This latest announcement from Google must have old Schultzter so excited right now. You see his two biggest Geek passions are coming together: OpenSourse OSes and Google is what can only be described as the biggest Nerd Marriage Geeky Offspring ever. I’m sure he would have posted the video himself if he wasn’t chiseling away at the Kernel of his house to meet an end of the month deadline.
So what is so awesome and sexy about Chromium OS that every techie in the InterWebs is dubbing it the Kal-El of Operating Systems? Well for one ZERO boot time and no updates… ever.
Most of all, we are obsessed with speed. We are taking out every unnecessary process, optimizing many operations and running everything possible in parallel. This means you can go from turning on the computer to surfing the web in a few seconds. Our obsession with speed goes all the way down to the metal. We are specifying reference hardware components to create the fastest experience for Google Chrome OS.
Sure they drive on the wrong side of the road, drink warm beer and have designed their electrical system to boil a kettle in the short space of an ITV commercial break, but every once in a while some Brits create some simply outstanding simple and gorgeous products. Think about the Lotus Elise, Jamie Oliver’s Cooking, Johnny Ives Apple products and now the folding plug. If you have ever traveled to Europe with BlackBerry and a laptop, you know how much of a pain in the ass it can be to lug around those big crazy ass plugs that look more like a Glorious Morning Star of Destruction +5 than a cable to charge your phone. The folding plug itself is simply brilliant and the three plug adapter is even more amazing, Make sure you watch this one all the way to the end.
A big thanks to @julien for finding this awesome video. Those Mountie suits suit sure do bring back some memories of driving around the English countryside doing my part for international relations.
We’re all taking the day off tomorrow to celebrate being Canucks. We’ll be back on Thursday to record our second DadCast. In the meantime please enoy some more Canadian Videos on our behalf. Continue reading Happy Canada Day!
Thanks to John Gruber at Daring Fireball for this find. If there is one show I really truly miss from the Beeb it’s Top Gear. Jeremy’s Clarkson is such a well spoken and intelligent presenter and writer that you completely overlook the fact that he’s a cowboy boot wearing petrol headed hooligan. Watch it all the way through, if you are unmoved by this classic piece of British Broadcasting Corporation journalism than there is something seriously wrong with you.
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