Crap. Why does it always have to be Google? Google my ass! There are lots of other companies out there or even non-profit oriented#####THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN INTERCEPTED AND THE USER HAS BEEN TERMINATED, FOLLOWING PROTOCOL A45F.
This story to me is so similar to the IBM one. Skype seems to be the reason the iPhone is not in China yet, and that it will have no wifi. Telecoms despise skype. Why do I suddenly visualize this meeting of world telecom hotshots in Davos arranging to get 1B/year to shut down skype???
Not that it will work on the long run, of course. Google/Ekiga/even MS and Apple and Facebook are probably interested in this space.
Oh, you found a link for preloaded linux, and even another one for barebones OS!!!!!!!
That's why. Because people want to buy ANY machine, not some "special-needs" preconfigured POS. I'd buy a vaio FW any minute, if it came with something Debian-based. But it doesn't. Or can you find that missing link?
They are there, in a veeery abstract sense, that they exist and profit from linux. Not that they will actually change John Doe's behavior, whereas paying more for the OS just might.
Here's another interesting question: Since Amazon, in a draconian way, deletes your 1984 from your kindle; now that you know the terms of service, can you get a refund for the whole gadget?
I have no idea what you're talking about. ARM is way better than x86 architecture for smaller devices. NVIDIA Tegra, in particular, is awesome. And no, I do not work for nvidia or know anyone that does.
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You've emphasized the "nasty" parts of the plan, at least in what concerns microsoft, salesforce, and other major software vendors. I could imagine that this new infrastructure may mess them up a little, or maybe a lot. But the "non-nasty" part is that it will enable a whole new level of collaboration between people, enhancing productivity, and since Google will probably host this for free (at least for gmail users), that means that poorer countries can benefit too, from Mexico, to Brundi, to Chad, to Iceland, to Mississipi.
You must be new here--this is a website where boring drudges come for being modded "funny". Just don't browse at 0 and the child molesters can't get to you. Only the funny guys, like me.
The real deal with the Chrome OS, I believe, is that it will run on ARM, and we should have incredible price/performance and performance/energy machines. Perhaps even a 100-dollar el cheapo, years and years and years after it was dreamed on and "announced". Or the other way around: Coupled with NVIDIA tegra, this thing could be cheap and powerful.
But between this and Google OS and everything else, google is getting dangerously capable of mass information collection for nefarious purposes (read: more than is currently possible). Ive been willing enough to forgive the search engine because of its usefulness, but I see Google as the biggest potential data mining operation in the world. Have an OS, web search, email, chat, and voice all have the central management of one company who for all we know could have been served on of those secret orders they cant even talk about that all data mussed be passed on to some crazy orwellian agency. Not saying its true, but it makes you wonder...now I'm off to finish building my patented alaskan off-the-grid living structure called an igloo.
It's safe to be with Microsoft, after all. Thanks for helping me calm down.
>a web browser should never, and I mean NEVER, need half a gig of memory to view my open tabs
Hmm. 512MB of ram should be enough for any web browser?
If it bothers you that much though, just go to your about:config page and edit the
browser.cache.memory.capacity
Perhaps if you close the tabs with pr0n that may help
sorry folks, it's all over and google has won.
Google wave, coupled with an internal dump of wikipedia, seems to me perfect for your needs.
watch 1.20hs here and see for yourself. This monster will change email, chat, wikis and forums. I'd be worried if I was a slashdot overlord. In fact, an idea for an extension to google wave would be to implement slashdot's moderation system into it.
Maybe I drank too much of the kool-aid, but I think wikis and forums will all have to rapidly adapt, or adopt the coming plague from Mountain View.
Of course if you read the article, I know it is a lot to ask, you will find that he is not talking about competition. For the very short summary.
MS Makes money from Windows and Office.
Google makes money from search based advertising.
Nothing else really matters to either company.
I think Google is terrified of MS silverlight. Imagine if it gained 99% browser penetration. Do you think Google would have the same clout now that the whole innerteds is not open anymore and is a proprietary thing that microsoft in its great mercy gives us?
By the way, the thing I see promising in this machine is the ARM architecture, which is REALLY inexpensive. We'll also have google wave, html5, so to keep this discussion in yesterday's perspective of "MS Office vs GDocs" is to miss the point entirely.
You must be new here, if you really were expecting more from slashdot. The post's title should be "WHAT TO EXPECT FROM AN AVERAGE SLASHDOT SUBMISSION".
I'm new here. What's this "Wikipedia" and where do I find it?
Here. That'll sort this whole thread out...
He asked for an explanation. He may not yet know how to click on a link.
Wikipedia is a free,[5] web-based multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's 13 million articles (2.9 million in the English Wikipedia) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website.[6] Launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger,[7] it is currently the largest and most popular general reference PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS
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Crap. Why does it always have to be Google? Google my ass! There are lots of other companies out there or even non-profit oriented#####THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN INTERCEPTED AND THE USER HAS BEEN TERMINATED, FOLLOWING PROTOCOL A45F.
"I should have used paypal and get my money back :("
can eBay really be that stupid?
yes
these dudes are claiming the title of world's greatest software assholes right from the hands of Gates, Ballmer & Co.
1. Provide a good service, a tool, a format.
2. Make it cheap.
3. Wait 'til everyone uses it because it was cheap.
4. MAKE MORE MONEY by destroying value
5. Jack up the price.
6. Profit.
This story to me is so similar to the IBM one. Skype seems to be the reason the iPhone is not in China yet, and that it will have no wifi. Telecoms despise skype. Why do I suddenly visualize this meeting of world telecom hotshots in Davos arranging to get 1B/year to shut down skype???
Not that it will work on the long run, of course. Google/Ekiga/even MS and Apple and Facebook are probably interested in this space.
not trolling here... can you make calls to landlines or cell phones from within Ekiga?
Why do these discredited myths get moderated up on Slashdot again and again? Seriously.
Because it's NOT on the bible, hence false; I guess.
Thank you Father
That's why. Because people want to buy ANY machine, not some "special-needs" preconfigured POS. I'd buy a vaio FW any minute, if it came with something Debian-based. But it doesn't. Or can you find that missing link?
They are there, in a veeery abstract sense, that they exist and profit from linux. Not that they will actually change John Doe's behavior, whereas paying more for the OS just might.
Here's another interesting question: Since Amazon, in a draconian way, deletes your 1984 from your kindle; now that you know the terms of service, can you get a refund for the whole gadget?
First post!
My god that was insightful!
have an interesting security
I have no idea what you're talking about. ARM is way better than x86 architecture for smaller devices. NVIDIA Tegra, in particular, is awesome. And no, I do not work for nvidia or know anyone that does.
You've emphasized the "nasty" parts of the plan, at least in what concerns microsoft, salesforce, and other major software vendors. I could imagine that this new infrastructure may mess them up a little, or maybe a lot. But the "non-nasty" part is that it will enable a whole new level of collaboration between people, enhancing productivity, and since Google will probably host this for free (at least for gmail users), that means that poorer countries can benefit too, from Mexico, to Brundi, to Chad, to Iceland, to Mississipi.
You must be new here--this is a website where boring drudges come for being modded "funny". Just don't browse at 0 and the child molesters can't get to you. Only the funny guys, like me.
The real deal with the Chrome OS, I believe, is that it will run on ARM, and we should have incredible price/performance and performance/energy machines. Perhaps even a 100-dollar el cheapo, years and years and years after it was dreamed on and "announced". Or the other way around: Coupled with NVIDIA tegra, this thing could be cheap and powerful.
But between this and Google OS and everything else, google is getting dangerously capable of mass information collection for nefarious purposes (read: more than is currently possible). Ive been willing enough to forgive the search engine because of its usefulness, but I see Google as the biggest potential data mining operation in the world. Have an OS, web search, email, chat, and voice all have the central management of one company who for all we know could have been served on of those secret orders they cant even talk about that all data mussed be passed on to some crazy orwellian agency. Not saying its true, but it makes you wonder...now I'm off to finish building my patented alaskan off-the-grid living structure called an igloo.
It's safe to be with Microsoft, after all. Thanks for helping me calm down.
take your meds, son
>a web browser should never, and I mean NEVER, need half a gig of memory to view my open tabs Hmm. 512MB of ram should be enough for any web browser? If it bothers you that much though, just go to your about:config page and edit the browser.cache.memory.capacity
Perhaps if you close the tabs with pr0n that may help
watch 1.20hs here and see for yourself. This monster will change email, chat, wikis and forums. I'd be worried if I was a slashdot overlord. In fact, an idea for an extension to google wave would be to implement slashdot's moderation system into it.
Maybe I drank too much of the kool-aid, but I think wikis and forums will all have to rapidly adapt, or adopt the coming plague from Mountain View.
Of course if you read the article, I know it is a lot to ask, you will find that he is not talking about competition. For the very short summary. MS Makes money from Windows and Office. Google makes money from search based advertising. Nothing else really matters to either company.
I think Google is terrified of MS silverlight. Imagine if it gained 99% browser penetration. Do you think Google would have the same clout now that the whole innerteds is not open anymore and is a proprietary thing that microsoft in its great mercy gives us?
By the way, the thing I see promising in this machine is the ARM architecture, which is REALLY inexpensive. We'll also have google wave, html5, so to keep this discussion in yesterday's perspective of "MS Office vs GDocs" is to miss the point entirely.
You must be new here, if you really were expecting more from slashdot. The post's title should be "WHAT TO EXPECT FROM AN AVERAGE SLASHDOT SUBMISSION".
IF I HAD MOD points, you'd all be getting offtopic! --skynet
I'm new here. What's this "Wikipedia" and where do I find it? Here. That'll sort this whole thread out...
He asked for an explanation. He may not yet know how to click on a link. Wikipedia is a free,[5] web-based multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's 13 million articles (2.9 million in the English Wikipedia) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website.[6] Launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger,[7] it is currently the largest and most popular general reference PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS
So that's religion, in sum?