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Powerful Stuff that iKoolaid? You bet it is! | 126 comments | Create New Account
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Powerful Stuff that iKoolaid? You bet it is!
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 29 2012 @ 06:34 PM EDT
I dislike Microsoft as much as any one here PJ..... but I
HATE Apple for what they're doing to the legal systems
around the world right now.

As far as file system go; HFS+ has had known issues to this
day. But if they change it now, there will be no backwards
compatibility. As it is, Dominic Giampaolo (of BeOS BFS
fame) wrote the book "A Practical Guide to File Systems"
after writing BFS and before going to work for Apple to
write Spotlight for Universal Search. But he wrote it to run
on top of a virtual database system riding on top of HFS+
unlike BFS (BeOS) where it's virtual database file system
still beats everything else out there.

Even Microsoft worked on WinFS (like BFS) to run virtually
on top of NTFS. But it was too slow. Spotlight is limited
too, and does not run LIVE or even have Live Query like BFS.

Now the even more limited version Spotlight on iOS is why
they really can't do what their 2004 Patent Grant (applied
for in 2000 as a direct rip off of BFS). This new voice
universal search patent granted on December 2011 somehow got
pushed through despite them only buying Siri in the first
place. I hope Samsung and Google are able to get this patent
invalidated, that should never have been granted in the
first place!

Here's Dominic's book on file systems!
http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf

Apple is lucky to have him working for them. However he
knows more than anyone that unless you can Instant Query the
Native System file along with network and online files, you
really don't have a True Universal Search Engine!

Also their online search depends on Google and other
independent online databases. Which none are owned by Apple!
....because they don't have the algorithms to do it with or
the the web protocols built into their file system either!

Anyway I will refrain from posting anything that could be
taken as an insult from now on! ....as to financials of MS?
Yeah they are dated, but only by a year or two!

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