Well you also have the option of installing your own operating system on it, I was just talking within ChromeOS

I bought one to try it out with the knowledge end expectation that I could install Mint on it. I've switched it to developer mode (and back), but I haven't found any need for running actual applications on it. What I wanted was a very light laptop with a reasonable screen/keyboard (no netbooks), and it fits the bill perfectly (plus 6 second cold-boot time).

It does everything that a normal person could want - I use it for email, browsing the web, uploading pictures from a camera SD card, streaming music, editing powerpoint (through google presentations). It even has a built in SSH client for remoting into other machines via terminal as well as a remote desktop app.

Yes and No. You can get a VERY basic terminal by typing ctrl-alt-T, but really all it can do is ssh to something else. If you change it into developer mode (takes a bit longer to boot), then you get access to root/full terminal.

Well he did deliver easy online payment, electric cars, and a space program, so that's a pretty good track record

It seems like something that would be useful, but the article says it needs to be "1 to 3 feet from a wall" which would leave a lot of wasted space in most rooms.

Also, only 1 LED? Should have a whole ring of them!

They're comparing the initial construction costs to that of a coal plant. Actually running the plant would be cheaper than coal or natural gas.

No, MS isn't linux, they're not good at separating kernal and OS versions. Windows 7 came after Vista (Windows 6.0) - that was no coincidence.

That would be true if MS didn't use those numbers as part of their versioning. Windows 3.11 used it directly, and Windows 7 came after Windows Vista (6.0)

Looks more like the "Hackers" took $5000 from the FBI. They could have just been scammers and not even had one.

I thought that was the best part of it! The plot basically made no sense and lots of unreasonable/impossible things happened, but after this huge setup of aliens and shields that prevent radar, for that 5-10 minutes they made it just like the game of firing on a grid coordinate and hoping to hit a ship!

Interestingly, Windows 7 was 6.1, Windows 8 was 6.2, and Windows 8.1 was 6.3

Basically the numbering system between marketing and development don't even scale the same way.

You can set up a computer in the home office and a TV in the family room. Then you control it using your phone.

What's really missing is that ChromeOS is made to be a lightweight almost terminal system with nothing but the basics installed.

The article even mentions that it will be "Streaming" Photoshop from the cloud - which makes more sense for a ChromeOS program:

Even though Chrome OS is linux based, this version of Photoshop looks to be web based so it could run on anything that has a modern web browser.

The FAA is the "corporation" in this case. Just because it gets its money from tax payers doesn't mean it can't abuse its employees and doesn't mean the employees don't get human rights.

Probably so - American workers are much more efficient than in the past which is part of why unemployment is so high. If businesses hired two employees for 30 hours a week rather than one for 60, it'd be much more beneficial to society. Of course there are issues with employee overhead such as health care, but that's just more reason the US needs to meet the level of the rest of the first world countries and provide it.

There are still difference between humans, unions, and corporations. If you think a union is a monopoly on the supply side of labor, then the corporation is a monopoly on the demand side. You also have to remember that monopolies aren't illegal. We have laws against abusive monopolies to protect consumers (people) from abusive corporations. Unions do the same.

Unfortunately, short term gains often come first, so many don't even pay employees a livable wage.

By that logic, the FAA has a monopoly on hiring air traffic controllers, but no one would say that because it's ridiculous. Unions exist because a single employee does not have bargaining power against a corporation. Without them, we'd be working 10 hours a day, 6 days a week with no benefits. People aren't the same as products. They have basic needs and human rights that we prefer them to have.