article is about people buying DIY parts at Wal-Mart, not about you buying a laptop at Best Buy.
It won't take much to beat Best Buy's part selection -- what little stock they carry
seems to be more available to the Geek Squad guys than to customers. I told them:
1. "I have more PATA drives in my 4 computers than Best Buy has in the whole store"
2. "I've got more DDR memory sitting unused in my garage than is carried on the shelves"
3. "They have 30 different mice/keyboards, but don't stock 30 total units of drives/RAM"
Wal-Mart just has to show up to the game. They'll win the battle without firing a shot.
The nearest actual town has no CompUSA, no Best Buy, and in fact no stores that sell significant computer hardware.
The regular, daily prices at CompUSA, Best Buy and Frys is higher for commodity items
than what I paid for most of that hardware on sale 18 months ago at the very same places.
If I parted-out a new machine with those stores as choice, it'd cost twice what it should.
The only chance is to stop by every week on the first morning of the new sale and buy up
just the advertised specials and save them for a rainy day.
Wal-Mart can easily beat this loss-leader business model by selling at 15 point margins at
the same time they beat local competitors by 20% on pricing.
And they don't need to stock a wide variety; just the profitable stuff with few returns.
Consider what the last 11 years would have looked like for them without it.
DOS, OFFICE, IE -- work backwards from versions 7 to 2
Do the math to calculate the years between releases, and the relative "improvements" in the
mature product years. Then don't hold your breath for significant advances after 6.0 releases.
PGA Golf Tour 2009 on the Nokia-6GH will have more power than today's $50000 units.
But why are we talking about a simulation of an almost-sport in the first place?
With that in mind - why would they tell other, competing, anti-virus companies what flaws to protect against?
So people will just start submitting flaws to McAfee and the others, instead. There is less incentive in reporting to Microsoft now.
Next summer's press: "This latest worm is limited to those running Microsoft Defender; Symantec and McAfee users are unaffected."
--
Windows new antivirus only runs on XP if
you previously bought into Microsoft's new
security packaging called Service Pack 2.
instead of clicking one of the sponsored links by Google
Google's own toolbar shows a little green graph from 1-10 for a page's popularity.
A popular site typo would be 7+ notches lower (Windows Update is a "4" now?!)
As a disclaimer, I cannot say I've had the ability to try an Intel dual core but I'm just ever so happy with my AMD processor that I don't see why I should.
I've seen a single 2.0GHz duo core processor (T2500) benchmark like a 1.8GHz Sempron (aka 3000+).
Tie score: Not bad for a mobile processor, and not bad for a value desktop chip with just 128K L2 cache.
That was operating off the old premise that good "laptop" processing lags behind
adequate desktop useage.
In any case, it's going to be a while before I switch back to Intel. AMD has won me over for the time being.
Not me. The dirty little AMD secret we all know is the current outrageous pricing. Proof is documented:
Three Dell TV spots recently did not even mention the word "computer" once.
An HP newspaper ad last week contained 500+ words of copy, and the closest they got to that naughty bit word was in the fine print with the phrase "computing environment" when referring to thin client boxes connecting to a server.
C**PUTERS are obsolete for Dell and Hewlett Packard!
you can see how their traffic started falling here [Alexa]
Advertising-101 will tell you that heavy promotion merely compresses the timeframe for adoption and repeat business.
If the product stinks, it will flame out in under a year rather than die a slow product cycle death. They lost core visitors here.
The current crop of 1st through 5th graders in elementary schools can name all the planets in order, thanks to a Blue's Clues song. Learned it in one episode so it must be mind-control:
Well the suns a hot star.... Venus is hot too
Mercury's the brightest planet.... Earth's home to me and you
Mars is the red planet.... Jupiter's most wide
Saturns got those icy rings... Uranus is on its side
Turion 64 test system consumed a third again more power than the
Pentium M system at 100% CPU load, but unless you're using your
laptop to... power consumption isn't usually all that important.
For typical use, it seems likely the Turion 64 would be competitive
with the Pentium M on the battery life front.
It would be nice to test, rather than speculate, on "typical use" battery life in a laptop review. They missed:
1. The companies buying $1500+ laptops often deploy them as desktop replacment units.
2. These companies don't want their employees waiting for machines to update screens.
3. Why bother with wireless mouse or WPA if you are mostly connected to an AC adapter?
You replace 800MHz P3 desktops in remote locations with 2400MHz machines since full load performance counts.
warned that the number of teenage males is declining in North America
It's an exact science to 'predict' the teen male population for the next dozen years.
Take the current 13-19 sample size and project out each year by dumping the group
that turns 20 and replace with the population of those who were twelve.
Demographics people have acted surprised for the past 40 years at age-dependant
statistics for the baby boom generation, even though its size is a known entity.
Phenomena like "crime waves" can be predicted by boom/bust population cycles.
I mean that you creationists get so blinded you can no longer correctly read 2 sentences.
To get an 'exact phrase' at Google, you enclose in quotes as stated and demonstrated.
SCIENTISTS: 1,000,000
CREATIONISTS: ZERO
--
Louie, I think this is
the beginning of a new
stalking relationship.
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It won't take much to beat Best Buy's part selection -- what little stock they carry
seems to be more available to the Geek Squad guys than to customers. I told them:
1. "I have more PATA drives in my 4 computers than Best Buy has in the whole store"
2. "I've got more DDR memory sitting unused in my garage than is carried on the shelves"
3. "They have 30 different mice/keyboards, but don't stock 30 total units of drives/RAM"
Wal-Mart just has to show up to the game. They'll win the battle without firing a shot.
The regular, daily prices at CompUSA, Best Buy and Frys is higher for commodity items
than what I paid for most of that hardware on sale 18 months ago at the very same places.
If I parted-out a new machine with those stores as choice, it'd cost twice what it should.
The only chance is to stop by every week on the first morning of the new sale and buy up
just the advertised specials and save them for a rainy day.
Wal-Mart can easily beat this loss-leader business model by selling at 15 point margins at
the same time they beat local competitors by 20% on pricing.
And they don't need to stock a wide variety; just the profitable stuff with few returns.
It's like the DMV -- get your driver's license picture taken when you're drunk, so the cop will recognize you.
Microsoft nags you HUNDREDS OF TIMES in the first 30 days of activation for people who "knowingly bought XP" and haven't called it in yet.
The not-at-all-friendly reminder at first seems from the initial wording that it could pop up a couple times a week perhaps.
So what's the excuse for this near-hourly annoyance for PAYING customers?
DOS, OFFICE, IE -- work backwards from versions 7 to 2
Do the math to calculate the years between releases, and the relative "improvements" in the
mature product years. Then don't hold your breath for significant advances after 6.0 releases.
But why are we talking about a simulation of an almost-sport in the first place?
--
You don't carry enough money to be my caddy.
So people will just start submitting flaws to McAfee and the others, instead. There is less incentive in reporting to Microsoft now.
Next summer's press: "This latest worm is limited to those running Microsoft Defender; Symantec and McAfee users are unaffected."
--
Windows new antivirus only runs on XP if
you previously bought into Microsoft's new
security packaging called Service Pack 2.
The users on that same site rate the Nokia as 8.0 compared to that Fujitsu at 7.0
(It currently has 6X as many reviews and is 4X cheaper)
MSN's main page today linked to CNET's 770 review in "Worst Tech of 2006."
Are there even a million working typewriters remaining? And at the rate things are going, there may not be a million monkeys left soon, either.
Google's own toolbar shows a little green graph from 1-10 for a page's popularity.
A popular site typo would be 7+ notches lower (Windows Update is a "4" now?!)
Make an audible alarm that only goes off when the patented magnetic power cord is detached (accidental or otherwise).
* or remotely trigger a second magnet -- hidden in a backpack -- to pull your new $25/ounce toy out of the wrong hands.
I've seen a single 2.0GHz duo core processor (T2500) benchmark like a 1.8GHz Sempron (aka 3000+).
Tie score: Not bad for a mobile processor, and not bad for a value desktop chip with just 128K L2 cache.
That was operating off the old premise that good "laptop" processing lags behind adequate desktop useage.
In any case, it's going to be a while before I switch back to Intel. AMD has won me over for the time being.
Not me. The dirty little AMD secret we all know is the current outrageous pricing. Proof is documented:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020603180418/www.amd
AMD Athlon(TM) XP (May 2002). com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609 ,00.html
2000+ $193
1900+ $172
1800+ $160
1700+ $140
http://web.archive.org/web/20030602013858/www.amd
AMD Athlon(TM) XP Processor (May 2003). com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609 ,00.html
2600+ $103
2500+ $89
2400+ $84
2200+ $74
http://web.archive.org/web/20040611152643/www.amd
AMD Athlon(TM) 64 (June 2004). com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609 ,00.html
3200+ $278
3000+ $218
2800+ $178
http://web.archive.org/web/20050319092914/www.amd
AMD Athlon(TM) 64 (March 2005)o m/0,,51_104_609,00.html?redir=CPPR01
3700+ $329
3500+ $272
3400+ $223
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRo
AMD Athlon(TM) 64 (March 2006)o m/0,,51_104_609,00.html?redir=CPPR01
4000+ $341
3800+ $288
3700+ $238
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRo
AMD Athlon(TM) 64 X2 (current)
4800+ $643
4600+ $556
4400+ $467
4200+ $362
An HP newspaper ad last week contained 500+ words of copy, and the closest they got to that naughty bit word was in the fine print with the phrase "computing environment" when referring to thin client boxes connecting to a server.
C**PUTERS are obsolete for Dell and Hewlett Packard!
Advertising-101 will tell you that heavy promotion merely compresses the timeframe for adoption and repeat business.
If the product stinks, it will flame out in under a year rather than die a slow product cycle death. They lost core visitors here.
At least in 1976, titles had physical covers to convey content ... with exploding nukes being a spoiler.
* Don Johnson "communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food and sex" in this post apocalyptic tale
Your sound ought to be the equivalent of 3/4 HP and it should dim the outside street lamps with alternating bass lines.
At one time over 90% of US actuaries lived within 100 miles of Hartford, CT. Pay level statistics reflected the high cost of living there.
As important as the actual work is, I still suggest first visiting a work location if possible.
Next locate an AM/FM radio (if you don't have a rental car). Then make sure the site has
less than 10 country-western stations but more than two.
You get a decent balance between urban/rural and North/South ... you avoid hellholes ...
and it's at least as accurate as Places Rated Almanac
I used their Joshua and Samuel chips for a few weeks nearly became a praying man --
waiting, and waiting, and waiting.
Some of the prime95 type benchmarks for those ex-Cyrix chips ran 2 week tests at a
20 year pace.
For way cool, change the bus speed of a 866MHz P3 down to 100MHz or 66MHz.
I keep getting this image of the Florida electorate at least having something to wipe with, next time their vote gets flushed.
thanks to a Blue's Clues song. Learned it in one episode so it must be mind-control:
Well the suns a hot star .... Venus is hot too .... Earth's home to me and you .... Jupiter's most wide ... Uranus is on its side
Mercury's the brightest planet
Mars is the red planet
Saturns got those icy rings
Pentium M system at 100% CPU load, but unless you're using your
laptop to
For typical use, it seems likely the Turion 64 would be competitive
with the Pentium M on the battery life front.
It would be nice to test, rather than speculate, on "typical use" battery life in a laptop review. They missed:
1. The companies buying $1500+ laptops often deploy them as desktop replacment units.
2. These companies don't want their employees waiting for machines to update screens.
3. Why bother with wireless mouse or WPA if you are mostly connected to an AC adapter?
You replace 800MHz P3 desktops in remote locations with 2400MHz machines since full load performance counts.
It's an exact science to 'predict' the teen male population for the next dozen years.
Take the current 13-19 sample size and project out each year by dumping the group
that turns 20 and replace with the population of those who were twelve.
Demographics people have acted surprised for the past 40 years at age-dependant
statistics for the baby boom generation, even though its size is a known entity.
Phenomena like "crime waves" can be predicted by boom/bust population cycles.
I mean that you creationists get so blinded you can no longer correctly read 2 sentences.
To get an 'exact phrase' at Google, you enclose in quotes as stated and demonstrated.
SCIENTISTS: 1,000,000
CREATIONISTS: ZERO
--
Louie, I think this is
the beginning of a new
stalking relationship.
produces over a million hits on Google.
You won't find any webpages proclaiming a "creationist has discovered" anything.