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  1. Re:A new blackmarket... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Canada to Raise Tariffs on Recordable Media

    CLICK ME STUPID

  2. Re:Another similar, but better looking case by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Build Your Own Mini-Computer

    http://www.xe.com/ucc/ says it's 330 EUR or 300 US$.

  3. Re:$1800 Canadian or US dollars? by Maserati · · Score: 1 · on Time Canada Shows New iMac
    That'd have been the $1499 model, so these are (obviously) Canadian prices.


    XE's Currency Converter says $1299 Canadian is US$815. So the US price for the entry-level iMac stays at $799 and the high-end model with DVD burner would be $1800 Canadian or US$1099.


    This is what happens when you buy Superdrives and flatpanel displays in quantity.

  4. Re:Jingoism again? by csmiller · · Score: 1 · on International Space Station: Canada to the Rescue?

    From xe.com
    1 USD = 012.251 ZAR (South African Rand)
    1 USD = 128.094 JPY (Japaness Yen)
    1 USD = 001.109 EUR (Euro)
    1 USD = 000.687 GBP (Pounds Sterling)
    Damn /. doesnt support <PRE>
    Looks like the greenback isn't as strong as you think...
    just my tupence worth...

  5. Re:Dotster by Carlos+Laviola · · Score: 2 · on What to do when your registrar (NSI) ignores you?

    I have laviola.org registered at GANDI, a French registrar that is simply the cheapest I could find -- theyll charge you 12 euros a year (approx. 10.6 USD, according to XE.com's Universal Currency Converter).

    Notice that a friend of mine reported some trouble with them, with relation to GANDI supposedly transfering one domain without asking, thus resulting in lots of trouble to him, but I don't know if it was really their fault.

    In any case, you should check them out, at such low price.

  6. Re:Dotster by Carlos+Laviola · · Score: 2 · on What to do when your registrar (NSI) ignores you?

    I have laviola.org registered at GANDI, a French registrar that is simply the cheapest I could find -- theyll charge you 12 euros a year (approx. 10.6 USD, according to XE.com's Universal Currency Converter).

    Notice that a friend of mine reported some trouble with them, with relation to GANDI supposedly transfering one domain without asking, thus resulting in lots of trouble to him, but I don't know if it was really their fault.

    In any case, you should check them out, at such low price.

  7. Well, I looked at the exchange rate, and... by oliphaunt · · Score: 1 · on Honda's ASIMO A Few Steps Closer To Human
    from the original article...
    Among them is IBM Japan, which hired Asimo as a receptionist for an annual contract of 20 million yen ($166,200).


    Well, I looked at the exchange rate and now it looks more like $164,000

    that's still plenty of loot. If anybody reading this is in the market for a robot receptionist, but doesn't want to cough up 1.5 g's...for only 45,000 USD, I'd happily come to work wearing a bunch of cardboard boxes covered in tinfoil and talk in a funny voice.

    beedeebeedeebeedee!
  8. Re:Damn, that's cheap! by ender1598 · · Score: 1 · on Monster European Environmental Satellite

    According to www.xe.com 2.3 billion Euros is equal to about 2.02 billion US dollars.

  9. Takeda prize = $825,900 USD by Mike_L · · Score: 2, Informative · on Stallman, Torvalds, Sakamura win Takeda Prize

    From The Takeda Foundation: "Each award will be accompanied by a monetary prize of 100 million yen."
    The XE.com Universal Currency Converter yields these figures:

    100,000,000.00 Japan Yen = $825,900.067 United States Dollars

    This is $275,300 USD for each of the awardees.

  10. Re:What the quick blurb above doesn't say by ajuda · · Score: 2, Informative · on Stallman, Torvalds, Sakamura win Takeda Prize

    According to the universal currency converter (xe.com/ucc), 100 million yen is $824,744.81 US. Not bad at all.

  11. Re:Too few new features by TheBishop · · Score: 1 · on GeForce3 Titanium Reviews

    Check it out... The universal currency converter at http://www.xe.com/ucc/.

    1.00 CAD = 0.637566 USD. Thank you, have a nice day.

  12. Re:Exists all over europe by mutende · · Score: 1 · on Deutsche Telekom To Launch "MicroMoney"
    This system, also known as an "electronic wallet" is known all over Europe. Well, okay, sorry....I know it for two other countries, but I guess it exists in many other ones.

    You're right, it's been around in Denmark since 1991 under the name of Danmønt. I've tried it once and will never use it again. The lady at the till succeeded in convincing me that it was ever so handy and convenient, since with this card I never had to carry small change any more, and so I bought a card worth DKK 100.

    It turned out that the place that sold me the card didn't accept the card as valid payment (!), nor did any other shop I use regularly, and when I decided to cash in the amount on the card -- since I obviously couldn't use it anywhere I wanted to -- I had to buy a stamp and an envelope in order to send the card via snailmail to PBS (who owns Danmønt) for them to transfer the remaining amount onto my bank account.

    Danmønt sucks, if you ask me!

    // Klaus
    --
  13. Re:CD-R's *and* gas? What are we going to do? by ibpooks · · Score: 1 · on CD-R Prices Could Triple This Summer

    Ummm, something doesn't add up...

    82.5 (Canadian Cents per Liter) * 3.785 (Liters per Gallon) = 3.13 (Canadian Dollars per Gallon)

    According to the Universal Currency Calculator, $3.13 Canadian equals $2.02 US.

    Guess what! That's what I just paid right here in the middle of Michigan, USA.

  14. in belgium by theWu · · Score: 1 · on How Many Hours Do You Work in a Week?

    I'm as always impressed when I hear some (most) of you trans-atlantic people saying how long they work a day, and for how much. (like > is ...)

    I'm a fresh from college/high school with an IT diploma (that's 3 years more than mandatory public education (from 6 years old to 18)), and I've been working here in Belgium as an employee since September 2000 for a big $$$ international company.

    I'm currently doing a cross-flavor job between pure u*ix admin (HP-UX mainly) and COTS (customer of the shelves (for the most fortunate who don't know, as if HP-UX was not a COTS :-)), like oracle, entrust pkica and netscape LDAP directory) installation and custom configuration.

    I'm working and being paid in Belgium, roughly 700,000 BEF in-the-pocket-every-taxes-paid a year(~ 15,444 US$, 17,353 (euro), according to www.xe.com).

    From a hours/day point of view it varies from -1h from the minimal I'm paid for ,7h30 a day=37h30 a week (apparently the week of 35h isn't far, see France lesiglation(is this an english word ?) to sometime 11 hours a day, when people are short on schedule. (not my team, of course, we're not just mere coders :) (flame me, oh yes ...)

    I don't know if it pays like a similar job in the U.S. (or anywhere else...), but for me it's quite a bit of money.

    To come to the point and from what I can read from my time-sheet , I've been working rougly 38h47.17min a week since September 2000.

    I didn't claim compensation for supp. hours yet, which I'm lawfully should be able to claim. But as I'm starting my work day anywhere from 9am to 11h30am I don't plan to do it soon. (Note that in my contract I'm supposed to work from 8h30am-9h00am to 5h00pm-5h30pm.)

    Off schedule hours should be paid 50% more between 6h30pm to 8h30am on weekdays and Saturday and 100% more on Sunday and public holydays.

    Note also that I have 27 paid vacation days (100% salary) this year, to be taken between 1st Jan 2001 and 30 April 2002.

    How does this compare to a similar job in other countries ?