It's called price discrimination. Dell is just charging what it thinks the different markets will bear. It's even quoted in the story header so you don't have to RTFA.
The problem is that it TOTALLY SUCKS. I quit eMusic as the download manager was binary only and crashed out constantly against recent versions of glibc - LD_PRELOAD tricks were required just to get it to work. I won't even get started about the usability of the download manager - uggh. So very many bugs.
The "support" people basically said they weren't interested in doing anything about it and perhaps I should take my business elsewhere so I did.
Oh yeah this was before they put a limit on the number of tracks/albums you could download per month so I probably wouldn't sign up again even if their Linux download manager actually worked. It's a pity as they did have some great old jazz recordings amongst their collection.
It doesn't matter if you have all the great design ideas in the world if you a) can't communicate them to people, and b) piss off everyone you work with so much they end up hating you.
From the replies in this thread it sounds like both of the above statements are true.
That's because when you jump start a car, you're actually charging the flat battery enough for it to be able to start the car. You're not trying to start the car from the other battery.
No you're not. You are putting a good battery in parallel with the flat one so when the car starts, the current comes from the good battery. Once the motor is running and you have disconnected the flat battery is being charged.
All the desktop vendows have this boiler-plate phrase on their websites/advertising. When they put this in there - Microsoft gives them marketing dollers (read money).
The "marketing development funds" for the company I work for are so large that they are actually hiring extra people to make extra sure we are compliant with Microsoft's random demands.
It kind of makes a mockery of the whole anti-trust thing. If you don't say "we recomment Microsoft AssHat 2.0" enough times you are effecively fined.
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Very ironic. I think they meant goatse open, not open in any useful sense.
Hrm, maybe it's the client I'm thinking of?
Apple have written their own SMB/CIFS server. They don't use Samba.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/31fc
It's called price discrimination. Dell is just charging what it thinks the different markets will bear. It's even quoted in the story header so you don't have to RTFA.
Move along - nothing to see here.
It's now more than 50%.
The new cifsfs filesystem actually does have more code in the kernel, rather than having a userspace helper like the old smbfs.
Why settle for just one? many violas
I didn't realise they fixed the dlm - good for them! The subscription you describe sounds a lot better now too. Thanks for the info.
The problem is that it TOTALLY SUCKS. I quit eMusic as the download manager was binary only and crashed out constantly against recent versions of glibc - LD_PRELOAD tricks were required just to get it to work. I won't even get started about the usability of the download manager - uggh. So very many bugs.
The "support" people basically said they weren't interested in doing anything about it and perhaps I should take my business elsewhere so I did.
Oh yeah this was before they put a limit on the number of tracks/albums you could download per month so I probably wouldn't sign up again even if their Linux download manager actually worked. It's a pity as they did have some great old jazz recordings amongst their collection.
Don't forget to check out this "related link" from the slashbox on the article: Compare prices on Patents. That's almost as funny as Compare prices on Money.
Me neither, and I don't have the tab browser extensions. All browsers my butt!
you cock smoking... err never mind.
It doesn't matter if you have all the great design ideas in the world if you a) can't communicate them to people, and b) piss off everyone you work with so much they end up hating you.
From the replies in this thread it sounds like both of the above statements are true.
Great - another crappy C/R system. Written in Java, no less.
You can buy iTunes gift certificates on ebay which is a neat way to get around having to have a credit card from a particular country.
Ha ha.
OS X doesn't come with Samba. Apple have written their own (proprietary) CIFS server instead.
I think you are confused with Rodney Dangerfield.
I'm pretty sure that's Libraries of Congressen.
The three laws:
1. A Republican may not injure a corporation, or, through inaction, allow a corporation to come to harm.
2. A Republican must obey the orders given it by corporations except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A Republican must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
George Bush's State of the Union speech.
It kind of makes a mockery of the whole anti-trust thing. If you don't say "we recomment Microsoft AssHat 2.0" enough times you are effecively fined.