Yeah, don't get caught up in rumors. Er, wait, Microsoft has officially announced this.
I suspect customers will be as turned off by the lack of the hard drive as they were for the PS2. It's not like memory cards are strange new beasts.
Is that why the aerial photographs of the area where I live are identical between TerraServer and Google, down to the cars on the street?
Look at Capitol Hill in Seattle (try 100 Broadway E, Seattle, WA). Then claim those photos are off different satellites. They might not have gotten them straight from TerraServer, but they didn't get them from DigitalGlobe either.
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Yeah, don't get caught up in rumors. Er, wait, Microsoft has officially announced this. I suspect customers will be as turned off by the lack of the hard drive as they were for the PS2. It's not like memory cards are strange new beasts.
Is that why the aerial photographs of the area where I live are identical between TerraServer and Google, down to the cars on the street?
Look at Capitol Hill in Seattle (try 100 Broadway E, Seattle, WA). Then claim those photos are off different satellites. They might not have gotten them straight from TerraServer, but they didn't get them from DigitalGlobe either.
Phone companies are not allowed to "buy out customers" and inform them that they have to conform to the new bell. ISPs shouldn't follow suit.
What, you didn't notice Qwest buying out US West last year? Funny, seemed like you were familiar with Qwest there for a second. My mistake.