Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:58:26 03/28/01
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On March 28, 2001 at 23:22:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On March 28, 2001 at 22:53:20, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>I could put it in two lines if the one liner sounds too sneaky for you.
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>>Your only reference seems to be your country, and at what price you can get
>>things in your country, and what you can do in your country, and what people
>>earn monthly in your country, and what is standard in your country, and what
>>kind of computers you have in your country, and what computers your student can
>>afford to buy in your country.
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>My reference is where I live. I notice you do _exactly_ the same.
I have given the prices I must pay here as an example of how different prices
can be from your figures.
I would actually like to have some other examples. Eugene has mentionned that in
Russia prices were cheap, while Albert has mentionned that in Brazil taxes are
very high, like in Guadeloupe.
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>the world doesn't live behind such a socialistic tax structure. Sure, it may
>well be that Intel processors are cheaper here, because the company is
>headquartered here. I don't pretend to know, nor want to know, about the
>various tax bites various world governments take out of their citizens.
Well next time you pretend that something is cheap, think about this. And think
about average salary in other countries. That will not make you unpopular, even
where you live.
>But after all the taxes and everything, the 'percentages' must still hold.
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>That for whatever it costs you to buy a 1ghz single cpu machine, another 25%
>will double the performance...
If "whatever" is expensive, the dual will be 25% more expensive than "whatever",
that was already expensive.
That's what I understand.
>>Sorry that is more than two lines, but I guess you get the picture.
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>>Not that I have anything against your country. You are lucky to live in a place
>>like that.
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>>Maybe it's just that I don't need several processors in order to send some
>>programs into DEEP trouble? ;)
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>You _might_ be surprised about the "deep trouble". :)
Surprise me, Bob. :)
Christophe
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