... AMD has a very limited manufacturing capability compared to Intel. The kind of production runs that Dell requires is something that AMD can't accommidate,...
That's assuming that sales would be immediately robust as soon as the option is offered. That's unlikely. If sales were lousy, Dell would drop the line. If sales increased beyond AMD's capacity, they would have time to ramp up. Growth is supposed to be a good thing.
Circulation (i.e., dead-tree distribution) is expensive and most pubs do it at a loss, or at best break-even, based on the full cover price. But ad revenue is much higher for print than on line. An ad in the paper is much more likely to reach the target, hence costs more and is more worth it. An on line ad may be exposed to more eyeballs, but they are filtered by the frontal cortex.
We must leave religion to those who know what God wants of us, and leave these things that are beyond the realm of human comprehension (at least, we with the puny little brains) to the great thinkers, cosmologists, and fillosofers. Do not question them.
... hasn't done much of anything since the days of dirty switch-knob tuners in TV sets. But the habit is hard to break, especially since the practice is somewhat satisfying, if not remedial. See, what computers need is some old fashioned electrical (not electronic) potentiometers and switches so that hitting them might actually do SOMETHING.
Several years back, CompUSA used to have so-called "Power Buys" on the back page of their circular, where you would buy an item and get rebates for the full purchase price, resulting in the item being free except for the tax. I took advantage of these often and got all kinds of free stuff like speakers, floppys, sound cards, mice, keyborads, etc. It was all junk but it was free.
But actually collecting on the rebate required extreme vigilence. I would follow the instructions to the letter (difficult enough and sometimes impossible). I'd have about a 4-day window to make the purchase, another 10 days in which to mail the rebate, then I'd wait 8-12 weeks for the check. It would never come. Then, I would call the 800# and they would say they never got it. I would have to fax the copies of everything I sent. Then, and only then, would they send the check. The check would show up weeks later looking like a postcard or other piece of junk mail just begging to be thrown out.
I always wondered: What % ever send in the rebate at all? What % send it in on time? What % remember they even sent it? What % made copies they could fax in to prove they sent it? What % dipose of the checks as junk mail? What % deposit the check within the 60-day period before it becomes invalid?
The rebate company is always a 3rd-party that probably contracts from the store or manufacturer for, say, $100,000 worth of rebates for which they get paid $50,000. I can't imagine them paying out more that 10% on most rebates/promotions. The rest is their profit.
Slapping the brand on anything works for a while, but eventually the brand loses its "cachet". (Not that Dell has a whole lot to begin with.)
Reminds me of a TV commercial for a brand of salsa sauce where the executives of a large conglomerate are seated around the boardroom table trying to decide what their next product should be (like it matters):
"Should we make salsa or oven mits?"
Dell is not HP and they're not IBM. When they started branding TVs, printers, PDAs, etc., they jumped the shark
It's too hard to make our products truly secure and it's too easy not to. And we have shitloads of money so we'll buy some anti-malware technology we don't care about, from some company we don't care about... better yet, we'll buy the company... and incorporate their dogshit into our dogshit. We'll make it free because nobody would pay for it, and cutoff Semantec's and McAffee's air supply. Not because we need to from any strategic standpoint - just because we can. Just because you can do something, is exactly why you should.
Now all we need is for somebody to explain to us why we should devote resources toward getting out virus definitions in less than our own sweet time.
In most organizations, the most expensive aspect of a F/OSS migration is resistance to change:
WHAAAAAT?!! YOU'RE TAKING AWAY MY POWERPOINT?!!
People grow up with these programs. They devote time and personal resources becoming proficient with them. They don't want that background to become obviated. They don't want to start over. We who work in technology are just the opposite by our very nature. We like change. We like the challenge and adventure of learning new (and better) things. That nature is one of the things that drove is into a technical field.
I personally think the only practical migration is to first migrate to F/OSS apps on Windows, gradually. Then, migrate all those apps to Linux. So that, to the user, Linux is just another application migration.
Well, here in the US, we're not terribly pleased about how easily almost anyone from anywhere can, at least temporarily, stay in Canada with no practical restrictions. Maybe saunter across a very open border. I thought we were pals. (See? - These things cut both ways.)
Just so you know, even those here in the US who support the Patriot Act on balance, object to some provision or another of it.
Oh, but I've just crashed a US bash-fest and I'm not in style.
While I still do many home improvement projects, When a major repair is needed, I call in a guy who knows what he's doing and pay him. And my DIY days are over forever for two things in particular: cars and tax prep. No more crawling under the car to change the oil when I can just pay $22 to have it done in about 30 minutes. And no more killing a Saturday preparing taxes when I can just pay my accountant about $125. I'm in and out of his office in about 20 minutes, the cost is deductable, he e-files for me, and I always get a refund. It's almost a pleasure. There's also the added bonus of being able to call him year-round with tax implication questions, usually for no charge.
Calling Solaris a joke re: hardware/driver support is a bit unfair. Releasing it as an OS project should help tremendously, with the enormous community of developers already in existence.
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AMD has a very limited manufacturing capability compared to Intel. The kind of production runs that Dell requires is something that AMD can't accommidate,
That's assuming that sales would be immediately robust as soon as the option is offered. That's unlikely. If sales were lousy, Dell would drop the line. If sales increased beyond AMD's capacity, they would have time to ramp up. Growth is supposed to be a good thing.
Circulation (i.e., dead-tree distribution) is expensive and most pubs do it at a loss, or at best break-even, based on the full cover price. But ad revenue is much higher for print than on line. An ad in the paper is much more likely to reach the target, hence costs more and is more worth it. An on line ad may be exposed to more eyeballs, but they are filtered by the frontal cortex.
We must leave religion to those who know what God wants of us, and leave these things that are beyond the realm of human comprehension (at least, we with the puny little brains) to the great thinkers, cosmologists, and fillosofers. Do not question them.
Everything you read on April 1st is a lie.
That's true. But I still don't believe it.
"WHY she is a celebrity is beyond me"
... because everybody uses it.
She's a celebrity because she's a celebrity. It's the same reason everybody uses Windows. Everybody uses it
I don't believe anything I read today.
... that's how much respect I get.
You want 'atta-boys? I give 'em out like they're free.
... hasn't done much of anything since the days of dirty switch-knob tuners in TV sets. But the habit is hard to break, especially since the practice is somewhat satisfying, if not remedial. See, what computers need is some old fashioned electrical (not electronic) potentiometers and switches so that hitting them might actually do SOMETHING.
Several years back, CompUSA used to have so-called "Power Buys" on the back page of their circular, where you would buy an item and get rebates for the full purchase price, resulting in the item being free except for the tax. I took advantage of these often and got all kinds of free stuff like speakers, floppys, sound cards, mice, keyborads, etc. It was all junk but it was free.
But actually collecting on the rebate required extreme vigilence. I would follow the instructions to the letter (difficult enough and sometimes impossible). I'd have about a 4-day window to make the purchase, another 10 days in which to mail the rebate, then I'd wait 8-12 weeks for the check. It would never come. Then, I would call the 800# and they would say they never got it. I would have to fax the copies of everything I sent. Then, and only then, would they send the check. The check would show up weeks later looking like a postcard or other piece of junk mail just begging to be thrown out.
I always wondered:
What % ever send in the rebate at all?
What % send it in on time?
What % remember they even sent it?
What % made copies they could fax in to prove they sent it?
What % dipose of the checks as junk mail?
What % deposit the check within the 60-day period before it becomes invalid?
The rebate company is always a 3rd-party that probably contracts from the store or manufacturer for, say, $100,000 worth of rebates for which they get paid $50,000. I can't imagine them paying out more that 10% on most rebates/promotions. The rest is their profit.
Slapping the brand on anything works for a while, but eventually the brand loses its "cachet". (Not that Dell has a whole lot to begin with.)
Reminds me of a TV commercial for a brand of salsa sauce where the executives of a large conglomerate are seated around the boardroom table trying to decide what their next product should be (like it matters):
"Should we make salsa or oven mits?"
Dell is not HP and they're not IBM. When they started branding TVs, printers, PDAs, etc., they jumped the shark
It's too hard to make our products truly secure and it's too easy not to. And we have shitloads of money so we'll buy some anti-malware technology we don't care about, from some company we don't care about ... better yet, we'll buy the company ... and incorporate their dogshit into our dogshit. We'll make it free because nobody would pay for it, and cutoff Semantec's and McAffee's air supply. Not because we need to from any strategic standpoint - just because we can. Just because you can do something, is exactly why you should.
Now all we need is for somebody to explain to us why we should devote resources toward getting out virus definitions in less than our own sweet time.
In most organizations, the most expensive aspect of a F/OSS migration is resistance to change:
WHAAAAAT?!! YOU'RE TAKING AWAY MY POWERPOINT?!!
People grow up with these programs. They devote time and personal resources becoming proficient with them. They don't want that background to become obviated. They don't want to start over. We who work in technology are just the opposite by our very nature. We like change. We like the challenge and adventure of learning new (and better) things. That nature is one of the things that drove is into a technical field.
I personally think the only practical migration is to first migrate to F/OSS apps on Windows, gradually. Then, migrate all those apps to Linux. So that, to the user, Linux is just another application migration.
"What if Hitler had never invaded Russia? What if he had invaded Britian earlier in the war?"
What if he had just been accepted to art school in Vienna? Now try and figure out how the last 2/3 of the 20th century would've gone.
... for now.
"Don't like it? Tough shit."
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Well, I can't dispute a salient argument like that. Wait - I just thought of something
Oh yeah? Well, fuck you!
Well, here in the US, we're not terribly pleased about how easily almost anyone from anywhere can, at least temporarily, stay in Canada with no practical restrictions. Maybe saunter across a very open border. I thought we were pals. (See? - These things cut both ways.)
Just so you know, even those here in the US who support the Patriot Act on balance, object to some provision or another of it.
Oh, but I've just crashed a US bash-fest and I'm not in style.
Acrobat 4 is not supported on WinXP. I have never had success installing it.
XML transfer protocol.
Ok, we got a name. Now all we need is one fart smella to design it.
While I still do many home improvement projects, When a major repair is needed, I call in a guy who knows what he's doing and pay him. And my DIY days are over forever for two things in particular: cars and tax prep. No more crawling under the car to change the oil when I can just pay $22 to have it done in about 30 minutes. And no more killing a Saturday preparing taxes when I can just pay my accountant about $125. I'm in and out of his office in about 20 minutes, the cost is deductable, he e-files for me, and I always get a refund. It's almost a pleasure. There's also the added bonus of being able to call him year-round with tax implication questions, usually for no charge.
"The Workplace:
JA: What if your job requires you to use non-free software?
Richard Stallman: I would quit that job."
Then so shall I. I'll lose all my worldly posessions, not to mention my wife, but I'll be FREE!!
Hold on a second. My wife. Hey, I really will be free. This guy's on to something.
Calling Solaris a joke re: hardware/driver support is a bit unfair. Releasing it as an OS project should help tremendously, with the enormous community of developers already in existence.
NAAAAH!! Nobody wants to write device drivers.
Why don't I just eat the CaO, and let it react with my body moisture to stay warm?
(CLUE: It's rhetorical sarcasm. I really DO know why.)
"Any sufficiently popular application is destined to meet the same fate."
You mean like Apache at ~67% share? I guess it has to be >90% to "meet the fate".
I always keep with the same convention; what's so hard?!
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