Google Operating System...
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Sorry to be pedantic, but there's no such thing as a beta ray or an alpha ray. What you have are beta particles (high-energy electrons) and alpha particles (helium nuclei stripped of their electrons). ;)
Ryan
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Gamma gamma gamma a gamma-median...
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Sorry to be pedantic, but there's no such thing as a beta ray or an alpha ray. What you have are beta particles (high-energy electrons) and alpha particles (helium nuclei stripped of their electrons). ;)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote:
beta particles (high-energy electrons) and alpha particles (helium nuclei stripped of their electrons)
It appears to be ray with myopic vision ... ;P
Maxwell Chen
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So does anyone else think we are seeing the Google OS right in front of us? Gmail has been in beta forever, now we have calendar and notebook we first had search. I'm kind of thinking that Google is releasing each of these pieces seperately and gathering users/momentum and feedback and then one of these days it will all be stitched into something. Sure seems odd, very long betas if you ask me...
code-frog wrote:
So does anyone else think we are seeing the Google OS right in front of us
Looks more like Google is gearing up to be a service orientated company; they make their real money on selling targeted ads. Ads that target whatever it is you’re working with. Who wants the over head of building / maintaining an OS, when you can much more cheaply sell / lease all of the apps that a common user needs irregardless of the OS?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Sorry to be pedantic, but there's no such thing as a beta ray or an alpha ray. What you have are beta particles (high-energy electrons) and alpha particles (helium nuclei stripped of their electrons). ;)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Ryan Binns wrote:
beta particles (high-energy electrons) and alpha particles (helium nuclei stripped of their electrons)
It appears to be ray with myopic vision ... ;P
Maxwell Chen
:laugh: Fair enough
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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So does anyone else think we are seeing the Google OS right in front of us? Gmail has been in beta forever, now we have calendar and notebook we first had search. I'm kind of thinking that Google is releasing each of these pieces seperately and gathering users/momentum and feedback and then one of these days it will all be stitched into something. Sure seems odd, very long betas if you ask me...
Except mail, calendar and notebook do not an OS make. I understand that Google uses what is basically a homebrew OS on their server farms, but even that is a far cry from a full blown client operating system since it's geared entirely toward very specialized tasks. And if you think GMail has been in beta long, check out Google Groups. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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In the scheme of things the underlying OS is trivial. You build a web enabled UI that does 90% of what most people do every day and your there. I mean you can boot any flavor of BSD or Linux over the network so the underlying engine isn't as much an issue. Obviously, Google would take and do what Apple did. Find something out there for a base and the dress it up, clean it up, tighten it up and boom your there.
If we all used the Plain English compiler every post in the lounge would be a programming question.:cool:
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code-frog wrote:
Obviously, Google would take and do what Apple did.
But Apple had almost twenty years of GUI layer experience. On the other hand, I've yet to figure out what Googles actual business plan is. Except for selling ad space, I can't figure out their revenue model. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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In the scheme of things the underlying OS is trivial. You build a web enabled UI that does 90% of what most people do every day and your there. I mean you can boot any flavor of BSD or Linux over the network so the underlying engine isn't as much an issue. Obviously, Google would take and do what Apple did. Find something out there for a base and the dress it up, clean it up, tighten it up and boom your there.
If we all used the Plain English compiler every post in the lounge would be a programming question.:cool:
Welcome to CP in your language. Post the unicode version in My CP Blog [ ^ ] now.People who don't understand how awesome Firefox is have never used CPhog. The act of using CPhog alone doesn't make Firefox cool. It opens your eyes to the possibilities and then you start looking for other things like CPhog and your eyes are suddenly open to all sorts of useful things all through Firefox. - (Self Quote)
code-frog wrote:
In the scheme of things the underlying OS is trivial. You build a web enabled UI that does 90% of what most people do every day and your there.
I don't think they intend to offer an OS as such but rather gradually change the paradigm so that needing to have a specific OS becomes increasingly irrelevant. Kevin
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So does anyone else think we are seeing the Google OS right in front of us? Gmail has been in beta forever, now we have calendar and notebook we first had search. I'm kind of thinking that Google is releasing each of these pieces seperately and gathering users/momentum and feedback and then one of these days it will all be stitched into something. Sure seems odd, very long betas if you ask me...
Heh, ICQ were in beta for at least 9 years. I haven't used ICQ for a year or so but I recall it coming out toward the end of 1996 (I have a low ICQ number) and it was still marked beta a year ago. Rob Manderson I'm working on a version for Visual Lisp++ My blog http://blogs.wdevs.com/ultramaroon/[^]
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code-frog wrote:
Obviously, Google would take and do what Apple did.
But Apple had almost twenty years of GUI layer experience. On the other hand, I've yet to figure out what Googles actual business plan is. Except for selling ad space, I can't figure out their revenue model. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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In the scheme of things the underlying OS is trivial. You build a web enabled UI that does 90% of what most people do every day and your there. I mean you can boot any flavor of BSD or Linux over the network so the underlying engine isn't as much an issue. Obviously, Google would take and do what Apple did. Find something out there for a base and the dress it up, clean it up, tighten it up and boom your there.
If we all used the Plain English compiler every post in the lounge would be a programming question.:cool:
Welcome to CP in your language. Post the unicode version in My CP Blog [ ^ ] now.People who don't understand how awesome Firefox is have never used CPhog. The act of using CPhog alone doesn't make Firefox cool. It opens your eyes to the possibilities and then you start looking for other things like CPhog and your eyes are suddenly open to all sorts of useful things all through Firefox. - (Self Quote)
Why would they need to do this? Where is the value in it for them to have to create, support and maintain an OS when their products work on all existing OSs anyway? Right now Google never has to field a Windows, Mac OS or Linux support call. regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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:laugh: Fair enough
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote:
Fair enough
:jig:
Maxwell Chen
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So does anyone else think we are seeing the Google OS right in front of us? Gmail has been in beta forever, now we have calendar and notebook we first had search. I'm kind of thinking that Google is releasing each of these pieces seperately and gathering users/momentum and feedback and then one of these days it will all be stitched into something. Sure seems odd, very long betas if you ask me...
code-frog wrote:
So does anyone else think we are seeing the Google OS right in front of us?
Exactly. The google OS is an amorphous collection of desktop widgets backed by AJAX-enabled web applications cross integrated by a search engine. (how's that for marketing spiel?) Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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code-frog wrote:
Obviously, Google would take and do what Apple did.
But Apple had almost twenty years of GUI layer experience. On the other hand, I've yet to figure out what Googles actual business plan is. Except for selling ad space, I can't figure out their revenue model. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
I'm pretty sure that is the revenue model. I suppose they could charge for data storage (in whichever app) but then they would actually have to come up with a Service Level Agreement and take some responsibility for the user's data. Ain't gonna happen. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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So does anyone else think we are seeing the Google OS right in front of us? Gmail has been in beta forever, now we have calendar and notebook we first had search. I'm kind of thinking that Google is releasing each of these pieces seperately and gathering users/momentum and feedback and then one of these days it will all be stitched into something. Sure seems odd, very long betas if you ask me...
I don't think google wants to make an OS (Much like GM Ford dosn't want to start an AD agency). I think the plan is to be your ONLY source of information (or such a presence that everything else will go the way of Altavista). I forsee them starting a TV news network (in the not to distent future, they already have expiremented with radio). But as for the OS thing -- eventually I think someone will come out with a dumb terminal type of deal thats web enabled and it will just have access to google. Corporations would love this... Think of it -- no IT staff at all, just a few high schoolers that know how to install a machine and get it on the net (Google will do the rest). Matthew Hazlett Sometimes I miss the simpler DOS days of Borland Turbo Pascal (but not very often).
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So does anyone else think we are seeing the Google OS right in front of us? Gmail has been in beta forever, now we have calendar and notebook we first had search. I'm kind of thinking that Google is releasing each of these pieces seperately and gathering users/momentum and feedback and then one of these days it will all be stitched into something. Sure seems odd, very long betas if you ask me...
I think so. That's why they've hired M.Lucovsky who was an OS designer/developer/etc at Microsoft. Here is the story behind this; :laugh: When Mark Lucovsky (chief designer and developer of NT/W2K/..) decides to leave Microsoft and when he was about to leave Microsoft for Google, Steve Ballmer's reaction was: "Steve Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Ballmer then said: 'Fucking Eric Schmidt(Google's CEO) is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google,'" then resumed trying to persuade Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft.
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Why would they need to do this? Where is the value in it for them to have to create, support and maintain an OS when their products work on all existing OSs anyway? Right now Google never has to field a Windows, Mac OS or Linux support call. regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Sorry, by accident I voted a 2... And I just don't know how to retrieve it. Google has been offering a lot of intesting things, earth, moon, mars, destop, gmail, pages and lot more, mostly in beta phase. If there is a Google OS, I will try it without hesitation. But can you guys really figure out what the benifits Google can make from a Google OS?
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code-frog wrote:
Obviously, Google would take and do what Apple did.
But Apple had almost twenty years of GUI layer experience. On the other hand, I've yet to figure out what Googles actual business plan is. Except for selling ad space, I can't figure out their revenue model. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Google - Gmail The usage of technology and the implementation is great! The target is still unexplored but there is something big that is to be implemented. The new upcoming features might be able to specify the actual plan about gmail and the revenue collection method. Vartika
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Although at fast enough speeds the de Broglie wavelength (lambda = h / p) makes the particle into a wave :)
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