I agree it makes for sense for an operating system (filesystem perhaps) to do this job. Unfortunately, Windows does not do it. Readyboost is merely an extra space for Superfetch to cache files, but this isnt persistent over reboots. So every time I boot, I have to retrain the cache, which is about as undesirable as a filesystem cache could be. If not sure if software like eBoostr solves this, but if anyone has a Windows alternative, much obliged.

Well, he uploaded his comment to the cloud, didnt he?

For a thorough and interesting review see ARS: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars Even I as a non Mac user find the detail Ars always goes into with a new Mac release entertaining.

I don't know of any place where I tow my laptop too which has less than 10mbit, and some are even 1 gbit. Why would I even think about that, while I rarely need to browse far into my history? And I bet google optimizes common usage patterns by for example downloading the last 100 messages when logging in.

The fact that you don't see how a filesystem integrated snapshot function could make a difference tells me that you've never used anything like that. And your alternative of managing partitions and 'backups' tell me that you certainly have never tried to manage anything like this on a scale beyond your own machines.

Let me tell you, ZFS-like snapshots are the best improvement to computing since proper multi-user systems. It makes managing file security and integrity so, so much easier, and at almost no cost. (and by ZFS-like I mean with the ease and speed of ZFS, I've not yet seen much numbers on BTRFS performance)

They banned the lightbulb pretty succesfully I'd say.

If you look really closely it even has a booc!

It does not matter which practice came first, it matters how well people van work with it. I'd say most peope today are used to container windows, then simply use that. I think you use tabbed browsing too, right? Not seperate windows.

But then you're just using a slightly different solution to solve the same problem: Gimp's many windows have to be collected somehow. Given that basically every OS/DE/program uses a container windows and does not rely on multiple desktops, I'd prefer it if they stuck to that defacto standard.

Wouldn't that be the most badass micro organism, one that lives on a STAR? Damn, that would be interesting...

It's up your ass?

Please check you sarcasm detector: it's broken.

Only on slashdot would there be someone that wants to replace flash with something they can compile themselves... I'm glad Mozilla, Google et al are going the way without any configuration: HTML5.

The important metric is exhausts. Burning a litre of diesel creates more CO2 (and NOx because of the higher temperatures) than burning a litre of gasoline.

The iPod isn't really a format, the format would be high capacity digital audio player I'd say, colloquially known as MP3-players.