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@monkchips Probably in general. However, it still has systematic problems with a lot of things like temporal and geo location. Hard problems

ghaff @stshank Many of the complaints in that article would seem to apply to the Web and search in general, rather than specifically Google.
ghaff Off to mid-coast Maine later today for the week of the Fourth (after a detour up to the Dead River this weekend).
ghaff Suddenly I seem to be being particularly spammed with the whole fake degrees thing these days. Does ANYONE actually go for these things?
ghaff @cote maybe for the same reason that drive-up ATMs have braile.
ghaff Containers do seem to be a legit trend--at least for a few mega-scale service providers http://snurl.com/2pbbt
ghaff Some interesting discussion of where Greg P's 5 computers will physically live: http://snurl.com/2p9hl
ghaff @cote But if it's already "hot" today, isn't the window pretty much closed for a new entrant?
ghaff #structure08 No one's funding "God Boxes." i.e. innovative server designs
ghaff #structure08 Lower barriers of entry from cloud means you need to spend more money to sell/market for big win
ghaff Retweeting @lanehartwell: trying my best to be diplomatic w/client...setting me up for failure. If you want something specific,be specif ... ...
ghaff @monkchips I was amused by the line at the end about Bill G sending a memo like this any day. Guess no one pays him any attention :-)
ghaff #structure08 Enterprises want to have a relationship with a cloud provider, not just signup online with credit card
ghaff #structure08. OMG, a panel where people are actually disagreeing. Not enough of that. Panels can be so painful (usually are)
ghaff SmugVault is a great business model. They basically offer S3 with a very nice markup.
ghaff @jonathaneunice. Amazon another data point of mega-SPs building what enterprises historically (at least last decade historically) bought
ghaff I daresay you did not want to be one of the people responsible for the products this Bill G email concerned: http://snurl.com/2oqyr
ghaff High-tech toilets account for 4% of Japanese household energy consumption http://snurl.com/2ooyk
ghaff Hail is pounding off my house and it's *dark*
ghaff Why the f couldn't Vista have simply implemented symlinks like a normal OS. Instead we have "junctions" http://snurl.com/2nr0m