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  1. Nice technical approach on Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    There's a blog post linked from the article.

    There's all kinds of promising stuff, like data corruption resilience and dropped/extended limits.

    Much more interesting read than the linked ZDNet article.

    Indeed very interesting - their approach seems sound and modern. First, they remove the non-essential features from the filesystem to keep it lean. They could be possibly reimplemented on top of the filesystem. And second, they mention using B+trees and allocate-on-write principle, which some modern filesystems use - Reiser4 springs to mind.

    Interesting project to follow (and imitate in open source).

  2. Re:S3TC patent on ITC Rules Apple Does Not Infringe S3 Graphics Patents · · Score: 2

    This probably makes the texture compression patent (S3TC) invalid. Now it can be safely implemented in Mesa.

    Not unlikely. Although there does not seem to be any legal ruling that mandates this, this claim is mentioned here and on Wikipedia.

  3. Re:Like ITC will find in favor of a Taiwanese comp on ITC Rules Apple Does Not Infringe S3 Graphics Patents · · Score: 5, Informative

    When did that happen for the last time in known history? ITC has one purpose only -- to protect US companies from competition.

    It will come back to bite them eventually. Other companies are doing the same like getting apple banned in Taiwan. By setting up this framework of protectionism now they will suffer when being banned in China becomes worse for multinationals than being banned in the USA

    The article you are linking to actually talks about banning APPLES (the fruit) imported from the US in Taiwan. You probably wanted to refer to the ban of selling some Apple products in South Korea, which is seeked by Samsung. This ban, however, did not happen so far it seems.

  4. Re:summary misses an important bit... on Capacitors to Replace Batteries? · · Score: 1

    the article says they would only need a few seconds to be fully charged...
    ...and will require massive transformers to perform it.

  5. Re:summary misses an important bit... on Capacitors to Replace Batteries? · · Score: 1

    the article says they would only need a few seconds to be fully charged...