>So how much upgrading can you do to your cube?... I'd take a 1Ghz PIII over the Mac Tissue Dispenser any day.
Well, there's a brilliant comment for ya. Would you take a P3 laptop over a g4 cube? How about a Gateway Astro running a P3? Those things have even less upgradability than a cube does! You aren't making a fair comparison, as you're using two different form factors. Try comparing a g4 tower to an average mid-tower case, and then you might have an argument. And yeah, g4's have less pci slots - but keep in mind the ethernet, modem, usb, firewire, video out, and sound out are all built-in, so none of those need to take up pci slots.
"The message here is a simple one: You make crappy software, you make no money. You make good software, you reap the benefits. "
Unfortunately, it isn't this simple. I'd wager that the majority of small businesses would rather pay a small amount of money for a program that works, but isn't necessarily guaranteed to always do so, as opposed to paying an enormous amount for software that has been thoroughly checked for correctness. Case in point: PeopleSoft is the company that makes all the financial aid software for the University I attend (U of MN). The U went with this company not because of quality software, but because of price. PeopleSoft, being smart little bastards, put a clause into the contract stating that they cannot be held liable for problems caused by their software. When the U switched over from quarters to semesters this year, HUGE glitches came up, and the university had to pay for many students' financial aid out of its own pockets. This cost the U somewhere in the realm of 10s of millions of dollars. So the U dropped PeopleSoft and got a new contract, right? Nope! At this point, they've spent way too much money on the system to change it, and even though they now *know* that the software is flakey, they're sticking with it.
The true message here is, I believe: You make cheap software, you make money. You make good software, you make no money (unless its also cheap). The courts aren't going to be able to do anything about this until consumers (rich business-type ones in particular) start demanding better software contracts.
Where's the beef? And whats with the non-dairy cheese? This can't possibly qualify as geek food - its not even close to unhealthy enough. We don't drink coffee and Dew and Jolt becuase we're taking care of our bodies!
Delivery Taco Bell - that is the ultimate in geek eating.
Actually, the "Super Monkey Collider Loses Funding" article *did* appear in the online version. I very vividly recall reading it at a friend's house at about 4am, and literally falling out of my chair laughing about it.
paraphrase: Though the Monkey Colliding tunnel was nearly complete, the scientists involved hadn't yet decided how to get the monkeys to the near-light speeds required to collide them. "One idea was to project a floating holographic banana into the tunnel, becuase monkeys love bananas, and are willing to run extremely fast to get them."
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>So how much upgrading can you do to your cube? ... I'd take a 1Ghz PIII over the Mac Tissue Dispenser any day.
Well, there's a brilliant comment for ya. Would you take a P3 laptop over a g4 cube? How about a Gateway Astro running a P3? Those things have even less upgradability than a cube does! You aren't making a fair comparison, as you're using two different form factors. Try comparing a g4 tower to an average mid-tower case, and then you might have an argument. And yeah, g4's have less pci slots - but keep in mind the ethernet, modem, usb, firewire, video out, and sound out are all built-in, so none of those need to take up pci slots.
"The message here is a simple one: You make crappy software, you make no money. You make good software, you reap the benefits. "
Unfortunately, it isn't this simple. I'd wager that the majority of small businesses would rather pay a small amount of money for a program that works, but isn't necessarily guaranteed to always do so, as opposed to paying an enormous amount for software that has been thoroughly checked for correctness. Case in point: PeopleSoft is the company that makes all the financial aid software for the University I attend (U of MN). The U went with this company not because of quality software, but because of price. PeopleSoft, being smart little bastards, put a clause into the contract stating that they cannot be held liable for problems caused by their software. When the U switched over from quarters to semesters this year, HUGE glitches came up, and the university had to pay for many students' financial aid out of its own pockets. This cost the U somewhere in the realm of 10s of millions of dollars. So the U dropped PeopleSoft and got a new contract, right? Nope! At this point, they've spent way too much money on the system to change it, and even though they now *know* that the software is flakey, they're sticking with it.
The true message here is, I believe: You make cheap software, you make money. You make good software, you make no money (unless its also cheap). The courts aren't going to be able to do anything about this until consumers (rich business-type ones in particular) start demanding better software contracts.
Where's the beef? And whats with the non-dairy cheese? This can't possibly qualify as geek food - its not even close to unhealthy enough. We don't drink coffee and Dew and Jolt becuase we're taking care of our bodies!
Delivery Taco Bell - that is the ultimate in geek eating.
Actually, the "Super Monkey Collider Loses Funding" article *did* appear in the online version. I very vividly recall reading it at a friend's house at about 4am, and literally falling out of my chair laughing about it.
paraphrase:
Though the Monkey Colliding tunnel was nearly complete, the scientists involved hadn't yet decided how to get the monkeys to the near-light speeds required to collide them.
"One idea was to project a floating holographic banana into the tunnel, becuase monkeys love bananas, and are willing to run extremely fast to get them."
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