"cutting costs comes at the expense of things like customer service, R&D"
Dell does R&D? To them it must mean 'ruin and destroy'. We haven't had a dell server that hasen't had some kind of hardware problem - out of dozens. Our Apple servers haven't had any problem at all.
I guess by 'shut it down', he meant what would happen if he ran a company that had to make good hardware to stay afloat....
Actually,/. might add another type of mod for the original intent of a reply.
That way, the rest of/. visitors could see if the modders think a comment/reply was as funny/insightfull/interesting/trollfull/flaming/of ftopic/informative as the poster thought the comment was.
We've got both overhead cable ladder racking and raised floors. We got the overhead racking because the raised floor space was nearly used up. Think about it. In mainframe days, power and data cabling needs were less than they are now. You had racks wider than they are now, with two power runs (if you were smart) into each rack, and some of the inter-rack cabling going under the floor from one rack to the next, in many cases.
Now, picture a rack filled with 2U dells, each needing two data runs all the way back to a central switch, and the same power needs as the racks of mainframe days, but now narrower racks, and more of them. Remember to include all the fiber-channel runs that can't risk being crushed by whatever gets piled under the floor.
Raised floors are still needed, if just for power. But, they're not enough anymore. Sure, computing takes less space these days, but now so much more it is needed.
This is pretty much an irrefutable fact of life, and the RIAA and MPAA after 30+ years of trying to stop unrestricted private recording and utterly failing should just let the market take its course. Neither the music or the movies industries has floundered.
My parents bought one of the very first model VCRs ever made, and at over 20+ years old, it *still* records and plays. Unrestricted analog will NEVER go away. Even if, one day many decades from now, the last unrestricted analog device finally breaks and can't be repaired, people will smuggle them in from other countries.
They may as well try to license and restrict water, air, sunlight, addition, subtraction, and english grammer along with D/A conversion.
There will always be a market for freedom. Always.
I don't think its $$ as such - more like universities wanting to be just like corporations. Corporations, remember, only care about ROI, and pure research has a poor ROI. Hang out at a university, and the univ culture conversion to corporate culture becomes fairly obvious.
This is obviously regulation without representation - as bad or worse than taxation without representation.
Throw your TV's on congress's steps! I've got an old junked one, I'd gladly send to DC, if someone there will place it neatly on the front steps of congress.
That doesn't give a shit about consumer rights - yet another corporate advocate. Makes one wonder where she would stand on Tanya Anderson.vs. RIAA, if it were to make to the Supreme court. Bias towards consumer, or towards sociopathic racketeers who happen to be corporations.
At least she's not a former horse show manager, as far as we know.
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"cutting costs comes at the expense of things like customer service, R&D"
Dell does R&D? To them it must mean 'ruin and destroy'. We haven't had a dell server that hasen't had some kind of hardware problem - out of dozens. Our Apple servers haven't had any problem at all.
I guess by 'shut it down', he meant what would happen if he ran a company that had to make good hardware to stay afloat....
Actually, /. might add another type of mod for the original intent of a reply. /. visitors could see if the modders think a comment/reply was as funny/insightfull/interesting/trollfull/flaming/of ftopic/informative as the poster thought the comment was.
That way, the rest of
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While this reply is offtopic with respect to the article, it seems relevant to the previous comment, and modding in general.
We've got both overhead cable ladder racking and raised floors. We got the overhead racking because the raised floor space was nearly used up. Think about it. In mainframe days, power and data cabling needs were less than they are now. You had racks wider than they are now, with two power runs (if you were smart) into each rack, and some of the inter-rack cabling going under the floor from one rack to the next, in many cases.
Now, picture a rack filled with 2U dells, each needing two data runs all the way back to a central switch, and the same power needs as the racks of mainframe days, but now narrower racks, and more of them. Remember to include all the fiber-channel runs that can't risk being crushed by whatever gets piled under the floor.
Raised floors are still needed, if just for power. But, they're not enough anymore. Sure, computing takes less space these days, but now so much more it is needed.
This is pretty much an irrefutable fact of life, and the RIAA and MPAA after 30+ years of trying to stop unrestricted private recording and utterly failing should just let the market take its course. Neither the music or the movies industries has floundered.
My parents bought one of the very first model VCRs ever made, and at over 20+ years old, it *still* records and plays. Unrestricted analog will NEVER go away. Even if, one day many decades from now, the last unrestricted analog device finally breaks and can't be repaired, people will smuggle them in from other countries.
They may as well try to license and restrict water, air, sunlight, addition, subtraction, and english grammer along with D/A conversion.
There will always be a market for freedom. Always.
"The feds hope to seize his BMW."
Hopefully they'll seize other things of his that start with the letter 'B'
Wow.
"Maybe it's just because I'm from Canada"
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Which could be why you got modded funny instead of insightful, which is that actual nature of your post>
Why can't Canadians get any respect? Even at
I think they've got one in Bismark, and maybe another in Fargo.
I think it means windows will finally be bsd/gumdrop-complient, optimized for the photoshop rotate filter.
for epaper cuts...
Just look at what Apple is doing now. No guesswork there.
Again...
I don't think its $$ as such - more like universities wanting to be just like corporations. Corporations, remember, only care about ROI, and pure research has a poor ROI. Hang out at a university, and the univ culture conversion to corporate culture becomes fairly obvious.
Here's the National Academies link.
Hold the entire business liable - sink or swim as a team, management included.
"the internet is way better and safer than alcohol and drugs any day"
SPeak for yourself...
This is obviously regulation without representation - as bad or worse than taxation without representation.
Throw your TV's on congress's steps! I've got an old junked one, I'd gladly send to DC, if someone there will place it neatly on the front steps of congress.
Discriminated - my spellcheck genes need fixing
But won't be discrimitated against...
"technical obstacles and questions about control."
Those are never problems for Microsoft...
Price goes down, price goes up, price goes down, price goes up....
MS creates disposable OS, uses it to encourage disposable PC, now invents disposable DVD. They're never going to shed the 'cheap' image.
That'd be fun to watch...
She is a pit bull. . .
That doesn't give a shit about consumer rights - yet another corporate advocate. Makes one wonder where she would stand on Tanya Anderson
At least she's not a former horse show manager, as far as we know.