Hmm. I don't know, then. Maybe it's because Dell can choose from more vendors, because they don't have to worry about drivers as much. If it's not that, I'm stumped.
What do you expect them to do? They make most of their money from hardware sales. They can't afford to give away that part of their business to the clone makers.
I mean, I would be as happy as anyone if I could run Mac OS X on a cheap Athlon box, but that's just not financially realistic.
Think of it this way: people who buy RAM at those outrageous prices are subsidized Apple's hardware for the benefit of people like you and me, who are perfectly capable of buying such hardware from third parties.
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The safest way to go is probably to grab fink and use that to build lynx. Although I was able to build lynx2-8-4 standalone, I'm now using lynx2.8.3rel1.1 with ssl, built with fink.
Dell is able to react quickly to market movements because they have a very small inventory. When a component becomes cheaper, as soon as they get rid of their inventory, they can profitably reduce their prices. My guess is that Apple's inventory, relative to their total sales, is larger.
Dell is sort of famous for their small-inventory strategy.
Nope, I thought you worked for Focal. I work for Panix, which uses Focal for our dialups and now for our customers' DSL as well. Focal just lit up my CO for ADSL, so hopefully I'll have fast internet access again sometime before I'm dead.
When you're rendering stuff to be shown later (i.e. non-real-time rendering), you can usually distribute the task among multiple machines without too much pain. I agree with you that there are times and places for the fastest processors, but I don't think that non-real-time image rendering is a good example of that.
It's hard to prove a negative. The PTO is supposed to do some research to see if they can find prior art, but when it comes to software, they don't, even when to do so would apparently be quite trivial.
There are degrees, too. What about someone who tells you exactly which man page(s) they would examine?
I once was asked "how long before BIND's resolver times out?" and hauled out my copy of _DNS and BIND_... I got the job, but I would have been better off without it, as it turned out.
I'm actually not looking to hire anyone at all. I was just so intrigued by the posts in the hiring-a-programmer thread that I wanted to find out how people around here interview sysadmins.
Glancing at the parts of the booklet that are online, I'm quite impressed. The approach seems to be holistic rather than reductionistic, which suits me (and apparently many other slashdotters as well). Thanks for the link.
The bogosity meter just pegged. How can someone size partitions if they don't know what the machine's going to be used for? Do you size/var the same for a workstation and a busy mail server?
You like US sovereignty, huh? Do you know anything about the World Trade Organization? Did you know that foreign corporations can sue us if they don't like our environmental regulations -- and force us to change them? In fact, it's already happening. And the Bush administration is all for it.
The health care industry here is *very* profitable, think about how interested they are in having you believe that the way we do things is the only way.
This is so full of misinformation, I hardly know where to start.
Walnut Creek's relationship with FreeBSD was taken over by BSDi and now by Wind River.
FreeBSD's plans for fine-grained SMP go back before the BSDi relationship. BSDi ideas have been used to expedite the development process, but BSDi code is not being used wholesale.
I don't think very much of Linux comes from BSD any more.
I don't think there's a true sentence in your post, except for the first one.
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Hmm. I don't know, then. Maybe it's because Dell can choose from more vendors, because they don't have to worry about drivers as much. If it's not that, I'm stumped.
The apology has that forced sound of someone who doesn't understand or doesn't want to understand why their actions were wrong.
Plus it contains grammatical mistakes, which looks kind of bad when your job title includes "editor".
This is changed in Mac OS 10.1. Take a look at Apple's 10.1 page, and search for the string "preferable preferences".
> a mix of BSD and NeXT
NeXT's kernel was already BSD/Mach.
What do you expect them to do? They make most of their money from hardware sales. They can't afford to give away that part of their business to the clone makers.
I mean, I would be as happy as anyone if I could run Mac OS X on a cheap Athlon box, but that's just not financially realistic.
Think of it this way: people who buy RAM at those outrageous prices are subsidized Apple's hardware for the benefit of people like you and me, who are perfectly capable of buying such hardware from third parties.
The safest way to go is probably to grab fink and use that to build lynx. Although I was able to build lynx2-8-4 standalone, I'm now using lynx2.8.3rel1.1 with ssl, built with fink.
Dell is able to react quickly to market movements because they have a very small inventory. When a component becomes cheaper, as soon as they get rid of their inventory, they can profitably reduce their prices. My guess is that Apple's inventory, relative to their total sales, is larger.
Dell is sort of famous for their small-inventory strategy.
The troll market.
HTH, HAND.
Nope, I thought you worked for Focal. I work for Panix, which uses Focal for our dialups and now for our customers' DSL as well. Focal just lit up my CO for ADSL, so hopefully I'll have fast internet access again sometime before I'm dead.
No injunction would be necessary to allow Microsoft to release Windows XP, of course.
I bet I know who you work for, because if I'm right, my employer is a satisfied customer.
Though the DSL rollout has been a little bit painful.
Confirm my guess: did you just light up NYCKNYBR?
You make good points. My only quibble is about disks: I've seen render farms where the storage isn't local to the rendering machines.
But space, licensing, support, these are all real concerns -- power too.
When you're rendering stuff to be shown later (i.e. non-real-time rendering), you can usually distribute the task among multiple machines without too much pain. I agree with you that there are times and places for the fastest processors, but I don't think that non-real-time image rendering is a good example of that.
The cost of having an employee is often estimated as double their salary.
It's hard to prove a negative. The PTO is supposed to do some research to see if they can find prior art, but when it comes to software, they don't, even when to do so would apparently be quite trivial.
No, because you just told him the netmask.
... I got the job, but I would have been better off without it, as it turned out.
There are degrees, too. What about someone who tells you exactly which man page(s) they would examine?
I once was asked "how long before BIND's resolver times out?" and hauled out my copy of _DNS and BIND_
I'm actually not looking to hire anyone at all. I was just so intrigued by the posts in the hiring-a-programmer thread that I wanted to find out how people around here interview sysadmins.
I might lose out, I don't play a lot of games at all. But I bet we'd have a good time discussing why I prefer OmniWeb to both Netscape and IE.
Glancing at the parts of the booklet that are online, I'm quite impressed. The approach seems to be holistic rather than reductionistic, which suits me (and apparently many other slashdotters as well). Thanks for the link.
The bogosity meter just pegged. How can someone size partitions if they don't know what the machine's going to be used for? Do you size /var the same for a workstation and a busy mail server?
This is clearly due to stupid accounting practices.
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You like US sovereignty, huh? Do you know anything about the World Trade Organization? Did you know that foreign corporations can sue us if they don't like our environmental regulations -- and force us to change them? In fact, it's already happening. And the Bush administration is all for it.
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The Canadians I know say otherwise.
The health care industry here is *very* profitable, think about how interested they are in having you believe that the way we do things is the only way.
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This is so full of misinformation, I hardly know where to start.
Walnut Creek's relationship with FreeBSD was taken over by BSDi and now by Wind River.
FreeBSD's plans for fine-grained SMP go back before the BSDi relationship. BSDi ideas have been used to expedite the development process, but BSDi code is not being used wholesale.
I don't think very much of Linux comes from BSD any more.
I don't think there's a true sentence in your post, except for the first one.
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