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$10M CAD (or, $138.22 USD)
Learn2math. kthx
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I think it was a joke....
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*laughs*
I was trying to find out if that was a joke against the Canadian dollar.Admin
It's a joke...
I like the part about buying it for one cent :)
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No, that is the actual exchange rate. And I am being completely serious. Seriously. I know a guy in Canada, and he confirmed it. That makes it fact, not speculation.
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If $10M CAD = $138.22 USD
Then they paid less than a penny to buy the product.
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Seriously? Why can't people recognize sarcasm these days?
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$10M CAD (or, $138.22 USD)
Learn2math. kthx
I concur. I believe it is traditional to maintain the same number of digits of precision. This should be $138 USD.
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I dunno.. For a product that lost so much money and had nearly unrecoverable source, I wouldn't pay more than $1 for it. :)
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Google gave me this:
<font size="4">10<font size="-2"> </font>000<font size="-2"> </font>000 Canadian dollars = 8.74125874 million U.S. dollars</font>
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The real WTF is that the company paid one Canadian dollar for the junked up software. They should of demanded that they made it open source so they could of gotten a copy of it for free.
Captcha: creative
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canadian dollars are so worthless they don't trade anything less than the $1,000 CAD amount therefore that are 5 significant digits, the same as the $US amount. ;)
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8.7M usd
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-10%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=10%2C000%2C000+cad+to+usd&btnG=Search
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Say way people can't recognize trolls trying to get people to bite the whole "It's sarcasm!?!?!" thing.
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The joke is dated, the Canadian dollar is almost at 90 cents US ( 0.87 +/- ). I guess it was funnier when the US economy was doing better...
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Peter Devil was clearly in need of this.
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Agreed. Whatever we (Canadians) say is in actuality FACT!
--doc0tis
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So using your logic, nothing on the internet should ever be taken seriously...
No, I think you give some people too much benefit of the doubt. Even if this person was trying to make himself look funny in leiu of a previous joke (very lame and hint of a quite unfunny person), it still makes you laugh AT the person, not WITH.
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<grammernazialert>
It does annoy me how educated people here can't get the basics of language down, and yes it is only English speakers that butcher English in this fashion.
They should have demanded that they made it open source so they could have gotten a copy of it for free.
</grammernazialert>
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By George, I think she's got it!
[ captcha: giggity]
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Whoever said I was educated. Me not think and talk good
Captcha: captcha? WTF
Why is captcha the captcha text?
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The real WTF is that so many people here spew this stupid "the real WTF" crap every time anything is posted.
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It's just a shame that the original story got distorted by whoever edit this site... For the one that are really interested in the REAL story (Which is less spectacular but closer to reality), you can go to my blog: http://dailyitstories.blogspot.com/
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noting that the cdn dollar is close to 0.90 of the US dollar that makes your us dollar only 10% useful.
Add to that the Euro is selling for more than the us dollar, makes the europeans that much better.
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The competitor obliged and, in a symbolic gesture, bought the software, it's source code, for a single Canadian dollar.
O.K. I know I'm a worthless grammar Nazi, but it's its, not it's!
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So this company didn't have any version control system or backups of any kind? Sounds like a lot of WTFs have been glossed over here.
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<grammernazialert>
"gotten" That's a big sad face. Use of that word makes me shudder.
"They should have demanded that they made it open source so they could get a copy of it for free."
</grammernazialert>
hehe. "craptastic"
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The competitor STILL got ripped off!
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That was my first thought - how can someone sabotage the code? It's all in the repository.
If it's not in the repository, it's not source code. It's just a bunch of text.
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I'm pretty sure it should be:
"They shouldave demanded that they made it open source so that they have get a copy of it for free."
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The shenanigans guy is slow today. He should have been spewing his nonsense 5 minutes ago.
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I'm wondering about "Peter Devil"... was his real name Paul Satan or something?
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The Symantec ad is part of the WTF right?
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I guess people don't check the names any more, huh?Oh, and thanks to the grammar nazi on the "could of" thing.
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Actually, the number $10M has only one significant digit. Therefore it should be $100USD.
If you're going to bring the pedantry, it better be brought-en.
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It does annoy me how educated people here can't get the basics of language down, and yes it is only English speakers that butcher English in this fashion.
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Code Monkey wake up, go work, bang keyboard.
Code Monkey not write tech doc.
Code Monkey very simple man.
Code Monkey see captcha: Zork
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No, no... I've seen Canadian money -- completely worthless. Real Canadians use cases of Labatt's as the official currency.
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If you are going to keep the same number of precision, then it would be just $100 USD. There is only one digit of precision in the CAD figure.
Since the actual exchange rate is near 87%, rounding to the nearest significant precision would actually yield $10M CAD = $9M USD.
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shoulda, coulda, woulda. Personally I prefer should've
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<pedantic>
Umm... $10M CAD would be 1 sig. fig therefore if we were gonna maintain sig figs, it would be only $100 USD
</pedantic>
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Actually, we use these.
Captcha: enterprisey. Yuppers!
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I suspect that the version control system was removed so that sufficient space to install Diablo II could be freed.
As for the backups...during "routine" off-line testing they probably all tested as "bad" and got thrown out or recycled. Or maybe they did a full backup cycle (including one full GFS tape rotation) right after Diablo II was installed (you know, it's pretty hard to install Diablo II, you wouldn't want to go through it more than once when you could just restore from backup in the event of a hard crash ;-).
If I were in that situation I'm not sure I'd be professional enough to not do the same...
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If I were the competitor, I'd require the salesdroids to take me out to a restaurant where the menu starts at $50 a plate--charged as a business entertainment expense to the selling company. Good food for $0.87, and I all I have to do is bring home a CD with some data on it.
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If it doesn't work, just throw money at it and hope for the best.
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Yeah, but they don't take Canadian Tire Dollars down at the Dominion.
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So they didn't sell it off for a dollar? Damn. That was the cherry on top.
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All saying that $10M has 1 sigfig are tragically wrong. 0 is just as significant as non-zero, and given the M acts as the exponent, this is equivalent to 1010**6. Which is two significant figures, or else it'd be 110**7. However if we're told specifically that it was exactly 10M, down to the fractions of cents, and the exchange rate was known exactly at the exact same time, then we don't care anyway. No really.
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Umm... $10M CAD would be 1 sig. fig therefore if we were gonna maintain sig figs, it would be only $100 USD
I'd argue that $10M can be seen as 2 sig. figs. 1 sig. fig would be written as $1*10^7.
So properly, $140.
captcha: captcha
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If the the misspelling of "grammar" in both of these posts was intended as a joke:
Ha, ha! That's damn funny!
If not:
WTF???!?