Exactly! And that is why the original message is flawed. A person using 1 US dollar in Brazil can do a lot more then a person using a 1 US dollar in the US. So when the country spends X amount of dollars to buy software they are probably paying an american company and hence american dollars and american exchange rate. Essentially - paying full price. When they take the money (lets keep it in US exchange) they are getting more value for their dollar because they are buying the product from their own country - and the US dollar is worth more in their own country.
Thusly $1 million in Brazil can buy a lot MORE food for a lot MORE people then in the US; BUT when they go to buy software from an American company (say Microsoft) they are not enjoying such discounts.
handwriting analysis is a common, and well accepted psychological tool. While someone may try to change their writing to trick the tool - it is really hard to do. In fact, in one of my Communications classes we tried to do this (writing one full page). I could not maintain more then one-two sentences - it was awkward. Nobody in the class could. Now that is with a concerted effort; now imagine if you are just "doodeling"...
/.'ers may not want to believe it is possible, but again in psychology - it is very well accepted.
If the minimum wage (and i gather many people are at that poverty line) is $70/month and food costs $3/meal/person...that equal $9/day/person. 9 x 30 is $270/month/person. Now lets say people make DOUBLE the min wage so it is $140/month - still a person cannot afford to feed themselves. A person has to make TRIPLE the min. wage to eat, and eat for themselves alone. I highly doubt the population is making triple the min wage AND living alone (unless you don't feed your children, disabeled, elderly, etc). Let's also go to the fact you say your food is subsidized. Here it is very hard to get subsidized food - and that only helps if you go to the supermarket to buy food, not the restaurant.
33 cents here in the US might get you a pack of gum...not even a hot dog at the local vendor. So you might be able to buy crap food in Brasil for that cost - you really can't buy anything here for that (even pretzels cost 50 cents).
And by your second to last paragraph - you show that I am right. Maybe those in the upper class/rich class can afford to eat decently (you seem to be in that class) - but the majority cannot.
Average date, going out in the city, in a bring your own alcohol place, is about 40-60$. Going to the most expensive restaurant (for two) would probably run me about 300-400$
So how am i being silly?
Go ahead, start writing and try to change your style of writing - you will notice (quite quickly) that your writing goes back to its original style. There are some things that are incredibly hard to do unless you give it 100% concentrated effort. Changing your writing style is not something you can just do casually - you have to work at it like a madman. Given that, do you think Billy was concentrating on his writing style?
The science of interpreting the psyche via writing is widely known and accepted. Again, as I said in another post, while it is not 100% accurate - very little in psychology really is.
Actually I do not think the process is that flawed - it is actually pretty good. For example a person who writes on a plain sheet (non-lined) paper who tends to have the writing arc up is assumed to be more optomistic, while someone whose writing arcs down is assumed to be more pessimistic.
Now the press assumed the writing belonged to Blair. So the researchers compared the writing to his psyche record. Since the writing did NOT belong to Blair, it obviously gave incorrect data. Now that they know who it belongs to, the data might change. It might go from "unstable" to "creative" or it might stay the same.
*Congressman snickers* "Surely you jest? This doesn't even scratch what BG is forking out. Hell this doesn't even cover the lunch bill...maybe you should start charging for your software, and run a few patents to ensure others can't copy it."
You have numbers to prove that the average home made meal in Brazil costs $3.00 just like here in the US? See when I travel abroad, especially to poorer countries - i tend to eat a lot more for a lot less (and that is considering I eat out all the time). For example - when I went to Israel. I bought a breakfast that cost me (after currency conversion) $10.00 - there was enough food on that plate to feed me, my mom and my mom's fiancee and then still have left over plus orange juice, coffee and crossiants. Israel - is by far not a third world country. I had a friend who traveled to Vietnam and for $300 he was able to eat three meals a day, and sleep every night on a bed for a MONTH!...find that here in the US.
I am not being silly. $3 US dollars in another country is worth a lot more then that - so when they say 33 cents can feed someone in a third world nation, I can honestly believe it.
A full home meal - chicken, rice, potatoes, seasoning, drink can easily cost more then $3.00
How can this = to more competition? All that happend is the two graphics card companies switched positions. They charge similar prices - so they have no incentive to drop their prices. They offer similar support so they have no incentive to offer better open-source support.
Now if another SEPARATE company enters the market, then it is more competition (assuming the company can gain enough people to go with them).
All that happend here is the two best companies switched positions.
MS special-ops team are sitting in their cozy office after being pinned the Bill Gates MS Medal of Honor on them. "Good job on the sabotage."
While they did replace the systems, I personally believe a blend of products works. As long as the products can communicate with each other, i think each person should use what they feel most comfortable/productive with.
Yea but some things are distorted. Maybe the average cost of a meal in brazil is 33 cents (remember Sally Struthers and how she said that 33 cents will feed some kid for a day). So when you compare that to the fee's of a product that might cost $100, that comes to 333 meals. Hell I spend more about 30-50/day (center city life is expensive)!!! The numbers could potentially be skewed.
Well the commercial wasn't crappy, it just aired in an improper slot (during the superbowl)
I didn't know the networks were generous or that they allocated less expensive airtime for local companies. I presume you mean smaller companies (i.e. PECO is local to philly, but they are not small or cheap).
I really liked the cadillac ad. Where the guy is driving his suv cadillac, stops (180 spin) and then the sound catches up to him.
.
I remember, a couple of years ago, there was an ad placed by mistake. As in the company bought a cheap, non-primetime ad and by mistake it got placed during the superbowl.
I believe those ads are around 500k-1mil per 30 second slots...talk about pricey.
my fav is still the brittney spears ads - well cause she is good looking
To put it in perspective, Microsoft's income is about the same as New York State receives in taxes - below California, and well above the other 48 states.
And in the news today, Bill Gates says:
"Come join our friendly community, we promise to tax you less then California, but in our wonderful community you get great programs to."
Microsoft has decided to cede from the union and create their own country.
1)I didn't say don't fix the system. Nor did i say "This is how it is so that's how it should stay". If you are going to quote me, then make sure you quote me.
2) At no point did I say we should not attempt to reach a "Star Trek" type of society. I said we are not at this level, and to ask for a major -high impact change- with little incentive is ridiciulous and futile. The only incentive you can offer these companies would be to tell them one day things will be better because of their sacrifice. It won't work - you need to go a more subtle route, which takes longer and works.
You also conveniently ignored the rest of my statement. How are you going to personally start helping this change to a new society? Doing a few hours of additional programming for the OSS community? Thats more hobbyist and actually an amusing contribution. How about you stop collecting a paycheck?
I like programs like zone alarm which tell you about every single piece of software that tries to access the net:)
I don't like how windows firewall lets certain programs access the net, but others it will ask for permission. For example - it lets iTunes auto-access to the net.
you remember correctly. He sued for figuring it out, not just the website. They sued him for "tampering" or some such none-sense. They were also pretty damn shocked it was that easy to circumvent their pride and joy.
I never have auto-run enabeled so that stuff never bothered me in teh first place.
Yes they can be sued for it (privacy laws), but they will probably get away with "Did you read the TOA...paragraph 1000, subsection 349, sub-subsection ZY, line 4?"
Don't worry this software is purely to help parents ensure their little kids are not growing up to be criminals...it won't be used by the MPAA at all to track those computers and send the info to the MPAA.
Between that and the fact the parents may not know how to utilize the software I am sure it will be great SuckCess.
I am waiting for the time comes when i purchase a movie, place it in my dvd player (flash upgrade) or in my computer and it will auto-install tracking software.
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Exactly! And that is why the original message is flawed. A person using 1 US dollar in Brazil can do a lot more then a person using a 1 US dollar in the US. So when the country spends X amount of dollars to buy software they are probably paying an american company and hence american dollars and american exchange rate. Essentially - paying full price. When they take the money (lets keep it in US exchange) they are getting more value for their dollar because they are buying the product from their own country - and the US dollar is worth more in their own country.
Thusly $1 million in Brazil can buy a lot MORE food for a lot MORE people then in the US; BUT when they go to buy software from an American company (say Microsoft) they are not enjoying such discounts.
handwriting analysis is a common, and well accepted psychological tool. While someone may try to change their writing to trick the tool - it is really hard to do. In fact, in one of my Communications classes we tried to do this (writing one full page). I could not maintain more then one-two sentences - it was awkward. Nobody in the class could. Now that is with a concerted effort; now imagine if you are just "doodeling"...
/.'ers may not want to believe it is possible, but again in psychology - it is very well accepted.
Well the numbers seem skewed.
If the minimum wage (and i gather many people are at that poverty line) is $70/month and food costs $3/meal/person...that equal $9/day/person. 9 x 30 is $270/month/person. Now lets say people make DOUBLE the min wage so it is $140/month - still a person cannot afford to feed themselves. A person has to make TRIPLE the min. wage to eat, and eat for themselves alone. I highly doubt the population is making triple the min wage AND living alone (unless you don't feed your children, disabeled, elderly, etc). Let's also go to the fact you say your food is subsidized. Here it is very hard to get subsidized food - and that only helps if you go to the supermarket to buy food, not the restaurant.
33 cents here in the US might get you a pack of gum...not even a hot dog at the local vendor. So you might be able to buy crap food in Brasil for that cost - you really can't buy anything here for that (even pretzels cost 50 cents).
And by your second to last paragraph - you show that I am right. Maybe those in the upper class/rich class can afford to eat decently (you seem to be in that class) - but the majority cannot.
Average date, going out in the city, in a bring your own alcohol place, is about 40-60$. Going to the most expensive restaurant (for two) would probably run me about 300-400$ So how am i being silly?
Not irrelevant - just kinda paltry compared to MS dontcha think? Lets say a company can afford to payoff people by giving 2% of their worth.
.5% of his companies assets and it would be worth more then all of RedHat's assets.
Redhat = 39.2 million dollars MS = = 5.74 billion
Big chunk of change difference. I mean Bill can bribe someone with
Go ahead, start writing and try to change your style of writing - you will notice (quite quickly) that your writing goes back to its original style. There are some things that are incredibly hard to do unless you give it 100% concentrated effort. Changing your writing style is not something you can just do casually - you have to work at it like a madman. Given that, do you think Billy was concentrating on his writing style?
The science of interpreting the psyche via writing is widely known and accepted. Again, as I said in another post, while it is not 100% accurate - very little in psychology really is.
Actually I do not think the process is that flawed - it is actually pretty good. For example a person who writes on a plain sheet (non-lined) paper who tends to have the writing arc up is assumed to be more optomistic, while someone whose writing arcs down is assumed to be more pessimistic.
Now the press assumed the writing belonged to Blair. So the researchers compared the writing to his psyche record. Since the writing did NOT belong to Blair, it obviously gave incorrect data. Now that they know who it belongs to, the data might change. It might go from "unstable" to "creative" or it might stay the same.
You meant to say:
*Congressman snickers* "Surely you jest? This doesn't even scratch what BG is forking out. Hell this doesn't even cover the lunch bill...maybe you should start charging for your software, and run a few patents to ensure others can't copy it."
You have numbers to prove that the average home made meal in Brazil costs $3.00 just like here in the US? See when I travel abroad, especially to poorer countries - i tend to eat a lot more for a lot less (and that is considering I eat out all the time). For example - when I went to Israel. I bought a breakfast that cost me (after currency conversion) $10.00 - there was enough food on that plate to feed me, my mom and my mom's fiancee and then still have left over plus orange juice, coffee and crossiants. Israel - is by far not a third world country. I had a friend who traveled to Vietnam and for $300 he was able to eat three meals a day, and sleep every night on a bed for a MONTH!...find that here in the US.
I am not being silly. $3 US dollars in another country is worth a lot more then that - so when they say 33 cents can feed someone in a third world nation, I can honestly believe it.
A full home meal - chicken, rice, potatoes, seasoning, drink can easily cost more then $3.00
How can this = to more competition? All that happend is the two graphics card companies switched positions. They charge similar prices - so they have no incentive to drop their prices. They offer similar support so they have no incentive to offer better open-source support.
Now if another SEPARATE company enters the market, then it is more competition (assuming the company can gain enough people to go with them).
All that happend here is the two best companies switched positions.
Apple reported a net profit of US$ 295 million in the last quarter of 2004 alone
....but you know Bill Gates is thinking "ahh thats cute, I make that in three weeks."
MS special-ops team are sitting in their cozy office after being pinned the Bill Gates MS Medal of Honor on them. "Good job on the sabotage."
While they did replace the systems, I personally believe a blend of products works. As long as the products can communicate with each other, i think each person should use what they feel most comfortable/productive with.
Yea but some things are distorted. Maybe the average cost of a meal in brazil is 33 cents (remember Sally Struthers and how she said that 33 cents will feed some kid for a day). So when you compare that to the fee's of a product that might cost $100, that comes to 333 meals. Hell I spend more about 30-50/day (center city life is expensive)!!! The numbers could potentially be skewed.
it is easy to insult, but at least be subtle. a "ten-year-old boy with boob implants" fails to come close to her looks.
But to each their own right?
Well the commercial wasn't crappy, it just aired in an improper slot (during the superbowl)
I didn't know the networks were generous or that they allocated less expensive airtime for local companies. I presume you mean smaller companies (i.e. PECO is local to philly, but they are not small or cheap).
I really liked the cadillac ad. Where the guy is driving his suv cadillac, stops (180 spin) and then the sound catches up to him.
. I remember, a couple of years ago, there was an ad placed by mistake. As in the company bought a cheap, non-primetime ad and by mistake it got placed during the superbowl.
I believe those ads are around 500k-1mil per 30 second slots...talk about pricey.
my fav is still the brittney spears ads - well cause she is good looking
ugh, no wonder he is evil, what a terrible name "Hello Dooki...i mean dooku"
Let's get Dan Brown on the scene, he will tell us.
Though I have to say it sure reminds me of the holy grail.
but what about all of those ripped movies? can we claim loss against those? I mean those Dvd's cost money.
:)
So I was looking at the list:
Electra? I have heard of straight to DvD, but this movie hasn't even been released in theatres? Or is this another version?
Well I am happy to say, on the list, i only "own" Rocky 1-5
To put it in perspective, Microsoft's income is about the same as New York State receives in taxes - below California, and well above the other 48 states.
And in the news today, Bill Gates says:
"Come join our friendly community, we promise to tax you less then California, but in our wonderful community you get great programs to."
Microsoft has decided to cede from the union and create their own country.
What does the dll's & reg changes from the beastie boys cd do?
On the list of misinterpretations.
1)I didn't say don't fix the system. Nor did i say "This is how it is so that's how it should stay". If you are going to quote me, then make sure you quote me.
2) At no point did I say we should not attempt to reach a "Star Trek" type of society. I said we are not at this level, and to ask for a major -high impact change- with little incentive is ridiciulous and futile. The only incentive you can offer these companies would be to tell them one day things will be better because of their sacrifice. It won't work - you need to go a more subtle route, which takes longer and works.
You also conveniently ignored the rest of my statement. How are you going to personally start helping this change to a new society? Doing a few hours of additional programming for the OSS community? Thats more hobbyist and actually an amusing contribution. How about you stop collecting a paycheck?
I like programs like zone alarm which tell you about every single piece of software that tries to access the net :)
I don't like how windows firewall lets certain programs access the net, but others it will ask for permission. For example - it lets iTunes auto-access to the net.
you remember correctly. He sued for figuring it out, not just the website. They sued him for "tampering" or some such none-sense. They were also pretty damn shocked it was that easy to circumvent their pride and joy.
I never have auto-run enabeled so that stuff never bothered me in teh first place.
Yes they can be sued for it (privacy laws), but they will probably get away with "Did you read the TOA...paragraph 1000, subsection 349, sub-subsection ZY, line 4?"
Don't worry this software is purely to help parents ensure their little kids are not growing up to be criminals...it won't be used by the MPAA at all to track those computers and send the info to the MPAA.
Between that and the fact the parents may not know how to utilize the software I am sure it will be great SuckCess.
I am waiting for the time comes when i purchase a movie, place it in my dvd player (flash upgrade) or in my computer and it will auto-install tracking software.