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| Authored by: webster on Sunday, October 07 2012 @ 07:30 PM EDT |
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It's fast. It works. Everything is always available.
It's as private as anything else like land-line telephones or the US Mail.
Which is to say, if it is out of your head, it is not private.
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| Authored by: Bernard on Sunday, October 07 2012 @ 11:36 PM EDT |
Mountain View seems to be a better choice than Redmond or
Cupertino...
Yes, you can 'roll your own' Linux-based notebook. It's not
even that hard, provided you can get a notebook that doesn't
pay a tax to Redmond or Cupertino. The point is the
integration of services, which, in my mind, the folks from
Mountain View do better than either of the others, while
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 08 2012 @ 01:34 AM EDT |
I've owned an Xbox 360 for years now, but I only recently connected it to the
Internet so I could play a particular game online. (Boy, all those
advertisements it shows when connected to the Internet sure are annoying. Its
enough to make me yank the cable out when I'm not actively playing an online
game with it. Oh well.)
Last night I put a DVD in my Xbox 360, which serves as a plenty decent DVD
player. As the movie started to play, I glanced at my router just in time to
see it blink furiously as the Xbox 360 presumably transmitted the details of the
movie I was about to watch to Microsoft.
I don't know exactly what was sent, but as a game developer, I can make a pretty
good guess: Xbox Live has a sort of "status" it shows for each player,
similar to a social-networking site or an instant-messaging product. It shows
your friends what game your are currently playing, for example. I assume my
Xbox was telling Microsoft that I was watching a movie so that Microsoft would
be able to show my friends "user XXXX is watching movie YYYY" or
possibly just "is watching a movie".
Regardless, its pretty creepy and annoying, and means I will have to be more
diligent about unplugging the stupid thing from the Internet when I'm not
actually playing games online.
I also expect the next generation of game consoles to be even more invasive and
annoying, and because of this I probably won't buy them. I liked things better
in the PS2 days: You just popped in your disc and played your games, and how
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| Authored by: micheas on Tuesday, October 09 2012 @ 03:08 AM EDT |
You might want to look at it a little bit more.
Chromium OS is based on gentoo and you can swap out the
pam_google for something like pam_ldap and push everything
to your own server.
Personally I think it is the best current operating system
for kiosks.
A usable set of defaults and a relatively easy way to fork
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 09 2012 @ 02:16 PM EDT |
My PC - probably not - there's still a bunch of software I
can't run on a Chromebook. OTOH, a Chromebox is already
Granny's next PC. I dislike tech support, Granny dislikes
viruses and paying for word processing software. Her eyes
really lit up when I showed her google docs and told her it
was free...
The only issue is that Google Cloud Print is still pretty
finicky - keeps forgetting her printer for some reason.
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