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Re:The second browser war by __ on Thursday September 04, 2008 @02:14PM (#295040)
As Arnaud Weber, a Google engineer and one of the characters in the comic book, says in a speech bubble: "We're applying the same kind of process isolation you find in modern operating systems." It is a geek's way of saying that developers and consumers may soon stop caring about the operating system on their own hard drive altogether.

Maybe they will stop caring, but I don't think that's what Weber was saying. (I'm not even sure it was a subtext.) I understood Weber's line in a totally literal sense.

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Re:The second browser war by maw on Thursday September 04, 2008 @03:59PM (#295135)
No, it wasn't what he was saying. The Economist took an implementation detail to mean something entirely different.
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