Wish I had mod points to mod this up

You mean you explored and completed 90% of the missions no one ever told you about? the ones you can only discover by chance, by scanning every object in a system?

I beg to differ. btrfs is mainly oracle driven. Most of the development is by oracle payed engineers - and oracle bought sun with zfs already mature and in place - what's their incentive to continue pouring money to compete with their own product?

FUSE is bad on so many levels - basically it doesn't work, crashes repeatedly and generally unsuited as hell for an FS that wasn't created for it. tried several instances of zfs FUSE over the years - never got it to work anywhere near as well as on native solaris. That said, there are other alternatives openindiana is based on the opensolaris codebase, created by whatever remains of the community after oracle killed(? in some press releases oracle tech strategists claimed opensolaris is transformed to a new solaris express...) the project. and slashdot already reported on native zfs for linux - http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/08/27/2259253/Native-ZFS-Is-Coming-To-Linux-Next-Month

invasion vs. non invasion?

It's a matter of degrees, or scale. using the army with lethal weapon mandate to promote political agenda is terrorism. Using a police force to promote civic peace regardless of any particular political agenda is not terrorism.

Belief does not facts make... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel The destruction of the regime, rather than the country, is the contested argument. Please refrain from arguing without getting your facts streight

Investors walk away because investors walk away. Investors walked away on almost all major artists of the 20th cent. If it's not the perception of piracy, it'd be the perception of poor sales figures, or the perception of public backlash, or the perception of of being under/over perceptive. Investors in the art industry mostly suck at recognizing new talent. Old (as in provably profitable) talent they have no problem with. Go figure.

get a notebook (not net , note) with the new intel core i7 640M (U or L - http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=43563,47700,). The U model at 18W TDP gives the atom chips a run for their money (well, not really in same category, but much better performance/wattage than anything before mobile nehalem came along). Lenovo has the x201s, but I'd take a look at the fujitsu P770 series - http://store.shopfujitsu.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildseriesbean.do?series=P770. Not really in the netbooks price range, and not featuring ION (which is a true shame) but more than adequate from power consumption versus performance standpoint. If you want a portable gaming platform, either alienware or one of the eurocom models ( http://www.eurocom.com/ ) might suit you better.

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