India !!!
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I see Bill Gates is giving 20 million dollars to IT education in India. Is that like, 3 cents a person ? It's small change compared to how much they can save by moving development work there, from what I understand of wages there. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
Well why don't you then offer to donate 4 cents a person? In my country we have a nice saying that translates close to: "Put up or shut up..." ;-) Tomaz Tomaz Stih, B.Sc.SE
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If they are going to give it as software licences, then it is worth nothing to India. My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
Waiting in vain for some Indian to oppose this view and be extremely upset with it. :-( Tomaz Tomaz Stih, B.Sc.SE
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I see Bill Gates is giving 20 million dollars to IT education in India. Is that like, 3 cents a person ? It's small change compared to how much they can save by moving development work there, from what I understand of wages there. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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Well why don't you then offer to donate 4 cents a person? In my country we have a nice saying that translates close to: "Put up or shut up..." ;-) Tomaz Tomaz Stih, B.Sc.SE
We have a saying too. Something about smelling what you're shovelling... My point is that when companies blow their own trumpets about stuff like this, it's often donations of product ( which in this case means each $200 is more like 2 cents ), and it's for their own benefit. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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I heard that it was more like $400M. Cheers, Simon "From now on, if rogue states want to buy weapons of mass destruction, they're going to have to go on eBay," Mr. Bezos said.
Yes, I quoted the 20M from several news feeds on CP, only to be told it was $400M, above. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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Colin Davies wrote: Is it for sale ? Everything is for sale. I reckon you could take over Vanuatu for a lot less, but then the UN would get upset.... Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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I see Bill Gates is giving 20 million dollars to IT education in India. Is that like, 3 cents a person ? It's small change compared to how much they can save by moving development work there, from what I understand of wages there. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
Its $100 over 10 years, with a population of 1 billion. That makes 1 cent per person per year Revenue from M$ sales per year............ Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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I heard that it was more like $400M. Cheers, Simon "From now on, if rogue states want to buy weapons of mass destruction, they're going to have to go on eBay," Mr. Bezos said.
The $400 million is investment in software production. The 'gift' is $100 million over 10 years, or 1 cent perhead of population per year :~ Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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Its $100 over 10 years, with a population of 1 billion. That makes 1 cent per person per year Revenue from M$ sales per year............ Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
Exactly my point - they can expect huge return on this investment. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002
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Christian Graus wrote: Everything is for sale Everything can be sold, but everything isn't purchasable
Who gives a f*ck If my life sucks ? I just know one day I won't give up Beg For Me/KoЯn
'everything is for sale' is a truism. Obviously my daughter is not for sale, but most things are, if the price is right. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002 Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002 During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002