I agree. The support wiki is full of holes but it seems to be getting filled out.
The great advantage I see in the buy-one-give-one program was to get it in the hands of people in the FOSS community that can find such weaknesses and fix them. We can support OLPC by developing applications and providing input to the project.
But the hardware vendor has to support management and control software in it's hardware. The hard separation between hardware and software is much more fuzzy now. They must cooperate with the software vendors to make sure their hardware works with software. (If for no other reason than to sell to the software company.)
BTW. Dell does do consulting and integration. The fact that you don't know about it is evidence of the poor job they have done marketing the fact. Or perhaps it reflects the poor job they have done in executing the task.
The real reason the music industry is dying is because of the crap they have been putting out. Why buy an entire CD when only one track is worth listening to.
Morris Kline's Calculus, An Intuitive and Physical Approach. ISBN 0-486-40453-6 From Dover Books is an excellent start on calculus. It has a CD with all of the answers worked out that is available free on-line.
I had mine done 5 yrs ago. It's a smart idea to have one done at a time. It's hard to manage with both hands in splints. The hardest part was the pain pills were in a child safe container.
As far as computers causing CTS, the neurology tech made a good living off of MS employees. The Neurologist was right across the street from MS.
I have been evaluating Avast for several months now on my Windows machine. It came with a Norton package. I update and do a through scan with Norton at least once a week and have never had it report a virus. Recently I ran Avast and found the WIN32:AgentFOS[TRI]. When I check on why Avast didn't find the virus when it infected my system I found that Norton's was active. Which antivirus is correct? Why didn't Norton's find the virus?
Others might have said this already but one of the advantages MS has with the current model in the US is that it is harder to bring a class action suit against MS because they didn't sell you their product. You have to go after the reseller.
This was not a short term goal The first thing the old CEO did when he came to Dell several years ago was to model Dell's Tech support after Gateway's. Gateway was Dell's biggest threat at the time and had really bad tech support. But the bean counters looked at what Dell's tech support was costing and salivated over cutting it to the bone thinking the cost would go strait to the bottom line. It worked for a while until they applied the "faster, cheaper, better" philosophy to their hardware with an emphasis on cheaper. Then as products failed and tech support calls went up there was no one to take the call.
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I agree. The support wiki is full of holes but it seems to be getting filled out. The great advantage I see in the buy-one-give-one program was to get it in the hands of people in the FOSS community that can find such weaknesses and fix them. We can support OLPC by developing applications and providing input to the project.
Now we will know where you live.
I had to fly 1800 miles to attend a party at the hq thrown for all of the field personnel to reward them for being away from home so much.
Or if you live on an island with a chimp.
But the hardware vendor has to support management and control software in it's hardware. The hard separation between hardware and software is much more fuzzy now. They must cooperate with the software vendors to make sure their hardware works with software. (If for no other reason than to sell to the software company.) BTW. Dell does do consulting and integration. The fact that you don't know about it is evidence of the poor job they have done marketing the fact. Or perhaps it reflects the poor job they have done in executing the task.
Interestingly, that used to be the Dell model.
The real reason the music industry is dying is because of the crap they have been putting out. Why buy an entire CD when only one track is worth listening to.
Morris Kline's Calculus, An Intuitive and Physical Approach. ISBN 0-486-40453-6 From Dover Books is an excellent start on calculus. It has a CD with all of the answers worked out that is available free on-line.
I had mine done 5 yrs ago. It's a smart idea to have one done at a time. It's hard to manage with both hands in splints. The hardest part was the pain pills were in a child safe container. As far as computers causing CTS, the neurology tech made a good living off of MS employees. The Neurologist was right across the street from MS.
I have been evaluating Avast for several months now on my Windows machine. It came with a Norton package. I update and do a through scan with Norton at least once a week and have never had it report a virus. Recently I ran Avast and found the WIN32:AgentFOS[TRI]. When I check on why Avast didn't find the virus when it infected my system I found that Norton's was active. Which antivirus is correct? Why didn't Norton's find the virus?
I hope they are better that their hard drives.
Maybe they can bring Xenix back.
There's so many to choose from.
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New computer simulations indicate that supercomputers are a major source of global warming.
Others might have said this already but one of the advantages MS has with the current model in the US is that it is harder to bring a class action suit against MS because they didn't sell you their product. You have to go after the reseller.
MS is trying to get all of its arm twisting done now while they still have a compliant Department of Justice.
Remember the Fully blown Radio Shack Model 16! Maxed out with 48K of RAM and Two Floppy drives for only $14,000.
Isn't this the same group that brought us cold fusion?
You could buy Avenue A for a song and get change.
Buzzword bingo anybody?
Dell's new motto "We're no worse any anybody else."
The State of NY is one of Dell's biggest government customers.
This was not a short term goal The first thing the old CEO did when he came to Dell several years ago was to model Dell's Tech support after Gateway's. Gateway was Dell's biggest threat at the time and had really bad tech support. But the bean counters looked at what Dell's tech support was costing and salivated over cutting it to the bone thinking the cost would go strait to the bottom line. It worked for a while until they applied the "faster, cheaper, better" philosophy to their hardware with an emphasis on cheaper. Then as products failed and tech support calls went up there was no one to take the call.