Groceries are a perfect example. People in outlying areas of Canada that have to pay more because of location, often go to larger centers and stock up in bulk to save money.
There are many other examples. McDonalds in America prices their food about the same as in Canada although our dollar was only 60% to 65% of the American dollar. In Canadian dollars, Americans were paying over $10 for a standard meal combo. The reverse was true for gas. Even taking in the dollar exchange rate, we could buy gas cheaper in America than in our own country.(and it had a much higher octane rating)
Price has nothing to do with the "value" of the product. The price will rise according to the market. If they could get $1000 a copy, they would sell it for that.
Best example of this is a boom town, like up in the tar sands. See what people are paying for everyday items compared to some other remote location that's not in the middle of an oil boom.
hehe, ya.. 2 was horrible. Yes version 7.2 still has composer and I actually still use it on a couple nasty sites. Sometimes it's way easier to just use that then to re-write the crappy code.
For me, Firefox at times has been like Netscape 2. Drives me nuts. Read on/. about how everyone uses it with all these neat plugins, never works properly for me though I keep trying each new version.
It's been 11 years for me. From version 2 until my current version 7.2. I'm gonna hang on as long as I can. Firefox just doesn't like me, and I hate Internet Exploder.
It's called burst. Easily set up in Motorola wireless radios as well. Your burst speed can be considerably different than the transfer speed. Makes browsing the web very fast and will temporaily increase the download speeds. I haven't seen it affect speedtest.net though.
Evidently you think the sun shines out of your ass.
I'm in Canada, where small business makes up most of the jobs. Since they only have a few employees each, it take quite a few businesses to equal the amount of employees that the large companies have.
Everyone of these businesses runs on ONE of these accounting programs. Linux will never fly on the desktop in Canada until these programs install NATIVELY on a linux machine. Then you have to make sure that their "program" works too. Each business I've seen has some program that's vital to the operation and only runs on windows. Wine will not fly with these people. They could give a shit about Linux, they want it to work and they don't want to learn anything else.
Linux is never going to be accepted mainstream. This is what, the tenth year of Linux on the desktop? What are they at now 2%? Narrow minded zealots. FOAD.
But that's not what Average Joe Computer Newbie sees. He sees a free product versus a
three-hundred-dollar product he can get free. It's all about the perception!" It's not perception. Windows is already "free". It either comes with your computer or you borrow a
disc from a friend and install it. How many of Microsoft sales depend on users buying a copy in
the store?
Who wants to use Linux when there always seems to be one damn thing that doesn't work?
How many of the cheap Walmart cd's will run on a linux box?
The killer still seems to be accounting programs. When Quicken, Quick Books and Simply
Accounting work, then there will be real in-roads to business.
Home users may never sign on. Shit far too many home users already shouldn't have a
computer.
You want Linux to work and be accepted by the masses? Make it look and work like windows.
Any learning curve is too large. We've had the same basic windows functions and menus (until
Vista) since 95. How the hell are we going to train legions of AOL users to use Ubuntu? Good
luck with that.
I hate Microsoft as a company. Their business practices have been highly suspect, but their
software (XP Pro anyway) does work and lets me do stuff without having to read man pages, or tweak files or
find special drivers or find a replacement program, or run in a sandbox.
After 8 years, countless distros, way too much time and actually failed hardware (how does
ubuntu kill a previously working drive), I personally have jumped off the linux soapbox for the last
time. Linux is awesome on servers but I don't think it will ever even challange even Apple for
desktop market share.
What percentage use a hosts file and no-script to block out ads? http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Host file FTW!!! I have LOVED the web ever since I found this little jewel.
Maybe cause they're trying to sell home server? Once it get's on p2p, it might be a bit harder. (Yes I know it's already out there. I can get it from my wholesaler with 10 cals for about $160.) I'm curious to see how it works and if it's worth it.
And how would you fill up your WalMarts? Americans don't manufacture anything anymore... who's gonna make yer shit?
I'd say that you're kinda fucked. (America that is, not you personally)
Who's also holding like $1 trillion of your money?
They start dumping that and you're really fucked.
HAHAHA, umm nope. I got into an arguement one night with a "Nerd on site". He wanted me to go work for him. I told him that I thought that nerd was derogatory and there was no way in hell I was selling my PT Cruiser to buy a Volkwagen beetle and to be called a nerd.
Off to wikipedia we went. When I searched nerd... it showed a photo of Urkel and when I searched geek, it showed Stallman. He was not happy. hehe
I just went back and the page has been considerably changed now.
Microsoft is offering a 62% premium on what the shares are worth now, $31... and they want $40. WTF? Would they rather they get nothing once their market share drops some more?
Cobian backup. Free. Automatic. I have our personal machines doing an automatic backup to a server. Set it up for 2:00 am. works perfect. Will do incremental backups.
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There are many other examples. McDonalds in America prices their food about the same as in Canada although our dollar was only 60% to 65% of the American dollar. In Canadian dollars, Americans were paying over $10 for a standard meal combo. The reverse was true for gas. Even taking in the dollar exchange rate, we could buy gas cheaper in America than in our own country.(and it had a much higher octane rating)
Best example of this is a boom town, like up in the tar sands. See what people are paying for everyday items compared to some other remote location that's not in the middle of an oil boom.
Thanks! Best laugh of the day!
Yes, but the difference is that YOU get control of how these are handled, not your ISP.
I think that means Piece of Shit.
For me, Firefox at times has been like Netscape 2. Drives me nuts. Read on /. about how everyone uses it with all these neat plugins, never works properly for me though I keep trying each new version.
Gonna have to try Seamonkey I guess.
11 years... man that was quick.
It's called burst. Easily set up in Motorola wireless radios as well. Your burst speed can be considerably different than the transfer speed. Makes browsing the web very fast and will temporaily increase the download speeds. I haven't seen it affect speedtest.net though.
I'm in Canada, where small business makes up most of the jobs. Since they only have a few employees each, it take quite a few businesses to equal the amount of employees that the large companies have.
Everyone of these businesses runs on ONE of these accounting programs. Linux will never fly on the desktop in Canada until these programs install NATIVELY on a linux machine. Then you have to make sure that their "program" works too. Each business I've seen has some program that's vital to the operation and only runs on windows. Wine will not fly with these people. They could give a shit about Linux, they want it to work and they don't want to learn anything else.
Linux is never going to be accepted mainstream. This is what, the tenth year of Linux on the desktop? What are they at now 2%? Narrow minded zealots. FOAD.
Maybe. I haven't heard of them on this side of the pond. Every business I've seen is running one of those 3 programs I mentioned earlier.
Who wants to use Linux when there always seems to be one damn thing that doesn't work? How many of the cheap Walmart cd's will run on a linux box? The killer still seems to be accounting programs. When Quicken, Quick Books and Simply Accounting work, then there will be real in-roads to business.
Home users may never sign on. Shit far too many home users already shouldn't have a computer. You want Linux to work and be accepted by the masses? Make it look and work like windows. Any learning curve is too large. We've had the same basic windows functions and menus (until Vista) since 95. How the hell are we going to train legions of AOL users to use Ubuntu? Good luck with that.
I hate Microsoft as a company. Their business practices have been highly suspect, but their software (XP Pro anyway) does work and lets me do stuff without having to read man pages, or tweak files or find special drivers or find a replacement program, or run in a sandbox. After 8 years, countless distros, way too much time and actually failed hardware (how does ubuntu kill a previously working drive), I personally have jumped off the linux soapbox for the last time. Linux is awesome on servers but I don't think it will ever even challange even Apple for desktop market share.
/rant
Lots of dead dinosaurs on Titan? Did they have a shuttle?
1984? Shit, America is making Orwell look like an optimist.
This thing is excellent. Add the updates to your xp cd with Nlite to take it one step further for those fresh installs. http://www.nliteos.com/
Thanks! That works great. Found out it's 150 messages a day. I do like 150 a month but $19 is a pretty cheap solution.
Maybe cause they're trying to sell home server? Once it get's on p2p, it might be a bit harder. (Yes I know it's already out there. I can get it from my wholesaler with 10 cals for about $160.) I'm curious to see how it works and if it's worth it.
Who's also holding like $1 trillion of your money? They start dumping that and you're really fucked.
No, just a shortcut to all the same comments that'll show up here in an hour. Thought I'd save people some time.
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3385885
Uncool http://nerdsonsite.com/
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Cool http://www.bonairenet.com/janwillem/
Off to wikipedia we went. When I searched nerd... it showed a photo of Urkel and when I searched geek, it showed Stallman. He was not happy. hehe
I just went back and the page has been considerably changed now.
Now do you know how to get around a damn ISP port 25 block when my domain email host won't offer a different port?
Microsoft is offering a 62% premium on what the shares are worth now, $31... and they want $40. WTF? Would they rather they get nothing once their market share drops some more?
Cobian backup. Free. Automatic. I have our personal machines doing an automatic backup to a server. Set it up for 2:00 am. works perfect. Will do incremental backups.