So, stupid question, but does that mean I could go to India with like $10,000 and basicaly live like a king?
$10,000 is around Rs. 4,50,000 An avarage upper middle class 'matchbox' appartmant (far from king like) little away from 'happening places' costs Rs. 17,00,000.
What most people dont realize is that india is divided economically into various classes. There are many people who earn less then $50/mo and support their family of 10. And there are those in equally large numbers who earn $1500/mo and have to support their family of 4. India is not as poor as official numbers dictate. That is because most people have double incomes. One white and one black (where taxes arent declared). Previous generation also didnt like to showoff much and their only purpose in life was to accumalte wealth. Thus adding to the image of poor indian.
In India, 100 USD is a lot of money and could be a month's pay for an architect
Even students working part time in call centers earn more then that... True a lot of people have as low income as that, but they generally dont care about the internet. They dont even have computers at home. I am talking about rickshaw drivers and fruit sellers. Architects earn _way_ higher then that. You probably need to redo your research.
Based on the local economic conditions in India, $2.30 is probably totally reasonable.
Based on intended target, $2.30 is dirt cheap.
That said, I cant fscking wait for this service to come out. I know infrastructure is going to be sloppy, but I can deal with that. Right now I pay aprox USD 22 (Rs 1000) for 128kbps cable connection. 512kbps dsl connection costs 4-5 times that. Which is reasonable for small businesses but not home users.
One possible solution would be to divide Debian into a "server version" and one for the workstations who actually _want_ (or need) to run stuff from testing. Although this would mean double the work for the package maintainers (et al) I'm sure it would make Debian even more attractive as a desktop alternative.
Or just use Ubuntu warty... For the bleeding edge developer version, there is ubuntu hoary. Debian based distro aimed for desktop users with a huge and highly updated repository. Its gentoo's answer from deb binaries.
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That said, I cant fscking wait for this service to come out. I know infrastructure is going to be sloppy, but I can deal with that. Right now I pay aprox USD 22 (Rs 1000) for 128kbps cable connection. 512kbps dsl connection costs 4-5 times that. Which is reasonable for small businesses but not home users.
Or just use Ubuntu warty... For the bleeding edge developer version, there is ubuntu hoary. Debian based distro aimed for desktop users with a huge and highly updated repository. Its gentoo's answer from deb binaries.
If we make it analyze all the religious texts, scriptures and books.. Can it answer the question "What is the meaning of life"?