ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 68

[Ray]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 05:32 +0000, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
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> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 23:22 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > > Let ME tempt the analogy police: Suppose you're an electric razor
> > > manufacturer and your razors are charged on 110V.  You find that
> > > people in Europe aren't buying your product because they can't 
> > > charge on 220V.
> 
> > Invalid analogy.  
> 
> Guilty as charged. :) 
> 
> > Writing a software modem is like 1000x more work than
> > writing a driver for a hardware modem, 
> 
> Sure, sure. Indeed, arguably, nearly ALL the work involved in making
> such a modem is in the software. 
> 
> Then again, I bet writing an MS Office or Photoshop equivalent was a
> lot
> of work, too. :)   Or getting Bluetooth to work seamlessly and
> transparently is currently still a lot of work, too. 
> 
> I worry that things like Bluetooth are sexy enough for developers to
> do
> the work, whereas most developers (who are in the Western world) have
> moved on beyond dial-up modems and are all connected on cable or DSL
> or
> other high bandwidth connections.  So nobody is worrying about dial-up
> modems anymore, but I'm signaling that it's an issue for the
> acceptance
> of Ubuntu in out of the way places.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chanchao 



OK for starters Europe operates on 240 volts, secondly all, and I mean
all electrical appliances have a switch inside that will change between
110 & 240 volts, it's just a case of looking and finding out. How easy
do you think it would be to turn out millions of electrical appliances,
and make one set just  for America. Yea right.   I hear you say, if you
don't beleive me open up your razor and have a look. The only difference
is the plug type.