This will have little to no effect on the bp-rewrite situation. The only people with the skill and intimate knowledge of ZFS to do the bp-rewrite coding have stated both that it's extremely difficult, and that the companies they work for/with have no interest in implementing the feature/paying them to work on the problem. I haven't heard any of them volunteering their free time to focus on it either. This is more or less a marketing campaign IMO.
Because a COW filesystem will become fragmented over time simply by the way it works. As you delete files, you're only free-ing up small segments of contiguous blocks. Over time, this leads to fragmentation because writes are sometimes forced into non-optimal disk placement due to lack of free space. Granted - if you never fill the pool beyond 50%, it won't be a problem. For everyone else, it's a matter of when, not if it will become fragmented.
One point to be extremely clear on however - when you set copies = 2 on a folder level, it does NOT guarantee those copies end up on different physical spindles. Early on there were many people who lost files because they skipped RAID thinking that copies=X would protect their data. It is NOT meant as a means to protect against hardware failures.
The government is extremely successful at running many, many billion+ dollar businesses. The problem you have is that you think our government is in the business of serving the people. In that light, they are utter failures. In the light of making our legislative branch and all of their private-industry buddies criminally rich, they're a raging success.
When is the last time you heard about an ex congressman or senator going bankrupt?
Remind me again where in the fourth amendment it says we only have protection against unreasonable search and seizures for information not crossing international borders?
And what on earth makes you think they'd honor these flags regardless? They've already proven they don't give a shit what the laws are, they're just going to keep doing whatever they want. Notice after a bunch of noise early on, the media and congress quickly moved on to Syria without so much as even publicly addressing the issue beyond saying "we expect them to follow the rules" - and by that they mean we expect they'll keep right on doing what they're doing.
Not even remotely accurate. I've heard no shortage of complaining from friends and family about what a pain it is to try to share files between iPads. Furthermore, anyone that spends any time at all in a business setting can and will appreciate outlook and the office suite.
Complete fabrication. When I see new buildings going up constantly, and $200 million+ stadiums at these colleges, "they have to" isn't a fact of life. They're doing it because they can, and because they want to.
What is with the repeated accusations of "abysmal performance"? Care to cite that with financial reasults? Oh, wait, reality does not match your claims. He has been absolutely CRUSHING it for shareholders almost his entire tenure. They continue to produce dividends quarter after quarter, and their profit has continued to grow at a VERY respectable pace for a company as mature as they are that has the market dominance they've had in their major markets.
It's only less than 8% if they die young. The odds of someone attending college and then never getting a job above minimum wage and/or never marrying someone who makes above minimum wage is almost 0. You literally cannot make a safer investment as a bank.
BECAUSE the government is giving away money. The universities will keep increasing costs because they can, and because the government will continue to fund what may very well be a bad loan. Additionally private institutions are LINING UP to give out student loan debt. You can't ESCAPE it! Who wouldn't want to loan out money at 8% interest rate that the borrower can never default on?
Except that Windows 2008, Redhat 5, and SUSE all run on Itanium as well. Just because they aren't releasing new code (in the case of Microsoft and Redhat, SUSE will continue to release new code indefinitely) doesn't mean it isn't still supported.
Unless of course you actually read the full paragraph, which states they CAN'T serve the ads because Google reuse to give them the metadata to do so. Other than that, ya, great point.
I hate to break it to you, but Microsoft does the same thing. The only difference being they don't roll the patches into a kernel that's open source. If you're a large customer, you get custom patches within hours to days from MS that eventually get rolled into a larger monthly update or service pack on a regular basis. Open source isn't the reason that happens, spending lots of money with the vendor is the reason that happens.
By the same token, if you own exactly one RHEL license, you aren't getting the guy who wrote the code 30 minutes into your support call. You're getting a call back when some 3rd level technician gets around to searching an internal KB repository.
Growing market share leads to improving shareholder returns.
You did, you made a blanket statement that growing market share leads to improving shareholder returns. That's simply not a true statement, and it was made in retort to mine about profit. Market share means nothing without profitability, and profitability is the sole purpose of a CEO in charge of a public company. End of story. If gaining market share happens to help profitability, great, but it's a side-effect of the main goal of the company which is to increase profits every quarter.
Selling more stuff can never make more profit? That's an interesting economic claim you have there.
That's not the claim I made. That's the claim you made. I said growing market share absolutely does NOT improve shareholder value. Growing market share in no way means you're selling more stuff. It means you've got more market share.
Itmight, it might not. Google and Red Hat both make nice profits with free products.
If Microsoft returned the amount of profit RedHat sees to it's shareholders the entire executive staff would be gone in a quarter. Google isn't giving ANYTHING away. They're taking your personal information as payment for their services.
Growing market share absolutely does NOT improve shareholder returns. Microsoft could start charging nothing for Windows tomorrow and see their (legitimate licensed) market share explode. It would in NO WAY improve shareholder returns.
I don't think you understand how being a publicly traded company works. Your goal as a CEO isn't "grow market share", your goal is "maximize shareholder value". So you can say whatever you want about how it's going to affect Microsoft long-term, or whether you personally think it's the right path to be on, but at the end of the day when it comes to brass tacks he's been an EXTREMELY successful CEO in the eyes of the people who matter: shareholders and the board.
You're assuming they can do the work with 90 people. It's just as likely, just like in the private sector, they're going to layoff 90% of the people, and expect the remaining 10% to work 90 hour weeks until they burn out, constantly reminding them how lucky they are just to have a job.
Perhaps that's the point. They aren't actually going to fire 90%, just wanting to fish out the ones who are willing to steal classified documents at the first sign of trouble. Seems like a solid honeypot to me, just mention layoffs and then crank up the logging, sit back and find the "enemies of the state".
Face it, Google just isn't getting what they wanted out of the platform.
Or they got exactly what they wanted: market penetration. The majority of happy Android users will have no problem upgrading to a closed Chrome Mobile as long as they get keep their apps (which will then be emulated in an Android VM, a VM within a VM if you will). And Google dropping old, smelly, and open Android means they won't keep their apps on future Android devices.
ChromeOS isn't closed - well, no more than Android is. ChromeOS is actually based on Gentoo, believe it or not, so if anything the foundation is even more open.
However, in general everything in ChromeOS is web-based, and web-based apps in general don't have touchscreen UIs. I'm not sure that we'll ever see full Android-ChromeOS convergence. If we do, the result will be a platform that is actually much closer to the traditional Linux distro.
Wait, what? The chromebook pixel is fully touchscreen enabled, and ChromeOS fully supports touchscreen, including all of Google's native apps. Tell me this is some attempt at a bad joke?
Remember this when you get an urge to say that America and Western society is oppressive, and when you decide that Islam is a peaceful religion.
So this guy, as an enemy of the state, receives 600 lashes and 7 years in prison. Bradley Manning is going to rot in prison for the rest of his life after sitting through YEARS of solitary confinement. I'd say we aren't doing much better. Just because our government chose mental torture over physical torture doesn't make them any better.
The goal is to be the last one with an oil supply so that when push comes to shove, we're defending our own territory rather than trying to get it halfway across the world.
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This will have little to no effect on the bp-rewrite situation. The only people with the skill and intimate knowledge of ZFS to do the bp-rewrite coding have stated both that it's extremely difficult, and that the companies they work for/with have no interest in implementing the feature/paying them to work on the problem. I haven't heard any of them volunteering their free time to focus on it either. This is more or less a marketing campaign IMO.
Because a COW filesystem will become fragmented over time simply by the way it works. As you delete files, you're only free-ing up small segments of contiguous blocks. Over time, this leads to fragmentation because writes are sometimes forced into non-optimal disk placement due to lack of free space. Granted - if you never fill the pool beyond 50%, it won't be a problem. For everyone else, it's a matter of when, not if it will become fragmented.
One point to be extremely clear on however - when you set copies = 2 on a folder level, it does NOT guarantee those copies end up on different physical spindles. Early on there were many people who lost files because they skipped RAID thinking that copies=X would protect their data. It is NOT meant as a means to protect against hardware failures.
The government is extremely successful at running many, many billion+ dollar businesses. The problem you have is that you think our government is in the business of serving the people. In that light, they are utter failures. In the light of making our legislative branch and all of their private-industry buddies criminally rich, they're a raging success.
When is the last time you heard about an ex congressman or senator going bankrupt?
Remind me again where in the fourth amendment it says we only have protection against unreasonable search and seizures for information not crossing international borders?
And what on earth makes you think they'd honor these flags regardless? They've already proven they don't give a shit what the laws are, they're just going to keep doing whatever they want. Notice after a bunch of noise early on, the media and congress quickly moved on to Syria without so much as even publicly addressing the issue beyond saying "we expect them to follow the rules" - and by that they mean we expect they'll keep right on doing what they're doing.
Not even remotely accurate. I've heard no shortage of complaining from friends and family about what a pain it is to try to share files between iPads. Furthermore, anyone that spends any time at all in a business setting can and will appreciate outlook and the office suite.
Complete fabrication. When I see new buildings going up constantly, and $200 million+ stadiums at these colleges, "they have to" isn't a fact of life. They're doing it because they can, and because they want to.
What is with the repeated accusations of "abysmal performance"? Care to cite that with financial reasults? Oh, wait, reality does not match your claims. He has been absolutely CRUSHING it for shareholders almost his entire tenure. They continue to produce dividends quarter after quarter, and their profit has continued to grow at a VERY respectable pace for a company as mature as they are that has the market dominance they've had in their major markets.
Their current marketing campaign is mac vs. pc, look what we can do in the tablet space.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE7AQY5Xk9w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86JMcy5OqZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UGxKX6IU1U
etc, etc, etc.
It's only less than 8% if they die young. The odds of someone attending college and then never getting a job above minimum wage and/or never marrying someone who makes above minimum wage is almost 0. You literally cannot make a safer investment as a bank.
BECAUSE the government is giving away money. The universities will keep increasing costs because they can, and because the government will continue to fund what may very well be a bad loan. Additionally private institutions are LINING UP to give out student loan debt. You can't ESCAPE it! Who wouldn't want to loan out money at 8% interest rate that the borrower can never default on?
Except that Windows 2008, Redhat 5, and SUSE all run on Itanium as well. Just because they aren't releasing new code (in the case of Microsoft and Redhat, SUSE will continue to release new code indefinitely) doesn't mean it isn't still supported.
Unless of course you actually read the full paragraph, which states they CAN'T serve the ads because Google reuse to give them the metadata to do so. Other than that, ya, great point.
I hate to break it to you, but Microsoft does the same thing. The only difference being they don't roll the patches into a kernel that's open source. If you're a large customer, you get custom patches within hours to days from MS that eventually get rolled into a larger monthly update or service pack on a regular basis. Open source isn't the reason that happens, spending lots of money with the vendor is the reason that happens.
By the same token, if you own exactly one RHEL license, you aren't getting the guy who wrote the code 30 minutes into your support call. You're getting a call back when some 3rd level technician gets around to searching an internal KB repository.
Growing market share leads to improving shareholder returns.
You did, you made a blanket statement that growing market share leads to improving shareholder returns. That's simply not a true statement, and it was made in retort to mine about profit. Market share means nothing without profitability, and profitability is the sole purpose of a CEO in charge of a public company. End of story. If gaining market share happens to help profitability, great, but it's a side-effect of the main goal of the company which is to increase profits every quarter.
Selling more stuff can never make more profit? That's an interesting economic claim you have there.
That's not the claim I made. That's the claim you made. I said growing market share absolutely does NOT improve shareholder value. Growing market share in no way means you're selling more stuff. It means you've got more market share.
It might, it might not. Google and Red Hat both make nice profits with free products.
If Microsoft returned the amount of profit RedHat sees to it's shareholders the entire executive staff would be gone in a quarter. Google isn't giving ANYTHING away. They're taking your personal information as payment for their services.
Gross oversimplification? You mean like someone claiming a company growing market share is always in the best interests of shareholders?
Growing market share absolutely does NOT improve shareholder returns. Microsoft could start charging nothing for Windows tomorrow and see their (legitimate licensed) market share explode. It would in NO WAY improve shareholder returns.
I don't think you understand how being a publicly traded company works. Your goal as a CEO isn't "grow market share", your goal is "maximize shareholder value". So you can say whatever you want about how it's going to affect Microsoft long-term, or whether you personally think it's the right path to be on, but at the end of the day when it comes to brass tacks he's been an EXTREMELY successful CEO in the eyes of the people who matter: shareholders and the board.
You're assuming they can do the work with 90 people. It's just as likely, just like in the private sector, they're going to layoff 90% of the people, and expect the remaining 10% to work 90 hour weeks until they burn out, constantly reminding them how lucky they are just to have a job.
Perhaps that's the point. They aren't actually going to fire 90%, just wanting to fish out the ones who are willing to steal classified documents at the first sign of trouble. Seems like a solid honeypot to me, just mention layoffs and then crank up the logging, sit back and find the "enemies of the state".
Face it, Google just isn't getting what they wanted out of the platform.
Or they got exactly what they wanted: market penetration. The majority of happy Android users will have no problem upgrading to a closed Chrome Mobile as long as they get keep their apps (which will then be emulated in an Android VM, a VM within a VM if you will). And Google dropping old, smelly, and open Android means they won't keep their apps on future Android devices.
ChromeOS isn't closed - well, no more than Android is. ChromeOS is actually based on Gentoo, believe it or not, so if anything the foundation is even more open.
However, in general everything in ChromeOS is web-based, and web-based apps in general don't have touchscreen UIs. I'm not sure that we'll ever see full Android-ChromeOS convergence. If we do, the result will be a platform that is actually much closer to the traditional Linux distro.
Wait, what? The chromebook pixel is fully touchscreen enabled, and ChromeOS fully supports touchscreen, including all of Google's native apps. Tell me this is some attempt at a bad joke?
2. cynogenmod does, and I believe it's just using the stock 4.2.2 messaging app.
Remember this when you get an urge to say that America and Western society is oppressive, and when you decide that Islam is a peaceful religion.
So this guy, as an enemy of the state, receives 600 lashes and 7 years in prison. Bradley Manning is going to rot in prison for the rest of his life after sitting through YEARS of solitary confinement. I'd say we aren't doing much better. Just because our government chose mental torture over physical torture doesn't make them any better.
The goal is to be the last one with an oil supply so that when push comes to shove, we're defending our own territory rather than trying to get it halfway across the world.