It's political because governments are involved and making policy decisions based on it like missions standards, taxes, and more.
I support preventative measures to keep the environment clean because it's the right thing to be doing anyway, but when social programs and taxes get involved, I become concerned over growing government power over something as unpredictable as the weather. How many times did Al Gore say a hurricane season was due to global warming, only for it to come out at the end of the year that the season set a record for storm inactivity? No matter how times I'm told it's a consensus, my position is that we're still researching it. We just don't know yet and may not ever know for sure.
I've never understood why Al Gore was so successful in convincing so many people that there's a definitive consensus or why so many governments were eager to blindly accept that it's all been 100% proven already. There was a very complicit media there, that's for sure, and it always makes people feel smart to bash big industrial nations like America. If you're environmentalist, it hurts your cause to have people saying there's a scientific consensus. Just be sensible and fight for sensible things like clean air and water. Don't turn it into an anti-capitalism thing, and don't claim you can predict one of the more unpredictable systems on the planet--the weather. That's wrong.
It's an OS that is pointless. For $300, you can already get a Windows 7 laptop that will run all the web apps this OS will run on top of popular native apps. The only reason this is getting any media play is that it's from Google. The media LOVES Google and pretends everything they do is new, exciting, and innovative. Google is releasing a crippled Linux distro that can only run a web browser, and it's being treated like something amazing.
Apple already tried the web app thing with the iPhone, and people demanded a native SDK. This is doomed to suck.
I don't think Microsoft is as worried as people think they are (or wish they are). Netbooks are becoming powerful enough that Chrome OS will seem quaint and backwords because it can only open websites.
So you've surveyed most users and have the evidence to make that statement? If what you say is true, why isn't the world just running Linux and a web browser on everything?
What goldmine? For crying out loud, Chrome OS is just a Linux distro that can only load websites. What's the point of using Chrome OS if you could run a real Linux distro or even Windows 7 on a $300 netbook and run the same web apps as well as native apps?
Apple tried the web app thing with the iPhone, and people wanted native apps.
Stop! If you keep breaking the hype with facts like that, people might realize Chrome OS is a pointless Google-branded Linux distro that can't run anything but websites in a world where even mobile phones can run native apps.
I like how you use the word "deniers" to intentionally reference "Holocaust deniers," as if wanting scientific proof of something is so horrible. I also like how you pretend AGW supporters don't spread propaganda, especially now that we know the AGW movement has been censoring opposing papers. Your post oozes bias.
Meanwhile, the global temperature record has shown no rise in temperature since 1998.
Increased government regulation of internet traffic.
Increased government regulation of aired political opinion through the Fairness Doctrine.
Wiretaps without warrants, a Bush policy.
Increased search-and-seizure powers.
The current government is so power-crazy that it's become suicidal in its attempts to speed through legislation over half the country opposes, regardless of how it's going to affect the 2010 elections. You'd think they'd take their foot off the pedal and slow down a bit to address the #1 issue voters have right now, unemployment.
Wikipedia is the best encyclopedia around? Maybe if you're looking up the number of Star Wars references in an episode of Super Mario Bros. Super Show or the episode history of some esoteric anime series.
I guess you haven't compared games like Dragon Age, where the PS3 is noticeably superior and is even receiving higher review scores. Judging by the unwarranted hostility in your reaction to an innocent comment, it seems that you're the one suffering from fanboyism.
I just don't get the point. Everything Chrome OS runs can already be run by any other OS, so why not just use some other Linux distro that's not restricted to web apps?
We won't be going extinct. Sorry, but you're not enlightened or insightful for despising humanity. Humanity doesn't "deserve" anything--humanity is just another species on the back of an uncaring rock, making judgements about itself that mean nothing in the end.
Do you really want to be a tech support department dealing with the possibility of your users running unknown versions of Internet Explorer with the potential to be a different version every single day?
One of the dumbest arguments I've seen on Slashdot in a while. I may as well ask when militant environmentalists are going to start bombing buildings and sabotaging construction sites to save the planet...wait, that's already happened before.
When people criticize global warming as a religion, they're referring to Al Gore types who refuse to acknowledge any contradicting viewpoints or data. It has a become a religion like Christianity--there's an Eden (the planet before humans came along) that was ruined by sin (industrialization), and we're in for a Judgement Day (natural disaster) if we don't repent (recycle, buy carbon credits from Al Gore's company, feel guilty for existing, and so on).
I believe it was Michael Crichton who once argued that this formula of belief is so common among groups that it must be innate to the human brain.
For likely 90% of home users, this will be perfect.
90%?! That's a huge number to pull out of thin air.
Why would someone want a Linux distro that's restricted to Google web apps and browser when they could just get an alternative Linux distro that can access those same apps on top of everything else?
People didn't even want web apps for their iPhones, forcing Apple to release a native SDK.
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Meant to say "emissions standards," of course.
It's political because governments are involved and making policy decisions based on it like missions standards, taxes, and more.
I support preventative measures to keep the environment clean because it's the right thing to be doing anyway, but when social programs and taxes get involved, I become concerned over growing government power over something as unpredictable as the weather. How many times did Al Gore say a hurricane season was due to global warming, only for it to come out at the end of the year that the season set a record for storm inactivity? No matter how times I'm told it's a consensus, my position is that we're still researching it. We just don't know yet and may not ever know for sure.
I've never understood why Al Gore was so successful in convincing so many people that there's a definitive consensus or why so many governments were eager to blindly accept that it's all been 100% proven already. There was a very complicit media there, that's for sure, and it always makes people feel smart to bash big industrial nations like America. If you're environmentalist, it hurts your cause to have people saying there's a scientific consensus. Just be sensible and fight for sensible things like clean air and water. Don't turn it into an anti-capitalism thing, and don't claim you can predict one of the more unpredictable systems on the planet--the weather. That's wrong.
You actually believe Windows 8 will come out on schedule?
It's an OS that is pointless. For $300, you can already get a Windows 7 laptop that will run all the web apps this OS will run on top of popular native apps. The only reason this is getting any media play is that it's from Google. The media LOVES Google and pretends everything they do is new, exciting, and innovative. Google is releasing a crippled Linux distro that can only run a web browser, and it's being treated like something amazing.
Apple already tried the web app thing with the iPhone, and people demanded a native SDK. This is doomed to suck.
I don't think Microsoft is as worried as people think they are (or wish they are). Netbooks are becoming powerful enough that Chrome OS will seem quaint and backwords because it can only open websites.
So you've surveyed most users and have the evidence to make that statement? If what you say is true, why isn't the world just running Linux and a web browser on everything?
What goldmine? For crying out loud, Chrome OS is just a Linux distro that can only load websites. What's the point of using Chrome OS if you could run a real Linux distro or even Windows 7 on a $300 netbook and run the same web apps as well as native apps?
Apple tried the web app thing with the iPhone, and people wanted native apps.
Stop! If you keep breaking the hype with facts like that, people might realize Chrome OS is a pointless Google-branded Linux distro that can't run anything but websites in a world where even mobile phones can run native apps.
I like how you use the word "deniers" to intentionally reference "Holocaust deniers," as if wanting scientific proof of something is so horrible. I also like how you pretend AGW supporters don't spread propaganda, especially now that we know the AGW movement has been censoring opposing papers. Your post oozes bias.
Meanwhile, the global temperature record has shown no rise in temperature since 1998.
Any encyclopedia that's not edited by nerds with Asperger's Syndrome?
What the current government want so far:
The current government is so power-crazy that it's become suicidal in its attempts to speed through legislation over half the country opposes, regardless of how it's going to affect the 2010 elections. You'd think they'd take their foot off the pedal and slow down a bit to address the #1 issue voters have right now, unemployment.
Wikipedia is the best encyclopedia around? Maybe if you're looking up the number of Star Wars references in an episode of Super Mario Bros. Super Show or the episode history of some esoteric anime series.
Why did you reply with something unrelated? Were you trying to get easy karma by posting something trite at the top of the discussion?
I guess you haven't compared games like Dragon Age, where the PS3 is noticeably superior and is even receiving higher review scores. Judging by the unwarranted hostility in your reaction to an innocent comment, it seems that you're the one suffering from fanboyism.
Thank the pirates for killing PC gaming. Developers actually make money from consoles.
But then it wouldn't be from Goooooooogle!!!
Exactly.
I haven't seen a BSOD in-person in almost a decade.
Linux, however, has had problems even booting up on some of my hardware.
I just don't get the point. Everything Chrome OS runs can already be run by any other OS, so why not just use some other Linux distro that's not restricted to web apps?
And here are the opposing viewpoints from people not on a biased website:
Climate sceptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists
Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?
We won't be going extinct. Sorry, but you're not enlightened or insightful for despising humanity. Humanity doesn't "deserve" anything--humanity is just another species on the back of an uncaring rock, making judgements about itself that mean nothing in the end.
Uh, they do? What a random, baseless comment.
Do you really want to be a tech support department dealing with the possibility of your users running unknown versions of Internet Explorer with the potential to be a different version every single day?
One of the dumbest arguments I've seen on Slashdot in a while. I may as well ask when militant environmentalists are going to start bombing buildings and sabotaging construction sites to save the planet...wait, that's already happened before.
When people criticize global warming as a religion, they're referring to Al Gore types who refuse to acknowledge any contradicting viewpoints or data. It has a become a religion like Christianity--there's an Eden (the planet before humans came along) that was ruined by sin (industrialization), and we're in for a Judgement Day (natural disaster) if we don't repent (recycle, buy carbon credits from Al Gore's company, feel guilty for existing, and so on).
I believe it was Michael Crichton who once argued that this formula of belief is so common among groups that it must be innate to the human brain.
90%?! That's a huge number to pull out of thin air.
Why would someone want a Linux distro that's restricted to Google web apps and browser when they could just get an alternative Linux distro that can access those same apps on top of everything else?
People didn't even want web apps for their iPhones, forcing Apple to release a native SDK.