Funny if you use *nix....
indeed.
Mighty fine shindig.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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amych - Apr 01, 2009 9:49:57 am PDT #9608 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
tommyrot - Apr 01, 2009 9:50:59 am PDT #9609 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Not an April Fools story: One giant step closer to the Google Linux desktop
Google still isn't saying publicly that they're going to deploy Android as a desktop Linux, but HP, ASUS, and other major computer makers are apparently in talks with the company about deploying Android on netbooks
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Satjiv Chahil, a vice president in HP's PC division, declined to comment on whether the world's largest PC maker will sell either netbooks or smartphones running Android but confirmed that HP is "studying" the free operating system.
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Think about it. How do they find things on the Web? They 'Google' for it. The company name has already become a common verb in English and other languages. How do many people check their mail? They use GMail. What they do they check for news? They use Google News.
Going from this to using a PC that actually runs Google isn't much of a jump at all. Sure it will be the Google Android Linux desktop underneath it, but most people won't care about that anymore than they care about the Google's search engine's Linux underpinnings. All they'll know is that their netbook or laptop is running something by a name they already know and trust. And, since these computers will be based on Linux, they'll cost less than their brothers running Windows.
Cool.
Gudanov - Apr 01, 2009 9:54:40 am PDT #9610 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
It's only a matter of time before Google merges with iRobot and humanity is doomed.
amych - Apr 01, 2009 9:55:43 am PDT #9611 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's only a matter of time before Google merges with iRobot and humanity is doomed.
Oh, dear. CADIE goes mobile...
omnis_audis - Apr 01, 2009 12:38:41 pm PDT #9612 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Polaroid has a new "instant digital" camera out, FYI... [link]with the screen, and the printer, I wonder how long the batteries last?
Omnis, that would be awesome!Now I really need to call Time/Warner. What is your time frame for wanting to DVR?
megan walker - Apr 01, 2009 12:53:36 pm PDT #9613 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I move the 11th and I'm heading to Yosemite with my sister on the 20th, so before that would be great. But really, I'm so happy to not to make this purchase that any time is great.
omnis_audis - Apr 01, 2009 1:54:43 pm PDT #9614 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Megan, email insent.
Juliebird - Apr 02, 2009 7:03:16 am PDT #9615 of 25501
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I have an ipod classic that's about a year old now. Lately, whenever I hook it up to the computer, it doesn't show, is corrupted, needs reformatting, can't do that until I let the battery die because the ipod froze, but it didn't freeze til I plugged it into the laptop.
Grrr.
tiggy - Apr 02, 2009 7:39:17 am PDT #9616 of 25501
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
I was attempting to update some of the apps on my touch through the app store and two of the apps have frozen in the update stage and have been that way for about a week now. i tried going back into the app store and redownloading, but since they're technically there it won't let me. i hoped when i plugged it into my computer it would update, but no luck there either.
any suggestions?
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2009 1:00:12 am PDT #9617 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love this example of the flexibility of CSS. We're not that flexible here, but it's amazing what you can do with judicious abstraction and application of images. I mean this and this are exactly the same HTML.