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more about #sun whiteflea: Heh, I was reviewing Vertical Integration with my AP students this morning. more » random_droid: Vertical Integration? more » Jamez: I really hate when you guys post a supposedly interesting article that I have to subscribe to some other site to read. Give me the gory details or ple... more » jiggpig: This is a lot of anecdotal journalism. At the same time as Oracle and Apple are going vertical, Sony and AMD are dropping their vertical integration. ... more » jlcro: So according to matt buchanan, the article is "worth" reading because they mention apple. Lately gizmodo is in urgent need of journalism standards les... more » Noobs-R-Us: Ellison is not wrong in his observations of industries going through cycles of integration and disintegration. Right now for exmple, in finance, bank... more » Nick: but it has other bits, like Apple purchasing chip designer PA Semi, that make it worth reading. alright, matt. i am gonna give you the benefit of th... more » Snes: Why are there two pictures? more » dimadelux: I do not see how those without a WSJ Subscription will be able to read that article more » jinushaun: From what I've heard, Apple dropped ZFS because Sun couldn't guarantee support of it (the "private license" part), now that it has been bought by Orac... more » JacquesAss: 1. Sun is currently in the middle of litigation with NetApp over ZFS (hence the "indemnification" issues). 2. Sun is soon to be owned by Oracle, whi... more » PhilomenaAjax: As much as it pains me to defend Apple here, a lack of willingness to share wasn't the issue. From the cited mailing list Apple wanted a license "with... more » robdaemon: I take this to mean that Apple simply doesn't want to release parts of any proprietary interfaces between Mac OS X and ZFS back to the community. Not... more » Monty: If true, knowing that ZFS is supposedly an outstanding file system, could we interpret Apple's need for a "private license" as being bad for us consum... more » COCOViper: Snow Leopard is really shaping up to be Apple's Vista- i.e. the OS that really isn't that bad but should have been a lot more. #zfs more » renderizer: right after their ad of broken promises... more » jinushaun: Snow Leopard is starting to sound more and more like Vista everyday! Are we ever going to get WinFS? more » oldtaku: As an engineer I'm going to guess that 1) They underestimated the work getting it fully integrated; not just 'there if you know how to get to it', bu... more » Sir Gibler: has anyone else notice that the interface was updated in iTunes when you run snow leopard. the scroll bar when view apps is well different. at least f... more » Bodie1550: Wasn't there also something called a "Marble Interface"? Perhaps in the Blizzard edition. Still -- looking forward to Snow Leopard which I should rece... more » -
#trends
Tech Companies Are Getting Taller
The WSJ's glance at tech companies going more vertical mostly focuses on Oracle's acquisition of Sun to produce both hardware and software, but it has other bits, like Apple purchasing chip designer PA Semi, that make it worth reading. [WSJ] -
#apple
Apple Kills ZFS Plans for Snow Leopard
Don't hold your breath for the ZFS filesystem to appear in any future Snow Leopard updates. A message yesterday on the project's homepage very clearly acknowledges that development has stopped completely. More » -
#snowleopard
Why Did Apple Drop ZFS From Snow Leopard?
In 2008, Apple announced that we would see ZFS as part of Snow Leopard Server, but a year later our copies are shipping with ZFS nowhere to be found. What went wrong? And will we ever get ZFS? More » -
#space
NASA Kills Ulysses Spacecraft After 18 years of Studying the Sun
You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever / But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the Sun. More » -
#power
K3 Harnesses the Power of the Sun, the Wind, and the Electric Grid
The Kinesis K3 power generator updates their previous K2 unit with a new power source: In addition to its windmill and solar cells, it can now charge its internal battery with external electricity sources. More » -
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#storage
Sun Storing The Entire Internet In a Shipping Container
How do you store three petabytes (that's 3,145,728 GB) of web pages for the Internet Archive? You put them in a datacenter housed in a shipping container. More » -
#rumor
IBM Wants Sun for $7 Billion
Sun—once a bright star in the technology universe, who even wanted to buy Apple—is about to get swallowed by IBM for $7 billion, say New York Times' sources. [NYT] -
#sunglasses
Solar Panel Sunglasses: Because We Haven't Stuck Solar Panels Into Glasses Yet
In the future, sunglasses will need to do more than just make you look cool or prevent costly eye conditions. They'll need to power your gadgets, according to at least one pair of designers. -
#solartaxi
17-Month Trip In Solar Taxi Ends At UN Climate Change Talks in Poland
After 17 grueling months, Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer's around-the-world trip in a solar-powered car is finally over. Altogether, he traveled 32,000 miles and across 40 countries. More » -
#rodencrater
Roden Crater Is Alien Landing Site Disguised as Art Installation
This is the Roden Crater, a inactive volcano northeast of Flagstaff, on the calm, dry plains of Arizona. In its sleep, it looks peaceful, harmless. Until you start climbing and reach the top of the 3-kilometer-wide mountain. Then you will be able to see the platform for extraterrestrial spaceships on its center. James Turrell says it's a large-scale art installation that will open in 2012, but he's not fooling us. This is not an art installation. This has to be a spaceport. More »
