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Google Officially Unveils Chrome OS
- Isamu 16y ago> No hard drives, no spinning discs and a built in jail breaking mode make this Chrome notebook every geek’s dream machine. "built in Jail breaking mode" - a funny way of saying no jail.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoA testament to the perspective from the status quo. It's a shame that jail is the norm rather than the exception.
- jrockway 16y agoIt's not though. What $300 laptop has a "jail"? None of them. It's just expensive phones and expensive designer tablets that have "jail". Everything else? Free as in ... not being in jail.
- sp332 16y agoInstead of "Nothing but the Web", I would have called it "Nothing but 'Net". Maybe it's not as Googleable though :-)
- MikeCapone 16y agoIs it a reference to something else? If so, can you explain. I don't get it.
- brisance 16y agoIt's a basketball catchphrase where the player attempting the shot makes it i.e. the desired result for an offensive play.
- sp332 16y agoIt's from basketball. You can use it when an especially accurate shot sails straight through the center of the hoop without even touching, only making a little "whish" sound as it passes through the net below. It doesn't get you more points, it's just impressive :-) I think it fits because Chrome OS doesn't need most of the other apps or extraneous OS stuff, and a "nothin' but net" shot doesn't use the backboard or the hoop. They're similarly clean and to-the-point.
- VladRussian 16y agointeresting (1 level down) shift happening : OS/Linux -> EFI (BIOS level), browser(application) -> OS level