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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Authored by: robg on Apr 01, '04 11:07:04AM

Google will offer free web mail. The aspect that makes this one seem particularly April Fools-ish is the 1gigabyte of storage per person. Consider 100,000,000 users of Google at a gigabyte each...

-rob.



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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Authored by: robg on Apr 01, '04 11:54:38AM

Hmm ... now they have more info up, and they do claim 1gb. Either it's real, or it's the most elaborate prank ever :).

-rob.



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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Authored by: reiggin on Apr 01, '04 12:01:09PM

This is Google's April Fools Joke:

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html



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gmail
Authored by: rgray on Apr 01, '04 12:14:54PM
con 1. no link in the CNN article (may be de rigeur for CNN - not my source of choice).
con 2. nothing on google.com front page

pro 1. see gmail.com
pro 2. CBC (trusty source) Ottawa local news at 11:30am Eastern time ran with this story.

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Apple releases speed- and CPU-bumped G5s
Authored by: Makosuke on Apr 01, '04 01:14:44PM

The 1GB Google webmail thing certainly seems suspect (and it'd be an odd choice to release something so drastic on April 1st), but although my first thought was "obvious prank", it's not entirely infeasable;

Say, hypothetically, that their 1GB e-mail limit applied only to text mail. I'm assuming that they've got some sort of fancy compression scheme that allows them to deal with the mind-boggling ammounts of data they do, so 1GB of text could easily be a tenth or even hundredth that in actual storage space. Still, 10-100MB of email is a helluva lot.

However, if it's text only, 99.9% of users are never going to go anywhere near that kind of storage; 2 years of de-spammed messages in my account adds up to 2000 messages, and that's only 10MB on disk. Heavy users of course have a lot more, but plenty of home folks have a lot less.

The one trick would be despamming, since that'd overload any "store everything" system very rapidly.

Anyway, I'm still highly skeptical, but it's not wildly out of the realm of possibility--with fancy compression, and averaging of loads, that "1GB" of storage might only end up being a couple of megabytes on disk per user.



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