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Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

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Any Googlers here (Matt_Cutts?) in a position to comment on how long we'll be waiting to hear about this? Because being accepted as a tester would absolutely make my December.

I'm not Matt, but I work on Chrome OS, so that probably counts for something.

However: I don't know the answer to this question. Sorry. We do want to get pilots their devices as soon as possible though.

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

#22
post #11

I absolutely love the fact that a laptop fully based around the web is being denied a caps lock key. Good riddance. I think 99% of its usage (constants aside) is for trolling/yelling.

I like to use it as my Control key, though. I'd be concerned that they would replace it with something else and I'd have to learn to twist my pinky unnaturally again.

You can map it to Ctrl.

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

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post #3

Anyone know the reasoning behind the Cr-48 name? Maybe because that isotope of chromium is one of the longer lived non-stable isotopes of chromium?

Bang on; Cr-48 was chosen precisely because it's an unstable isotope of chromium.

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

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post #7

Any Googlers here (Matt_Cutts?) in a position to comment on how long we'll be waiting to hear about this? Because being accepted as a tester would absolutely make my December.

Sorry--it's far enough away from me that I have no idea. I'm sure the Chrome OS team wants to get devices to testers as soon as is practical though.

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

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post #6
post #3

Anyone know the reasoning behind the Cr-48 name? Maybe because that isotope of chromium is one of the longer lived non-stable isotopes of chromium?

For a second I thought it was a play on create (Cr348 = Cr-48), but your explanation sounds better.

For a second I thought it was a play on the name of a protocol droid...

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

#26
I can see how I can use this for document/email type work. My version control system has a web interface so I can review code.

But developers are going to want text editors/a terminal/vcs. I do everything else on my machine.

I've been thinking of some sort of server in the cloud for this kind of functionality from tablets....

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

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post #15
post #7

Any Googlers here (Matt_Cutts?) in a position to comment on how long we'll be waiting to hear about this? Because being accepted as a tester would absolutely make my December.

Matt_Cutts is the web spam expert there; I doubt he's in any position to comment on Chrome OS.

Matt_Cutts is technically a web spam expert, but he is also a generally high profile public facing Googler who knows such things. Maybe he doesn't follow android, or maybe it would be inappropriate to answer this; but it doesn't seem crazy that he'd know.

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

#28

Cute quiz to measure how addicted you are to the internet? http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-quiz.html

It says that I spend less time on the web than most people, which is weird, because I live surrounded by web developers and I am online WAY more often than they are...

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

#30

Cute quiz to measure how addicted you are to the internet? http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-quiz.html

Interesting how the questions are framed, which sites are mentioned in the drill down sections, and in what order. (They mentioned weather underground, which I thought was interesting, since that's a very old school web 1.0 kind of site)

Also interesting how it graded me below average, even when I massively exaggerated how much I use web apps. It's almost as if Google has a vested interest in promoting the use of web apps, or something.

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