Nope, that was never the intent of the Chromebook or Chrome OS. Google wants to create an OS for the masses, meaning that while the OS could be used for cheaper devices, its also just as obvious they want to target high-end devices with this. The only reason the first few Chromebooks were cheap was to get developer support behind them.
I think its a smart move as it will blow away the misguided assumption that Chrome OS was intended as a cheap alternative to other platforms. Chrome wasn't trying to create a OLPC kind of platform.
Also there is nothing to suggest that this will be the ONLY Chromebook sold by Google or others, so there is no reason why Google can't offer a state-of-the-art device to showcase all that Chrome OS can do while still offering cheaper devices.
Its only acceptable to take a child out to the gun range and have them fire a few thousand rounds from their very own AK into a racist picture of a "bad guy"
I wonder if the sentiment would be the same if someone was hacking your wife. I mean, why get married just to hope she won't cheat on you. Maybe the neighborhood should all just enjoy your wife as well. Its just a trite moral rule that married people shouldn't cheat on each other, you have nothing to lose.
Look, I don't care if you plant a flag or a beacon on some asteroid, if I can actually build a spaceship that can go and grab it and mine it before you do, your shit out of luck. I'll just kick your little beacon off, or move it to something else that has no value. What are you going to do about it?
Hype about this kind of petered out and died last year, surprised Google didn't get the memo.
Not sure the idea of wearable computer devices will ever take off, can't imagine more people looking like asshats wearing heads up displays along with their Bluetooth earpieces. If you need that much informational feedback about your surroundings then you might be a complete idiot.
Having stuff available ready at my fingertips on a screened device is about as far as I need the constant connection to an online presence, anything I have to wear to beam information into my eyes is just silly.
Don't get me wrong I am sure there are some applications for this but for general public consumption this project is useless.
Considering that the CDC found that leafy veggies, fruits and nuts are more likely to spread infectious disease then meat, fish and cheeses, and that most people just assume that if its green its good, then it stands to reason shoving the same granola crunching greens into the same bag over and over again is eventually going to become contaminated with something that will make you sick. All it takes is a half rotted piece of lettuce fermenting in the California sun to give you a rough time in the bathroom.
I am actually sick of plastic bag bans in general.
First, consider the the weight of a plastic bag vs the weight of everything else that is thrown you, and you realize just how stupid banning plastic bags are. For every plastic bag thrown out, tonnes more garbage goes along with it. People just react to some large number of plastic bags thrown out represented as number of elephants and overreact, however nobody mentions the weight ratio of plastic bags vs all the rest of garbage thrown out. Its like that 1 watt of power your TV is using in stand-by is the reason for global warming, but nobody cares about the 12 kilowatts of "other" often wasted power your home is using at any given time. Of course then someone show's a dolphin suffocating with a plastic bag caught in its blowhole, but I am fairly certain Greenpees just does that to be sensational, no dolphin can be that stupid.
Second, plastic can be made out of 100% biodegradable (real bio degradable, as in becoming plant food) vegetable oil, so there is no real reason to avoid using the correct kind of plastic bag. Its a conspiracy from grocery stores in many municipalities to charge 0.05 extra for something that costs thousands of a penny to make. Its 99.9999999% profit. Grocery stores are not going to freely give away biodegradable plastic bags that cost a few thousands of a penny more to produce.
Third, today's plastic bag is tomorrow's source of hydrocarbons. One day someone is going to become a billionaire mining old landfills for its metal and hydrocarbon content when the stuff because scarce in raw form. I say just put it all in a hole until it is profitable to "recycle" landfills, saves us the hassle and BS of having to separate stuff at home that ultimately ends up in the landfill anyways because the warehouses are full of worthless crap.
Normally I may have marked you Troll, but Microsoft seems to be pretty good these days at destroying Windows all by themselves, it doesn't need Linux's help anymore.
Using a spreadsheet and not a real program. There are countless frameworks and libraries for data analysis found in any real programming language if you accept the idea of writing a real program, opposed to trying to shoehorn a real language into a spreadsheet app. Remember, spreadsheets are designed for managers, and we all know how stupid managers are right?
Also the idea of looking for some obscure spreadsheet alternative just because you don't like the syntax is another fail. Not sure what you are doing, but there is a reason why Excel is a defacto standard in business circles and not "Bob's Awesome Spreadsheet XL".
Of course the sensational news story of this past winter was the rampant outbreak of "flu" which suddenly has become one of the biggest health scares the world has ever seen.
Google needs a sensational hyperbole filter on their Internet scrapes, something to blow past the kind of rampant proliferation of "news" not based on fact or reality, but only reported to drive web hits or broadcasts has become common place these days. Some reporter goes to the ER of a hospital, sees a room pack of sniffling, coughing people in the middle of winter, and then declares there is a plague of epic proportions infecting America, which is then dutifully re-tweeted to the idiot masses.
First, its just Flu. While very young or very old might be prone to complications from flu, the vast majority of people getting flu WILL NOT DIE from it, so the fear and overreaction to flu is unwarranted.
Second, nothing has changed from, say, 20 years ago. There is no "rise" in flu infection rates, there is no epidemic. Flu isn't stronger or more powerful then it used to be. The only difference is the Internet which spread misinformation causing ignorant alarmists to jump to ridiculous conclusions. Was 2012-2013 record breaking for flu outbreak, or was it just the year that the social media reaction to an otherwise normal amount of flu infections reached epic proportions online?
People get sick and if you eat healthy and take your vitamins generally you can recover from it easily and quickly. I have survived 2 rounds of flu spreading through out my place of work without getting sick and I haven't even gotten the flu shot, I just up my vitamins and drink some more OJ when everyone else around me is coughing and sneezing their snot all over the place. However, I'd rather people just stay the fuck in bed when they are sick.
Not to be a Luddite here, but is 5G really needed?
I mean at least in Canada, 5G is like giving the Amish a Porche 911, we just can't use it.
I live in a country where "unlimited data" means roughly about 2GB a month, then the carriers start throttling and doing unsavory things to make sure my wireless data experience craps out long before I hit any real limits. So all 5G is going to do for me is ensure I have crappy wireless service about 4 days after my billing cycle begins anew.
Also 4G is faster then most home broadband services, however while carriers are pushing for wireless home services its significantly more expensive given the limitation on data and, lets face it, if you have that damn tree in your yard blocking line of sight you are never gong to see the full potential of your 4G service at home. So even if 5G could offer amazing speeds that might make home use attractive, its still not going to be offered for competitive prices to the ol' wired alternatives.
I am all for the onward progress of technology, but carriers are not even offering 4G services adequately so why rush to another generation of wireless networking.
Maybe the story is different in a civilized country like England, but in Canada our telecom's are still trying to find fresh new ways of raping customers of their income and offering crippled mediocre technology that even 3rd world countries have better access to.
The problem is it isn't just going to be as easy to melt it down and reuse it. Material going into it has to be "processed" a certain way, its not like your printer is going to have a vat of "stuff" that you can just put old stuff back into.
Also, as with any plastic "stuff", recycled "stuff" isn't as good as the original "stuff", so chances are anything you print will not be readily turned back into raw materials, but will have to propagate down into lesser and lesser quality materials until it ultimately ends up in the landfill, you know, like what happens to ALL currently recycled plastics.
So, yes, the cost will be prohibitive and probably just easier to go to a store and by something.
You do know that even when a decent 3D printer capable of producing anything of any quality comes out, the cost of the material to put into it will be prohibitive to a point where it is cheaper to go to Walmart and have it printed there...
First, Musk has to understand that most people these days are functional retards. People are never going to drive the "correct" way, so you got to make a car that is going to work ideally when driven by a functional retard. You can't win an argument against a functional retard so why try.
Second, I am incensed by the idea of paying up to $100k for basically a commuter vehicle. Lets face it, unless you live along that one highway system in California, the "fast" charge stations are not going to be available anywhere else on the planet, which means that you can only drive about 200 miles in any direction before you have to return home, or find a place to sleep for the night with a power plug.
It's the reason why electric cars suck, they are overpriced pretentious commuter vehicles driving by functional retards.
If you can't afford $85 more for a tablet with better spec's without the hassle of having to "do something to make it work better", you probably shouldn't be buying a tablet at all.
I know nobody that ever cared about the "discrepancies" about storage amounts or terminology. What the discrepancy usually amounts to is not being able to have one more movie or whole music album to fit on a given storage capacity, but most people never fill their storage and will simply buy a new drive or upgrade their device when they do.
The kind of people upset by "false" drive and memory capacity labeling are those kinds of pretentious ass hats that have nothing more important in life to worry about so take up a vapid cause for the sake of giving meaning to their useless existence. They need to leave the basement and get out in the sun more.
Microsoft is experiencing the first stages of a death spiral now that their entry into mobile and tablet markets is a dismal failure and they have done nothing to boost PC enthusiasm. All Microsoft can rely on know is their services, however Bing is now in 5th place for search engines. Hotmail is largely used by people that wanted a second email for stuff they know will spam them, and just converting it to Outlook doesn't make it any less likely people will use it for their primary email.
I really don't care what Google does with a collection of keywords collected in my email. Nobody at Google is personally reading my email, and even so, what of it? Had there been even one single case of a Google employee abusing the information gained from scanning emails to relate to advertising then I could fully back Microsoft's campaign, but its just not the case.
Personally all Microsoft is going to have for customers is a bunch of conspiracy theory nuts and people significant paranoia issues. If this is the kind of user base you want to cultivate by this kind of smear campaign, go right ahead, but I doubt it will save Microsoft in the long run.
The only thing Google should do about this is ignore it. I would rather have a user base of smart rational individuals any day, so let Microsoft bleed the crazies away from Google.
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Nope, that was never the intent of the Chromebook or Chrome OS. Google wants to create an OS for the masses, meaning that while the OS could be used for cheaper devices, its also just as obvious they want to target high-end devices with this. The only reason the first few Chromebooks were cheap was to get developer support behind them.
I think its a smart move as it will blow away the misguided assumption that Chrome OS was intended as a cheap alternative to other platforms. Chrome wasn't trying to create a OLPC kind of platform.
Also there is nothing to suggest that this will be the ONLY Chromebook sold by Google or others, so there is no reason why Google can't offer a state-of-the-art device to showcase all that Chrome OS can do while still offering cheaper devices.
Its only acceptable to take a child out to the gun range and have them fire a few thousand rounds from their very own AK into a racist picture of a "bad guy"
I wonder if the sentiment would be the same if someone was hacking your wife. I mean, why get married just to hope she won't cheat on you. Maybe the neighborhood should all just enjoy your wife as well. Its just a trite moral rule that married people shouldn't cheat on each other, you have nothing to lose.
Look, I don't care if you plant a flag or a beacon on some asteroid, if I can actually build a spaceship that can go and grab it and mine it before you do, your shit out of luck. I'll just kick your little beacon off, or move it to something else that has no value. What are you going to do about it?
Hype about this kind of petered out and died last year, surprised Google didn't get the memo.
Not sure the idea of wearable computer devices will ever take off, can't imagine more people looking like asshats wearing heads up displays along with their Bluetooth earpieces. If you need that much informational feedback about your surroundings then you might be a complete idiot.
Having stuff available ready at my fingertips on a screened device is about as far as I need the constant connection to an online presence, anything I have to wear to beam information into my eyes is just silly.
Don't get me wrong I am sure there are some applications for this but for general public consumption this project is useless.
Considering that the CDC found that leafy veggies, fruits and nuts are more likely to spread infectious disease then meat, fish and cheeses, and that most people just assume that if its green its good, then it stands to reason shoving the same granola crunching greens into the same bag over and over again is eventually going to become contaminated with something that will make you sick. All it takes is a half rotted piece of lettuce fermenting in the California sun to give you a rough time in the bathroom.
I am actually sick of plastic bag bans in general.
First, consider the the weight of a plastic bag vs the weight of everything else that is thrown you, and you realize just how stupid banning plastic bags are. For every plastic bag thrown out, tonnes more garbage goes along with it. People just react to some large number of plastic bags thrown out represented as number of elephants and overreact, however nobody mentions the weight ratio of plastic bags vs all the rest of garbage thrown out. Its like that 1 watt of power your TV is using in stand-by is the reason for global warming, but nobody cares about the 12 kilowatts of "other" often wasted power your home is using at any given time. Of course then someone show's a dolphin suffocating with a plastic bag caught in its blowhole, but I am fairly certain Greenpees just does that to be sensational, no dolphin can be that stupid.
Second, plastic can be made out of 100% biodegradable (real bio degradable, as in becoming plant food) vegetable oil, so there is no real reason to avoid using the correct kind of plastic bag. Its a conspiracy from grocery stores in many municipalities to charge 0.05 extra for something that costs thousands of a penny to make. Its 99.9999999% profit. Grocery stores are not going to freely give away biodegradable plastic bags that cost a few thousands of a penny more to produce.
Third, today's plastic bag is tomorrow's source of hydrocarbons. One day someone is going to become a billionaire mining old landfills for its metal and hydrocarbon content when the stuff because scarce in raw form. I say just put it all in a hole until it is profitable to "recycle" landfills, saves us the hassle and BS of having to separate stuff at home that ultimately ends up in the landfill anyways because the warehouses are full of worthless crap.
Normally I may have marked you Troll, but Microsoft seems to be pretty good these days at destroying Windows all by themselves, it doesn't need Linux's help anymore.
Only 10% of the city will be above sea-level by then.
Using a spreadsheet and not a real program. There are countless frameworks and libraries for data analysis found in any real programming language if you accept the idea of writing a real program, opposed to trying to shoehorn a real language into a spreadsheet app. Remember, spreadsheets are designed for managers, and we all know how stupid managers are right?
Also the idea of looking for some obscure spreadsheet alternative just because you don't like the syntax is another fail. Not sure what you are doing, but there is a reason why Excel is a defacto standard in business circles and not "Bob's Awesome Spreadsheet XL".
Of course the sensational news story of this past winter was the rampant outbreak of "flu" which suddenly has become one of the biggest health scares the world has ever seen.
Google needs a sensational hyperbole filter on their Internet scrapes, something to blow past the kind of rampant proliferation of "news" not based on fact or reality, but only reported to drive web hits or broadcasts has become common place these days. Some reporter goes to the ER of a hospital, sees a room pack of sniffling, coughing people in the middle of winter, and then declares there is a plague of epic proportions infecting America, which is then dutifully re-tweeted to the idiot masses.
First, its just Flu. While very young or very old might be prone to complications from flu, the vast majority of people getting flu WILL NOT DIE from it, so the fear and overreaction to flu is unwarranted.
Second, nothing has changed from, say, 20 years ago. There is no "rise" in flu infection rates, there is no epidemic. Flu isn't stronger or more powerful then it used to be. The only difference is the Internet which spread misinformation causing ignorant alarmists to jump to ridiculous conclusions. Was 2012-2013 record breaking for flu outbreak, or was it just the year that the social media reaction to an otherwise normal amount of flu infections reached epic proportions online?
People get sick and if you eat healthy and take your vitamins generally you can recover from it easily and quickly. I have survived 2 rounds of flu spreading through out my place of work without getting sick and I haven't even gotten the flu shot, I just up my vitamins and drink some more OJ when everyone else around me is coughing and sneezing their snot all over the place. However, I'd rather people just stay the fuck in bed when they are sick.
Not to be a Luddite here, but is 5G really needed?
I mean at least in Canada, 5G is like giving the Amish a Porche 911, we just can't use it.
I live in a country where "unlimited data" means roughly about 2GB a month, then the carriers start throttling and doing unsavory things to make sure my wireless data experience craps out long before I hit any real limits. So all 5G is going to do for me is ensure I have crappy wireless service about 4 days after my billing cycle begins anew.
Also 4G is faster then most home broadband services, however while carriers are pushing for wireless home services its significantly more expensive given the limitation on data and, lets face it, if you have that damn tree in your yard blocking line of sight you are never gong to see the full potential of your 4G service at home. So even if 5G could offer amazing speeds that might make home use attractive, its still not going to be offered for competitive prices to the ol' wired alternatives.
I am all for the onward progress of technology, but carriers are not even offering 4G services adequately so why rush to another generation of wireless networking.
Maybe the story is different in a civilized country like England, but in Canada our telecom's are still trying to find fresh new ways of raping customers of their income and offering crippled mediocre technology that even 3rd world countries have better access to.
The problem is it isn't just going to be as easy to melt it down and reuse it. Material going into it has to be "processed" a certain way, its not like your printer is going to have a vat of "stuff" that you can just put old stuff back into.
Also, as with any plastic "stuff", recycled "stuff" isn't as good as the original "stuff", so chances are anything you print will not be readily turned back into raw materials, but will have to propagate down into lesser and lesser quality materials until it ultimately ends up in the landfill, you know, like what happens to ALL currently recycled plastics.
So, yes, the cost will be prohibitive and probably just easier to go to a store and by something.
You do know that even when a decent 3D printer capable of producing anything of any quality comes out, the cost of the material to put into it will be prohibitive to a point where it is cheaper to go to Walmart and have it printed there...
First, Musk has to understand that most people these days are functional retards. People are never going to drive the "correct" way, so you got to make a car that is going to work ideally when driven by a functional retard. You can't win an argument against a functional retard so why try.
Second, I am incensed by the idea of paying up to $100k for basically a commuter vehicle. Lets face it, unless you live along that one highway system in California, the "fast" charge stations are not going to be available anywhere else on the planet, which means that you can only drive about 200 miles in any direction before you have to return home, or find a place to sleep for the night with a power plug.
It's the reason why electric cars suck, they are overpriced pretentious commuter vehicles driving by functional retards.
Everybody hates it, but it will survive nuclear holocaust so you have to give it some respect.
Yeah, Canadian's don't vote on policy, we just have to pick the right jerk to represent us and hope for the best, and we can't even do that right.
...a country desperately wanting to become communist...
but with none of the perks
Really, so every Linux distro works with every piece of hardware right out of the box then?
Yes, I think every international holiday should be a federal holiday then we can get a full year's salary without working a single day.
If you can't afford $85 more for a tablet with better spec's without the hassle of having to "do something to make it work better", you probably shouldn't be buying a tablet at all.
"Who the fuck cares" and "This is not a moon"
I know nobody that ever cared about the "discrepancies" about storage amounts or terminology. What the discrepancy usually amounts to is not being able to have one more movie or whole music album to fit on a given storage capacity, but most people never fill their storage and will simply buy a new drive or upgrade their device when they do.
The kind of people upset by "false" drive and memory capacity labeling are those kinds of pretentious ass hats that have nothing more important in life to worry about so take up a vapid cause for the sake of giving meaning to their useless existence. They need to leave the basement and get out in the sun more.
Lets all push to get rid of alternative runtimes once and for all.
Microsoft is experiencing the first stages of a death spiral now that their entry into mobile and tablet markets is a dismal failure and they have done nothing to boost PC enthusiasm. All Microsoft can rely on know is their services, however Bing is now in 5th place for search engines. Hotmail is largely used by people that wanted a second email for stuff they know will spam them, and just converting it to Outlook doesn't make it any less likely people will use it for their primary email.
I really don't care what Google does with a collection of keywords collected in my email. Nobody at Google is personally reading my email, and even so, what of it? Had there been even one single case of a Google employee abusing the information gained from scanning emails to relate to advertising then I could fully back Microsoft's campaign, but its just not the case.
Personally all Microsoft is going to have for customers is a bunch of conspiracy theory nuts and people significant paranoia issues. If this is the kind of user base you want to cultivate by this kind of smear campaign, go right ahead, but I doubt it will save Microsoft in the long run.
The only thing Google should do about this is ignore it. I would rather have a user base of smart rational individuals any day, so let Microsoft bleed the crazies away from Google.
Finnish Minister Wants To Expand Pornography
Censorship.