This was discussed earlier, but just in case you are only watching your own post, they aren't actually drafting legislation in the more general sense.
They may or may not be writing the words, but it is still just lobbying. They author it, give it to a Congressman, and the Congressman "drafts" it, by submitting it. This is a very effective way to lobby.
"Sure I might agree with you, but writing a law, making sure it is worded real good, and everything else takes soooo much time, I think I'll have to pass... What's that you say, you already wrote it, printed it, and bound 100 copies? Ok, sounds good, I will take a look. On a different note my daughter needs a pool built in her (adjoining) backyard, and I think I would like to read your bill while swimming in a new pool for my daughter, but I don't know when she'd have the where-with-all to build such a pool..."
AMD has always had some cool, cheap chips. They haven't won anything yet.
It amazes me how little people appreciate about business in the IT world.
Who wins when everyone agrees Beta was a technically better format, but only sell VHS?
Branding works, and Intel has that on their side for a little bit longer. They would have to lose several of these battles before they start to lose their branding advantage. And just because you think Prescott is atrocious, if it performs better than previous Intel chips, the ones that business owners are replacing, who is going to look elsewhere?
Courts can't protect your rights. If you are suing someone for civil liberty violations (and the court decides to hear you), your rights have already been violated.
Most people can't conceive of a tyranical government.
These are the same people that don't think you need encryption unless you are doing something illegal. These are the same people that thank God our government doesn't falsly arrest and imprison people with out cause, and then shout support for the Patriot Act.
It is less obvious that the 2nd Amendment is necessary and good, because the government has infringed on our rights. To properly defend against our government, the citizenry would have to be allowed the same access as the government. This doesn't stop at "assault rifles".
It seems obvious to most that this is ridiculous. You can't have some crazy driving around in a tank. To think that way, you must think that the government is incapable of being immune to being crazy. You would also have to believe the government was fair and just.
You do have a point about Windows having the very same problems. You don't have a point about people pointing out Linux's shortcomings as FUD.
I have trouble printing to some of my MS printers all the time. There are people in my office, on the same network, with the same admins, that don't have any problems.
If you don't have a problem with something, it doesn't mean there isn't a problem, it means you haven't had enough experience with that to have had to deal with the problems.
If you want to know where "it doesn't work right", go ask the people that can't get it to work right. Don't ask the guy that has 5 computers in his basement, with 1 user, and says he has no network problems at all. Ask the people that have to support 40 workstations, with 40 users, all who poke and prod BEFORE they call someone who knows what they are doing, and then deny it like some child.
Things don't work right all the time. Whether it is perception, or reality, they seem to work right more often in Windows.
Of course they weighed both sides, but from a business standpoint, not some slobbery drooling geek tech side.
How long would it take you as a business person to dump Beta when it wasn't profitable anymore?
Several other people have addressed the issue already, but Dell would have to show an ability to sell a lot of units to a lot of new people to make doubling their support costs, adding upfront retooling costs, and paying for lack of experience to be profitable.
It is just not likely to find this new market.
They weighed it, alright. And the infrastructure was part of the equation, most of the equation.
Business is out to make a profit. That doesn't have to be its sole ambition, but it has to be high on the list. The decisions a business make have to be profitable, or have some larger moral purpose, or mission statement. Switching to AMD, or even adding AMD has no moral or mission bearing, so the only weight is money, and there is no money for Dell in AMD at this time.
If you aren't making any new revenue, and you just replaced existing revenue with a more expensive to support alternative, you won't have any extra 2% to 5%.
If they are at a point where they are looking for an extra 2% to 5%, then they have to look at getting that on EVERY unit.
Since this won't allow them to make any more money on the Intel units, it won't double their business, and will cost a lot more in support, there is no money to be made here.
Add to this the addition and retooling of production lines, new motherboard vendors that they don't enjoy the same perks of bulk trade with, and simply stated, a market they have no expertise in, it is a terrible business decision.
And to address you bottom line, again, you miss the point. If there were enough sales dollars, it would easily warrant a lack of partnership. If selling AMD didn't canabalize their Intel line (as you proposed it wouldn't), then Intel would have only fear in Dell not buying from them anymore, partnership or no partnership, it would force Intel to sweeten the pot, not bail on the low cost deals.
All in all, it makes no sense, unless they could make a huge splash in a totally new market.
Just because they upgrade the GPL doesn't mean you have to use it.
So Google doesn't upgrade any software that had upgraded its license.
No Story, move along.
Restated, if I write my own software, I can use any license I want. I can use GPL 1.0, 2.0, or some rendition of it that I rewrote myself.
If I am using your code version 1.0, and you released it under the GPL 2.0 when I borrowed it, I don't care what you do with your software version 1.1. You can't relicense what I already have.
First of all, I don't care about marketshare. I didn't start using Linux to be part of a the in crowd. I didn't start using it to make a statement either.
I started using it because it was fun to mess around with, because it was a Un*x like OS on my PC, and because I could do different things with it.
Choice is binary, you have it, or you don't. There are no levels of choice (too much choice, or too little choice).
You have a choice to use any OS you want, if you don't like the problems that choice deliver, use OSX, where every app looks exactly alike, there is nothing wrong with that choice.
As for me, I like wading through the gazillion apps I have the choice to install. It makes me feel like I got my money's worth for once.
Not to mention, that different people like working in different ways. Linus, Bill, Steve, and Patrick don't know how I like to work, and can't tell me how I should like to work. And liking to work means a lot.
No one believes someone was plotting some big impregnation center, where some studs continually knock up women, then harvest the embryos like some chicken farm.
You are missing the obvious progression.
The thought is, if you could legitimize abortions just a little bit more by advertising it as helping out research, it might promote more abortions.
Then you might have unscrupulous doctors, family planning centers, etc. pushing abortions they might not have, to make a few bucks off the emryos they are harvesting for research (cash or kickbacks/bribes like drug companies use).
And (on a side note, admitedly) if they fund the research, they are also funding abortions. The research has to get the embryos from somewhere (since noone ever wanted to develop an embryo farm), and they are going to buy them from abortion clinics. "Don't worry Mary Jane, this abortion will be free if you allow us to sell the embryo (to the research firm that has Federal money to pay us with)."
We(most of us) as *nix users know not to do regular work as root.
Why don't we start doing the same on Windows, and advocating the same.
If you are using XP Pro, can't you keep users from installing software?
I know it's possible in a networked environment, and I admit, my windows security knowledge is lacking.
But wouldn't it be prudent to set yourself up a user that can't install anything? How often do we hit a site that might actually have a new, useful activex control on it? If you hit one that you can't live without, switch users, download the control, and log back in as your regular user.
This is exactly what we promote for linux, why do we just sit and grip about windows, and not start extoling the virtues of security mindness to everyone, not just the choir.
The metric system was the most fundamentally correct system of measurement ever concieved by man, beast or God.
You'd certainly think that reading all the hype on this bbs.
Remeber this article the next time a English/metric debate comes about. There is nothing inherently better about either system. That argument being nullified, should we switch based on the rest of the world? That is the only valid argument.
Don't start your argument, thought process, or comment with the mistaken common wisdom of "Everyone knows metric is better...."
And while I am ranting, but not quite as obvious, I don't want to hear 'I know what a kilometer is, I don't know what a mile is...' If you can pace off one, you can pace off the other. You certainly don't have an inborn sense of what a kilometer is anymore than you have an inborn sense of the mass of a plum sized chunk of some alloy.
Neither system is anymore natural than the other, get off your high horse and make a rational comment (unlike this rant;).
I can't charge you sales tax if I send you something out of state. But, you are liable to pay taxes on all of what you purchase to your local taxing body.
You are guilty of tax evasion if you haven't kept all your mail/internet order purchases, and written a check to state and city.
Actually the founding principle was to give the federal government as little power as possiible. The constitution was setup to control the federal government, so they didn't trod on peoples and/or states rights.
That has been corrupted beyond belief.
And it is a lack of understanding that you demonstrate that is the root cause. Too many times people say "Of course they can do that, they are the federal government," when is simply isn't the case. The federal government just starts doing something, and most people just fall in line.
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This was discussed earlier, but just in case you are only watching your own post, they aren't actually drafting legislation in the more general sense.
They may or may not be writing the words, but it is still just lobbying. They author it, give it to a Congressman, and the Congressman "drafts" it, by submitting it. This is a very effective way to lobby.
"Sure I might agree with you, but writing a law, making sure it is worded real good, and everything else takes soooo much time, I think I'll have to pass... What's that you say, you already wrote it, printed it, and bound 100 copies? Ok, sounds good, I will take a look. On a different note my daughter needs a pool built in her (adjoining) backyard, and I think I would like to read your bill while swimming in a new pool for my daughter, but I don't know when she'd have the where-with-all to build such a pool..."
I have found it is mostly the time aspect. They all hear the hourly rate, but when they hear the projected time, then they balk.
"Sure i'll pay you $50/hr. 100 hours?!?!? I can just keep doing it in excel for that..."
Don't mod GP, MOD UP parent.
There is an idea in your post, a really good idea. He just tells us what he thinks he is worth.
AMD has always had some cool, cheap chips. They haven't won anything yet.
It amazes me how little people appreciate about business in the IT world.
Who wins when everyone agrees Beta was a technically better format, but only sell VHS?
Branding works, and Intel has that on their side for a little bit longer. They would have to lose several of these battles before they start to lose their branding advantage. And just because you think Prescott is atrocious, if it performs better than previous Intel chips, the ones that business owners are replacing, who is going to look elsewhere?
No, that is still the reason we need them.
Courts can't protect your rights. If you are suing someone for civil liberty violations (and the court decides to hear you), your rights have already been violated.
Most people can't conceive of a tyranical government.
These are the same people that don't think you need encryption unless you are doing something illegal. These are the same people that thank God our government doesn't falsly arrest and imprison people with out cause, and then shout support for the Patriot Act.
It is less obvious that the 2nd Amendment is necessary and good, because the government has infringed on our rights. To properly defend against our government, the citizenry would have to be allowed the same access as the government. This doesn't stop at "assault rifles".
It seems obvious to most that this is ridiculous. You can't have some crazy driving around in a tank. To think that way, you must think that the government is incapable of being immune to being crazy. You would also have to believe the government was fair and just.
The second ammendment was designed to allow for the people to protect themselves from an unjust government.
We had just gotten out of a war for our independance from a government that trampled on all that was right and good with our world, for simple profit.
You do have a point about Windows having the very same problems. You don't have a point about people pointing out Linux's shortcomings as FUD.
I have trouble printing to some of my MS printers all the time. There are people in my office, on the same network, with the same admins, that don't have any problems.
If you don't have a problem with something, it doesn't mean there isn't a problem, it means you haven't had enough experience with that to have had to deal with the problems.
If you want to know where "it doesn't work right", go ask the people that can't get it to work right. Don't ask the guy that has 5 computers in his basement, with 1 user, and says he has no network problems at all. Ask the people that have to support 40 workstations, with 40 users, all who poke and prod BEFORE they call someone who knows what they are doing, and then deny it like some child.
Things don't work right all the time. Whether it is perception, or reality, they seem to work right more often in Windows.
Or, more correctly, without the banner ads, paid subscriptions, and click throughs, how long until there are no more comment pages to see?
Of course they weighed both sides, but from a business standpoint, not some slobbery drooling geek tech side.
How long would it take you as a business person to dump Beta when it wasn't profitable anymore?
Several other people have addressed the issue already, but Dell would have to show an ability to sell a lot of units to a lot of new people to make doubling their support costs, adding upfront retooling costs, and paying for lack of experience to be profitable.
It is just not likely to find this new market.
They weighed it, alright. And the infrastructure was part of the equation, most of the equation.
Business is out to make a profit. That doesn't have to be its sole ambition, but it has to be high on the list. The decisions a business make have to be profitable, or have some larger moral purpose, or mission statement. Switching to AMD, or even adding AMD has no moral or mission bearing, so the only weight is money, and there is no money for Dell in AMD at this time.
You missed his point entirely.
If you aren't making any new revenue, and you just replaced existing revenue with a more expensive to support alternative, you won't have any extra 2% to 5%.
If they are at a point where they are looking for an extra 2% to 5%, then they have to look at getting that on EVERY unit.
Since this won't allow them to make any more money on the Intel units, it won't double their business, and will cost a lot more in support, there is no money to be made here.
Add to this the addition and retooling of production lines, new motherboard vendors that they don't enjoy the same perks of bulk trade with, and simply stated, a market they have no expertise in, it is a terrible business decision.
And to address you bottom line, again, you miss the point. If there were enough sales dollars, it would easily warrant a lack of partnership. If selling AMD didn't canabalize their Intel line (as you proposed it wouldn't), then Intel would have only fear in Dell not buying from them anymore, partnership or no partnership, it would force Intel to sweeten the pot, not bail on the low cost deals.
All in all, it makes no sense, unless they could make a huge splash in a totally new market.
Just because they upgrade the GPL doesn't mean you have to use it.
So Google doesn't upgrade any software that had upgraded its license.
No Story, move along.
Restated, if I write my own software, I can use any license I want. I can use GPL 1.0, 2.0, or some rendition of it that I rewrote myself.
If I am using your code version 1.0, and you released it under the GPL 2.0 when I borrowed it, I don't care what you do with your software version 1.1. You can't relicense what I already have.
Ignoring his math mistake, he is talking a $200k salary.
he is living on $100,000 CASH.
And he already said living like kings in the Midwest, so he already answered both of your mute points.
And that is already had it's taxes taken out.
That is $100,000/yr CASH.
almost $2,000/per week CASH.
$273/day is a lot of drinking.
That would be more like 100% of the US population.
Everyone is a felon in the country. Convicted felons are a different story.
Unless you start to whole epistemic discussion, and realize the sky really has no color at all, since there is no property that is blue or red.
Then the fun stuff starts to happen.
First of all, I don't care about marketshare. I didn't start using Linux to be part of a the in crowd. I didn't start using it to make a statement either.
I started using it because it was fun to mess around with, because it was a Un*x like OS on my PC, and because I could do different things with it.
Choice is binary, you have it, or you don't. There are no levels of choice (too much choice, or too little choice).
You have a choice to use any OS you want, if you don't like the problems that choice deliver, use OSX, where every app looks exactly alike, there is nothing wrong with that choice.
As for me, I like wading through the gazillion apps I have the choice to install. It makes me feel like I got my money's worth for once.
Not to mention, that different people like working in different ways. Linus, Bill, Steve, and Patrick don't know how I like to work, and can't tell me how I should like to work. And liking to work means a lot.
It does refuse.
/foo/, and then serve up /foo/index.html
Apache does, IIS Does.
They both return a redirect to
This was a painful lesson learned when setting up a reverse proxy server.
If the grandparents had a backup, why didn't the parents correct themselves?
Are we sure it didn't just mutate back?
No one believes someone was plotting some big impregnation center, where some studs continually knock up women, then harvest the embryos like some chicken farm.
You are missing the obvious progression.
The thought is, if you could legitimize abortions just a little bit more by advertising it as helping out research, it might promote more abortions.
Then you might have unscrupulous doctors, family planning centers, etc. pushing abortions they might not have, to make a few bucks off the emryos they are harvesting for research (cash or kickbacks/bribes like drug companies use).
And (on a side note, admitedly) if they fund the research, they are also funding abortions. The research has to get the embryos from somewhere (since noone ever wanted to develop an embryo farm), and they are going to buy them from abortion clinics. "Don't worry Mary Jane, this abortion will be free if you allow us to sell the embryo (to the research firm that has Federal money to pay us with)."
It didn't say he single-handledly wrote Linux, it said he singled-handedly revolutionized...
I don't think you can dismiss that comment so flippantly.
It took a lot of people to sit down and move a government, but one man still gets credit for the movement.
We(most of us) as *nix users know not to do regular work as root.
Why don't we start doing the same on Windows, and advocating the same.
If you are using XP Pro, can't you keep users from installing software?
I know it's possible in a networked environment, and I admit, my windows security knowledge is lacking.
But wouldn't it be prudent to set yourself up a user that can't install anything? How often do we hit a site that might actually have a new, useful activex control on it? If you hit one that you can't live without, switch users, download the control, and log back in as your regular user.
This is exactly what we promote for linux, why do we just sit and grip about windows, and not start extoling the virtues of security mindness to everyone, not just the choir.
The metric system was the most fundamentally correct system of measurement ever concieved by man, beast or God.
;).
You'd certainly think that reading all the hype on this bbs.
Remeber this article the next time a English/metric debate comes about. There is nothing inherently better about either system. That argument being nullified, should we switch based on the rest of the world? That is the only valid argument.
Don't start your argument, thought process, or comment with the mistaken common wisdom of "Everyone knows metric is better...."
And while I am ranting, but not quite as obvious, I don't want to hear 'I know what a kilometer is, I don't know what a mile is...' If you can pace off one, you can pace off the other. You certainly don't have an inborn sense of what a kilometer is anymore than you have an inborn sense of the mass of a plum sized chunk of some alloy.
Neither system is anymore natural than the other, get off your high horse and make a rational comment (unlike this rant
Like right here:
are shipped into a State taxing the sale or use of cigarettes
It doesn't mandate the tax, the law presupposes you are already liable for the tax.
No, not exactly.
I can't charge you sales tax if I send you something out of state. But, you are liable to pay taxes on all of what you purchase to your local taxing body.
You are guilty of tax evasion if you haven't kept all your mail/internet order purchases, and written a check to state and city.
Actually the founding principle was to give the federal government as little power as possiible. The constitution was setup to control the federal government, so they didn't trod on peoples and/or states rights.
That has been corrupted beyond belief.
And it is a lack of understanding that you demonstrate that is the root cause. Too many times people say "Of course they can do that, they are the federal government," when is simply isn't the case. The federal government just starts doing something, and most people just fall in line.