Actually the US and EU are looking into Chrome OS with regards to anti-trust and privacy issues already. It would not be surprising that Chrome OS can only be sold in the US due to various other countries privacy laws.
In Europe, Microsoft has to sell a Windows 7 [insert version here] E without any bundled browser.....
I wonder how Google will get around this or will it be another double standard in this industry "just because".
The same can be true for any "shop" open source or not, most developers have no issues with taking someone else's code off of the internet than write their own. In some cases they feel they are entitled to do this because they claim to be an "open source shop". At one place I watched a developer scrape code for a html popup window (js/css/images) right from Amazon's site back in the day (before things like jQuery/Litebox, etc.), all that was changed was the css colors. The app that was being built was licensed under the GPL v2.
The same reason that Eolas went after MS and gave Mozilla a free ride, because there was no money in suing Mozilla. Or at least not as much as what MS would have or did pay out.
Well, I have been using Vista on my work laptop for almost two years and I have been using Win7 on my personal dev laptop since RC1. This might sound really lame and trivial but what has me hooked so far are the Jump Lists, "Snap", the Task Bar (Window Grouping and Preview) and the HomeGroup features.
The UAC is way less of an annoyance under Win7 out of the box and the unknown device support is actually better in Win7. Both laptops have the same AuthenTec fingerprint device, under Vista I have to download the drivers manually, Under Win7 Windows Update now supplies a driver (at the time of install AuthenTec had beta drivers for Win7 only and are not certified for Win7 so they would never be available on Windows Update).
Download a trial, install it into a VM and use it for browsing the web and daily stuff, you will either like it and think it's' worth upgrading to or not.
You also have to look at who you bought the product from. Only OEM builders get XP now and MS has a policy that if you have a problem with your Dell, Acer, HP, Compaq, etc., etc. guess who you go to when it comes to support, not MS but the OEM. If OEMs want to buy and sell out of date software to its users then why is its MS duty to support it. Especially when they have already given the end of life support to the OEMs.
1. Upon the release of Win7 in the EU, MS will be inundated by support calls with "Why is the Internet broken!" or "How do I get on the Internet!". Guess what browser they are going to tell them to install?
2. Upon Win7 connecting to the internet for the first time guess what, Windows Update will probably list IE8 as an update.
So really what has the EU actually done? Not much other than piss off a shit load of users and make MS look bad (by removing the browser). I hope that MS captures all of the users complaints about this and shoves them up the ass of the EU when all is said and done.
All Google is doing is making a new windowing environment for Linux, sounds like just another distro to me. But I guess with all the distros out there it would not generate much hype if they just said "oh we are building our own distro".
It's all about the FUD and you guys are eating it up, I would have thought that the Linux fanbois would have figured that out by now.
1. Make a desktop that uses a browser for it's application container
2. Make a browser with a fast JavaScript engine and HTML5 to make a better UI
3. Make a framework to support applications made for said browser
4. User experience is now dependant on said apps and browser
5. ???
6. Profit
Seems pretty clear to me what Google is trying to do, something MS has already tried and almost succeeded in. Except Google does not want a market share to gain profit they want advertising dollars for profit. Is there any difference?
Has anyone even concidered that this this site is just a coincident? It looks to rough for an actual advert for MS. Probably just a submission for an RFP or something and the company bought a domain for it.
I typed in my home town and it placed it somewhere in the North West Territories (Canada). So I used Coordinate Distance Calculator to calculate the distance to the actual coordinates, it seems that Wolfram|Alpha was only 6478.05 kilometers / 4025.27 miles out. Not bad...
I am not an American so I don't really know much about law in the USA but can't the family sue the two CHP dispatcher dipshits who posted the images in the first place? I mean why go after the police department, the state or any other entity when all that is saying is "w00t! I work for an entity that will protect my ass when I fuck up". Fuck the police and state I would want to ruin the lives of the two dipshits.
Is when corporations post videos of their products and use YouTube as a marketing aid without any money going to Google. Google is paying for bandwidth and advertising distribution and companies don't pay a dime to Google for this.
I love Will It Blend but I am sure that the company does not pay Google a fee for hosting their product videos meanwhile it probably should.
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It went hours without crashing.
...Good selling point.
Actually the US and EU are looking into Chrome OS with regards to anti-trust and privacy issues already. It would not be surprising that Chrome OS can only be sold in the US due to various other countries privacy laws.
In Europe, Microsoft has to sell a Windows 7 [insert version here] E without any bundled browser..... I wonder how Google will get around this or will it be another double standard in this industry "just because".
The same can be true for any "shop" open source or not, most developers have no issues with taking someone else's code off of the internet than write their own. In some cases they feel they are entitled to do this because they claim to be an "open source shop". At one place I watched a developer scrape code for a html popup window (js/css/images) right from Amazon's site back in the day (before things like jQuery/Litebox, etc.), all that was changed was the css colors. The app that was being built was licensed under the GPL v2.
The same reason that Eolas went after MS and gave Mozilla a free ride, because there was no money in suing Mozilla. Or at least not as much as what MS would have or did pay out.
Well, I have been using Vista on my work laptop for almost two years and I have been using Win7 on my personal dev laptop since RC1. This might sound really lame and trivial but what has me hooked so far are the Jump Lists, "Snap", the Task Bar (Window Grouping and Preview) and the HomeGroup features.
The UAC is way less of an annoyance under Win7 out of the box and the unknown device support is actually better in Win7. Both laptops have the same AuthenTec fingerprint device, under Vista I have to download the drivers manually, Under Win7 Windows Update now supplies a driver (at the time of install AuthenTec had beta drivers for Win7 only and are not certified for Win7 so they would never be available on Windows Update).
Download a trial, install it into a VM and use it for browsing the web and daily stuff, you will either like it and think it's' worth upgrading to or not.
You also have to look at who you bought the product from. Only OEM builders get XP now and MS has a policy that if you have a problem with your Dell, Acer, HP, Compaq, etc., etc. guess who you go to when it comes to support, not MS but the OEM. If OEMs want to buy and sell out of date software to its users then why is its MS duty to support it. Especially when they have already given the end of life support to the OEMs.
To me this is an OEM issue now not a MS issue.
1. Upon the release of Win7 in the EU, MS will be inundated by support calls with "Why is the Internet broken!" or "How do I get on the Internet!". Guess what browser they are going to tell them to install?
2. Upon Win7 connecting to the internet for the first time guess what, Windows Update will probably list IE8 as an update.
So really what has the EU actually done? Not much other than piss off a shit load of users and make MS look bad (by removing the browser). I hope that MS captures all of the users complaints about this and shoves them up the ass of the EU when all is said and done.
Why is every Windows release candidate a Slashdot news?
The same reason every "This is the Year of Linux on the Desktop" article is.
Dude, the internet didn't create entitlement, human greed did and has been around a lot longer than the internet.
All Google is doing is making a new windowing environment for Linux, sounds like just another distro to me. But I guess with all the distros out there it would not generate much hype if they just said "oh we are building our own distro".
It's all about the FUD and you guys are eating it up, I would have thought that the Linux fanbois would have figured that out by now.
You would think, but what would be worse:
Having to deal with your friends saying "remember the time when you left your $800 one week old iPhone 3GS at that resturant and someone took it"
Or
Getting beat down by some street thugs trying to get it back.
Most people would have the issue with the friends making fun of them.
Just give me a list of articles and the comments to them, screw all of this fancy graphics and layout for comments.
1. Make a desktop that uses a browser for it's application container
2. Make a browser with a fast JavaScript engine and HTML5 to make a better UI
3. Make a framework to support applications made for said browser
4. User experience is now dependant on said apps and browser
5. ???
6. Profit
Seems pretty clear to me what Google is trying to do, something MS has already tried and almost succeeded in. Except Google does not want a market share to gain profit they want advertising dollars for profit. Is there any difference?
Has anyone even concidered that this this site is just a coincident? It looks to rough for an actual advert for MS. Probably just a submission for an RFP or something and the company bought a domain for it.
G1 Google Phone Could End Up the Most Popular Console Ever
Just like the last 10 years have been the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
I typed in my home town and it placed it somewhere in the North West Territories (Canada). So I used Coordinate Distance Calculator to calculate the distance to the actual coordinates, it seems that Wolfram|Alpha was only 6478.05 kilometers / 4025.27 miles out. Not bad...
Also a guy who bitches about MS and it's technology yet uses ASP.NET.
EPIC!!!
High-Speed Nitro ($249.00)
I am not an American so I don't really know much about law in the USA but can't the family sue the two CHP dispatcher dipshits who posted the images in the first place? I mean why go after the police department, the state or any other entity when all that is saying is "w00t! I work for an entity that will protect my ass when I fuck up". Fuck the police and state I would want to ruin the lives of the two dipshits.
I always wonder how close to the truth Steven King's The Stand would be with regards to this kind of thing happening (minus the supernatural element).
...and stop supporting 2000/XP all together, we need to get rid of any MS destop OS that can run IE6.
Is when corporations post videos of their products and use YouTube as a marketing aid without any money going to Google. Google is paying for bandwidth and advertising distribution and companies don't pay a dime to Google for this.
I love Will It Blend but I am sure that the company does not pay Google a fee for hosting their product videos meanwhile it probably should.
Didn't see that coming.....
shifting decision-making power to the few developers with the deepest architectural understanding of, and closest interaction with, the code
The Open Source Model
Client: What are the business rules this action takes?
Developer: RTFM!!!!