Meta-mods, take parent away from Troll. That one's obviously unfair.

Norsefire, thanks for bothering to explain your question. I was interested in the feedback as well.

Time is free. ;)

Work is for pay.

They aren't the same.

Hey now. Sharing a "cultural" meme doesn't mean every member subscribes to it, just that they recognize it. Understanding an idea ain't the same as believing in its truth. :-)

>> ZFS in double parity mode is broken

> Haven't move to zfs yet, but given your pattern I'm guessing you're wrong again.

How retarded can you be? Please stop embarrassing us who dig and use FreeBSD but don't need to see it through rose-tinted glasses (or the whole scene as a pissing contest).

FWIW, I'm a long-time FreeBSD user (and can't wait to install and try out 8 even if I don't desperately need anything over 7) and I think you had good and interesting questions there. I'm a bit ashamed for the community (or rather the Slashdot faction) that you got so readily misunderstood and attacked.

To my knowledge there is no such corporate backing for BSD. It would be very interesting if there was, and in several ways it is just perfect for it. (Architecture, uniformity, licensing, etc.)

I totally agree that Apple doesn't count. It's a model example of BSD Licensing. The completely separate kernel and hugely moreso the interface give OS X a life completely divorced from FreeBSD. Doesn't matter if (the BSDL idea works and) Apple gives back to the BSD project. And... no problem.

OK, off to tinker with 8.0 now...

The problem is that it's nearly impossible to properly translate a relaxed interview into a transcript. Removing any element has the potential to compromise the meaning the author was trying to convey, and this is something which I couldn't afford to have happen. I'd prefer a relaxed transcript to a properly formatted transcript which may have had its meaning lost in translation. Bear in mind that some of this person's statements aren't even complete sentences; I couldn't reasonably infer what this person intended with enough certainty to fill in the blanks, so I had to leave it as is.

It was an interview, right? The professional thing to do would be to ask follow-up questions to clarify what this person meant. The follow-up is a rather basic interview technique. But agreed, doing nothing is better than infering (guessing, really) to fill in the blanks. Thanks for the effort anyway, it was interesting as such.

In some cases, it's perfectly fine to keep some verbal mannerisms intact in an interview. It's usually done to preserve a human component which would otherwise be lost.

"Human component"? You usually interview robots, then? ;-)

I did clean it up to an extent, but I only removed bits which would have otherwise compromised the meaning of a particular statement.

In light of the difficulty you mentioned, preserving all the content of a casually speaking interviewee, how did you know which bits to remove?

*whoosh*

Good post. I'd like to add one detail where A5 may be categorically "better" than A9: the new L2 cache controller with multiple outstanding transactions. It's a boon for real-world apps that need to rapid fire to large essentially random datasets (like Web browsers do), especially when used in an in-order core.

Good point on the SoC nature of OMAP3430. I was mildly annoyed by the summary calling it a "core". (Not even "processor" or "chip".) Methinks we could have a bit less "Core" everywhere...

A 33 MHz 486 was several times faster than a 33 MHz 386.

MHz is almost meaningless when comparing speed, even in CPUs that are very similar. Even somewhat technical people fail to realize this frequently.

The old "Megahertz Myth Myth"... Sorry but you're wrong here. Between very dissimilar processors (like 386 and 486) the clockspeed figure doesn't tell you much, but among fairly similar architectures (like ARM11 and A8) it of course one of the major factors in performance. Very far from meaningless.

Businesses aren't around to make their direct competitors feel cuddly and warm.

But they aren't around to destroy each other either. (Observing how many of them still tend to make a product or provide a service. You know, something of their own. Patent trolls aside perhaps.)

I had a hysterical fit of laughter.

I hope that was a good thing...

You forget the excellent Russian missiles from the equation. USA has been playing catch-up with Vympel's R-73 (AA-11 Archer) and R-77 (AA-12 Adder or "Amraamski"). Cannon fight is a different story. It's all about maneuvering and while Su-30 has a slight edge over F-22, it boils down to pilot skill, and few if any can match USAF and USN training (just the sheer amount of flight hours to keep pilots in tip-top shape). "5th gen" doesn't cover that much aside stealth and command & communication.

On aggregate, stealth might be the deciding factor, however. Some say it's somewhat more important for assault/interdiction missions than air superiority fights, but some argue the other way.

There's the possibility that 6th generation = UAV. They already fly armed missions. (But perhaps you'd need some "conventional" 5th gen planes for the odd mission where you really need a pilot present to make a judgment call.)