I took a few marketing classes in college, and the "Sounds cheaper" explanation was the reasoning they gave for the.99 pricing. They said that when people recall 5999, they say 5000+ dollars instead. But what's the point really - when you add on taxes, it's no longer 9.99 anyway...
Oh For the love of God, get an education in economics. Currencies don't really represent the strength of your economy, they're a measure of a lot of other things (of course, if your currency is tanking by more 10%, I think it's safe to say the economy is bad). Currencies that float mostly represent trade imbalances. The middle eastern currencies are almost worth 2 US$ - hint:The world depends on the middle east for a critical resource...
If you want your country to export more, you try and devalue your currency, if you want to reduce inflation, your currency may start rising, blah blah. Currency and economic strength are not always directly related.
Hafta agree with you....and the other thing I can't figure out is how this is any different (or more advanced) than the 6600 or the 9500...both seem to have almost the same features....
Water goes through an unusual expansion between 0 deg and 4 deg celcius, (which is why you have water under a layer of ice)Water is most dense at 4 degrees, and that it why . Anyway, you're totally off on the second and the gram. The SI unit is KILOGram, not gram. , and that is defined by a lump of metal of that weightLink. Also the definition of a metre has been redefined as the distance it takes light to travel in certain amount of time. Finally, the second is defined as the time it takes a certain amount of radioactive material to decay.
All links here. Nothing arbitrary about it. And that still doesn't explain how we're better off not using simple measurements like the Kilometre, The Centigrade scale and others.
I guess I'm feeding the troll...but how does using a webmail service depend on your OS? If you give out your gmail address to our Nigerian philanthropists, does it matter whether you have linux or windows? The spam is gonna go to your gmail acct....unless I'm missing something..
Seriously, I've worked with C, VB, C#, Java, C++, and there really was nothing worse than C++. At least VB and C# come with a kickass dev environment. C++ was awful even in that kickass dev env.
One has to wonder how much more stable and secure Windows would be if they had instead focused on a proprietary desktop software for Unix, bringing the speed and stability of Unix to the home users' desktop.
That's an interesting question, but what one really has to ask is what MS' financial position would be had it followed the above model.... probably nowhere, and that would mean that half of/. content would be lost (i.e. like the Is Windows XP faster than Linux? discussion, e.t.c.).
It actually does work with some people. Some people actually cut pushy sales people some slack and say "Aw the poor kid must be desperate for his/her job. Let me make his/her day and buy something from them". I've seen this happen many times. And some people are just weak-willed, and eventually their resistance breaks down. A sad but true empirical observation...:-(
I don't see what is so wrong with Cell Phones becoming the primary way of communicating? In my neck of the woods, the cell phone service has only gone down maybe twice in 8 years (it went down on New Years Eve at 11.56 pm...I wonder why...). But the landline service in my country (I'm outside the American Continent) sucks ass. As it is, in a few yrs Cellphones themselves will be redundant once the WiMax and/or 3G/4G technology actually becomes viable and possibly cheap.
I never said it was as 'good' as bash. I simply said you've got your cmd line interface + shell in windows too, and if you actually bother to figure it out (like you did with Linux) you'd find it has quite a bit of power too.
I don't know what your friends have on their system, but I've never had to re-install XP even once on my system. Of course it should be noted, that I did a clean install, not an upgrade from some older version of Windows. Also, I've got uptime figures of about 30 days without reboot - I haven't tested it for more, because I do have power bills to pay, and I'm not doing anything which requires 100% uptime. I hear lots of horror stories about XP, but XP definitely beats the crap out of any windows version before -I'm talking home versions here.
My bad. grep, awk, tail, head, less, whois and ssh are all available as free tools for Windows. There's even a frikkin' emacs version. Sheesh. I'm not bother with pasting the links. Just google "ssh for windows" or whatever.
Let's make this a little more objective (yes Linux still wins out)
grep => the find command in windows.
sed => available as a free download for Windows
tail, head => I can live without 'em, but ok you win on those two
vi => You must be kidding me right. You can say what you want about windows, but there's no shortage of good text editors. If you haven't found any, you really are living in a parallel universe
bash => cmd? I can live without bash
less => ok you win this one too
make => lol. You're going to talk about the disgusting make file syntax as some advantage over windows? You have make in windows too.
iptables => not informed enough to know what this is. (Yes, I DON'T use Linux/Unix
ssh => HyperTerminal, and ssh utilities are available. At least something using Kerberos is
sudo => Available in Win 2K, Win XP onwards. You can change the setting of each executable separately and allow it run under a separate user if you want.
sendmail => No arguments. Sendmail rules
httpd => Not even going to justify this with a response
php => and this has what to do with Operating systems?
perl => ummm, runs in windows too....
tar, gzip => WinZip, or Win XP's own compression
ch-anything => lots of gui equivalents
crontab => Conceding this one
host => This is probably not a big deal
wget, whois => really no big deal.
Well if you have Windows XP, maybe once, at the most twice. If you have Windows ME, never, but that's because you've probably reformatted your hard drive and switched over to Linux after using the Sturdy and Stable ME version.... As for Windows 95/98, I'll let somebody else talk about them.
Hello! Why the heck are you people flocking to enter Europe and USA then?
You just proved my own point. You think that Indians and Chinese are flocking to America/Europe, when the number of people emigrating is tiny compared to the populations of our country. And I made the mistake of "flocking" to America. Luckily I had the sense to come back, after my shit-all experience there.
If thats true, how come China already has their own redflag linux distro which is doing great. Where's India's favorite linux distro ?
And this means what to anybody?
Zero and the decimel system in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. We are living in the 20th/21st century and show me the von Neumanns and Einsteins of India. I guess u can't.
My reason for bringing this up was because the original poster mentioned the Chinese inventions of Paper and Gunpowder, both of which are 1000/2000 years old. Show me the Einsteins/Von Nuemans of China. Anyway, there was a contemporary of Einstein going by the name of Bose, who improved on a lot of his work. Ever heard of Einstein-Bose Condensation? Furthermore, considering India laid some of the basic foundations for Mathematics, I would say that if Indians hadn't conceptualised those theories then, your wouldn't have your Einsteins of present-day.
Putting a "Vedic" before anything does not make it any more grand
This shows how little you know about Vedic mathematics, and how useful it is to the present day. Go do some reading.
Which proves nothing... blah blah blah. I was pointing out to the original poster that Indians do not speak Indian. Which, if these Americans who are so much greater than the rest of us, should have known about, with their excellent access to education and media, which the rest of us don't have.
It is sad that you are an Indian and saying this, but this has been India's biggest problem. That our own people don't have enough respect for our roots. You will never find an American putting America down, no matter how bad they may have been treated. They all love their country to death, warts and all. But an Indian expects absolute perfection from India, a country that is only 57 years old. And not just Indians, but everybody else too. It's not okay for an Indian to love India, or an Iraqi to love Iraq. But it's ok for an American to be passionate about America. Because, of course, other than America, no other place in the world could possibly be hospitable to humans. You get brainwashed by everything the Western media tells you and end up being ashamed about your own roots. But who is America to talk about human rights, considering that black and white people could not even drink from the same water fountain until the late 1960s? And if America is so concerned about democracy and freedom, how come they continue to support all these terrorists, and dictators? After having had 1000000 debates about this on Slashdot, not one American has responded with a rational coherent answer to this. They just choose to put down India instead, or give some shit about how Americans don't have to answer to anybody else. If Osama hadn't bombed New York, he would still be getting money from America. Pakistan gets its F-16s from America. Maybe if America stopped supporting them, India could stop spending on its defence and spend money where it really mattered. But anyway, it's pointless talking to somebody like you. You haven't even read most of my posts above. You just decided to get pissed off, simply because you must have had one bad vacation in some Indian village. I suggest you get over it and move on, and find out a little more about the Real World.
What is a far Asian? Somebody living a 100 miles away? I've heard of East Asian(Chinese), North Asian(Japanese/Siberian), South Asian(Sub-continental) and West Asian (Saudi Arabia e.t.c.). But never a far Asian.
Chinese people as a rule are more homogenous than Indians, and by all anecdotal evidence are much more disciplined."
haha. Chinese are not homogenous at all, although they look the same to "us". And discipline does not count, it's only important that they do what you want them to do.
I still stand by this statement. In India, you can cross over to a neighbouring state, and all of sudden not even be able to read that State's language, or understand it. It's written using a different script in some cases. This doesn't hold for one or two exceptions. It's the norm. The wedding customs followed vary. The type of cuisine can change drastically. Much more than say the difference between Sichuan or Cantonese (both are yummy btw). And Chinese people don't "look the same" to me. After having spent 12 years in Hong Kong, it's easy to spot the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Korean, no sweat. Same goes for their written and spoken languages. It's easy if you just bother to use your brain's power of observation. Eastern Europe and the Baltics have a shot, but they'll never be able to compete on numbers - human numbers. Size of most baltic countries = a small-sized city China/India.
My bad. I have to admit, I have never been to China. I've lived in Hong Kong, but I don't think that's representative of China...I guess I fell for the "Party Line";-) But it does seem that you have one predeominant language...this is something which India still hasn't been able to agree on. We have 28 languages with "Official Status"!!!!!
There's nothing close-minded about it. I'm simply saying India has the strengths conducive to software, whereas China is better with the hardware. The reason you don't know about any Indian inventions is because you must be American, and have never seen it on Fox News. Chess, and some significant additions to Mathematics originated in India. On top of there is Vedic Mathematics. And just because "Indian" is incomprehensible to you, doesn't mean it is to others. There is NO "Indian". People in India speak 28 different languages. The fact that there are so many, and also the fact that they all want their language to be prominent forces all of them to learn English. because English is not a particular to any region of India, so there is no bias associated with it.
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I took a few marketing classes in college, and the "Sounds cheaper" explanation was the reasoning they gave for the .99 pricing. They said that when people recall 5999, they say 5000+ dollars instead. But what's the point really - when you add on taxes, it's no longer 9.99 anyway...
Oh For the love of God, get an education in economics. Currencies don't really represent the strength of your economy, they're a measure of a lot of other things (of course, if your currency is tanking by more 10%, I think it's safe to say the economy is bad). Currencies that float mostly represent trade imbalances. The middle eastern currencies are almost worth 2 US$ - hint:The world depends on the middle east for a critical resource...
If you want your country to export more, you try and devalue your currency, if you want to reduce inflation, your currency may start rising, blah blah. Currency and economic strength are not always directly related.
Hafta agree with you....and the other thing I can't figure out is how this is any different (or more advanced) than the 6600 or the 9500...both seem to have almost the same features....
And also how to use the PREVIEW !#@#!#@#!#@...I must be new here.....
Sigh... I think it's time to implement and tags for the humour-challended people (like me)... :-(
Water goes through an unusual expansion between 0 deg and 4 deg celcius, (which is why you have water under a layer of ice)Water is most dense at 4 degrees, and that it why . Anyway, you're totally off on the second and the gram. The SI unit is KILOGram, not gram. , and that is defined by a lump of metal of that weightLink. Also the definition of a metre has been redefined as the distance it takes light to travel in certain amount of time. Finally, the second is defined as the time it takes a certain amount of radioactive material to decay. All links here. Nothing arbitrary about it. And that still doesn't explain how we're better off not using simple measurements like the Kilometre, The Centigrade scale and others.
I guess I'm feeding the troll...but how does using a webmail service depend on your OS? If you give out your gmail address to our Nigerian philanthropists, does it matter whether you have linux or windows? The spam is gonna go to your gmail acct....unless I'm missing something..
Seriously, I've worked with C, VB, C#, Java, C++, and there really was nothing worse than C++. At least VB and C# come with a kickass dev environment. C++ was awful even in that kickass dev env.
Well if they didn't read this article all you have to do is say "HEY Buddy! RTF/.A!". So at least you have a comeback! ;-)
Smart move bud....slashdot your own site...Somebody set up us a mirror please, because all this guy's bandwidht are belong to Slashdot clearly.
One has to wonder how much more stable and secure Windows would be if they had instead focused on a proprietary desktop software for Unix, bringing the speed and stability of Unix to the home users' desktop.
/. content would be lost (i.e. like the Is Windows XP faster than Linux? discussion, e.t.c.).
That's an interesting question, but what one really has to ask is what MS' financial position would be had it followed the above model.... probably nowhere, and that would mean that half of
It actually does work with some people. Some people actually cut pushy sales people some slack and say "Aw the poor kid must be desperate for his/her job. Let me make his/her day and buy something from them". I've seen this happen many times. And some people are just weak-willed, and eventually their resistance breaks down. A sad but true empirical observation... :-(
I don't see what is so wrong with Cell Phones becoming the primary way of communicating? In my neck of the woods, the cell phone service has only gone down maybe twice in 8 years (it went down on New Years Eve at 11.56 pm...I wonder why...). But the landline service in my country (I'm outside the American Continent) sucks ass. As it is, in a few yrs Cellphones themselves will be redundant once the WiMax and/or 3G/4G technology actually becomes viable and possibly cheap.
I never said it was as 'good' as bash. I simply said you've got your cmd line interface + shell in windows too, and if you actually bother to figure it out (like you did with Linux) you'd find it has quite a bit of power too.
I don't know what your friends have on their system, but I've never had to re-install XP even once on my system. Of course it should be noted, that I did a clean install, not an upgrade from some older version of Windows. Also, I've got uptime figures of about 30 days without reboot - I haven't tested it for more, because I do have power bills to pay, and I'm not doing anything which requires 100% uptime. I hear lots of horror stories about XP, but XP definitely beats the crap out of any windows version before -I'm talking home versions here.
Heh, must be the caffei....snore....plonk! Er... what was that you just said?
My bad. grep, awk, tail, head, less, whois and ssh are all available as free tools for Windows. There's even a frikkin' emacs version. Sheesh. I'm not bother with pasting the links. Just google "ssh for windows" or whatever.
Let's make this a little more objective (yes Linux still wins out)
grep => the find command in windows.
sed => available as a free download for Windows
tail, head => I can live without 'em, but ok you win on those two
vi => You must be kidding me right. You can say what you want about windows, but there's no shortage of good text editors. If you haven't found any, you really are living in a parallel universe
bash => cmd? I can live without bash
less => ok you win this one too
make => lol. You're going to talk about the disgusting make file syntax as some advantage over windows? You have make in windows too.
iptables => not informed enough to know what this is. (Yes, I DON'T use Linux/Unix
ssh => HyperTerminal, and ssh utilities are available. At least something using Kerberos is
sudo => Available in Win 2K, Win XP onwards. You can change the setting of each executable separately and allow it run under a separate user if you want.
sendmail => No arguments. Sendmail rules
httpd => Not even going to justify this with a response
php => and this has what to do with Operating systems?
perl => ummm, runs in windows too....
tar, gzip => WinZip, or Win XP's own compression
ch-anything => lots of gui equivalents
crontab => Conceding this one
host => This is probably not a big deal
wget, whois => really no big deal.
Well if you have Windows XP, maybe once, at the most twice. If you have Windows ME, never, but that's because you've probably reformatted your hard drive and switched over to Linux after using the Sturdy and Stable ME version.... As for Windows 95/98, I'll let somebody else talk about them.
Hello! Why the heck are you people flocking to enter Europe and USA then?
You just proved my own point. You think that Indians and Chinese are flocking to America/Europe, when the number of people emigrating is tiny compared to the populations of our country. And I made the mistake of "flocking" to America. Luckily I had the sense to come back, after my shit-all experience there.
If thats true, how come China already has their own redflag linux distro which is doing great. Where's India's favorite linux distro ?
And this means what to anybody?
Zero and the decimel system in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. We are living in the 20th/21st century and show me the von Neumanns and Einsteins of India. I guess u can't. My reason for bringing this up was because the original poster mentioned the Chinese inventions of Paper and Gunpowder, both of which are 1000/2000 years old. Show me the Einsteins/Von Nuemans of China. Anyway, there was a contemporary of Einstein going by the name of Bose, who improved on a lot of his work. Ever heard of Einstein-Bose Condensation? Furthermore, considering India laid some of the basic foundations for Mathematics, I would say that if Indians hadn't conceptualised those theories then, your wouldn't have your Einsteins of present-day.
Putting a "Vedic" before anything does not make it any more grand
This shows how little you know about Vedic mathematics, and how useful it is to the present day. Go do some reading.
Which proves nothing... blah blah blah. I was pointing out to the original poster that Indians do not speak Indian. Which, if these Americans who are so much greater than the rest of us, should have known about, with their excellent access to education and media, which the rest of us don't have.
It is sad that you are an Indian and saying this, but this has been India's biggest problem. That our own people don't have enough respect for our roots. You will never find an American putting America down, no matter how bad they may have been treated. They all love their country to death, warts and all. But an Indian expects absolute perfection from India, a country that is only 57 years old. And not just Indians, but everybody else too. It's not okay for an Indian to love India, or an Iraqi to love Iraq. But it's ok for an American to be passionate about America. Because, of course, other than America, no other place in the world could possibly be hospitable to humans. You get brainwashed by everything the Western media tells you and end up being ashamed about your own roots. But who is America to talk about human rights, considering that black and white people could not even drink from the same water fountain until the late 1960s? And if America is so concerned about democracy and freedom, how come they continue to support all these terrorists, and dictators? After having had 1000000 debates about this on Slashdot, not one American has responded with a rational coherent answer to this. They just choose to put down India instead, or give some shit about how Americans don't have to answer to anybody else. If Osama hadn't bombed New York, he would still be getting money from America. Pakistan gets its F-16s from America. Maybe if America stopped supporting them, India could stop spending on its defence and spend money where it really mattered. But anyway, it's pointless talking to somebody like you. You haven't even read most of my posts above. You just decided to get pissed off, simply because you must have had one bad vacation in some Indian village. I suggest you get over it and move on, and find out a little more about the Real World.
Nice try at flamebait. Not working.
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Chinese/Far Asians cannot code
Flamebait,troll,load-of-crap,not-worth-replying-t
What is a far Asian? Somebody living a 100 miles away? I've heard of East Asian(Chinese), North Asian(Japanese/Siberian), South Asian(Sub-continental) and West Asian (Saudi Arabia e.t.c.). But never a far Asian. Chinese people as a rule are more homogenous than Indians, and by all anecdotal evidence are much more disciplined."
haha. Chinese are not homogenous at all, although they look the same to "us". And discipline does not count, it's only important that they do what you want them to do.
I still stand by this statement. In India, you can cross over to a neighbouring state, and all of sudden not even be able to read that State's language, or understand it. It's written using a different script in some cases. This doesn't hold for one or two exceptions. It's the norm. The wedding customs followed vary. The type of cuisine can change drastically. Much more than say the difference between Sichuan or Cantonese (both are yummy btw). And Chinese people don't "look the same" to me. After having spent 12 years in Hong Kong, it's easy to spot the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Korean, no sweat. Same goes for their written and spoken languages. It's easy if you just bother to use your brain's power of observation. Eastern Europe and the Baltics have a shot, but they'll never be able to compete on numbers - human numbers. Size of most baltic countries = a small-sized city China/India.
(sigh)...I must be new here. That is EXACTLY what I'm saying. That China is MORE SUITED to producing the Hardware! RTFP...oh never mind.
My bad. I have to admit, I have never been to China. I've lived in Hong Kong, but I don't think that's representative of China...I guess I fell for the "Party Line";-) But it does seem that you have one predeominant language...this is something which India still hasn't been able to agree on. We have 28 languages with "Official Status"!!!!!
There's nothing close-minded about it. I'm simply saying India has the strengths conducive to software, whereas China is better with the hardware. The reason you don't know about any Indian inventions is because you must be American, and have never seen it on Fox News. Chess, and some significant additions to Mathematics originated in India. On top of there is Vedic Mathematics. And just because "Indian" is incomprehensible to you, doesn't mean it is to others. There is NO "Indian". People in India speak 28 different languages. The fact that there are so many, and also the fact that they all want their language to be prominent forces all of them to learn English. because English is not a particular to any region of India, so there is no bias associated with it.