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Blu-ray's Fatal Flaw?

according to computerworld's approach, everybody would move to stealing movies via p2p software, because it is more convenient, less expensive, and the same quality as DVD.

seems to me blu-ray is already dead in the water. the vast majority of the units sold were playstations, not dedicated players. so there is little evidence that there is any interest in blu-ray at all.

Hewlett-Packard Looks Recession-Proof

buy b/c it is doing well internationally?

does anyone really believe that any economy will decouple? the world's economies are more strongly coupled today than ever before. the rest cannot be healthy while one is sick.

who is going to buy the BMWs, Porsches, Toyotas, and Hyundais, exactly, if not americans? to take one sector as an example.

greater integration leads to greater stability, but also greater exposure to problems.