Comment Mark Shuttleworth (Score 5, Funny) 198
If they can get Mark Shuttleworth on board, they'll have Google+ replacing Thunderbird in Ubuntu by the next release...
If they can get Mark Shuttleworth on board, they'll have Google+ replacing Thunderbird in Ubuntu by the next release...
I think the problem is that to have a slick, user-friendly UI that doesn't get in your way with latency caused by inadequate performance, you need enough performance that doing thick-client stuff is trivial, and there's no reason not to include it.
I think if you used the SSD to hold a fairly large cache of applications, you could practically work "in the cloud" a bit like distributed RCSes (eg. git) do, and re-sync everything when the laptop can connect. You can still have backgrounded automatic update of the cached apps, and you can manage the cache completely automatically (or allow more power to users to "pin" data and apps to the cache). I haven't used ChromeOS before, but if it's on its way to working like that (TFA suggests it isn't there yet), it would be workable for some use cases.
I'd also like to see some open-source web apps rise to fame, I'm sure most companies deploying these things would be happy to contract with Google, but for government work or running a small company that competes with Google, I'd prefer to recompile the OS to point at a privately-managed cloud (which would probably be as simple as a couple of clustered web servers and maybe a DR site)
Betting pool anyone? I call "atlantic cable".
I'll bet "there was no outage"
Thanks, I've grabbed it, will check it out later.
I would have bought a single-file downloadable ebook from the AOSA site if they offered it though...
The machine sounds pretty boring...
This is why the comment by the CEO is being referred to as stupid, since saying something like this can only lead to more patent trolls and nothing positive for the company.
Unless the REAL strategy is to patent-troll-troll, whereby the most profitable strategy is to attract trolls, get sued by them, then win and counter-sue for damages
no, they've replaced the court with a Microsoft product called JudgeWare 2012
If there's areas on a computing device that you can't really improve, and you still want people to plod along the upgrade path, just bump the numbers - like in the ca. 2000 "Mhz wars".
Or exchange it for cheap crap the way the Americans did.
Like iPads!
Nah, everyone knows Windows is just for games.
They should have gone with OS/2
Please allow me to rephrase: What happens when DCP LLC and the major publishers of non-free motion pictures sue the makers of HDFury and/or have ICE seize shipments at the border?
HDFury goes down, and a million chinese knockoffs rise up. If the *AAs are effective at controlling imports of those, then everyone gets to watch US media except those in the US. Maybe that's enough for them to say they've won, but by doing that they'd just be continuing down a financial spiral to oblivion.
Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power.
Damn creationists...
Don't panic.
