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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (45762)	2/4/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 132070

10% today, 40% tonight ;-)

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (45762)	2/5/1999 6:53:00 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 132070

Michael, >>>The announcement about Gateway buying the AMD chip has been around for more than a week. On all the wires.<<< Can any red blooded Amurrican buy one of these Gateway computers with an AMD inside? I don't think so. Gateway doesn't think they are good enough for Amurricans to buy. <ggg> >>>Dell is the last Intel only shop, and that domino will soon fall.<<< So what? You can buy a generic cola in any supermarket for 1/2 the price of the real stuff. Outside of you and Skeeter, who else would touch the stuff? Not even Colby. You think she would let her kids touch that stuff? She'd sooner let them get near toxic waste. Same thing for cheap computers - nothing but the best for Colby, her kids, and any other decent All-American patriot. I think most of you on this thread are unrepentent ex-Marxists and are trying to bury America by other means.<sheepish g> Regards, Mary

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (45762)	2/5/1999 8:07:00 AM
From: Earlie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

MB: Here's a little tale with a lesson about doing one's homework. A certain company, keen to enter the bottom end of it's addressed market, approached the supplier of a major component in its product line. The "certain company's" strategy was to threaten to switch to another supplier, well known to be selling its equivalent components at lower prices. "Certain company" threatens to switch unless supplier cuts prices to match those of its competitor. Supplier bends, but won't/can't go all the way. "OK, we're out of here" is "certain company's" response. Oh how the best laid plans of men aft go astray. Turns out alternative supplier is "production constrained", that is, it's already selling every single one of the components it can make. "Sorry, come see us in a few months. We're ramping production, so maybe then." Oh my. Talk about a nasty dilemma. (g) Best, Earlie