I work for a major British department store. Head Office staff have limits of 200 meg, Store Managers have 200 meg as well, Sales Managers get 20 meg. The store staff tend to use email as storage, so we get a lot of people ringing up asking for more space. The answer is always no and a quick lesson in buying a usb memory stick. Even with the limits in place, we're still gagging for more exchange servers. If you ask me, a main store email address and one for the Store Manager is enough. 120 odd stores, with one store manager, one store email account, one foodservices account and 10-15 'personal' accounts is more than too much, in my opinion!
My 7 and 5 year old boys love their leapsters. They've had them a few years now, and I can still find new software for them that's suitable for each of their ages and skill levels. I've no experience with the other one. All things considered, they're not all that expensive, either. (I spend more on my video games!)
just put the price of plastic down? This is totally ridiculous. They're soooo worried about their "lost revenue", but the problem isn't the internet, or any other "new" technology (that's been around ages, they just didn't pull their heads out of their arses to notice it!). The problem is the price of a CD is outrageous. Its overpriced. Want to make people buy more? Put the prices down. Its simple economics. More people will buy more CDs if they don't feel that they are being raped when they buy one.
I agree. I think the dot.com bust taught us that we'll perhaps cover hosting, but there isn't a really good model of advertising on the net. The old method of
1. Whack adverts on your pages 2. ??? 3. Profit!
just doesn't work.
I think an empassioned plea to those who use your project might be worth a try. If you're the only contributor to your project, this might not work, but perhaps a method like fark.com's totalfark would be good. Give the code contributors a chance to buy a personal diary page that's space limited and bandwidth capped and a nifty icon by their name or something.
A cheap headphone splitter comes in quite handy. I've got one headphone out with my pc to tv lead and one with my headphones. The ultimate solution in laziness!
The average joe who only knows enough to barely use aol doesn't realise that giving out someone else's email address is the equivalent of giving out their phone number. Many people, when asked for a mutual friend's phone number will instead offer to pass along a message with your phone number, rather than risk upsetting the other person. What they don't realise is that by giving out my email address to any site, willy-nilly, is the same thing. Perhaps we need to set up a strongly worded netiquette site and refer anyone who has the temerity to give out our email addresses there. I know I can certainly think of many more pet peeves to add as well.
I enjoy computers as a hobby. I won't do them for a living. I simply don't have the "coder drive". My husband is a Software Engineer. His whole job is designing specifications and requirements, as well as the programming after the spec's been done. A Software Engineer who doesn't code won't do well, becaue he doesn't know the limitations of the proposed languages, or even alternative languages to use. You may be able to take a different course, but I'm afraid that its people like you who are making it harder for others to find IT jobs. Too much dross in the market. My husband's Project Manager is a manager by trade, but never was a programmer. He ends up signing off on specs that my husband would never be able to do, because he doesn't know the limitations of the language the company requesting the specs has asked to for. Its not til later on, once the contracts are signed and my husband and his co-workers sit down to actually do the work that its discovered it can't be done. If you can't see yourself coding frequently, maybe Information Systems would be a better choice for you. Or, it might be best to keep computers as a hobby, and choose another degree. If your heart just isn't in it, you'll go to work every day hating your job, and end up hating computers too.
I, a geek, married another geek. I don't have a wife to organise my stuff, and my husband's just as bad as me. I wonder if I could hire a non-geek woman to do my housework and organisation?
Instead of less mess, marriage gave us more mess. How many sets of glasses do you need? We got 8 sets at our wedding. I'm guessing our family doesn't talk to each other. To tell the truth, I would rather our wedding guests had given us the 5 GBP they spent on glasses. Invite enough guests, get enough money to buy some more shelves for said glasses.
I'm not sure if they still use windows or not (I've moved abroad and haven't been back lately), but the wal-mart I used to shop at used windows for the displays in their music/electronics section. They were attempting to let you scan the barcode of an album or dvd and then showing advertising clips for it. It never worked. It was always on the BSOD. There's no sign of these screens at Asda, Wal-mart's subsidiary in the UK.
I'm a "chick", I'm on the net, and I don't have any "pay" services. I play MMORPGs, as a female. You still wouldn't have much luck chatting me up, since I'm happily married, but we are out there. Of course you find the "frumpy" comp-sci type ladies on things like ichatters. Those are the ladies that, just like you, are afraid to go out and have fun. You're more likely to meet a woman in the "real world" and then find out she's got a slashdot account too! This is where you *should* be looking! The real world!
(BTW, why do so many geeks refer to all females as "girls". I'm 26 and I've been called girl as recently as last week!)
Think of Carly as e coli. Eats the company up from the inside, and there's not a thing you can do about it!
In all seriousness, HP has always been a family based business. The company provided for the employees, the employees busted their rumps to make the company successful. When Carly came aboard, the whole atmosphere changed. Its simply not the same company it used to be, and yeah, I guess I do despise her. Granted, jumping ship got my husband a better job, better wages, and a better working atmosphere than he had at HP, but we could probably blame that on Carly as well.
My husband used to work for HP. When we started hearing about the first round of layoffs, we started looking for another job for him. (A good thing, too. Carly decided she wanted to buy TWO gulfstream jets and needed to clear out some more employees to do it!) Managed to avoid the whole nasty mess of being fired. Keeping your ear to the ground and jumping ship when your instincts tell you is a good thing in the current market climate. My father-in-law used to work for Rolls Royce as what they called a lifer. Back then, companies took care of their employees, and did everything they could to keep them. 40 years tenure in this day and age is nigh on unheard of. These days you're lucky to last 4 or 5 years in a larger corporate environment. All the dotcommers that flooded the IT market in a rush for gold sure are making life more difficult (but not unbearable, if you actually know your stuff). It may take longer to find that diamond in the rough job, but you'll find it, if you're willing to consider job hunting a full time job in and of itself (or in my husband's case, get your stay at home wife to do the legwork for you;).
Or, if you're a hardcore gamer, you probably already know it. Up until recently, I worked for Game. They have a 10 day no-hassle returns policy. Buy the game, play it for 10 days, bring it back. Try and keep it in mint or near mint condition. They'll take it back, so long as you have your receipt. I'm sure it wasn't designed to be a free game rental policy, but those of us behind the tills know that's what you're doing, and probably do the same as well! (I know I did!) This is one of the reasons they hold 45% of the marketshare of video and computer game sales in the UK. They're expanding into the rest of Europe as well. I seem to recall stores being in Sweden and Spain, but I'm not sure where else.
Unfortunately, for the less skilled workin' people, its been this way for a long time. I decided to drop out of my programming degree after the first year, so I could get married, have kids, do the housewife thing. Financially, I couldn't just "do the housewife thing", so I had to get a job. Being unskilled, I routinely had to bend over and take it. There's loads of other average joe's out there willing to take the crappy jobs I did, if I didn't like it.
These days, I've remarried someone who can support us without my needing to work a crappy job. I only have to bend over for my husband, and I love it!
Up til last friday, I worked for the video game store that has 45% of the UK's market (bought a house an hour and a half away and wasn't ready to commute for a crappy #4.75/hr*). They have an eyetoy set up in the front of the store. The kids all love to come in and have a play while their parents are shopping. I don't really see the attraction of it, but they flew off the shelves. The amount of accident reports filled out shot up, too. Too many people, crowded around, waving their arms around and punching nothingness is dangerous, if you ask me. I suppose it'd be alright in the living room, but I just really don't see the attraction of it. Yeah, its a rather unique idea, but I can't stand looking at myself in the mirror, so why would I want to see myself in a video game.:P
*Aw, cmon, slashdot, why do you have to strip my proper pound symbol out?
Went into work yesterday and discovered that, here in the UK, Kingdom Hearts has gone platinum. Can't verify the rest in the list, as 1) I'm off today! Woohoo! and 2) Kingdom Hearts is the only game on the list that I actually had to look at yesterday "in the line of duty".
Slightly offtopic, but I really wish there were a video game shop that only catered to/.ers (people who have a clue). All those idiots who think they can run *any* PC game on their 3 year old system needs a whacking with a power supply!
I too, get migraines, and seperately, get sinus pressure headaches. The doctors haven't found the cause of the migraines. Could be chocolate, could be stress, who knows, I may have a brain tumour and not know it. They're so infrequent that I haven't bothered with indepth testing.
I find that my sinus pressure headaches come on when I'm at a Walmart Superstore (when I'm in the states), and whenever I go to the mall here in England. Basically, really big, open area shops that don't have good enough ventilation to and from the outside. I'm pretty certain that the pressure headaches are caused by an imbalance in barometric pressure on the inside as opposed to outdoors, as they tend to go after I leave the shops. These are the heaches I hate, since I'm working part time in... the mall.
They may not use national insurance numbers for loans or mortgages. (My husband and I are buying a house with a mortgage and a drawdown loan.) We haven't been asked for our national insurance number, but surely, someone with my details can go out and get a job using my details, then screw up how much tax I end up paying. Granted, that would only be attractive to a) a failed asylum seeker or b) someone who didn't even bother applying for asylum, since they knew they weren't eligble. I'm only part time right now, and don't have to pay any tax on my wages. If this were to happen, they'd drive my taxes right up, and screw up my monthly accounting, as well as rip me off. Its easy enough to prove, tho. If it wasn't me they were working with, it must have been the n.i. thief.
If feeding your family is what's most important to you, then you've made your decision already.
In my opinion, if you briefly offer them the pros and cons of both your idea of doing things versus the way they want to, and they choose to ignore it, you've done your part. You don't have to force the issue and become one of the many honest but unemployed. You've given them alternatives, but haven't forced them down their throats. A brief mention is all that's really necessary.
I'll have to back you up on this one. My mother is an R.D., L.D. (registered andlicensed dietician, just as doctors have to be registered and licensed in order to practice) with a masters in nutrition. As much as she (and i!) would like for me to lose weight, there's no way she'd allow me on an atkin's diet. What it does is send your body into ketoacidosis. Ketoacidosis is a serious condition that can lead to diabetic coma (passing out for a long time) or even death. Ketocidosis means dangerously high levels of ketones. Ketones are acids that build up in the blood. They appear in the urine when your body doesn't have enough insulin. Ketones can poison the body.
The first symptoms inclue: Thirst or a very dry mouth. Frequent urination. High blood sugar levels. High levels of ketones in the urine. Next, other symptoms appear: Constantly feeling tired. Dry or flushed skin. Nausea, vomiting, or abdominal pain (Vomiting can be caused by many illnesses, not just ketoacidosis. If vomiting continues for more than 2 hours, contact your health care provider.) A hard time breathing (short, deep breaths). Fruity odor on breath. A hard time paying attention, or confusion.
Its just as effective as, say, cutting off your head to lose 10 pounds! The best way to lose weight is a healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise. This is why I can't lose weight. I *know* how to eat healthy, know I should exercise, but I can't be arsed. My weight problem isn't just a weight problem, its a willpower problem, and a laziness problem, and because I spend most of my time in front of the computer, its also a lifestyle problem.
My souce (no, i'm not sharing my mom!) is here at www.diabetes.org.
My grandfather used to run a shoe shop. I recently spent way more than I probably should have on a pair of leather high heeled boots. I gave them to my grandfather to put cleats on the heels (I tend to drag my heels when I walk and wanted to prevent losing most of the heel in just this winter). He looked at it, handed it back, and told me he couldn't do it. I spent several hundred dollars on these boots only to find that the heel was made of plastic and there was no way to nail on a cleat without cracking the plastic. Once upon a time, even the heels of leather boots were made of layers of leather, so that you could do just what I wanted and make them last a whole lot longer. In effect, I spent $200 for a pair of boots that will hopefully last me thru the winter, as opposed to boots from even 10 years ago that would have lasted 4 to 5 years. Everything's gone to sweatshop/child labour countries. Quality has gone out the window, and we're still paying rip off prices.
And yes, Grampa used to repair umbrellas in his shop, too.
Last time I saw someone rolling a cigarette, it was me, last week, before my flight from England to Chicago. In England, the cost of machine rolled cigarettes is at least double the cost of them in the US. That's gotta be saying something, considering I just bought a pack of machine rolled cigarettes in Milwaukee for $4.50 a pack! I can save buckets of cash by buying rolling tobacco and rolling my own.
Last time I played a homebrew game on an emulator? Last week. My fiance has been working on a homebrew game to run on a friend's Amiga Emulator for the Xbox.
Just because *you* aren't doing something doesn't mean its not being done.
I grew up in a rural town surrounded mainly by farms. When I was 14, I started noticing these summer job signs, and followed thru. (Hey! I was only 14:P) Some of them are suprisingly real, and I worked one of them the following summer. What they don't tell you, however, is that you get to spend all summer walking up and down cornfields detasseling corn. The work was based upon how many ears of corn you detasseled, and while someone could conceivably earn $15/hr, I averaged about $4/hr. Gotta love those child labour laws excluding farm work from the 16 age limit.
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I work for a major British department store. Head Office staff have limits of 200 meg, Store Managers have 200 meg as well, Sales Managers get 20 meg. The store staff tend to use email as storage, so we get a lot of people ringing up asking for more space. The answer is always no and a quick lesson in buying a usb memory stick. Even with the limits in place, we're still gagging for more exchange servers. If you ask me, a main store email address and one for the Store Manager is enough. 120 odd stores, with one store manager, one store email account, one foodservices account and 10-15 'personal' accounts is more than too much, in my opinion!
My 7 and 5 year old boys love their leapsters. They've had them a few years now, and I can still find new software for them that's suitable for each of their ages and skill levels. I've no experience with the other one. All things considered, they're not all that expensive, either. (I spend more on my video games!)
just put the price of plastic down? This is totally ridiculous. They're soooo worried about their "lost revenue", but the problem isn't the internet, or any other "new" technology (that's been around ages, they just didn't pull their heads out of their arses to notice it!). The problem is the price of a CD is outrageous. Its overpriced. Want to make people buy more? Put the prices down. Its simple economics. More people will buy more CDs if they don't feel that they are being raped when they buy one.
I agree. I think the dot.com bust taught us that we'll perhaps cover hosting, but there isn't a really good model of advertising on the net. The old method of
1. Whack adverts on your pages
2. ???
3. Profit!
just doesn't work.
I think an empassioned plea to those who use your project might be worth a try. If you're the only contributor to your project, this might not work, but perhaps a method like fark.com's totalfark would be good. Give the code contributors a chance to buy a personal diary page that's space limited and bandwidth capped and a nifty icon by their name or something.
A cheap headphone splitter comes in quite handy. I've got one headphone out with my pc to tv lead and one with my headphones. The ultimate solution in laziness!
The average joe who only knows enough to barely use aol doesn't realise that giving out someone else's email address is the equivalent of giving out their phone number. Many people, when asked for a mutual friend's phone number will instead offer to pass along a message with your phone number, rather than risk upsetting the other person. What they don't realise is that by giving out my email address to any site, willy-nilly, is the same thing. Perhaps we need to set up a strongly worded netiquette site and refer anyone who has the temerity to give out our email addresses there. I know I can certainly think of many more pet peeves to add as well.
I enjoy computers as a hobby. I won't do them for a living. I simply don't have the "coder drive". My husband is a Software Engineer. His whole job is designing specifications and requirements, as well as the programming after the spec's been done. A Software Engineer who doesn't code won't do well, becaue he doesn't know the limitations of the proposed languages, or even alternative languages to use. You may be able to take a different course, but I'm afraid that its people like you who are making it harder for others to find IT jobs. Too much dross in the market. My husband's Project Manager is a manager by trade, but never was a programmer. He ends up signing off on specs that my husband would never be able to do, because he doesn't know the limitations of the language the company requesting the specs has asked to for. Its not til later on, once the contracts are signed and my husband and his co-workers sit down to actually do the work that its discovered it can't be done. If you can't see yourself coding frequently, maybe Information Systems would be a better choice for you. Or, it might be best to keep computers as a hobby, and choose another degree. If your heart just isn't in it, you'll go to work every day hating your job, and end up hating computers too.
I, a geek, married another geek. I don't have a wife to organise my stuff, and my husband's just as bad as me. I wonder if I could hire a non-geek woman to do my housework and organisation?
Instead of less mess, marriage gave us more mess. How many sets of glasses do you need? We got 8 sets at our wedding. I'm guessing our family doesn't talk to each other. To tell the truth, I would rather our wedding guests had given us the 5 GBP they spent on glasses. Invite enough guests, get enough money to buy some more shelves for said glasses.
I'm not sure if they still use windows or not (I've moved abroad and haven't been back lately), but the wal-mart I used to shop at used windows for the displays in their music/electronics section. They were attempting to let you scan the barcode of an album or dvd and then showing advertising clips for it. It never worked. It was always on the BSOD. There's no sign of these screens at Asda, Wal-mart's subsidiary in the UK.
I'm a "chick", I'm on the net, and I don't have any "pay" services. I play MMORPGs, as a female. You still wouldn't have much luck chatting me up, since I'm happily married, but we are out there. Of course you find the "frumpy" comp-sci type ladies on things like ichatters. Those are the ladies that, just like you, are afraid to go out and have fun. You're more likely to meet a woman in the "real world" and then find out she's got a slashdot account too! This is where you *should* be looking! The real world!
(BTW, why do so many geeks refer to all females as "girls". I'm 26 and I've been called girl as recently as last week!)
Think of Carly as e coli. Eats the company up from the inside, and there's not a thing you can do about it!
In all seriousness, HP has always been a family based business. The company provided for the employees, the employees busted their rumps to make the company successful. When Carly came aboard, the whole atmosphere changed. Its simply not the same company it used to be, and yeah, I guess I do despise her. Granted, jumping ship got my husband a better job, better wages, and a better working atmosphere than he had at HP, but we could probably blame that on Carly as well.
My husband used to work for HP. When we started hearing about the first round of layoffs, we started looking for another job for him. (A good thing, too. Carly decided she wanted to buy TWO gulfstream jets and needed to clear out some more employees to do it!) Managed to avoid the whole nasty mess of being fired. Keeping your ear to the ground and jumping ship when your instincts tell you is a good thing in the current market climate. My father-in-law used to work for Rolls Royce as what they called a lifer. Back then, companies took care of their employees, and did everything they could to keep them. 40 years tenure in this day and age is nigh on unheard of. These days you're lucky to last 4 or 5 years in a larger corporate environment. All the dotcommers that flooded the IT market in a rush for gold sure are making life more difficult (but not unbearable, if you actually know your stuff). It may take longer to find that diamond in the rough job, but you'll find it, if you're willing to consider job hunting a full time job in and of itself (or in my husband's case, get your stay at home wife to do the legwork for you ;).
Or, if you're a hardcore gamer, you probably already know it. Up until recently, I worked for Game. They have a 10 day no-hassle returns policy. Buy the game, play it for 10 days, bring it back. Try and keep it in mint or near mint condition. They'll take it back, so long as you have your receipt. I'm sure it wasn't designed to be a free game rental policy, but those of us behind the tills know that's what you're doing, and probably do the same as well! (I know I did!) This is one of the reasons they hold 45% of the marketshare of video and computer game sales in the UK. They're expanding into the rest of Europe as well. I seem to recall stores being in Sweden and Spain, but I'm not sure where else.
Unfortunately, for the less skilled workin' people, its been this way for a long time. I decided to drop out of my programming degree after the first year, so I could get married, have kids, do the housewife thing. Financially, I couldn't just "do the housewife thing", so I had to get a job. Being unskilled, I routinely had to bend over and take it. There's loads of other average joe's out there willing to take the crappy jobs I did, if I didn't like it.
These days, I've remarried someone who can support us without my needing to work a crappy job. I only have to bend over for my husband, and I love it!
I could have sworn we'd covered this already...
Up til last friday, I worked for the video game store that has 45% of the UK's market (bought a house an hour and a half away and wasn't ready to commute for a crappy #4.75/hr*). They have an eyetoy set up in the front of the store. The kids all love to come in and have a play while their parents are shopping. I don't really see the attraction of it, but they flew off the shelves. The amount of accident reports filled out shot up, too. Too many people, crowded around, waving their arms around and punching nothingness is dangerous, if you ask me. I suppose it'd be alright in the living room, but I just really don't see the attraction of it. Yeah, its a rather unique idea, but I can't stand looking at myself in the mirror, so why would I want to see myself in a video game. :P
*Aw, cmon, slashdot, why do you have to strip my proper pound symbol out?
that this page is now the top google result for those search terms.
Went into work yesterday and discovered that, here in the UK, Kingdom Hearts has gone platinum. Can't verify the rest in the list, as 1) I'm off today! Woohoo! and 2) Kingdom Hearts is the only game on the list that I actually had to look at yesterday "in the line of duty".
/.ers (people who have a clue). All those idiots who think they can run *any* PC game on their 3 year old system needs a whacking with a power supply!
Slightly offtopic, but I really wish there were a video game shop that only catered to
I too, get migraines, and seperately, get sinus pressure headaches. The doctors haven't found the cause of the migraines. Could be chocolate, could be stress, who knows, I may have a brain tumour and not know it. They're so infrequent that I haven't bothered with indepth testing.
I find that my sinus pressure headaches come on when I'm at a Walmart Superstore (when I'm in the states), and whenever I go to the mall here in England. Basically, really big, open area shops that don't have good enough ventilation to and from the outside. I'm pretty certain that the pressure headaches are caused by an imbalance in barometric pressure on the inside as opposed to outdoors, as they tend to go after I leave the shops. These are the heaches I hate, since I'm working part time in... the mall.
They may not use national insurance numbers for loans or mortgages. (My husband and I are buying a house with a mortgage and a drawdown loan.) We haven't been asked for our national insurance number, but surely, someone with my details can go out and get a job using my details, then screw up how much tax I end up paying. Granted, that would only be attractive to a) a failed asylum seeker or b) someone who didn't even bother applying for asylum, since they knew they weren't eligble. I'm only part time right now, and don't have to pay any tax on my wages. If this were to happen, they'd drive my taxes right up, and screw up my monthly accounting, as well as rip me off. Its easy enough to prove, tho. If it wasn't me they were working with, it must have been the n.i. thief.
If feeding your family is what's most important to you, then you've made your decision already.
In my opinion, if you briefly offer them the pros and cons of both your idea of doing things versus the way they want to, and they choose to ignore it, you've done your part. You don't have to force the issue and become one of the many honest but unemployed. You've given them alternatives, but haven't forced them down their throats. A brief mention is all that's really necessary.
I'll have to back you up on this one. My mother is an R.D., L.D. (registered andlicensed dietician, just as doctors have to be registered and licensed in order to practice) with a masters in nutrition. As much as she (and i!) would like for me to lose weight, there's no way she'd allow me on an atkin's diet. What it does is send your body into ketoacidosis. Ketoacidosis is a serious condition that can lead to diabetic coma (passing out for a long time) or even death. Ketocidosis means dangerously high levels of ketones. Ketones are acids that build up in the blood. They appear in the urine when your body doesn't have enough insulin. Ketones can poison the body.
The first symptoms inclue:
Thirst or a very dry mouth.
Frequent urination.
High blood sugar levels.
High levels of ketones in the urine.
Next, other symptoms appear:
Constantly feeling tired.
Dry or flushed skin.
Nausea, vomiting, or abdominal pain (Vomiting can be caused by many illnesses, not just ketoacidosis. If vomiting continues for more than 2 hours, contact your health care provider.)
A hard time breathing (short, deep breaths).
Fruity odor on breath.
A hard time paying attention, or confusion.
Its just as effective as, say, cutting off your head to lose 10 pounds! The best way to lose weight is a healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise. This is why I can't lose weight. I *know* how to eat healthy, know I should exercise, but I can't be arsed. My weight problem isn't just a weight problem, its a willpower problem, and a laziness problem, and because I spend most of my time in front of the computer, its also a lifestyle problem.
My souce (no, i'm not sharing my mom!) is here at www.diabetes.org.
My grandfather used to run a shoe shop. I recently spent way more than I probably should have on a pair of leather high heeled boots. I gave them to my grandfather to put cleats on the heels (I tend to drag my heels when I walk and wanted to prevent losing most of the heel in just this winter). He looked at it, handed it back, and told me he couldn't do it. I spent several hundred dollars on these boots only to find that the heel was made of plastic and there was no way to nail on a cleat without cracking the plastic. Once upon a time, even the heels of leather boots were made of layers of leather, so that you could do just what I wanted and make them last a whole lot longer. In effect, I spent $200 for a pair of boots that will hopefully last me thru the winter, as opposed to boots from even 10 years ago that would have lasted 4 to 5 years. Everything's gone to sweatshop/child labour countries. Quality has gone out the window, and we're still paying rip off prices.
And yes, Grampa used to repair umbrellas in his shop, too.
Last time I saw someone rolling a cigarette, it was me, last week, before my flight from England to Chicago. In England, the cost of machine rolled cigarettes is at least double the cost of them in the US. That's gotta be saying something, considering I just bought a pack of machine rolled cigarettes in Milwaukee for $4.50 a pack! I can save buckets of cash by buying rolling tobacco and rolling my own.
Last time I played a homebrew game on an emulator? Last week. My fiance has been working on a homebrew game to run on a friend's Amiga Emulator for the Xbox.
Just because *you* aren't doing something doesn't mean its not being done.
I grew up in a rural town surrounded mainly by farms. When I was 14, I started noticing these summer job signs, and followed thru. (Hey! I was only 14 :P) Some of them are suprisingly real, and I worked one of them the following summer. What they don't tell you, however, is that you get to spend all summer walking up and down cornfields detasseling corn. The work was based upon how many ears of corn you detasseled, and while someone could conceivably earn $15/hr, I averaged about $4/hr. Gotta love those child labour laws excluding farm work from the 16 age limit.