It doesn't seem to me that this is a very economical solution. IMacs are great for leting anyone get a computer but they are also expencive. You should be able to get a rack mounted PC for far less money and effort with more than likely more power.
Let me clarify the retail markup on PCs is very, very low about 15 percent. The real profit is in extended service plans markup about 200 percent, now the people who swarm to buy a PC on no tax day are likely to be the same people who have never seen a PC or know anyone who has seen one but don't want the plan. So on the bare bones staff we have i've got enough work already.
"Hacking might be characterized as `an appropriate application of ingenuity'. Whether the result is a quick-and-dirty patchwork job or a carefully crafted work of art, you have to admire the cleverness that went into it." If you will please note the "quick-and-dirty patchwork" portion of this definition, that in my mind is exactly what the recovery Apollo 13 was a series of quick and dirty fixes. Yes it is true the mission was a failure in the sense that they went with the mission to land on the moon and failed to do that, however the mission was a success in the sense that a group of people managed to think far enouth 'outside of the box' that in a very short amount of time they fixed problems with very few resources and without being on the same planet as the problem at the time. That is a success and a truely great hack.
The question as I see it is not if MS should be broken up, but rather how? This is not like a telephone co or an oil co where you can just break the company into several companies that do the same thing. This is a new type of Trust and if MS is broken up by product then we will just have several smaller monopolys.
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It doesn't seem to me that this is a very economical solution. IMacs are great for leting anyone get a computer but they are also expencive. You should be able to get a rack mounted PC for far less money and effort with more than likely more power.
Let me clarify the retail markup on PCs is very, very low about 15 percent. The real profit is in extended service plans markup about 200 percent, now the people who swarm to buy a PC on no tax day are likely to be the same people who have never seen a PC or know anyone who has seen one but don't want the plan. So on the bare bones staff we have i've got enough work already.
I would like to beg all legislators not to pass this bill I've got enough work as it is.
It's not free as in beer it's free as in refills
I have always wondered why morse code is neccesary for a Ham radio Licence. Is it just to prove your serious or is there more to it?
"Hacking might be characterized as `an appropriate application of ingenuity'. Whether the result is a quick-and-dirty patchwork job or a carefully crafted work of art, you have to admire the cleverness that went into it." If you will please note the "quick-and-dirty patchwork" portion of this definition, that in my mind is exactly what the recovery Apollo 13 was a series of quick and dirty fixes. Yes it is true the mission was a failure in the sense that they went with the mission to land on the moon and failed to do that, however the mission was a success in the sense that a group of people managed to think far enouth 'outside of the box' that in a very short amount of time they fixed problems with very few resources and without being on the same planet as the problem at the time. That is a success and a truely great hack.
I think they agree that MS is a Monopoly, but they don't think it is an illegal one. There is a diffrence.
This could help explain what the hell my cat is always watching.
As much as I like that idea I can't see it happening and one of them will eventualy win and we will almost be back where we started
The question as I see it is not if MS should be broken up, but rather how? This is not like a telephone co or an oil co where you can just break the company into several companies that do the same thing. This is a new type of Trust and if MS is broken up by product then we will just have several smaller monopolys.