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To: chic_hearne who wrote (102767)	4/7/2000 12:32:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1575374

<it's the difference of waiting 13 minutes to 4 minutes to run a program.> Not much of a difference. Process of thinking, planning experiments, and evaluating the results takes usually much longer time, and that is the major cost of brains. If the productivity would depend solely on program run time, they can hire some dolt with high school level for $16,000/yr to do the job.

To: chic_hearne who wrote (102767)	4/7/2000 12:33:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575374

<You are completely contradicting yourself here!!!> Not at all! Read carefully what I say and you will see what I mean.

To: chic_hearne who wrote (102767)	4/7/2000 12:37:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575374

Chic, They pay an entry level person like me about $60,000 (including bonus). They could give me a $1500 computer, or a $3000 computer. In Silicon Valley, that would rent you half of a trailer and give you bus fare to the library for Internet access once a week. I take it that you live in a normal area of the country. Scumbria

To: chic_hearne who wrote (102767)	4/7/2000 1:36:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1575374

chic, The bean counters are watching, that's why corporations keep buying the best computers. My experience from a big corporation is that people making these decisions are clueless. They buy $5,000 notebook computers with the minimum amount of RAM, crippling it this way so that it would perform like a $2,000 computer, and if you asked for a RAM upgrade, you combined with 10 other people in the chain of command would bur $10,000 worth of potentially billable time approving a purchase of a $100 part. BTW, Dilbert (Scott Adams) is right on the money. Joe