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Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

#51

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…

I think weather underground deserves a mention because it provides a lot more data than most weather sites. It may not be very fancy and dynamic, but most of the sites that are use their flashiness to distract from their deeper shortcomings.

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

#52

Did anyone else not receive a confirmation page of any sort? I submitted the application and was routed directly back.

They botched error handling I think. That happened to me once - turns out my text field was too long. Cut yours down to 140 characters and re-submit it, does that give you the confirmation page?

Thanks for the suggestion! It worked the second time and did provide a confirmation page.

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

#53

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.

But how will we ever code in FORTRAN on the thing?

Wait 13 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#FORTRAN_77

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_90

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

#55
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is exactly what I was about to say. It looks like they've used the caps lock position for the Fn key on the cr-48, so it looks like this may not be possible on this unit. Then again, I guess it's not that big a deal since the ctrl key doesn't really get used on the web.

I use the ctrl key a lot on ssh sessions. If the web is now reduced to youtube and valleywag, I'd gladly abandon it.

You are thinking of the Internet. The Web is an abbreviation of the "World Wide Web" (of hyperlinks), rather than the medium which conveys its data.

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

#56
getting increasingly annoying that most things like these require that participants are US residents. Don't you guys care what us Europeans have to say? I'd would have liked to apply too.

Re: Apply for a Google Cr-48

#59

As per usual, all the world's American. This Brit says boo and hiss.

There's probably going to be an international trial soon. However, I can assume the OS will be released in free beta for you to test on your own hardware.

Since Google's requesting fairly intensive feedback, I can assume it's easier for their team to track usage in a domestic market.

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