for every country that does well like India, there will be another one seeking to enter the same market and will undercut the price. The company doing the hiring will learn this is how it works and they will quickly make the switch whenever they want.
"That's because, in the many areas where Linux is miles ahead of Solaris, Sun stands a good chance of catching up quickly if it has the will, whereas in the many areas where Solaris is miles ahead, the Linux community will be hard pressed to narrow the gap."
I've heard many good things about Solaris, and I can well believe Sun could quickly improve any problem areas. But one thing about Linux is it is free (no, I'm not talking about price). That's one of the key areas where Linux has been "miles head" of several competitor OSes. It's going to be hard for Solaris (or anyone else) to "narrow the gap" in that area unless Sun is also willing to free Solaris, and I don't think that is likely.
And not to mention that the population that will hack OS X to run on a cheap box is quite small compared to all computer users. This sub-group might put up with the minor pains in the butt, while others might not. But all of them could come to realize that OS X has some nice features and is solid. So when Mom and Pop, or Grandma and Grandpa, need a new computer, their hacker son or grandson will now be familiar with OS X and like it. Since Mom and Pop ain't gonna be doing anything but going to the computer store to get their new system, a recommendation for OS X will steer them right for an Apple store. This is a much bigger slice of the population.
I would prefer to take the whole argument out of the realm of infections or viruses. This is a license issue, and the person who grabs the code will know (or should know) what can or cannot be done with that code legally. There should never be a case where the license terms sneak up on a person. It's hard for me to come up with a counterargument when I don't see the validity of the original argument.
If you want to use GPL code in your own product, you follow the license terms. If you don't want to follow the license terms, you don't use the GPL code in your own product. Unless you want to use it in-house only, in which case help yourself and don't worry about it.
Fair enough. What I mean is the word "viral" is too easy to misunderstand (for a lot of reasons) to be used in the programming context and have it contain accurate, meaningful information. People have all sorts of images in their minds when they hear "the GPL is viral," and because so many enemies of open software have tried to argue against the GPL using inaccurate, emotional arguments, I get tired of that meme.
I did not, and do no, intend to minimize the very real sociological issues involve biological viruses. I am truly sorry if I muddied the waters by my sloppiness.
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And yes, before anyone who visits my site today says so, it was a slow news day, I myself didn't care all that much for my jokes today, but as Groucho said in Animal Crackers, 'Not all the jokes can be good ones. You've got to expect that once in a while.' Hit the archives for better material.
...I already made fun of it hours ago. Pretty sad when a stupid little joke site beats the news site. On the other hand, had this been an actual attack, I wouldn't have made fun of it, and /. still wouldn't have posted the story as the editors would have been heading for the hills.
We know. But this is precisely why a piece of electronic hardware should not be that color -- it is going to look dated fast. When you follow a hot trend, you get burned very quickly as the market turns elsewhere by next year.
That makes sense since Time Machine will be out with Leopard, and so will ZFS, but most people will not run ZFS drives. Apple will still have to support Time Machine on all the other machines as well. But going forward, it sounds as if ZFS will be ideal for apps such as Time Machine, and in time those apps will run much more efficiently when people move to ZFS.
So it's about the snapshot ability of ZFS, and that's exactly what will be needed for Time Machine.
You mean the way you just did to me?
I called for empathy for the dead and dying. I stand by it.
Understood.
You might find it amazing, but I am able to concentrate on being the best person I can be and simultaenously offer comments.
I find it amazing that a sincere plea for someone else's safety was modded down.
Hey, it didn't offend me personally because I have a very strong sense of humor, and I'm not offendable. I like dark humor. But I am also empathetic, something I see lacking in much online discussion. And my empathy for what those poor folks must be going through right now, hearing the spouses breaking down in tears for their lost loved ones, and thinking about the hell that is about to face tens of thousands of people there, and I felt that joking about them was too soon. If some non-empathetic person created an encyclopedia entry to make it seem like it's OK to joke about the dead as they are dying, well fine. I'm guilty for being empathetic. I sleep well at night.
As a local resident, I defer to your local expertise. But while you joke on, may I suggest you get out if you are able? As you say, the flood waters are coming, and this bad situation is going to get much worse for you. Please be safe.
Think about the fact that a major U.S. city that many people love is slowly being destroyed almost completely. Think about how when all is said and done probably thousands of people will be dead from this. Think about how a husband feels knowing his wife is dead, or a wife feels seeing her husband die, or a parent who sees a child sicken and die.
Think I'm being overly dramatic? Think again. This is going to wind up being the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, and what I'm seeing on /. are jokes? I know the usual flippant response is 'hey dude, this is a valid response to tragedy.' Yeah, I understand that, but man, people are actively dying right now. How about just a tad more respect at this very moment, and then make your jokes? Why not wait to see the full impact of this disaster before you reflexively respond with sarcasm and wit? Please.
So too there are Microsoft certifications, and then there are certifications in, I dunno, Cicso-specific technology, or Oracle knowledge. If you have a job opening requiring very specific technical knowledge, you will naturally look for that specific cert rather than some general MS "I took a test too!" cert.
Frankly if the battery on this thing ever dies, there's no way I'm thinking it's defective. Just old.
"It just feels snappier!"
to
"It just seems flashier!"
So for every country that does well like India, there will be another one seeking to enter the same market and will undercut the price. The company doing the hiring will learn this is how it works and they will quickly make the switch whenever they want.
Who said anything about 4th avenue? Try 2nd avenue and 4th street.
No, we're in New York City. You gotta problem with dat?
I've heard many good things about Solaris, and I can well believe Sun could quickly improve any problem areas. But one thing about Linux is it is free (no, I'm not talking about price). That's one of the key areas where Linux has been "miles head" of several competitor OSes. It's going to be hard for Solaris (or anyone else) to "narrow the gap" in that area unless Sun is also willing to free Solaris, and I don't think that is likely.
So can you distract a party by yelling, "Nobody move! I've dropped my camera lens."
Now watch them just piss their financing away...
And not to mention that the population that will hack OS X to run on a cheap box is quite small compared to all computer users. This sub-group might put up with the minor pains in the butt, while others might not. But all of them could come to realize that OS X has some nice features and is solid. So when Mom and Pop, or Grandma and Grandpa, need a new computer, their hacker son or grandson will now be familiar with OS X and like it. Since Mom and Pop ain't gonna be doing anything but going to the computer store to get their new system, a recommendation for OS X will steer them right for an Apple store. This is a much bigger slice of the population.
If you want to use GPL code in your own product, you follow the license terms. If you don't want to follow the license terms, you don't use the GPL code in your own product. Unless you want to use it in-house only, in which case help yourself and don't worry about it.
I did not, and do no, intend to minimize the very real sociological issues involve biological viruses. I am truly sorry if I muddied the waters by my sloppiness.