Good. Dell using AMD will free up some of the Intel CPU supply for Apple. Apple has a history of demanding more CPUs than their suppliers can provide. This move will help Intel provide the demand Apple will soon be generating.
Dell Sells around 40-50 million units per year, I think. Intel & AMD probably sell 100 million computer chips per year, maybe.
Apple sells 4 million units in a good year. I don't think Apple really matters in this equation much. Apple fans thinking otherwise is just delusions of grandeur.
It's like saying that if my town stops filling petrol for a week, petrol prices are going to drop.
I haven't been following Groove that much. It seems like it would overlap Sharepoint in many ways. Is MS releasing competing products here?
Have used Sharepoint far less than Groove, but this is my opinion.
Sharepoint is web-based, whereas Groove isn't. I think MS maybe planning to integrate both in later versions. But, IMHO, Groove is far better than Sharepoint.
Boy, am I glad this wasn't in the "Ask Slashdot" section...
If it were in the "Ask Slashdot" section, then vast majority of the answers would have been 1) Install Linux. 2) Install Firefox. 3) In Soviet Russia, Anthrax controls you. 4) In Korea, only old people control Anthrax.
While it is true that Apple sells the hardware for more than the sum of the parts; Apple hardware costs more because it goes through more quality control and has better design. Neither of those comes cheap, and they are appreciated by people who appreciate such things.
If my boss used this tone with me, I would quit the job. Of course, the people he is talking down to were never hired(or paid) so they can't even quit.
I've always been under the impression that Japanese companies (or those largly held by) were a bit more ethical than their American counterparts. Sony has proven to me that my impression was completely in error.
Wal-Mart should look forward to this day...or do they not really have the lowest prices?
It's not that simple. It's possible for any one store to have all the lowest prices because of something called loss-leaders.
Each store has it's own loss-leader(s) every week - something which they sell at a loss to get more feet into the store - their hope is that people will buy other stuff which will translate into profits.
If one store had to compete with the loss-leaders sold by all other stores, they would be selling a lot of goods at a loss.
I for one have stopped using Goog£e. I used Yahoo & Start.com for regular searches.
Goog£e has too much information for me to feel comfortable about them.
If it were MS or someone who collected so much personal information as Goog£e does, I am sure there would have been a lot of outrage in the Geek Circles. But because it's Goog£e, everything's fine.
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Good. Dell using AMD will free up some of the Intel CPU supply for Apple. Apple has a history of demanding more CPUs than their suppliers can provide. This move will help Intel provide the demand Apple will soon be generating.
Dell Sells around 40-50 million units per year, I think.
Intel & AMD probably sell 100 million computer chips per year, maybe.
Apple sells 4 million units in a good year. I don't think Apple really matters
in this equation much. Apple fans thinking otherwise is just delusions
of grandeur.
It's like saying that if my town stops filling petrol for a week, petrol prices
are going to drop.
Search Engines give new pages a greater chance to be discovered
This just in - Yellow Pages give new businesses a greater chance to be
discovered.
I haven't been following Groove that much. It seems like it would overlap Sharepoint in many ways. Is MS releasing competing products here?
Have used Sharepoint far less than Groove, but this is my opinion.
Sharepoint is web-based, whereas Groove isn't.
I think MS maybe planning to integrate both in later versions.
But, IMHO, Groove is far better than Sharepoint.
Slashdot: Targeted by very technical editors, I generally want to hear about 40% of the stories.
I want to hear about 20% of the stories, twice each.
I have used Groove which is part of Office
12 & I really love it.
Groove is a document sharing system. Microsoft acquired Groove in April 2005.
Your stylesheets are disabled.
How do I enable it?
It's about this site ==> https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/
I loaded it on both IE6 & Firefox(1.0.2)
Strangely, it renders very differently on the 2 browsers.
It renders much better on IE.
What's the story?
Next, there is going to an article about
"King Kong playing Ping Pong in Hong Kong with his Ding Dong".
If MS had made a similiar offer for XP, then slashdot would
have been filled with "drug dealers offering the first
hit free" type of comments.
Ya, go ahead mod me down.
Boy, am I glad this wasn't in the "Ask Slashdot" section...
If it were in the "Ask Slashdot" section, then vast majority
of the answers would have been
1) Install Linux.
2) Install Firefox.
3) In Soviet Russia, Anthrax controls you.
4) In Korea, only old people control Anthrax.
How many people are going to read this as Microsoft lauds Scum?
While it is true that Apple sells the hardware for more than the sum of the parts; Apple hardware costs more because it goes through more quality control and has better design. Neither of those comes cheap, and they are appreciated by people who appreciate such things.
If my boss used this tone with me, I would quit the job.
Of course, the people he is talking down to were never hired(or paid)
so they can't even quit.
What versions of Windows? Linux? Mac OS X? - Yet another reason to switch?
Why do you think sony has a rootkit for Windows - only because
it's the most dominant OS.
Do you think it's difficult to write a rootkit for Linux or Mac OSX?
Rootkits aren't exploits or security holes.
To us brits AJAX is known for been a cleaning product
When I hear AJAX, I think of Ajax Amsterdam.
http://www.sitepoint.com.nyud.net:8090/forums/show post.php?p=2265475&postcount=40
I've always been under the impression that Japanese companies (or those largly held by) were a bit more ethical than their American counterparts. Sony has proven to me that my impression was completely in error.
http://www.sonybmg.com/management.html
2 Americans, 1 Australian & 1 European.
What's a Linux Agent?
I know Clippy was a Microsoft Agent
Those guys at $oogle are making Microsoft look like amateurs when it comes to world domination!
I prefer Goog£e to $oogle.
$oogle sounds like Soogle.
They lost... I've got both a gmail account and a yahoo account and I must say I like the gmail one better.
Maybe you should inform Yahoo that you are the judge here.
Wal-Mart should look forward to this day...or do they not really have the lowest prices?
It's not that simple. It's possible for any one store to have
all the lowest prices because of something called loss-leaders.
Each store has it's own loss-leader(s) every week - something which
they sell at a loss to get more feet into the store - their hope
is that people will buy other stuff which will translate into profits.
If one store had to compete with the loss-leaders sold by all other stores,
they would be selling a lot of goods at a loss.
I for one have stopped using Goog£e. I used Yahoo & Start.com for
regular searches.
Goog£e has too much information for me to feel comfortable about
them.
If it were MS or someone who collected so much personal information
as Goog£e does, I am sure there would have been a lot of outrage
in the Geek Circles. But because it's Goog£e, everything's fine.
closed and proprietary world of Windows.
I didn't realize Solaris was open & non-proprietary.
I have a linux machine -- but now all my machines look more like Google machines than Linux or Windows.
That's nice but many of us do more with a computer than fire up the Goog£e Web Page & search for
stuff.
could he really support all of South Korea?
He, he could. He could direct all of Korea to Linux
newsgroups & mailing lists, where geeks will flame
Koreans to code fixes what bugs they find.