You wouldn't be able to afford it, because you'd eat at a reasonably nice restaurant. What if you just hit the chippie?
For poor people, who might not have enough money to pay rent, power, telephone, and food, but who still need energy to live and work, the equation might not be the same. A guy in England looked at the price of food per calorie. 100 calories worth of broccoli? 51p. 100 calories worth of chips? 2p. The equation was similar for other foods: cheap, fatty sausages give you more energy for your pound than good quality ones. I couldn't find the original article I read (a few months ago), but there's some quotes and links here: http://povertyblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/the-habitual-food-of-the-working-man-varies-according-to-his-wages/ . Another website I read claimed that in the Seattle area, the price of junk food had gone down slightly over the same period that the price of healthy food had increased by 15% or so.
Sure, it would be nice to buy vegetables (if the price of power goes down), or even grow your own food (if you're lucky enough to have a garden), but it may not be an option for everyone.
- Speaking of movies, what happened to the plans for a movie based on Mort?
"A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian and European involvement, and I wrote a couple of script drafts which went down well and everything was looking fine and then the US people said "Hey, we've been doing market research in Power Cable, Nebraska, and other centres of culture, and the Death/skeleton bit doesn't work for us, it's a bit of a downer, we have a prarm with it, so lose the skeleton". The rest of the consortium said, did you read the script? The Americans said: sure, we LOVE it, it's GREAT, it's HIGH CONCEPT. Just lose the Death angle, guys.
Whereupon, I'm happy to say, they were told to keep on with the medication and come back in a hundred years."
"The person also said that Americans "weren't ready for the treatment of Death as an amusing and sympathetic character". This was about 18 months/2 years before Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey."
"Currently, since the amount of money available for making movies in Europe is about sixpence, the consortium is looking for some more intelligent Americans in the film business. This may prove difficult.
It could have been worse. I've heard what Good Omens was looking like by the time Sovereign's option mercifully ran out -- set in America, no Four Horsemen... oh god."
"What you have to remember is that in the movies there are two types of people 1) the directors, artists, actors and so on who have to do things and are often quite human and 2) the other lifeforms. Unfortunately you have to deal with the other lifeforms first. It is impossible to exaggerate their baleful stupidity."
I notice if you go to the games user page (i.e. click on your username at the top-left of this page), the tab links are in games.slashdot-purple on a green background. Yeah, purple on dark green -- awesome colourscheme.
.NET -- a new technology brought to us by the company that introduced COM. In 2015 Microsoft will introduce its successor framework, ORG, and Google will give up in disgust.
Hmm, maybe the Nazis are looking for the skull of Copernicus which they can use in a ritual to undo physics, causing the sun to start revolving around the earth. But they'll vary the ritual, putting the sun into an eliptic orbit that will slingshot closely around the earth. This will have two effects: firstly, the proximity of the sun will burn America to a cinder. Secondly, slingshotting the sun around the earth will catapult the earth back in time to before the end of the second world war. With America burnt to a crisp, there will be nothing stopping the Nazis from winning the war!
in run->services.msc, stop and disable the securom service. In the Documents and Settings, in Application Data, delete the SecuROM folder. Delete UAService7.exe from windows\system32. Run "sc delete useraccess7" from the run command on the start menu, or from a command-line prompt. Delete the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SecuROM] from the registry...
..open CONFIG.SYS and remove the line "srom.com/ng:43h/b/v". Using a hex editor, open windir\system32\comsvcs.dll and change the byte at offset 0xB32A to 0. Reboot using a linux liveCD, mount your hard drive, and remove the file "userfig.cnf" from C:\System Volume Information. Go to http://removesecurom.com/wiki/ListOfOpticalDrives, locate your CD/DVD drive, and follow the instructions to install the fixed firmware. Tune your television to UHF 2391.512MHz and run it for at least 15 minutes on maximum brightness..
The standard technique is to get your ten year old neighbour/child to install the software for you. They're too young to enter into a binding contract:-)
No, no, HIV was a virus designed by the CIA together with the International Jewish Conspiracy to kill black people, gays, and those who make right turns without indicating.
I know it's true because I read it on the internet!
Yeah, but changing the time-zone is a lot easier than getting every school, university and business in the country to standardise on an earlier starting time.
Sure, I could get earlier hours, but it wouldn't help if everyone else is in work until sundown.
It amuses me that warriors can pick up two forest/jungle upgrades from fighting wolves and bears and things, which then lets them move faster through forest than over plains.
I live in New Zealand -- we are at GMT+12 "normally" (the date-line bends around us) and GMT+13 in summer time. We don't seem to get the big arguments about DST that other countries do, but some people (probably particularly farmers) don't like it.
Me: I think we should scrap it -- and move to GMT+13 all year round. It's not the time we "should" have, based on the sun, but who cares? The standard daily routine here is that your free time is after work. Daylight in the evening is useful; we should maximise it all year round. Daylight in the morning is mostly wasted. People who rely on daylight to work? Well, they're at the mercy of the sun anyway. At least this way, they don't have to get up so early:-)
People who want to get rid of DST: I'm sympathetic to the idea that changing time-zones is a pain. But please don't take away my evening daylight!
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We got rid of farm subsidies entirely over here (NZ) about twenty years ago. Our agriculture industry's still doing pretty well...
...but they said they already know what happens on Slashdot.
You wouldn't be able to afford it, because you'd eat at a reasonably nice restaurant. What if you just hit the chippie?
For poor people, who might not have enough money to pay rent, power, telephone, and food, but who still need energy to live and work, the equation might not be the same. A guy in England looked at the price of food per calorie. 100 calories worth of broccoli? 51p. 100 calories worth of chips? 2p. The equation was similar for other foods: cheap, fatty sausages give you more energy for your pound than good quality ones. I couldn't find the original article I read (a few months ago), but there's some quotes and links here: http://povertyblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/the-habitual-food-of-the-working-man-varies-according-to-his-wages/ . Another website I read claimed that in the Seattle area, the price of junk food had gone down slightly over the same period that the price of healthy food had increased by 15% or so.
Sure, it would be nice to buy vegetables (if the price of power goes down), or even grow your own food (if you're lucky enough to have a garden), but it may not be an option for everyone.
The quote, of course, is on the L-space web.
But how would the giant squid be able to pay?
Oh, wow. I hadn't looked at my user page in ages.
I notice if you go to the games user page (i.e. click on your username at the top-left of this page), the tab links are in games.slashdot-purple on a green background. Yeah, purple on dark green -- awesome colourscheme.
.NET -- a new technology brought to us by the company that introduced COM. In 2015 Microsoft will introduce its successor framework, ORG, and Google will give up in disgust.
Hmm, maybe the Nazis are looking for the skull of Copernicus which they can use in a ritual to undo physics, causing the sun to start revolving around the earth. But they'll vary the ritual, putting the sun into an eliptic orbit that will slingshot closely around the earth. This will have two effects: firstly, the proximity of the sun will burn America to a cinder. Secondly, slingshotting the sun around the earth will catapult the earth back in time to before the end of the second world war. With America burnt to a crisp, there will be nothing stopping the Nazis from winning the war!
...whaddya reckon, should I pitch it to George?
The normal quote is: "The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned."
It's easier than you'd think.
Mum: Upstairs.
Dad: Upstairs.
Well, what do you expect when you knock off a major project in under a week?
in run->services.msc, stop and disable the securom service. In the Documents and Settings, in Application Data, delete the SecuROM folder. Delete UAService7.exe from windows\system32. Run "sc delete useraccess7" from the run command on the start menu, or from a command-line prompt. Delete the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SecuROM] from the registry...
..open CONFIG.SYS and remove the line "srom.com /ng:43h /b /v". Using a hex editor, open windir\system32\comsvcs.dll and change the byte at offset 0xB32A to 0. Reboot using a linux liveCD, mount your hard drive, and remove the file "userfig.cnf" from C:\System Volume Information. Go to http://removesecurom.com/wiki/ListOfOpticalDrives, locate your CD/DVD drive, and follow the instructions to install the fixed firmware. Tune your television to UHF 2391.512MHz and run it for at least 15 minutes on maximum brightness..
The standard technique is to get your ten year old neighbour/child to install the software for you. They're too young to enter into a binding contract :-)
(ianal, etc)
So I'll be using involuntary reflexes to control my behaviour online?
Actually, maybe that's not so different after all...
No, no, HIV was a virus designed by the CIA together with the International Jewish Conspiracy to kill black people, gays, and those who make right turns without indicating.
I know it's true because I read it on the internet!
Just don't forget to run M-x viper-mode!
There's something ironic about a song protesting naughty-word censorship that uses the word "freaking".
Anyway, for counterpoint, I present Michael Palin's The FCC Song.
Gee; I should get these guys to buy my lottery tickets for me.
True; clearly it should be "...gay dick up an elephant's cunt".
Yeah, but changing the time-zone is a lot easier than getting every school, university and business in the country to standardise on an earlier starting time.
Sure, I could get earlier hours, but it wouldn't help if everyone else is in work until sundown.
It amuses me that warriors can pick up two forest/jungle upgrades from fighting wolves and bears and things, which then lets them move faster through forest than over plains.
I mean, what are they doing, brachiating?
If you use firefox, highlight the bit of the page you want to examine the source for, then right-click and choose "view selection source".
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I live in New Zealand -- we are at GMT+12 "normally" (the date-line bends around us) and GMT+13 in summer time. We don't seem to get the big arguments about DST that other countries do, but some people (probably particularly farmers) don't like it.
Me: I think we should scrap it -- and move to GMT+13 all year round. It's not the time we "should" have, based on the sun, but who cares? The standard daily routine here is that your free time is after work. Daylight in the evening is useful; we should maximise it all year round. Daylight in the morning is mostly wasted. People who rely on daylight to work? Well, they're at the mercy of the sun anyway. At least this way, they don't have to get up so early :-)
People who want to get rid of DST: I'm sympathetic to the idea that changing time-zones is a pain. But please don't take away my evening daylight!
[Scientist 1] A new state of matter! This is AWESOME!
[Scientist 2] Yeah, but it's bloody expensive making the stuff. How can we bring in more funding?
[Scientist 1] Umm ... Something to do with terrorism? Err ...
[Scientist 2] ...energy crisis? Can we do anything with oil? ...
[Scientist 1] ...what about computers? Could you make smaller transistors with this stuff?
[Scientist 2] Yeah, it might fly. Let's run with that.
Yeah, but I bet your javascript performance sucked.