Dell was able to cut a deal with Intel, which isn't a crime. The SEC got all bent out of shape because of the lack of disclosure, but if Dell disclosed the sweet rebates they got on Intel processors, do you think Intel would give them the deal next time? No way!
It wasn't harmful to Dell stockholders until all of this was disclosed, and Dell stock went down the drain (OK, Dell stock was going down the drain anyway, but this didn't help). Oh, and then Dell started selling AMD-based systems, so I guess AMD was glad the deal was brought out in the open.
So now if Dell convinces a supplier to cut a great deal, but the supplier says "only if you don't tell everyone, or they'll ALL want the same deal" does Dell say, "No thanks, we'll pay the higher price."???
Dell could have kept development in-house and STILL keep costs down. However, management realized that if everything is done in house, when something fails it is DELL's fault, and heads must roll. By outsourcing, when a major screw-up is discovered, Dell management can blame someone like Foxconn, and not have to worry about any DELL manager taking the blame.
They saw this coming, so they created a way to avoid the blame.
The computer industry should take a lesson from the auto industry. When you buy a car, they don't bog you down with the details of bore, stroke, compression ratio, number of cylinders, RPM of max HP or any of the other components of producing power in an engine. They have a simple to read MPG rating for each car, so you can purchase with confidence and then feel like a complete schmuck when your 36MPG-rated car only gets 22MPG for you.
Yes, there are people who study these things, and who get research grants to do so. Grants that in NO WAY influence the conclusions of such research?
Reducing use of fossil fuels is a noble cause, but using AGW as the reason is akin to telling a teenage boy to stop what he's doing because he's gonna go blind!
So they can actually SEE how the earth was destroyed by the LHC. I mean, if you go to all that trouble to destroy our planet, don't you want everyone to SEE your handiwork?
so migrating to Win7 won't help your company. Stay on XP, keep trying to get by with IE6, and UPDATE YOUR RESUME!
Oh yeah, have you pulled your money out of the employee stock plan yet?
If your UEFI platform includes a CSM (compatibility Support Module), then legacy boot will be supported, and you'll be able to use INT 10h to read your boot sector. Without the CSM, you'll have to use UEFI protocols to find your boot path, and you'll also have to change your boot partition to a GPT (Guid Partition Table), since UEFI doesn't like your MBR @ LBA 0.
BIOS used to be basic. Initialize the memory, enumerate the PCI bus, find a boot device and hand off to the OS. Now that UEFI has come along, "BIOS" is megabytes of device drivers written by dozens of different groups, all trying to get access to core services, initialize their hardware, and publish their protocols so other drivers can talk to their hardware.
If you thought a BIOS bug was a problem before, you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet!
Oh yeah, did I mention that all of this stuff is single-threaded? Makes sense in a world where EVERY system has more than one core, but adding support for multiple execution threads was too much for the UEFI designers.:(
You can have that kind of computing power at home TODAY. Stumble over to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ to see where LHC and other projects get their global computing power (SETI@HOME is probably the most famous). From there you can start your own project, and in no time you'll have millions of computers around the world crunching away for you! Maybe that'll help you pick next week's winning lottery numbers?
Of course, it could be that the dinosaur's head position is a result of his current mood. In the morning, he's feeling good, head held high. After a full day of coding, debugging, and endless meetings with management, his head will be dragging on the ground. His blood pressure will be elevated, but not BECAUSE his head is dragging - they are both symptoms of overwork.
Butch: "Hey, Kid..."
Sundance: "Yeah, Butch?"
Butch: "We should go to Bolivia!"
Sundance: "Bolivia? What's there?"
Butch: "We could literally scrape Lithium off the ground! We'll be rich!"
Sundance: "Let's get packin'!"
Will the city of Beijing ever recover from the pollution created by those fireworks? How many sweatshops have to be idled in order for China to get a carbon offset for this display?
If you took all the electricity used to power those 800 processors and applied it DIRECTLY to the human competitor, the computer could have easily KILLED its opponent. Winning a handicapped game of go? Not a very efficient use of all that power.
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Dell was able to cut a deal with Intel, which isn't a crime. The SEC got all bent out of shape because of the lack of disclosure, but if Dell disclosed the sweet rebates they got on Intel processors, do you think Intel would give them the deal next time? No way!
It wasn't harmful to Dell stockholders until all of this was disclosed, and Dell stock went down the drain (OK, Dell stock was going down the drain anyway, but this didn't help). Oh, and then Dell started selling AMD-based systems, so I guess AMD was glad the deal was brought out in the open.
So now if Dell convinces a supplier to cut a great deal, but the supplier says "only if you don't tell everyone, or they'll ALL want the same deal" does Dell say, "No thanks, we'll pay the higher price."???
As for what killed the guy who drank from the dead squirrel, we'll have to wait until the lab reports are finished.
Dell could have kept development in-house and STILL keep costs down. However, management realized that if everything is done in house, when something fails it is DELL's fault, and heads must roll. By outsourcing, when a major screw-up is discovered, Dell management can blame someone like Foxconn, and not have to worry about any DELL manager taking the blame. They saw this coming, so they created a way to avoid the blame.
The computer industry should take a lesson from the auto industry. When you buy a car, they don't bog you down with the details of bore, stroke, compression ratio, number of cylinders, RPM of max HP or any of the other components of producing power in an engine. They have a simple to read MPG rating for each car, so you can purchase with confidence and then feel like a complete schmuck when your 36MPG-rated car only gets 22MPG for you.
Yes, there are people who study these things, and who get research grants to do so. Grants that in NO WAY influence the conclusions of such research? Reducing use of fossil fuels is a noble cause, but using AGW as the reason is akin to telling a teenage boy to stop what he's doing because he's gonna go blind!
So they can actually SEE how the earth was destroyed by the LHC. I mean, if you go to all that trouble to destroy our planet, don't you want everyone to SEE your handiwork?
Now what am I going to do with a round trip to Costa Rica? Botox and Liposuction? I can get that right here!
so migrating to Win7 won't help your company. Stay on XP, keep trying to get by with IE6, and UPDATE YOUR RESUME! Oh yeah, have you pulled your money out of the employee stock plan yet?
If your UEFI platform includes a CSM (compatibility Support Module), then legacy boot will be supported, and you'll be able to use INT 10h to read your boot sector. Without the CSM, you'll have to use UEFI protocols to find your boot path, and you'll also have to change your boot partition to a GPT (Guid Partition Table), since UEFI doesn't like your MBR @ LBA 0.
BIOS used to be basic. Initialize the memory, enumerate the PCI bus, find a boot device and hand off to the OS. Now that UEFI has come along, "BIOS" is megabytes of device drivers written by dozens of different groups, all trying to get access to core services, initialize their hardware, and publish their protocols so other drivers can talk to their hardware. If you thought a BIOS bug was a problem before, you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet! Oh yeah, did I mention that all of this stuff is single-threaded? Makes sense in a world where EVERY system has more than one core, but adding support for multiple execution threads was too much for the UEFI designers. :(
You can have that kind of computing power at home TODAY. Stumble over to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ to see where LHC and other projects get their global computing power (SETI@HOME is probably the most famous). From there you can start your own project, and in no time you'll have millions of computers around the world crunching away for you! Maybe that'll help you pick next week's winning lottery numbers?
wrong movie. Think Keanu Reeves, escaping from the explosion on a motorcycle...
Of course, it could be that the dinosaur's head position is a result of his current mood. In the morning, he's feeling good, head held high. After a full day of coding, debugging, and endless meetings with management, his head will be dragging on the ground. His blood pressure will be elevated, but not BECAUSE his head is dragging - they are both symptoms of overwork.
Butch: "Hey, Kid..."
Sundance: "Yeah, Butch?"
Butch: "We should go to Bolivia!"
Sundance: "Bolivia? What's there?"
Butch: "We could literally scrape Lithium off the ground! We'll be rich!"
Sundance: "Let's get packin'!"
Will the city of Beijing ever recover from the pollution created by those fireworks? How many sweatshops have to be idled in order for China to get a carbon offset for this display?
Please, no talk of shooting down satellites this week. I'd hate to have to switch back to cable to watch the rest of the Olympics!
If you took all the electricity used to power those 800 processors and applied it DIRECTLY to the human competitor, the computer could have easily KILLED its opponent. Winning a handicapped game of go? Not a very efficient use of all that power.
Yeah, but as soon as a sales guy GETS tech knowledge, they transfer to the tech team (just like you did).