From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <4f4b408b9bd790339067cf8346c61f25@9netics.com> References: <4f4b408b9bd790339067cf8346c61f25@9netics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <1953FCA0-9FF4-44C6-8DAF-9A094CE59EEC@telus.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] The mother-of-all-gnot? Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:55:10 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: cf57b7c0-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3-Jan-06, at 12:07 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > If it is a Gnot-thingy and it is only connecting to Google, why would > they muck with AJAX when they can use a file protocol? User-base and user-acceptability. The user base comes from people already running AJAX boxes. User acceptability comes from addressing a key shortcoming of Gnot. I like Gnot --- I don't think Rob has gotten nearly the recognition from the HCI community on this interface breakthrough and interfaces- for-programmers in general --- but I continue to doubt that the public is ready to put all their files on a remote server without being able to get to them when the umbilicus is severed. Servers make people anxious; by adding local disk Google can ease that while still mirroring people's data on their network/computer. Gmail was just the start of that particular slippery slope. Paul