Perhaps it should have been given another name than a common statistical probability distribution (for some reason people who explore new programming languages are often interested in math and may therefore mix things up)
They don't have an office in Europe just "to handle their European affairs", they have an office specifically in Ireland only to forward their profits from their affairs in many countries to that office because Irish taxes are very low, thus "cheating" other countries of their taxes.
I'm not making a statement of whether this is right or wrong, it just a fact.
Both of the english articles listed in this slashdot-post says that Lundis Energi has no desire to do anything. However, in a Swedish newspaper http://www.metro.se/se/article/2007/08/28/14/2423- 48/index.xml they say:
"Our technicians are looking in the matter to see what we can do but it is mainly up to Microsoft to fix this issue"/Åsa Holmander, product manager at Lundis Energi (rough translation)
Any Swedish company can become a member of SIS buy paying somewhere around $300-$500 per year.
To be allowed to vote in this particular issue an extra 15 000 Sek ($2500) was needed.
So yeah, it is open for anyone with cash (but they had to be members of SIS since before.
You can do the same comparison for just about everything, how the car has it's roots in the horsewagon, how the internet has it's root in just about any other media distribution etc...
And while I'm at it, why say "YouTube and its knock-offs", YouTube wasn't exactly the first site where one can post homevideos. YouTube is a knock-off which just happens to be the biggest.
The world's six billion people can be divided into two groups: group one, who know why every good car company ships products with known bugs; and group two, who don't. Those in group 1 tend to forget what life was like before our youthful optimism was spoiled by reality. Sometimes we encounter a person in group two, a new hire on the team or a customer, who is shocked that any car company would ship a product before every last bug is fixed. Every time GM releases a version of Cadillac, stories are written about how the open bug count is a five-digit number. People in group two find that interesting. But if you are a product developer, you need to get into group one, where I am.
Seriously, this is true for almost any business sector with complex products.
The retail price is directly proportional to the taxes (ie. taxes that companies has to pay like employment taxes etc..). And since the UK has higher taxes than the US the price is higher.
Here in Sweden it will be even more expensive since we have the highest taxes in the world. It's the same with everything, even a car manufactured in Sweden is much more expensive to buy in Sweden than in the US.
Isn't this a logical thing o do? Why should Madonnas ticket sell for the same price as "Bobo and the Jolly Orchestra"?
I'm just waiting for the rest of the media industry to do the same, set their prices based on the product. For example: A CD which costs $1M to produce shouldn't have the same price as CD's that cost's $50k.
I know that this isn't always true today but in most cases it is.
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Perhaps it should have been given another name than a common statistical probability distribution (for some reason people who explore new programming languages are often interested in math and may therefore mix things up)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_distribution
They don't have an office in Europe just "to handle their European affairs", they have an office specifically in Ireland only to forward their profits from their affairs in many countries to that office because Irish taxes are very low, thus "cheating" other countries of their taxes.
I'm not making a statement of whether this is right or wrong, it just a fact.
Both of the english articles listed in this slashdot-post says that Lundis Energi has no desire to do anything. However, in a Swedish newspaper http://www.metro.se/se/article/2007/08/28/14/2423- 48/index.xml they say:
"Our technicians are looking in the matter to see what we can do but it is mainly up to Microsoft to fix this issue" /Åsa Holmander, product manager at Lundis Energi (rough translation)
Any Swedish company can become a member of SIS buy paying somewhere around $300-$500 per year. To be allowed to vote in this particular issue an extra 15 000 Sek ($2500) was needed. So yeah, it is open for anyone with cash (but they had to be members of SIS since before.
You can do the same comparison for just about everything, how the car has it's roots in the horsewagon, how the internet has it's root in just about any other media distribution etc...
And while I'm at it, why say "YouTube and its knock-offs", YouTube wasn't exactly the first site where one can post homevideos. YouTube is a knock-off which just happens to be the biggest.
The world's six billion people can be divided into two groups: group one, who know why every good car company ships products with known bugs; and group two, who don't. Those in group 1 tend to forget what life was like before our youthful optimism was spoiled by reality. Sometimes we encounter a person in group two, a new hire on the team or a customer, who is shocked that any car company would ship a product before every last bug is fixed. Every time GM releases a version of Cadillac, stories are written about how the open bug count is a five-digit number. People in group two find that interesting. But if you are a product developer, you need to get into group one, where I am.
Seriously, this is true for almost any business sector with complex products.
Actually the EU also has the phonecall database, the UK led the way to that one too:t m
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4527840.s
It was recently decided that the US will have full access to EU's database aswell.
It's actually quite simple:
The retail price is directly proportional to the taxes (ie. taxes that companies has to pay like employment taxes etc..). And since the UK has higher taxes than the US the price is higher.
Here in Sweden it will be even more expensive since we have the highest taxes in the world.
It's the same with everything, even a car manufactured in Sweden is much more expensive to buy in Sweden than in the US.
Isn't this a logical thing o do? Why should Madonnas ticket sell for the same price as "Bobo and the Jolly Orchestra"?
I'm just waiting for the rest of the media industry to do the same, set their prices based on the product. For example: A CD which costs $1M to produce shouldn't have the same price as CD's that cost's $50k.
I know that this isn't always true today but in most cases it is.
Why is everyone trying to explain this with THE cause?
The decline in marketshare is a result of several things:
They don't sell AMD, they outsourced their call centers to india, the competitors is getting more competitive etc..
It's not just one of the above