printing and imaging division is about 20% of revenue -- that includes ink cartridges, printers, commercial printers, etc. The division has a 13.2% operating margin -- less than their software division (17.7%). For comparison, services has a 11.3% operating margin, enterprise servers - 11.2%, financial services - 9.9%, and personal systems - 5.5%
You're suggesting that amazon, with 20b in revenue last quarter, would have made 10b if they had not invested anything in equipment/facilities? A 50% profit margin?
So you're saying, obviously with no evidence or examples whatsoever, that a company like IBM -- with 433,000 employees, filled with engineers, and other highly skilled people -- could not have possibly come up with 6478 patents in a single year. Assuming that each patent has a unique author -- that's 1.5% of their employees.
He said the material is not libelous. I'm allowed to start a domain called SheetrockIsATerriblePerson.com and post criticisms about you. That's not trademark infringement. You cannot use trademark law to silence critics.
Copyright does not apply to names, corporate names, product names, or any other type of name. Learn the difference kid, because it makes you sound stupid.
"stating its commitment to gradually move to open source as a strategic option for future projects"
They aren't changing anything. They're going to use the Microsoft licenses they have already bought.. but on future projects, open source may get a shot, but probably not.
My last Asus motherboard install (about four months ago) did not support Linux due to the NIC reporting as the wrong model,
So return the MB and get a refund. I wouldn't have spent more than 30 minutes on it, after seeing the specs were wrong. I've built about 5 dozen computers.. I have NEVER had that happen. So just return it.. it's not a widespread issue.
None of the currently available motherboards make the NIC model available before purchase
Here, I don't know what you are talking about. Granted it's been almost a week since I built my last computer, but the manufacturers websites haven't changed that much.
I've bought about 2 dozen Asus AMD motherboards, and they all work fine in Linux.
dotancohen is just too lazy to do a little research, so instead he's looking for the impossible: a hardware manufacturer that needs to sell millions of units, but no matter how in demand a chipset or feature is, will refuse to release the product without Linux drivers.. a manufacturer who would turn away 95% of his customers (by not releasing a product) because 2% of them won't be able to use it.
Those are all just numbers you pulled out of thin air. You don't know the average DD order size, the average number of orders placed by a customer, the conversation rate of this ad, or any of the other information you need to determine if this ad is profitable. So just STOP. The people who DO KNOW those numbers -- DD marketing employees -- ran those numbers and determined this ad was worth it. In fact it was SO worth it, that they purchased an ENTIRE YEAR up front.
Ok, let's use your number. 39 million people per year. That's 100,000 per day.
Dunkin donuts pays 3.6m per year. That's just under $10,000/day
That's $0.10 per person. 1 in 10, would make that $1 per customer acquired.
You really think a Dunkin Donuts customer is worth $1? They're going to buy 1 cup of their cheapest coffee, and then NEVER visit the place again their lives.
That's one of the dumbest assumptions I've ever heard.
Dunkin Donuts knows how much each of those customers are worth. It sure as hell isn't $1.
You're quick to call others stupid, and then show off how dumb you are. Look: the value of a customer is not the same as the amount of a single order. It is the value of ALL of the orders that customer will place over their lifetime.
For example, at some point Starbucks convinced me to purchase one of their incredibly overpriced drinks. I held out for literally years. Then about 3-4 years ago, I started buying their drinks, and since then, they've earned literally hundreds of dollars from me. That + all of the drinks I will buy in the future = my value to Starbucks.
What is the cross range capability of grasshopper? If you're going to pretend the shuttles cross range capability is useless, then grasshopper is even more so.
2 US-East-1 is the default zone, and it is the largest zone. It may even be larger than all of the others combined. It consists of more than 10 datacenters in the VA area. It is also the oldest, and it's where Amazon launches new services first.
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Ah interesting. 5 years ago HP DID make 2/3's of its profit from ink cartridges.
Uh... did you see the chart? It goes back to 2006.
"they get most of their income from ink cartridges"
Exaggerate much? You really don't know wtf you are talking about do you?
here's a chart with HPs revenue by segment:
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-hp-revenue-by-segment-2011-8
here's their 2012 q2 results:
http://h30261.www3.hp.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71087&p=irol-newsarticle&ID=1699267
printing and imaging division is about 20% of revenue -- that includes ink cartridges, printers, commercial printers, etc. The division has a 13.2% operating margin -- less than their software division (17.7%). For comparison, services has a 11.3% operating margin, enterprise servers - 11.2%, financial services - 9.9%, and personal systems - 5.5%
shame I have to undo my moderation to post this.. but http://news.ycombinator.com/ is better than /.
I see you are thread-challenged. maybe you should read the post he replied to first: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3424409&cid=42756337
You're suggesting that amazon, with 20b in revenue last quarter, would have made 10b if they had not invested anything in equipment/facilities? A 50% profit margin?
You can't be that stupid.
No.. he said 33170 patents, which is the total from the 12 companies listed in the summary, of which IBM is the largest of the 12
Oh... well if you say so, then it must be true. No need to post any links or references to back up your claims.
So you're saying, obviously with no evidence or examples whatsoever, that a company like IBM -- with 433,000 employees, filled with engineers, and other highly skilled people -- could not have possibly come up with 6478 patents in a single year. Assuming that each patent has a unique author -- that's 1.5% of their employees.
That seems completely plausible.
Right.. because "inside" is the same as the letter i (as the op said).
Those extra letters don't count?
You're thinking of Apple:
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mp3s/apples-future-wont-be-brought-to-you-by-the-letter-i-20100312-q27r.html
Hey have you ever seen a "leaf"? Apple just trademarked it:
http://www.webpronews.com/apples-trademark-applications-are-getting-kind-of-ridiculous-2012-12
I would have never thought of that. Guess that's why Apple's #1
He said the material is not libelous. I'm allowed to start a domain called SheetrockIsATerriblePerson.com and post criticisms about you. That's not trademark infringement. You cannot use trademark law to silence critics.
Wal-mart tried this in 2008:
http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2008/court-rejects-wal-marts-bid-silence-criticism-through-trademark-law
Copyright does not apply to names, corporate names, product names, or any other type of name. Learn the difference kid, because it makes you sound stupid.
"stating its commitment to gradually move to open source as a strategic option for future projects"
They aren't changing anything. They're going to use the Microsoft licenses they have already bought.. but on future projects, open source may get a shot, but probably not.
I'm glad these people chose to go protest over some Microsoft licenses amounting to $43m, instead of clearly less important things, like Morsi throwing their momentary democracy in trash.
You're thinking of this supreme court case: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html?_r=0
Even with a restraining order, the police had no legal obligation to respond.
No, not unlucky.. just incompetent. The board he says he purchased says in the manual that it has an RL8111E/RL8111F nic. and in the summary he says it's a 8168. No idea where he got that from, and then he turns around and blames Asus.
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1155/P8H61-M_LX_R2.0/E7241_P8H61-M_LX_R2_Series.pdf
He also says he couldn't attach a nic because the board does not have a PCI slot, just 4 PCIe slots.
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8H61M_LX_R20/#overview
OMG.. I just noticed you posted what the actual board was in another thread. You said it had a RL8168 nic and the manual clearly says it's its an rl81111
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/LGA1155/P8H61-M_LX_R2.0/E7241_P8H61-M_LX_R2_Series.pdf
And that manual was uploaded in June.
So you're obviously completely incompetent and full of shit.
Are you fucking serious? It has 4 PCIe slots!!!!!!!!!
You're looking for a MB with a PCI slot in 2012??????
A gb nic w/ a pcie slot is $10.
You obviously have no idea wtf you are doing.
My last Asus motherboard install (about four months ago) did not support Linux due to the NIC reporting as the wrong model,
So return the MB and get a refund. I wouldn't have spent more than 30 minutes on it, after seeing the specs were wrong. I've built about 5 dozen computers.. I have NEVER had that happen. So just return it.. it's not a widespread issue.
None of the currently available motherboards make the NIC model available before purchase
Here, I don't know what you are talking about. Granted it's been almost a week since I built my last computer, but the manufacturers websites haven't changed that much.
http://www.asus.com/
http://us.msi.com/
http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/index.php
http://www.supermicro.com/index_home.cfm
Yep.. all of them list the NIC card in the MB specs.
If you're that lazy, why the fuck are you bothering me.
I've bought about 2 dozen Asus AMD motherboards, and they all work fine in Linux.
dotancohen is just too lazy to do a little research, so instead he's looking for the impossible: a hardware manufacturer that needs to sell millions of units, but no matter how in demand a chipset or feature is, will refuse to release the product without Linux drivers.. a manufacturer who would turn away 95% of his customers (by not releasing a product) because 2% of them won't be able to use it.
Those are all just numbers you pulled out of thin air. You don't know the average DD order size, the average number of orders placed by a customer, the conversation rate of this ad, or any of the other information you need to determine if this ad is profitable. So just STOP. The people who DO KNOW those numbers -- DD marketing employees -- ran those numbers and determined this ad was worth it. In fact it was SO worth it, that they purchased an ENTIRE YEAR up front.
Ok, let's use your number. 39 million people per year. That's 100,000 per day.
Dunkin donuts pays 3.6m per year. That's just under $10,000/day
That's $0.10 per person. 1 in 10, would make that $1 per customer acquired.
You really think a Dunkin Donuts customer is worth $1? They're going to buy 1 cup of their cheapest coffee, and then NEVER visit the place again their lives.
That's one of the dumbest assumptions I've ever heard.
Dunkin Donuts knows how much each of those customers are worth. It sure as hell isn't $1.
You're quick to call others stupid, and then show off how dumb you are. Look: the value of a customer is not the same as the amount of a single order. It is the value of ALL of the orders that customer will place over their lifetime.
For example, at some point Starbucks convinced me to purchase one of their incredibly overpriced drinks. I held out for literally years. Then about 3-4 years ago, I started buying their drinks, and since then, they've earned literally hundreds of dollars from me. That + all of the drinks I will buy in the future = my value to Starbucks.
sssshhhhhhhhh.. this is slashdot where citation-less posts with made up reasoning get +5.
What is the cross range capability of grasshopper? If you're going to pretend the shuttles cross range capability is useless, then grasshopper is even more so.
1 Netflix does use multiple zones:
http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html
2 US-East-1 is the default zone, and it is the largest zone. It may even be larger than all of the others combined. It consists of more than 10 datacenters in the VA area. It is also the oldest, and it's where Amazon launches new services first.