Exactly. What the GoS (geeks on slashdot) dislike is that Google has the right to make cOS however open/locked down as they want.
You mean the hardware vendors?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Google's customers don't want that.
Of course not, but this doesn't mean they shouldn't have the right to do so (or for that matter any other software modification), which was the intent of GPLv3.
People place products thinking they can get it cheaper, and then when they talk to the store the sales people scream and cuss at them if they don't buy addons they "must" buy (like power cords and batteries).
Yes, I know! It is so common that even Best Buy had to capitulate.
For example, there was Java ME, which Sun tried to monetize but failed, partly due to Android, which is why Oracle is suing Google. When discussing this lawsuit, I encountered many commentators on various sites forgetting the difference between desktop and mobile Java, even though it was very important.
Garbage collection interacts very badly with swap. Once your Java program starts hitting the disk, it will stand still for minutes. Bigger memory sizes are solving this problem nowadays.
To be honest, this is not the only VM that had the problem. I remember that when old versions of Firefox froze, I would often see symbols like js_GC on the stack.
Wintel did not always mean IBM PC compatible, BTW. In Japan, the NEC PC-98 was once common. Other examples include SGI Visual Workstation 320/540. These are all now obsolete, of course, and support for these was abandoned in XP.
The third-party software scene, on the other hand, is pretty much a joke on anything that isn't x86 or, gradually, AMD64, so the only exotic survivor is IA64 in a few niche environments.
And even that support will be abandoned in the next releases of MS products.
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I think it is obvious from parent that they did.
I have to do this anonymously
To be clear, were you really a customer? If so, why do you have to post this anonymously?
High frequency trading has no social benefit. If wikileaks could leak all source code of that type I would applaud it.
I would not consider that an excuse to leak.
Exactly. What the GoS (geeks on slashdot) dislike is that Google has the right to make cOS however open/locked down as they want.
You mean the hardware vendors?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Google's customers don't want that.
Of course not, but this doesn't mean they shouldn't have the right to do so (or for that matter any other software modification), which was the intent of GPLv3.
This can be prevented by making Chrome OS GPLv3. This will require the vendor to allow and provide information on how to modify the software.
Except they were doing 533 MHz when Pentium Pros were doing 200.
Yep, when the so-called megahertz myth was true. P4 was Intel's attempt to abuse it.
And even the HDMI/DVI adapters don't add DRM, just pass it through if the host computer is outputting such a signal.
Since these days 5 year old computers and older fullfil the need of most computer users, don't expect VGA monitors to disappear soon.
Yep, they are talking about getting rid of it on the computer side.
People place products thinking they can get it cheaper, and then when they talk to the store the sales people scream and cuss at them if they don't buy addons they "must" buy (like power cords and batteries).
Yes, I know! It is so common that even Best Buy had to capitulate.
For example, there was Java ME, which Sun tried to monetize but failed, partly due to Android, which is why Oracle is suing Google. When discussing this lawsuit, I encountered many commentators on various sites forgetting the difference between desktop and mobile Java, even though it was very important.
just competing with it
They did in the end do JavaFX, but I think by then it was too late.
Sun bought Cobalt, a successful Linux server business, and instead of capitalizing on it, buried it.
They didn't forget it completely. Later in Sun's life, they started offering x64 servers, either with Solaris or with other OSes preinstalled.
Garbage collection interacts very badly with swap. Once your Java program starts hitting the disk, it will stand still for minutes. Bigger memory sizes are solving this problem nowadays.
To be honest, this is not the only VM that had the problem. I remember that when old versions of Firefox froze, I would often see symbols like js_GC on the stack.
Not the only time this brokenness happened:
http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/370034
Yep, many confidential information is given only on a need-to-know basis.
At least it is built into the browser.
Not that it don't have it's own storage, though.
Agreed, way too vague. And indeed treating people as dumb automaton that always work 8 hours a day is a horrible idea in most cases these days.
So why was it kept confidential in the first place? I think the US government and Google would only gain if they made it public.
Which is why they are specifically talking about Wikileaks only.
Yea, can you say horrible? In fact, I consider what I call "legacy" PR that is based on controlling the message fundamentally flawed these days.
Yep, spacer GIFs are old too. David Siegel's old books on HTML was one of the earliest books that mentioned it, for example.
Yea, which is why most email clients has an option to not load images by default for years now.
Wintel did not always mean IBM PC compatible, BTW. In Japan, the NEC PC-98 was once common. Other examples include SGI Visual Workstation 320/540. These are all now obsolete, of course, and support for these was abandoned in XP.
The third-party software scene, on the other hand, is pretty much a joke on anything that isn't x86 or, gradually, AMD64, so the only exotic survivor is IA64 in a few niche environments.
And even that support will be abandoned in the next releases of MS products.