Adobe and Nvidia bring GPU to the masses? Who fucking cares! Adobe is fearing upcoming competition from the <canvas> + webGL technologies. Why do you think they worked out this deal and started letting people develop for free in Flex as well as release Linux versions of the plug-in?

I have a working canvas gauge that works on any web browser that supports canvas, it works on the iPhone and requires no heavy Flash plug-in. I use the iecanvas script so it also works in IE...

http://www.digitaldarknet.net/flash/jsgauge.html

I have been waiting years for this! If you're a BeOS fan Haiku is something you will want to check out. It took them eight years to create a BeOS from the ground up. 

I installed it last night and it just works, it's fast, and looks just like BeOS!

Go grab a copy

Cloud computing for the home user is a big mistake in my opinion and like with anything, if it seems too good to be true, it likely is. Google and other on-line services make mobile computing easy and safely store all your data remotely so you don't have to worry about it. Seems nice, but these guys are not in it because they care about your data. They are making money.