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  1. and again on Cutting the Cost of Household Bills? · · Score: 1

    Also, check with local green grocers, butchers, fishmongers, etc. rather than super markets. You may be pleasantly surprised by how cheap they are, how much better quality the food is, how much they'll help you (boning, skinning, etc.), if you're lucky they'll weigh after removing fat, plus you'll get as much meat as you want, rather than having to by ill fitting multipacks that don't divide down properly.

  2. Re:Learn to cook. on Cutting the Cost of Household Bills? · · Score: 1

    Also worth noting that whilst it has hippy overtones, brown rice tastes far nicer than white, and instantly adds a bit more flavour to a meal.

  3. Re:food on Cutting the Cost of Household Bills? · · Score: 1

    Or, if you've got any sense, agree to do all the cooking, on the proviso that everyone else does the other cleaning duties, and that they won't get food until everything you need to cook is clean. ;)

  4. Re:My Tips: on Cutting the Cost of Household Bills? · · Score: 1

    Brit's don't tend to use AC at home. They tend to wear awful short sleeved shirts, shorts, sandles, and optional sun burn. They'll also swelter away, whilst crying out how wonderfully warm the weather is, whilst drinking piping hot tea.

    Quite why - I find the weather horrible, and spend as much time hiding inside in the shade (and the nude), with as many fans going as possible.

  5. Re:Do your computers always need to be on? on Cutting the Cost of Household Bills? · · Score: 1

    Vent heat

    They're in the UK - that'll never be a problem ;)

  6. Re:Linux file & memory management shines on Understanding Memory Usage On Linux · · Score: 1

    Surely most of that efficiency disappears the second your executable comes under the scrutiny of the runtime linker? Doubly so if any relocation has to occur.

  7. Prior art! on Physicist Claims Time Has a Geometry · · Score: 1

    I had this idea years ago.

    I called the concept French time!

    Time is n-dimensional. Wall clocks measure progress is one dimension of it, where as the human body experiences the length of the route taken through all dimensions. Where space has gravity as an attractor, time has boringness. Since French lessons are so utterly, utterly boring, these pose a very strong attractive force, and that's why they seem to last 3 millennia, despite only being 3 hours long.

  8. Copyright Libraries on Libraries Say DRM May Harm Their Services · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Surely the best solution here is a modification to the law such that any protected digital work must have an unencumbered version of the data lodged with the copyright libraries? This copy is for archive use only until the work falls into the public domain, at which point it is made freely available.

    Artists are protected, execs still get the most important part of their wet dream, and most importantly, the public gets it's dues.

  9. Re:Intel VT on VMware to Make Server Product Free (as in beer) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The hard part of virtualising x86 is having to rewrite guest code on the fly to make sure it doesn't do anything that'd break it out of it's sand box. Vanderpool alleiviates the need to do this.

    This changes writing a hypervisor like VMWare from a very, very difficult challenge to just moderately taxing.

    This totally changes the landscape - VMWare won't be obsolete, it's just going to have an awful lot more competition in future. The few technical advantages it has over the competition are now handed to everyone on a plate. They've now got to focus on mindshare and administrative ease, since they can no longer rest on their technical laurels.

  10. Intel VT on VMware to Make Server Product Free (as in beer) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would have thought the most scary thing facing VMware is Intel Virtualisation Technology - it makes what was previously very hard fairly simple. It also doesn't require the guest OSes to be hacked, ala Xen.

    I suspect we can expect to see a huge swathe of hypervisors being released over the next few months, if only so x86 Mac users can run Windows apps!

  11. Re:Anticipation... Anticipayaytion... on Duke Nukem Forever in Production · · Score: 1

    No, I'm British ;P

  12. Re:Kittens! ^_^ on Robot Pets Almost as Good as Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    Oh, and now I've seen Fur Real Friends, they'd better be a lot better than them, too >_

  13. Translation on Apple Sued Over Potential Hearing Loss · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "Wah! Wah! Wah! I don't want to take responsibility for my own stupid actions!"

  14. Re:Anticipation... Anticipayaytion... on Duke Nukem Forever in Production · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Um, no... they're stagnant, decadent and arrogant. They weren't willing to admit the danger until it was too late.

    I find that strangely reminiscent...

  15. Re:Puh-lease. on An Energy Drinks Roundup? · · Score: 1

    One would imagine the story refers to the the ready to drink "only drink half a bottle" variety.

  16. Alternative music on Unlimited Legal Music Downloads for $3.95 a Month? · · Score: 1

    So can anyone explain how my license fee will be distributed to minor independent labels, given that I only tend to listen to and download obscure Futurepop and Psytrance?

  17. Re:well is it on Evidence for String Theory? · · Score: 1

    By having a paradoxical definition of opposites, where by each is fractally and recursively defined in the terms of the other, meaning I both exist and don't exist, and am everything and nothing.

  18. Re:well is it on Evidence for String Theory? · · Score: 1

    Space, time, memory, thought, perception - it never quite came all the way back.

  19. Re:well is it on Evidence for String Theory? · · Score: 1

    Heh. I was atheist, before an incident with some interesting food stuffs turned me into a solipsist with severe existential problems.

    I wish my belief system were falsifiable :(

  20. Re:well is it on Evidence for String Theory? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because you don't know how to falsify it doesn't mean it's not falsifiable. Religion is by definition not falsifiable.

    That's the big, important, difference.

  21. Re:Europe on Microsoft Agrees to License Windows Source Code · · Score: 1

    No, it's not.

    You've seen the Osbournes? You've been shocked at their unusally high level of swearing?

    Don't be - your average Brit swears like a sailor practically every other word.

  22. Re:One good thing that may come out of this... on Is Ethanol the Answer to the Energy Dilemma? · · Score: 1

    Chemically, maybe, but not culinarily.

  23. Re:Europe on Microsoft Agrees to License Windows Source Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like any self respecting Brit would use the term "fricking"!

  24. Re:For those infected on Three-Dimensional Structure of HIV Revealed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One would imagine it's not used in sexual situations at all, but as a preventative measure during medical procedures.

  25. Re:Any heat is good heat in winter on Standby Electronics a Waste? · · Score: 1

    Heh, we'd just berate you for living on some bloody silly geology ;) It might be miserable and rainy here, but at least that's all you've to worry about :D