1336 - Slashdot User

The "Tennis Shoe Test" 0

Submitted by 1336 on Wednesday January 09 2008, @06:02AM

1336 writes "Its late May, 1966 and the "first fully-assembled, 363-foot tall Saturn V moon rocket" and its attendant scientists are stuck inside because of bad weather. So when an "ex-German scientist" gets a wacky idea to test the giant rocket's "system structural mechanics" and the other bored scientists are eager to give it a go, first with their feet and then also with a rope, "Really, what possibly could go wrong?" "What happened next may never have been known — let alone believed — had a long-lost film clip not surfaced" Hilarity and a cover-up follow! (Links Coralized)"

Dells: choose wisely and save 25% with Ubuntu

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on Friday May 25 2007, @04:21AM

1336 writes "Yesterday's article erroneously reported that the Ubuntu systems Dell would be selling at "little or no price differential" (note in the comments to the referenced article that the savings for using Ubuntu on equivalent hardware was $50-$100 US off the base system). I just discovered however that for the Dimension E520 vs E520N, if you select "No Monitor" in the options, the price difference jumps from $80 to $140. For such inexpensive systems, that represents just over a 25% savings by selecting Ubuntu instead of Windows ($549 vs $409). At that kind of discount, would you consider Ubuntu for yourself or others (e.g. relatives) even if you hadn't before? Can Microsoft effectively compete in the low-end market?"