http://www.osnews.com/story/24646/Episode_41_I_Like_Chaos Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 23 May 2013 19:13:14 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?470389 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470389 you got it the wrong way around:
ps1 and ps2 had cpu and gpu designed by sony
the ps3 is the first to use a gpu by a supplyer (nvidia) and the cell-processor at least is ppc-based Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smashIt) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470390 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470390 Awesome podcast description. The tone is almost exactly how Radio Music Theater (http://www.radiomusictheatre.com/index.htm) describes their comedies (which are probably the funniest performances I've ever seen). Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (subsider34) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470391 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470391 Netbooks aren't staying because Tablets are better positioned as low-end devices than they are. Netbooks are essentially cheap miniature Laptops. If Tablets go away it'll most likely be because of a even better positioned low-end device. Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RichterKuato) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470400 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470400 Apart from that my feeling was that tablet gained from using application designed for smart-phone, where netbook were running desktop class applications most of the time (any netbook optimized app or website anyone ?), no wonder they fade in popularity. Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dvhh) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470406 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470406 'it makes sense from a marketing perspective'

Maybe in the US...? Who has a BlackBerry ?

I know some potential US customers have already said: really nice device, but ugh, no way will I buy a BlackBerry as well. Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lennie) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470411 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470411 I've been listing to panel discussions at conferences to companies who create or have apps. They don't want to have one app per phone, device, whatever. They don't like to wait weeks for appstores approvals.

Some companies do want to have an appstore as a markerting thing: A an extra place device users can go to find 'apps', that is the only part they like.

So they prefer a HTML5 app solution with an appstore.

So that was very encouraging.Edited 2011-04-18 12:22 UTC Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lennie) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470415 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470415 Just thought I'd mention re: the discussion Android/Chrome OS that it would seem Chrome OS is actually about to enter stage left...

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2044223/google-readies-chr...

Dunno if I care or not. Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (quackalist) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470417 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470417 I think what the article says is wrong:

"The development of Chrome OS has been protracted and unlike the firm's Android operating system, which has had numerous public releases that added features, Chrome OS has been kept under wraps. Google's decision to keep Chrome OS private for so long has been questioned, not only by those who believe Android and Chrome OS do very similar things but also by those who wonder if Chrome OS will arrive too late to make any impact."

Are they confused by Android Honeycomb ? Because ChromiumOS (base for ChromeOS) is just an open source project, like Chromium (base for Chrome). You can even download it now and try it out, for example from Hexxeh:

http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/ Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lennie) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470418 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470418 What’s more, the rug could be pulled from under their feet. Changes in ChromeOS show a touch-screen keyboard interface going in. OEMs may be saying that they are not interested (and don’t see much revenue) in traditional laptops any more (because of the tablet hype) forcing Google to adapt Chrome OS to touch-screens. But then, what is the point of Chrome OS when there’s already Android 3, which offers a ton more?

I think Google are simply not willing to admit to the troubles they’re having with positioning Chrome OS. Chrome OS is their vision of how it's all supposed to be, and now Android has stomped all over that dream. Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470420 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470420 Why don't they create something for the appstore and Android to easily allow webapps or similair ? That would atleast be a start to get developers used to the idea.

Apps like on WebOS or something like that.

My guess is ChromeOS is like any other platform it takes time to get apps for the platform.

Obviously any website which gets some extra HTML5 added to it is a potential app for ChromeOS.

I think the whole point of ChromeOS is, it doesn't need to have a lot of capabilities.

It just needs to be the best damn browser with background automatic updates and 'cloud synchronisation' (a place to keep your own settings/bookmarks/app-choices and so on so different users can use the same device and you can use the same settings with different devices and the desktop and you have a backup in case the device breaks).Edited 2011-04-18 16:20 UTC Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lennie) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470431 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470431 Kroc's voice came through a bit soft/thin and metally.
Assume your using different mics? Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fran) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470433 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470433 I didn’t apply an equaliser to my channel this time. Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470474 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470474 There is an other reason why Android is just annoying for Google, Oracle/patents/lawsuit.Edited 2011-04-19 00:10 UTC Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lennie) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?470547 http://www.osnews.com/thread?470547 Actually I have seen such a provider in my country. They don't have stuff like news servers or email addresses. They are pretty small and are using a fiber optic network owned by a company that is pretty close to the government, so they basically rent it having very low costs and very cheap products.

I'd switch to them, but my home isn't connected yet, so there is still an infrastructure related problem. The funny/sad thing is that I looked on a map and basically 100m from here in every direction there would be connections.

So it is possible I guess. I am living in Austria/Vienna by the way. While I don't want to advertise that provider the organization providing the infrastructure is called Blizznet. So should you live in Austria you'll be able to find that "dumb" and other ISPs. Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (reez) Comments