How does ZFS compare to btrfs? Several intentionally unnamed and unlinked commentaries on ZFS apparent current omission from Mac OSX refer to btrfs to be the more GPL-compliant alternative to ZFS. I need more information, as I do not think btrfs has the same aggressive checksumming and automatic volume size feature that ZFS does. Thanks.
As with anything new, it was not covered by the rules. However, from a gentleman's perspective, it was clearly cheating. That's why I choose to use the concept of "technically cheating."
As you, since you note my low UID, would have noted, I have a very low opinion and an even dimmer view of services that try to earn money by promoting, either directly or indirectly, the act of illegally distributing copyrighted content, contraband, stolen secrets, and the abuse of intellectual property. From Napster, Gnutella, Limewire, BitTorrent, and "MegaUpload/Mega," my views are consistent (NB I do not hold an opinion of WikiLeaks for personal reasons). Not all information "wants to be free" and it's for very good reasons. I don't expect everyone to understand those reasons.
Furthermore, "Kim Dotcom" is not a US citizen, so I have no real stake in what happens to him and am mystified by how much attention he gets for nothing that could be considered notable. He's not in any way even remotely comparable to Sean Fanning, Kevin Mitnick, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, nor Chelsea Manning.
Thank you for questioning my views because you noted my low UID. It helps me recenter my expectations of what to expect from rank and file trollers on Slashdot and the reasons why it's such a ponderous service.
Why are we still hearing about this? There has been nothing notable about this attention-thirsty individual in a long time, notwithstanding "Mega" and its allegedly real users.
The technology was called "riblets" and was secretly applied to the hull of Stars and Stripes allowing them to win the 1986 Americas Cup. It also allowed the US to win its first rowing medal in many years at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Technically, it was a cheat-to-win strategy in most people's opinions at the time. I thought everyone knew about this. Google and Wikipedia are not your friend.
Such large sites should understand that having multiple availability zones means nothing if the zones are all in the same region. Oh, and your application would need to be designed for failover.
In addition, when looking for high-availability, you don't segregate your audience to individual regions. You let the working regions take over for you.
Or spend the extra money and set up your own co-lo arrangement.
That's the obvious solution, but, really, my computer should not lose the ability to be controlled by a USB device just because it went to sleep when the lid was closed. My Windows laptop has done this successfully for, like, fifteen years now?
So I can close my laptop now instead of carrying it around like a sort of open pizza box for fear of never having a working mouse until the next reboot? How annoying to start a meeting by rebooting a Linux laptop.
OMNI's golden years were the early 1980s. There was so much of what we now call "junk" science that made the magazine so compelling. It took Popular Science and stretched it to the extreme edge of believability which is a big part of what made it so interesting and entertaining.
Windows NT was called that because it was being targetted to a CPU family architecture nicknamed "N-Ten" after the Intel i910 processor. Intel produced a more suiltable follow-on processor in this family called the i860 which was the chip the Microsoft team eventually settled on, but the "N-Ten" name stuck.
The newer marketing name "New Technology" was a so-called "backronym."
My Google Chromebook shows me that the Netflix app is no longer exclusively using Silverlight since at least Spring 2013 and possibly earlier.
Last year, the Chromebook was using a Silverlight-like plugin, possibly a Mono derivative. Today, it's not using either, and is apparently using HTML 5 embedded video.
I've been a user of both services since they became available. Along with Amazon Unbox now becoming Amazon Instant Video and the even newer Amazon Instant Video with Prime, I humbly suggest that we consider that a large part of the Amazon Prime streaming library may actually be served to us by a white-label Netflix service.
Consider this: both Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video offer many of the same programming options with a few selections unavailable on one service or the other. Plus, there are many obscure series collections that appear on both services and at the same perceived video quality (at least, to my eyes).
The bulk of the live streaming library has to be shared, in my opinion, with Netflix. Business-wise, it makes sense. Logically, it makes even more sense.
Forget OCR-A, just use OCR-B because, unlike all of the fancy digitally efficient compressed hardcopy versions, you can actually read OCR-B without going blind.
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How does ZFS compare to btrfs? Several intentionally unnamed and unlinked commentaries on ZFS apparent current omission from Mac OSX refer to btrfs to be the more GPL-compliant alternative to ZFS. I need more information, as I do not think btrfs has the same aggressive checksumming and automatic volume size feature that ZFS does.
Thanks.
Certain content delivery networks already do this. For decades.
I find it hard to believe that Google was really not encrypting its non-client ingress/egress traffic.
No need to summarize. This is the total extent of the details available.
As with anything new, it was not covered by the rules. However, from a gentleman's perspective, it was clearly cheating. That's why I choose to use the concept of "technically cheating."
As you, since you note my low UID, would have noted, I have a very low opinion and an even dimmer view of services that try to earn money by promoting, either directly or indirectly, the act of illegally distributing copyrighted content, contraband, stolen secrets, and the abuse of intellectual property. From Napster, Gnutella, Limewire, BitTorrent, and "MegaUpload/Mega," my views are consistent (NB I do not hold an opinion of WikiLeaks for personal reasons). Not all information "wants to be free" and it's for very good reasons. I don't expect everyone to understand those reasons.
Furthermore, "Kim Dotcom" is not a US citizen, so I have no real stake in what happens to him and am mystified by how much attention he gets for nothing that could be considered notable. He's not in any way even remotely comparable to Sean Fanning, Kevin Mitnick, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, nor Chelsea Manning.
Thank you for questioning my views because you noted my low UID. It helps me recenter my expectations of what to expect from rank and file trollers on Slashdot and the reasons why it's such a ponderous service.
Why are we still hearing about this? There has been nothing notable about this attention-thirsty individual in a long time, notwithstanding "Mega" and its allegedly real users.
The technology was called "riblets" and was secretly applied to the hull of Stars and Stripes allowing them to win the 1986 Americas Cup. It also allowed the US to win its first rowing medal in many years at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Technically, it was a cheat-to-win strategy in most people's opinions at the time. I thought everyone knew about this. Google and Wikipedia are not your friend.
More here: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/Riblets.html
And here: http://www.globalspec.com/reference/67396/203279/7-4-drag-reduction-by-riblets
It's par for the course.
Isn't this the same country that technically cheated with the advanced hull micro line hull treatment that won the cup back in the 1980s?
Isn't this why AWS offers multiple regions?
Such large sites should understand that having multiple availability zones means nothing if the zones are all in the same region. Oh, and your application would need to be designed for failover.
In addition, when looking for high-availability, you don't segregate your audience to individual regions. You let the working regions take over for you.
Or spend the extra money and set up your own co-lo arrangement.
That's the obvious solution, but, really, my computer should not lose the ability to be controlled by a USB device just because it went to sleep when the lid was closed. My Windows laptop has done this successfully for, like, fifteen years now?
Here's a simple and proven plan to follow until this gets implemented.
1) Find out what state you live in. This should be easy.
2) Apply to all the state schools with the programs you need and pick one with the best facilities.
3) Graduate with little or no college debt.
4) Get the same and better jobs than your heavily indebted "ivy league" educated colleagues.
5) Profit!!
So I can close my laptop now instead of carrying it around like a sort of open pizza box for fear of never having a working mouse until the next reboot? How annoying to start a meeting by rebooting a Linux laptop.
I hope this is going to move us to more native code on the Android platform.
The Dalvik JNI-alike feature isn't going to solve everything we need to have really good games on Android.
OMNI's golden years were the early 1980s. There was so much of what we now call "junk" science that made the magazine so compelling. It took Popular Science and stretched it to the extreme edge of believability which is a big part of what made it so interesting and entertaining.
Before ChromeOS got HTML 5, they got Silverlight.
Windows NT was called that because it was being targetted to a CPU family architecture nicknamed "N-Ten" after the Intel i910 processor. Intel produced a more suiltable follow-on processor in this family called the i860 which was the chip the Microsoft team eventually settled on, but the "N-Ten" name stuck.
The newer marketing name "New Technology" was a so-called "backronym."
Okay, where are the express trains? I don't see any diamond shapes on this map. Has the author been to NYC?
So, we don't need Knight Rider's KITT microlock brakes anymore? Cool. Those were pretty cumbersome 1980s technology to deal with, anyway.
Of all the responses I get on my Slashdot postings, I value drinkypoo's responses among those of the highest quality.
My Google Chromebook shows me that the Netflix app is no longer exclusively using Silverlight since at least Spring 2013 and possibly earlier.
Last year, the Chromebook was using a Silverlight-like plugin, possibly a Mono derivative. Today, it's not using either, and is apparently using HTML 5 embedded video.
I've been a user of both services since they became available. Along with Amazon Unbox now becoming Amazon Instant Video and the even newer Amazon Instant Video with Prime, I humbly suggest that we consider that a large part of the Amazon Prime streaming library may actually be served to us by a white-label Netflix service.
Consider this: both Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video offer many of the same programming options with a few selections unavailable on one service or the other. Plus, there are many obscure series collections that appear on both services and at the same perceived video quality (at least, to my eyes).
The bulk of the live streaming library has to be shared, in my opinion, with Netflix. Business-wise, it makes sense. Logically, it makes even more sense.
Except that this actually did not happen. MSFT threatened to consume power but they did not actually do it. The utility reduced its fine to $60,000.
A little fact goes a long way.
What, no Joel on Software post?
Quoting a Joel on Software post is like violating Godwin's Law.
Forget OCR-A, just use OCR-B because, unlike all of the fancy digitally efficient compressed hardcopy versions, you can actually read OCR-B without going blind.
While I do appreciate your views, the use of offensive language is completely unnecessary.