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Comment Brand Value? (Score 5, Insightful) 84

I can buy an iPhone, iPad, Windows OS, Microsoft Office (or it's subscription). What exactly does Google sell apart from Ads (and our data)? Google Fiber is not available worldwide. Gmail is awesome even when free. Google glass does not seem like it will be usable because of the backlash. How does Google's brand value serve them when compared to the likes of Apple & Microsoft?

Comment Re:Vampirism (Score 2) 178

Here I diffed it for you.

*** current.scenario 2014-05-05 14:16:07.554773500 +0530
--- dystopian.scenario 2024-02-30 14:16:31.182773500 +0530
***************
*** 1 ****
! Young people selling blood to old folks to pay the interest on student debt, mortgage debt, credit card debt... the old generation sucking the blood of the new generation.
--- 1 ----
! Young people selling blood to old folks to pay the interest on student debt, mortgage debt, credit card debt, internet (neutrality) debt... the old generation literally sucking the blood of the new generation.

Although, won't we be in the ruling class by then?

Comment Re:RAID? (Score 1) 256

I have been looking at online stores to buy a 2.5 inch internal SSD drive and a matching USB3 drive enclosure for my Dell Laptop since yesterday. The laptop contains a ~750 GB HDD. It is half way through the 3 years warranty period and I do not want to void it by replacing the HDD with the SSD myself. Getting it done through Dell would cost more. I initially tried to find external SSD drives but the costs seem to be 30% higher than buying the enclosure separately. The USB3 interface at 5 Gbit/s seem only slightly slower than the 6 Gbit/s SATA 3 and as such should yield significant performance boost when compared to my current HDD.

Ultimately, though I had decided to delay the purchase so that the price of SSDs can come down further. Thanks to TFA, I now have renewed motivation to buy them today itself.

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