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Just curious...was BBEdit Lite straining to keep up as you typed that?

Not only that, but it takes over 20 minutes to transfer a 17 MB file from one folder to another. 20 Minutes.

In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else will grind to a halt. Even Pages will straining to keep up if you want to type anything.

• Filename is optional. No need to think of a unique filename to save under -- just enter your content and go.
• Search all your past files at once. Try that, Notepad!
• Spell-checking on demand
• Load/save your text files from any computer in the world
• Cross-platform
• Undo Discard. Ever wish you could retrieve your file after closing it without saving? Now you can!

There is no announcement yet from Google of their change.

This decision was driven off of concern for our user experience. We are not paying answers.com for this service nor are they paying us. They were willing to work with us and design a website that we felt represented an improvement for our users over what was offered on dictionary.com (no pop-ups, dense information presentation).

enter the gbrowser

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Tivo fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Tivo (a revision 3) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 minute show from one machine to another. 20 minutes! At home, on my MiniITX running MythTV, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Tivo, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this program transfer, the Channel Guide will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even the media player software for the PC is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Tivos, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Tivo that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Tivo's faster Linux architecture. My ReplayTV with 8gigs of HD runs faster than this machine at times! From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Tivo is a superior machine.

Tivo addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Tivo over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

(Word to the mods.)

You forgot to start your post off with "I don't want to start a holy war, but what is it with you Mac addicts? I'm sitting here at my freelance gig trying to copy . . ." Sorry, I'm just obsessed with the famous Kottke troll.

While I wouldn't expect the performance of a 400 Mhz G3 to be that great with OS X, I am still curious about your system. How much RAM do you have? The combination of the older, weaker processor and a small amount of RAM might be the problem.

They have got to push firefox now, they need to find a way to own a spot on everbodies desktop and right now Firefox is the way to do that.

Or they could rebrand a modified version of Firefox as GBrowser and give that away to improve the number of clicks, and their already astronomical name recognition.

Sigh.. Mods miss the joke again...

http://www.kottke.org/98/11/my-mac-sucks

You just need to be a bit older to get it. Classic anti-Mac troll here.

Even Jason Kottke speculated on this in ummm, last September.

Is it more credible now that Slashdot's found the story?

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics?

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you <b>iPod</b> fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of an <b>iPod Shuffle (1 GB)</b> for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to play an <b>Ogg Vorbis</b> file. 20 minutes. At home, on my <i>iRiveriGP-100</i>, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this iPod, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

Actually this makes me wonder about this.

Dude, I don't think that's actually Jason Kottke. I linked to it in my original post because it's a pretty well-known troll, or so I thought.

And here's a bunch of performance benchmarks pitting the Mac mini against a range of other current Macs--not just abstract numbers but real-world tasks (think "17 Meg file"). I wonder how PCs stack up, particularly with Cinebench and the iTunes rip test...

Either I have no sense of humour, or the rest of the world doesn't. I guess it's probably me...

I think it's time for an enterprising AC to rework the parent post into a cut and paste one of these: http://www.kottke.org/98/11/my-mac-sucks

This was reported back on September 8th that he lost.. granted it was a rumour back then, but it was reported by multiple sources, including this site.

I downloaded the final Jeopardy! audio clip yesterday from this website, but now the clip has been removed. (Stupid lawyers) Also, good 'ol Wikipedia has a good story, and also had the news/info yesterday somehow.

No, you're both morons: http://www.kottke.org/98/11/my-mac-sucks

Love,

A. C.

Luna? Oh no, not another one of you overly-pretensious folk. I assume you probably refer to the Sun as "Sol" as well? I, myself, prefer to be a little more Feynman than Gell-Mann.

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Can you comment on the speculation about a new Operating System being created by Google?

See this 1 month old blog entry: The Google Browser

ROBOT in time square?
oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Let's link every word
to the same url!

Lameness filter, you are bad. Why are you making me put this meaningless text into the bottom? I will pretend it's my signature.

Let's link every word
to the same url!

Lameness filter, you are bad. Why are you making me put this meaningless text into the bottom? I will pretend it's my signature.

Let's link every word
to the same url!

Lameness filter, you are bad. Why are you making me put this meaningless text into the bottom? I will pretend it's my signature.

Let's link every word
to the same url!

Lameness filter, you are bad. Why are you making me put this meaningless text into the bottom? I will pretend it's my signature.

Let's link every word
to the same url!

Lameness filter, you are bad. Why are you making me put this meaningless text into the bottom? I will pretend it's my signature.

Let's link every word
to the same url!

Lameness filter, you are bad. Why are you making me put this meaningless text into the bottom? I will pretend it's my signature.

Let's link every word
to the same url!

Lameness filter, you are bad. Why are you making me put this meaningless text into the bottom? I will pretend it's my signature.

Let's link every word
to the same url!

Lameness filter, you are bad. Why are you making me put this meaningless text into the bottom? I will pretend it's my signature.

Thanks to a tipster, I broke this story on my site yesterday morning...AP and /. have no love for weblogs? ;). This morning, that same tipster has provided the Final Jeopardy question/answer which cost Ken his streak. If you don't mind the spoilers, click through to find out.

Thanks to a tipster, I broke this story on my site yesterday morning...AP and /. have no love for weblogs? ;). This morning, that same tipster has provided the Final Jeopardy question/answer which cost Ken his streak. If you don't mind the spoilers, click through to find out.

Thanks to a tipster, I broke this story on my site yesterday morning...AP and /. have no love for weblogs? ;). This morning, that same tipster has provided the Final Jeopardy question/answer which cost Ken his streak. If you don't mind the spoilers, click through to find out.

Not to mention
Seven
and Eight!

Short of a posting here on the official sudo site by Todd or Chris (both of whom I bet could care less) I'm gonna keep saying "Sue-Doh" out of homage to Homer Simpson. Perhaps MSFT's patent is based on the pronunciation?

Wired 12.03: The Complete Guide to Googlemania!
... The Complete Guide to Googlemania! (continued). 4 Scenarios for the Future of Google Sometimes a liquidity event changes everything. By Tom McNichol. ...

GooOS, the Google Operating System (kottke.org)
GooOS, the Google Operating System. He argues that Google is building a huge computer with a custom operating system that everyone on earth can have an account on. His last few paragraphs are so much more perceptive than anything that's been written about Google

Personalized Results: Exploring The Future Of Google ... Personalized Results: Exploring The Future Of Google.
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MacMinute: The future of Google and Web searching?
* WWDC 2004: Discover how to put Mac OS X to work for you at WWDC! *. The future of Google and Web searching? March 31, 2004 - 07 ... www.macminute.com/2004/03/31/google - 29k -

At roughly the same time this thread was created here @./, jkottke posted this on his blog. Kottke goes beyond "replacing desktop software", flirting with the idea of "the web as a plattform". I think this is worth thinking about.

There's a very interesting post on kottke.org that discusses online applications in relation to weblogs. I quote:

Taking the weblog example to the extreme, you could use TypePad to write a weblog entry; Flickr to store your photos; store some mp3s (for an mp3 blog) on your ISP-hosted shell account; your events calendar on Upcoming; use iCal to update your personal calendar (which is then stored on your .Mac account); use GMail for email; use TypeKey or Flickr's authentication system to handle identity; outsource your storage/backups to Google or Akamai; you let Feedburner "listen" for new content from all those sources,
transform/aggregate/filter it all, and publish it to your Web space; and you manage all this on the Web at each individual Web site or with a Watson-ish desktop client.

There's a very interesting post on kottke.org that discusses online applications in relation to weblogs. I quote:

Taking the weblog example to the extreme, you could use TypePad to write a weblog entry; Flickr to store your photos; store some mp3s (for an mp3 blog) on your ISP-hosted shell account; your events calendar on Upcoming; use iCal to update your personal calendar (which is then stored on your .Mac account); use GMail for email; use TypeKey or Flickr's authentication system to handle identity; outsource your storage/backups to Google or Akamai; you let Feedburner "listen" for new content from all those sources,
transform/aggregate/filter it all, and publish it to your Web space; and you manage all this on the Web at each individual Web site or with a Watson-ish desktop client.

Keep in mind that Google has additional avenues of business available to them. Not only have they built some phenominal search technology, but they have also demonstrated the versatility of Linux and the GooOS at maintaining a vast sea of computing hardware.

In the future it may be a Google-inspired operating system that we run for our enterprise computing tasks. The Google Search Appliance is a targeted business to test the culmination of this technology as a consumer product.

Time will tell, but I suspect this is a more robust company than the dot-bombs of the mid 90's. As always, skip the IPO and pickup stock after the initial boom cycle has given way to bust. Don't forget to read the prospectus and do the math to figure out what the company is *really* worth.

I'd like to point out this blog post on Kottke:

Moore's buddy Matt Chisholm chimes in to tell me about a similar hack, a JavaScript app he wrote with Moore that works on Friendster. It mines for information about anyone who looks at his profile and clicks through to his Web site. "I get their user ID, email address, age, plus their full name. Neither their full name nor their email is ever supposed to be revealed," he says.

Notified of the security holes Moore and Chisholm exploit, Friendster rep Lisa Kopp insists, "We have a policy that we are not being hacked." When I explain that, policy or no, they are being hacked, she says, "Security isn't a priority for us. We're mostly focused on making the site go faster."

This was touched on earlier but not fully expanded; Google isn't a search engine. It isn't a portal, or a SP, or even a web engine. It's an operating system, deisgned to run on thousanmds of servers, be self-healing etc etc. There's much more about this back here Cue, MS scalable OS for clusters. The first rule of "embrace and extend" is working out what to embrace, and I think they hit the nail on the head.

While I don't want to be "that guy", this is an amazingly old link. It was made by Jason Kottke, and the girl in the ads is Megan Hourihan. It came out a year or two ago, along with the Segwa.y.

An Obvious troll dating back to 1998

Perhaps.

This is quite similar. Like exact....from 1998. 'tard.

From http://www.kottke.org/04/04/google-operating-syste m "So. They have this huge map of the Web and are aware of how people move around in the virtual space it represents. They have the perfect place to store this map (one of the world's largest computers that's all but incapable of crashing)."

SkyNet? Is that you?