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From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Doug Pensinger
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 10:38 PM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Subject: Re: Google Operating System
Julia wrote:
Reply:
I get no more than 1 in 500 false
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From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On
Behalf Of John Williams
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:48 PM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Subject: Re: Google Operating System
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Doug
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Julia Thompsonf...@zurg.net wrote:
I get no more than 1 in 500 false positives.
I get no more than 1 in 1000 false negatives.
That is interesting. I am much more worried about false positives
(missing a real email) than I am about false negatives (seeing a few
Julia wrote:
Reply:
I get no more than 1 in 500 false positives.
I get no more than 1 in 1000 false negatives.
It was more than that early on in my use of Gmail, I got one account in
2004, IIRC, and another in 2007. The more recent one, most of the false
positives were from one mailing
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Other than by breaking the M$ pay to play licensing paradigm and
leveling the playing field for open source developers?
Who says M$ won't have users pay to play M$-Linux? It's possible
that the worse nightmare of the free-software sjihad/s community
happens: M$ may
On Jul 8, 2009, at 8:35 PM, John Williams wrote:
My prediction is that Chrome OS will never gain significant market
share for high-powered computers, but it may make some inroads in
netbooks (which are in between a notebook and a smart phone in terms
of power). Of course, the google says Chrome
On 09/07/2009, at 1:35 PM, John Williams wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Rceebergerrceeber...@comcast.net
wrote:
I don't see how turning your PC into a dumb terminal could be
considered an advance.
I'm not storing my stuff on Google's servers.
My impression is that the Chrome OS
Charlie Wrote
...and Google already have one. It's called Android, plus there's gOS which
Google had hefty input into. And there are miriad other Linuces and BSDs to
try, up to and including Darwin/OSX. So I'm with Will (you can pick
yourselves up at your leisure). Don't see the point of
John Williams wrote:
My impression is that the Chrome OS will allow you to avoid just
what you say above. It is an actual OS, although probably OS lite
would be a better term. It will be able to run programs on your own
CPU, provided they conform to whatever API google is coding, and it
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Dave Landdml...@gmail.com wrote:
http://bit.ly/1m1rVP
or, if you prefer full-blooded URLs:
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/lets-all-take-deep-breath-and-get-some.html
It's brilliant start to finish, but I especially liked:
Trying to make an OS
On Jul 9, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/lets-all-take-deep-breath-and-get-some.html
It's brilliant start to finish, but I especially liked:
Trying to make an OS out of Chrome is like saying you're going
to turn a Pontiac Aztek into a
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Charlie Bellchar...@culturelist.org wrote:
On 09/07/2009, at 1:35 PM, John Williams wrote:
My impression is that the Chrome OS will allow you to avoid just
what you say above. It is an actual OS, although probably OS lite
would be a better term.
...and Google
On 10/07/2009, at 12:53 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Charlie
Bellchar...@culturelist.org wrote:
On 09/07/2009, at 1:35 PM, John Williams wrote:
My impression is that the Chrome OS will allow you to avoid just
what you say above. It is an actual OS, although
On Jul 9, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
(As far as why .. well, it's possible that Google has taken notice
that Microsoft has been promoting Bing pretty heavily, and this is a
shot across their bow. If Chrome OS succeeds, and evolves into
something that can displace Windows as a
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
(As far as why .. well, it's possible that Google has taken notice
that Microsoft has been promoting Bing pretty heavily, and this is a
shot across their bow. If Chrome OS succeeds, and evolves into
something that can displace Windows as a full-functioning OS,
On Jul 9, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Dave Land wrote:
I am not like our friend Mario with his 57 Varieties approach to
operating systems. I use Mac OS X almost exclusively because
operating system fit and finish matter to me. (This is not a
statement of superiority to Mario, merely noting a
On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
(As far as why .. well, it's possible that Google has taken notice
that Microsoft has been promoting Bing pretty heavily, and this is a
shot across their bow. If Chrome OS succeeds, and evolves into
something that can
Bruce Bostwick wrote:
Not to mention that changing Windows virtual monopoly to *Nix
monopoly is _very bad_ for the development of new techs.
How would migrating to a larger user base for *nix be bad for the
development of new techs?
Because Monopoly is Evil.
Other than by breaking the
On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Who says M$ won't have users pay to play M$-Linux? It's possible
that the worse nightmare of the free-software sjihad/s community
happens: M$ may embrace, extend and then extinguish Linux.
The way they embraced and extended the Web with
On 8 Jul 2009 at 23:43, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Charlie Wrote
...and Google already have one. It's called Android, plus there's gOS which
Google had hefty input into. And there are miriad other Linuces and BSDs to
try, up to and including Darwin/OSX. So I'm with Will (you can pick
At 10:35 PM Wednesday 7/8/2009, John Williams wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Rceebergerrceeber...@comcast.net wrote:
I don't see how turning your PC into a dumb terminal could be
considered an advance.
I'm not storing my stuff on Google's servers.
My impression is that the Chrome
On 7/9/2009 11:15:40 AM, Bruce Bostwick (lihan161...@sbcglobal.net) wrote:
At the risk of being flamed, I might also point out that NASA has long
since forbidden any primary functionality on ISS from running on
Windows platforms because of stability concerns -- if it's onboard and
actually
On Jul 9, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Rceeberger wrote:
On 7/9/2009 11:15:40 AM, Bruce Bostwick (lihan161...@sbcglobal.net)
wrote:
At the risk of being flamed, I might also point out that NASA has
long
since forbidden any primary functionality on ISS from running on
Windows platforms because of
- Original Message -
From: Bruce Bostwick lihan161...@sbcglobal.net
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: Google Operating System
Sounds like you might know the right people to ask for a tour*. ;)
(*one
Andrew wrote:
The spam filter on Pegaus Mail works fine for me, and it's mine
rather then being in the control of a company which is going to scan
my emails. I've yet to find (and this includes gmail) another filter
which is more than 90% accurate for me.
I'd estimate the efficiency of my
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Doug Pensingerbrig...@zo.com wrote:
I'd estimate the efficiency of my gmail filter is 99% or better.
That is a particularly uninformative statistic.
Much more interesting would be two figures: probability of false
positives ( number of real marked as spam /
At 11:48 PM Thursday 7/9/2009, John Williams wrote:
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Doug Pensingerbrig...@zo.com wrote:
I'd estimate the efficiency of my gmail filter is 99% or better.
That is a particularly uninformative statistic.
Much more interesting would be two figures: probability of
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:48 PM, John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Doug Pensingerbrig...@zo.com wrote:
I'd estimate the efficiency of my gmail filter is 99% or better.
That is a particularly uninformative statistic.
Much more interesting would be
From http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/08/technology/google_chrome/index.htm
or
http://tinyurl.com/m2vf2p
Google launches OS - calls out Microsoft
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google Inc. is planning to
hit Microsoft Corp. where it hurts by challenging the software
giant's dominance
Mauro wrote:
So, any early adopters planning on switching over when it ships? I'm
willing to at least give it a hard drive partition.
Me too. I refuse to use Explorer and would jump on a new OS from Google
especially.
Doug
Chrome maru
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On 7/8/2009 8:06:20 PM, Doug Pensinger (brig...@zo.com) wrote:
Mauro wrote:
So, any early adopters planning on switching over when it ships? I'm
willing to at least give it a hard drive partition.
Me too. I refuse to use Explorer and would jump on a new OS from Google
especially.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Rceebergerrceeber...@comcast.net wrote:
I don't see how turning your PC into a dumb terminal could be considered an
advance.
I'm not storing my stuff on Google's servers.
My impression is that the Chrome OS will allow you to avoid just
what you say above. It
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