Well, I gave Chrome OS a try for about 2 hours, but the claustrophobia is pretty severe. I feel a really strong urge to minimize the browser and open a music player, or watch a video locally, but you just can’t do it. I’m not sure I like that. There are a lot fo things I like to do locally on my machine that I just don’t see co-existing with a browser-only OS.
Also, I couldn’t figure out how to load the image in VMware, so I had to use virtual box, which made it run like crap. I’m sure this affected my perception of the experience. It was also stuck in 640×480 or 800×600 – couldn’t tell which.
Admittedly, this isn’t even Beta, so I’m going to wait and see what develops. Who knows, maybe some enterprising individuals will develop some really neat and flexible extensions to the OS that meet the consumer demand that will exist there.
In the mean time, this gave me an opportunity to learn how to use VMware, which is really sweet. I’m now running Ubuntu Karmic, and that’s pretty cool. With VMW, I’m finally getting the opportunity to use linux in an environment where I don’t sacrifice everything that windows can/will do in exchange for an OS that I know little-to-nothing about.
More later after I go back and tinker some more. I’m still hopeful!
Well, I’m gonna try a Google Chrome OS install tonight. We’ll see how it goes! For anyone interested, you can read how it’s done at the Chromium Forums
It was a pretty quiet day today overall. Nice for a change. Saw the immediate aftermath of a glancing head-on collision tonight on the way home from work. It looked like a van caught the left front corner of a sedan that started turning left in front of it. Looked like everyone was OK though.
I beat COD MW2. It was good for the most part. I was a bit disappointed with the end, as I felt a lot was left too unfinished. I realize there needs to be a sequel, but this was a bit too sparse. Whomever it was that decided putting massively important story elements in dialog during the middle of a several hundred-man firefight, they really need to learn what it’s like to play the game in stereo. I completely missed some really important stuff because.. well, I was running across a battlefield.
The whole “kill the player then jump to a new soldier” bit was also wearing thin. Now that I’m done complaining about the parts I didn’t like, I can say the one thing I really wanted to…
The space sequence was one of the most memorable gaming moments I’ve had. That was just pure genius! From a physics standpoint, it’s pretty hard to rationalize, but from a gameplay factor, it was impressive as hell! Multi-player is, of course, excellent.
Overall, an 89 – I don’t think the game deserves a 90 because of some of the gimmicky tricks they pull, and the massive disconnects between each campaign. It would be an 85 or so, but the online component is so solid, I have to give it a better rating.
