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Comment glass half empty or half full? (Score 1) 870

by S. Allen on Monday December 28, 2009 @10:33AM (#30570796) Attached to: Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's <em>Avatar</em>

you've chosen to cast this in a negative light as against something. the alternative view is that is is promoting a more rational approach to resource utilization. the easiest way to demonstrate this is using something you can relate to: our own behavior.

Google Two Years Into Overhaul of the Google File System 217

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @10:27PM from the we-can-make-it-better dept.

El Reg writes "As its ten-year-old file system — GFS — struggles to keep up with Gmail, YouTube, and other apps it was never designed to support, Google is brewing a replacement. According to the company, it's two years into a GFS sequel designed specifically for customer-facing apps that require ultra low latency."

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