The reason veggie burgers are more expensive is not too much demand from those yuppies, but just not enough supply from producers. There isn't a big supply because there isn't a big demand at any price. Most people prefer real meat.
I think it has to do with demand being more than supply can accomondate (due to problems in production) , shifting the shupply curve to the left and therefore creating a new equilibrium price that is higher.
You need to remember that organically grown food is more difficult and more expensive to produce (that's the reason we created genetically engineered food in the first place).
As long as they can not lower their cost of production (so that they can produce more) then any increase in demand will be an increase in price.
Now, if indeed economies of scale could be created past a certain 'point' that has not yet been reached i can not say (nor can anyone here). But given that we created genetically engineered food (and whetever other methods) so we could lower cost and increase production, thus reducing prices, then reverting back to older methods may mean that we might never (well, never say never.. but anyway) be able be able to provide organic food at the same prices as the food floodign the markets today.
So it's not just a matter of 'the demand being there' but most importantly of difficulties in mass producing organic food.
Chimera is a creature in Greek mythology (well i am Greek so...).
It is a creature with the head of a lion, the body of a dragon, and the hind legs of a goat.
It was killed by velerefontis (you my have a different translation of the name, i translate from Greek) rinding on his horse, the Pegasus.
So i think it is aptly named.
This is an excellent proposal! Is was just thinking the same thing
In fact, i think that afte the 'perfect' flag gas been set, the only thing that should be different is that any editing would not be immediatelly available.
So, people would still be able to make changes but these changes would have to be approved.
And since many may need to change thinkgs before approval there should probable be an 'active' and a 'proposed' page, meaning that the 'active' is the one we see and the proposed is the one you can edit.
If that were to be implemented then the main concern would be to create safe procedures for examining proposed changes.
But once you have a person with authority, then there is also responsibility. So 'complaints' made about him could be examined and his position re-evaluated:)
So in essence , after a while article should be managed in more traditional ways.
You work in our company too?
In our company's basement there is a door that is labeled "Boss only".
Though we are not allowed to go in, we occationally hear swooshing sounds and hellish screams as though they came from imps and cacodemons (as if such creatures existed).
Some times my boss walks around with some large Blue , Yellow and Red cards. I have even seen him turn around and getting his yellow card before opening a yellow door. I don't know why.
Once he even asked if i knew where his BFG9000 was. WTF is a BFG9000? Boss must be crazy.
However, the worst thing is when he asked my when re-enforments from Earth were coming. Where does he think he is? Mars? haha.
I have no doubt the boss is crazy. I mean, who keeps a machine chainsaw in his office?
On the other hand this can be very good if you are *not* the guy with the responsibility. This means that when you fuck up there is a 'blame him' guy near by.:)
There are lots of things you can write in two hours man!!
voice recognition software, compilers, parser generators , browsers , OS kernels etc etc.
Come on, be creative...:)
I am using Gentoo mainly because i ended up installing by hand a lot of software and got tired of fixing problems that may arise from that.
Gentoo does this exact thing _very_ easy. You don't have to meddel with every possible./configure option, or know which options break which other options because the ebuild maintainers do that for you.
I don't have to know that installing wkWidgets with unicode support may break other existing programs that rely on the non-unicode library, and that i actually have to make 2 versions of it. the ebuilds do that for you.
So, if you need (for whatever reason, be it an actuall need , a hobby, or you just want the bleeding edge versions of programms) to install from source, then Gentoo makes it extremely easy.
there are quite a few other things i like about Gentoo (great documentation, very active and friendly community (and very newbie friendly)). Portage is _very_ customizabl.
The/etc directory is currently maintained with diffs of old and new versions that let's you select which changes youwant to keep and which to throw out. (so you don't looose your modifications to configuration files if these are replaced, nor do you loose the additions to to new configuration files if these are discarded. Sure, it's not very sophisticated yet, but it works great and it's improving.)
so , why am i saying this? Because there is a trend here on Slashdot (and other sites like the 'Gentoo is Rice' guy) that Gentoo is only for idiots and theres nothing Good about it. This is wrong.
I admit that there are things that are wrong with Gentoo (eg. Not enough dependecny checking when removing packages, people misuse compiler flags and end up with fucked up systems , etc etc).
Gentoo is certainly not fit for _all_ situations, but it is an excellent distro, provided that you need what it offers.
I mean, isn't it that it's all about? Different distros for different needs?
Gentoo get's it's bad name because a lot of people think it's gonna make them '1337' to use it. But dismissing it as stupid is insulting to all the rest of us who don't think that a distro makes you cool and we just use it because we like what it offers.
So , please stop bashing Gentoo people. There are idiots in all distros. (not to mention anything about the incrasing number of 'snobish' neophytes who claim that they have used Slackware since the dawn of time, which apparently means two months ago, and it's the choice of the experienced gurus).
Priceless is running it on your home computer, finding a bug, fixing it, and having Linus Torvalds tell you your patch is going in and millions of other people will see it in an hour.
No, priceless is finding a bug, fixing it , having Linus put it in the main kernel tree only to find out that your patch ate thousands of filesystems.
Now THAT's priceless!
i don't really believe that there is a back door , but your argument is not convincing.
If the NSA/FBI had enough power to force a back door into the Windows code, wouldn't they have enough power to force a special version without back doors for them?.
As long as he doesn't call this a Gnu/Accident or start singing the Free Software Song at the guys funeral, then i don't see why anyone make any negative remarks.
Holly shit!!
I pressed Ctrl+1 on my Mozilla 1.6 on Linux and guess what?!
I got a page with a huge image saying "WTF?!"
the URL pointed to http://null/
I,ve been using mozilla for a long time and i had never seen this before.
Slashdot Mirror
I think it has to do with demand being more than supply can accomondate (due to problems in production) , shifting the shupply curve to the left and therefore creating a new equilibrium price that is higher.
You need to remember that organically grown food is more difficult and more expensive to produce (that's the reason we created genetically engineered food in the first place).
As long as they can not lower their cost of production (so that they can produce more) then any increase in demand will be an increase in price.
Now, if indeed economies of scale could be created past a certain 'point' that has not yet been reached i can not say (nor can anyone here). But given that we created genetically engineered food (and whetever other methods) so we could lower cost and increase production, thus reducing prices, then reverting back to older methods may mean that we might never (well, never say never.. but anyway) be able be able to provide organic food at the same prices as the food floodign the markets today.
So it's not just a matter of 'the demand being there' but most importantly of difficulties in mass producing organic food.
-There was a Ddos attack - After the site went down!
Probably all those beowulf cluster jokes. They get to you after a while you know.
Chimera is a creature in Greek mythology (well i am Greek so...).
It is a creature with the head of a lion, the body of a dragon, and the hind legs of a goat.
It was killed by velerefontis (you my have a different translation of the name, i translate from Greek) rinding on his horse, the Pegasus.
So i think it is aptly named.
In fact, i think that afte the 'perfect' flag gas been set, the only thing that should be different is that any editing would not be immediatelly available.
So, people would still be able to make changes but these changes would have to be approved.
And since many may need to change thinkgs before approval there should probable be an 'active' and a 'proposed' page, meaning that the 'active' is the one we see and the proposed is the one you can edit.
If that were to be implemented then the main concern would be to create safe procedures for examining proposed changes. :)
But once you have a person with authority, then there is also responsibility. So 'complaints' made about him could be examined and his position re-evaluated
So in essence , after a while article should be managed in more traditional ways.
If you were to depict a typical Slashdoter in your comic, how would that character be? (not only physically)
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "kbd"
This is the new keyboard driver for Xorg.
Even better, they are going to 'persuade' someone to legally someone change his name to "Deepz0ne"
Dude, a beowulf cluster of these things would probably shift the Earth's orbit.
In our company's basement there is a door that is labeled "Boss only".
Though we are not allowed to go in, we occationally hear swooshing sounds and hellish screams as though they came from imps and cacodemons (as if such creatures existed).
Some times my boss walks around with some large Blue , Yellow and Red cards. I have even seen him turn around and getting his yellow card before opening a yellow door. I don't know why.
Once he even asked if i knew where his BFG9000 was. WTF is a BFG9000? Boss must be crazy.
However, the worst thing is when he asked my when re-enforments from Earth were coming. Where does he think he is? Mars? haha.
I have no doubt the boss is crazy. I mean, who keeps a machine chainsaw in his office?
One of my favorites is "Eric the Unready".
For example:
class population:
def __init__(self,size=None):
self.size = size # size of population
def kill(self,howMany=None):
self.size -= howMany
print "You just killed " , size
earth = population(6000000000)
earth.kill(2000000000)
Bwahaha!!!
Either go to:
http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/Sanrio/ and click on the link from there , or get it with wget:
On the other hand this can be very good if you are *not* the guy with the responsibility. This means that when you fuck up there is a 'blame him' guy near by. :)
There are lots of things you can write in two hours man!! :)
voice recognition software, compilers, parser generators , browsers , OS kernels etc etc.
Come on, be creative...
I don't have to know that installing wkWidgets with unicode support may break other existing programs that rely on the non-unicode library, and that i actually have to make 2 versions of it. the ebuilds do that for you. So, if you need (for whatever reason, be it an actuall need , a hobby, or you just want the bleeding edge versions of programms) to install from source, then Gentoo makes it extremely easy. there are quite a few other things i like about Gentoo (great documentation, very active and friendly community (and very newbie friendly)). Portage is _very_ customizabl.
The
so , why am i saying this? Because there is a trend here on Slashdot (and other sites like the 'Gentoo is Rice' guy) that Gentoo is only for idiots and theres nothing Good about it. .
This is wrong.
I admit that there are things that are wrong with Gentoo (eg. Not enough dependecny checking when removing packages, people misuse compiler flags and end up with fucked up systems , etc etc)
Gentoo is certainly not fit for _all_ situations, but it is an excellent distro, provided that you need what it offers.
I mean, isn't it that it's all about? Different distros for different needs?
Gentoo get's it's bad name because a lot of people think it's gonna make them '1337' to use it. But dismissing it as stupid is insulting to all the rest of us who don't think that a distro makes you cool and we just use it because we like what it offers.
So , please stop bashing Gentoo people. There are idiots in all distros. (not to mention anything about the incrasing number of 'snobish' neophytes who claim that they have used Slackware since the dawn of time, which apparently means two months ago, and it's the choice of the experienced gurus).
It's a dual core article :)
Unless you're "coming right for us"!
No, priceless is finding a bug, fixing it , having Linus put it in the main kernel tree only to find out that your patch ate thousands of filesystems.
Now THAT's priceless!
OMG!! Kerry is a wallhack!
If the NSA/FBI had enough power to force a back door into the Windows code, wouldn't they have enough power to force a special version without back doors for them?.
As long as he doesn't call this a Gnu/Accident or start singing the Free Software Song at the guys funeral, then i don't see why anyone make any negative remarks.
I pressed Ctrl+1 on my Mozilla 1.6 on Linux and guess what?!
I got a page with a huge image saying "WTF?!"
the URL pointed to http://null/
I,ve been using mozilla for a long time and i had never seen this before.
But as far as i can tell, they are only selling the "binary' version of X-chat for windows.
On the page it says that you are free to download the source code.
So how is this any different from RedHat and others?