Posts by jacksmith21006

Chromebooks grew 38% YoY while Windows PC are at 10 year lows. Chromebooks are Linux and what is missing is the GNU aspect. So you install a program called Crouton on a Chromebook and you have GNU/Linux.

With the drivers and such all optimized for the hardware for you.

Will NOT fix Edge security flaw from yesterday. Edge should be avoided as it was hacked at will at Pawned 2017. Penetrated over and over again. Only browser unhackable in time allotted was Chrome.

But more than anything Edge should be avoided!

Make Windows S secure and it would maybe have a chance. People are DONE buying insecure software and that is the issue for MS.

Edge this year was hacked at will at Pawned 2017. Chrome only browser unhackable in time allotted.

Windows S was easily hacked on the first try and ChromeOS, I do not believe, has been hacked yet.

Purchased the Google WiFi and best thing ever did for WiFi in our home. Daughter could never stream video in her room and now she can which makes me a hero.

It is just another example of the weakening of Apple. The problem is when you are doing great things you have the influence but they just no longer are.

My wife clicks the shutter button on her iPhone and without touching an additional button will later walk into our family room and ask for very, very fine details in photos like "hey Google how me johnny skateboarding from my photos on the TV" and the TV turns itself on, input sets and her iPhone photos in 4k appears on the largest screen in the house.

I can NOT see my iPhone photos in 4K, let alone HDR, on the largest screen in the house from any hardware from Apple. That is simply insane.

There is no less friction possible. She always clicked her shutter button and do NOTHING additional she can walk into a room and do this.

But it is about setting up and not just using. She simply purchased, plugged in and logged in and Google made it all work together. No skills to download or any configuration at all. We have a Google Home and a 4K Chromecast. We were already using Google Photos.

I do NOT see how an Apple Homepod or a new Apple TV or anything could make the integration any better. It is as friction free as you can get. Well I guess if instead of talking it read your mind.

What? Google has been creating processors for a couple of years now. At Google I/O they dropped their second generation TPU where a pod is processing over 11.5 quadrillion floating point operations a second. Doing it on less than 1/30 the wattage of the next best.

Nobody else is anywhere close to having a processor like this. Nobody was close to the first generation and Google is that much more ahead.

Google hired the lead architect of the MIPS chip a few years ago and has multiple teams. Google is also going to demonstrated a 47 qubit quantum processor later this year. They have created their own networking silicon for many years.

This article does NOT accurate and does not make any sense.

"In many ways, it's a surprise that Big Red didn't win ages ago, "

What?

That would have been INSANE for Oracle to win. BTW, I hate being one of those guys but this article is simply terribly written and just very basic tech things completely wrong.

Honestly it is so bad it is impossible to fix and would be far easier to start over. It should be pulled because there will be people reading that might not know better.

I get tech is hard but just have someone with even the most basic tech knowledge look at your article next time.

Edit: Just re-read the article trying to figure out what advice I could give to NOT create something so inaccurate again. I thought if you had someone that had even a basic understanding of tech could help.

But it is clear in a couple of cases in your article where you talked to someone that does know and communicated it to you but since you have so little understanding of even basic tech your brain trying to paraphrase turned it into something completely inaccurate.

I hate to say it that I think it is a lost cause and I honestly HATE being so harsh. But I all I have is

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe get into another domain or go to school. Or there is some great online resources to learn technology.

Holy Grail

Google has a rare situation where they have the same kernel on desktop/laptop, TV, iOT, tablet or smartphone and the the cloud. I do not know what Google is up to here but do not think it is what people think.

With the addition of containers being the unit of work they have the holy grail. We can finally get true compute distributed like never before and safely and efficiently.

Google shared TPUs from 2 years ago. Google never shares unless on next generation. But Nvidia really does not get it. It is about wattage per inference performance.

This is the problem for the chip makers going forward. The entire world changed. Before chips were sold to the Dells which were sold to the end user.

Huge disconnect. Now you have companies like Google using all their aggregated data to create chips and that makes it very difficult going forward for independent chip makers, IMO.

What is up with Apple? We get the new Google TV streaming service with unlimited tuners and unlimited space so the first network TV on demand and get the show about writing apps and Karaoke Cab from Apple?

Really? No VR or AR or 4K or HDR or Mesh or Smart Speaker or Siri that works or 2 in 1 or well you get the idea.

What is wrong with Apple?

Apple just abruptly ended the AirPort line last November causing me to replace our AirPort Extremes with Google WiFi (GW). GW is an excellent product and suspect many others will replace their AirPorts as Apple discontinued with the GW. Does Apple just not care any longer?

The problem is Amazon is adding adding containers on top of their infrastructure. Their chief competitor, Google, built their entire infrastructure based on containers and therefore can run them on bare metal instead of VMs.

Google is now extending out beyond their cloud to the client. So transparently they will have the container being the unit of work from client, servers, cloud, even iOT!

Amazon needs to quickly think about their approach. Amazon is using the exact same kernel as Google in all of their stuff. Their cloud, Fire devices, Alexa, etc.

The container is just a far better abstraction then VMs.

BTW, Kubernetes is just the next generation of Borg which is what Google has been using for over a decade. Amazon is really fallen behind in this aspect.