[Cialug] OT: Daydreaming out loud

[Nathan C. Smith]

I saw that and I was a little disheartened.  I was hoping it was true, just
like rumors of a web-based office suite a month or two ago.  At least Google
is keeping Microsoft on its toes.
 
The enemy of my enemy is my friend?
 
I was thinking something more like Google's compute experiment or SETI at home
<mailto:SETI at home>  might be useful on the Google PC.  Google could fragment
a problem - for example - OCRing all the text in images on the web by
breaking it down into pieces and having each machine work through a fraction
of an image as time and CPU permits.  Nothing too time sensitive.  Of course
you would have to have an algorithm to prioritize which images were OCR'd
first, and a way to break them down and distribute them etc. etc.  I've
heard there are a few good minds a Google.
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: John Roach [mailto:jroach at eastersealsia.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:05 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: [Cialug] OT: Daydreaming out loud



From: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/04/google_denies_pc/

Google has quashed a rumor that it plans to enter the ultra low-margin PC
business. The denial will surprise few given the speculative nature of the
original LA Times piece that made the Google PC claim.

In a 2006 technology predictions story, the Times declared, "Sources say
Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other
retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating system
created by Google, not Microsoft's Windows, which is one reason it would be
so cheap - perhaps as little as a couple of hundred dollars.

Er, not so fast.

Reporters calling Google's public relations staff about the rumor were told
it is "wholly inaccurate." Similarly, Wal-Mart's rather busy PR team
classified the Times speculation as "a rumor without any truth to it at
all."

 

 

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Aaron Porter
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:57 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] OT: Daydreaming out loud

 

On 1/3/06, Nathan C. Smith <smith at ipmvs.com <mailto:smith at ipmvs.com> >
wrote:


So I'm thinking about this "Google PC" at Wal-Mart, and I'm thinking about
Google's giant search engine machine and I'm wondering "can they extend this
to the computers they sell?"  So everyone's computer contributes a little to

either the processing, the knowledge, or both at Google Corporate?
1) it would be really clever and interesting if they pulled it off


But I somehow doubt that most consumers of a $200 "PC like device" have
reliable enough broadband to make it appealing to google. Having vast cpu
power paid for (and powered) by someone else is nifty, but not so cool when
you can't get to it. 

 

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