Comments on: Get A Move On Google!

By: The Vicar

The Vicar — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:47:09 +0000

And that’s your choice. (And, incidentally, mine as well — I’d rather carry the extra weight/volume and have more capability built in.) But I know of two people who have specifically been buying laptops based on size and weight for years, because they travel a lot, who thought the Macbook Air was the best thing since sliced bread.

By: Adrian Hayter

Adrian Hayter — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:02:08 +0000

Well I’m not trying to convert anyone to Linux. Most distributions are not for general users and it takes a lot of getting used to. Luckily I understand the system so I know how to use it effectively, and for me it is faster and more secure than Windows and OSX. I would prefer to pay $0 for something that works for me than have to pay $1800 for a laptop that doesn’t seem to have anything going for it other than being “thin”.

By: The Vicar

The Vicar — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:46:52 +0000

Their operating system is not one of the good things though, neither are their expensive branded computers.

I was going to post a long reply to that, but seriously — who wants to get into this subject? There are a million zillion websites and forums where this sort of thing is debated ad nauseum, and I doubt any discussion is going to add anything new. It suffices to say that I disagree, and keep trying Linux at approximately six-month intervals without (yet) being impressed.

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Why I Love Wine - The Atheist Blogger — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:20:27 +0000

[...] on non-windows operating systems. With the release of Google Chrome, the new browser from Google, I was disappointed that they had failed to make a beta version for other operating systems. However, I tried running [...]

By: db0

db0 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:23:17 +0000

@Vicar: Sorry, are we supposed to thank Apple for taking the job others did and building on it without having to write their own stuff? It’s not like they had a choice for if KHTML was under BSD then apple would probably never have released the code back to the community as they did with their newest kernel.

So yeah, Apple, great company…Only when they can’t do otherwise

By: Adrian Hayter

Adrian Hayter — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:21:24 +0000

The Vicar,

So by hating an Operating System I automatically hate the company? Apple have done a load of great things, iPods and WebKit included. Their operating system is not one of the good things though, neither are their expensive branded computers.

By: The Vicar

The Vicar — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:14:49 +0000

Mac OSX (eurgh eurgh)

Right on. Apple clearly doesn’t know what they’re doing and is a horrible company. Why, did you know they actually took a small open-source project called KHTML and built their own derivative, called Webkit, which has eclipsed the original project? How dare they do… oh… wait…

By: Adrian Hayter

Adrian Hayter — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:51:59 +0000

I agree, JavaScript should be an important step in browsers. What should be the most important thing though is conforming to web standards, as well as usability.

I hope Google can add functionality for extensions whilst at the same time keeping the product lightweight. At the moment, the browser is a very lightweight structure that holds webkit and V8. As it grows it will slow down marginally, so adding only important features and performance tweaks will make it the best browser.

I’d love for it to beat Firefox one day. The open source community needs a decent WebKit based browser :D

By: Luis Dias

Luis Dias — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:46:10 +0000

Yeah, but like you said, Java is completely independent of browsers (and I’ven’t been hearing from it for quite some time, I’m not a programmer), so I was… well heck. What am I doing apart of showing my profound ignorance on these things? :D

All I know about this is that it really marks the path that Google wants the browsers to go for: Speedy AJAX (did I blunder in that too? lol). Apple seems poised to follow same route, they are also interested in web apps (mobile me), so it’s a brand new territory. Google Gears with speeedy AJAX is a hell of a threat to windows turf. Yeah, you can say (I’ve been hearing that for too long), but it’s like water on rocks. It eventually destroys it.

By: Adrian Hayter

Adrian Hayter — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:35:40 +0000

Hint, when I’m saying JAVA, I’m really saying JavaScript. It should be obvious…

Not really, considering there is a programming language already called “Java” :P