Let me start by saying that there's no way anybody is going to buy software that costs the same as it costs here in US (some do buy of course, mostly big companies). The average monthly salary even in Moscow is $100, most of it gets spent on food (which is definitly better than in US though).
So, the piracy is big. 95-99%.
The CDs cost $2 per CD (no difference what's on it). Most CDs are factory manufactured i.e. made in large quantities, but not anywhere on the territory of former USSR. With current price of CD-R media some are made on CD-R equipment.
Now, the enforcement. Let's start with Moscow.
The markets where the CDs are sold are sometimes raided by police. But selling is not criminal ofence as fas as I know.
Nobody checks computers at home, of course.
The installed software is checked in computer clubs (internet cafes) and offices. If software product (games for example) has russian distributor there's high probability you will have problems. They (police) also take your computers normally:)
In Ukraine, as far sa I know, it's even tougher. Recently (last couple of months) it came to the point that the demand for Windows became so high that you have to get on the list to buy it, and the price went up.
You can bring it along with you in liquid form though, that will make it like a rocket.... umm...:)
By the way, the reason for usage in the rockets (yes, there is a rocket that runs on oxygen/hydrogen , called "Energiya") is that hydrogen is the most energy-packed element.
I want to point out that example of Free press.
That's not exactly true.
Countries with established free press - yes. But during the last 10-15 years many countries just started developing that. And what I see (using Russia as example) is that many people, especialy over 50, tend to keep their minds shut. They can not apprehend what "free" is. And no matter how much money and effort you spend telling them what it is, they will still believe everything they see in newpapers and TV ("But TV just said that!") and still will blame everything on somebody else they were taught to blame at.
And it's even worse when many meople can not quite educated in politics/economics. In russia that resulted in very unfair business development and pretty sad elections results.
Now, take all that to the extreme of some thirld-world countries.
Slashdot Mirror
Use it this way for 3 months already.
Takes time to get used to.
But now the text looks as good as text written on pictures e.g. with Photoshop.
It let's you point at your P100 laptop and say - that's my cluster, I do some SETI on it :)
Let me start by saying that there's no way anybody is going to buy software that costs the same as it costs here in US (some do buy of course, mostly big companies). The average monthly salary even in Moscow is $100, most of it gets spent on food (which is definitly better than in US though).
:)
So, the piracy is big. 95-99%.
The CDs cost $2 per CD (no difference what's on it). Most CDs are factory manufactured i.e. made in large quantities, but not anywhere on the territory of former USSR. With current price of CD-R media some are made on CD-R equipment.
Now, the enforcement. Let's start with Moscow.
The markets where the CDs are sold are sometimes raided by police. But selling is not criminal ofence as fas as I know.
Nobody checks computers at home, of course.
The installed software is checked in computer clubs (internet cafes) and offices. If software product (games for example) has russian distributor there's high probability you will have problems. They (police) also take your computers normally
In Ukraine, as far sa I know, it's even tougher. Recently (last couple of months) it came to the point that the demand for Windows became so high that you have to get on the list to buy it, and the price went up.
Which converts RDF to RTF.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.09/paypal.htm l
You can bring it along with you in liquid form though, that will make it like a rocket.... umm... :)
By the way, the reason for usage in the rockets (yes, there is a rocket that runs on oxygen/hydrogen , called "Energiya") is that hydrogen is the most energy-packed element.
I want to point out that example of Free press.
That's not exactly true.
Countries with established free press - yes. But during the last 10-15 years many countries just started developing that. And what I see (using Russia as example) is that many people, especialy over 50, tend to keep their minds shut. They can not apprehend what "free" is. And no matter how much money and effort you spend telling them what it is, they will still believe everything they see in newpapers and TV ("But TV just said that!") and still will blame everything on somebody else they were taught to blame at.
And it's even worse when many meople can not quite educated in politics/economics. In russia that resulted in very unfair business development and pretty sad elections results.
Now, take all that to the extreme of some thirld-world countries.
*sigh*
Including me ;-)
You could show some "nice" page there though, not just 404 ;-)
Had to go to /. to figure that out, can't get there since 12AM.
And yes, looks like it's paged out. Which is pretty normal. Also, some components may ge paged out, so you have to wait if you use certain features.
Homesite supports mozilla for long time already, I am using it.
It's alpha only, but has nice library (that didn't work for me yet) and even displays shoutcast.com list of mp3stations (a MUST!)
Oh, nice, I'll have to have my own pr0n site...