Why complain ? It is their stuff, and they can price it at any level they want. You can always buy from somewhere else or refuse to buy it altogether if YOU think it is too expensive, but I'll bet you that lots of people will keep buying at the new, higher prices. Why leave money in their pockets if they are willing to give them to the record companies ?
Happy Posting.
Could not find list prices for Vietnam. I should say, I found http://www.microsoft.com/vietnam/licensing/pricing / but it's in Vietnamese and I did not quite study that language / alphabet.
I have worked for a Microsoft distributor in an Eastern European country in the early 1990's and the list prices for localized software were around 10-20% from the US prices if my memory serves me right. The US version was still at the US price.
For Southeast Asia, I found this article http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/08/tech/mai n621724.shtml
showing how Microsoft dropped prices for an XP Home + Office XP bundle from 19500 baht to 1500 baht (USD 38). Yes, it's a special offer for the Thailand's Information and Communications Technology Ministry, but you can see the discount range they will go to in a poor market.
If Microsoft sells in Vietnam at US prices, they are lunatics - but they have been working in the international market for too long of a time to be that stupid.
The article (and the summary) seem to me to be faulty research accepted without any attempt to check its validity. Just because someone properly cites its sources does not mean that their data is the right data or their conclusions are correct.
Anyway, without a english version of the Vietnam price list we cannot analyze this further, and I do not have one.
Happy Posting.
Let's try reading the article together, shall we ? Buying Windows XP and Office XP on Amazon.com in the US is equal to almost 3 months of GDP per capita in South Africa and over 16 months of GDP per capita in Vietnam. This is equivalent to charging a single-user licence fee in the US of $7,541 and $48,011 respectively.
Even if software is discounted to account for local pricing, it is usually still extremely expensive and there is no guarantee that this discount will be sustained in the long term, says Ghosh.
As you could have seen had you read (or understood) the article, they compare the US prices with the Vietnamese income. I bet is that you only read the (misleading and wrong) summary.
My point still stands, unless another AC can provide some meaningful information.
Happy Posting.
P. S. My thanks to the moderators who did not read the article either and rushed to judgement...
(if you look at GDP, MS prices in Vietnam are the equivalent, for local people, of charging just shy of $50,000 for a Windows XP license in the US)
But of course, MS is not charging US prices in Vietnam. Every time I see authors using misleading data like this, I see no reason to trust their judgment or conclusions.
Cannot stop YOU all from doing that, though...
Happy Posting.
If you think that about the movie, you must read "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire. It's a great take on the story, definitely not Disney-like.
Happy Posting.
That would be a false statement. Yahoo does NOT require you to buy any other services in order to buy a domain at 2.99/yr. I just checked and I could complete a full 5-year domain registration for $14.95.
So, do you work for GoDaddy or just volunteer for them ?
Happy Posting.
He has been convicted because he lied to the police about it and that made the judge suspicious about his innocence. The judge is quoted as saying that if he'd have told police the truth he'd have been acquited.
Just like Martha...
Happy Posting.
Because you are intentionally misleading people into thinking that you have a real degree. Almeda University looks like a diploma mill (tell us about your "experience" and we'll give you a degree). It is an UNACREDITED school, which means that it has the same credibility as a degree you give yourself, which is pretty much what you did.
I'd have more respect for you if your resume would say "I have no degree but I have this experience, skills, etc." rather than claiming that so-called degree.
Anyway, have a happy life.
If you say that you have the skills but no certs, and the lack of certs keeps you from getting a job, why did you not use some of those 18 months to get some certs ? It can be done, you know, when you are familiar with the topic, unemployed and have LOTS of time on your hands.
Happy Posting.
It is YOU who must read the PARENT POST correctly. A loss of 0.64% total user base from an initial 8% total user base is an 8% loss of the previous Firefox user base. (8% of 8 is 0.64).
Have fun posting.
It's shocking how many posters obviously only read the (rather misleading) summary instead of the article.
Yes, CNet publishes some information about the Google CEO, but it's not TOO private, and it there to make the point of the article - if there is so much information that Google publishes, what about the data that does not get published ?
Google's policies on that data are intentionally vague, and while I agree that it's their right to accumulate any public information they want, they should also have clear and explicit policies on what they collect and what they do with it.
Anyway, happy posting, y'all.
Your ignorance is so appalling that I have a hard time deciding where to start.
First - this is about digital signatures, not about encryption - sharing the documents (by sending them over electronic media or otherwise) is needed.
Second - obfuscated algorithms ??? Open any book on encryption to learn that the strongest encryption algorhitms rely on completely documented algorhitms - security through obscurity is so 80's...
My suggestion - try to have something worth saying before making suggestions.
Speaking as a long time user on Netflix, I think they will go bankrupt in a few years.
I have been one of their early customers and I must be responsible for at least 7 or 8 other Netflix accounts being open.
I agree they have excellent selection. Service, on the other hand... what are you smoking ?
I am a high-turnover user. I have been born and raised in a former communist country and only came here some years ago, so I have never had the opportunity to see almost any good movie until I moved to the US. As a consequence, I have a big backlog of movies on my must-see list and I try to watch them ASAP and then return them so I can quickly get my next one. My wife shares my account and situation too (we have the 3 out subscription).
In the last year or so, and clearly worsening over the last 6 months, they are dragging their feet. It used to be that they would deliver my next movie the same day they received one back. Now the average is 2 days of waiting until they ship the next one. Add the fact that they only operate during the business days, the mail time and you'll realize that they have effectively decreased the number of movies I can see by 50%.
I was always aware that they have this built-in conflict of interest where the flat rate caps the money they make monthly and their expenses raise with the number of movies you rent, but they did not behave like this at the beginning. Now, they do - and any rational person must admit that this is a calculated attempt to improve their profits.
Nothing wrong with profits, after all - except that they advertise unlimited movie rentals and then they effectively impose a cap on the number of rentals by doing this. Also, it is short term thinking, because while I still have my account open I am pretty close to the end of my patience (how long can you hope it's only a temporary phase?) and I have already started to warn all my friends about their tactics.
My only guess is that they want to show profitability NOW and to heck with the consequences, but they are harming themselves immensly in the long run.
They only had to keep doing the right thing for a few more years until the DVD was obsolete, and they would have had a huge pool of happy users to transition into the next big thing (whatever the next movie rental model is). They chose to annoy their best promoters, people like me and I think the company will live to regret that decision. I'm sure that the executives will have cashed their stock options by them and will not care, but I miss the Netflix that I first met and which is no more.
You forget one detail - the poorer the country, the bigger the value that USD 100 has. Most americans would not risk their freedom for 10,000 USD, but for somebody in a poor country that is enough to retire on... so people are more tempted.
It is an inevitable consequence of exporting jobs to lower-paid workers - the temptation to steal is much greater.
Yeah, well... taking advantage of a Project Manager with limited technical background who commits the sin of trusting its subject matter experts is really hard... Keep in mind that you only need to be caught once with this kind of joke to lose all respect in the organization.
If the PM claimed to have technical skills, it's one thing, but if, as I assume, he never did, this is wrong and harmful to the company and your friend.
Have fun posting.
First tell me how to convert the legally purchased Windows game I have over to another operating system.
That, Sir, is so outside the point that I wonder who gave you that Insifghtful moderation.
Just to answer your oh so innocent question, there is are multiple significant technical reasons that limit software written for one OS from running on another one, while there is NO relevant technical reason to use a proprietary format for encoding music.
Second, you CAN play your games in a variety of emulators and nobody will sue you for doing that.
Now go play stupid somewhere else.
Happy posting,
Of course, hearing the word irradiated beef makes one shudder... since people refuse to understand that irradiating food is one of the safest way of preserving it for long terms without the need for refrigeration, artificial preservatives, etc.
As soon as someone can how me ONE study showing ANY danger from irradiated food, and we can start comparing it against the well know risks of all the other preservation methods.
It's a pity that most people do not try to think about this, but reject it automatically.
Have fun posting.
Slashdot Mirror
Happy Posting...
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
So THAT was the review...
Well, it was about Secure Development in Windows - that covers it, right ?
Why complain ? It is their stuff, and they can price it at any level they want. You can always buy from somewhere else or refuse to buy it altogether if YOU think it is too expensive, but I'll bet you that lots of people will keep buying at the new, higher prices. Why leave money in their pockets if they are willing to give them to the record companies ?
Happy Posting.
Could not find list prices for Vietnam. I should say, I found http://www.microsoft.com/vietnam/licensing/pricing / but it's in Vietnamese and I did not quite study that language / alphabet.i n621724.shtml
I have worked for a Microsoft distributor in an Eastern European country in the early 1990's and the list prices for localized software were around 10-20% from the US prices if my memory serves me right. The US version was still at the US price.
For Southeast Asia, I found this article
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/08/tech/ma
showing how Microsoft dropped prices for an XP Home + Office XP bundle from 19500 baht to 1500 baht (USD 38). Yes, it's a special offer for the Thailand's Information and Communications Technology Ministry, but you can see the discount range they will go to in a poor market.
If Microsoft sells in Vietnam at US prices, they are lunatics - but they have been working in the international market for too long of a time to be that stupid.
The article (and the summary) seem to me to be faulty research accepted without any attempt to check its validity. Just because someone properly cites its sources does not mean that their data is the right data or their conclusions are correct.
Anyway, without a english version of the Vietnam price list we cannot analyze this further, and I do not have one.
Happy Posting.
Let's try reading the article together, shall we ?
Buying Windows XP and Office XP on Amazon.com in the US is equal to almost 3 months of GDP per capita in South Africa and over 16 months of GDP per capita in Vietnam. This is equivalent to charging a single-user licence fee in the US of $7,541 and $48,011 respectively.
Even if software is discounted to account for local pricing, it is usually still extremely expensive and there is no guarantee that this discount will be sustained in the long term, says Ghosh.
As you could have seen had you read (or understood) the article, they compare the US prices with the Vietnamese income. I bet is that you only read the (misleading and wrong) summary.
My point still stands, unless another AC can provide some meaningful information. Happy Posting.
P. S. My thanks to the moderators who did not read the article either and rushed to judgement...
(if you look at GDP, MS prices in Vietnam are the equivalent, for local people, of charging just shy of $50,000 for a Windows XP license in the US)
But of course, MS is not charging US prices in Vietnam. Every time I see authors using misleading data like this, I see no reason to trust their judgment or conclusions.
Cannot stop YOU all from doing that, though...
Happy Posting.
Wait until the legal liability Sony will incurr starts affecting the stock price... Pretty quickly you'll see heads roll for this.
Happy Posting.
If you think that about the movie, you must read "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire. It's a great take on the story, definitely not Disney-like.
Happy Posting.
That would be a false statement. Yahoo does NOT require you to buy any other services in order to buy a domain at 2.99 /yr. I just checked and I could complete a full 5-year domain registration for $14.95.
So, do you work for GoDaddy or just volunteer for them ?
Happy Posting.
He has been convicted because he lied to the police about it and that made the judge suspicious about his innocence. The judge is quoted as saying that if he'd have told police the truth he'd have been acquited.
Just like Martha...
Happy Posting.
I hope it pays for the hosting costs... or the editor's training :)
Since if you run it as a normal user on Windows it cannot damage the system files either :)
Because you are intentionally misleading people into thinking that you have a real degree.
Almeda University looks like a diploma mill (tell us about your "experience" and we'll give you a degree).
It is an UNACREDITED school, which means that it has the same credibility as a degree you give yourself, which is pretty much what you did.
I'd have more respect for you if your resume would say "I have no degree but I have this experience, skills, etc." rather than claiming that so-called degree.
Anyway, have a happy life.
So you're trying to come out of the closet as a crook ? (buying a degree to put on a resume... you should be so fired.).
Happy Posting.
If you say that you have the skills but no certs, and the lack of certs keeps you from getting a job, why did you not use some of those 18 months to get some certs ? It can be done, you know, when you are familiar with the topic, unemployed and have LOTS of time on your hands.
Happy Posting.
Dear Sir,
It is YOU who must read the PARENT POST correctly. A loss of 0.64% total user base from an initial 8% total user base is an 8% loss of the previous Firefox user base. (8% of 8 is 0.64).
Have fun posting.
You might want to also see
April 29 post
for related info.
Happy posting.
It's shocking how many posters obviously only read the (rather misleading) summary instead of the article.
Yes, CNet publishes some information about the Google CEO, but it's not TOO private, and it there to make the point of the article - if there is so much information that Google publishes, what about the data that does not get published ?
Google's policies on that data are intentionally vague, and while I agree that it's their right to accumulate any public information they want, they should also have clear and explicit policies on what they collect and what they do with it.
Anyway, happy posting, y'all.
Dear me,
Your ignorance is so appalling that I have a hard time deciding where to start.
First - this is about digital signatures, not about encryption - sharing the documents (by sending them over electronic media or otherwise) is needed.
Second - obfuscated algorithms ??? Open any book on encryption to learn that the strongest encryption algorhitms rely on completely documented algorhitms - security through obscurity is so 80's...
My suggestion - try to have something worth saying before making suggestions.
Happy Posting.
I have been one of their early customers and I must be responsible for at least 7 or 8 other Netflix accounts being open.
I agree they have excellent selection. Service, on the other hand... what are you smoking ?
I am a high-turnover user. I have been born and raised in a former communist country and only came here some years ago, so I have never had the opportunity to see almost any good movie until I moved to the US. As a consequence, I have a big backlog of movies on my must-see list and I try to watch them ASAP and then return them so I can quickly get my next one. My wife shares my account and situation too (we have the 3 out subscription).
In the last year or so, and clearly worsening over the last 6 months, they are dragging their feet. It used to be that they would deliver my next movie the same day they received one back. Now the average is 2 days of waiting until they ship the next one. Add the fact that they only operate during the business days, the mail time and you'll realize that they have effectively decreased the number of movies I can see by 50%.
I was always aware that they have this built-in conflict of interest where the flat rate caps the money they make monthly and their expenses raise with the number of movies you rent, but they did not behave like this at the beginning. Now, they do - and any rational person must admit that this is a calculated attempt to improve their profits.
Nothing wrong with profits, after all - except that they advertise unlimited movie rentals and then they effectively impose a cap on the number of rentals by doing this. Also, it is short term thinking, because while I still have my account open I am pretty close to the end of my patience (how long can you hope it's only a temporary phase?) and I have already started to warn all my friends about their tactics.
My only guess is that they want to show profitability NOW and to heck with the consequences, but they are harming themselves immensly in the long run.
They only had to keep doing the right thing for a few more years until the DVD was obsolete, and they would have had a huge pool of happy users to transition into the next big thing (whatever the next movie rental model is). They chose to annoy their best promoters, people like me and I think the company will live to regret that decision. I'm sure that the executives will have cashed their stock options by them and will not care, but I miss the Netflix that I first met and which is no more.
Enough sentimentalism - happy posting, y'all.
First, they have bad credit so they cannot get a yearly contract.
Second, they are unable to realize that it is a bad deal.
Does that shed some light on the subject ?
Happy Posting.
You forget one detail - the poorer the country, the bigger the value that USD 100 has. Most americans would not risk their freedom for 10,000 USD, but for somebody in a poor country that is enough to retire on... so people are more tempted.
It is an inevitable consequence of exporting jobs to lower-paid workers - the temptation to steal is much greater.
Have fun posting.
Yeah, well... taking advantage of a Project Manager with limited technical background who commits the sin of trusting its subject matter experts is really hard...
Keep in mind that you only need to be caught once with this kind of joke to lose all respect in the organization.
If the PM claimed to have technical skills, it's one thing, but if, as I assume, he never did, this is wrong and harmful to the company and your friend.
Have fun posting.
First tell me how to convert the legally purchased Windows game I have over to another operating system.
That, Sir, is so outside the point that I wonder who gave you that Insifghtful moderation.
Just to answer your oh so innocent question, there is are multiple significant technical reasons that limit software written for one OS from running on another one, while there is NO relevant technical reason to use a proprietary format for encoding music.
Second, you CAN play your games in a variety of emulators and nobody will sue you for doing that.
Now go play stupid somewhere else.
Happy posting,
Dan
Of course, hearing the word irradiated beef makes one shudder... since people refuse to understand that irradiating food is one of the safest way of preserving it for long terms without the need for refrigeration, artificial preservatives, etc.
As soon as someone can how me ONE study showing ANY danger from irradiated food, and we can start comparing it against the well know risks of all the other preservation methods.
It's a pity that most people do not try to think about this, but reject it automatically.
Have fun posting.