Here is the plan

• Get NetFlix streaming only service for 7.99 that gives us access to unlimited streaming movies and TV Shows
  which takes care of the “On Demand” needs
• Get PlayOn.tv which gives us direct access to Hulu, NetFlix, Comedy Central , CBS, ESPN, Nick, and TBS
• Get Hulu Plus for a few extra Perks
• Cut off the cable completely and see if I can survive
• Get “Over the Air” some of the channels we can
  

Here are the shows that me and my family watch and where they are available

Parenthood – Hulu
House – Hulu (Plus) Day after Air
Biggest Looser  - Hulu (Day after Air)
Law and Order SVU – Hulu
Law and Order LA – Hulu
Undercover-boss - CBS
Fringe – Hulu (Day after Air)
The Walking Dead – N/A (AMC)
Merlin – Hulu
Leverage – N/A TNT
HawthoRN – N/A TNT
V – Hulu
Covert Affairs – Hulu (USA)

We start today! I’ll post on what progress / problems we run into

Merry Christmas~

It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

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It seems that the endless rumors about Google making an Operating System were not unfounded after all. After this announcement I went through the list of Google products, and I have found that basically Google’s model is simple. They take an existing product or function and create an improved version of it, in accordance with the company’s view. By making such a product the force the hand of the previous competitors, thus accelerating the evolution of said product and benefiting everyone.

Take Gmail for example, before Gmail came around all web based free email platforms had ridiculous restrictions 2-10 mb per account, no large attachments, poor POP and IMAP support etc… Then along comes Gmail and it blows all the caps and restrictions providing free unlimited space with POP and IMAP support excellent search and a snazzy interface. Immediately the competition reacts and now most of the web based email platforms support a wide range of features and unlimited space.

Google has done this with many of their products , Google Earth, Google News, Google Voice, the threat to buy the 700 mghz spectrum and many more. Google is playing a game and the thing is, that they are good at it. With this announcement about an OS they just threw the ball in Microsoft’s court. I guarantee you that the next version of “Windows” will take a lot from this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEkSSaq-QFk

Research group switches on world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system.

For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.

Since then progress has been rapid, and tonight we’re pleased to announce that just moments ago, the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) was switched on and began performing some initial functions. It’s an exciting moment that we’re determined to build upon by coming to understand more fully what CADIE’s emergence might mean, for Google and for our users. So although CADIE technology will be rolled out with the caution befitting any advance of this magnitude, in the months to come users can expect to notice her influence on various google.com properties. Earlier today, for instance, CADIE deduced from a quick scan of the visual segment of the social web a set of online design principles from which she derived this intriguing homepage.  More…

They seem to have put a LOT of effort on this joke including 3D viewing for websites using Google Chrome which ACTUALLY WORK check it out here if you have stereoscopic glasses. Way to go google, its great that you find time to have some fun when the economy is so bad!

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My fiance was one of the lucky first to be changed over and I am using her account to write this, it seems to me that either they haven’t turned the service fully on or they are missing the boat completely. I used my personal account to make an updated and I expected it to show automatically on her home page since its supposed to be a live stream. I waited several minutes and saw no change, I had to refresh the page for it to pull up the new status changes and updates. So far I am not very impressed although I must say that the change is small enough to get by without much trouble unlike the beacon feauture and the terms of service.

Here is a screens-shot of her profile after the change.

How do you like the new change? Did it work as advertised?

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux computer operating system this week in the latest front of the communist island’s battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony. The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana computer conference on “technological sovereignty” and is central to the Cuban government’s desire to replace the Microsoft software running most of the island’s more…

Cuba has always had a reputation for not allowing freedom of information and such, but with the launch of their new Linux Distro and now allowing regular citizens to obtain PCs, they are getting a lot closer to what would be considered freedom of information.

According to Hector Rodriguez, dean of the School of Free Software at Cuba’s University of Information Sciences, about 20 percent of computers in Cuba, where computer sales to the public began only last year, are currently using Linux

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTXIzaxfox4

Being born and raised in Cuba i find it exciting that my country is finally moving up in the technology world, I love the initiative they have taken and I have faith that they will reach the goal of having Linux on the majority of the PCs they run.

Hector Rodriguez Dean of the School of Free Software and the University of Information Sciences is my cousin, I talk to him on a regular basis and I have just contacted him to get me more information about what the distro is based on and see if I can get my hands on a copy. I’ll post more updates as the become available to me.

But on a personal note and in contrast with the philosophy we have in this country I find it absurd and ridiculous that all our government and educational institutions have been standardized on Windows to the point that there are people out there that have no idea there are other operating systems available.

Can you imagine the amount of money that Schools and Universities would save if they are made the push to go open source. I am not saying get rid of windows but at least go open source with some of the apps used, replace MS Offie with Open Office and Photo-shop with Gimp these two replacements alone would account of millions of dollars in savings a year. We complain about the budget deficit but refuse to do simple things to help out.

This may be weird or odd but I think we should follow in Cuba’s foot steps when it comes to this.

Edit:

Apparently any site you search for in google is being marked as malicious. I guess that clears up my question.

Everyone panic, google is broken woman and children first… Bah! everyone for themselves!

Edit:

Google has fixed the problem as of 10:18 AM. Everyone back inside… it was a false alarm.

Personally I am sick of all this companies patenting all this technology and making it difficult for the industry to advance. If this patent encompass all I assume it does then creating a multi touch platform for any mobile device will be almost impossible, why can’t everyone share Linus Torvalds prospective? Haven’t we learned enough about the nature of this business to understand that you get more out of things when you make them available to everyone?

Just last month Suze Orman the world renown financial expert launched a new book for 2009 strategies in economics, she put the book up on her website and gave it away for free. She has now sold more copies than she would have had she not done this. The same thing is happening with Monthy Phyton, they just opened a youtube channel giving away the best of their shows and clips, all of the sudden their DVD sales have sky rocketed an amazing 2300%. (Yes that’s not a typo)

Come on Apple! Learn to share