Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:20:45 03/29/01
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On March 29, 2001 at 00:58:26, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 28, 2001 at 23:22:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 28, 2001 at 22:53:20, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>>I could put it in two lines if the one liner sounds too sneaky for you. >>> >>>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. >> >>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. > > > > >> Most of >>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. > > I _never_ said anything was "cheap". I said a dual is very "cost effective". Anytime you can 2x the performance for 25% more cost, that is a "good deal". Don't sell the computer chess enthusiasts short here. Some went so far as to buy Kryotech machines. Those start to cost in the same range as a quad. > > >>But after all the taxes and everything, the 'percentages' must still hold. >> >>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. It will cost 25% more. It will be twice as fast. That is _still_ a good deal. > >That's what I understand. > > > > >>>Sorry that is more than two lines, but I guess you get the picture. >>> >>>Not that I have anything against your country. You are lucky to live in a place >>>like that. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Maybe it's just that I don't need several processors in order to send some >>>programs into DEEP trouble? ;) >>> >>> >> >> >>You _might_ be surprised about the "deep trouble". :) > > > >Surprise me, Bob. :) > > > > > Christophe It happens all the time on ICC. :)
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