Based on my experience with both Android phones and iPhones, here's how I see it:
Do you want something that "just works" out of the box, but with somewhat limited customization options? Do you want something that's dead simple and requires little to no learning to use? Get an iPhone.
Do you like to be able to modify every little facet of your phone, right down to the hardware it runs on? Do you not mind a small learning curve if it means more flexible overall operation? Get an Android phone.
They both have their place...it all comes down to your preferences and needs.
You're not an Android user are you? You're assuming Android is somehow more difficult to learn and use just because it's are non-apple. Android is very much a "just works" user experience just the same, it doesn't require any more or less learning to use than an iPhone. Because it is more capable and complex it's foolish to assumes it must be harder to learn and use. If you've "upgraded" from a iPhone to a new Android you'll find much the same - it's just as intuitive and discoverable.
Also, all those tweaks and modifications you can do to Android are stupidly easy as far as any computing platform goes: replacing the stock browser, keyboard, market, even the homescreen/launcher is as simple as downloading an App of the market.
There's very little excuse for not allowing personalisation. Being 'hard' or 'confusing' is not one.
Coming from an admittedly older iPhone (old 3G) I see Android does some things exceedingly well - the integration with the cloud means you log in to your phone with your google account, and from then all your apps contacts and settings are backed up - lose your phone and you get it all back, even your paid apps. This is automatic and requires no configuration.
Android is getting things right that Apple isn't, and they are some pretty killer features.
Oh and when I logged into a Samsung Galaxy Tab with my google account it automatically downloaded all my existing paid apps... so I didn't have to buy them again... that is a feature Apple would never offer. I'm sold.
I experienced something like this on a glacier, a kind of 'dust devil' hit our party, except it wasn't invisible as you say, there was enough fresh powder around to make it clear and we had nowhere to go. It got VERY cold fast and the winds may have been 100kph briefly as well as white-out conditions. I don't know if the wind chill alone made it so cold, but as most of the group had most of our cold weather gear off despite just below freezing temperatures (reflective snow/ice in bright sunlight makes you actually kind hot).. we came pretty damn close to having a serious problem. I would assume that like katabatic winds, such a anti-tornado forming over ice would be powered by descending cold dry air, not ascending warm moist air, and would prefer clearer drier conditions to storm conditions.
This would explain the temperature drop and I imagine anyone or any animal exposed could be in a life threatening situation. I did read that there were tornadoes in the Beebe, Arkansas area on new years eve and this was the leading theory? The blackbirds just got hypothermia, nicely fitting the lack of obvious trauma.
If blackbirds in my part of the world are anything to go by, they don't flock much, at least not in large numbers like other birds. So several thousand blackbirds falling out of the sky in the same area is just strange to me, but blackbirds elsewhere could behave differently?
Quite a few Android users use alternate SMS apps from the Android Market, just about all of them are a better (ChompSMS, Handcent et al). I'm wondering does this only apply to the stock messaging App?
I've seen thin client networks done badly, and I think if you factor in the cost of having a large part of your business unable to work due to a single router flaking out, or your citrix server farm doing something wierd and eating everyones work, you might have eaten up any savings from purchasing and servicing traditional fat clients on desks.
An occasional one-time saving on cost is eaten up by [sometimes massively] amplified on-going cost in any downtime you inevitably face.
Suggested addendum to the powerpoint presentations I know that drive these bussiness decisions: Your network infrastructure better be damn good. You also better not think it's a great cost saving strategy deploy your thin client infrastructure to remote sites with dodgy WAN links.
Laptops as hybrid thin clients make a lot more sense - your business could get up and move. Now, I've seen that done well.
The year of Firefox was missed because Chrome burst on the scene, and honestly Firefox had long lost the lead in innovation. The situation is similar with Desktop Linux.
Linux on the desktop has missed it's chance, the PC desktop is no longer the bleeding edge of development (at least as far as media and community buzz is concerned) in the face of new platforms. Hardware gets faster but it isn't really needed. Windows 7 and Linux run pretty fast. I haven't updated my hardware since 2008 and would see no benefit. SSDs have come of age, so I picked one up. I essientially experience no delay for anything. I see little point in sinking my yearly $1500 into hardware update, and little advantage in speed brought in software updates. (All the lag from a bloated Windows install was due to disk footprint and usage - lots of random reads over a big install footprint. Linux would do the same if you really went nuts with it. This is totally gone with a SSD, your Windows install remains as fast as the day it was new)
People are less interested in their desktop computing experience and keeping it up to date. With less interest, any radical change in the way people do computing is going to be harder.
To me, Linux has missed it's chance. All these years we battled with crappy Windows XP and Vista, when it would have been nice to hand a live CD to someone and solve all their computer problems. Installing Linux would most often give you a new set of exciting and deliberately difficult problems to solve, which was great, if (to use an analogy) you'd prefer a tough rubix cube to having sex. Getting the best out of Linux as a desktop took time and effort, because it came pre-broken to some extent, it was fun for some torture for others who were no doubt looking to escape toture. Now you can have 100% functional Ubuntu in 20 minutes, when back in the day that was luck of the draw. It's actually rather boring having nothing to fix to be honest. But for many people, tinkering is not the point of technology, technology is a tool not a toy.
It's kind of like that now, you take a oldish computer, boot Ubuntu live, install, a few commands and it's a revived fully capable useful and fast machine. It's a free download and burn away, and there's tons of software available for free.
So why isn't it taking off? What's the problem? Well, we needed that about five years ago. Back then you were lucky if you could pull this off with linux, and then you'd have to do without flash, or properly working graphics drivers.
I had an epiphany when I wiped a old machine I'd installed Ubuntu 6.06 on and fogotten about, with Ubuntu 10.10. It was MUCH faster, and booted in 40 seconds to the desktop rather than more than a minute.
Problem is, Windows 7 was a leap ahead, I remember seeing Cannonical rush to make Ubuntu take less than a minute and a half to boot as soon as Windows 7 Beta's started showing massively improved boot performance.
Why couldn't that have been done sooner?
Why did it take until 2006 for compiz to go 1.0, when windows Vista? We saw 3D desktop effects demo'd by Microsoft in early longhorn in August 2003.
Theres not many more lines of code in a 2010 linux distro than a 2006, so why does it all run so much faster now on 2006 hardware? It's all been re-written ten times over in the process, re-written only to be incrementally better.
I guess there are lots of problems that can't be solved at a programmers desk, and decisions that can only be made from data gathered in a lab. Microsoft and Apple spend millions, billions even on R&D, labs, on UI studies etc for good reason.
Linux more than ever needs truly excellent UI design. Or it's just too late.
Android on the other hand is linux done really well.
Is it possible that the act and sensation of taking a pill triggers some kind of relief reflex? Certainly putting food in your mouth and not swallowing, triggers the bodies reactions as if it was about to receive food. It's been recently shown that just the taste of food (ie carbohydrate) can boost energy levels as if we had eaten it. Perhaps our bodies learn relief is on he way, from life experience of popping asprin and such?
Sometimes people just get better all on their own, sometimes from seemingly incurable disease. It's just exceedling rare.
There are so many billions of people in the world that just about every rare improbable and seemingly impossible situation you can imagine does happen indeed somewhere. I call it rule 1 of the real world.
The nature of our information age means that, these rare rare instances get heard about, as they spread like memes through the press and other media. We end up getting the impression these rare and unusual events are more significant than they really are.
So combining these two, chances are some nutjob with leukemia out there drinking homeopathic snake oil will by pure random chance get better, and therefore make a correlation between the too, and this bad information will replicate. See rule 1 for why this kind of anecdote can be dismissed out of hand.
What is the process for vetting developers who contribute to an open source project?
I know what the answer may be that in most cases there isn't any. Contributors are judged alone by their code no doubt, but nobody bothers to find out what ties the individual has.
Open-source is great at peer-review, resulting code quality has to be good due to sheer brute force of eyes looking it over. But you have to wonder, since it's perfectly possible to hide malicious code in plain sight, code that actually does what it seems to, but can do something nasty - and if found out just appears to be a common programming mistake; have backdoors been slipped into open source projects? Is it sensible to place trust in any code just because it's open-source without running the gauntlet of scrutiny?
Frankly if this turned out to be true, or some story pops up how some spy or agent slipped a backdoor into some open-source project somewhere I really would not be suprised. Security in transparency, security in obscurity, both are assumptions.
Basically, you have tons of different devices you need to support, all with different hardware, resolution and features. They might or might not have changes made by the phone manufacturer and/or telcos. They might have physical keyboards or only touchscreen. Maybe multitouch on some. Camera on the back, maybe front too, or not at all? Different API's supported by different versions of Android.. It's a nightmare.
Nightmare? This is not a problem for Windows, Linux, and other lesser known OSes, which have an enormous variety of hardware, display resolutions, input methods to cope with. Android has to work accross a very very tiny set of hardware possiblities compared to what Windows and Linux, Android also does not have to cope with peripheral devices, system buses, expansion ports, various storage intefaces.
Generally speaking, it shouldn't be a Nightmare. If Android developers have a hard time of it, the problem is in the design of the OS and API. I don't see it yet... but I may change my tune as I learn Android development.
Lycopene in tomatoes is a far more potent anti-oxidant (once the tomatoes are processed to improve bioavailability). In one study of 11,000 men aged 50-60 3-4 servings of tomatoes a week it reduced the incidence of prostate cancer by 50% and of those who did get it the disease was less agressive.
In another german study 55g of tomato paste per day reduced aging in the skin and provided on average a 30% sunburn protection factor.
Anti-oxidants at work my friend. Directly protecting cells from damage.
So naturally I eat lots of tomatoes now - bare in mind alot of drugs get FDA approval with much less established effect, and much smaller trials.
You can't "view source" on a App, it's not re-flowable, reconfigurable, hackable, scriptable, and you can't make on yourself and learn how to do it by just looking at the code to see how it's done. You also can't block parts of it, or even do something as simple as change fonts so you have a chance of reading it. It bothers me how much App stores are reinventing the web in a curated censored closed ecosystem. It's absolutley everything Tim Berners-Lee did not want to happen and the very antitheis of what made the WWW an explosive success. Apple and Google also get to track your activities on a computing platform in a way that must be making Microsoft extremely jealous - for all we criticise MS they have a much higher standard of privacy in this regard. In Cloud computing you cannot do a damn thing without these companies watching your every move. Jolicloud is rather brashly open about showing you the enormous history of activities it has all the way back to when you joined.
If everybody ends up spending all their time in totalitarian App-land, eventually the only thing left on the web will be pirates, wikileaks, and CP, and this will push the case for censoring and eventualy perhaps outlawing the WWW and monitoring cicumvention will be made illegal by DMCA. There's already a big push for this kind of tracking (reccent Australian and UK laws as an example), coninciding with a huge push towards cloud computing - where you pretty much sign over your digital life to a corporation.
"microsoft funded". Google could by rights fund a test of the current Chrome version against IE7/IE8 version from one or two years ago unpatched.
They would have had to intentionally install a old version of chrome with a standalone installer, and prevent it from updating by circumventing google updater which silently updates chrome. Talk about stacking a test.
Some further things desktop OS UIs have come to depend on: Keyboards allow key combos, mouse input also scales from selecting an individual pixel to scaling/accelerating to larger movements. The cursor can provide context information, and a mouse can have multiple buttons and a scroll wheel (effectively it's a 2-axis device then). I don't know what I ever did without thumb mouse buttons.
Putting any of these WIMPy (scuse pun) OSes on a tablet and trying to use it like a desktop/laptop is destined to fail.
However I'd still buy a W7 slate, I'd kill for a cheap x86 hackable tablet with a USB host, there's a million ridiculously cool things I'd do with it.
We'll fix that, it is Linux after all. Chrome OS is based on Debian. The Chrome OS x86 build I've had a play with reccently was pulling down and installing.deb packages. I don't know how much it has changed since then, but just like Android has been modded to all hell, so will Chrome.
Netbooks, Tablets, Smartphones, have all served to create new computing niches and enable consumers who would have otherwise been forced to buy and use a desktop computer in the past. Increasingly more computing is done in places and times where finding a desktop would have been inappropriate.
I propose a counter-wikileaks website to leak sensitive personal information to Governments and corporates. The idea is you enter all you personal information, brag about your potentially criminal behaviour, as well as spend time on the site interacting socially so the site can establish a pattern of behaviour including what you "like" etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Similar problem, I write Slashdot comments and this results in many searches to sound like I know what I am talking about.
No, you really are up to something and using this Slashdot post to throw the investigators off.
Based on my experience with both Android phones and iPhones, here's how I see it:
Do you want something that "just works" out of the box, but with somewhat limited customization options? Do you want something that's dead simple and requires little to no learning to use? Get an iPhone.
Do you like to be able to modify every little facet of your phone, right down to the hardware it runs on? Do you not mind a small learning curve if it means more flexible overall operation? Get an Android phone.
They both have their place...it all comes down to your preferences and needs.
You're not an Android user are you? You're assuming Android is somehow more difficult to learn and use just because it's are non-apple. Android is very much a "just works" user experience just the same, it doesn't require any more or less learning to use than an iPhone. Because it is more capable and complex it's foolish to assumes it must be harder to learn and use. If you've "upgraded" from a iPhone to a new Android you'll find much the same - it's just as intuitive and discoverable.
Also, all those tweaks and modifications you can do to Android are stupidly easy as far as any computing platform goes: replacing the stock browser, keyboard, market, even the homescreen/launcher is as simple as downloading an App of the market.
There's very little excuse for not allowing personalisation. Being 'hard' or 'confusing' is not one.
Coming from an admittedly older iPhone (old 3G) I see Android does some things exceedingly well - the integration with the cloud means you log in to your phone with your google account, and from then all your apps contacts and settings are backed up - lose your phone and you get it all back, even your paid apps. This is automatic and requires no configuration.
Android is getting things right that Apple isn't, and they are some pretty killer features.
Oh and when I logged into a Samsung Galaxy Tab with my google account it automatically downloaded all my existing paid apps... so I didn't have to buy them again... that is a feature Apple would never offer. I'm sold.
So the real story here is that anyone noticed Arkansas being used as the dumping ground for aging military equipment?
I experienced something like this on a glacier, a kind of 'dust devil' hit our party, except it wasn't invisible as you say, there was enough fresh powder around to make it clear and we had nowhere to go. It got VERY cold fast and the winds may have been 100kph briefly as well as white-out conditions. I don't know if the wind chill alone made it so cold, but as most of the group had most of our cold weather gear off despite just below freezing temperatures (reflective snow/ice in bright sunlight makes you actually kind hot).. we came pretty damn close to having a serious problem. I would assume that like katabatic winds, such a anti-tornado forming over ice would be powered by descending cold dry air, not ascending warm moist air, and would prefer clearer drier conditions to storm conditions.
This would explain the temperature drop and I imagine anyone or any animal exposed could be in a life threatening situation. I did read that there were tornadoes in the Beebe, Arkansas area on new years eve and this was the leading theory? The blackbirds just got hypothermia, nicely fitting the lack of obvious trauma.
If blackbirds in my part of the world are anything to go by, they don't flock much, at least not in large numbers like other birds. So several thousand blackbirds falling out of the sky in the same area is just strange to me, but blackbirds elsewhere could behave differently?
Quite a few Android users use alternate SMS apps from the Android Market, just about all of them are a better (ChompSMS, Handcent et al). I'm wondering does this only apply to the stock messaging App?
I've seen thin client networks done badly, and I think if you factor in the cost of having a large part of your business unable to work due to a single router flaking out, or your citrix server farm doing something wierd and eating everyones work, you might have eaten up any savings from purchasing and servicing traditional fat clients on desks.
An occasional one-time saving on cost is eaten up by [sometimes massively] amplified on-going cost in any downtime you inevitably face.
Suggested addendum to the powerpoint presentations I know that drive these bussiness decisions: Your network infrastructure better be damn good. You also better not think it's a great cost saving strategy deploy your thin client infrastructure to remote sites with dodgy WAN links.
Laptops as hybrid thin clients make a lot more sense - your business could get up and move. Now, I've seen that done well.
The year of Firefox was missed because Chrome burst on the scene, and honestly Firefox had long lost the lead in innovation. The situation is similar with Desktop Linux.
Linux on the desktop has missed it's chance, the PC desktop is no longer the bleeding edge of development (at least as far as media and community buzz is concerned) in the face of new platforms. Hardware gets faster but it isn't really needed. Windows 7 and Linux run pretty fast. I haven't updated my hardware since 2008 and would see no benefit. SSDs have come of age, so I picked one up. I essientially experience no delay for anything. I see little point in sinking my yearly $1500 into hardware update, and little advantage in speed brought in software updates. (All the lag from a bloated Windows install was due to disk footprint and usage - lots of random reads over a big install footprint. Linux would do the same if you really went nuts with it. This is totally gone with a SSD, your Windows install remains as fast as the day it was new)
People are less interested in their desktop computing experience and keeping it up to date. With less interest, any radical change in the way people do computing is going to be harder.
To me, Linux has missed it's chance. All these years we battled with crappy Windows XP and Vista, when it would have been nice to hand a live CD to someone and solve all their computer problems. Installing Linux would most often give you a new set of exciting and deliberately difficult problems to solve, which was great, if (to use an analogy) you'd prefer a tough rubix cube to having sex. Getting the best out of Linux as a desktop took time and effort, because it came pre-broken to some extent, it was fun for some torture for others who were no doubt looking to escape toture. Now you can have 100% functional Ubuntu in 20 minutes, when back in the day that was luck of the draw. It's actually rather boring having nothing to fix to be honest. But for many people, tinkering is not the point of technology, technology is a tool not a toy.
It's kind of like that now, you take a oldish computer, boot Ubuntu live, install, a few commands and it's a revived fully capable useful and fast machine. It's a free download and burn away, and there's tons of software available for free.
So why isn't it taking off? What's the problem? Well, we needed that about five years ago. Back then you were lucky if you could pull this off with linux, and then you'd have to do without flash, or properly working graphics drivers.
I had an epiphany when I wiped a old machine I'd installed Ubuntu 6.06 on and fogotten about, with Ubuntu 10.10. It was MUCH faster, and booted in 40 seconds to the desktop rather than more than a minute.
Problem is, Windows 7 was a leap ahead, I remember seeing Cannonical rush to make Ubuntu take less than a minute and a half to boot as soon as Windows 7 Beta's started showing massively improved boot performance.
Why couldn't that have been done sooner?
Why did it take until 2006 for compiz to go 1.0, when windows Vista? We saw 3D desktop effects demo'd by Microsoft in early longhorn in August 2003.
Theres not many more lines of code in a 2010 linux distro than a 2006, so why does it all run so much faster now on 2006 hardware? It's all been re-written ten times over in the process, re-written only to be incrementally better.
I guess there are lots of problems that can't be solved at a programmers desk, and decisions that can only be made from data gathered in a lab. Microsoft and Apple spend millions, billions even on R&D, labs, on UI studies etc for good reason.
Linux more than ever needs truly excellent UI design. Or it's just too late.
Android on the other hand is linux done really well.
Is it possible that the act and sensation of taking a pill triggers some kind of relief reflex? Certainly putting food in your mouth and not swallowing, triggers the bodies reactions as if it was about to receive food. It's been recently shown that just the taste of food (ie carbohydrate) can boost energy levels as if we had eaten it. Perhaps our bodies learn relief is on he way, from life experience of popping asprin and such?
No belief systems required.
Sometimes people just get better all on their own, sometimes from seemingly incurable disease. It's just exceedling rare.
There are so many billions of people in the world that just about every rare improbable and seemingly impossible situation you can imagine does happen indeed somewhere. I call it rule 1 of the real world.
The nature of our information age means that, these rare rare instances get heard about, as they spread like memes through the press and other media. We end up getting the impression these rare and unusual events are more significant than they really are.
So combining these two, chances are some nutjob with leukemia out there drinking homeopathic snake oil will by pure random chance get better, and therefore make a correlation between the too, and this bad information will replicate. See rule 1 for why this kind of anecdote can be dismissed out of hand.
Dogs are vastly more perceptive that we give them credit. Cats too. Dogs do indeed respond strongly and subconsciously to the mood of their owner.
What is the process for vetting developers who contribute to an open source project?
I know what the answer may be that in most cases there isn't any. Contributors are judged alone by their code no doubt, but nobody bothers to find out what ties the individual has.
Open-source is great at peer-review, resulting code quality has to be good due to sheer brute force of eyes looking it over. But you have to wonder, since it's perfectly possible to hide malicious code in plain sight, code that actually does what it seems to, but can do something nasty - and if found out just appears to be a common programming mistake; have backdoors been slipped into open source projects? Is it sensible to place trust in any code just because it's open-source without running the gauntlet of scrutiny?
Frankly if this turned out to be true, or some story pops up how some spy or agent slipped a backdoor into some open-source project somewhere I really would not be suprised. Security in transparency, security in obscurity, both are assumptions.
No, intelligence about click-counters, hand-held tally-counters, etc.
The CIA is working hard to ensure the U.S. is ahead of the rest of the world in estimating crowd size.
Basically, you have tons of different devices you need to support, all with different hardware, resolution and features. They might or might not have changes made by the phone manufacturer and/or telcos. They might have physical keyboards or only touchscreen. Maybe multitouch on some. Camera on the back, maybe front too, or not at all? Different API's supported by different versions of Android.. It's a nightmare.
Nightmare? This is not a problem for Windows, Linux, and other lesser known OSes, which have an enormous variety of hardware, display resolutions, input methods to cope with. Android has to work accross a very very tiny set of hardware possiblities compared to what Windows and Linux, Android also does not have to cope with peripheral devices, system buses, expansion ports, various storage intefaces.
Generally speaking, it shouldn't be a Nightmare. If Android developers have a hard time of it, the problem is in the design of the OS and API. I don't see it yet... but I may change my tune as I learn Android development.
Lycopene in tomatoes is a far more potent anti-oxidant (once the tomatoes are processed to improve bioavailability). In one study of 11,000 men aged 50-60 3-4 servings of tomatoes a week it reduced the incidence of prostate cancer by 50% and of those who did get it the disease was less agressive. In another german study 55g of tomato paste per day reduced aging in the skin and provided on average a 30% sunburn protection factor.
Anti-oxidants at work my friend. Directly protecting cells from damage.
So naturally I eat lots of tomatoes now - bare in mind alot of drugs get FDA approval with much less established effect, and much smaller trials.
But it may be that anti-oxidant foods have other things such as antiangiogenic compounds: http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html
Oh but they do, at least that's my experience. However however the tight integration with the cloud is reserved for Google.
You inarticulate clods.
You can't "view source" on a App, it's not re-flowable, reconfigurable, hackable, scriptable, and you can't make on yourself and learn how to do it by just looking at the code to see how it's done. You also can't block parts of it, or even do something as simple as change fonts so you have a chance of reading it. It bothers me how much App stores are reinventing the web in a curated censored closed ecosystem. It's absolutley everything Tim Berners-Lee did not want to happen and the very antitheis of what made the WWW an explosive success. Apple and Google also get to track your activities on a computing platform in a way that must be making Microsoft extremely jealous - for all we criticise MS they have a much higher standard of privacy in this regard. In Cloud computing you cannot do a damn thing without these companies watching your every move. Jolicloud is rather brashly open about showing you the enormous history of activities it has all the way back to when you joined.
If everybody ends up spending all their time in totalitarian App-land, eventually the only thing left on the web will be pirates, wikileaks, and CP, and this will push the case for censoring and eventualy perhaps outlawing the WWW and monitoring cicumvention will be made illegal by DMCA. There's already a big push for this kind of tracking (reccent Australian and UK laws as an example), coninciding with a huge push towards cloud computing - where you pretty much sign over your digital life to a corporation.
"microsoft funded". Google could by rights fund a test of the current Chrome version against IE7/IE8 version from one or two years ago unpatched.
They would have had to intentionally install a old version of chrome with a standalone installer, and prevent it from updating by circumventing google updater which silently updates chrome. Talk about stacking a test.
Fuck, I miss shareware. Today a major game titel 'demo' download is 1.2gb and gives you 10 mins of buggy gameplay. *snif*
Some further things desktop OS UIs have come to depend on: Keyboards allow key combos, mouse input also scales from selecting an individual pixel to scaling/accelerating to larger movements. The cursor can provide context information, and a mouse can have multiple buttons and a scroll wheel (effectively it's a 2-axis device then). I don't know what I ever did without thumb mouse buttons.
Putting any of these WIMPy (scuse pun) OSes on a tablet and trying to use it like a desktop/laptop is destined to fail.
However I'd still buy a W7 slate, I'd kill for a cheap x86 hackable tablet with a USB host, there's a million ridiculously cool things I'd do with it.
We'll fix that, it is Linux after all. Chrome OS is based on Debian. The Chrome OS x86 build I've had a play with reccently was pulling down and installing .deb packages. I don't know how much it has changed since then, but just like Android has been modded to all hell, so will Chrome.
:)
Based on that alone, I can't wait
Netbooks, Tablets, Smartphones, have all served to create new computing niches and enable consumers who would have otherwise been forced to buy and use a desktop computer in the past. Increasingly more computing is done in places and times where finding a desktop would have been inappropriate.
I propose a counter-wikileaks website to leak sensitive personal information to Governments and corporates. The idea is you enter all you personal information, brag about your potentially criminal behaviour, as well as spend time on the site interacting socially so the site can establish a pattern of behaviour including what you "like" etc.
Damn.. someone beat me too it...
Will be spinning in his grave at a few thousand rpm.