"First off, Bedrock had a stronger case against Google. Cawley put on evidence that Google used Bedrock's Linux code on its servers (although Google got rid of the code before trial). Yahoo, on the other hand, used a different form of Linux, and its lead trial lawyer, Yar Chaikovsky and Fay Morisseau of McDermott Will, were able to argue that Yahoo never executed the Bedrock code."
The case against Google was much stronger hence they were found to infringe. So since the cases seem to not be exactly the same, I'm guessing that Google bringing up Yahoo's case is going to mean very little to the appeal's court.
Can't do a whole lot until the connection comes up,
Great, a $500 dollar paper weight. Awesome. I can't believe I was so ripped off when I bought my laptop that is fully functional even without an internet connection.
They shouldn't add a clause that says they are partnering with people to prevent content from being taken without permission and misused? Why is that somehow a bad thing and how does that translate into them selling the pictures?
It's really nice to have it wake up and regain its wireless connexion in five seconds or less, if you're just wanting to quickly look something up. There's no lag from having to run crap like anti-virus either.
And my real laptop will do all that in like 15 seconds. And mine will still log in to the OS even without an internet connection. Have fun when yours won't.
Sure until all those web apps and cloud services go over that limit in a couple of days and Verizon starts charging you a few bucks per MB after. Secondly, how does that puny 3G justify charging 200+ dollars more than the thing is worth? You can get a more capable netbook and a 3G dongle for less than the 3G version.
Well doing so would have probably made this thing even more overpriced than it already is. Seriously, $500 dollars for a less capable netbook than a Dell Mini yet twice the cost? Hell you could get a 14" laptop with 2 gigs of RAM, a 2.5 ghz Core i3, higher resolution monitor, a 10 hour battery life, etc from dell for only $450. And if you really need the 3G you can get a USB dongle for it and you're paying just as much as the $499 model but it's actually fucking useful beyond web surfing and it'll work without internet!
I think the better question is: why would anyone spend more on this than a real netbook that you can get for half as much with far more features? Especially when on top of the cost of the hardware you also need a 2 year wireless contract.
His review is overall pretty positive w.r.t. the hardware, and he says it's better than the Cr-48.
Which doesn't say much when the Cr-48 had extremely gimpy hardware.
What's wrong with the price?
It's horribly overpriced for what you are paying?
Against a netbook, maybe, but I figure Google is positioning this against iPads.
Which makes no sense. People buy iPads for the tablet form factor and portability. If people want a netbook they will flock to the cheaper options that have more features and a real OS.
And to add further the 2nd largest nuclear plant in the world and largest in North America only takes up around 9 square kilometers and annually produces a magnitude more energy than those wind and solar plants I mentioned.
BTW, just as a follow on to give you some some sense of scale, to replace all the energy generation of all the nuclear plants in the world you would need to build 4900 equivalents of the Roscoe Wind Farm (world's largest wind farm at 627 turbines and $1 billion cost) or nearly 2400 equivalents of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility which will be the largest solar plant in the world once finished (at a cost of $2.2 billion and 347,000 mirrors). This isn't even getting into the fact all the ecological and environmental issues with building more solar and wind farms nor the space issues as, for example, the Ivanpah plant requires 16 square kilometers and the Roscoe Wind Farm at 400 square kilometers. We may have a lot of unused land in the world but we aren't just going to magically come up with 100,000s if not millions of square kilometers of land that will be conducive for building solar and wind plants.
I recommend renewable energies with proper storage and transmission systems
Ignoring the fact that no renewable energy source has anywhere near the energy generation capacity to match that of then nuclear plants we are now running?
and a parallel conservation effort.
Of course conservation would be good but you aren't going to conserve your way out of the global 2558 TWh energy deficit caused from shutting down every nuclear plant in the world.
Of course Netflix should care. The point is that the ISPs aren't going to care because every single one of them either offers cable services themselves or bundle TV services with their Internet and phone services. Netflix losing customers is going to mean all of jack and shit to them.
Yes, but most people also like to be able to fully use their computers when they have no Internet connection. You can't even log in to Chrome OS without an Internet connection. So, for example, if you are on a plane good luck being able to do anything useful with your chromebook.
Why is steam getting bundled into this? Unless you are downloading a shit-ton of games from the steam store, steam uses no more than a normal mp gaming session.
Because most new games require downloads of many multiple gigs of data?
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Just as I expected:
"First off, Bedrock had a stronger case against Google. Cawley put on evidence that Google used Bedrock's Linux code on its servers (although Google got rid of the code before trial). Yahoo, on the other hand, used a different form of Linux, and its lead trial lawyer, Yar Chaikovsky and Fay Morisseau of McDermott Will, were able to argue that Yahoo never executed the Bedrock code."
The case against Google was much stronger hence they were found to infringe. So since the cases seem to not be exactly the same, I'm guessing that Google bringing up Yahoo's case is going to mean very little to the appeal's court.
Just because Yahoo wasn't found to infringe doesn't mean Google didn't (regardless of what you feel about the validity of the patent).
I hate to break it to you, but you can be tracked through TOR. The NSA has been doing so for years.
100MB in a couple days? Possible, but unlikely. 100MB in a month? Most users would be within the limit.
Have you consistently used Google's apps and monitored the traffic? Even at moderate use it is more than easy to pass 100MB.
And pay how much per month for the 3G data service?
Less than $10 per month with a cap that is 50 times higher than what comes with this overpriced shit.
Child? Whatever...
Can't do a whole lot until the connection comes up,
Great, a $500 dollar paper weight. Awesome. I can't believe I was so ripped off when I bought my laptop that is fully functional even without an internet connection.
They shouldn't add a clause that says they are partnering with people to prevent content from being taken without permission and misused? Why is that somehow a bad thing and how does that translate into them selling the pictures?
It's really nice to have it wake up and regain its wireless connexion in five seconds or less, if you're just wanting to quickly look something up. There's no lag from having to run crap like anti-virus either.
And my real laptop will do all that in like 15 seconds. And mine will still log in to the OS even without an internet connection. Have fun when yours won't.
Sure until all those web apps and cloud services go over that limit in a couple of days and Verizon starts charging you a few bucks per MB after. Secondly, how does that puny 3G justify charging 200+ dollars more than the thing is worth? You can get a more capable netbook and a 3G dongle for less than the 3G version.
But...but...my cloud video player will never fail! Oops I just lost my 3g connection and now I can't continue to watch anything.
Yes, I already read that in the summary. How does that justify charging someone 200 dollars more than the thing is actually worth?
Well doing so would have probably made this thing even more overpriced than it already is. Seriously, $500 dollars for a less capable netbook than a Dell Mini yet twice the cost? Hell you could get a 14" laptop with 2 gigs of RAM, a 2.5 ghz Core i3, higher resolution monitor, a 10 hour battery life, etc from dell for only $450. And if you really need the 3G you can get a USB dongle for it and you're paying just as much as the $499 model but it's actually fucking useful beyond web surfing and it'll work without internet!
I think the better question is: why would anyone spend more on this than a real netbook that you can get for half as much with far more features? Especially when on top of the cost of the hardware you also need a 2 year wireless contract.
His review is overall pretty positive w.r.t. the hardware, and he says it's better than the Cr-48.
Which doesn't say much when the Cr-48 had extremely gimpy hardware.
What's wrong with the price?
It's horribly overpriced for what you are paying?
Against a netbook, maybe, but I figure Google is positioning this against iPads.
Which makes no sense. People buy iPads for the tablet form factor and portability. If people want a netbook they will flock to the cheaper options that have more features and a real OS.
If you want something with a real OS why are you bothering with some overpriced yet gimpy $400 netbook?
And to add further the 2nd largest nuclear plant in the world and largest in North America only takes up around 9 square kilometers and annually produces a magnitude more energy than those wind and solar plants I mentioned.
BTW, just as a follow on to give you some some sense of scale, to replace all the energy generation of all the nuclear plants in the world you would need to build 4900 equivalents of the Roscoe Wind Farm (world's largest wind farm at 627 turbines and $1 billion cost) or nearly 2400 equivalents of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility which will be the largest solar plant in the world once finished (at a cost of $2.2 billion and 347,000 mirrors). This isn't even getting into the fact all the ecological and environmental issues with building more solar and wind farms nor the space issues as, for example, the Ivanpah plant requires 16 square kilometers and the Roscoe Wind Farm at 400 square kilometers. We may have a lot of unused land in the world but we aren't just going to magically come up with 100,000s if not millions of square kilometers of land that will be conducive for building solar and wind plants.
I recommend renewable energies with proper storage and transmission systems
Ignoring the fact that no renewable energy source has anywhere near the energy generation capacity to match that of then nuclear plants we are now running?
and a parallel conservation effort.
Of course conservation would be good but you aren't going to conserve your way out of the global 2558 TWh energy deficit caused from shutting down every nuclear plant in the world.
So then they should stop trying to deny that this is a Chrome issue if the Chrome sandbox for Flash failed to work.
Marking it as a Chrome vulnerability does everyone a disservice by making people on other browsers think they're safe.
No, because the issue is both a Flash and Chrome issue.
Well that's the Packt way. They make sure to always be at least a version behind by the time they get a book to market.
Of course Netflix should care. The point is that the ISPs aren't going to care because every single one of them either offers cable services themselves or bundle TV services with their Internet and phone services. Netflix losing customers is going to mean all of jack and shit to them.
Yeah, Netflix is really going to take on Time Warner, Comcast, AT&T and Verizon who are some of the largest companies in the US. That's a good joke.
I think he meant to say "It's torturing me that more people aren't sending us all of their data."
Yes, but most people also like to be able to fully use their computers when they have no Internet connection. You can't even log in to Chrome OS without an Internet connection. So, for example, if you are on a plane good luck being able to do anything useful with your chromebook.
Why is steam getting bundled into this? Unless you are downloading a shit-ton of games from the steam store, steam uses no more than a normal mp gaming session.
Because most new games require downloads of many multiple gigs of data?