Google Chrome OS was developed with the web browser in mind, it is however open source and developed on linux, making it as much of a "Real OS" as linux, ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Mandrake, X windows etc. the major difference is in it's storage and execution, Google basically said, "Something like 80% of computer users go on their computer for the internet, so why not make it so their computer is built not for performance, but for the internet, it's applications are "web based", what web based means is quit literal to the term, a web based application has it's roots in the web develppment enviroment and was not developed to be native to the OS but developed to be cross platform and accessible from almost every device, Google took that concept and enhanced it, you can now get on your computer, into your applications from button press to internet access in just a few seconds, you can play games, store emails, share documents and so much more without using any storage on your harddrive, and be able to access any document from anywhere in the world, simply by logging in and grabbing it from "The Cloud" . When Google OS first became a thought in development, I got a copy of the Beta and ran it in VMware, I was more then impressed.
8-tracks "I can't carry these things around or anything" cassette tapes "Oh.... Oh kay~" CDs "This is good I can carry like a dozen of these bad boys in my wlakman case" (honestly don't know how people carried around their Walkman cds when they were popular) MP3/4 "Yupp the music is right in there where it should be, now where do I find some Wi-Fi around here..."
From analogue with records to digital with MP3/4's, from analogue with analogue computers to fully digital computers.
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If there is always such exponential room for improvement on technology I would like to consider the fact, that even though we think we're doing good with digital. What if something better is out there but everyone else is too focused on perfecting 8-Track. Because in theory that room for technological growth is so great, we might very well be developing on 8-track even when it's concerned to the very base of modern technology, which is digital.
It's a realistic consideration, the human mind shows a far greater processing power than any computer. The human body runs off of chemical reactions, not binary, nothing is truly to be said on how the human mind truly manifest things, but something is to be learnt from God's handiwork if he didn't quite get the idea that the human mind should be silicon, he maybe using higher quality stuff. If you ask me biology has been TRollin' on technology for a while without scientist really taking notice to the fact of the matter. Viruses, bacteria and other microrganisms have shown greater inteligence in such small sizes than we could ever make silicon to exhibit.
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Can we improve on Mp3/4 players, the answer is yes, Web Applications like pandora, data/audio streaming servers that allow us to connect and access a database of music we saved through the Iphone/Itouch etc without storing it on our hard drive, like many thing in life, things started out small, got bigger ,then small again , Hard drives with 10MB of storage was Huge back in the day, now we all have at least a TB or a few TB of storage, as time progresses it seems to me that having a TB Harddrive would make your computer a "dinosaur" , Because with OS's like Chrome OS and applications (web based) like pandora, why would you need any hard drive space at all?
Steve Jobs a leader in the industry said "we are developing more web capable devices to prepare for the future" , They conformed to what we know as the industry standard, and regardless of personal opinions (which we all have) the fact is to be successful you have to conform, and considering I am in the industry it is best I am able to adapt and change with the users (clients) specifications.
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Originally Posted by Melodia
