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"10 years ago there was software that could scan images without opening them and tell if it was porn or nudity. no one has to open any of the pictures to tell what is being sent" - Alen Teplitsky

"servers are so powerful and dirt cheap today it's amazing" - Alen Teplitsky

I add and drop servers in the cloud on a whim. I'm using Rackspace even though no Windows yet. EC2 was too difficult. - Reed Porter

"PC's can run OS X www.osx86project.org or .com, forget which one" - Alen Teplitsky

"it's the apps and the ability to surf the web anywhere where you can't use a laptop if you're lost and need gas, the Cheap Gas app will locate the closest station and give you directions if you want coffee, there is a starbucks locator app my wife has a bunch of kids apps like flash cards for our son to play with come next month there will be apps and hardware accessories to check your blood pressure, blood sugar, etc" - Alen Teplitsky

"maybe there is no more room for the cell phone chips if you add the extra flash memory in there?" - Alen Teplitsky

"i'm glad i'm not stationed there anymore. spent a year at Camp Casey in 2nd infantry Division in range of their artillery. took a trip to the DMZ one time and came within 10 feet of the demarcation line. it's a real white line painted on the ground" - Alen Teplitsky

"intel never cared about the high end graphics market. larabee will kill ATI's and Nvidia's low end market. wouldn't be surprised if AMD/ATI and NVIDIA end up merging because of this" - Alen Teplitsky

"how does google handle restores? say you need to restore someone's email from 7 years ago?" - Alen Teplitsky

"trust me, babies don't feel any pain during the process of after" - Alen Teplitsky

"the former CEO of MySQL was a big "standards" guy. if it wasn't a standard it didn't go into the software. MySQL is used in some large implementations now and going past the idiotic "standard" thing to offer users nice features at a cost of support will kill off any open source mysql" - Alen Teplitsky

"google didn't create youtube, they bought it. i think the maximum price was $5 billion, but it's probably less now due to the financial issues." - Alen Teplitsky

"because after 2 years when you contract is up you just buy a new one and sell/junk the old one. most smart phones can't support more storage than the iphone anyway and you have to buy the storage where apple gives it to you." - Alen Teplitsky

"WWDC is in June when the new iphone is going to be announced. wall street always send analysts to asia to get info on new developments. even apple can't keep secrets like this" - Alen Teplitsky

"Toyota, Honda and other automakers are creating tens of thousands of jobs in the USA. I just bought an Accord over the weekend. Made in Ohio, US made engine and 65% of the parts are US made. Toyotas are made in the USA as well." - Alen Teplitsky

"the original iphone sold less then expected which is why Apple and AT&T went to the subsidize model. i know my wife would never have bought an iphone 3G if it had cost $599 or whatever the price of the original was" - Alen Teplitsky

"it's already done there are several cell phone tower companies that sell bandwidth to the big carriers so they don't have to build their own" - Alen Teplitsky

"This makes perfect sense for IBM. Sun is into cloud computing as a service. IBM is into services and running data centers. With Sun they can virtualize all the data centers they run and save a lot of money for themselves and their customers. For the rest they will get a nice patent and tech portfolio they can merge with their own products and kill Sun's products. Sparc, Solaris, Java and a bunch of others. Just like when Compaq bought DEC and HP bought Compaq. The big loser is MS. Office is still a cash cow and IBM will now own OpenOffice and they will migrate their customers to it." - Alen Teplitsky

"MS is one of the largest cloud computing providers out there. XBox Live and Virtual Earth are huge. Virtual Earth doesn't get the hype that Google Maps does because it's not aimed at end users. Almost every GPS device uses it as the backend. when you buy a subscription from Garmin or Tom Tom a large chunk goes back to Microsoft. MS is what cloud computing is really about. you press a button on a device, send data to the cloud and get a response back. with IBM and Amazon they are just giving you virtual machines and you still have to build your own apps and manage them. just a rehash of the ASP fad of the late 1990's. it's OK for small businesses who don't want to worry about ISP hosting, but hardware is so dirt cheap these days it doesn't make sense for larger companies. i can get an HP server with dual quad core CPU's and 32GB RAM for around $5000." - Alen Teplitsky

"$4000 for a server? better include 32GB of RAM. we have HP where I work and after our special pricing they are dirt cheap. HP's server support is pretty good too. they always have parts onsite the next morning. their servers are so cheap it doesn't even make sense to buy extended warranties past 3 years for them. if it breaks just buy a new server. too bad they seem to last so long. we have 10 year old Compaq servers and we can still get parts." - Alen Teplitsky

"so why do they sell iphones in wal mart now?" - Alen Teplitsky

"except servers are dirt cheap these days. i'm pricing out some hardware for a new project and a dual quad core HP DL380 G5 with 32GB of RAM is around $7000 including the OS and SQL licenses which are close to half the cost. these machines will host around 3TB of data and it will grow at least 20% a year. They run daily tasks that handle hundreds of GB of data. it cheaper to keep them locally then send the data to the "cloud" and get a response back. and hardware will get even cheaper. i'd buy 64GB of RAM for these servers but it's cheaper to get 32GB this year and buy 64GB in 12-18 months." - Alen Teplitsky

"google and amazon so far concentrate on small businesses let's see how they handle a real enterprise account with hundreds of terrabytes of data. then bandwidth costs will suck up any savings you get from management savings" - Alen Teplitsky

"you probably missed the story today where Google licensed ActiveSync from Microsoft" - Alen Teplitsky

"it's not about having an extra battery, but planned obsolence on any PC laptop i can buy a new battery when the older one starts to go. i have a 4 year old Dell Inspiron that runs Vista and the battery doesn't hold a charge too well. If i wanted to i can buy a new battery and not worry about it. with this new laptop if the battery dies i have to buy a whole new laptop" - Alen Teplitsky

"how old is the PC? Apple makes laptops with one configuration. You can buy a PC laptop with a variety of different CPU's and configs. few years ago you could save a few bucks on a laptop by buying one with a desktop CPU and it would get hot enough to cook on. i can buy a PC laptop now with 95% specs of a MBP for 1/2 the price. only thing i can't get is the aluminum case and the glass pad. Apple laptops are made by the same few companies that make PC laptops. there are a few companies that make the basic kit and sell it to companies like Dell, HP, Apple and others to customize it and brand it. This year a lot of MBP's will be made by a Chineese company called Quanta computers." - Alen Teplitsky

we do it all the time. just exclude mdf's, ndf's and ldf's from being scanned. but even if you forget it's not a big deal - Alen Teplitsky

"there is a place in brooklyn, NY that does this if you take all you can eat sushi. they charge you the a la carte price for any sushi you leave behind" - Alen Teplitsky

report is by CWA, don't believe it - Alen Teplitsky from twhirl

"there are a class of startup companies making good money right now from Web 2.0. They're not flashy and they don't grow like mushrooms. But they've got all the business they can handle and they are growing. I am talking about companies that serve corporate social application needs. This isn't the typical Web 2.0 business paradigm, since serving corporate customers means lots of client service, which is people-intensive -- it doesn't lift off miraculously like a pure technology startup." - Susan Reynolds

i guess there are too many social networking startups that don't have a revenue generating business model. Nevertheless, iam positive about enterprise 2.0 startups. The reason being simple, enterprise is where the money is - Omfut

downloading the 3.1 GB ISO file now :-) - Denis

going to download it tomorrow while at the datacenter and plugged into the core switch - Alen Teplitsky

Egads. These downloads are getting bigger and bigger. - Morton Fox