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    phild293
    Aug 14 06:08 PM
    Microsoft's XBox 3 Could Give It Market Supremacy [view article]
    Since evry1 seems to be a fanboy of sony or MS, I need a group to join. Based on the above article- what am I? MS, Sony or that very rare neutral? Reply
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    phild293
    Aug 14 05:59 PM
    Microsoft's XBox 3 Could Give It Market Supremacy [view article]
    Xbox 360 was very poorly made at first with the failure rate but has since picked up the pieces. Although Sony has blu-ray (the future) compatibility, this has not come into play with this generation of games. The PS3 offers minimally better graphics and a built in wireless transmitter (not one that costs an extra £60) but the xbox 360 has a list of much better games- even gta4 will be released on the 360 at the same time as the ps3 (this has always been a sony stronghold) plus the 360 has better online gameplay.

    There is no way it will last until 2015- two generations of consoles will most likely have passed by then. The format of the next generation of consoles will be key. Sony already have blu-ray so if MS decided to go with it, Sony would have the upper hand with compatibility for ps3 games (if they do this). However, this advantage would be shortlived with MS paying top dollar for the best games.

    In my opinion, the future holds a big battle between Sony and MS which (and this is just speculation for you sony fanboys) MS will probably win in the end with superior online play, better games and (most likely) the same array of features as the sony counterpart. Meanwhile, the Wii will be the undercurrent gaming platform- cheap, fun and innovative but lacking any top games.

    P.S. if the xbox team bring out a portable console, it will most likely surpass the psp with the benefit of newer technology and hindsight on Sony's efforts.     Reply
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    User 243448
    Aug 14 03:07 PM
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    Facebook Now the Largest, Fastest-Growing Social Network [view article]
    Facebook is good for Social Network Reply
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    Pete_from_BC
    Aug 13 04:44 PM
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    Facebook Now the Largest, Fastest-Growing Social Network [view article]
    Wow - I knew that FB was passing MySpace on and off during 1h2008 but now it really seems to be holding the lead. It's interesting because use of applications seems down - maybe people are getting tired of the silly apps and using facebook more for networking and that's in turn getting more people invited as fresh user registrations. Reply
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    matt earle
    Aug 13 02:02 PM
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    Google's GMail Outage: Another Blow for "The Cloud" [view article]
    I think you are failing to put your expectation of reliability in context. Google's GMail is relatively much more reliable than any enterprise system that I have ever encountered. Just because they have a brief, fully recovered bit of downtime for a couple hours every six months does not mean that their product is not a superior alternative to the vast majority of in-house corporate systems. In fact, most corporate email systems have lots of downtime, occasionally fail so that data is lost and deliver a worse user experience the whole time.

    The bigger problem with cloud computing is trusting these companies with your data, especially if the U.S. government is snooping around whenever they deem it necessary.     Reply
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    notsosmart
    Aug 13 12:06 PM
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    Google's GMail Outage: Another Blow for "The Cloud" [view article]
    the weathermanhas the answer.hen you have clouds you could have a storm. Reply
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    Larry Crow
    Aug 13 12:02 PM
    Google's GMail Outage: Another Blow for "The Cloud" [view article]
    kdart -- You should backup your hard-drive constantly. There's no excuse to ever lose more than a few hours's or single day's worth of work due to any crash. So, what if my hard-drive crashes? I pull my last backup off the tape or disk and thank myself for backing-up every day. Of course, restoring an OS may be harder than that, but, relatively speaking, not that hard. Reply
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    David White
    Aug 13 10:52 AM
    Retail on a Tear - Fast Money Recap (8/11/08) [view article]
    Today K+S AG a European specialty fertilizer supplier reported fantastic earnings. They more than quadrupled the year ago quarter. This may be the impetus to turn around the POT, MOS, and AGU trades. They moved to the upside yesterday when the dollar weakened. However, they are continuing to move up today even with a relatively strong dollar. Grain futures are up today. Oil futures are up slightly. Things are boding very well for POT et al. Reply
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    mgatesoglu
    Aug 13 10:06 AM
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    Facebook Now the Largest, Fastest-Growing Social Network [view article]
    I resisted for a long time not to join facebook. But it is such a powerful tool, that you can find anybody you want. And its applications created such a market that instead of getting lost in translation, it will adopt and capture every demographic class in this world. Reply
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    vassar
    Aug 13 09:38 AM
    Google's GMail Outage: Another Blow for "The Cloud" [view article]
    Google and MobileMe are more reliable than any server in our office. Reply
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    pansapien
    Aug 13 08:58 AM
    Google's GMail Outage: Another Blow for "The Cloud" [view article]
    There seems to be a lot of fear mongering going on around cloud computing. For some reason the complainers seem to want to imply that cloud computing was going to be flawless when all experience tells us we should expect occasional outages.

    And since when is Twitter a cloud service?     Reply
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    luzmuller
    Aug 13 08:56 AM
    Google's GMail Outage: Another Blow for "The Cloud" [view article]
    I have had Office Live from Microsoft for now a year. I have my company's website and the associated email service on it. The email part has just disappeared a week ago and I do not have a clue whether there are any enquiries or orders for my service that remain unanswered. I have been talking to MS for a week now and all I hear is that "We do not know what happened but the matter has been escalated". I had no other alternative than to alert all my contacts - literally hundreds of them - that they should use my trusty Yahoo email serivice whilst this sad state of affairs persist. Just as well that Jerry Yang did not go with MS or his email service would probably also be screwed up by now. Reply
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    AlanG
    Aug 13 08:41 AM
    Google's GMail Outage: Another Blow for "The Cloud" [view article]
    Is there a "perfect" SaaS solution that will never crash, periodically? Probably not. Is there a non Macintosh computer system that will never make you reboot and sometimes rebuild a hard drive. Probably not.

    Google's Postini SaaS email security solution is EXCELLENT in terms of it's proven track record of uptime, reliability, and being secure.

    In the 5 years of my firm using Postini, we have never had an email service interruption from Postini.

    Email is the most important business application for the internet. And Postini makes email flow day after day after day!     Reply
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    kdart
    Aug 13 08:10 AM
    Google's GMail Outage: Another Blow for "The Cloud" [view article]
    How does that outage compare to the outage you will suffer when your hard-disk crashes? Reply
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    User 239889
    Aug 13 07:22 AM
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    Will Marketing Ploy Work for Microsoft & HP on Disney's 'Dream Home'? [view article]
    This is great news! Reply

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