Nope, not new; I just never felt the need as pressingly as I do right now.

Make some concrete, testable predictions - say, market share, profit share, stock-price or something of that nature - and I'll see you on 8th Feb 2013.

"from the greed-begets-greed dept."?

Ugh.

Is there a way to block stories by editor?

Maybe not the 'main' bottleneck, but it depends on the application, no? Seems to me there are at least a few firehose situations where you can never have enough write bandwidth (say, uncompressed video-capture).

Maybe normal workloads on normal filesystems wouldn't see much improvement, but I bet you could find ways to capitalise on the extra bandwidth and space. Log-structured filesystems spring to mind for one.

Reading your post, it is clear that the article is being selectively interpreted to yield a contentious opinion. This is yet another case of trolling.

The first step to a solution is always a robust solutioneering methodology.

The guy wrote emacs and gcc and created GNU against all odds out of pure bloody-minded stubbornness. You really think he deserves to be ridiculed for whatever social weirdness you wankers ascribe to him?

Like, when the f**k did Slashdot become "News for Jocks"?

Dear Slashdot,
How about taking a little more pride in what you choose to show to the 8 bajillion people who hit your front-page every day?

TFA repeatedly mentions WiFi.
IIRC, the iPhone only enables wifi at all when you're actively using the phone - when it's sat in your pocket, wifi is off. Which would put a bit of a dent in that 54% figure.

Why can't a helicopter thrust upwards?