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How Cheap Can A PC Be?
geoff lane writes "Ballmer wants a $100 computer. OK, can we build a reasonable PC for just $100 and a copy of Linux? The rules are: It's assumed that a monitor, keyboard and mouse are already available. Ethernet connectivity must be provided. All components must already have Linux support. All components must be new and currently available. The result must be electrically safe for the home. Is it possible?"
gnaa sux
Yah, all except the PRICE! $149 > $100
Well Josh, you must feel pretty damn special standing up for Worst Buy. Do you enjoy working there? Do you think it will get you somewhere in life? Bad news Josh, it won't. Unless you are willing to suck your male manager's dick for an assistant manager position which pays $9 an hour, your working life is as good as it gets. The only reason your pussy ass posted AC is to escape getting modded down, but somehow I think you will anyway. Me, I'm IP Banned from here and posting through a proxy. Which store do you work in Josh? I'm going to come in there and harass you to make you blow up and get fired, which I've done to about 4 Worst Buy employees so far. Not sure if they fired the fifth. I'll ask for a Category 5 shielded cable with dual RJ-45 termination and watch your eyes glaze over as you go find someone to ask what it is. When you try to sell the Profit Protection Plan on it, I'll ridicule you and that will be the end, Josh. You'll be canned. Hope you like wearing that pretty blue shirt. God, how pathetic.
Its even easier to just physically steal one from the store. And its the same thing.
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
But people *STILL* couldn't understand why a few dozen bytes of added data to each patch caused the stuff to double the price. The fact was, it took at least twice as long to convert this stuff and the man power cost more than the equipment to record in the first place.
Well, so your and Kurzweil's business model, packaging, and marketing was poorly thought out. Perhaps Kurzweil should have defined a ROM standard for samples, or a Smartcard standard. Don't blame others for his lack of business skills or your bad choice of platform.
No matter what you sell for, it will always be too much for someone.
Yes, and any reasonably smart business person knows how to use that fact to their advantage, rather than whining about it.
The fact of the matter is, if you price something lower, you are not going to increase your sales.
The fact of the matter is, that depends entirely on what the something is, how you market it, and how much other people are charging for something comparable.
Twitter, you're a petulant cock-gobbling sycophant to Linux Torvaldyos! Quit taking DP from ESR and RMS's feculent cocks and why don't you try to stop sucking quite so much? Get out of your parents' basement and see the real world - maybe then you'll see how pathetic you sound, with your neverending stream of bullshit about how Microsoft is stalking you. Wasn't it you who said that Microsoft believes your insane ranting is actually a threat to them, so they PAY PEOPLE to reply to you on Slashdot? No sir, I don't get any money. I do it for the love. Someone has to go up against your paranoid whining. So get back in your cage and shut the fuck up already.