Mathematicians Develop Stress Test For Global Economy

If China suffers a recession, how badly will the rest of the world be hit? Mathematicians have used network theory to calculate the answer

Read the article on: Technology Review.

CR-48 Improving

Seems to have fixed the audio problem. Also am able to use Muro, which is a pretty complicated graphic app.

I love its bootup time and battery life. If I am not processing art images (it is terrible for that) it is my favorite of my three laptops for social networking, blogging, reading news.

Official Google Blog: An update from the Chairman

Official Google Blog: An update from the Chairman

Shake up at Google.

Google To Ship Next Batch Of CR-48, You Could Be The Lucky One | Muktware

Google To Ship Next Batch Of CR-48, You Could Be The Lucky One | Muktware

Garbled Audio After Latest Update: Possible high resolution timerfix.

Benson Leung of chromium.org says:

Hi All, We have identified the high resolution timer issue, and a patch will be pushed soon. Thanks for your patience and help, everyone! Benson  

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-os-discuss/browse_thread/thread/388ef5aa5a6d2312

CR-48 Audio Problems

I was able to consistently produce audio streaming problems using the WeatherBig app.
What gives? Anybody see this one?

I was able to duplicate this on the CR-48 with two different streaming audio sites.
1) install WeatherBug.
2) Install Santa Cruz CA, and Palo Alto CA as two tabs
3) To test, next do a cold boot.
4) Go to audio streaming site and start audio
5) Audio works fine 
6) Now go to apps tab and got to WeatherBug.
7) Select the Palo Alto tab.
 The audio turns into crackly sound and becomes unintelligible within 30 seconds. 

To fix you need to close the WeatherBug tab and do a cold reboot.

I have already reported this to Google.
The sites I saw this on are:
The Freakenomics podcast on the NY Times.
KGO 810 radio listen live.

Short overview of the Chrome Notebook

If anybody is confused by all this CR-48 business: