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Google's Barge Is a Marketing Showroom
Dave Knott writes "The mysterious barge docked in San Francisco Bay that has been fueling intense speculation the past week will serve as a luxury showroom for Google products and a floating, modular venue for the company's private events. The large structure built out of shipping containers that sits on top of the barge will be used to market Google Glass, the much-hyped augmented reality headgear Google unveiled this year, and other products and to host invitation-only events and parties for clients. The structure is constructed of interchangeable 12-metre high shipping containers that can be assembled and disassembled and transported by road, rail or ship anywhere in the world."
12 metre long shipping containers.
If I had an Ass, I'd call it Fanny Bottom, then I could slap my Ass; Fanny Bottom, on the Arse.
...is probably Apple. But Google are getting there.
I'd like to see them demonstrate the Glasses' ability to interact with the Internet from inside a structure made of metal shipping containers.
Just the thing when you need to move a 30' smurf.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Obelisks. Google fucked with Europa while making EuropaMaps.Google.com
Table-ized A.I.
Never mind that, what about the human's ability to breathe inside shipping containers?
They're actually trying to raise a Russian sub.
Maybe you're on to something. Since this is invitation-only, presumably VIP guests, maybe the real purpose is to build a "tin foil barge" to prevent snooping from the NSA and even Google itself. (nah)
that's surprisingly not a problem.
but what they need is rooms that have been crafted to show ar possibilities...
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I love the idea of modular, transportable structures, but do they have to look like a pile of garbage bins with pins sticking out of the top? That's not industrial-cool, or retro-cool, that's just plain ugly. Makeover!
"We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us" - Faraday
They can just hang out around the barge, and pass out tickets in the barge parking lot!
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/30/tech/mobile/google-glass-driving-ticket/
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
So they're trying to recreate one of the classic problems in computer science...lol...
How many cubits is that?
You are welcome on my lawn.
The first ones logically will be experimental but my bet is Google has already done all the logistics and it will just work. Que the anti Google lobbying in Washington and why the hell else would Microsoft be so hot to sponsor Rockstar right now to take out the Android platform with patent lawsuits unless they knew that Google was about to change the game? My bet is also that these barges will double as data centers using HP tech Moonshot servers so that the power consumption will make them viable as well. Notice also that HP, Oracle and IBM are conspicuously absent from the blood hungry zombie list of of contributors to the Rockstar patent troll consortium. Though I doubt very much that there is any love between Oracle and Google considering Oracle's failed attempts to torpedo Android. I just wonder how much Microsoft and Apple were involved in the original move to push Oracle into a law suit against Google.
This guy might say that the Annunaki are behind the Google barges but floating showrooms are about as sensible an explanation as using these barges for that purpose. It has to be something revolutionary otherwise Google would have leaked it already.
This message was not sent from an iPhone because Peter Sellers really was a deviated prevert without a dime for the call
these are probably Brin's old models...he upgraded to a bigger party barge & decided to sell his old one to his company
Thank you Dave Raggett
Surveillance, exciting and new
Contractors Aboard. We're rewarding you.
Data, life's sweetest via a telephone cord.
Let it split, it tunnels back to you.
The Spy Boat soon will be making another splice
The Spy Boat promises to link every optical telco device
Set a course for legality,
Your mind on a new locality.
Domestic spying won't be illegal anymore
It's on open source offshore.
Yes Surveillance! It's Surveillance!
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Google wouldn't use sharks. They always use Betas.
rewriting history since 2109
20 x 40 ft. 13.33 x 20.67 cubits. 6.10 x 12.19 meters.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
How many cubits is that?
Mycenaean? Or Old Kingdom?
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
We should invite all the google glass enthusiasts to it on one day and then sink it.
Outside of the small circle of bloggers and 'journalists' who were hoping it was an antigravity battle station. Because they're morons.
Google's first attempt at a holodeck?
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
I realize this may be only me, but whenever someone mentions Google Glass, I think Virtual Light glasses from the Gibson series of novels -- where the Bay Bridge was no longer used as a bridge, and squatters were living on it instead, which for some reason I was reminded of again by having Google's floating structure in the Bay..
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Why build a demo space out of shipping containers? The dimensions are awful.
The floating data center isn't a great idea, either. You have all the headaches of salt water corrosion. It's hard to get bulk power and data offshore. It's not cheaper than building on low-value land. The only justifications would be political. It might be useful if you had to bring up a big data center in a primitive area with little infrastructure.
It's a heads up display, totaly different.
This has to be fake! Google would never use anything massive and over bloated!
I'm old, not dead. Well that's my 2 cents worth, your mileage may vary. I say what I think, not what you want to hear.
Feet and inches were Borged by the metric system a long time ago. Look up the US definition of an inch.
That's what she said.