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Comment Re:hmmm ... (Score 4, Interesting) 287

by Nijika (#19753901) Attached to: Dell Warns of Vista Upgrade Challenges
Or is it a hedge against a rush of demand with supply failing causing clients to go to other sources than Dell? Imagine you've got 1000000 computers and 2000000 sticks of 512MB RAM. Then comes Vista. That's an oversimplification, but I believe it's also quite valid. It would be better to stagger the upgrades than lose clients to other vendors that might have the supplies to serve demands faster.

Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies 868

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-sarbox dept.
Don420 writes "This morning the biggest corporate criminal in modern history, Kenneth Lay, died of a massive coronary before he could receive his sentence. Lay was found guilty of being in charge of the scheme that had many lose their live-savings through a scheme of complex offshore holdings and is to thank for our having to live with Sarbanes-Oxely." From the article: "Enron filed for bankruptcy in December 2001 after investigators found it had used partnerships to conceal more than $1 billion in debt and inflate profits. Enron's downfall cost 4,000 employees their jobs and many of them their life savings, and led to billions of dollars of losses for investors."

2.5" Drives On the Desktop 291

Posted by timothy from the when-big-sucks dept.
An anonymous reader points out an article on XYZ Computing exploring the use of a 2.5" notebook hard drive in a desktop computer. From the article: "The tradeoff for these qualities has always been limited capacities, high costs, and slow transfer rates, but a the recent progression in portable storage techology has changed the 2.5" drive greatly. We put the Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160GB SATA notebook drive in our test system and took it for a spin."
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Journal Journal: I am so very right.

Journal by Nijika
Sometimes I think I'm too harsh, or maybe I'm judging people unfairly when I hear incessant tales of particular job woe.

I seem to end up thinking "yo, don't like the job? Why are you sitting there then?" After that I think "well, maybe they're stuck." And then I think, "last time I was stuck, I got unstuck all by myself."

Ex-AppleCare Employee Describes Life Inside Apple 220

Posted by Zonk from the not-a-bad-gig-if-you-can-get-it dept.
ahknight writes "A former AppleCare employee writes about his time in Apple. From the article: 'I remember when I first started at Apple they had a picture in the training class of some guy in flip-flops, shorts, and a tropical shirt in a decorated cube with a goofy grin, the message being: it's casual. One fellow even went as far as pushing that to the reasonable limit by showing up to work every day for several months in a bathrobe and sandals (and shorts). I don't recall a word ever being said. I think he actually just gave up because no one said anything.'"
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Journal Journal: Wi-Fi Cameras? Not X10!

Journal by Nijika
Tom's Hardware guide has a write up on new Wi-Fi enabled cameras by Nikon and Kodak. Seems like it could either be a breakthrough feature or a very, very silly feature. Personally I can wait to plug in to get my pics, but that's just me.

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