One of my biggest, most irksome things aobut my kitchen is that most of my knives are either bought at Wal-Mart, or else rescued from the Salvation Army. NOw, I'm not wanting to spen $500 and up for a knife set, but if I am looking for something that will cut very easily, and last a good, long time inbetween being sharpened, what am I needing to look for? Is Japanese cutlery still very much superior to American steel these days, or are they even? Are there certain materials to avoid?
Along that same vein, I use teflon pots and pans when I cook. But when I watch the food network, I almost constantly see stainless steel, non coated stuff. Why? What am I doing wrong that might cause me to be abusing non-coated pans? What's the advantage ot stainless steel?
Believe it or not, sometimes those big department stores like Fry's or Best Buy aren't the worst buy out there.
I remember back when I was putting together my Athlon 1800XP system, I needed to get some parts on the cheap to do the whole system. Noe of which were very heavy parts, but still.
I shopped around online, and found some decent prices and all, but I didn't know the reputations of these places..
But...I was impatitient...so I went down to Fry's and started carting away what I needed. When I finally got through to checkout, the total price was maybe only about $20 above what I had calculated if I had ordered them online. And because I live in CA, pretty much anywhere I order from, I have to pay sales tax, because they have a branch here.
I didn't even go into shipping.
Buying from a local retailer had a big advantage that the mail order palces don't: Face time. Not only do I get to *see* the merchandise before I buy it, but I also can bring said merchandise back to a person, instead of having to pay for USPS or what have you. Don't underestimate the cost of face time.
But, as always, be a smart consumer. Shop around.
I used to work for VA's IS department, and I can tell you this is true.
Most of Sales used Linux, as well as a good portion of the Exec staff. When I was up in Fremont once, I asked the IS guys up there what the split was with Windows/Linux. From what they said, it's about a 50-50 split, with the engineers taking up most of the Linux percentage. No surprise there.
So, VA at it's prime was probably about 300 Linux desktops. But how many people work there now? 150? If that?
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One of my biggest, most irksome things aobut my kitchen is that most of my knives are either bought at Wal-Mart, or else rescued from the Salvation Army. NOw, I'm not wanting to spen $500 and up for a knife set, but if I am looking for something that will cut very easily, and last a good, long time inbetween being sharpened, what am I needing to look for? Is Japanese cutlery still very much superior to American steel these days, or are they even? Are there certain materials to avoid?
Along that same vein, I use teflon pots and pans when I cook. But when I watch the food network, I almost constantly see stainless steel, non coated stuff. Why? What am I doing wrong that might cause me to be abusing non-coated pans? What's the advantage ot stainless steel?
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Believe it or not, sometimes those big department stores like Fry's or Best Buy aren't the worst buy out there. I remember back when I was putting together my Athlon 1800XP system, I needed to get some parts on the cheap to do the whole system. Noe of which were very heavy parts, but still. I shopped around online, and found some decent prices and all, but I didn't know the reputations of these places.. But...I was impatitient...so I went down to Fry's and started carting away what I needed. When I finally got through to checkout, the total price was maybe only about $20 above what I had calculated if I had ordered them online. And because I live in CA, pretty much anywhere I order from, I have to pay sales tax, because they have a branch here. I didn't even go into shipping. Buying from a local retailer had a big advantage that the mail order palces don't: Face time. Not only do I get to *see* the merchandise before I buy it, but I also can bring said merchandise back to a person, instead of having to pay for USPS or what have you. Don't underestimate the cost of face time. But, as always, be a smart consumer. Shop around.
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I'm dimwitted this morning. Meant to say that most of sales and a good portion of the execs used WINDOWS, not Linux. Sorry 'bout that.
I used to work for VA's IS department, and I can tell you this is true. Most of Sales used Linux, as well as a good portion of the Exec staff. When I was up in Fremont once, I asked the IS guys up there what the split was with Windows/Linux. From what they said, it's about a 50-50 split, with the engineers taking up most of the Linux percentage. No surprise there. So, VA at it's prime was probably about 300 Linux desktops. But how many people work there now? 150? If that? -- Sig this.