All the ingredients of my evening meal were already in my kitchen. I didn't have to drive anywhere, and the price must have been below 5 Euros. For the record, that was half a package of spaghetti (that I saved a month or so ago then I cooked the other half) with a sauce of fresh tomatoes (three of them), olive oil (about 50 g), garlic (three cloves), an onion, some dried basil (that I buy in a large jar and is always available), salt and pepper (that I buy whole so that it remains fresh for ages). It tasted so good, it didn't even need cheese.

I get what you say about the poor neighborhoods and the lack of decent grocery stores, but I really think that it's a matter of culture. At any given time I can cook a two course meal for 5 people with the stuff that I have lying around. I go to the supermarket once a week: All sorts of pasta lasts for ages. Onions and (fresh) potatoes last for many weeks if kept dry. Canned stuff (tomatoes, tuna) are pretty good and frozen stuff are usually excellent, the only limitation is space. Pulses and rice are dirt cheap and super robust. Dried fruit and herbs go for months if stored right. The only things that I have to buy regularly are fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs, fresh meat/fish and milk.

Did I just wake up one day and decided that this is the way my kitchen should be organized? No. I grew up in a household where our mom would dry her own tomatoes and herbs. She would make candy out of fruit. You get the picture. I learned a lot. Some blanks I filled in by reading books on cooking. Some other stuff I learned the hard way, recipes would go awry and stuff would rot in the fridge, but I see that as an investment.

Here's the catch: our parents would rather let us go hungry than bring us junk food for dinner. In your scenario, my dad would be like, sorry kids, no money today for some decent food, I'll see what I can get for you tomorrow. The next day, he would have 20 bucks and with that he would be able to not only get something more worthwhile and nutritious, but also something that would last for the next two days. The budget remains at 10 $/day but by starving for a single day and afterwards spending in $20 increments you can get more bang for the buck. After a week or so, you live a day on the leftovers and you can now raise the amount to $30 for three days worth of food. Repeat a few times and you have successfully uncoupled your stomach from your wallet.

Indeed. I once prepared a rich bean soup with tomatoes, carrots + other vegetables + meatballs for 100 people on a budget of 100 Euros. You need to know how to "trick" the recipe to get the most out of it. Canned tomatoes are much cheaper than fresh tomatoes, but for a soup they are even better. If you overcook it a bit and add a little extra olive oil you go from a thin broth to a thick soup. I prepared the meatball mix with rehydrated dried bread at a 50% v/v ratio to the minced meat that not only doubled the amount of meatballs, it made them fluffier, too.

That meal sure filled you up waaaay better at 1 Euro/portion than the 1 Euro hamburgers at McDonald's.

What kind of ink will this computer take?

Someone needs to port Typing Of The Dead to Android and iOS.

Probably not even you. Such tasks demand a huge amount of memory and the bottleneck is often the memory channels on the CPU chip per core. If you scale the benchmark result with the amount of cores, a CPU with 4 cores and 4 channels will outperform a CPU with, say, 6 cores and 3 channels even if the 6-core CPU is clocked higher. Given that the software scales nicely, it will be better to add more CPUs to the cluster than increasing the clock speed. Also, if CUDA takes off, the clock speed of the CPU will be rendered even more irrelevant.

For several reasons: FLOPS is a metric that depends on the algorithm used as well as on the system load. The system load could be minimized by running the benchmark on a bare-bone system multiple times and then averaging the results, but you still get serious variations. A FLOPS benchmark also depends on the RAM-speed and the amount of memory channels on the CPU chip if the benchmark is memory-hungry. Also, are you interested in running a large (parallel) computation over several days or a gazillion of short calculations in parallel? Also, not everyone is interested in the FLOPS performance. Lots of applications are more dependent on the performance of the integer unit.

I suppose this restriction will be mentioned in the rent contact, right? Because I would not count this sort of service as "internet" access and I would have to go to another ISP for the real thing, provided that it's not against the terms and conditions of the rent contract, in which case I would look for another apartment. It better be an otherwise kick ass apartment in order to persuade ageek to live there, unless your target group is something else.

You got it completely backwards. We should press for educational success and interest as much as possible, regardless of race and topic. You don't do this by forcing the more advanced group to a lower standard, but by raising everyone to a higher standard.

Leaks on the VA? Can you please provide a link? Outside the US we are not familiar with this.

I don't think the TV is at fault here. The poor dynamic range comes from the sensor used to produce the recording. Our eyes and brain can view scenes with a range of about 24 stops, whereas a pro camera can only give you about 10 stops.

BTW we need a new term for describing the actual meaning of HDR because the acronym has become synonymous to horrible post-processing practices and unnatural colors.

So what? Men can also not tell who the bad guys are. Maybe it's that biker dude? The black or the hispanic? Maybe rape is not that relevant for men, but robbery surely is. Once you generalise you're in the wrong, no matter what.

I fail to see how the OP is part of the problem just because he complained about taking the flac from some false accusations that concern his social group.

The quality of the posts has deteriorated, to be sure, but in this case the topic is relevant. There is an awful generalisation being made by someone who obviously is not familiar with the geek culture and this is our opportunity to retort.

Do you mean you carry it with you like a notebook? Because if you do, you might want to check out the Galaxy Note 3. At least this device fully covers my needs when I'm on the go. For indoors though, there is no replacement for the god old engineering paper block.

The laws of thermodynamics are actually axioms, that we use in order to predict the behavior of physical systems. If we ever find an experiment that defies them they will have to be extended or abandoned. The same purpose (the prediction of physical behavior) can also be achieved by using different axioms (like the less-popular but by all means equivalent single-axiom Hatsopoulos-Keenan formulation). Nobody "promoted" anything from theory to law.

As a scientist, you don't go about validating any beliefs or disbeliefs that you may have, you simply use the theory and its laws to help you figure out how stuff works.

Unfortunately, yours didn't think this way either. And now we're stuck with an asshole too many, that thinks that people aren't entitled to their own opinion, no matter how subversive it may be.