If you look at the major features of ZFS, none of them apply to phones: 1) pooled storage management 2) integrity + self healing 3) snapshots etc
To get the real payoffs with ZFS you need to have device redundancy. Also, a ZFS stack likes a lot of RAM. There's no real reason to run it on a phone or even a laptop (for most people). There are plenty of suitable filesystems for these situations.
Google has recruiters on staff who will find you in any number of ways (just maybe they use Google!) They apparently don't use external recruiters for engineers and it's not hard to see why.
You know, to build a mosque on every corner and install Gay Muslim Socialist Kenyan Ayatollahs who are going to come and round up your daughters^H^H^H sons for their harem - and take all your guns?
Beats me. You think "making a best effort to disseminate facts" was an easily understood mission, but since the mainstream media hasn't tried to do that for years*, everybody seems to have forgotten what it means.
I grew up 160 km (that's 795 furlongs, for Americans) outside a major Australian city. We never locked our doors. In fact we did not HAVE locks on any door or window. Burglaries in 20 years? Zero.
American society has been whipped into a paranoid, trigger happy frenzy by 24 hour propaganda on film and tv. Throw unlimited availability of firearms in the mix and you have the most dangerous society in the developed world; most major American cities have a highe homicide rate than São Paulo, Brazil (where gun control is credited with improving safety).
Also compare to Toronto, Canada: 90 homicides annually in a region of 5.5 million people.
Ever since proportional fonts came to the desktop, people have found it hard to decide whether they are 'typing' or setting type. (eventually, in the DTP era, there was even a book, The Mac is not a Typewriter).
In typesetting, all word spaces are treated equal (except by TeX, which implements a more typewriter-like convention after periods; it also subtly modifies spacing after commas, semicolons too). This may also be a European/North American distinction, similar to the spaced-en-dash versus unspaced-em-dash convention.
TeX, and the TeXbook, are where many geeks from the CS side of the fence got their first typographic exposure and education. Some of Knuth's aesthetic decisions, like this one, do smell a bit funny to professional typographers. But his implementation of math setting is probably close to definitive (damn it Jim, I'm a typographer not a mathematician).
Wait till they find out that German uses letterspacing for boldfacing, and that it used to be normal practice to have thin spaces before punctuation, etc, etc... The study of typographic conventions is easily a life's work.
Quite so. It's also a potential marketing error. Sun's hardware and software engineering, pre-Oracle, had one of the best reputations in the industry (even if their sales organization wasn't so highly regarded).
McDonald's owns Chipotle, but that doesn't mean you can only buy McBurritos there, because that would likely send exactly the wrong message. Just like McDonald's, Oracle's brand has various negative connotations. Another example: Microsoft is very careful about this - for example, Xbox marketing materials often carry no Microsoft branding.
Ownership certainly does not mean you must piss all over everything to mark it as yours.
This very evening, I am installing a 40GB SSD for boot disk and low-power 1 TB drive for data. Upgrading from 10.4 to 10.5 (last that will run on PPC).
This should give the G5 years more life - it's a wonderful, powerful box and my main desktop (though I keep a separate Linux PC for most day-job development).
"they just figure out a way to make a shell company to hide the dangerous stuff in"
There are good precedents for this. Look at what happened after Bhopal (another non-accident that has striking parallels to Macondo well explosion).
Watch in slow-motion, the astonishing sleight-of-hand that magically makes liabilities disappear:
the UCC played strategy deftly unbeknownst to the learned Judges. It sought permission to sell its holding of 50.9 per cent in UCIL to an Indian company and use the proceeds to establish a trust, hospital, etc. The court approved it in May 1994 and the sale was put through by November 1994. It looked like a charitable gesture... By this act of divestiture, UCIL had become a wholly Indian company. It had washed its hand off any Bhopal liability!
At this stage, the GOI should have taken precaution....
UCC itself would get out of the net in the next round. This was when it was taken over by Dow Chemicals in 2001. While this corporate change was taking place, there was no attempt to provide for the liability of UCC relating to Bhopal. Since UCIL had already been sold to an Indian group, Dow would not have bothered about Indian claims....
Normally multinationals take cover under corporate veils where identities are obfuscated or jurisdictions confused. In the case of UCC, it was both. They took cover for some time and, when the going was good, they sold themselves in bits and pieces leaving no trail for liability.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Review from 2006...
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/09/04/a-review-of-the-glom-graphical-database-front-end/
The ATA spec clearly says this, if you listen to a backwards recording of it narrated by James Earl Jones.
he thinks he still owns it.
n/t
Then we can certainly do without whatever *is* called "journalism".
But it's aimed at the bigger system/server market, which does tend to be 64 bit. The 32 bit end is not going to get as much love.
Also see what TheRaven64 wrote above.
If you look at the major features of ZFS, none of them apply to phones:
1) pooled storage management
2) integrity + self healing
3) snapshots
etc
To get the real payoffs with ZFS you need to have device redundancy. Also, a ZFS stack likes a lot of RAM. There's no real reason to run it on a phone or even a laptop (for most people). There are plenty of suitable filesystems for these situations.
Google has recruiters on staff who will find you in any number of ways (just maybe they use Google!) They apparently don't use external recruiters for engineers and it's not hard to see why.
You know, to build a mosque on every corner and install Gay Muslim Socialist Kenyan Ayatollahs who are going to come and round up your daughters^H^H^H sons for their harem - and take all your guns?
Beats me. You think "making a best effort to disseminate facts" was an easily understood mission, but since the mainstream media hasn't tried to do that for years*, everybody seems to have forgotten what it means.
* - *koff* Iraq *koff* Afghanistan
I grew up 160 km (that's 795 furlongs, for Americans) outside a major Australian city. We never locked our doors. In fact we did not HAVE locks on any door or window. Burglaries in 20 years? Zero.
American society has been whipped into a paranoid, trigger happy frenzy by 24 hour propaganda on film and tv. Throw unlimited availability of firearms in the mix and you have the most dangerous society in the developed world; most major American cities have a highe homicide rate than São Paulo, Brazil (where gun control is credited with improving safety).
Also compare to Toronto, Canada: 90 homicides annually in a region of 5.5 million people.
n/t
once you let the CEO get away with blatantly falsifying expense accounts, you've now made theft from the company an acceptable practice
Are you trying to pretend there is a single company wide standard for this?
Life at the top of the American corporation is all about tacit embezzlement. The ultimate? CEO pay.
Sun selling itself into the jaws of the Larrygator will be the end of a truly great engineering company.
Ever since proportional fonts came to the desktop, people have found it hard to decide whether they are 'typing' or setting type. (eventually, in the DTP era, there was even a book, The Mac is not a Typewriter).
In typesetting, all word spaces are treated equal (except by TeX, which implements a more typewriter-like convention after periods; it also subtly modifies spacing after commas, semicolons too). This may also be a European/North American distinction, similar to the spaced-en-dash versus unspaced-em-dash convention.
TeX, and the TeXbook, are where many geeks from the CS side of the fence got their first typographic exposure and education. Some of Knuth's aesthetic decisions, like this one, do smell a bit funny to professional typographers. But his implementation of math setting is probably close to definitive (damn it Jim, I'm a typographer not a mathematician).
Wait till they find out that German uses letterspacing for boldfacing, and that it used to be normal practice to have thin spaces before punctuation, etc, etc... The study of typographic conventions is easily a life's work.
"We've always been at war with Eastasia."
Fuck your war.
Installing OS X 10.5 on the dual G5 with SSD took only 11 minutes.
With SSD as boot drive, boots from video to login in 18 seconds, still a bit slower than I expected.
If I were a cynic, I'd wonder whether Ballmer just says what he thinks analysts want to hear.
Managing a corporation has become "managing the message". Ask BP...
It's obvious he's a business guy and not the forward thinking visionary
Lucky they hired that visionary dude Ozzie, then!
Quite so. It's also a potential marketing error. Sun's hardware and software engineering, pre-Oracle, had one of the best reputations in the industry (even if their sales organization wasn't so highly regarded).
McDonald's owns Chipotle, but that doesn't mean you can only buy McBurritos there, because that would likely send exactly the wrong message. Just like McDonald's, Oracle's brand has various negative connotations. Another example: Microsoft is very careful about this - for example, Xbox marketing materials often carry no Microsoft branding.
Ownership certainly does not mean you must piss all over everything to mark it as yours.
Ask BP - or the US Navy...
For a glimpse of a highly regarded independent creative vision - try Eskil Steenberg's highly regarded multiplayer world LOVE.
Yes, it's a beautiful piece of hardware. I plan to keep mine alive and working for many years to come.
This very evening, I am installing a 40GB SSD for boot disk and low-power 1 TB drive for data. Upgrading from 10.4 to 10.5 (last that will run on PPC).
This should give the G5 years more life - it's a wonderful, powerful box and my main desktop (though I keep a separate Linux PC for most day-job development).
But corporates are all about short term profits. Fuck the future!
Nothing else could explain their rapacious, irreversible, indefensible despoliation of our air, sea, freshwater (and in USA), forests,, environment, health, food, and economies.
"they just figure out a way to make a shell company to hide the dangerous stuff in"
There are good precedents for this. Look at what happened after Bhopal (another non-accident that has striking parallels to Macondo well explosion).
Watch in slow-motion, the astonishing sleight-of-hand that magically makes liabilities disappear: