| Author | Message | ||
     Glitch |
Anyone here gonna use it? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing -google-chrome-os.html | ||
| Froggy |
Been rumored for a while now. I have no reason to switch from Vista. If it is as lackluster as the Chrome browser, I don't see how anyone would use it. | ||
| Bking |
Could Goggle be overextending themselves? http://www.macworld.com/article/141611/2009/07/goo gle_chromeos.html | ||
| Hexangler |
My nephew says that Google is the only company besides Apple who is big enough to take on Microsoft. He also said that Vista and Windows 7 are complete failures. We will be interested to see what Google comes up with. He also said it is now possible to load Apple's Leopard on a home-built Intel Based PC, but seeing that Windows can only use 3megs of cash, the intel motherboards are only thus equipt, while the MacPros use and come with 8megs, there is no advantage, other than being cheep. | ||
| Froggy |
True. I can't name any other software company that would be big enough to try and do this.
That statement is laughable at best.
Yep, people have been doing it since the first Intel based macs came out.
More hogwash, the CPU cache has nothing to do with software or anything to do with what operating system you are running. They use the same processors for both Mac and PCs now.  | ||
| Hexangler |
I'll see if I can get him to clarify our conversation about this tomorrow. | ||
| Froggy |
He might be talking about the RAM, on 32 bit operating systems you are limited to 4gb. Realistically its about 3.4gb because of how windows handles the memory. There is some software hacks to get around it, but nothing practical. The solution is to use a 64 bit operating system, like Windows XP x64, Vista x64, Mac OSX, or most flavors of Linux. Here is a good read for you, but its a little technical so it might not really help. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000811.h tml | ||
| Hexangler |
I'll try. | ||
| Hexangler |
Yup, I misquoted him, that is what he was talking about. I'll show him this thread tomorrow, and hopefully he will chime in. Be nice, he's still innocent, and this is his major at UC Davis. Thanks, Hex. | ||
| Court |
>>>Be nice, he's still innocent, and this is his major at UC Davis. If he's at UC Davis he could learn much here. There are several top IT folks here on Badweb. Seriously, if I had a son or daughter enrolled in an IT program (which by the way is VERY good work based on what the IT folks my wife works with each >300K) I'd have them hangout here and learn from a couple of our pros. Cool stuff. Google has their work cut out for them. Hope they keep sight of what they do. | ||
| Greenlantern |
quote: My nephew says that Google is the only company besides Apple who is big enough to take on Microsoft. True. I can't name any other software company that would be big enough to try and do this. Just a friendly reminder, Apple is a hardware company that happens to sell software.  | ||
| Jlnance |
Anyone here gonna use it? I'll give it a try. It's running on top of Linux which I'm already running, so the guts of it should be somewhat familiar. | ||
| Danger_dave |
>>that happens to sell software.<< that works really well for me. I'll take that 3 megs of cash if it's spare. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Like Jlance said, they are not really writing an operating system. They are taking Linux, packaging a nice tight distribution, and putting a new graphical presentation layer on top of it. Linux, like any other non idiotic operating system, decouples the GUI from the underlying operating system functions. Kind of like Ubuntu, but with even more investment on a lean mean windowing system. If Google is true to form, it will do few things really well, which I am all for. It will probably be targeted as a platform for thin web clients (like a nice light "atom" cpu based laptop that'll run for 8 hours straight on batteries). It'll be the perfect laptop and OS for the kitchen counter. Or (more radically) to sit beside the TV. The amazing parts of Chrome are not what it does, it is what it could do. It has google gears built in, which includes all sorts of neat buttons to push and levers to flip behind the scenes. It has a full SQL database built into it... The Google OS is an extension (transformation?) of that concept. It paves the way for new cool things to be done, it doesn't really do the current things much better. | ||
| Blake |
There's one of those IT experts Court mentioned. I just discovered (after digging through months old email in a secondary account I haven't been checking) that he's listed as a BadWeB employee. Which means that we need to pay him accordingly, which in turn means that BadWeB is about to go bankrupt in a hurry, even if the inflated estimates of our revenues were true. Bill! I wasn't ignoring your emails! I just hadn't been checking that google email account. My BadWeB email is the one I use for daily correspondence. Sorry about that. Thanks for all your help! The check's in the mail. | ||
| Court |
>>>like any other non idiotic operating system Blake . . . it bothers me when he uses us as a basis for comparison. We've become "reference standard" idiots . . . we may have to eventually take turns standing in the Bureau of Weights and Measures. | ||
| Spiderman |
CRAP BadWeb was hiring!? I didn't see that on Monster  | ||
| Froggy |
He gets paid while surfing on Badweb, life must be nice... Oh wait, so do I!  | ||
| Psycrow |
Ah Life in the Google "Cloud"... Psy | ||
| Glitch |
The check's in the mail. CRAP BadWeb was hiring!? Holy Crap! BadWeB pays? And all this time I was in it for the groupies.... | ||
| Ezblast |
Jlance isn't chopped liver either - how much space does it take? Another thing - who stole my groupies? - ahhh well - I'm married, so she'd probably be mad if I did have them - lol EZ | ||
| Americanmadexb |
What's a roadie get payed?  | ||
| Reepicheep |
I saw that also... Don't know how I got listed as an employee, I'm not on the DNS regitry or anything. Probably because I was on a list of "custodians" that was public for a while (not sure if it still public or not), so if you look up some others of us they are probably "employees" as well. No problem with the emails Blake, I had only dial up on vacation anyway, so I never got the chance to make the changes. I'll keep watching for a window of time... | ||
| Glitch |
Ah, the ever elusive Window of Time... If you find one, and there's an extra laying around, could you get me one as well? |
