We need to have a chat one of these days about the wonders of the web, for one, see that address bar at the top of your browser?

Type www.zoho.com in there and you're using zoho's 'cloud'! and typing in mail.yahoo.com will let you use yahoo's cloud!

The really nice thing of a web os device is that it's the web and nothing else, no lock in to any vendor, just type in an address or click a link, and presto you're using someone else's services

You could also use bing for search, zoho for docs, yahoo mail for email and, well the good thing of the web is that there's many choices for pretty much anything, you could even run your own servers if you'd really want too (though economically speaking there is a benefit to letting some big party do that for you)

That's missing the point, the goal with ChromeOS is to create a great companion device, a device you own next to your regular computer, much like people are already using android- & iPhone's and much like e-readers etc.

Sure it can do a -lot- and you can even stream music from one of the many music streaming sites, you can play games on the web (flash, html5, etc), import photos to picassa/flickr/facebook from your camera, all on ChromeOS, but for anything like farcry and photoshop you would still need a real computer, and use the ChromeOS device when your on the road or just want to do some regular stuff.

So not a competition between device types at all, 100% of the market could use ChromeOS, and a significant % would also have a bigger computer as well

web os ... please repeat this statement until it reaches your brain.

there's no java, no native code, just web apps, you know, html, css & js?

Yeah but in France after 3 accusations of p2p activity you'd be disconnected, so it's kind of a moot point

Another example of "Sensational headlines sells", before this ./ post even went live more details became available that in fact this is about adding music to the search results and that the songs found can be played through iLike, last.fm, lala, etc.. and offer 'Click to buy' links to iTunes and Amazon.

So no, Google is not taking on iTunes or Amazon, in fact it will help sell their music.

That doesn't mean however this isn't a very nifty feature :)

Screenshots and more info are available at:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/google-to-partner-with-ilike-and-lala-for-new-music-service/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/google-music-service-the-screenshots/

There is a difference between the motivations of a community driven and corp initiated open source project.

A community is more likely to appreciate that the (L)GPL provides some guarantee's on contributions flowing back and the software not being used to fabricate commercial products that are without open source goodness.

Companies on the other hand often release the source code to something to drive adoption of the technology, if someone would go and do their own modifications and ship it in a product without contributing back, it's still a win for driving the tech.

With that in mind it's a fair statement to say that companies are more likely to go for a BSD/MIT/APL style license

You're comparing devices who's sole purpose is to destroy organic tissue to cause serious injury or death to.. a webcam?

It really isn't similar at all.

G.ho.st is a 'virtual desktop' where you can access your gmail, facebook, twitter etc from one login and have virtual windows in that env for each one of them.

Google Wave is a communication platform that could be described *like* wiki, email and im, but it doesn't actually contain those apps, it's a platform of it's own.

Ah that's the tricky thing of explaining new concepts. The best analogy I've read is "It's like Edison going around the country showing people electricity, to demonstrate it he plugs in a light bulb, and the crowd goes wild ... Light without smoke and flame!, but that completely missing the point of what electricity is about".

Google Wave is much like that, if you try to describe it with analogies like "email", "wiki", "im", it makes people think it's something they already know, while actually it's a completely new thing

I suggest www.stronglifts.com. I found it a while ago and it's been a great resource. There's some awesome success stories in the forums!

Actually I wasn't speaking about foreigners at all. I was referring to U.S. Citizens who go to another country and do something that is legal there but not legal here.

That is what happened here (except substitute UK for US). In this case, the UK citizens did something in the US that is perfectly legal in the US but are being attacked by the UK.

If you publish something on a US based server then the act of publishing occurred in the US. No matter what soil you happen to be standing on. The same is true if you break a US law with something you do on a US server... it doesn't matter what soil you are standing on, you have to answer to the US.

The holocaust was mass murder. That is the crime of taking life. It is no more or less tragic because the life was taken due to racism.

The ironic thing about the holocaust is that those who get most upset about it tend to be the jews (who individually may or may not have been impacted). Its ironic because the jews as a group (there are of course exceptions) are the most racist group around. They believe their racism is dictated by God and give preference to others in business simply because they are jews and refuse to marry non-jews.

You want to slashdot a google.com site?

I think your sense of scale might be a bit off here, but good luck with that anyhow :)

If only IE would support silly little things like the canvas and video tags, or have proper SVG support for that matter.

They have stated they intent to support HTML5, but I'm still waiting for this to actually take shape (hope they will!)