Unfortunately most people don't know that and/or don't want to pay the cost of headphones that actually specify that and/or don't want to carry arround two sets.
Afaict the standard issue headphones are open designs so when people want to listen to thier music and nothing else they turn the volume up way too loud.
Bingo, there is some major over generalization going on in this article. The chemical reactions of bacteria to a chemical threat, even honed by millions of years of evolution, are not directly comparable to human reactions to information or threat. Even with billions of members a colony of bacteria has less chemical and informational content than a much smaller number of humans.
"Everyone knows the need to try to postpone important decisions until the last moment but apparently there are simple creatures that do it well and therefore can really teach us -- the bacteria," Really? And if postponing the decision has an impact on the possibility of implementing the selected solution? When a politician delays making a decision he can appear weak and indecisive which is certainly not a benefit - IF he has the data and can make the correct decision earlier. Similarly delaying one decision can have a direct impact on later decisions even when you don't know what those decisions are.
In defense of the article the true value could be in the calculations for weighing the probability of the optimum solution given perfect information that are derived from the bacteria. - a situation never to occur in human history but useful for reference and as a base for future theory.
You've made some good points and one bad one. Note how correcting you on the bad one (Greenland) seems to be a substitute for a genuine rebuttal.
What kind of changes does it bring that I would/should give a !@# about?
I found this informative Heise article (linked to from the comments in TFA) gave helpful explanations, for example:
- Btrfs uses Copy on Write: Modified data is written into new data blocks to preserve the old data. Only once the data has been written is the tree to the data updated - until then, the file entry points to the old data blocks.
- Checksums verify metadata and data blocks, which allows flawed data to be detected
- Files can be compressed when they are written (mount option compress)
- The file system can be up-sized or down-sized as well as de-fragmented during operation
It's not quite ready for prime time yet, but looks good.
OMG NO! It's The Bottom Inspectors! Quick! Hide the children!!!1
My first computing experiences were ZX80+BBC BASIC, Elite, et al.
These are the apps that have most revolutionised my computing over recent (interweb) years:
Soon more music software will join that list. And one day I'll get into Blender, probably when/if I can stop wasting my time playing prboom (=Doom)...
Putting Humpty Dumpty together again at that point becomes nearly impossible because the record which shows where all the pieces are is lost to you.
er... aren't file systems usually linked lists? Meaning that if you manage to recover the first piece, you can then locate all the others.
That's not to say it isn't still a bear.
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!" -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
