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While I hate the pain that outsourcing causes - the loss of jobs - it seems to me that eventually things will balance out. As people overseas get these IT jobs they demand higher standards of living and the products and services they require rises. Eventually, they will reach a place of equity with the U.S. and there will be no advantage to outsourcing IT support. I have no clue how long that will take...but it should work (in my head at least).
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This should be good for all the ps3 owners.
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Oh look, we agree on something.
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Seagate is my preferred drive vendor...Just figured I'd throw that out there. :)
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I've been using Mozilla for years (and at the same time have also used Microsoft Outlook and in the past Pegasus). I love Thunderbird, but it has a long ways to go. Lightning (calendaring) was a huge step forward, but still so much refinement to be done. Haven't had a chance to look at the beat myself, but one of Thunderbird's weak points is contact management.
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Not sure this is a great idea for Cisco. Isn't the Linksys line enough? By creating additional inexpensive network equipment they risk seeing small businesses skimp on their purchases, buying the "value" line since it is still backed by the Cisco name.
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I was somewhat surprised by this announcement as well...my guess...we mixed AWS S3 (storage) and EC2 (computing) together.
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I think this may be true of consumers' opinions of corporate blogs in general, but especially amongst tech. bloggers there are some corporate bloggers that are trusted...at least I think so. For example Scott Guthrie (Microsoft/ASP.NET) and Don MacAskill (SmugMug CEO).
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In other words the IT industries' new song is "we didn't start the fire." Granted, web 1.0 was largely the cause of the economic turmoil around the turn of the millennium, but this time IT doesn't seem to be nearly as crazy (nor the venture capitalists that are backing innovative but potentially successful companies).
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Didn't Sun just close down Hosting, their cloud computing/utility computing model? (It was in the news yesterday)
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I hope that these companies finally do adopt a subscription basis. It is much easier to pay Microsoft $10/mo. for Windows than $200 (or for a business - $800 for SE).
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I love a lot of these products...I utilize Twitter though am not an addict. Firefox is my mainstay browser. Intense Debate is extremely useful. Hulu is wonderful and indicates the media is finally catching up with the times. Ning is okay, I don't really use it but it seems useful to some (its basically Geocities of the past). I use Pandora instead of Last.fm, Pidgin instread of Meebo, and have little use for Mogulus, Qik or Cooliris. I think RWW should have included Facebook on its list, despite the fact that the site is so well-known, it still deserves a position.
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Hmmm...Well, I trust Scott Guthrie (ASP.NET). He has been nothing but helpful with his blogging about ASP.NET and related tech.
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Thats great....The way I see it Facebook has a good chance of offering at least a successful pseudo-cloud-os.
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Ackk...This isn't a cloud OS. You can't slap a browser on a computer and claim that it runs in the cloud. Nor can one simply link to a bunch of existing products and insist one has created a cloud OS. The cloud OS must be and must function like a true OS. In essence, one must be accessing a remote virtual instance dedicated to oneself but accessible from anywhere with authentication. That said, VMWare's latest innovations in desktop OS storage reduction may assist this in becoming a reality.
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Microsoft has no choice but to...The value proposition of open source software is immense. There is continuity, even if a given business entity ceases to exist. There is rapid expandability and freedom. These are huge costs for a software company and open source isn't as easy to make money off of, but now that consumers (IT) has experienced the freedom of foss the demand will only grow.
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Thats too bad. This is the first time I've even heard of Network.com.
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I've tried several web based suites and use Google Docs with some regularity, but I must say I still prefer OpenOffice. Personally, my preference would be that when I save a document on my local computer in OOo that it would be synced up to Google Docs (or another service) seamlessly. I know, I know, there is an OOo plugin that facilitates this synchronization, but its not seamless.
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I definitely believe cell phones pose a health risk and that this is something worth looking into.
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Acck...And I thought the FCC was for us.
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Apple needs to get on its A-game. It has a head start but there can be little doubt that Android will soon be a viable competitor, already is. Apple must decide on a way of keeping up with the rapid open source pace of development Android is able to offer or face diminishing market opportunities.
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I eat 3 TB in my sleep. That said, many legacy OS'es don't support partitions over 2 TB.
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That is crazy. Note the author says 100Mb/s not Mbps! You are talking about roughly 800 Mbps...what would we do with that amount of data?
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What is this Ask you speak of? Okay, j/k. But really, they are done. They can't compete on a normal algorithmic basis, their marketing was a massive failure. Their best bet would be to return to the strategy they abandoned so long ago - using humans to optimize results.
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I bet DNN is glad they closed that round of venture capital funding before this announcement was made...
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