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On the contrary, I thought it was actually an interesting history of poker players using software to track hand history (a subject which is very common to his blog), and how the industry/area grew into using Postgres. Its not really meant to be a technical article but rather a history of sorts.

As an aside, does anyone else ever feel the desire to start programming some sort of poker app whenever they read codingthewheel? Seems like it'd be such a fun area for a side-project!
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I don't see that anyone has mentioned Apple in any of this. They certainly aren't just going to roll over and let Google take this entire space. They will launch a netbook at some point with the iPhone OS, some storage, the app store to get everything you want, a superior user experience and industrial design, and oh yeah, the browser to also run all these other apps...And it will be this kind of weird hybrid old model vs. new all over again.
I was thinking about that as soon as I saw this. I think Google's strategy is a little bit different in that Google will be a browser first an operating system second.
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I hate to use the expression "killer app", but if there ever was one, it would be a computer that "just turns on". This has been Microsoft's Achilles heel forever. I've always said that if there was a laptop that turns on as quick as a Palm pilot, it would steal the market. Now we'll see...
Indeed Google may never turn to the dark side, but to have that much information under one corporate entity's control is terrifying to say the least.

Unfortunately in the digital age, it is hard to achieve any semblance true security for your personal information without acting on what lay-people perceive as paranoia.
Now where can I buy the hacked up, not all that well tested "novelty only" home version?
Isn't this browser OS concept essentially what the Crunchpad aims to be?

Edit: Of course, the crunchpad is also the hardware component, making it more all-in-one.
Just for fun, I tried it with the examples from the comparison on the website, but even with a lot of tweaking I didn't manage to get an image as sharp as they claim to get. I don't think Vector Magic uses potrace ;)
I'd be interested in hearing your reasoning on that one. Lots of people complain about X in various ways, and while a couple years ago I would've agreed, these days, I'm no longer entering my monitor's vertical refresh rate manually, and X is pretty transparent to me.

And on the up side, it's nice to be able to run a GUI app remotely, though I'll agree that that's not winning over too many desktop users.
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I shudder to think what ubuntu would run like on an arm with 128 meg. Ubuntu is cool on by daul core 4Ghz. Much less cool on my old 500Mhz PIII (even the XFCE edition).

Why not just say ubuntu is for big computers, chrome/os for small ones and not try to shoehorn any one thing onto everything?
Great news for ARM, I guess.
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The quote quoted by OP is a quote in a quote.
If the fed buys us treasuries like they did in march, then the interest rates will remain low. Our debt holders like china, japan, and europe will be forced to buy our debt to keep the exchange rates favorable. A weak dollar means their current holdings are worth less and they have less ability to export goods and services. Us debt of these proportions is a gun to the head of the US debt holders. interest rates will remain low...like it or not.
That doesn't alter the fact that they are much more in control of what most users do, yet people regard Microsoft as the one we should be afraid of.

And how would you know if you send mail to someone using gmail or gmail hosted that google doesn't use this information against you? You don't.

I'm not saying we need to shut down Google, just that I find it odd that most of the FOSS world still regards Microsoft as the one we should be afraid of and avoid at all cost. After all: Google does have its arsenal of closed-source solutions with varying degrees of lock-in and little to no options for opting out once your data is harvested.

If the day comes that the government wants to go big brother on us, I'm pretty sure Google and/or their data will first on the list of things they want to get under their control, not Microsoft.
No more than Toyota and BMW are at war.

Regardless of how good Google's products get, their core business doesn't involve building the products that Apple is building. And even if beige box PCs came with an operating system and applications that better compared to a Mac, they'll still lack that integrated quality-assured ecosystem joining them together.

E.g. For the average user, a web-app-focused OS is going to have even more confusing UI inconsistencies than Windows.
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Does anyone have any guesses on how this might be different from Android?
There is no lock-in with Google, and that makes all the difference.

I don't know, considering they're responsible for something like 80% of my business most days I'm feeling pretty freaking locked in...
The Crunchpad aims to be a browser. Specifically: a finger-friendly one.

GoogleOS would still be dealing with things like USB devices, a variety of internal hardware, offline processing, keyboard/mouse UI, desktop-class apps, etc.
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Ubuntu Netbook Remix runs faster than Moblin & Windows XP on an Intel Atom - the primary CPU for netbooks. When they say ARM they mean something that can compete with the Atom, not some of the lower level ones.
The Google OS appears to be geared more toward business than the home user. I mean email / Docs / Spreadsheets? That's a business combo. The Mac has Music / Movies / Photos that's for home.
Hmmm well yes but your levelling a BIG claim against Google there. Any proof to back up the idea they might abuse data?

If not then what foundation does your mis-trust have?

My point still stands though - if you dont trust them with your data dont use them. If you dont trust your data will be safe in future dont use them.

If the "big brother" future ever happens I suspect which company your with will be the least of our problems :) Indeed I would argue that going with a larger company (especially one that has refused to hand over data already) is more sensible - because smaller ones have no power against governments.
Given the way that Flash performs on OSX I don't see any reason to think their ARM port will be at all acceptable.
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My view is that Ubuntu has a long way to go in terms of brand recognition before non-tech folks will jump in. But I agree with your positive view of this news. I think more people would be likely to jump into a Linux-based os with the Google brand behind it. People have heard of Windows & Mac and they are still mostly afraid of the unfamiliar Ubuntu, but selling people on "google" is easy, if not already done.
The same reason the infamously secretive Apple pre-announced the iPhone. So it has apps!
Not so much making big claims as airing the possibility. Just saying that avoiding Google entirely these days is harder than it might seem. Since so many people use Google's services chances are they might wind up with some of your data one way or the other, with your name attached.

And like I said, I'm not saying they are evil and blah blah, I just find the lack of scepticism towards Google somewhat odd when people are screaming bloody murder over any and every thing Microsoft does.
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Linux making it to the desktop by essentially ignoring the Desktop paradigm? Oh the irony.
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They will remain lower than what the market price for interest would be but I don't think the Fed can keep rates too low for too long. We're in the midst of a major capital shortage in the world right now. Eventually someone is going to want access to the savings bad enough to offer higher returns on capital. Right now the Fed is having a hard time keeping the 30 year mortgage rate down to where they want it.
They very clearly state it is an OS geared for low-resource netbook style computers, where browsers are up and running within seconds of pressing the on button. We don't have one of these yet, afaik.

My laptop (Windows) and Netbook (Ubuntu) is ready to surf the net within seconds from I bring it back from suspended/hibernated state. I can't recall last time I powered any of them down.

So for me, while you are technically correct, it still fails to have any real world impact as far as I am concerned.

Variety is a good thing.

This I would have to agree with.
That's not an equation, it's a number. There's nothing to solve.
Two of the studies deal with money.
There's something odd going on here.

Automated trading has dominated the stock market for at least 10 years. (LTC was a melt-down because auto-traders respond very quickly.)

So, if something is actually different now, it's in the word "funds". They're not talking about mutual funds, so what are they talking about that's actually new? (Hmm - I wonder which mutual funds are automated and how much.)
+1 for Orlando. We have a great community down here, and cost of living is far less than the bay area (and taxes are low too!). You could probably bootstrap a lot easier here, and if everything goes horribly wrong there's a decent job market to fall back on.
shrug

That's what I thought when they launched Google Base. I still don't get it. (Is it supposed to be an S3 competitor?)
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Many home routers and network devices I've seen have optional short preamble/long preamble.
Add NaCl for heavier apps and a NaCl'd VDI or similar client and there's really nothing you can't theoretically do given enough bandwidth.
So, pull the plug on the North Korean IP ranges for a bit and when they promise to behave reconnect them.

I'm sure they'll get the message. This whole cyberwarfare thing is a lot harder to make happen if you are on an 'island'.
What I want is a good enough "instant-on" that it's my only partition, and I no longer have to worry about hibernation or sleep mode ever again. Have orthogonal persistence for everything, so I never even have to save. Just open the clamshell, or hit the on button. Something comes along to distract me, I snap it shut, take care of whatever it is, then open it up again, wait a half second and continue on where I left off.

The ideal laptop/internet pad would behave like the Nintendo DS, if the DS could hibernate, and not just sleep when you close it.
No, you're feeling dependent. There's a difference.

If you are using 80% of their services now, it is because you feel like you are getting good return on them. If you decide that isn't the case in the future, as the original poster said, it is easy to move whatever portion of their service you aren't happy with to another provider.

If there isn't another provider that offers the same level of service and the same ability to walk away that Google does, that isn't lock-in, and it isn't really Google's fault.

I do wish there was another email provider that I felt had as strong an offering as gmail does, just in case.
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Slap a Pixel Qi [1] screen and a capacitive (iPhone) touchscreen on a Crunchpad and I at least will line up for one.

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Uh, I think you're giving the government's tracking and cataloging abilities way too much credit. They have trouble keeping track of a list of terrorists.

It think it's for confirming that a particular printer made a particular note (and determining how many different printers are involved in counterfeiting). Nothing more.
I think the singular focus is great. It has one goal - saving you time by optimizing your car position.

If it saves me five minutes, it has already paid for itself.
It's not just the ATMs themselves that have vulnerabilities. Most of the time nobody bothers to change the admin passwords, so a quick glance in the manufacturer's documentation compromises the ATM. I've also noticed the computer attached to the ATM is running Windows XP - so I'm not surprised people find a way to load malicious code...
I really can't take such articles seriously anymore because they very simplistically confuse companies with tribes and competition with war...

Microsoft, Google, and Apple have figured out ways to make money in different ways. Whatever Google has to offer, it is going to help Apple and Microsoft further delineate what they do best. I hardly see this as "going to war".
What Google is doing is not recreating a new kind of OS, they’re creating the best way to not need one at all.

The OS should seem like it isn't there at all. It should stay out of your way as much as possible, but be there to do what you want as quickly as possible, then get out of the way again. The OS should be like a storybook butler. Discrete, unobtrusive, quietly useful.
Not being on MySpace, I wasn't familiar with the "Angle" concept, and this was an eye-opener, so to speak. Thanks for the heads-up.
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This is my second-favorite rumor ever, because it keeps coming up (Android vs iPhone, Gmail vs MobileMe, AppleSecretSearch vs Google Search) and because the origin of it is: There are two supercool companies, and people would rather see supercool things duke it out violently than have a quiet amicability wherein the CEO of Google is on the Apple board. Fact is, Google and Apple excel at two different things. Google can't release any product at Apple's price point because they can't achieve such an anal level of quality, Marissa Mayer's 30 shades of blue be damned. Apple can't compete directly with Google because they insist on making pricey products that cost money, and because making a free suite of things completely contradicts their philosophy.

My favorite rumor is the Apple vs Nintendo rumor, because first off it makes more sense (iPod touch vs DS), and second off because both companies make excellent products but design them from different points of view, Nintendo focusing on innovative gaming and Apple focusing on its outright perfectionism. The one that would be my favorite rumor but is absolutely true is Google vs Facebook, and that's the one that interests me most if Google's making its own OS. Facebook acquired Parakey a few years ago, and since then rumors of it launching a webOS have been scattered about. Interesting to see how they take advantage of this announcement.
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I think intensedebate and mybloglog also do similar things if the blogs are part of their network.
The article was about the national debt. If the treasury auctions the us treasury bonds and nobody bites, then the interest rates must go up to entice them. OR the fed can buy the bonds at the lower rate and bingo. New cash is flooded into the market and the current debt holders are paid back with cheaper dollars.

There are only two ways we get out of this debt mess. Pay it off, or inflate our way out of it.

Paying it off will require a tax increase or an expansion in productivity and gdp. Productivity gains were what kept interest rates lower in the 90's.

Inflation is the other way, but it comes at a price. It steals the widow's ability to buy from her fixed income. It is only good for governments.

Letting the debt spiral out of control is not sustainable. Thats why you see china buying oil, steel and gold with their dollars now before the dollar gets inflated. It would be tough to be in their shoes right now. The are playing the globalization game and the us has a gun to their head.
"I shudder to think what ubuntu would run like on an arm with 128 meg"

It's not bad.
"Round 2: the game has changed,"

I guess spending 10 years building infrastructure to support web apps had to happen first.
There's no real world impact from an OS where the entire focus is online applications? That's news to me.

If not from that, there'll be real world impact from the fact that it's by Google.
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As funny as this is from a law enforcement point of view it is useless, doing a google search and clicking on a link is hardly a bad thing in anybodies book.

Still to be caught with your pants down in such a trivial sting is embarrassing, and I'm sure that all those caught up in the net will be boning up on tor and anonymizers.
Another JavaScript library, this space is already crowded and from what I can tell, there nothing available in Glow that isn't available in other popular libraries.

Maybe being backwards compatible to IE 5.5 is important enough to switch to this I don't know.
Its more work to get things working from ports or compiling on OSX. My point isn't that somehow OSX is somehow fundamentally flawed - just that open source software works easier on Linux. Only because thats what the majority of open source is targeted at to be sure.
I always figured that the company that spiders everybody elses content should have a more relaxed policy towards being spidered itself.

After all, google is datamining the web on an ongoing basis, in return it should willingly consent to being mined in return.
i have bank acct's in canada and the us. take out $ in foreign currency using my ATM (they generally give you the best rate).

if you meant something else by "issues", let me know :)
I can understand why backwards compatability is important for an organisation such as the BBC. But at the same time it would be really nice if these larger organisations were encouraging people to upgrade their browsers where possible.
This article misses the point of the Google OS. It is a web-centric OS for devices that are used primarily for surfing.

Having said that, I think it is pretty clear that Google is betting on most of our applications living in the cloud in the future, and that is the trend they are banking on here.
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Hardware is ... HARD. A lot harder than software. There are no nice frameworks assuring your board works or that you aren't paying five times the cost on your plastic parts because of poor mold design. Iterations take months not days. This isn't something you can bootstrap with 4 people, the first plane ticket to China to meet with contract manufacturers is going to cost more than the entire server running a web app for 2 months. The container shipping it back will cost more than the food two founders eat a web company in a year.

BUT - at the end of the day you have a real product, which people will expect to pay for, and a barrier to entry behind you.
Or implies it's an Arrington comment so I'm not responsible even if it makes not one iota of sense.
Personally I don't agree with him. There are some applications which will never run well on the cloud (think games and video editing). For the simple reason that most games (as in real games and not flash based casual gaming stuff) require a proper operating system to run.

Besides, if I have my entire os as cloud based what happens when my cloud goes down??? It may not be the case in the US but in a lot of other countries, internet connections are not really reliable. Or what if Google itself goes down (they aren't immune to outages are they)???

Personally I'd like to use my computer even if something goes down.
But I guess it is entirely unproblematic that they can track your every activity wherever you are, on whatever device you are and whatever platform you are using. They are the good guys, right?

That's smarmy. I'll admit a teensy bit of bias, since I've never understood why people are so worried about being tracked. My letters to college professors I'm fine with Google scanning; love letters are about as embarrassing as my Google communications get, but I'm not exactly worried about them leaking to the world.

If you don't want to use Google, don't use Google. Use DuckDuckGo for search, set up your own webmail, don't use Chrome, don't use the Google Toolbar, don't use Android, and Google has absolutely no power over you. You're free!

Meanwhile, Google makes their business out of studying data, and its users all seem to think that's worth getting access to Google's stuff.

I hate this sarcastic mode of writing posts wherein it's a given that the company's evil, so you're allowed little jabs like:

After all they are using web-standards to do the stuff they do, so it can't be bad, right?

Nobody mentioned fucking web standards, man. Nobody would ever use that as a counterargument. You're raising strawmen to be baked in gas chambers.

I don't use my Google account at all nowadays. Google doesn't seem too upset by that. I'm satisfied with their level of control if they're not assholes about it when I stop being enslaved.
Because OEM agreements take a long time to get into place and the OEMs want to see some positive response.
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It isn't so much about hardware. I think that Google is exploiting a relatively narrow trend with the netbook angle. Long run, I think they are banking on more and more of our apps moving to the cloud. This is an OS built from the ground up to run things in the cloud.
I'm not sure how relevant the constitution will be in a future where you can read peoples minds among other things.