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Google have denied rumours that they are considering entering the hardware market with low cost consumer PCs.
Yesterdays comments on News.com seemed to originate from Robert X Cringely’s comments in his blog back in November, where he discussed a concept he calls ‘Google Cubes’ – small consumer PCs to integrate with every media device you can imagine and connect to your TV in your familiy room. It’s not clear from his blog whether this is speculation or based on fact, or just plain rumours.
Google are supposedly planning on selling their own Google branded PCs through WalMart stores.
Needless to say, they will not be shipping with Windows.
Price per MB, portable hard drives are now cheaper than the Flash drives that are now more common than floppy disks. The NAND type of RAM in Flash cards currently sells for around $45 per GB, whereas portable harddrives are down to around $18 per GB.
Cornice will be demo’ing their latest line of portable harddrives at this year’s CSE show that are about the size of a pack of cards, and come in 8Gb and 10Gb sizes.
I recently came across this problem working on a webapp and deploying to JBoss4.0.1/Tomcat5.0 running on Java SE 5.0 – it seems that in 5.0 the JVM strictly enforces a verison value for each serializable class, and if one is not explicitly declared then it is generated, and chances are the value will be different each time a webapp is deployed, even if there are no changes to the Serializable classes.
See my post here in my Java notes section on how to resolve this.