Archive for the ‘Operating Systems’ Category
It Sucks To Get Old
Business Insider’s Chart of the Day shows us that the Evil Empire’s desktop chokehold is weakening. Their business plan is so 1990s.
I’ll Believe This When I See It
Google is finally talking about one of the real interesting questions wrt Google Chrome OS: how the heck are you gonna print stuff with a Web-based operating system? More specifically, when you click “print”, will your resume pop up on someone’s printer in Bangalore instead?
Not to worry — Google has created Google Cloud Print, which will be “responsible for sending the print job to the appropriate printer with the particular options the user selected, and returning the job status to the app.”
It seems so simple, right?
Let’s be real, shall we? I truly believe that my printer was sent from Hell to make me miserable. It is worse than a pampered lapdog. If it runs out of paper during a print job, you’d think that it would simply alert me and wait for me to load more paper before continuing. But nooooooo. I have to stop the job, restart the spooler software, then specify the pages that still need to be printed. If it jams, it’s Armageddon time: I have to kill the print job, shut down the printer — sometimes I have to actually unplug it — then restart and resend the print job. And it won’t print black-and-white if it runs out of, say, cyan. So what makes Google think that they’re gonna do any better with the cloud if I can’t get the printer to work properly when it’s 6 inches away from my iMac?
Link via TechCrunch.
