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[ILUG] Dell on Slashdot

[ILUG] Dell on Slashdot

Smelly Pooh plop at redbrick.dcu.ie
Thu Nov 18 14:54:16 GMT 1999


In reply to Colin Whittaker's flatulent wordings, 
> Smelly Pooh stated the following on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:46:50PM +0000 :
> > In reply to Martin Donlon's flatulent wordings, 
> > > Woo! Baton down the hatches. The Irish Times is on Slashdot with an
> > > article on Dell, Limerick (we didn't do it).
> > 
> > In all fairness, how did they calculate the cost of possible viral infection
> > to 12,000 computers to be 14 million?  That's more than the cost of the actual
> > computers
> 
> the cost of havin 3,400 people in a factiory not making computers.

Even if these 3,400 people were being paid an average of about 100 quid a day
that'll still amount to less than 1 million between the 2 days they were
supposedly stopped for (assuming they were even being paid for not working)




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