So the post above me gets modded interesting even though the guy didn't read the article or has very poor reading comprehension as the questions he asks were addressed in the article and he gets modded interesting. The person replying to me just knocks the moderators and gets modded insightful. I get modded a troll.
Slashdot is reminding more and more of a bunch of stupid people in a stupid scene of this stupid movie (who's name escapes me) where people went to a book club to discuss a book without actually reading it. I guess some people just like the clitty clack noise of the keyboard.
With all these stories about bad retailers I'd like to point out a good experience I had at a good retailer.
They're a camera and AV store but have a bunch of different electronics related to that field. B&H Photo in manhattan. They have a website too here
I'm not a regular customer that goes in and spends a few hundred dollars every week but I have spent quite a bit there and I have sent friends and family there as well that have spent a lot of money there but they have no idea that I have done that.
One day I went in to get a bunch of stuff for my darkroom. A couple hundred bucks worth and I spent about the same the week before. There was one item I bought that came in two varieties. One with a floating lid the other without. I wanted the one with the floating lid and asked for it at the store when I physically went in. When I got home I relized that they gave me the one without it. There's a 39 cent different between the two but to buy the lid seperately would cost over 3 dollars plus either shipping or another 6 dollar toll to drive in and pick it up.
I called customer service to tell them. The rectified the problem by sending out the lid at no cost via ups.
They track all purchases whether you're in the store or not and maybe if I routinely pulled this kinda thing I may not have gotten that type of response.
I wanted everything for that weekend and was ticked off that I got the wrong thing but they really made up for it. When I find a place that has good customer service I like to promote it as much as I can. They're sales people are very knowledgable and helpful and not pushy. They have really good prices as well.
Even if shipping me that item at no cost wound up making my last order break even (which i highly doubt) they helped make a loyal customer even more loyal and they have easily made it up in future business from me and others I've referred.
On the same token, I can see how some customers can cause problems, but the way Best Buy sets up their business and treats their customers I'm not surprised.
When I first started developing in java back in the late 90's we didn't even have p3-1ghz machines and things ran well. I remember doing java app server development using a tool built on netbeans on a 133mhz laptop as well as a 300mhz desktop and things ran well considering. Now with the imporvements to the jvm's over time and more advanced hardware I'm still surprised to hear people complain about the performance of java.
Performance tuning in java is about finding bottlenecs in your logic, not programming to specific platforms. The JIT compiler does a good job of optimizing for each platform it runs on.
It's fairly trivial to put your logs on a seperate device. I do it wit a symlink. Probably not the best solution but it works. On one machine, I have my/var mounted on a seperated device and put my pgsql logs in there. I don't remember if that's the default location. Just splitting up your logs and your data on seperate devices makes a big difference in performance. I actually didn't RTFA this time so I'm not quite sure what the new feature is all about. I guess it just makes it easier to set this up?
As for graphics, images, documents, etc, I never usually have those associated with the db in the first place. Keep em on the filesystem with the web tier stuff. Do you really put this stuff in the DB? Or were you just remarking in general about splitting up files by what they are used for?
3D environments like this and Sun's Looking Glass are a small step towards a real virtual desktop. One day you'll sit down in your chair, you won't have a traditional monitor but when you turn on your computer your workspace will appear in front of you. Files, applications, etc. Maybe one day your whole office will turn into a giant virtual world. You think your current wallpaper image is cool now, wait until the day the equivalent wallpaper will make you feel like you're in a whole nother world. Imagine sitting in your home office, you log into your companies network and you see all your virtual coworkers there with you.
My other thought. Does Microsoft have alt-tab pattented, because there is nothing that makes me more productive than that litte key stroke combination. Maybe people are just trying to find a way to get around a patent and make people more productive.
"So what you're saying is that this won't work because it doesn't gracefully handle people who want to receive unsolicited commercial email."
No, I'm talking about solicited commercial email. As in the email I solicit by giving out business cards, or put on my resume, or on flyers or on other websites or from someone that saw some of my work some where else, or that heard of me from someone, etc, etc, etc. You know, doing business online. I don't always know who is going to be emailing me and if it's a potential client, I don't want them to have to jump through any unnecessary hoops that could be prone to user or technical errors. These people may be some of the same people that unknowingly are sending it thousands of emails from their home pc's, meaning not always the most technically savvy types.
The problem is that ISP's have done a piss poor job dealing with spam. Some even profitted from it behind the scenes through pink contracts. I don't think I or anyone trying to contact me should have to pay any sort of penalty to send an email. Email is still THE killer internet app. We don't have to cripple it to get rid of spam.
I don't feel any sympathy for users that can't get their mail thruogh because their ISP had an open relay but if this sort of thing has to affect every email sent unless their in a white list then I think that's just plain stupid.
It's bad enough I have to worry about spammers sometimes using my address in the from field randomly from time to time because they either grabbed it from a site or from a compromised machine, I don't want to have worry about some person blacklisting me because they thought the automated authentication method or whateer gets implemented confused them.
For those of us that relly on people we don't know contacting us via email to inquire about new business... this doesn't make sense. There shouldn't be a fee for email or any other hoops that might confuse legitimate email senders. Last thing I want is missing a big contract because someone forgot to fill up their email payment reserves or couldn't make out the mangled letters in the image.
What needs to be done is to go after the spammers directly. Can you imagine the law enforcement coming up with a plan to fight drugs that involved making crack vials and little ziplock bags cost $5 each. Sure the people that buy them for legitimate reasons can register for a discount or their volume is so small it doesn't make a difference. Does this make sense? This is not a problem that will be solved with technology. Laws have to change and they need to be enforced.
Legitimate bulk emailers, isps, large corporations and the govt should do something about it. It's gotten insane.
"Now look at IBM, they turned OS into a viable business model and are a nice enough player in the OS world."
Did they, or have they been doing this for so long they've learned to pull the wool over everyone's eyes? You can't just assume a large company like IBM is just going to change completely.
There have been some fishy things goign on lately. I expect to see RedHat no longer being pushed by IBM. Since IBM gave Novell, a dieing company, enough cash to help it buy SuSE, I expect to see more SuSE. IBM pretty much owns SuSE through Novell, there might have been antitrust issues if they tried to buy SuSE directly, there would at the very least been a lot of noise from RedHat.
I know it's annoying to run 4 different im clients or sometimes your OS doesn't support their original software, or that version really sucks.
But these companies spend millions of dollars on their networks for the hardware and software that is part of it. Let them play a little add here and there to help support it.
All these ad blockers and ways of getting around their revenue streams only make them try and make more annoying advertising.
If trillian wanted to be a good friend to yahoo, they'd pass through their advertising as well or find some other way to compensate them. Just because Yahoo decides to offer their network services for free doesn't mean anyone else can deploy software that uses it as well. It's like having someone write a robot to suck the content off your website, chagnge a few slogans and graphics and publish it on their site as their own minus your advertising.
Wearable devices my ass! It's obvious that a version of the nanotechnology used to keep Dick Clark alive for 200 years has now been injected into Bill Gates. Using the human skin as a bus is not the point. The evil nanomachines are preparing for the day when they enslave us all and use US as the information super highway.
We never should have used gold in electronics, it's a prissy little element.
Of course, the one trade-off of this is that as these technologies allow for more driver error, there is the potential we could lean too hard on these devices to protect human life. It's a very dangerous idea to have a vehicle that is so protective of its passengers that the passengers become careless... but I think we're a long way off from that.
I think we're already there. The majority of accidents I've seen or heard about lately involve a soccer mom or someone else in their SUV that felt so safe in that they were careless.
As far as printers go... The epsons are nice. I've always liked them. The pigment ink versions are pretty good in terms of longevity which has been a very week point in ink jet printers. They used to have a problem with dull colors but the new ultrachrome inks go a long way to improving that.
When the epson 2200 came out it was a very popular printer for photographers. It's big brothers also turned up in a lot of photo labs. I just noticed there's an R800 is a lot cheaper than the 2200 but uses the same ink technology. I haven't looked at all the specs but I'm assuming it might be slower and can only print up to 8.something inches wide as opped to the 13" of the 2200.
Any digital output I frame or sell either goes to a lab that I know has a good operator and a digital minilab like a fuji frontier or agfa dlab or a higher end commercial lab that uses a lightjet. The quality of those is a lot better than ink jet. You get continuous tone (rather than tiny dots) and the permancence of fuji crystal archive seems to be a lot more proven than epson's new ultrachromes. Only time will really tell though. I haven't upgraded my inkjet in years. Now that I saw the r800 I might be interested in one but I didn't have a need to get the 2200 since anything important I send out to a good lab.
If you're going to get an inkjet I'd say at least look into something that has had accelerated testing for longevity like the epson's that use the ultrachrome ink. Otherwise, you're spending a lot of money on each print and it will have noticable defects in a short period of time.
Sending out to a lba will be cheaper in most cases as the cost of RA-4 paper and chemicals is pretty cheap. There are some good online places but I'd say find some place local. Support your local photolabs rather than trying to save 5 cents a print. Creating a good relationship with your printer is important. The picture taking is only half of what makes a great print. The printing is very important. Get used to photoshop as well. Don't go to crazy with all the different filters and make it look like cartoon crap but knowing how to adjust contrast, color balancing, local density controls, etc. can really make an image shine without resorting to eye candy effects. Not to say all effects are bad but too many people think you can take a crappy photo and since you've applied some artistic brush technique to it, it's now a work of art.
The printing is as important as the picture taking. Sometimes I'll spend weeks redoing a single image in the darkroom until it really does it for me. Same goes for digital, I can spend weeks on an image on the computer until I know I've got it where I want it.
Know what you're getting into, what local labs are available and such... working on a solution for that if I have time to gather the financing...:( and don't forget you're doing this to enjoy yourself:)
First let me give you some background. I'm a semi professional photographer. I have a full color and black and white darkroom including an automatic film processor for color neg and slides as well as a roller transport processor for prints.
I mainly shoot 35mm although I do some 6x6cm. I also have a 6.3mp DSLR.
Megapixels are important when it comes time to print. The issue is that a lot of people use their digicams to display images on the web and never make prints. For profoessional uses, prints are very important as well as having high quality sources for reproduction magazines and other publications. While 2mp may be good for the web, I find the prints lacking. Some people may not be able to tell the difference.
Before I got a digital camera, I had someone send me a sample portrait from their 3.0 megapixel camera. They claimed they were able to make 32x24" enlargements that looked great. I printed an 8x10 on my fairly good inkjet and I was dissapointed by the results when compared to both my scanned film (from a pretty good film scanner) and prints I've made in my darkroom. The amount of detail lost in things like the eyes were unacceptable to me. It's how when CD's first came out, they stripped out frequencies they thought were outside the human hearing range but people thought they didn't sound good until they added them back in.
NOw with the 6.3 camera, the results are better but I still like traditional prints from a good negative film, printed through a good lens. The camera also has better metering and white balance features than previous cameras as well. One of the main limitations of most digital sensors in my opinion is that they still use a Bayer pattern. If Foveon can ever reduce their noise issues and get a larger sensor with more megapixels I think that will be orders of magnitudes better. Comparing the current foveon output shot in it's ideal conditions versus cameras with more megapixels provides a stunning difference in the clarity of the photos. There is less interpolation as each sensor registers red, green and blue instead of just one and relying on interpolation.
What I like about digital is the convenience of getting from the camera to my proofing system in a short amount of time. With film I have a quicker turn around time than most since I can just load my film on reels, turn on the machine (as long as I have chemicals still in it) and have my film ready to scan in less than an hour. Though I then have to scan. I still prefer the quality of the prints though from my hand enlargements, especially when it comes to black and white.
When I need to make many copies of a print at a time, traditional methods still win out in terms of speed. After coming up with the right exposure and color filtration, which is quick and easy with a good color analyzer, and determining my dodging and burning strategy, I can turn out prints much faster than my inkjet. The difference in cost also favors traditional printing.
My point, yeah I don't believe megapixels are everything but more data isn't bad since with most newer cameras and sensors, the push for more megapixels also includes better in camera software, better light sensitivity with reduced noise levels, etc. There still needs to be a lot more done in the digital world but it's getting there.
Oh so the name is so important? If IBM forks Java and calls it the WebsphereVM you don't think people will buy into it? That's the biggest concern, not microsoft anymore.
Open standards are important and if one vendor can gain too much control then they can control the market and screw others. Concidering how Sun isn't ruling the java market as a vendor I think they're doing a good job as a steward.
You can't blame sun for thinking that it's unix os that it's been working on for a lot longer than linux has been around is better. They've put a lot of time and effort into it. IBM has said the same thing in regards to AIX vs Linux. McNealy has an odd way of putting things though.
Some of the terms he used were bad choices, but look at the target he's talking to. He's said it's not for corporate IT shops but it is for IT specialists and hobbyists (bad choice of words). Meaning the datacenter is going to be going to a different model soon and the OS that is run, the computers that are run on etc will be likely irrelevant for many purposes. It will be the middleware that is what the corporate customers should be concerned with.
This goes to the whole feeling of turning the datacenter into a utility type service just like gas, electricity, etc. You pay for computing power to run apps, not for servers. IBM and HP appear to be going in the same direction.
The lock-in argument with Sun isn't as strong for me. If you look at things like their Java Enterprise System, they allow you to pull out one of the components and use another vendors software in it's place in the stack. For instance you can use a different portal server or ldap server.
Sun is probably doing the same thing it has done. They rely on open standards and publish open standards, they hope that people use their implementations of those standards because they make better ones or because they want to stick with one vendor. So I don't see it as lock-in. They're hoping people choose to use their products.
"But even for a business, I don't see how leasing would make any sense when typical desktop PC computers can be bought for about $500 these days"
Sun targets big companies. Big companies don't buy computers from your local mom and pop computer store. They buy from HP, IBM or Dell for the desktop and others for the servers. They want service and support. They pay a lot more than $500. Even if they were paying $500 when you're talking about tens of thousands of desktops, plus all the high powered servers you need for them and the various applications, you're talking about a lot of change.
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Slashdot is reminding more and more of a bunch of stupid people in a stupid scene of this stupid movie (who's name escapes me) where people went to a book club to discuss a book without actually reading it. I guess some people just like the clitty clack noise of the keyboard.
How does anyone mod this up as interesting when all the post contains are two questions that are answered in the article?
They're a camera and AV store but have a bunch of different electronics related to that field. B&H Photo in manhattan. They have a website too here
I'm not a regular customer that goes in and spends a few hundred dollars every week but I have spent quite a bit there and I have sent friends and family there as well that have spent a lot of money there but they have no idea that I have done that.
One day I went in to get a bunch of stuff for my darkroom. A couple hundred bucks worth and I spent about the same the week before. There was one item I bought that came in two varieties. One with a floating lid the other without. I wanted the one with the floating lid and asked for it at the store when I physically went in. When I got home I relized that they gave me the one without it. There's a 39 cent different between the two but to buy the lid seperately would cost over 3 dollars plus either shipping or another 6 dollar toll to drive in and pick it up.
I called customer service to tell them. The rectified the problem by sending out the lid at no cost via ups.
They track all purchases whether you're in the store or not and maybe if I routinely pulled this kinda thing I may not have gotten that type of response.
I wanted everything for that weekend and was ticked off that I got the wrong thing but they really made up for it. When I find a place that has good customer service I like to promote it as much as I can. They're sales people are very knowledgable and helpful and not pushy. They have really good prices as well.
Even if shipping me that item at no cost wound up making my last order break even (which i highly doubt) they helped make a loyal customer even more loyal and they have easily made it up in future business from me and others I've referred.
On the same token, I can see how some customers can cause problems, but the way Best Buy sets up their business and treats their customers I'm not surprised.
When I first started developing in java back in the late 90's we didn't even have p3-1ghz machines and things ran well. I remember doing java app server development using a tool built on netbeans on a 133mhz laptop as well as a 300mhz desktop and things ran well considering. Now with the imporvements to the jvm's over time and more advanced hardware I'm still surprised to hear people complain about the performance of java.
Performance tuning in java is about finding bottlenecs in your logic, not programming to specific platforms. The JIT compiler does a good job of optimizing for each platform it runs on.
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As for graphics, images, documents, etc, I never usually have those associated with the db in the first place. Keep em on the filesystem with the web tier stuff. Do you really put this stuff in the DB? Or were you just remarking in general about splitting up files by what they are used for?
My other thought. Does Microsoft have alt-tab pattented, because there is nothing that makes me more productive than that litte key stroke combination. Maybe people are just trying to find a way to get around a patent and make people more productive.
And 3d input devices aren't useful without some sort of 3d user environment. Now is Looking Glass the chicken or the egg?
No, I'm talking about solicited commercial email. As in the email I solicit by giving out business cards, or put on my resume, or on flyers or on other websites or from someone that saw some of my work some where else, or that heard of me from someone, etc, etc, etc. You know, doing business online. I don't always know who is going to be emailing me and if it's a potential client, I don't want them to have to jump through any unnecessary hoops that could be prone to user or technical errors. These people may be some of the same people that unknowingly are sending it thousands of emails from their home pc's, meaning not always the most technically savvy types.
The problem is that ISP's have done a piss poor job dealing with spam. Some even profitted from it behind the scenes through pink contracts. I don't think I or anyone trying to contact me should have to pay any sort of penalty to send an email. Email is still THE killer internet app. We don't have to cripple it to get rid of spam.
I don't feel any sympathy for users that can't get their mail thruogh because their ISP had an open relay but if this sort of thing has to affect every email sent unless their in a white list then I think that's just plain stupid.
It's bad enough I have to worry about spammers sometimes using my address in the from field randomly from time to time because they either grabbed it from a site or from a compromised machine, I don't want to have worry about some person blacklisting me because they thought the automated authentication method or whateer gets implemented confused them.
What needs to be done is to go after the spammers directly. Can you imagine the law enforcement coming up with a plan to fight drugs that involved making crack vials and little ziplock bags cost $5 each. Sure the people that buy them for legitimate reasons can register for a discount or their volume is so small it doesn't make a difference. Does this make sense? This is not a problem that will be solved with technology. Laws have to change and they need to be enforced.
Legitimate bulk emailers, isps, large corporations and the govt should do something about it. It's gotten insane.
Did they, or have they been doing this for so long they've learned to pull the wool over everyone's eyes? You can't just assume a large company like IBM is just going to change completely.
There have been some fishy things goign on lately. I expect to see RedHat no longer being pushed by IBM. Since IBM gave Novell, a dieing company, enough cash to help it buy SuSE, I expect to see more SuSE. IBM pretty much owns SuSE through Novell, there might have been antitrust issues if they tried to buy SuSE directly, there would at the very least been a lot of noise from RedHat.
But these companies spend millions of dollars on their networks for the hardware and software that is part of it. Let them play a little add here and there to help support it.
All these ad blockers and ways of getting around their revenue streams only make them try and make more annoying advertising.
If trillian wanted to be a good friend to yahoo, they'd pass through their advertising as well or find some other way to compensate them. Just because Yahoo decides to offer their network services for free doesn't mean anyone else can deploy software that uses it as well. It's like having someone write a robot to suck the content off your website, chagnge a few slogans and graphics and publish it on their site as their own minus your advertising.
We never should have used gold in electronics, it's a prissy little element.
Centralized authentication server for internet = Good
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When the epson 2200 came out it was a very popular printer for photographers. It's big brothers also turned up in a lot of photo labs. I just noticed there's an R800 is a lot cheaper than the 2200 but uses the same ink technology. I haven't looked at all the specs but I'm assuming it might be slower and can only print up to 8.something inches wide as opped to the 13" of the 2200.
Any digital output I frame or sell either goes to a lab that I know has a good operator and a digital minilab like a fuji frontier or agfa dlab or a higher end commercial lab that uses a lightjet. The quality of those is a lot better than ink jet. You get continuous tone (rather than tiny dots) and the permancence of fuji crystal archive seems to be a lot more proven than epson's new ultrachromes. Only time will really tell though. I haven't upgraded my inkjet in years. Now that I saw the r800 I might be interested in one but I didn't have a need to get the 2200 since anything important I send out to a good lab.
If you're going to get an inkjet I'd say at least look into something that has had accelerated testing for longevity like the epson's that use the ultrachrome ink. Otherwise, you're spending a lot of money on each print and it will have noticable defects in a short period of time.
Sending out to a lba will be cheaper in most cases as the cost of RA-4 paper and chemicals is pretty cheap. There are some good online places but I'd say find some place local. Support your local photolabs rather than trying to save 5 cents a print. Creating a good relationship with your printer is important. The picture taking is only half of what makes a great print. The printing is very important. Get used to photoshop as well. Don't go to crazy with all the different filters and make it look like cartoon crap but knowing how to adjust contrast, color balancing, local density controls, etc. can really make an image shine without resorting to eye candy effects. Not to say all effects are bad but too many people think you can take a crappy photo and since you've applied some artistic brush technique to it, it's now a work of art.
The printing is as important as the picture taking. Sometimes I'll spend weeks redoing a single image in the darkroom until it really does it for me. Same goes for digital, I can spend weeks on an image on the computer until I know I've got it where I want it.
Know what you're getting into, what local labs are available and such... working on a solution for that if I have time to gather the financing... :( and don't forget you're doing this to enjoy yourself :)
I mainly shoot 35mm although I do some 6x6cm. I also have a 6.3mp DSLR.
Megapixels are important when it comes time to print. The issue is that a lot of people use their digicams to display images on the web and never make prints. For profoessional uses, prints are very important as well as having high quality sources for reproduction magazines and other publications. While 2mp may be good for the web, I find the prints lacking. Some people may not be able to tell the difference.
Before I got a digital camera, I had someone send me a sample portrait from their 3.0 megapixel camera. They claimed they were able to make 32x24" enlargements that looked great. I printed an 8x10 on my fairly good inkjet and I was dissapointed by the results when compared to both my scanned film (from a pretty good film scanner) and prints I've made in my darkroom. The amount of detail lost in things like the eyes were unacceptable to me. It's how when CD's first came out, they stripped out frequencies they thought were outside the human hearing range but people thought they didn't sound good until they added them back in.
NOw with the 6.3 camera, the results are better but I still like traditional prints from a good negative film, printed through a good lens. The camera also has better metering and white balance features than previous cameras as well. One of the main limitations of most digital sensors in my opinion is that they still use a Bayer pattern. If Foveon can ever reduce their noise issues and get a larger sensor with more megapixels I think that will be orders of magnitudes better. Comparing the current foveon output shot in it's ideal conditions versus cameras with more megapixels provides a stunning difference in the clarity of the photos. There is less interpolation as each sensor registers red, green and blue instead of just one and relying on interpolation.
What I like about digital is the convenience of getting from the camera to my proofing system in a short amount of time. With film I have a quicker turn around time than most since I can just load my film on reels, turn on the machine (as long as I have chemicals still in it) and have my film ready to scan in less than an hour. Though I then have to scan. I still prefer the quality of the prints though from my hand enlargements, especially when it comes to black and white.
When I need to make many copies of a print at a time, traditional methods still win out in terms of speed. After coming up with the right exposure and color filtration, which is quick and easy with a good color analyzer, and determining my dodging and burning strategy, I can turn out prints much faster than my inkjet. The difference in cost also favors traditional printing.
My point, yeah I don't believe megapixels are everything but more data isn't bad since with most newer cameras and sensors, the push for more megapixels also includes better in camera software, better light sensitivity with reduced noise levels, etc. There still needs to be a lot more done in the digital world but it's getting there.
Ha! And everyone thought Java on the Desktop would make people think linux was too bloated and slow.
How is that a bad thing considering RMS wants copyrights asigned to the FSF too for code submitted to GNU projects?
That should be easy to do considering Java is already powerful and popular.
Open standards are important and if one vendor can gain too much control then they can control the market and screw others. Concidering how Sun isn't ruling the java market as a vendor I think they're doing a good job as a steward.
Some of the terms he used were bad choices, but look at the target he's talking to. He's said it's not for corporate IT shops but it is for IT specialists and hobbyists (bad choice of words). Meaning the datacenter is going to be going to a different model soon and the OS that is run, the computers that are run on etc will be likely irrelevant for many purposes. It will be the middleware that is what the corporate customers should be concerned with.
This goes to the whole feeling of turning the datacenter into a utility type service just like gas, electricity, etc. You pay for computing power to run apps, not for servers. IBM and HP appear to be going in the same direction.
McNealy should really get a speech writer.
Sun is probably doing the same thing it has done. They rely on open standards and publish open standards, they hope that people use their implementations of those standards because they make better ones or because they want to stick with one vendor. So I don't see it as lock-in. They're hoping people choose to use their products.
Sun targets big companies. Big companies don't buy computers from your local mom and pop computer store. They buy from HP, IBM or Dell for the desktop and others for the servers. They want service and support. They pay a lot more than $500. Even if they were paying $500 when you're talking about tens of thousands of desktops, plus all the high powered servers you need for them and the various applications, you're talking about a lot of change.