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Submission + - Google OS Announced 12

shystershep writes: "Rumors have been floating around for years that Google was planning an OS to compete with Window. As of Tuesday night, it is official: "So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010." It is separate from the Android mobile OS, will run on both x86 and ARM processors, and is aimed primarily at web use. Other than that, details are scarce."

Comment Meh. DARPA barking up the wrong tree. (Score 1, Troll) 321

Of the billions of lines of code that runs on most of the world's fastest supercomputers, 99% of it is in FORTRAN. This will NEVER CHANGE. PERIOD. Anybody who tries to change this, should be shown the door. Granted, most if it is still Fortran77, but it works, runs the fastests and the easist to maintain. This is why the next generation of Fortran (Fortran 2008) will be hard-core, parallel driven. You "C" beanies will need C/OPENMPI/OPENMP/TAU to just even try to match Fortran2008's power. Intel knows this, this is why all their parallel libraries, codes and tools are geared for Fortran and NOT C. Live with it...

Comment Re:Is he gonna get compensated? (Score 2, Interesting) 190

Totally untrue in other countries. Most countries do not have realestate taxes. I have friends whos relatives in Greece have owned their little humble house for hundreds of years and haven't paid a dime in all those years. Geeez, even in CHINA, (a "commie" country) there is NO REALESTATE TAXES for a family who owns one house. Once you purchase a house, you own it and nobody can take it away. Don't pay your real-estate/property/IRS taxes in the US and your house is gone, so who is the real "commie" country now? Maybe Obama can change this?

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