dell doesn't own any warehouses for parts. the trucks line up to the manufacturing plants, and they literally take the parts they need off the trucks as they need them.
it wouldn't take much, maybe a day or two, to convert a couple of intel assembly lines into amd assembly lines...
i hope the rumors are true. i have always stayed away from dell simply because they don't offer amd solutions, as i am a very loyal amd customer. however, lately i have been looking for a laptop, and and i'm afraid that i may have to buy one from hp since they do offer amd laptops.
honestly, i could care less about richard garriot and uo, what i want to know is if he is still wasting his time and money building a castle along lake austin?
wait....is that why? is mr. garriot running out of money for his brick and mortar? ahh, i see...the truth is revealed...
hell, we don't even have 3g in the us at this time. we're still on 2.5g, hopefully to have 3g by the end of 2004-2005. with ntt docomo testing true 4g in japan recently, it makes you wonder why even bother with 3g?
many carriers give unlimited receiving messages, so like email, the cost is usually deferred to the cellular company (then spread around the customers).
that sounds about right. keep in mind, though, that the companies make a general fee (usually called 'regulatory fee') to pay for all federal regulations, not just this one. the cost of regulating a company has always been more than the cost of lowered competition.
sprint, cingular, verizon, and t-mobile/voicestream have been charging the fee for a while now, with some of the companies, they've been charging it for years in anticipation of number portability. at&t wireless seems to be the only standout, as they've just now started charging this fee.
i can also say, that this government enforcement is not cheap at all. the cellular company i work for has already spent close to 100 million dollars trying to implement the process of transferring numbers. get ready for higher bills, as we expect to RAISE rates for the first time in 10 years. as i understand, other companies may follow suit.
until the end of the last century? you mean 3 years ago? well, you're close, except slavery still exists. in countries such as nigeria, rwanda, etc., the slave trade is alive and well as it always has been. if you think slavery actually 'ended', then you need to get out more, read the news.
Actually, the number of wars, and the proportion of people affected by them, have been at its lowest level ever for the past fifteen years.
according to whom? either way, 15 years isn't really worth even mentioning given the fact we've been around and fighting wars for thousands of years.
although i agree that it's asinine and ludicrous to bitch at people for not paying for the cd's, even though they offer a FREE download, i think that it's a good suggestions. mandrake makes a superior gui linux os, and i want it to keep making good products.
so, support if you want to, but mandrake gives it away. there's nothing wrong with not paying for it----and that's according to mandrake themselves.
i'm glad they've done this. i'm tired of intel superiority, and i think this will take yet more market share from them (hope so, anyway). don't get me wrong, i don't want intel to go away, i just want amd to get more share, thus more money, thus more r&d.
speaking of which, has anyone seen the barton core athlon xp 3000? outperforms the pentium 4 3.06 by a good margin. (and strangly enough, the athlon xp 2800 outperforms the 3000 on some benchmarks) i can't wait for the 3200's and up.
doesn't anyone else find it funny that kuwait is now being attacked with missiles that iraq never had? what's this about inspections working?
i think that everyone that said 'let the inspectors work' needs to take a reality check. go back, see what happened. ask yourself: why is he firing missiles that 'don't exist'. because they do.
hans blix is a tool of the irrelevant un that will not enforce it's own resolutions. the united states is showing it's relevance as we argue, the un is showing it's uselessness.
THE USA SHOULD LEAVE THE UN!! KICK IT OUT OF OUR GREAT CITY OF NEW YORK! GO HOME APPEASERS!!!
i can say from my personal experience, with many, many people, that unless the linux co's and the hardware co's start developing much better hardware support, us desktop users will still use windows. there is no compelling reason why i'd switch to linux (and i did, for a while) without my sound working corectly, without my tv tuner working correctly, or my audigy drive, or my dvd burner.....
basically, linux developers need to stop telling the hardware companies to support it, but rather work with them on getting more hardware support. the success of linux depends upon that, and that alone.
give me a break. they're going to tell me how to use linux in my recording studio, but they can't tell me how to get my audigy2+drive to work correctly for day-to-day use.
i love linux, i love it's stability, i love it's security, i love it's interaction, but hardware support is hard to find. perhaps they should have more conferences on that. then we really can use linux for all these great things.
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difference in part lines? warehousing?
dell doesn't own any warehouses for parts. the trucks line up to the manufacturing plants, and they literally take the parts they need off the trucks as they need them.
it wouldn't take much, maybe a day or two, to convert a couple of intel assembly lines into amd assembly lines...
i hope the rumors are true. i have always stayed away from dell simply because they don't offer amd solutions, as i am a very loyal amd customer. however, lately i have been looking for a laptop, and and i'm afraid that i may have to buy one from hp since they do offer amd laptops.
honestly, i could care less about richard garriot and uo, what i want to know is if he is still wasting his time and money building a castle along lake austin?
wait....is that why? is mr. garriot running out of money for his brick and mortar? ahh, i see...the truth is revealed...
gsm is very new to the us. if you look at a tdma coverage map, you'll see almost 100% coverage (except for mountains and desert).
hell, we don't even have 3g in the us at this time. we're still on 2.5g, hopefully to have 3g by the end of 2004-2005. with ntt docomo testing true 4g in japan recently, it makes you wonder why even bother with 3g?
many carriers give unlimited receiving messages, so like email, the cost is usually deferred to the cellular company (then spread around the customers).
what?! that happens to me about twice a week. you mean that is a rare occurance? you've been listening to sco lately, haven't you.
that sounds about right. keep in mind, though, that the companies make a general fee (usually called 'regulatory fee') to pay for all federal regulations, not just this one. the cost of regulating a company has always been more than the cost of lowered competition.
sprint, cingular, verizon, and t-mobile/voicestream have been charging the fee for a while now, with some of the companies, they've been charging it for years in anticipation of number portability. at&t wireless seems to be the only standout, as they've just now started charging this fee.
i can also say, that this government enforcement is not cheap at all. the cellular company i work for has already spent close to 100 million dollars trying to implement the process of transferring numbers. get ready for higher bills, as we expect to RAISE rates for the first time in 10 years. as i understand, other companies may follow suit.
this phone has been available with att wireless for about three weeks now. not exactly 'just released'.
until the end of the last century? you mean 3 years ago? well, you're close, except slavery still exists. in countries such as nigeria, rwanda, etc., the slave trade is alive and well as it always has been. if you think slavery actually 'ended', then you need to get out more, read the news.
Actually, the number of wars, and the proportion of people affected by them, have been at its lowest level ever for the past fifteen years.
according to whom? either way, 15 years isn't really worth even mentioning given the fact we've been around and fighting wars for thousands of years.
har har har
jeez, did someone become the ass of a joke in english class? you sound like you're trying to get retribution. simply pathetic.....
although i agree that it's asinine and ludicrous to bitch at people for not paying for the cd's, even though they offer a FREE download, i think that it's a good suggestions. mandrake makes a superior gui linux os, and i want it to keep making good products.
so, support if you want to, but mandrake gives it away. there's nothing wrong with not paying for it----and that's according to mandrake themselves.
How the fuck do you even begin to say that this is news that matters? Not only that, it's FUCKING DISNEY for Christ's sake.
Damn, are you reading Boy's Life over there or what?
i'm glad they've done this. i'm tired of intel superiority, and i think this will take yet more market share from them (hope so, anyway). don't get me wrong, i don't want intel to go away, i just want amd to get more share, thus more money, thus more r&d.
speaking of which, has anyone seen the barton core athlon xp 3000? outperforms the pentium 4 3.06 by a good margin. (and strangly enough, the athlon xp 2800 outperforms the 3000 on some benchmarks) i can't wait for the 3200's and up.
buh-bye intel.
honorable? that's a silly question, honor is different to different people. is there such a thing as honor?
do i think it's justified? absolutely
yes i do. close to 300,000 united states citizens. more importantly, close to a dozen friends and relatives.
the one term that can sum up what you've said here, is 'ignorance is bliss'. you obviously don't know or understand america.
doesn't anyone else find it funny that kuwait is now being attacked with missiles that iraq never had? what's this about inspections working?
i think that everyone that said 'let the inspectors work' needs to take a reality check. go back, see what happened. ask yourself: why is he firing missiles that 'don't exist'. because they do.
hans blix is a tool of the irrelevant un that will not enforce it's own resolutions. the united states is showing it's relevance as we argue, the un is showing it's uselessness.
THE USA SHOULD LEAVE THE UN!! KICK IT OUT OF OUR GREAT CITY OF NEW YORK! GO HOME APPEASERS!!!
oh, yeah....
in appeasment un, the resolutions are worthless.
the no-fly zones were agreed to by saddam hussein as a term of the cease-fire.
how come nerds don't know their damn history?
the first movie was a fucking disasterous teenage gag film. we don't need a sequel.
i can say from my personal experience, with many, many people, that unless the linux co's and the hardware co's start developing much better hardware support, us desktop users will still use windows. there is no compelling reason why i'd switch to linux (and i did, for a while) without my sound working corectly, without my tv tuner working correctly, or my audigy drive, or my dvd burner.....
basically, linux developers need to stop telling the hardware companies to support it, but rather work with them on getting more hardware support. the success of linux depends upon that, and that alone.
not really surplus, but great places.
laboratory computers (http://www.laboratorycomputers.com)
microchip computers (http://www.microchipcomputers.com)
well, perhaps you should talk to the motherboard and chipset companies (asus, via, etc..) that's not really amd's domain
give me a break. they're going to tell me how to use linux in my recording studio, but they can't tell me how to get my audigy2+drive to work correctly for day-to-day use.
i love linux, i love it's stability, i love it's security, i love it's interaction, but hardware support is hard to find. perhaps they should have more conferences on that. then we really can use linux for all these great things.