Back in the PLM/80 PLM/86 days, when the assembly instruction 'DI' was replaced by the PLM 'Disable$Interrupts' or 'INT 10' was 'Cause$Interrupt(10)', we had a saying that all they really cared about was 'Remove$From$Customer'.
OK, let me think about this. A Dell Xeon comodity PC, labeled "server", running Linux, or a real 64-bit server blade running Solaris for roughly the same money. Hmmm, which one goes in my data center? I know! How about the company who knows what a data center is!
Shit boxes full of old cables, 386SX motherboards, 4M memory sticks, 14.4K modems, etc. Day-old coffee cups, half-full pop cans, overflowing ash trays, McDonalds wrappers...
For those of you who have never used Berzerkley sockets (Now those guys inhaled. A lot. And often) that's really really really funny. Too bad it's posted AC.
Deputy Mayor: "Could we at least come in and have a look at the jobs?"
HP exec: "No. Your father was a hamster and your mother smelled of elderberries. Now go away or I shall downsize you a second time."
...Michel Destot, the Socialist deputy mayor of the southern France city of Grenoble - where HP has one of its French plants - said the layoffs were "unacceptable"...
Wow, even Jerry Lewis never said anything that funny...
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No, my point is that this suddenly puts Apple in the ring-tone buniness, which is, inexplicably, something like a 347 billion dollar a year business worldwide (go figure).
1) Apple comes out with a phone.
2) It plays music and is a phone.
3) Millions of fashionable heat-seekers buy it.
4) Apple gets to sell songs and ring-tones, which is, inexplicably, something like a 347 billion dollar a year business worldwide (go figure).
5) Apple makes a lot of money.
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Mods on crack again.
That's REALLY funny.
No, it's a map of NT 4.0 and Windows 98 sys...
Never mind.
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Back in the PLM/80 PLM/86 days, when the assembly instruction 'DI' was replaced by the PLM 'Disable$Interrupts' or 'INT 10' was 'Cause$Interrupt(10)', we had a saying that all they really cared about was 'Remove$From$Customer'.
if [ -f ~/.DEITY ] ; then
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OK, let me think about this. A Dell Xeon comodity PC, labeled "server", running Linux, or a real 64-bit server blade running Solaris for roughly the same money. Hmmm, which one goes in my data center? I know! How about the company who knows what a data center is!
But that's just my opinion I could be wrong.
Shit boxes full of old cables, 386SX motherboards, 4M memory sticks, 14.4K modems, etc. Day-old coffee cups, half-full pop cans, overflowing ash trays, McDonalds wrappers...
For those of you who have never used Berzerkley sockets (Now those guys inhaled. A lot. And often) that's really really really funny. Too bad it's posted AC.
Deputy Mayor: "Could we at least come in and have a look at the jobs?"
HP exec: "No. Your father was a hamster and your mother smelled of elderberries. Now go away or I shall downsize you a second time."
Wow, even Jerry Lewis never said anything that funny...
n : an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government.
racism
n : discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race.
Remember: It's only sedition/rebellion if you lose.
They seem to be buying customers now.
My guess is their next takeover target is Computer Associates. CA seems pretty ripe for the pickin'.
Or somethng like that.
Same thing we do every night Pinky, plan to take over the world!
Accepting your numbers, (which I do) gives us $3,000,000,000 for ring-tones!!!! Annually!!!
Can you think a of anything more ephemeral or useless??
No, my point is that this suddenly puts Apple in the ring-tone buniness, which is, inexplicably, something like a 347 billion dollar a year business worldwide (go figure).
1) Apple comes out with a phone.
2) It plays music and is a phone.
3) Millions of fashionable heat-seekers buy it.
4) Apple gets to sell songs and ring-tones, which is, inexplicably, something like a 347 billion dollar a year business worldwide (go figure).
5) Apple makes a lot of money.
Zonk reading Slashdot. Funny concept.
Wow. I wish we could mod posts "jingoistic".
No, more like ASCII, EBCDIC and Unicode.
Can you explain Chicago Cubs fans?
Yeah - cut it out with the "flamebait", asshole!
WRONGTHINKING WILL BE PUNISHED! CONFORM! CONFORM! CONFORM!
OK, OK, so a spike of 16 standard deviations at the low end of the scale is going to pull the whole thing to the left...