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Dell laptops, WinRAR, wget...

You would think the army has some fancy tech, apparently not.

So it's neither on my home or work computer and I just have to use Chrome for some of the Youtube or Vimeo videos.

Do they use TrueCrypt volumes ? What are the alternatives ?

Both are great but I find them very slow.

I think he misses the point, when my computer will boot instantly and allow me to work or when I won't have to wait for a file to copy that's when I'll have enough computer power. We're far from it and I think this applies to anybody, geeks or not. Who wants to wait for his computer to do his thing ?

While it may look cool, it's a complete disaster for maintenance.

Anyone know more about this ? How are the user interaction made ?

I'm rather creeped out by this project. In almost all the situations presented he could have asked a freaking human instead of his glasses :

  - bookstore : ask the bookseller that's what he's here for,
 he may even give you better recommendations
  - maps in the street : ask somone
  - where is your friend ? call him

I'm surprised to see that a backup might be considered an heroic move. If you don't have any backup you may as well consider your data entirely lost !

The only thing I'm missing is on the technical side, a transaction system like you describe.

How great would it be if all the servers could reply to my mail client : I have received your email it isn't considered spam and the end user got it.

There's a whole team at Google behind it, I wonder what the hell they are doing. Most of the Google Reader I know (and I was there almost since the beginning) is the same since 5 years.

I can't find any serious competitor, Newsblur is good but it's still too young...

Somehow that's almost how I prefer to work too, but it's sort of impossible to have this setup in a professional environment.

For me and people I know, the mail client is the first app open after boot and it is always "open". It takes me less than 2 sec on my 3 year old computer to display new mail.