When I try to send the link through company email (M$) using the Subject: "Look - HOT NEKKED CHICK...en!!!", it gets rejected for "Unacceptable Language."
Guess I need to be more creative with my spelling/punctuation.
Right on. Additionally, concert attendance was also down last year. Thru the first 6 months of 2001, tickets sold was down 16%, ticket revenue down 12%. I'm sure the situation only deteriorated in the last 6 months of the year. I'd like to see the industry bigshots pin that on gnutella. People aren't buying CDs for the same reasons that they're not going to concerts - because the music - SUCKS!
Won't happen anytime soon.
Box-builders could sell PCs for $350 now, but they (mostly) don't. There are a few companies out there that do sell ultra-low-end systems that would make perfectly suitable PCs for the typical user, but they're the type with the tiny ads on the 2nd to last page of Computer Shopper. The price/performance sweet spot is always much closer to the top of the performance spectrum than the bottom of the spectrum, and even the typical buyer intuitively knows this.
You might be able to sell the occasional (example) K6-2 550 box with 128MB, 10gig, 8MB video card, 15" CRT, and 4X CDRW, but you won't make any $ at it. Most people want bigass monitors, stupid big HDs, crazy fast CPUs, tons of memory, etc. even though a more modest machine would get the job done. It will always be this way, just like it is with other products like homes, cars, TVs, etc -- the product that is cheap and "good enough" doesn't sell as well as the one with all the bells and whistles.
Interesting - there is a new Wal*Mart warehouse/distribution center opening in rural Missouri that starts out clerical or blue-collar employees at $10.65, with raises totaling 14% after a year.
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I, for one, am pleasantly surprised to see that the XServe seems to provide pretty good bang for the $.
However, I would be interested to see how the ATA disk(s) hold up under heavy user load.
When I try to send the link through company email (M$) using the Subject: "Look - HOT NEKKED CHICK...en!!!", it gets rejected for "Unacceptable Language."
Guess I need to be more creative with my spelling/punctuation.
..."Fu*k tha Police" was an NWA song. Ice Cube was just one member of NWA; along with Dr. Dre, MC Ren, Eazy-E, etc.
GNU stands for "Gnu's not Unix."
Actually, they're headquartered in Bermuda.
Don't you think something like "Glorious War Hammer of Alacrity" would be preferable to the tragically generic "Opteron?"
Right on. Additionally, concert attendance was also down last year. Thru the first 6 months of 2001, tickets sold was down 16%, ticket revenue down 12%. I'm sure the situation only deteriorated in the last 6 months of the year. I'd like to see the industry bigshots pin that on gnutella. People aren't buying CDs for the same reasons that they're not going to concerts - because the music - SUCKS!
Won't happen anytime soon. Box-builders could sell PCs for $350 now, but they (mostly) don't. There are a few companies out there that do sell ultra-low-end systems that would make perfectly suitable PCs for the typical user, but they're the type with the tiny ads on the 2nd to last page of Computer Shopper. The price/performance sweet spot is always much closer to the top of the performance spectrum than the bottom of the spectrum, and even the typical buyer intuitively knows this. You might be able to sell the occasional (example) K6-2 550 box with 128MB, 10gig, 8MB video card, 15" CRT, and 4X CDRW, but you won't make any $ at it. Most people want bigass monitors, stupid big HDs, crazy fast CPUs, tons of memory, etc. even though a more modest machine would get the job done. It will always be this way, just like it is with other products like homes, cars, TVs, etc -- the product that is cheap and "good enough" doesn't sell as well as the one with all the bells and whistles.
Interesting - there is a new Wal*Mart warehouse/distribution center opening in rural Missouri that starts out clerical or blue-collar employees at $10.65, with raises totaling 14% after a year.