At least they didn't call it Mozilla "Fiero". There are worse cars to be confused with (albeit not that much worse). It'd have to come with a mullet plug-in.
The dual Xeon has 512 MB RAM.
The dual Opteron has 2 GB RAM.
Maybe I'm just blind, but I can't seem to find these figures. According to the Config page for the 2x Xeon, it shows 8x512MB, same amount as the 2x Opteron.
Granted the 4xXeon also has the same amount of memory, whereas the 4xOpteron has 16x512MB, but that's cos the poor little(!) 32-bit Xeon can't address past 4GB of RAM anyway...
If i'm smoking crack, and you guys are looking at some different numbers, please let me know.
Not my fault. I don't care if the guy doesn't pay eBay. That is far from my concerns.
I'm with ya there. I don't care about eBay's profits either - as far as I'm concerned, their corporate strategy has nothing to do with the welfare of the little guy, but all to do with the stock price for the greedy investor.
The other replies are true as well, about the whole "garage sale, guy next door" auction style, however, the guy next door doesn't charge a commission (it's the only thing you can really call it) on the sale. (short of a full blown real life auction, of course.)
Well - ebay is really more of a flea market than a garage sale - and flea markets can have pretty exorbitant with their fees for putting up a stand. Not to mention the fact that I'd be just as likely to use cash to buy a laptop from a guy at a flea market as to use a check to buy one from a guy on eBay.
It might seem like a slap in the face, but there's a couple things to remember here:
One, eBay doesn't really make money on auctions from scammers. eBay bills monthly, and I doubt the guy is really sitting around with a credit card just waiting for eBay to charge him. I work for a company that charges our members monthly, and going after people with insufficient funds in their account is sorta like asking a VC for charity. So that pretty much puts eBay out the $175, plus the costs of investigating the fraud.
If you look at PayPal's financials, you can see that PayPal paid out $5.5 Million out of their $31MM in revenue in 2001 for "transactional losses" i.e. Fraud claims. In 2000, before they had their shit together, they paid out $11MM, $2.5MM MORE than their revenue for that year!!! I'm sure that eBay has a similar amount of cost in terms of Fraud Liability, albeit perhaps slightly less, since their credit card division (eBay Payments) is a bit smaller than PayPal. So while $200 is a pathetic insurance amount for a $3k notebook, it's better than nothing.
Two, my advice is that you should never buy anything on eBay over $200 using anything other than a credit card. Even if the guy has 2000 positive feedback, it's just asking for trouble. With a credit card, you can always initiate a chargeback, and 99.9% of the time, you'll get your money back.
Caveat Emptor. It's the name of the game, if you don't know the person you're buying from.
Fatbrain is also owned by the evil megacorp Barnes and Noble.
Even if Bookpool isn't the cheapest store on the block (though it often is - and in this case, a buck less than Fatbrain), i do almost all my technical book shopping there.
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I have to wholeheartedly agree. Nerds can babble on and on about Konqueror and Opera and such, but 99% of web users will never experience these browsers. For most of them, Microsoft is the way to go, unless someone hands them something better.
The problem is, we need some option out there to take marketshare away from Microsoft, if for the sole reason of getting people to stop designing their sites with IE solely in mind (so the pages don't look like crap to the rest of us).
There's a pretty interesting comparison on cNet of IE6 and Netscape 6.2.
And if you want to talk about speed, I'd have to say that both Konqueror and Mozilla/Gnome are painfully slow when compared to running moz0.9.5 on Win2K.
Yeah, it's pretty easy to pad feedback on eBay... You have to look for other signs that they're a trusted seller, other than the feedback, like actually looking at the actual auctions - if they're all 50 cent items and you're planning on buying a 2x800 G4 from the guy, somethings going on... if you don't smell fish, you better go take some decongestants.
There are a couple of other things that you can do, too. There's a pretty reputable company out there called SquareTrade that has a Seal that certifies sellers as legitimate. I doubt they can do anything is a situation of fraud, but they do dispute resolution too. They do some pretty extensive checking on sellers... plus they have a fraud protection guarantee so that you're protected against fraud for an additional $250 (over eBay's amount). I think they also have somewhere on their site where you can search for items being sold on eBay by their members, but i forget where it is.
If you want to write your Senator and District Representatives to protest this piece of sh*t legislation, here's an easy template to fill out and mail.
If it's important enough for you to sit around and spend 30 minutes reading all the posts here and typing a response, you should be able to spend 2 minutes and 34 cents filling it out and sending it to your representatives...
Address for all senators: Senator _______, U.S. Senate, Washington DC 20510
Address for all House members: Congressperson _______, U.S. Congress, Washington DC 20515
All members of Congress may be reached by dialing the Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Dear Senator _________ (or Dear Congressperson ______),
I am very concerned about the dangers posed to the rights of U.S. citizens and citizens of other nations by the Justice Department's proposed
"Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001."
I urge you to work hard to ensure that basic freedoms, and basic elements of our privacy rights, are not eviscerated in the rush to "do something" to combat terrorism. Whatever power the Justice Department has or is given to incarcerate or deport foreign nationals, to wiretap or engage in surveillance, must be carefully defined, and subject to review by our courts.
I support the principles laid out by the groups who have come together In Defense of Freedom, and I hope you do too.
If we, out of fear, give away our rights, the terrorists have won.
The Nobel Laureate was Herbert Simon, who won the prize in 1978.
Not that anyone cares, seeing as how most people have no attention span for this kinda stuff anyway, but you can check out a brief autobiography at the Nobel e-Museum.
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At least they didn't call it Mozilla "Fiero". There are worse cars to be confused with (albeit not that much worse). It'd have to come with a mullet plug-in.
ha. ha.
The dual Xeon has 512 MB RAM.
The dual Opteron has 2 GB RAM.
Maybe I'm just blind, but I can't seem to find these figures. According to the Config page for the 2x Xeon, it shows 8x512MB, same amount as the 2x Opteron.
Granted the 4xXeon also has the same amount of memory, whereas the 4xOpteron has 16x512MB, but that's cos the poor little(!) 32-bit Xeon can't address past 4GB of RAM anyway...
If i'm smoking crack, and you guys are looking at some different numbers, please let me know.
Not exactly on topic, but Mozilla 1.3b is out. I don't think anyone has pointed that out yet... but don't shoot me if I'm wrong!
Some new stuff, including image "auto-sizing" which is kinda nifty.
Not my fault. I don't care if the guy doesn't pay eBay. That is far from my concerns.
I'm with ya there. I don't care about eBay's profits either - as far as I'm concerned, their corporate strategy has nothing to do with the welfare of the little guy, but all to do with the stock price for the greedy investor.
The other replies are true as well, about the whole "garage sale, guy next door" auction style, however, the guy next door doesn't charge a commission (it's the only thing you can really call it) on the sale. (short of a full blown real life auction, of course.)
Well - ebay is really more of a flea market than a garage sale - and flea markets can have pretty exorbitant with their fees for putting up a stand. Not to mention the fact that I'd be just as likely to use cash to buy a laptop from a guy at a flea market as to use a check to buy one from a guy on eBay.
It might seem like a slap in the face, but there's a couple things to remember here:
One, eBay doesn't really make money on auctions from scammers. eBay bills monthly, and I doubt the guy is really sitting around with a credit card just waiting for eBay to charge him. I work for a company that charges our members monthly, and going after people with insufficient funds in their account is sorta like asking a VC for charity. So that pretty much puts eBay out the $175, plus the costs of investigating the fraud.
If you look at PayPal's financials, you can see that PayPal paid out $5.5 Million out of their $31MM in revenue in 2001 for "transactional losses" i.e. Fraud claims. In 2000, before they had their shit together, they paid out $11MM, $2.5MM MORE than their revenue for that year!!! I'm sure that eBay has a similar amount of cost in terms of Fraud Liability, albeit perhaps slightly less, since their credit card division (eBay Payments) is a bit smaller than PayPal. So while $200 is a pathetic insurance amount for a $3k notebook, it's better than nothing.
Two, my advice is that you should never buy anything on eBay over $200 using anything other than a credit card. Even if the guy has 2000 positive feedback, it's just asking for trouble. With a credit card, you can always initiate a chargeback, and 99.9% of the time, you'll get your money back.
Caveat Emptor. It's the name of the game, if you don't know the person you're buying from.
Fatbrain is also owned by the evil megacorp Barnes and Noble.
Even if Bookpool isn't the cheapest store on the block (though it often is - and in this case, a buck less than Fatbrain), i do almost all my technical book shopping there.
I have to wholeheartedly agree. Nerds can babble on and on about Konqueror and Opera and such, but 99% of web users will never experience these browsers. For most of them, Microsoft is the way to go, unless someone hands them something better.
The problem is, we need some option out there to take marketshare away from Microsoft, if for the sole reason of getting people to stop designing their sites with IE solely in mind (so the pages don't look like crap to the rest of us). There's a pretty interesting comparison on cNet of IE6 and Netscape 6.2.
And if you want to talk about speed, I'd have to say that both Konqueror and Mozilla/Gnome are painfully slow when compared to running moz0.9.5 on Win2K.
Yeah, it's pretty easy to pad feedback on eBay... You have to look for other signs that they're a trusted seller, other than the feedback, like actually looking at the actual auctions - if they're all 50 cent items and you're planning on buying a 2x800 G4 from the guy, somethings going on... if you don't smell fish, you better go take some decongestants.
There are a couple of other things that you can do, too. There's a pretty reputable company out there called SquareTrade that has a Seal that certifies sellers as legitimate. I doubt they can do anything is a situation of fraud, but they do dispute resolution too. They do some pretty extensive checking on sellers... plus they have a fraud protection guarantee so that you're protected against fraud for an additional $250 (over eBay's amount). I think they also have somewhere on their site where you can search for items being sold on eBay by their members, but i forget where it is.
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Hi all,
If you want to write your Senator and District Representatives to protest this piece of sh*t legislation, here's an easy template to fill out and mail.
If it's important enough for you to sit around and spend 30 minutes reading all the posts here and typing a response, you should be able to spend 2 minutes and 34 cents filling it out and sending it to your representatives...
Address for all senators: Senator _______, U.S. Senate, Washington DC 20510
Address for all House members: Congressperson _______, U.S. Congress, Washington DC 20515
All members of Congress may be reached by dialing the Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Dear Senator _________ (or Dear Congressperson ______),
I am very concerned about the dangers posed to the rights of U.S. citizens and citizens of other nations by the Justice Department's proposed
"Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001."
I urge you to work hard to ensure that basic freedoms, and basic elements of our privacy rights, are not eviscerated in the rush to "do something" to combat terrorism. Whatever power the Justice Department has or is given to incarcerate or deport foreign nationals, to wiretap or engage in surveillance, must be carefully defined, and subject to review by our courts.
I support the principles laid out by the groups who have come together In Defense of Freedom, and I hope you do too.
If we, out of fear, give away our rights, the terrorists have won.
Sincerely,
The Nobel Laureate was Herbert Simon, who won the prize in 1978.
Not that anyone cares, seeing as how most people have no attention span for this kinda stuff anyway, but you can check out a brief autobiography at the Nobel e-Museum.