It'd be funny if a bearded man in white robes showed up in the sky and said "Wait! Before you turn if off I want to take a picture of Norway for posterity!"
Android applications work just like desktop, it's not like chromebook at all.
You install apk files (which are analogous to deb, rpm, exe, msi, etc) and they run on your computer. They aren't web sites, even though they can connect to web services. Obviously the form factor is different, but Android is more like a desktop system than Chromebooks are.
I have yet to meet someone who wants a Chromebook.
Why hasn't Google given Microsoft the coup de grace and actively developed some desktop/laptop distro ala Chromebook but without the stupid "web only" focus?
If that had built a Chromebook that wasn't built on a stupid fucking premise they'd already own the market and Microsoft would be carved up ready for sale to Mitt Romney's friends.
Illegal use of your access point could have serious consequences (unless it somehow confers Common Carrier Protection of Interneting +4 which I'm unaware of)
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It'd be funny if a bearded man in white robes showed up in the sky and said "Wait! Before you turn if off I want to take a picture of Norway for posterity!"
Android applications work just like desktop, it's not like chromebook at all.
You install apk files (which are analogous to deb, rpm, exe, msi, etc) and they run on your computer. They aren't web sites, even though they can connect to web services. Obviously the form factor is different, but Android is more like a desktop system than Chromebooks are.
I have yet to meet someone who wants a Chromebook.
Why hasn't Google given Microsoft the coup de grace and actively developed some desktop/laptop distro ala Chromebook but without the stupid "web only" focus?
If that had built a Chromebook that wasn't built on a stupid fucking premise they'd already own the market and Microsoft would be carved up ready for sale to Mitt Romney's friends.
Pff you dont get it.
Microsoft will be going all the way to 200 MS with this amazing new technology!
Your move Apple and Google.
Oh I think people have been forking the middle east for quite some time.
This is a company who's product stack is written in PHP.
It was so ahead of it's time:
http://research.microsoft.com/...
Shakespearian touch interface already included baby.
Huzzah, finally I'll be able to run Office 97 on my Android Phone.
I think Linus would reply with:
"Are you fucking high?"
Nuclear Information Security Inspector could be heard in the background saying "Doh!"
They can't name it after Steve Ballmer either, Chrome is already taken by google.
Hahaha, you make it sound as if "being licensed" has some implication of advanced skill.
The govt in this case doesn't care about that, they want their licensing money back.
Haha still +2 asshole.
Yeah and can you imagine the horrific shit sandwich that would be a combination of CSS, HTML5, PHP and JavaScript?
666 Mark of the Techno Beast. It's like some shit Ghostbusters 2099 would be tasked with stopping.
Reed Hastings, the douche who runs netfix, is a huge microsoftie.
Pretty much every user interface technology built in the past 7-8 years requires a hardware graphics card.
You must not understand what "keep it ready" means.
Keep everything ready, so you can switch back when the cloud services fail and/or your management team changes.
Starbucks owners have a lot of money and are incorporated with the state.
Most people aren't in that category.
Do you really trust your mobile telco much more than a random wifi router?
I dont.
You could roll over to their house, connect to their access point and GNAA the fuck out of slashdot to get their IP banned.
Oops.
Why did someone mod this guy down?
Illegal use of your access point could have serious consequences (unless it somehow confers Common Carrier Protection of Interneting +4 which I'm unaware of)
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"Barack Hussein Obama II"
Nutters like to use Obama's middle name because of the negative correlation with Saddam Hussein.
You fucking nutter.
quit being such a denier and get in line with the rest of us believers!
Heathen we will burn you unless you repent!