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Google's Copernicus Center
Brad Barnich was one of countless readers to note that Google has begun accepting job applications for its new Copernicus data center. I imagine this will eat a sizable portion of their IPO profits, however with this new center not opening until 2007, they at least can take their time!
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:( site is down now
its over
thanks assholes
Please crapflood ticalc.org
FIRST REPLY!
The blood of the innocent shall flow freely from the steps of the new-found corporate justice.
PROPS TO MATT - Its his birthday!
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you MacSlash fanatics? I have recently upgraded from an old 300Mhz Wallstreet Powerbook w/64 Megs of RAM to a new G5 dual 2GHz with AGP 8X and PCI-X to help me at my freelance gig where I needed to view some pertinent stories about the Apple Macintosh while proxied into my home network. On the G5 with iTunes running, it took about 20 minutes to find a good story on MacSlash! At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4 with MusicMatch running, which by all standards should be a lot slower than the G5 running iTunes, the same operation on apple.slashdot.org would take 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this surfing escapade, my ad-blocker will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even my cute icons on the dock are straining to bounce up and down as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while surfing MacSlash, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen an important Apple based story on MacSlash before seeing it on apple.slashdot.org, despite MacSlashs' claim that it's "A daily does of Macintosh News and Discussion". My old Pentium II with 64MB of ram running MS Windows ME can find an interesting story on apple.slashdot.org faster than this G5 dual 2GHz machine on MacSlash. From a unbiased standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that MacSlash has any claims of superiority over the venerable apple.slashdot.org.
MacSlash addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to visit MacSlash over better, more interesting and more current sites like apple.slashdot.org.
Why was my original post considered offtopic? I was pointing out that the presence of this obvious april fool's joke on google's website is a good sign that the gmail service ISN'T a joke... how is that not related to the topic at hand?