ChromeOS

Jul. 8th, 2009 09:01 am
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Perhaps MicroSoft shouldn't have been so heavily marketing that search engine. Looks like they made the beast angry. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8139711.stm

Should be very interesting to see how this goes. I suspect it will be a while before Maya or Photoshop run on Chrome, but I bet they port over Blender and Gimp.

I'm a little leery of a web-based OS though. Especially one that I'm guessing will be heavily reliant on Flash for many of its applications. Sure it's nice to have documents stored in a common repository and be able to share them with friends/co-workers on the other side of the continent. And probably, taking away file management from the average user is going to vastly the average user's ability to really mess up. But, (if that's indeed their model, please note I'm speculating wildly based on nothing) it seems like it's only a matter of time before someone then begins trying to charge you for use to your data and/or regulating your data. I'm very much in favor of a free society and try to do stuff to contribute to that fairly often, but I'm well aware that neither telecom companies nor governments work on that model.

Ohwell. No sense worrying about it now. I anxiously await their white papers.

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Date: 2009-07-09 12:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ff00ff.livejournal.com
Ok, but you do have to admit that sometimes baseless superlatives turn out correct. I mean, the segue did change the way people moved, forever. Right?

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Date: 2009-07-09 01:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prickvixen.livejournal.com
You're absolutely right! Because now they can be in one scene, and then they can move right over to the next, without having to show how they got there!

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Date: 2009-07-09 06:07 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2009-07-09 09:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ff00ff.livejournal.com
Editing humor :-| I am amused.

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Date: 2009-07-09 09:17 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] tarathene.livejournal.com
We keep trying to figure out what's in the storage compartments on police Segues. They already have everything they need on their belt, so it has to be something really useful if they had to put extra compartments on!

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Date: 2009-07-09 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ff00ff.livejournal.com
I bet it special Segue riot gear. You don't know fear until you've been faced down by a phalanx of armored Segue riot cops! They're all shooting tear gas, and microwave crowd dispersal pain beams and stuff, it's nuts.

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