I don't think I'd go any lower than 2GB with a decent video card for Win7. There's affordable corporate desktops in the Optiplex line with good Gold-level Warranties available from Dell in that vein.
Is this really necessary for a Windows 7 rollout with corporate desktops? Most machines are already overpowered for the average user using Office and what not.
I'd think the cost per machine for good 3-4 year warranties would be more important. At least, it has been in my experience.
I could see doing something like this just for developer machines, but general roll-out? I dunno. Seems like you'd just compare pricing and go with the one that makes the most budget sense.
Apple's system isn't real-time like that for registrations (assuming you even got applecare, if not there's no reason to even know your address). This is plausible for purchases on different days, though. CC clearance is likely real-time through their merchant account, but actual charge processing is still, AFAIK, batched.
Eh, if you're coming in to buy an iPad the first week, you'll be back. Apple knows the early adopter personality pretty well at this point. They know you'll wait and you'll want it even more by then, too.
Apple's system registration system isn't realtime (though their receipt processing to email system is). If you buy them all through the same names on different cars on one day, chances are Apple won't even know until days later.
Not at all. They use "traditional operating system" to mean something (even though they're very obviously trying to avoid saying "without Windows"). I want to know why they used that term instead of the plainly obvious, obfuscated meaning.
While true, my first Internet access was actually a public access telnet prompt I found listed in a local computer paper's BBS list. Used it for years before I had the money to pony up for a real ISP (and a second phone line:D ).
I never supported the position that words don't have power.
However, the word "fuck", out of context, means nothing. Yet, simply uttering it causes all sorts of consternation. This is an indication that someone believes that the combination of letters/sounds has an intrinsic power which, in turn, suggests magical thinking.
I suspect that you had a problem comprehending my post, and suggest you read it again.
P.S. - The good thing about swearing is that it increases the range of expression in language.
Can somebody explain to me what exactly is bad about swearing?
While words have power, there's some non-small number of folks who believe that words have intrinsic power. As in, for some reason, a particular combination of sounds has some inherent ability to produce effects.
I attribute this to magical thinking, frankly. Believing that profanity is inherently bad is akin to believing that if I say the right faux-latin words and wave a stick at you, I can produce some effect. (Hell, the alternative word "cursing" plays right into that hypothesis)
Show me where I said I don't believe BP would lie about this. (Oh, right, you can't, because you're talking out your ass)
Also show me where its "confirmed" that 70,000 barrels a day are leaking. The estimates are all over the place, depending on what 3rd party analysis you want to believe.
You seem very invested in me being wrong and this being a disaster of geological proportions. You should step back and examine your motivations for wanting it to be so.
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I don't think I'd go any lower than 2GB with a decent video card for Win7. There's affordable corporate desktops in the Optiplex line with good Gold-level Warranties available from Dell in that vein.
Is this really necessary for a Windows 7 rollout with corporate desktops? Most machines are already overpowered for the average user using Office and what not.
I'd think the cost per machine for good 3-4 year warranties would be more important. At least, it has been in my experience.
I could see doing something like this just for developer machines, but general roll-out? I dunno. Seems like you'd just compare pricing and go with the one that makes the most budget sense.
I'm not sure what the phrase "legitimate customer" means.
Nah, you can just give mules Visa gift cards and give them a little money out of your profit margin to buy them for you.
Sure, it makes it harder, but that only stops the small fries from doing it. Anyone with any eye for systematic eBay markups will get around it.
Apple's system isn't real-time like that for registrations (assuming you even got applecare, if not there's no reason to even know your address). This is plausible for purchases on different days, though. CC clearance is likely real-time through their merchant account, but actual charge processing is still, AFAIK, batched.
Eh, if you're coming in to buy an iPad the first week, you'll be back. Apple knows the early adopter personality pretty well at this point. They know you'll wait and you'll want it even more by then, too.
Apple's system registration system isn't realtime (though their receipt processing to email system is). If you buy them all through the same names on different cars on one day, chances are Apple won't even know until days later.
Yeah so you use mules with Visa gift cards. There's always ways around things like this.
You can buy AppleCare after the fact for up to a year, IIRC.
Besides, if "Apple's loyal customers" weren't willing to pay just about any price for the iPad, the eBay sellers wouldn't have a market.
But you fail to see the point. The phrase "without a traditional operating system" is very different than "without the traditional operating system."
I'm curious as to why they even bothered to say anything but "without Windows" when they clearly meant "without Windows".
Instant on... It's on a chip, not the drive. It's paired down and loads quick but would be a pain to use all day for all your computing needs.
You can embed many operating systems (including Windows). Does that make them then "non-traditional"?
Not at all. They use "traditional operating system" to mean something (even though they're very obviously trying to avoid saying "without Windows"). I want to know why they used that term instead of the plainly obvious, obfuscated meaning.
An interesting idea (and so far the most intelligent reply to my question).
Obviously. Just wondering why they even bothered with the pretense, since the euphemism is semantically problematic.
How is that OS different than a "traditional" operating system?
Sure. However, "traditional" implies there is some category of "non-traditional" that carries with it some quality that sets it apart.
What does that even mean?
I think you underestimate my mouse-fu.
If you haven't noticed, there are a few things on Slashdot that get you automatically up voted or down voted.
Sucking dick at the temple of the CLI is one thing that gets you upvoted automatically.
Supporting the idea of copyright in the "digital age" is a one-way ticket to "-1: Troll"
Typing 'rsync -av /home/user /mnt/external' takes longer than drag & drop?
Unless I have a *really* big monitor? Yes, it takes longer.
While true, my first Internet access was actually a public access telnet prompt I found listed in a local computer paper's BBS list. Used it for years before I had the money to pony up for a real ISP (and a second phone line :D ).
I never supported the position that words don't have power.
However, the word "fuck", out of context, means nothing. Yet, simply uttering it causes all sorts of consternation. This is an indication that someone believes that the combination of letters/sounds has an intrinsic power which, in turn, suggests magical thinking.
I suspect that you had a problem comprehending my post, and suggest you read it again.
P.S. - The good thing about swearing is that it increases the range of expression in language.
Can somebody explain to me what exactly is bad about swearing?
While words have power, there's some non-small number of folks who believe that words have intrinsic power. As in, for some reason, a particular combination of sounds has some inherent ability to produce effects.
I attribute this to magical thinking, frankly. Believing that profanity is inherently bad is akin to believing that if I say the right faux-latin words and wave a stick at you, I can produce some effect. (Hell, the alternative word "cursing" plays right into that hypothesis)
Yeah there's some horrendous cosplaying, but the cosplaying that is good, is really good.
This will turn out to be the worst disaster in history.
And this is why I disregard folks of your alarmist nature. Certainty in situations that are uncertain is, at best, suspicious.
Show me where I said I don't believe BP would lie about this. (Oh, right, you can't, because you're talking out your ass)
Also show me where its "confirmed" that 70,000 barrels a day are leaking. The estimates are all over the place, depending on what 3rd party analysis you want to believe.
You seem very invested in me being wrong and this being a disaster of geological proportions. You should step back and examine your motivations for wanting it to be so.