THIS. I find it extremely unsettling how many people who have never been in a situation like this glibly spout "well, smart shopping will help them" and such. When you have $20 a week, in a nation where the purchase power of the dollar for food and basic living expenses is constantly dropping, this is a grim scenario. The above poster's comment on the hierarchy of foods is spot-on, as well.
I know because, while not quite badly off enough to qualify for food stamp, etc, I shop as if I am. My weekly grocery list tends to look like: 2x Dried pinto beans - $0.99 for 8 servings 2x Queso da papa cheese - $1.50 for 8 servings 2x Non-trans-fat peanut butter - $1.00 for 10 servings 1x Quaker Oats oatmeal cylinder - $4.50 for 20 servings, don't usually need this every week, so let's say $1.50 amortized over 3 weeks. 1x Small bottle of olive oil for cooking - $6.00, again amortized to $2.00 a week. 3x white ball onion - $2.50 1x off-brand OJ concentrate - $2.50 Which leaves $5.50 from that $20 for vegetables and fruit, and you're lucky if you get one serving of each a day. Invest it in tomato sauce and the cheapest frozen veg you can find for best results.
Imagine trying to eat like that all week, every week, forever. Plain oatmeal for breakfast, PB and cheese for lunch, and beans and cheese for dinner, with whatever fruit or veg you could afford. That's *all* you get, aside from what you can beg or dumpster-dive. If you deprive yourself even more, you may be able to afford some yeast and flour, so you can make some bread...IF you have time to.
I know two...well, one bisexual and one lesbian. Though since those are my love and myself respectively and we're like fanatically monogamous, it's not going anywhere. Seirously though, there have got to be more of us out there; just keep looking! Go to the local LGBTA or something, I know there's more of us.
"Have you ever heard of the Doctrine of First Sale?!"
"Err, I don't listen to hip-hop."
Meh, I've never been much of a gamer ayway, especially not in the past 10 years. But the best old games will never die *hugs her SNES and Lufia cartridges*
...Google scares me more than Microsoft. Even as a die-hard Linux and BSD user, a FOSS zealot, I rest easy knowing Microsoft in its current form will likely be dead in less than a decade. Google, on the other hand, stands to become the Internet-age version of Standard Oil. This is the first "publically-visible" sign of their slide into Microsoft-like evilness, and unlike MS, they will probably be around a long, long time.
Think about it: the OS doesn't *really* matter (if it did OS X and Linux and all the rest would never have any users). Even MS knows this, as they prepare to break into the "cloud" market. Even the applications aren't *that* important now, with the number of people working on converters and programs like OpenOffice. What's important is data, raw information, and Google is a massive data broker.
Be very, very careful how much you trust to Google.
Subject. Between this and the weasel-word butchering of "open source" MS is trying to pull off I have just about had enough of them....if Bill Gates goes to Hell, will he be forced to use Ubuntu on a SPARCStation as the BSD daemon prods him with a pointy little pitchfork? With a loop of Richard Stallman's rancid songs playing in the background?
Although I read (okay, skimmed) the article, it seemed very light on details. Where does all the CO2 go? The only way I could see this being even close to a solution is if the end product is carbonate rock or something similar, and even then, they'd have to bury or otherwise shield from the elements whatever the end product is....also, would these happen to look like small round buildings with yellow tops? Shades of SimEarth for the SNES, Batman...
Normally I am almost always opposed to the "conservative" view point on just about everything, but I happen to agree with them on this; there is no need to use embryos for stem cells if we can make this work.
That said, I'm not sure I consider the surplus embryos that would just be thrown out anyway humans...at least, no more human than the developed, living, breathing people who get shafted by "conservative" policies in the main every day...
As to why...well, the Nano supposedly gets almost twice the performance per watt that a Celeron-M does, and the U2400
takes about 1.5 times as much juice as the Celeron-M in the Eee 900 and company. That's offset by (at least in this
theoretical model) being paired with a much more efficient chipset than the power-hungry ancient ICH Intel decided
to stick the Atom and Cel-M with. As to the screen, the HP Mininote can already do 1280x800. The one thing I hate
about my Eee 900 is the 1024x600 screen. And of course, it should be 100% Linux compatible.
A machine like this would be about on par with, or maybe better than, an Inspiron 600m as far as processing power goes,
and probably faster with its solid state drive and 1 GB of DDR2 RAM. I could even see myself installing Gentoo on it
(shunting/var/tmp/portage off into tmpfs of course).
>> What other features would you suggest to Microsoft if they are to have a hope for recovery?
> A Linux kernel.
People laugh at this, but it was OS X moving to a Unix kernel that helped it really take off. Anyone remember the older versions of Apple's OSes? The inability to multitask? The complete lack of memory protection, causing every segfault to be a fatal error? Yeah.
I know Ballmer would rather tattoo something obscene about penguins on his own forehead than try something like that, but it would make Windows a hell of a lot more stable. Plus there's plenty of standardized, working applications for the Unix world out there.
I would, of course, probably kill myself laughing if this ever happened...
Has everyone forgotten Mars has no ozone layer? The soil may contain the necessary minerals and other nutrients, but it's baked under UV rays and (last I heard) full of peroxides and other unfriendly chemicals as a result.
Starting with plants is putting the cart before the horse; we should be thinking about extremophiles if we're serious about this. And would it be ethical?
Does this seem strange to anyone? I'm not sure any politician would have a real motivation to have him taken out, but something doesn't smell right here. Of course that could just me my foil hat cutting off the circulation again...
He has. His thoughts were roughly: "That's a great idea...FOR ME TO POOP ON!"...seriously, I can't wait until he dies. Hopefully by head-a-splode-osis. Though if his cranium hasn't blown yet in the face of all the hypocrisy, lies, and injustice he's perpetrated, it's not likely ever to.
Wow. Just...wow. Nokia, you don't get it. You truly have no idea what open source and free-as-in-libre really means. It's a philosophy designed explicitly to lock out douchebaggery like this.
Like all corporations, you know the price of everything and the value of nothing, and that will cost you dearly someday. Just because a lot of F/OSS devs don't get paid doesn't mean their work is somehow less valuable than proprietary devs'; if anything, it's more.
Jeez, no wonder it's called *Troll*tech...
Uh...no. Foresight Linux (and any distro that uses the Conary package manager) download delta-packages for upgrades. SuSE may be the first one to do it, but it doesn't have a monopoly on the idea.
And they could even do the security audits for you. Just imagine, not only do they do firewall duty, but you have your own in-house tiger team!
*runs like Hell*
Sorry, but sometimes some things *are* better than others, even to the point that they go beyond the "right tool for the right job"/"can't argue with taste" argument. Three years ago I would have said the same thing, but since then, Gnome has mutated into an unholy, shambling, crawling mess of God knows what. There is only one other desktop I've seen that has so little functionality for so much bloat: Windows XP's Luna. Yes, I went there.
Worse, Gnome has reinvented the triangular wheel; pull up GConf and tell me that doesn't look at least superficially like the Windows registry. Yes, there *are* corresponding flat text or XML files, but the fact that I need to know that says that GConfEditor is unintuitive and weak. KControl is probably just as messy internally, but I have never, ever needed to check this to verify; it exposes tremendous amounts of the DE's look and feel, perhaps *too* much for a beginner, to the user.
What really tears it is that I much prefer the look of GTK, the fact that it's written in C, and that it uses the LGPL. Luckily, we also have XFCE, which I have taken to calling "what Gnome always should have been" since version 4.3.9x. All XFCE is missing is some drag'n'drop support (apps menu --> panel launcher, for example) and some more functionality in Thunar (which can be added via Thunar's plugin system) and it will make Gnome utterly pointless. XFCE might not be quite as friendly (read: patronizing) as Gnome, but even my mother, a longtime Windows user, said she "felt like the computer was insulting her intelligence" when she used Gnome.
Not to say KDE doesn't have its own issues; I hate Konqueror for web browsing, though prefer it just slightly over D[3/o]lphin for file management. Most of the apps I need are GTK, and the QT/KDE alternatives just don't do it for me. It's perhaps a bit *too* configurable for a beginner, though I personally appreciate how much can be changed. Theming is also a pain in the neck for beginners since there are so many separate things to change and it's not always obvious what each one does. Still, given a choice between Gnome and KDE, I would take KDE any day....I'd just rather have XFCE or IceWM or one of the *boxes instead =P
For that matter, I've met humans who I'm fairly sure wouldn't pass the "Turning" Test (*pokes the summary*). Humans are supposedly intelligent beings, by definition, so......or do you have to have your brain stripped out and replaced with an 8086 and 640 KiB of RAM when you accept a marketing/sales job?
Normally I'd post a paragraph or so on how Islam is the way it is because it's a polity, not just a religion, and that Christianity would be just as bad if it hadn't domesticated itself through centuries of success, but I'm really getting sick of all this religiously-motivated bullshit. So I will just say this:
Dear Muslims: Let's make a deal. We will stop offending you by making fun of your prophet when you stop offending us by blowing up our people and buildings. Until then, you can bite my shiny metal ass. Love, Hazuki.
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THIS. I find it extremely unsettling how many people who have never been in a situation like this glibly spout "well, smart shopping will help them" and such. When you have $20 a week, in a nation where the purchase power of the dollar for food and basic living expenses is constantly dropping, this is a grim scenario. The above poster's comment on the hierarchy of foods is spot-on, as well.
I know because, while not quite badly off enough to qualify for food stamp, etc, I shop as if I am. My weekly grocery list tends to look like:
2x Dried pinto beans - $0.99 for 8 servings
2x Queso da papa cheese - $1.50 for 8 servings
2x Non-trans-fat peanut butter - $1.00 for 10 servings
1x Quaker Oats oatmeal cylinder - $4.50 for 20 servings, don't usually need this every week, so let's say $1.50 amortized over 3 weeks.
1x Small bottle of olive oil for cooking - $6.00, again amortized to $2.00 a week.
3x white ball onion - $2.50
1x off-brand OJ concentrate - $2.50
Which leaves $5.50 from that $20 for vegetables and fruit, and you're lucky if you get one serving of each a day. Invest it in tomato sauce and the cheapest frozen veg you can find for best results.
Imagine trying to eat like that all week, every week, forever. Plain oatmeal for breakfast, PB and cheese for lunch, and beans and cheese for dinner, with whatever fruit or veg you could afford. That's *all* you get, aside from what you can beg or dumpster-dive. If you deprive yourself even more, you may be able to afford some yeast and flour, so you can make some bread...IF you have time to.
I have an even better question for ID'ers. What does THIS say about their so-called intelligent designer?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_plant
Were we created by Beavis and Butthead? I can imagine the scene on Day 3 or thereabouts of the Creation:
[God] Huh-huhuhuh-huh-huh. Hey, Lucifer. Check this out, dude. *zap!* It's a schlong cactus. ...what's a schlong?
[Lucifer] Heh-m-heh-heh. Yeah, that's pretty cool, m-heheh. Schlong.
I know two...well, one bisexual and one lesbian. Though since those are my love and myself respectively and we're like fanatically monogamous, it's not going anywhere. Seirously though, there have got to be more of us out there; just keep looking! Go to the local LGBTA or something, I know there's more of us.
"Have you ever heard of the Doctrine of First Sale?!"
"Err, I don't listen to hip-hop."
Meh, I've never been much of a gamer ayway, especially not in the past 10 years. But the best old games will never die *hugs her SNES and Lufia cartridges*
No "Mega Man 2" tag yet? =P
...Google scares me more than Microsoft. Even as a die-hard Linux and BSD user, a FOSS zealot, I rest easy knowing Microsoft in its current form will likely be dead in less than a decade. Google, on the other hand, stands to become the Internet-age version of Standard Oil. This is the first "publically-visible" sign of their slide into Microsoft-like evilness, and unlike MS, they will probably be around a long, long time.
Think about it: the OS doesn't *really* matter (if it did OS X and Linux and all the rest would never have any users). Even MS knows this, as they prepare to break into the "cloud" market. Even the applications aren't *that* important now, with the number of people working on converters and programs like OpenOffice. What's important is data, raw information, and Google is a massive data broker.
Be very, very careful how much you trust to Google.
Subject. Between this and the weasel-word butchering of "open source" MS is trying to pull off I have just about had enough of them. ...if Bill Gates goes to Hell, will he be forced to use Ubuntu on a SPARCStation as the BSD daemon prods him with a pointy little pitchfork? With a loop of Richard Stallman's rancid songs playing in the background?
Although I read (okay, skimmed) the article, it seemed very light on details. Where does all the CO2 go? The only way I could see this being even close to a solution is if the end product is carbonate rock or something similar, and even then, they'd have to bury or otherwise shield from the elements whatever the end product is. ...also, would these happen to look like small round buildings with yellow tops? Shades of SimEarth for the SNES, Batman...
And I actually do happen to run Gentoo (and Arch, and Debian here and there).
- Marissa
Normally I am almost always opposed to the "conservative" view point on just about everything, but I happen to agree with them on this; there is no need to use embryos for stem cells if we can make this work.
That said, I'm not sure I consider the surplus embryos that would just be thrown out anyway humans...at least, no more human than the developed, living, breathing people who get shafted by "conservative" policies in the main every day...
VIA Nano U2400 1 GB DDR2-800 RAM 12GB Solid-state storage 1280x800 screen "Friendly" (92%-scale) keyboard 802.11a/b/g(/n?) wireless Runs Linux (of course!)
As to why...well, the Nano supposedly gets almost twice the performance per watt that a Celeron-M does, and the U2400 takes about 1.5 times as much juice as the Celeron-M in the Eee 900 and company. That's offset by (at least in this theoretical model) being paired with a much more efficient chipset than the power-hungry ancient ICH Intel decided to stick the Atom and Cel-M with. As to the screen, the HP Mininote can already do 1280x800. The one thing I hate about my Eee 900 is the 1024x600 screen. And of course, it should be 100% Linux compatible.
A machine like this would be about on par with, or maybe better than, an Inspiron 600m as far as processing power goes, and probably faster with its solid state drive and 1 GB of DDR2 RAM. I could even see myself installing Gentoo on it (shunting /var/tmp/portage off into tmpfs of course).
I dunno, he's not entirely wrong about Microsoft products not being all bad. ...they make good mice and keyboards. ...at the low end >>;
Actually I don't own any toys...exception that proves (tests) the rule?
>> What other features would you suggest to Microsoft if they are to have a hope for recovery?
> A Linux kernel.
People laugh at this, but it was OS X moving to a Unix kernel that helped it really take off. Anyone remember the older versions of Apple's OSes? The inability to multitask? The complete lack of memory protection, causing every segfault to be a fatal error? Yeah.
I know Ballmer would rather tattoo something obscene about penguins on his own forehead than try something like that, but it would make Windows a hell of a lot more stable. Plus there's plenty of standardized, working applications for the Unix world out there.
I would, of course, probably kill myself laughing if this ever happened...
Vista, hell. Get him one of the Pangolin-series laptops from system76.com. Fully-loaded with Ubuntu and ready to go :)
Has everyone forgotten Mars has no ozone layer? The soil may contain the necessary minerals and other nutrients, but it's baked under UV rays and (last I heard) full of peroxides and other unfriendly chemicals as a result. Starting with plants is putting the cart before the horse; we should be thinking about extremophiles if we're serious about this. And would it be ethical?
Does this seem strange to anyone? I'm not sure any politician would have a real motivation to have him taken out, but something doesn't smell right here. Of course that could just me my foil hat cutting off the circulation again...
Horse's *mouth?* That's...very charitable of you, but I think you've got the wrong end.
He has. His thoughts were roughly: "That's a great idea...FOR ME TO POOP ON!" ...seriously, I can't wait until he dies. Hopefully by head-a-splode-osis. Though if his cranium hasn't blown yet in the face of all the hypocrisy, lies, and injustice he's perpetrated, it's not likely ever to.
Wow. Just...wow. Nokia, you don't get it. You truly have no idea what open source and free-as-in-libre really means. It's a philosophy designed explicitly to lock out douchebaggery like this. Like all corporations, you know the price of everything and the value of nothing, and that will cost you dearly someday. Just because a lot of F/OSS devs don't get paid doesn't mean their work is somehow less valuable than proprietary devs'; if anything, it's more. Jeez, no wonder it's called *Troll*tech...
Uh...no. Foresight Linux (and any distro that uses the Conary package manager) download delta-packages for upgrades. SuSE may be the first one to do it, but it doesn't have a monopoly on the idea.
And they could even do the security audits for you. Just imagine, not only do they do firewall duty, but you have your own in-house tiger team! *runs like Hell*
Sorry, but sometimes some things *are* better than others, even to the point that they go beyond the "right tool for the right job"/"can't argue with taste" argument. Three years ago I would have said the same thing, but since then, Gnome has mutated into an unholy, shambling, crawling mess of God knows what. There is only one other desktop I've seen that has so little functionality for so much bloat: Windows XP's Luna. Yes, I went there.
...I'd just rather have XFCE or IceWM or one of the *boxes instead =P
Worse, Gnome has reinvented the triangular wheel; pull up GConf and tell me that doesn't look at least superficially like the Windows registry. Yes, there *are* corresponding flat text or XML files, but the fact that I need to know that says that GConfEditor is unintuitive and weak. KControl is probably just as messy internally, but I have never, ever needed to check this to verify; it exposes tremendous amounts of the DE's look and feel, perhaps *too* much for a beginner, to the user.
What really tears it is that I much prefer the look of GTK, the fact that it's written in C, and that it uses the LGPL. Luckily, we also have XFCE, which I have taken to calling "what Gnome always should have been" since version 4.3.9x. All XFCE is missing is some drag'n'drop support (apps menu --> panel launcher, for example) and some more functionality in Thunar (which can be added via Thunar's plugin system) and it will make Gnome utterly pointless. XFCE might not be quite as friendly (read: patronizing) as Gnome, but even my mother, a longtime Windows user, said she "felt like the computer was insulting her intelligence" when she used Gnome.
Not to say KDE doesn't have its own issues; I hate Konqueror for web browsing, though prefer it just slightly over D[3/o]lphin for file management. Most of the apps I need are GTK, and the QT/KDE alternatives just don't do it for me. It's perhaps a bit *too* configurable for a beginner, though I personally appreciate how much can be changed. Theming is also a pain in the neck for beginners since there are so many separate things to change and it's not always obvious what each one does. Still, given a choice between Gnome and KDE, I would take KDE any day.
For that matter, I've met humans who I'm fairly sure wouldn't pass the "Turning" Test (*pokes the summary*). Humans are supposedly intelligent beings, by definition, so... ...or do you have to have your brain stripped out and replaced with an 8086 and 640 KiB of RAM when you accept a marketing/sales job?
Normally I'd post a paragraph or so on how Islam is the way it is because it's a polity, not just a religion, and that Christianity would be just as bad if it hadn't domesticated itself through centuries of success, but I'm really getting sick of all this religiously-motivated bullshit. So I will just say this:
Dear Muslims: Let's make a deal. We will stop offending you by making fun of your prophet when you stop offending us by blowing up our people and buildings. Until then, you can bite my shiny metal ass. Love, Hazuki.