Soda is $0.99 for a two liter. $1.50 if you get Pepsi when it's not on sale. That raises the cost to, well significantly less than $16 which is what a four person BK meal would cost.
I'm not advocating complete fast food abstinance. I eat fast food quite a bit. But if I was very broke, hungry and had almost no money, I certainly wouldn't be looking to BK for my next meal. As for not enjoying cooking for yourself, yes that is true. But if you have little money, then that is a sacrafice you must make.
All I'm saying is fast food is not cheaper. I'm sure most people can find at least 20 minutes to make dinner. Make it a family bonding time if need be. Not that I have anything against fast food. I can see plenty of reasons for eating there every so often, be it shortage of time or just the fact that Whoppers taste good. All I'm trying to prove is that fast food is not the only thing the poor can afford.
No worse than a diet of pure grease (or buy some meat sauce:). But that was but one example, we can do more. How about london broil? I can get 4lb of quality beef for $10 when on sale (periodic buy 1 get 2 free). Give each person a pound of steak, and the meal only costs $2.50. Throw in a bag of mixed greens ($3), a 2 liter of juice or soda, and you're still cheaper than fast food (although I don't advocate eating a whole pound, which makes the deal even better). Roaster chickens are less than $1 a pound. Buy whole breasts or parts and take the skin off yourself. Turkey is cheap (20lb frozen bird for less than $15 will keep you eating for weeks) Dried peas cost $0.50 a bag. Ground beef is cheap. Pork chops aren't too expensive either. I'd expect eating vegeterian/vegan would cost more than eating meat, as I find meat fills me up better. Want some more flavor - spend $3 and plant some fresh herbs by the window. It'll last you several months with minimal care.
Lunches. Half a pound of ham costs $2 and can make four sandwitches, and a loaf of bread is $1. A can of fruit punch from the store is $0.50. Bag of popcorn or chips another $0.50. So one lunch will cost under $1.75, be relatively good for you, and plentiful. Subway can't beat that.
Simply put, a family of four would spend about $15 on fast food for dinner. You can easily make a wholesome family meal for less than $15 today. And this is _without_ charity/government assistance like food stamps. I'm not saying that people shouldn't ever eat fast food, heck I do about once every other week. But from a cost analysis, fast food doesn't come out cheaper (and no comparing McNuggets to lobster please).
Do you know how much cholesterol, saturated fat and sodium is in a traditional french cream sauce?
Still, my point was that fast food is not cheaper than buying from the market. I don't get your point, and you certainly didn't prove mine wrong. By the way, you can make that same lemon grass organic blueberry crepe at home for about half as much as the restaurant.
1 Whopper medium size combo meal with tax: $4.06 Feeds 1. Final price: $4.06 per person
1 pound Barilla spaghetti: $1.29 (when on sale.99) 1 jar Ragu spaghetti sauce: $2.50 (when on sale $2) Grated cheese and electricity: $1 (overestimate) Feeds 2-4 people. Final price without sale: $2.40 or $1.20 per person.
That's for name brand stuff, and when it's not on sale. If you make spaghetti on sale, it can cost less than $1 per person, and is more satisfying and healty than fast food.
There should be subcategories too./Programs/Sound,/Programs/Graphics, and so forth. I just did a count and there are 1920 things in/usr/bin, 201 in/usr/sbin, and 92 in/usr/local/bin. That's way too messy, and I'm not even including subdirectories in that count. Over two thousand programs in just three directories.
Your script is, enterprise speaking, useless. It doesn't handle computers that are disconnected or offline. It also doesn't show any error output. If an install fails, you won't know. It doesn't check for nor deal with dependencies. It doesn't allow for static nor dynamic groups. It assumes the rpm is on the end nodes, and even if you pull from a central site it can't load balance or throttle. There is no metering or monitoring capabilities. That is not a mass deployment script. I'm talking about 5000, 10000 or 50000 nodes, not 50.
In the enterprise, desktop management is a very big issue that still hasn't been solved completely. In the Windows world there is SMS, ZenWorks and a slew of vendors offering application deployment, application management, asset control, metering and patch management. Does anything like this exist for Linux at all?
Well, if there really was a video game, The Last Starfighter would of been on the list of good ones. It's close enough in concept to a huge list of Atari & 80's arcade games.
Yeah that's the same reason why I don't feel overly sorry for the people near retirement who lost their savings during the recent downturn. If you're investing in stocks you have to know how to play. Every high school should have a week long lesson explaining how to retire and invest. Otherwise invest in bonds or mutual funds - practically no risk and still a good return. What I'd like to see is SS be either voluntary and self containing or completely altered. None of this raising taxes to balance it bull. SS started at less than 2% tax, and is now at effectively 15% and still is going to run a deficit. SS could make a nice bond or balanced asset program, where you automatically have only 5% of your pay put into the program. Sadly enough, SS probably hurts the poor the most. The lower wage earners probably can't afford to put an extra 6% of their pay into their own personal retirement account like I can. Even if I could count on SS to be paying anything in 40-50 years, it'd be a pathetic pittance compared to my private accounts.
"Okay, Dilbert is polite, honest, employed, and educated. And he stays home. These are good traits, but they don't explain the incredible sex appeal. So what's the attraction? I think it's a Darwinian thing. We're attracted to the people who have the best ability to survive and thrive. In the old days, it was important to be able to run down an antelope and kill it with a single blow to the forehead. But that skill is becoming less important every year"
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
As more people see the benefits of the stock market, 401K, and bonds as investment options, the likelyhood of social security being phased out will increase. Even the most conservative portfolio can earn 5% return. If you're young and can handle some risk, you can get 8-12%. Soc Sec is somewhere around 2%, depending on who you ask, and you don't get to pass anything on to your kids. Of course, there isn't enough financial education, so many people just plainly don't know how to retire safely.
Jabber (from the commercial Jabber company, not the generic protocol) has a server user interface that makes sendmail configs look fun, no polls, no surveys, no screensharing, no whiteboard and no moderated chat rooms. Sun has all of those, and some are very useful.
Copy protection issues aside...if a CD can muck up a CD player to the extent that it no longer works, then I say blame the manufacturer as well for making a bad player.
I looked at WebInspect, and it does a decent job at vuln scanning. It also inspects the web pages, forms and parameters. Found an SQL injection bug in one site, which could of lead to session hijacking. The downside - it costs about $5000, but does some cool stuff.
Don't forget the other important fact: not breaking federal copyright law. Downloading with Apple's service would not be a violation, while Kazaa is (except when permission to redistribute is granted by the copyright holder of course).
About a year and a half ago I was looking for a hardware RAID controller that had stable Linux drivers and supports IDE for my personal server. Know of any?
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I think his argument is that republican political ads cause recessions. ;-)
Soda is $0.99 for a two liter. $1.50 if you get Pepsi when it's not on sale. That raises the cost to, well significantly less than $16 which is what a four person BK meal would cost.
I'm not advocating complete fast food abstinance. I eat fast food quite a bit. But if I was very broke, hungry and had almost no money, I certainly wouldn't be looking to BK for my next meal. As for not enjoying cooking for yourself, yes that is true. But if you have little money, then that is a sacrafice you must make.
All I'm saying is fast food is not cheaper. I'm sure most people can find at least 20 minutes to make dinner. Make it a family bonding time if need be. Not that I have anything against fast food. I can see plenty of reasons for eating there every so often, be it shortage of time or just the fact that Whoppers taste good. All I'm trying to prove is that fast food is not the only thing the poor can afford.
No worse than a diet of pure grease (or buy some meat sauce :). But that was but one example, we can do more. How about london broil? I can get 4lb of quality beef for $10 when on sale (periodic buy 1 get 2 free). Give each person a pound of steak, and the meal only costs $2.50. Throw in a bag of mixed greens ($3), a 2 liter of juice or soda, and you're still cheaper than fast food (although I don't advocate eating a whole pound, which makes the deal even better). Roaster chickens are less than $1 a pound. Buy whole breasts or parts and take the skin off yourself. Turkey is cheap (20lb frozen bird for less than $15 will keep you eating for weeks) Dried peas cost $0.50 a bag. Ground beef is cheap. Pork chops aren't too expensive either. I'd expect eating vegeterian/vegan would cost more than eating meat, as I find meat fills me up better. Want some more flavor - spend $3 and plant some fresh herbs by the window. It'll last you several months with minimal care.
Lunches. Half a pound of ham costs $2 and can make four sandwitches, and a loaf of bread is $1. A can of fruit punch from the store is $0.50. Bag of popcorn or chips another $0.50. So one lunch will cost under $1.75, be relatively good for you, and plentiful. Subway can't beat that.
Simply put, a family of four would spend about $15 on fast food for dinner. You can easily make a wholesome family meal for less than $15 today. And this is _without_ charity/government assistance like food stamps. I'm not saying that people shouldn't ever eat fast food, heck I do about once every other week. But from a cost analysis, fast food doesn't come out cheaper (and no comparing McNuggets to lobster please).
Do you know how much cholesterol, saturated fat and sodium is in a traditional french cream sauce?
Still, my point was that fast food is not cheaper than buying from the market. I don't get your point, and you certainly didn't prove mine wrong. By the way, you can make that same lemon grass organic blueberry crepe at home for about half as much as the restaurant.
Let's dispute this "fast food is cheaper" myth.
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1 Whopper medium size combo meal with tax: $4.06
Feeds 1. Final price: $4.06 per person
1 pound Barilla spaghetti: $1.29 (when on sale
1 jar Ragu spaghetti sauce: $2.50 (when on sale $2)
Grated cheese and electricity: $1 (overestimate)
Feeds 2-4 people. Final price without sale: $2.40 or $1.20 per person.
That's for name brand stuff, and when it's not on sale. If you make spaghetti on sale, it can cost less than $1 per person, and is more satisfying and healty than fast food.
There should be subcategories too. /Programs/Sound, /Programs/Graphics, and so forth. I just did a count and there are 1920 things in /usr/bin, 201 in /usr/sbin, and 92 in /usr/local/bin. That's way too messy, and I'm not even including subdirectories in that count. Over two thousand programs in just three directories.
My OS is Mac OS X.
Your script is, enterprise speaking, useless. It doesn't handle computers that are disconnected or offline. It also doesn't show any error output. If an install fails, you won't know. It doesn't check for nor deal with dependencies. It doesn't allow for static nor dynamic groups. It assumes the rpm is on the end nodes, and even if you pull from a central site it can't load balance or throttle. There is no metering or monitoring capabilities. That is not a mass deployment script. I'm talking about 5000, 10000 or 50000 nodes, not 50.
In the enterprise, desktop management is a very big issue that still hasn't been solved completely. In the Windows world there is SMS, ZenWorks and a slew of vendors offering application deployment, application management, asset control, metering and patch management. Does anything like this exist for Linux at all?
"Has anyone noticed that DVDs are tending to be much cheaper than CDs?"
Nope. I usually see DVDs around $19, ranging from $10 to $27. CDs I normally see at about $17, with the cheapest at $9 and most at $22.
Well, if there really was a video game, The Last Starfighter would of been on the list of good ones. It's close enough in concept to a huge list of Atari & 80's arcade games.
Yeah that's the same reason why I don't feel overly sorry for the people near retirement who lost their savings during the recent downturn. If you're investing in stocks you have to know how to play. Every high school should have a week long lesson explaining how to retire and invest. Otherwise invest in bonds or mutual funds - practically no risk and still a good return. What I'd like to see is SS be either voluntary and self containing or completely altered. None of this raising taxes to balance it bull. SS started at less than 2% tax, and is now at effectively 15% and still is going to run a deficit. SS could make a nice bond or balanced asset program, where you automatically have only 5% of your pay put into the program. Sadly enough, SS probably hurts the poor the most. The lower wage earners probably can't afford to put an extra 6% of their pay into their own personal retirement account like I can. Even if I could count on SS to be paying anything in 40-50 years, it'd be a pathetic pittance compared to my private accounts.
"Okay, Dilbert is polite, honest, employed, and educated. And he stays home. These are good traits, but they don't explain the incredible sex appeal. So what's the attraction? I think it's a Darwinian thing. We're attracted to the people who have the best ability to survive and thrive. In the old days, it was important to be able to run down an antelope and kill it with a single blow to the forehead. But that skill is becoming less important every year"
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
As more people see the benefits of the stock market, 401K, and bonds as investment options, the likelyhood of social security being phased out will increase. Even the most conservative portfolio can earn 5% return. If you're young and can handle some risk, you can get 8-12%. Soc Sec is somewhere around 2%, depending on who you ask, and you don't get to pass anything on to your kids. Of course, there isn't enough financial education, so many people just plainly don't know how to retire safely.
Jabber (from the commercial Jabber company, not the generic protocol) has a server user interface that makes sendmail configs look fun, no polls, no surveys, no screensharing, no whiteboard and no moderated chat rooms. Sun has all of those, and some are very useful.
Wouldn't hitting a pothole do bad things to the hard drive?
Copy protection issues aside...if a CD can muck up a CD player to the extent that it no longer works, then I say blame the manufacturer as well for making a bad player.
I looked at WebInspect, and it does a decent job at vuln scanning. It also inspects the web pages, forms and parameters. Found an SQL injection bug in one site, which could of lead to session hijacking. The downside - it costs about $5000, but does some cool stuff.
How many different copies of Empire? I only know of 2 (unless you got a laser disk version too).
Don't forget the other important fact: not breaking federal copyright law. Downloading with Apple's service would not be a violation, while Kazaa is (except when permission to redistribute is granted by the copyright holder of course).
What happens to your machine if the Redhat Network servers were hacked into?
Coffee bars. It's a great alternative. If you can't find a coffee shop, ask at your local Starbucks. You can always find a Starbucks.
About a year and a half ago I was looking for a hardware RAID controller that had stable Linux drivers and supports IDE for my personal server. Know of any?
Now there's a US policy all slashdottters can support!
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Don't forget the free meals.