My preference would be for the wide range of open source u*ix-style OS' to get together, hammer out a cross-os VFS layer and thus reduce the discussions of FS' to technical points on the FS itself, eliminating the OS from the equation. There is nothing inherent about mapping/remapping/versioning/distributing physical data in logical files to blocks of data that is the least-bit OS-specific.

There's things Solaris has that Linux doesn't, there's things Linux has that Solaris doesn't, there's things Inferno has that neither Solaris nor Linux have, there's things Hao Ya tea has that no OS will ever contain. Interoperability is best when essentially external components are portable, tea is best when hot and not Earl Grey.

Fairy nuff. ZFS has a lot of benefits over the standard Linux filesystems for certain things (just as all the Linux filesystems have their own niches in which they are the supreme overlords). It's rare for me to create a system in which I use fewer than 4 filesystems and if I were to try for a fully-optimized system that would probably go to 5 or 6. ZFS running reliably under Linux would pretty much guarantee me moving to such a model.

You do realize most of us would still have the PC for gaming and surfing and coding and whatever else we do right? So the only extra cost I had was the HDMI cable. It's one device less so less cable clutter, it's less shelf waste - I have a collection of discs and they're all collcting dust. And I can put it on my laptop or iphone or ipad, I can easily have a backup, browsing a folder is easier than searching through discs. I'm not going to make a mountain out of a mole hill but in an ideal world I'd still pick having my movie collection on a PC.

Yeah, but which infinity? There's a lot of them.

Same here (4 generations and likely to rise), and US public schools are a major problem. Private schools might work, particularly one that are properly streamed, tutoring almost certainly will.

Agreed. Tutoring will pay better than regular teaching, will generally involve better students and will always have the best administrator you can be.

Have to have a Masters to teach. Still shy of a PhD but better than a BS.

Didn't Joan Jett do that? Hmmm, come to think of it, didn't work out too shabbily for her.

Famed sci-fi author Nigel Kneale wrote a screenplay about reality TV back in 1968. Yes, it is available to watch. I won't say Fox is the only guilty party - all broadcasters are guilty, even the Cartoon Channel and that should be logically impossible - but that doesn't mean it's any less stupid.