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You can do the conversion yourself here.

It's around $155 per day...or $40,300 per year (based on a 5-day work week)...according to Xe.Com.

Typical every geek in the UK will now be ordering one and VAT man will be getting his share, once the volumes of direct imports go up.

Typical every geek in the UK will now be ordering one and VAT man will be getting his share, once the volumes of direct imports go up.

14,800 Yen = US$ 139.49

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

$139.491 USD according to xe.com or $181.031 CAD for us up north. (Cdn Dollar really is getting stronger, I was expecting over $200)

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So, why are they ripping off the British buyers, then? According to this, they're charging 0.99UKP per song, when they should be charging 0.74UKP. That's a 25% markup. What's the explanation for a UK company charging substantially more in their home market, than they're charging elsewhere?

Nope, your currency conversion's backwards. Canadian dollars are worth less than American ones... should be $US 4.93, according to the Universal Currency Converter. That said, I don't know what the going rate for electricity here in this part (Texas) of the US is, so perhaps this conversion won't be so helpful.

Depends what you think is "real money".. But this might "help" you:

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

The fact that Live for Speed is a driving sim means that most, if not all of the features of the game have been done before. Having said that, very nearly everything is done well, especially the actual physics engine and the online play. The most innovative thing about this game though, is the distribution model. You download the demo, which is a fairly hefty 140MB file. This starts to look smaller and smaller as you realise that first of all, the demo gives you 4 variations on the track that's included and 3 cars. You can also play it online. Then, once you're hooked and you decide to shell out the GBP12.00 you get another 5 cars and three tracks, each tracks having multiple variations like the demo track. Patches and bug fixes are regular, the developers are active in the forums, which is good, considering the huge community that's built up around the game. The money that I and many others paid for the first installment (S1) is funding the development of the second installment which I will purchase the moment it becomes available. This incremental release effectively means that the game's communtity gets a say in what gets included in the game. This is only my personal opinion, and you could question my lack of bias (I have no vested interest in the game other than as an enthusiastic player and member of the community, but I unashamedly love the game) but the quality of the game, the efficiency and novelty of the distribution method and the fact that that distribution method was dictated by the fact that the developers (all three of them) didn't want their concept diluted in any way by a publishing house, makes this game something that I would imagine more than a few Slashdotters being interested in.

Check http://www.xe.com for exchange rates...

According to The Australian, this is "part of a coordinated national approach by the Democrats, which has seen similar legislation introduced in South Australia and federally and under consideration in [New South Wales] (whose capitol is Sydney) - calls for government to "consider" the purchase of open source software in procurement plans." The article also mentions that "the original version of the bill would have required the ACT to 'prefer open source software' but that was of course neutered. Appearently in the last six months alone the ACT has spent $15 million Australian ($11 mil US) (Converter) on Microsoft software and support for the next three years.

The job pays 17.00 to 19.00 Canadian dollars per hour.

That's 13.05 to 14.58 US dollars per hour.

(No this is not a cheap anti-Canada joke. Currency conversion is taken from here, the first Google lsiting for currency conversion.

Actually, Accoring to the currency converter I use, it's 33.75 USD. You americans should stop being so arrogant and notice what's happening with your currency. Click here for a nice graph of what's happening with the Canadian Dollar

1,500,000.00 AUD = 1,057,049.72 USD.

A million dollars in Australia is still a lot of money in anyone's language.

The average wage in Australia in 1999-2000 was $33350 p.a.. So someone with a million bucks can do quite well for themselves if they invest sensibly.

This guy has managed to make himself a nice little living out of his scams.

37.99 BPS (british pounds sterling?)

Nitpick: it's GBP, Great Britain Pounds. The codes are defined in ISO 4217. (They usually start with the same code as the ISO 3166 country code, which is GB for the UK.)

Actually, according to xe.com, $1 U.S. is about $0.75 Canadian.

Live mid-market rates as of 2003.10.15 14:20:31 GMT.

0.99 CAD = 0.748311 USD

1 CAD = 0.755870 USD 1 USD = 1.32298 CAD

Actually the Euro is worth more than the USD. 1 EUR = 1.17342 USD

Alternatively, try any online currency converter.

I'd assume 190 units of some superpower's currency is worth about 116 pounds sterling. Dollars? Euros?

So I go check xe.com's converter, and 116 GBP is in fact close to 190 USD.

6 Civil Special Court of the River determined that the companies change the copy and pay indemnity of R$ 1,000 to the consumer. EMI already appealed.

hmm brazillian $1,000 dollars is what was awarded
using this convertor i get
345.639 USD

According to the constitution, however... $1,000,000 should be equal to 28,571 ounces of gold... notice the 10:1 descrepancy? Someone's been ripped off.

--Mike--

Yeah, yeah, I know... off topic

The administration is currently hijacking the Iraqi oil in an attempt to stop this trend, but it doesn't look good in the long run. The occupation costs, and long term ill-will that results from Pax Americana will eventually take us out, in a similar manner to that of the Romans, who's history we seem to want to repeat.

--Mike--

Actually, at the current exchange rate, it would be $18,345.61 for us savages. :)

The euro is more or less equivalent to a dollar... generally worth a bit more than a dollar...he's talking about a tax of $8.86 at today's wholesale exchange rate.

And before anyone else asks, that's CDN$12.78, A$14.24, and £5.56... other conversions available here.

It's priced at £1000 (plus tax) - that's something like $1500, I think

The £1000 price includes vat (sales tax) which is £851 ex vat. But although the exchange rate says that £1000 is US$1570 (according to xe.com,) typically something sold for £1000 will be sold in the US for about $1000 (or slightly more.) Basically, an example of Rip-Off Britain.

The listed price is 145,000JPY, which equals $1,213..
Nice if you can afford it I suppose. I wonder if there will be restrictions on exporting it to the US.

If he makes the film, he'll be making $17 million not $11 million

The figure is correct, the figure is given in British Pounds. £11M == $17,229,644.61 USD

Where are you getting your exchange rates from? According to the currency converter I usually use it's just over 17 million USD...

From xe.com

Just so others don't have to look it up.

I was wondering how much that really is. Wandering over to XE.COM, one US Dollar is equal to 8.9 South Africa Rand. The article's writing style seems a bit odd to me, but maybe that's how reporting is done in South Africa. Quoting....

The move should save at least R3bn a year, says agency chief information officer Mojalefa Moseki.

Now I'm wondering if "R3bn" is (roughly) equivilant to 337 million US dollars. Suppose the average PC gets $600(usd) installed on it, in windows, office, and a couple other apps. I just pulled that $600 out of a hat, but it seems a reasonably conservative (high) estimate of the amount of proprietary software you'd purchase per machine, on average.

That'd put their annual software purchasing at (approx) 561600 PCs per year, or 1.12 million PCs in use on a 2-year Microsoft "software assurance" upgrade cycle.

Is that reasonable, or did I add something up wrong?

Being Canadian and a smartass, I appreciate a good joke. I find that the funniest things are those that are closer to reality. In this light, I am copying an earlier post related to the exchange rate.

The current exchange rate of $10,000.00 CDN is $6,376.33 USD courtesy of this link.

Now that's Funny!

The current exchange rate of $10,000.00 CDN is $6,376.33 USD courtesy of this site

Here in the UK, most new CD's cost £15-£20, which (according to the Universal Currency Converter) is about $24-$32 at the moment.

We get it worse over here by far, and the RIAA and MP3 aren't in the news nearly as much as over there.

I may be accused of whining / trolling etc, but some things just get blown out of proportion.

okay; mybad...I just did a really quick google search and didn't bother to verify my results...the offending site

A more correct answer (derived from your numbers) would be 61.01132370167903162827020695041, or more like "about $61.01". Again, I appoligize for the error.

According to the UCC, it is worth 60$ : a bit pricey for a mouse.

at USD$390.04 (according to this page) it seems a little steep, but I would buy one. Does anyone know if the price in Euros means I'm going to have to order it from overseas (I live in the US)

make-your-own-$50,000,000-animated-epic dept.

roblimo must be in london working in pounds, not dollars. the total budget for the LOTR series was around $270 mil. i'm assuming since they filmed almost the entire trilogy without interruption that each film could safely be said to cost 1/3 of the budget. so this should be from the $90,000,000-animated-epic department (if you don't believe my conversions, check for yourself)

yeah, i guess you could say this is a troll... a +5 funny troll! :)

I spent a bit of time looking for quotes on Microsoft Software in India. I finally found something. Let's say you want to buy Microsoft Office XP Professional. That's 21000 rupies. Convert, and you've got 435 USD - while Microsoft USA think 580 USD is what US customers should pay. If we use the McDonalds scale, we can compare US to Mumbai, India. Mumbai is a large city, so we'll assume it's relatively expensive. In McDonalds in Mumbai - 49 Rupies for a Chicken McGrill value meal. That's about a buck, give or take. You'll need to check your local McDonald's to compare. I bet the India one is about the third the price. So - with all due respect, you appear to be wrong. We could of course cooperate on a more thorough comparative study if you wish.

THe same %age of /. readers who REALLY understand how to use the web...

Conversion

According to the Universal Currency Convertor, AU$800 is about US$443.

100k in Euro is actually more than 100k in US
100,000.00 EUR Euro = 101,421.51 USD

try XE.com

> depending on the price the gas company takes (the tax is a fixed amount pr litre not a % of the cost)
I filled up yesterday, at about UK£0.79 a litre (which, according to xe.com is about 9.08 Kroner). How does that compare with Norway?

> if the taxes had been used as originally intended we could have had nice roads and good public transportation
You're quite right. But that's quite a turnaround from your previous position of "Building roads cost money, and I don't think it's fair that people that choose not to use a car should pay for them through their taxes".

The best currency converter, and easier to remember than slashdot.org: http://www.xe.com/.

Currently, $20000 AU is approximately $11500 AU

A better way: Universal currency converter

There was no such law. Resellers were dropping the XBox price and MS forced them up to the suggested retail price. Here is what happened:

At the launch day the big chains dropped the price from 479 Euro (419.63 US) to 399 Euro (349.52 US) for two days, which resulted in utter chaos, because smaller resellers were unable to go that low. (and most of them bought their boxes from the bigger chains - "Media Markt" and "Saturn" - for reselling) The price went up again soon after that though.

Here's the numbers from MCV-online [German]:

Germany - 10.000 units in the first three days (compared to this, the PS2 sold 70.000 units in Germany after two days when it was launched in November 2001)

France - less than 10.000 units in the first three day.

Great Britain - 48.000 units, the best results in Europe.

Microsoft only verified the numbers for GB, but the method for surveying them was the same in all three countries.

There was no such law. Resellers were dropping the XBox price and MS forced them up to the suggested retail price. Here is what happened:

At the launch day the big chains dropped the price from 479 Euro (419.63 US) to 399 Euro (349.52 US) for two days, which resulted in utter chaos, because smaller resellers were unable to go that low. (and most of them bought their boxes from the bigger chains - "Media Markt" and "Saturn" - for reselling) The price went up again soon after that though.

Here's the numbers from MCV-online [German]:

Germany - 10.000 units in the first three days (compared to this, the PS2 sold 70.000 units in Germany after two days when it was launched in November 2001)

France - less than 10.000 units in the first three day.

Great Britain - 48.000 units, the best results in Europe.

Microsoft only verified the numbers for GB, but the method for surveying them was the same in all three countries.

A 40 gig neo MP3 player goes for $479 US. According to an online currency converter, that's $759 Cdn. The tax would be $40 * 21 = 840.

Of course you could also buy the player with no hard drive at all and then buy a 40 gig hard drive separately. Presumably then, the tax would be nothing. Odd law.