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Check out the "Google Chrome Terms of Service": anything you post or transmit with Chrome can be used by Google in any way it wants, for all time. They can display your writings in public, modify it, or both.

This applies to everything you transmit using Chrome, no matter how private it may seem, no matter if it's encrypted, no matter if you're sending it to friends, family, lovers, business partners, employers, financial services planners...

What was that slogan? "Don't be evil"?

"11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

"11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services."
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Sorry, not impressed. A desktop shortcut to Gmail with no address bar or buttons doesn't exactly 'wow' me. I still have to login, and I have enough screen real estate that I would prefer to have those buttons/toolbars available.

Why is this great? The lack of toolbars?
Interesting. I had read some time ago that Apple patented the touch-based rotary dialer concept. If that's the case, I'm surprised they let this one through.
You only ever use one machine to log into websites? Never had to borrow a friend's laptop?
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I hadn't considered that. You're right. The title was inappropriately... loaded with opinion that was unrelated to the actual content of the link.
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Thanks for the idselector link. I'll be installing that on my site this weekend :)
As much as I hate to agree with such a malicious statement, I do have to agree that Adobe has not helped their case for community support in their lack-luster support for the Linux and open source communities.

I have used Adobe products for many, many years and have used Flash since it was a Macromedia product and can say that some of the interesting things done with the internet in its earlier days would have likely not been possible without Flash. On the other hand, as a developer and a FOSS user, I am ready for another tool to accomplish what Flash does without all the headaches that we have been forced to endure over the years with flash and proprietary plug-ins in general...
fantastic for him, seriously... but a sad reflection of the state of the AppStore in regard to utility/quality. stories like this bring gold diggers out of the woodwork and pollute the store, imo.

not trying to be a pessimist here... just venting.
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Hadley posted a youtube video in the comments of the blog post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28_zrU0X4A
Well put. Although I must admit I worry about what this means for projects such as Firefox, I do think that it will ultimately be good for the web.

Hopefully some equilibrium can be established between the Google and Mozilla camps, but only time will tell if the market can actually support multiple FOSS browsers.

In any case, I am optimistic about what a giant such as Google can bring to the table as competition to the likes of AIR and Silverlight.
It'll be the [+] button to the right of the tabs: expect to see applications there, if you don't count web apps as applications already.
I wonder how Apple will take care of app pollution. The store works fine now that there are less than a few hundred apps in each category, but as that number grows, it will be harder to browse it in its current state on the phone.
It does actually. If you are thinking of offline-enabling your web app, you are more likely to do it with Gears rather than AIR, if Chrome is installed on 90% of the computers
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Did Google use their toolkit or was another development platform employed?
If Google also pushed/developed some open media player and animation technologies and integrated these into Javascript or into browsers, why would we need Silverlight and Air at all?
Ah, I remembered, but not specifically enough. It was Uranium, but I forgot that it had to be darts through a donut, and I didn't know it had to be a great height.

Is that 2 stories? 10 stories?
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There already is a term for what the browser is becoming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_environment

Why are people arguing? Instead of applications running on X or in bash, they run in the browser. No need for arguments, or redefining anything.

p.s. I actually came up with this term, and then googled it, and found out that it already existed :D
Thanks. That's fantastic! (The road layer debuts at 5:02).

I'm not sure if it's using the plasma process but it must be doing something similar because a large chunk of the mass of the vehicle is empty hanger space. So the materials to make the road must be coming from the ground itself. Either that or the 'road' is just a layer of black paint. I choose to give Gerry Anderson benefit of the doubt however.

At university my mate had to design a road maintenance vehicle that allowed traffic to drive over whilst in use, a kind of rolling mobile bridge. I was very jealous. My CS degree assignments never approached anything like designing real thunderbirds.
mixmax pointed out to me awhile back that even though that's the popular impression, their visual design is actually quite in depth. For instance, he said to consider the difference between the Google front page logo with and without shadows.
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This is completely bogus. Google has been much worse about privacy than Microsoft. OOXML or how much you hate Windows or whatever has nothing to do with privacy.
It is strange that up to now there have been virtually no comments about privacy issues in this thread. It is clear to me that for a company in the advertising business the prime reason to release a browser is to improve data mining.

If, say, an association of insurers generously releases a "free" browser, would people install it?
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It could describe most bad essays, yes. Good essays either stay out of falsifiability territory, or they invite formal exploration of the subject.

In this essay, she makes claims that are supported only with anecdotes, when data could be used. This is important since I can easily think of counter-anecdotes that nullify her arguments. The biggest example is her claim that males are predominantly presented as emasculated in popular culture. I'm sure one can consume a subset of all popular culture where that is true, and I'm also sure one can do the opposite. But if someone were to actually come up with a metric and test this idea, then that would be worthwhile.
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Society is one of the strongest forces for monogamy. Biology fights against monogamy.

"Monogamy is rare in mammals

Approximately only 3-5% percent of mammals are considered monogamous (Nair and Young), compared to about 90% of birds (Alcock, 366)."

http://academic.reed.edu/biology/courses/bio342f06/2007_webs...
Really old news, sensationalist headline for a crappy biased article. Microsoft have been moving forward towards 64-bit for a while, although they arguably should offer 64-bit as default on new builds, and a large proportion of people run 64-bit Linux.

Apple offered upgrades to 4gb of memory without explaining the disadvantages and Mac OS X Tiger showed the amount of physical memory rather than the amount addressable - http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=364707 - why is it a "swindle" when Dell do it but not when Apple do it?
At that age I liked bows, arrows, running around, but also legos and computers. It's not an either-or thing.
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I helped my neighbor by replacing IE and its default home page of MSDN with Firefox and google and adblock plus and bugmenot.

The next day he was super happy and his exact words were "Wow, it's like a whole new operating system!".

I was glad to help, found it a bit funny how a non techie gets the terminology all mixed up, but I didn't think anything of it.

Until today, now I'm thinking that a whole lot of people really do see the browser as the OS.
Brendan Eich posted some new numbers with a more recent TraceMonkey build.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/09/trac...
From what I can tell, there's a way around this nonsense: use Chromium instead of chrome. It's licensed under the BSD license.

http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html

On the other hand, two-dozen third party software packages are distributed with Chromium, and all are released under some license.
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I wonder if everyone insulted each other gratuitously insults would lose their impact, like cussing has?
True, if one were to describe I.T. innovation trends in two words they'd say "Creative Destruction" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction) in this case it's not exactly Google creates Adobe is destroyed, in my take, it's more like Google creates, Firefox/IE/Safari/Opera is destroyed.
But I have to admit that Open Source projects are very responsive and, consequently, we may see a response from Firefox soon.

What I do admit is that at the end of the day, it's the consumer's experience that counts and, whoever makes the product that works the best for the consumer deserves to win, although victory is not promised. Look at Opera.
So, is Google Chrome good for Open Source? If they open source the browser, hell yeah, otherwise, I'll be the skeptic.

Note: Chromium is not Google Chrome, it's PR.

If I were Steve Ballmer, I'd get John Lilly and Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner on my speed dial, right now.

I for one, begrudgingly, welcome our new browser overlords.
No doubt putting it on Google.com would have a huge impact. Did they do this? I didn't see such a link on Google.com yesterday or today, logged in or logged out.
You know, I wouldn't put it past him to have never used the most recent version of Opera.

It's kind of funny. He's the very definition of a nutty professor. He's obviously quite brilliant at what he does, and yet there have been a few cases in which he seems completely unaware of what's going on around him.

He can be forgiven, though, because of Bloxes.
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Actually, a tiny proportion of people run 64-bit Linux.
It's not as if this idea was a particularly clever one -- many photo applications allow users to tag photos, tagging photos is hard work, and so it would be nice to have automatic tagging where the tags carry over from image to image.

The hard part is the computer vision aspect of it. This is an incredibly difficult problem, one into which millions of dollars were pumped in the 1990s, with not a huge amount of success. It'll be interesting to see how well it works on Picasa.
That's a healthy reaction..

Unfortunately Japan is not a very healthy place.

Take for example how most beautiful young women between ages 23 and 30+ work as various kinds of prostitutes.

I hope this is less true outside of Tokyo..
No.

Take a closer look at integrated Gears with local web server and offline JavaScript hooks + ability to run webapps without browser "chrome" from icons/shortcuts.

Now add advanced rich JavaScript/HTML with ready to use open-source libraries on top of the fastest dynamic language VM in the universe and you probably will see that Chrome is more than "just a browser".
I'm not entirely convinced by this: the fact that the OS is still there and operating means that there's still a layer of abstraction. That's important not because it gets in the way, but because it helps out.

For instance, on OS X, the Command-Control-D shortcut to auto-define any word you're overing over. Or the universal spell-check. Things that make things easier for developers and users alike.

I think a part of it is the operating system in question. Some really do stay out of your way, and it makes the browser in question something of importance. Others are much more pervasive.

I said on another thread that I couldn't imagine using a desktop mail app until I got my Mac, because it wasn't until Mail that I had something that really felt like a part of the system. And from what I know of fellow Mac-using students, they all feel the same way. I know a lot of Windows students who use Meebo as their default chat. Linux users almost all use Pidgin or Kopete. Mac users almost always stick with iChat. On Windows, where Meebo is more accessible than downloading something new, the web will be used more often. With more well-rounded platforms, though, the web isn't seen as being quite so pervasive.
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amen.

due to a project i'm working on, i was recently pretty much forced to become a flash developer. 700 bucks is an awful lot to pay for flash cs3, but i'd be willing to pay it, if it made my job easier. alas, it was the worst piece of software i've ever installed on my mac. eighty billion buttons and toolbars and palettes and menus, which completely takes over the screen, making it impossible to find what i'm looking for.

i found a way to make do with the open-source flex sdk compiler, even though adobe has gone far out of their way to make that difficult. for example, the .swf file format is free and open, but the .fla format -- used to store gui controls and layouts -- is not. so i've decided not to use flash gui controls. me and my cohorts are using javascript controls instead.
I've had good luck with Standout Jobs, the 37signals job board, the joel on software job board and surprisingly even craigslist!

Also, there's startup jobs here from time to time (http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs)

Other than that, I'd also check the community mailing lists, the ruby-nyc list for example gets a lot of job postings! Another Rails specific place I've had interest from is workingwithrails - lots of people go through profiles there and send out emails.

Best of luck!
"Chrome is installed in 90% of the computers" is a big if. Still, I like the idea.
Actually, all they have to do is make their Lively "plugin" work from all websites and you would have your animation technology. Why the had to keep this one to themselves I don't know, but I'm glad they did because it leaves that opportunity available to some other innovative organization.
Chrome uses WebKit as their engine, which is written in C++. In terms of UI and the remainder of their internals, I believe it is custom-done, also in C++. I haven't looked too in-depth into their code, but you can get a lot more information about the source tree here: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-around-th...
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You won't actually need to wait for that. I read somewhere that Gears is based on the HTML 5 specs. So once the other browsers go about supporting HTML 5, there's no need for Gears/AIR if you need offline capability.
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But, importantly, not to a web-app.

Chrome (WebKit) appears to render pages quickly too, which is important for normal browsing. Would be nice to see some tests of this, like the iPhone vs Blackberry ones.
Agreed. I meant it tongue-in-cheek...
But then you wouldn't have coaches pushing adolescents to pack on 50 pounds so they can compete on the line.

With these plays, you don't need all-star speed, just really good execution.
The only reason he sold that much was because he was mentioned in a magazine with a massive readership. Almost any half way useful or interesting application would sell that much if mentioned in such a magazine.
They've got 2 quarterbacks, so it adds hesitance. Also, there are back field blockers, and the quarterback rolls out almost every time.
to me there's only one problem for Chrome, that I haven't figured out how Google is going to solve: distribution

AIR is being distributed through Adobe Reader and Flash is pretty much ubiquitous (whether you like it or not). Silverlight can sneak in via MS Office.

What MS and Adobe have in common is that normal people outside of the valley already grab 'x' software (whether they know it or not), while the only thing normal people do with Google is go to their search engine...
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Given that it's DHH, and the guy really knows how to speak, I look forward to the video too.

But, as more and more of the subjects I'm interested in are turning up in video form as well as in text form, I've been able to compare the two media. And I find that text is really useful. It's more searchable, and more quotable, and it's easier to see its overall structure. And it's more efficient. For example, when the speaker spends time explaining something that you have already thought about and understand, you can skim right through it at top speed.

I got through this document in a couple of minutes. The video version will take considerably longer.

It's almost to the point where I'm tempted to start commissioning transcriptions for the talks that I'm really interested in. It would be a kind of public service -- release the transcriptions under CC license.
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The Flash authoring tool is lousy. It's just a decrepit hunk of deformed aluminum. And I say this as an Actionscript programmer of several years now.

Flex, on the other hand, is really damned nice, and the Eclipse-based Flex Builder is not terrible. Good debugger. Using jEdit for coding, Flex Builder for compiling and debugging, and Flash only for the bare minimum of FLA editing, you can have a very decent life.
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Why is Chromium just PR? You can build it yourself and run it.

see:
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/getting-started

My impression was they packaged it separately to make it easy to have Google-owned icons, etc in the Google Chrome download.
Total turn off.
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so instead of dealing with the reclined seat, you can deal with some motherfu#%s jumping around like a 5 year old trying to put their seat back repeatedly?

not sure that's the best trade.
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I'm learning Rails and am looking for somebody knowledgable that could help answer questions. I research most of the issues I have, but it would save me a lot of time and I'd learn faster if I could discuss the difficult questions with an experienced developer. The forums I've tried are generally unresponsive or unhelpful. I'd happily pay for this service.

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"Standing on the shoulders of giants" is the phrase that comes to mind when people say that browsers are the new operating systems.
Aren't these instructions on "How to recognise an hypermind programmer"?

Edit: I agree that this way you can recognize good programmers, but are all good programmers supposed to be that way, or only hyperbrain/INTP/whatever?
I'm reminded of an onion article

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29448
Really, the worst case scenario is that the current Firefox codebase is dumped for Chromium which is completely open-source.

Nothing is stopping you from creating the next Mozilla off the Chromium source - in fact, I don't think Google would be anti that at all. They're looking to make sure that browsers can handle web applications. They don't make money off the browser. The better the browser experience, however, the more people are going to use their web applications.

Do I expect Mozilla to dump their codebase? Hell no. Of course, someone at Mozilla might start a nice open source project to port Chromium to XUL (a Firefox powered by Chromium). They've supported lots of different small things in the past - in fact, Firefox was such a project at one time.

As long as it's open source, there isn't a big problem because Google can't exploit anything. If Google starts doing something evil, it would be trivial for someone to fork.
Perhaps you are using a mac or linux? They wouldn't link it for OS's that don't have it yet.
These numbers are not at all what I got, testing yesterday. Especially the Dromera tests, where the latest webkit nightly didn't finish even close to that.

I wonder where the discrepancy comes from?
Whether or not they have a reputation of doing the "right" thing (or not Being Evil, etc.), their primary business model ultimately depends on ongoing internet innovation, being safe for e-commerce, etc., so anything they provide to make the web easier to use, help defeating phishing, and so on is in their best interest. The incentives for them to be good about privacy are more vague, however.
The Google Web Toolkit doesn't really make sense for a browser, it's designed to make websites.

Chrome is written in C++. Since it's open source you can even check out the code:

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/
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When the day comes when it doesn't matter if the user gets the OS, the disk, the browser, and the computer confused, then designers and programmers will have done their job correctly. (And it never happens because they never see these distinctions and don't have to care.)

Right now, the only computer that approaches this is the iPhone.
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Well, you can build it, but it doesn't actually work. In particular I don't think there are any UI bindings yet. But you can fix unit tests for Linux if you like ;-)
Everytime I read these kind of articles I see the one glaring headline, how programmers love to work outside of their regular work day

Then I become sad because 80% of my week I come home and have to handle something and by the end of it all, I don't have any time to play around (aka, program) because I have to go to bed. Sigh, vicious cycle :(

(I know I can work on managing my time better and I am, like cooking more meals for the week, and time-boxing other tasks .. but it takes time!)
Doesn't look as if this fills the same need as facebook, and it's not open to people unless they happen to know somebody on the inside already. Seems a lot more like "asmallworld" than Facebook.