Okay, well I promise not to post jokes and complaints about it in every damn article on Slashdot. I wish we could say the same about the people I'm complaining about.
I apologize. That wasn't a rant specifically against you, but against people here in general.
From what I've seen, the people complaining about some annoying group are always more vocal and annoying than the original group itself. But I guess that's true almost anywhere.
Look, I know everyone here hates Gentoo because there is some group of nebulous "Gentoo zealots" who go around posting pro-Gentoo stuff on every single slashdot story. I've never actually seen them, but I always hear people complaining about them, so they must exist.
But how many times can people hear, "Haw haw, they compile stuff and it's slow" and still laugh? Do you guys laugh at every single fart joke you hear? How can stuff like this still get +5 funny?
Anyone who thinks about posting some "Gentoo zealots annoy me" crap (including people who have that in their signatures) should think about the fact that 80% of the visible stuff about Gentoo around here is lame jokes, and another 10% - 15% are people complaining about Gentoo zealots. So don't tell me the pro-Gentoo zealots are annoying you. The anti-Gentoo zealots are much, much more vocal.
I've never personally understood why a man would want to have sex with another man, or why some people like the taste of straight gin. Apparently there are a variety of people in this world with different likes and dislikes, and some of them aren't exactly the same as either you or I.
By the way, are your games really completely new? Are you inventing new genres that aren't at all based on any existing game genres (fps, puzzle, rts, rpg, etc.)? Truly original ideas that aren't related to/derived from other existing ideas are hard to come by.
It's not quite as insecure as Windows. They still need to run the script with sudo, and they still need to type in their password to sudo to root. It's not like they can click on something and have it screw up their computer. They have to click on something, and then type their password into a scary looking warning box of some sort.
Are you saying your Unix user account has no way to switch into a root context? You're not in wheel (on your home computer that you admin, that is, not on some random system where you're just a user)? Do you actually log out and log in as root when you need to install something or access protected data? That's more insecure than using sudo.
Or do you just never edit any configurations/install new software?
If you have a single user computer, then your single user has to have some way to become root, or it's useless.
Inevitably, the next person to arrive just HAS to turn it on and crank up the volume without even checking to see if anyone cared.
So your solution is to be just as much of an asshole and turn the TV off without asking them? How about being polite and working on a compromise of some sort?
The noise from those is so loud, I can't hear my wife shouting right next to me.
Then don't ever go to that mall. What's there that you absolutely can't live without?
I have never seen anyone showing any indication of paying attention to either the TVs or the noise from them.
Perhaps they've learned to just ignore them, rather than getting all hot and bothered.
A gas station I used to use almost exclusively recently lost my business when they installed ad-spewing TVs on each pump. I never go there anymore.
Good. You stopped patronizing a private establishment whose practices you don't agree with.
The jury duty situation sucks, and it's probably the most legitimate complaint. The airport is also somewhat valid, but I find it hard to use phones in there regardless of televisions. Malls and airports are loud simply because there are thousands of people all in one place, and while TVs add to it, they're by no means the sole cause of the noise.
Further, malls, dentists, gas stations and so on are private establishments. You don't need to patronize them, or at least, not the ones that foist TV on you. If it's such a big sticking point for you, I'd think you could find one that suits your needs.
But distrowatch just measures how many times people visit the Ubuntu distrowatch page to find more information. Arguably, the many articles on Ubuntu would direct more people to find out information, thereby increasing the distrowatch position.
So if you do a news article about the ranking jump, you'd essentially be doing an article about the fact that there have been a lot of Ubuntu articles recently.
I tried it on zsh myself and didn't notice too much of a difference (perhaps a little faster), so take it all with a grain of salt. It's quite likely that people will 'see' speedups because they expect to see them instead of actual improvements.
But, it can't hurt (as long as you don't mind slower compilation), so you might as well give it a try.
It just uses the Gnome order on Linux by default. It would be a problem if this weren't changeable, because the button order on Windows is the opposite of Gnome, for example.
If you scroll down that thread, it's also apparently possible to change the KDE button order with one entry in a config file (just tested it. It works). I wonder if that will ever be possible in Gnome.
This comment shows how in tune with the target market you are. If you say "vi" or "emacs" to these people you are going to get a "huh???". Remember, these people run Windows.
That would make sense, except he's posting a comment on Slashdot, where people know what vi and emacs are, and that part of his comment was an attempt at humor, not a serious business proposal to the 'target market.'
But then, when people talk about 'too many toolkits' aren't they talking about mainstream users, who would only use mainstream applications?
There are a couple more 'mainstream' apps that use motif. Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 uses motif, as does xpdf. But even those are unlikely to be used by the casual user who people always seem to be worried about.
I don't disagree with you, but Motif apps are largely invisible to the people that these types of chicken little arguments are talking about.
Wow, I must be reading another web site. But hey, if you say it doesn't exist then that must be the case.
Good call. Everyone reading and posting on this website has the exact same opinion on every single topic, and Slashdot frequently posts documents on said unified position, entitled, "The Official Position of The Slashdot Collective."
I give them grief whenever I can - just not here. It's just not very productive.
Right, it's more productive to make tons of posts giving grief to the people who give them grief here, especially when it's tangentially related to an initial post that was legitimately asking for help with a solution to the problem that exists in the first place.
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Your assertion that we shouldn't try to pollute less because we will always pollute at least a little bit is asinine.
That's not what he said at all. In fact, if you actually read both your and the parent post, you'd see that you two don't actually disagree very much.
He said that whether or not you conserve energy, you still need to look for cleaner sources of energy, because you still need energy (which reduces pollution, so apparently you are for it). By contrast, the grandparent seemed to be implying that we don't need to look for cleaner sources of energy, because we could just conserve energy instead, so you should really go yell at him too.
It would be worse if people were flying planes into buildings every day, instead of on just one occasion, or if the US were at war with half the world.
Do you really believe the stuff you're posting, or are you just trolling?
I'm no Java hater. I used to like it a lot back in the day, although nowadays there are other languages I like better. And I'll gladly step up and defend it from the people spouting obvious fallacies.
However, I must comment on this:
Yes, leaving aside the fact that Microsoft deliberately broke VM compatibility. Not just in one or two big ways. In a lot of little ways. As in on purpose. Great example. Very honest.
There is a giant test suite. Gets better all the time. Reputable VM's pass it. Most of all, though, I just don't run into the cross-VM problem in the first place unless I'm doing 1.1 development for browsers, see above...
I worked with a fairly large system written primarily in Java and JSPs over the summer. Quite frankly, the Sun VMs aren't as consistent as you say they are. We'd have several testing environments, with slightly different versions of app servers and JDK versions, and I can tell you, you can't just swap out a 1.3 JRE for a 1.4 JRE. They all come with slightly different versions of libraries that cause breakage in big applications that use a lot of them.
Now, granted, the application we were using was an abomination. But you don't need to call in Microsoft's VM to have examples of different versions of Java causing different problems. There's a reason why the company we were buying our software from only certified it on certain, tested versions of Java (usually down to the third revision number).
Of course I meant font rendering is better. When I go to Windows, the fonts on, say, my desktop look all blocky, and all the italics text on the Slashdot homepage (as another example) looks jagged and terrible. I've even tried fiddling with ClearType (even though I have a CRT monitor), but that doesn't look nearly as good as the anti-aliased fonts I use in Linux.
Of course, you wouldn't be able to label my post "the most ridiculous on Slashdot" if you didn't assume the most unlikely meaning of my statement.
Sure, I could use media player or Real player or something else free to burn my audio CDs in windows, but their interfaces don't compare to Nero or Alcohol or K3B. And I do need to burn images from time to time. So on Windows you need to pay or pirate (or I'd need to buy an entirely new drive to snag myself a new copy of Nero or something, but that's still an expense).
I could go further with the WinTV example and say that in Windows, it used to hard-lock the machine when using video overlay so I had to use a last-time-I-checked discontinued display mode. However, I haven't tried it in a while, so they may have fixed it. That's Hauppauge's fault, largely, and TV cards are worse than sound cards for hardware conflicts from what I've seen.
I could list other reasons Linux is better for me. The package managers often make finding and installing software easier (I don't need to search Tucows). Ruby always has new Linux versions before it has new Windows versions. And so on.
Well, I don't know about you, but in my experience, Linux has better fonts than Windows, and I have no fewer hardware problems with Windows than I do with Linux. So I'd be paying $10 - $12 for things that work worse.
I can't use KDE on Windows.
I can't use k3b on windows, I have to spend $100 on Nero.
I can't use TV Time on Windows, and the WinTV drivers on windows don't deinterlace for my card, so TV time is unquestionably better.
If you're going to use open source software, Linux simply has more of the best available. Porting all applications would be non-trivial.
And if you're going to switch all of the main applications of some nebulous naive user, then what's the difference of going a little further and switching to Linux as well? You're still pulling the rug out from everyone, so why not do it all at once? Or are you suggesting having people gradually switch everything to open source and then finally switching to Linux?
From my perspective, Linux almost unilaterally better than Windows. If it weren't for Windows' ability to run more games, then your mere $10 - $12 a year would be equivalent to my flushing that money down the toilet (or worse, because I'd actually be using inferior products). Sure, ripping up a $10 bill once a year isn't much, but you still don't do it. You might as well take your $12 and get something you enjoy with it.
It's google's responsibility if they are going to deliver news that they deliver both sides of a story.
Since when has any news organization been concerned with reporting "both sides of a story"? Every news source puts their own spin on things based on however they lean and/or what will sell more copies.
If anything, Google's less likely to be biased than most places, since it just mechanically indexes things. If people are manipulating the results, then it might be in Google's interest to change the algorithm to keep the pretense of being neutral (and therefore not alienating its "readers").
I'm sure Google isn't trying to be biased, but if you think that delivering both sides of a story is part of some kind of Code of the Journalist (right along with "only report the whole truth"), you're dreaming.
I tried pointing Konqueror at a cvs repositor with cvs:, but it didn't work. Then I decided to google.
From what I found, the only cvs integration in KDE is Cervisia, which comes in kdesdk.
First, that's not one of the core packages, so the fact that you have it installed is either one of your or your distribution's fault.
Second, it looks like Cervisia is a standalone app. However, like many other things in KDE (kghostview, koffice, kwrite) it's probably written as a kpart so that Konqueror and other apps can integrate its functionality seamlessly.
So, essentially what you're complaining about in that case is the fact that KDE has a modular architecture that allows easy functionality sharing and reuse between apps (which Gnome also has and the fact that that capability is actually used instead of having everything roll its own cvs client and so on.
Most people don't have cvs support in Konqueror by default (unless I've missed something).
I'm not saying that KDE's default configurations and config dialogs couldn't use some overhauling, but your argument there was a bit of a red herring.
If you'd bothered to read and understand his whole post, you'd have realized that he was being sarcastic, and was actually arguing for a loser-pays system, because any argument that you can make against it involves problems that the US legal system already has.
Actually, it's only 18.3 million desktop drives if you address every single byte of the filesystem. Most don't do this; they allocate space in blocks. 1k is a reasonable block size if you're talking many terabyte systems.
With a 1k block size, you'd be addressing 16 billion terabytes of storage. Let us know as soon as every single person on earth has more than 2 terabytes to donate to your distributed filesystem project.
Online, nearline and offline storage aren't the same address space. I have several partitions on my computer. Some use reiserfs, some use ext3 and some use ext2 (and vfat and ntfs...). In Linux, they're all mounted to look like one large filesystem hierarchy, but they're not. Each partition has its own filesystem 'address space.'
So you don't need larger than a 64 bit filesystem unless you're going to have a single volume (real or virtual) that uses more than 16 billion terabytes of data. That's 64 billion 250 gig hard drives. What's the population of China these days? 2.5 billion or thereabouts? If you gave everyone in China 25 250 gigabyte hard drives, you'd come close to filling up a 64 bit filesystem (you'd fall short actually).
And that's only if everyone in China uses a single, giant RAID array for those 64 billion hard drives.
Or everyone on the planet gets 9 such hard drives. That 1.75 terabytes for every single human being right now, and we're still within the limits of a 64 bit filesystem.
Your video editing analogy doesn't even come close, and the idea of a whole country using a single, centralized volume (let alone the whole planet) doesn't really make any sense. Addressing all the data in the entire world on every computer at the filesystem level seems like a very bad idea, to me.
Maybe in 10 to 15 years we'll have individual disks large enough so that large clusters can exceed the bounds of a 64 bit filesystem, but you'll still have to buy entirely new hardware to take advantage of that capability, so a 128 bit filesystem on today's hardware offers no advantages over a 64 bit filesystem, and in fact only makes things slower. Not really very cool at all if you ask me (although the other features of the filesystem likely have merit).
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Okay, well I promise not to post jokes and complaints about it in every damn article on Slashdot. I wish we could say the same about the people I'm complaining about.
Perhaps if you can't look at nude (but covered) people without thinking "fuckfest," it's a problem on your end.
Are you unable to read National Geographic without masturbating as well?
I apologize. That wasn't a rant specifically against you, but against people here in general.
From what I've seen, the people complaining about some annoying group are always more vocal and annoying than the original group itself. But I guess that's true almost anywhere.
Jesus.
Look, I know everyone here hates Gentoo because there is some group of nebulous "Gentoo zealots" who go around posting pro-Gentoo stuff on every single slashdot story. I've never actually seen them, but I always hear people complaining about them, so they must exist.
But how many times can people hear, "Haw haw, they compile stuff and it's slow" and still laugh? Do you guys laugh at every single fart joke you hear? How can stuff like this still get +5 funny?
Anyone who thinks about posting some "Gentoo zealots annoy me" crap (including people who have that in their signatures) should think about the fact that 80% of the visible stuff about Gentoo around here is lame jokes, and another 10% - 15% are people complaining about Gentoo zealots. So don't tell me the pro-Gentoo zealots are annoying you. The anti-Gentoo zealots are much, much more vocal.
I've never personally understood why a man would want to have sex with another man, or why some people like the taste of straight gin. Apparently there are a variety of people in this world with different likes and dislikes, and some of them aren't exactly the same as either you or I.
By the way, are your games really completely new? Are you inventing new genres that aren't at all based on any existing game genres (fps, puzzle, rts, rpg, etc.)? Truly original ideas that aren't related to/derived from other existing ideas are hard to come by.
It's not quite as insecure as Windows. They still need to run the script with sudo, and they still need to type in their password to sudo to root. It's not like they can click on something and have it screw up their computer. They have to click on something, and then type their password into a scary looking warning box of some sort.
Are you saying your Unix user account has no way to switch into a root context? You're not in wheel (on your home computer that you admin, that is, not on some random system where you're just a user)? Do you actually log out and log in as root when you need to install something or access protected data? That's more insecure than using sudo.
Or do you just never edit any configurations/install new software?
If you have a single user computer, then your single user has to have some way to become root, or it's useless.
Inevitably, the next person to arrive just HAS to turn it on and crank up the volume without even checking to see if anyone cared.
So your solution is to be just as much of an asshole and turn the TV off without asking them? How about being polite and working on a compromise of some sort?
The noise from those is so loud, I can't hear my wife shouting right next to me.
Then don't ever go to that mall. What's there that you absolutely can't live without?
I have never seen anyone showing any indication of paying attention to either the TVs or the noise from them.
Perhaps they've learned to just ignore them, rather than getting all hot and bothered.
A gas station I used to use almost exclusively recently lost my business when they installed ad-spewing TVs on each pump. I never go there anymore.
Good. You stopped patronizing a private establishment whose practices you don't agree with.
The jury duty situation sucks, and it's probably the most legitimate complaint. The airport is also somewhat valid, but I find it hard to use phones in there regardless of televisions. Malls and airports are loud simply because there are thousands of people all in one place, and while TVs add to it, they're by no means the sole cause of the noise.
Further, malls, dentists, gas stations and so on are private establishments. You don't need to patronize them, or at least, not the ones that foist TV on you. If it's such a big sticking point for you, I'd think you could find one that suits your needs.
But distrowatch just measures how many times people visit the Ubuntu distrowatch page to find more information. Arguably, the many articles on Ubuntu would direct more people to find out information, thereby increasing the distrowatch position.
So if you do a news article about the ranking jump, you'd essentially be doing an article about the fact that there have been a lot of Ubuntu articles recently.
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Big ass discussion here.
I tried it on zsh myself and didn't notice too much of a difference (perhaps a little faster), so take it all with a grain of salt. It's quite likely that people will 'see' speedups because they expect to see them instead of actual improvements.
But, it can't hurt (as long as you don't mind slower compilation), so you might as well give it a try.
It's actually possible to change the button order by editing one of the .css files in your .firefox directory:
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It just uses the Gnome order on Linux by default. It would be a problem if this weren't changeable, because the button order on Windows is the opposite of Gnome, for example.
If you scroll down that thread, it's also apparently possible to change the KDE button order with one entry in a config file (just tested it. It works). I wonder if that will ever be possible in Gnome.
This comment shows how in tune with the target market you are. If you say "vi" or "emacs" to these people you are going to get a "huh???". Remember, these people run Windows.
That would make sense, except he's posting a comment on Slashdot, where people know what vi and emacs are, and that part of his comment was an attempt at humor, not a serious business proposal to the 'target market.'
But then, when people talk about 'too many toolkits' aren't they talking about mainstream users, who would only use mainstream applications?
There are a couple more 'mainstream' apps that use motif. Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 uses motif, as does xpdf. But even those are unlikely to be used by the casual user who people always seem to be worried about.
I don't disagree with you, but Motif apps are largely invisible to the people that these types of chicken little arguments are talking about.
Wow, I must be reading another web site. But hey, if you say it doesn't exist then that must be the case.
Good call. Everyone reading and posting on this website has the exact same opinion on every single topic, and Slashdot frequently posts documents on said unified position, entitled, "The Official Position of The Slashdot Collective."
I give them grief whenever I can - just not here. It's just not very productive.
Right, it's more productive to make tons of posts giving grief to the people who give them grief here, especially when it's tangentially related to an initial post that was legitimately asking for help with a solution to the problem that exists in the first place.
Your assertion that we shouldn't try to pollute less because we will always pollute at least a little bit is asinine.
That's not what he said at all. In fact, if you actually read both your and the parent post, you'd see that you two don't actually disagree very much.
He said that whether or not you conserve energy, you still need to look for cleaner sources of energy, because you still need energy (which reduces pollution, so apparently you are for it). By contrast, the grandparent seemed to be implying that we don't need to look for cleaner sources of energy, because we could just conserve energy instead, so you should really go yell at him too.
You weren't being trolled. Sorry.
It would be worse if people were flying planes into buildings every day, instead of on just one occasion, or if the US were at war with half the world.
Do you really believe the stuff you're posting, or are you just trolling?
Well said.
That sometimes happens when "fuck" is one of the most common words in a post.
I'm no Java hater. I used to like it a lot back in the day, although nowadays there are other languages I like better. And I'll gladly step up and defend it from the people spouting obvious fallacies.
However, I must comment on this:
Yes, leaving aside the fact that Microsoft deliberately broke VM compatibility. Not just in one or two big ways. In a lot of little ways. As in on purpose. Great example. Very honest.
There is a giant test suite. Gets better all the time. Reputable VM's pass it. Most of all, though, I just don't run into the cross-VM problem in the first place unless I'm doing 1.1 development for browsers, see above...
I worked with a fairly large system written primarily in Java and JSPs over the summer. Quite frankly, the Sun VMs aren't as consistent as you say they are. We'd have several testing environments, with slightly different versions of app servers and JDK versions, and I can tell you, you can't just swap out a 1.3 JRE for a 1.4 JRE. They all come with slightly different versions of libraries that cause breakage in big applications that use a lot of them.
Now, granted, the application we were using was an abomination. But you don't need to call in Microsoft's VM to have examples of different versions of Java causing different problems. There's a reason why the company we were buying our software from only certified it on certain, tested versions of Java (usually down to the third revision number).
The rest is bullshit, I agree.
Of course I meant font rendering is better. When I go to Windows, the fonts on, say, my desktop look all blocky, and all the italics text on the Slashdot homepage (as another example) looks jagged and terrible. I've even tried fiddling with ClearType (even though I have a CRT monitor), but that doesn't look nearly as good as the anti-aliased fonts I use in Linux.
Of course, you wouldn't be able to label my post "the most ridiculous on Slashdot" if you didn't assume the most unlikely meaning of my statement.
Sure, I could use media player or Real player or something else free to burn my audio CDs in windows, but their interfaces don't compare to Nero or Alcohol or K3B. And I do need to burn images from time to time. So on Windows you need to pay or pirate (or I'd need to buy an entirely new drive to snag myself a new copy of Nero or something, but that's still an expense).
I could go further with the WinTV example and say that in Windows, it used to hard-lock the machine when using video overlay so I had to use a last-time-I-checked discontinued display mode. However, I haven't tried it in a while, so they may have fixed it. That's Hauppauge's fault, largely, and TV cards are worse than sound cards for hardware conflicts from what I've seen.
I could list other reasons Linux is better for me. The package managers often make finding and installing software easier (I don't need to search Tucows). Ruby always has new Linux versions before it has new Windows versions. And so on.
Well, I don't know about you, but in my experience, Linux has better fonts than Windows, and I have no fewer hardware problems with Windows than I do with Linux. So I'd be paying $10 - $12 for things that work worse.
I can't use KDE on Windows.
I can't use k3b on windows, I have to spend $100 on Nero.
I can't use TV Time on Windows, and the WinTV drivers on windows don't deinterlace for my card, so TV time is unquestionably better.
If you're going to use open source software, Linux simply has more of the best available. Porting all applications would be non-trivial.
And if you're going to switch all of the main applications of some nebulous naive user, then what's the difference of going a little further and switching to Linux as well? You're still pulling the rug out from everyone, so why not do it all at once? Or are you suggesting having people gradually switch everything to open source and then finally switching to Linux?
From my perspective, Linux almost unilaterally better than Windows. If it weren't for Windows' ability to run more games, then your mere $10 - $12 a year would be equivalent to my flushing that money down the toilet (or worse, because I'd actually be using inferior products). Sure, ripping up a $10 bill once a year isn't much, but you still don't do it. You might as well take your $12 and get something you enjoy with it.
It's google's responsibility if they are going to deliver news that they deliver both sides of a story.
Since when has any news organization been concerned with reporting "both sides of a story"? Every news source puts their own spin on things based on however they lean and/or what will sell more copies.
If anything, Google's less likely to be biased than most places, since it just mechanically indexes things. If people are manipulating the results, then it might be in Google's interest to change the algorithm to keep the pretense of being neutral (and therefore not alienating its "readers").
I'm sure Google isn't trying to be biased, but if you think that delivering both sides of a story is part of some kind of Code of the Journalist (right along with "only report the whole truth"), you're dreaming.
I tried pointing Konqueror at a cvs repositor with cvs:, but it didn't work. Then I decided to google.
From what I found, the only cvs integration in KDE is Cervisia, which comes in kdesdk.
First, that's not one of the core packages, so the fact that you have it installed is either one of your or your distribution's fault.
Second, it looks like Cervisia is a standalone app. However, like many other things in KDE (kghostview, koffice, kwrite) it's probably written as a kpart so that Konqueror and other apps can integrate its functionality seamlessly.
So, essentially what you're complaining about in that case is the fact that KDE has a modular architecture that allows easy functionality sharing and reuse between apps (which Gnome also has and the fact that that capability is actually used instead of having everything roll its own cvs client and so on.
Most people don't have cvs support in Konqueror by default (unless I've missed something).
I'm not saying that KDE's default configurations and config dialogs couldn't use some overhauling, but your argument there was a bit of a red herring.
If you'd bothered to read and understand his whole post, you'd have realized that he was being sarcastic, and was actually arguing for a loser-pays system, because any argument that you can make against it involves problems that the US legal system already has.
You're welcome.
Actually, it's only 18.3 million desktop drives if you address every single byte of the filesystem. Most don't do this; they allocate space in blocks. 1k is a reasonable block size if you're talking many terabyte systems.
With a 1k block size, you'd be addressing 16 billion terabytes of storage. Let us know as soon as every single person on earth has more than 2 terabytes to donate to your distributed
filesystem project.
Online, nearline and offline storage aren't the same address space. I have several partitions on my computer. Some use reiserfs, some use ext3 and some use ext2 (and vfat and ntfs...). In Linux, they're all mounted to look like one large filesystem hierarchy, but they're not. Each partition has its own filesystem 'address space.'
So you don't need larger than a 64 bit filesystem unless you're going to have a single volume (real or virtual) that uses more than 16 billion terabytes of data. That's 64 billion 250 gig hard drives. What's the population of China these days? 2.5 billion or thereabouts? If you gave everyone in China 25 250 gigabyte hard drives, you'd come close to filling up a 64 bit filesystem (you'd fall short actually).
And that's only if everyone in China uses a single, giant RAID array for those 64 billion hard drives.
Or everyone on the planet gets 9 such hard drives. That 1.75 terabytes for every single human being right now, and we're still within the limits of a 64 bit filesystem.
Your video editing analogy doesn't even come close, and the idea of a whole country using a single, centralized volume (let alone the whole planet) doesn't really make any sense. Addressing all the data in the entire world on every computer at the filesystem level seems like a very bad idea, to me.
Maybe in 10 to 15 years we'll have individual disks large enough so that large clusters can exceed the bounds of a 64 bit filesystem, but you'll still have to buy entirely new hardware to take advantage of that capability, so a 128 bit filesystem on today's hardware offers no advantages over a 64 bit filesystem, and in fact only makes things slower. Not really very cool at all if you ask me (although the other features of the filesystem likely have merit).