The simple fact of the matter is that EfficientPC is some no-name company that no one trusts. For whatever reason, at least here in the US, Dell is seen as a good name brand computer. People won't put faith in something delivered by a company that insists on a horrible color scheme and poor web design. Just happened to be the 1st one that appeared in Google. There are loads of companies selling Linux based systems.
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Dell is a big name in the PC business and by having them push out pre-installed Linux machines it shows the rest of the industry (aside from the ever so unsightly EfficientPCs) that it should also hop on the bandwagon. I just wish the Linux userbase wasn't such a bunch of self-absorbed fuckers when it comes to accepting new people or companies. Said the guy who's so concerned by name and brand.
The irony is that you have it backwards, it's the small companies who fill the niches, take away business from the large ones because they provide services that people are willing to pay for, they grow into medium sized companies. The large incumbents follow suit, 5 years later, because they eventually see that the market has moved.
You don't persuade a business to do something by begging them to sell you something. You persuade them by buying that something from someone else who is quite happy to sell you that something. There are dozens... hundreds of companies who'd love to sell you a pre-installed, pre-configured Linux system, very competitively priced. Who else do you think "the industry" is?
You're aware that Dell is a "box shifter"? Their support is... basic...
A pc is collection of commodity hardware components, Dell buy them from the same place as everyone else. Really the only reason to buy Dell is price, and others can do them for about the same, and provide more personal support too.
There is a great shortage of a physics and chemistry teachers Bollocks there is, a good friend of mine is a qualified and experienced physics teacher, can't get a permanent position.
You know... Teaching used to be a very well paying and highly respected profession. Then they nationalised it.
The benefit has to be for the genes of the believer for there to be a genetic advantage, and lets not forget that you share most of your genes with your family and probably those who live close by.
If a belief in an afterlife causes you to sacrifice yourself for the benefit of your siblings children, you may well lose out personally, but the genes you and your siblings share may benefit overall...
Your genes aren't necessarily working for your benefit.
There's a strong (negative) correlation between the number of pirates plying the seas and global warming, too I keep hearing this statistic spouted, but I've never seen any data to support it. There are plenty of modern day pirates btw, particularly round Singapore, Indonesia. Ask any yacht owner or cargo ship crew.
Call the salesguy over and say, I'm interested in PRODUCTX, but not at PRICEY, your price is too expensive, I don't think it's worth that, I'm willing to pay lower PRICEZ instead, are you willing to talk about the price?
It isn't bait and switch because you're told the higher price before purchase. It might well be false advertising, but the number of companies which do that is huge. Every time you phone up and find sorry "it's sold out" it was almost certainly never on offer at that price, but they do have you on the phone and have one just like it at 10% more.
We're taught that haggling over money is bad form, well, bollocks. It's fun, and you can save 10%-20% on average on just about everything.
Every time MS come out with a new version of Office or Windows, the CIOs throw wobblies sending out warnings that no-one is to upgrade and they're going to stick with the existing version. They really should know better, all it takes is one person, usually somewhere near the top to install the new version, particularly of Office and the whole organisation then has to upgrade. Way to engineer that network effect.
As a matter of fact there are fewer and fewer client side apps in an average corporation. Most IT departments do not have the competence and resources to support internal development. This might just be because such a large proportion is spent on support.
I don't understand why do you think why dumb terminals will have a come back. Dumb terminals are considered deprecated since the late 80's By the ignorant perhaps. And cost is the reason.
2-300 ms. I understand that maintaining a single server is much easier than maintaining hundreds of desktops, but I think that would really decrease the work efficiency of the people using it. Does a server even scale to support several hundred simultaneous graphic terminal clients?M/quote>
300ms? What kind of network are you talking about? Wet string? Anyone on a 100Mbit full duplex switched network will have response times indistinguishable from a local workstation, Citrix or X11. In fact it'll be faster for everything but the most graphically intense applications.
It's easy to get hold of a server which will happily run several hundred clients, with horsepower to spare. Though a single big machine is the expensive way to do it, several smaller much cheaper machines will have better characteristics, going to thousands of clients is just as simple.
Yeah. The entire enterprise application base from Win32 to POSIX/Cocoa. You don't need the entire application base of Win32, only the applications that you need. If the apps required for his company are available on OSX then, well, what's the problem.
Where is the corporate distribution of packaged software? It's Unix, this's been trivial for decades. The hard part is the politics.
See, in the real world there's no such thing as perfect, it literally can't exist. There is only ever good enough and no two people stand at exactly the same point on the good enough continuum.
If you want badly managed client end-points, go ahead. snort... Sorry, but Windows is the epitome... the very apotheosis of badly managed end points, even with all the bells and whistles of AD and SMS it's still ridiculously painful.
Well, the software configuration you are using is not supported, our software engineer can be onsite in 3 hours to help you sort the problems out. Oh and btw, that'll be $300 per hour with no guarantee of a fix.
Probably because Iran has openly stated its desire to wipe Israel off the map should it ever have the means to do so. Actually, they didn't say that at all. It's a (deliberate?) misquote.
Are they one of those shared societal tasks which just need to get done?
How about paying for agribusiness to produce goods which nobody wants?
How about reducing oil companies taxes to below the levels of other businesses?
Classical liberals (not the bastardized version you have in the US) and libertarians generally believe that governmental influence is a bad thing rather than a good one. Most advocate minimising government rather than complete anarchy.
Around 1970 the quality of the bikes was so piss poor that factory new machines would often simply not work without extensive work by their new proud owner. So did the japanese with their fastly superior quality bury HD as it deserved too?
Hell no. Actually. I think you'll find that in the rest of the world, they did exactly that. Harley Davidsons are seen as a joke pretty much throughout Europe
Someone comes up with some amazing, high tech solutions which I don't know, let you reflect light, or maybe bend it. This "laser shield" would have to be small enough to carry, compact, say small enough to fit in a woman's handbag or maybe a gent's toiletry bag.
Anyway, just a thought, it'll probably take the military billions of dollars and a decade or two to come up with something like that.
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http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/23168/
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html Dell is a big name in the PC business and by having them push out pre-installed Linux machines it shows the rest of the industry (aside from the ever so unsightly EfficientPCs) that it should also hop on the bandwagon. I just wish the Linux userbase wasn't such a bunch of self-absorbed fuckers when it comes to accepting new people or companies. Said the guy who's so concerned by name and brand.
The irony is that you have it backwards, it's the small companies who fill the niches, take away business from the large ones because they provide services that people are willing to pay for, they grow into medium sized companies. The large incumbents follow suit, 5 years later, because they eventually see that the market has moved.
You don't persuade a business to do something by begging them to sell you something. You persuade them by buying that something from someone else who is quite happy to sell you that something. There are dozens
You're aware that Dell is a "box shifter"? Their support is ... basic ...
A pc is collection of commodity hardware components, Dell buy them from the same place as everyone else. Really the only reason to buy Dell is price, and others can do them for about the same, and provide more personal support too.
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http://www.efficientpc.co.uk/baseunits/isis/?gcli
You know... Teaching used to be a very well paying and highly respected profession. Then they nationalised it.
The benefit has to be for the genes of the believer for there to be a genetic advantage, and lets not forget that you share most of your genes with your family and probably those who live close by.
If a belief in an afterlife causes you to sacrifice yourself for the benefit of your siblings children, you may well lose out personally, but the genes you and your siblings share may benefit overall...
Your genes aren't necessarily working for your benefit.
The customer is always wrong is the clarion call of management consultants the world over.
You don't have to pay that price, ever.
Call the salesguy over and say, I'm interested in PRODUCTX, but not at PRICEY, your price is too expensive, I don't think it's worth that, I'm willing to pay lower PRICEZ instead, are you willing to talk about the price?
It isn't bait and switch because you're told the higher price before purchase. It might well be false advertising, but the number of companies which do that is huge. Every time you phone up and find sorry "it's sold out" it was almost certainly never on offer at that price, but they do have you on the phone and have one just like it at 10% more.
We're taught that haggling over money is bad form, well, bollocks. It's fun, and you can save 10%-20% on average on just about everything.
When they get rid of the hard disk, there will be even less consumption.
This'll last about 9 months.
Every time MS come out with a new version of Office or Windows, the CIOs throw wobblies sending out warnings that no-one is to upgrade and they're going to stick with the existing version. They really should know better, all it takes is one person, usually somewhere near the top to install the new version, particularly of Office and the whole organisation then has to upgrade. Way to engineer that network effect.
300ms? What kind of network are you talking about? Wet string? Anyone on a 100Mbit full duplex switched network will have response times indistinguishable from a local workstation, Citrix or X11. In fact it'll be faster for everything but the most graphically intense applications.
It's easy to get hold of a server which will happily run several hundred clients, with horsepower to spare. Though a single big machine is the expensive way to do it, several smaller much cheaper machines will have better characteristics, going to thousands of clients is just as simple.
See, in the real world there's no such thing as perfect, it literally can't exist. There is only ever good enough and no two people stand at exactly the same point on the good enough continuum. If you want badly managed client end-points, go ahead. snort... Sorry, but Windows is the epitome... the very apotheosis of badly managed end points, even with all the bells and whistles of AD and SMS it's still ridiculously painful.
Both capitalism and scarcity are a product of human psychology.
Well, the software configuration you are using is not supported, our software engineer can be onsite in 3 hours to help you sort the problems out. Oh and btw, that'll be $300 per hour with no guarantee of a fix.
Are they one of those shared societal tasks which just need to get done?
How about paying for agribusiness to produce goods which nobody wants?
How about reducing oil companies taxes to below the levels of other businesses?
Classical liberals (not the bastardized version you have in the US) and libertarians generally believe that governmental influence is a bad thing rather than a good one. Most advocate minimising government rather than complete anarchy.
Hell no. Actually. I think you'll find that in the rest of the world, they did exactly that. Harley Davidsons are seen as a joke pretty much throughout Europe
Someone comes up with some amazing, high tech solutions which I don't know, let you reflect light, or maybe bend it. This "laser shield" would have to be small enough to carry, compact, say small enough to fit in a woman's handbag or maybe a gent's toiletry bag.
Anyway, just a thought, it'll probably take the military billions of dollars and a decade or two to come up with something like that.
No compiling. You can tweak to your heart's content though.
o n_Ubuntu_Edgy_with_XGL
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_
A couple of simple add ons to Ubuntu and you can easily make Vista and OSX users insanely jealous of your working environment.
And wouldn't it be nice to just install a CD and have them boot up as Xterms. The cost of 3000 CDs rather than 3000 new Wyse terminals.
But pretty much agree with everything else you've said... Though a hot spare is always nice.
China alone holds a trillion dollars of US debt, Japan a similar amount.