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To: Gottfried who wrote (564)	3/1/1999 11:46:00 PM
From: shaanxi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1989

DD sector QNTM, HTCH both are up a lot today. do you guys think next day will be SEG's turn.

To: Gottfried who wrote (564)	3/2/1999 1:27:00 AM
From: manohar kanuri	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1989

If "snarf up" means "acquire" [?]: why buy a cow when milk is cheap and diary farmers compete to sell it to you? Good question. I'm not sure, except ...where's the beef? Or something to that effect. The initial speculation centred around which logical direction Dell might branch out in if it was to give some oomph to its growth rate apart from the foray into the corporate market. I guess a DD maker would make sense if it was significantly accretive to earnings over the long haul. Keeping that and your point about milking cows in mind, the question becomes - can Dell replicate aspects of its business model to any significant extent with a DD maker and wring something out of it? More generally, I'm not sure how far you can carry a JIT/BTO model over into something like DDs - I suppose it can be done to a significant degree and the inventory problem would sorta solve itself if it were. I guess you'd have to re-engineer whole factories to build in stop-go capabilities? Is it do-able and at what cost? How much would that shift add to the bottom line? Or, subtract. OT Snarf! Yes, I was using it to suggest/mean 'acquire'. I looked up every dictionary I have and even some I don't have (can we say Webster's online) and drew a blank - including Mrs Byrne and Partridge. But here's the mental picture I have of the word - a pig just off an enforced diet diving into its pail of bran mash (or whatever it is that pigs eat... other pigs in the UK? :)...diving, as I was saying, into a pail of bran mash and slurping/snorting/sucking the thing up like a combination ant-eater and noisy, grunting suction pump. That noise that it makes - now that would be "snarf". Stick your face into a bowl of porridge and try to use your mouth and nose as a combination straw ....you get the idea. I'm guessing I picked up this word from someone in the farm country upstate or the midwest. Minnesota? Sounds about right - they've got loads of weird words there that the rest of the world never finds out about. Must be the cold winters spent indoors doing nothing. And 'snarf' has a germanic ring to it. Either that or from some book of children's stories. Sent out a couple of emails - I'll nail this yet. I did get a few hits on AltaVista - one related to a javascript that runs out and gathers directory tree info and dumps it in your root directory. Some Linux hits in a similar vein that I didn't bother to follow up on. So the general sense is pretty much along the lines of the pig motif. Origins would be nice. Will try bilingual dictionaries tomorrow. And I've taken more space and spent more time on one word than the real, substantive question of why Dell would prefer milk to the whole cow. Oh well.... tells you something I guess... <G> Good night and all the best.... mano EDIT: Then again why put off for tomorrow etc. ...struck gold so to speak and here it is: dictionary.com*&term=snarf