ludwigk commented on Sarah Haskins Has A Problem With Marketing Family Meals To Moms

"Harvey Levenstein is a food history professor, whose "Paradox of Plenty" gives an in-depth look at the 20th century food culture of the US."

ludwigk commented on Why Most Organic Milk Stays Unspoiled Longer

"@ludwigk: Appendix: Since moving to California 2 years ago, I've become lactose intolerant."

ludwigk commented on Why Most Organic Milk Stays Unspoiled Longer

"@dianabanana: This is probably a matter of what they're feeding their cows."

ludwigk commented on Starbucks Charged Me Extra For The Vanilla In My "Vanilla Latte"

"@mac-phisto: But what if you're a stingy bastard and already don't tip?"

ludwigk commented on Starbucks Charged Me Extra For The Vanilla In My "Vanilla Latte"

"@jaredutah: I'm surprised that you ordered a double cheeseburger without cheese, and that there was a line item for cheese, and you actually got a burger with *no* cheese. Conventional logic would dictate that you'd have ended up with double cheese, or a helplessly inedible mess of melted orange plastic."

ludwigk commented on Coca-Cola: Expect Higher Prices After Labor Day

"Before July 4, the Safeway near me was having a "Buy 2, Get 3 free" for 12 packs of coke, which worked out to something like $1.75/12 pack."

ludwigk commented on Miyamoto: Wii Music Is "Better Than A Video Game"

"@alfredofroylan: *sigh* Ok."

ludwigk commented on Visine Would Cost $1,021 If You Bought By Gallon

"Visine's got nothing."

ludwigk commented on Dealzmodo: Microsoft Xbox 360 Premium for $200

"Yikes, 60 day wty for an X360?"

ludwigk commented on Sony Knows What Went Wrong With the PS3

"@mattius: I'm just amazed that Tretton would finally turn around and start being humble, and addressing the HUGE problems that have existed with the PS3. - It costs too much. - It touts features like Cell and BluRay which are irrelevant to this generation of gaming. - It is a pain to develop for - Sony made 10^2834992348 promises about the PS3 which they could not keep. - It took a year longer to get to market than X360, with no perceivable gaming benefit. It's a refreshing change from the usual "Impenetrable Wall of Arrogance" that is Sony's PR."

ludwigk commented on Are You Living Beyond Your Means?

"Mortgage?"

ludwigk commented on Apple Demands Recall of Every Psystar Mac Clone

"@draconis1492: You are demonstrating a complete lack of understanding regarding "Monopolies", "monopolistic tactics" and the history of Microsoft. Just off the top of my head: Microsoft purposefully sabotaged their own APIs so that their products would run better than their competitors' in the same product spaces. Microsoft forced integration with their middleware and browser with their OS to the exclusion of other developers. Microsoft forced PC resellers to not bundle products with their competitors, or suffer higher OS prices. Microsoft uses predatory pricing for security and enterprise products in an attmept to muscle existing competitors out of the market. Microsoft can do these things (that noone else can do) because they operate an illegal monopoly. Not only has Apple never done any of these things, but Apple can't do most of these things because they don't have a monopoly. Apple could sabotage their own APIs, but they don't consider it in their own interest to make their partner's applications crash. Talk to anyone who worked for Word Perfect, or Lotus, or Netscape, or Be, or any number of other fine company/products that were crushed by Microsoft merely flexing their Monopolistic influence over the PC industry, as opposed to winning by competing in the open market."

ludwigk commented on Häagen-Dazs Drink Special Costs Twice As Much With "No Ice" Thanks To Handwritten Mouseprint

"@scoosdad: Except the customer who has to come back and order a second drink because the first didn't have enough sugar water is the even more profitable customer."

ludwigk commented on Disgruntled Computer Technician Outs Super-Rich Tax Cheaters To The IRS

"@coan_net: The reason you can't figure it out is because you are failing to include the cost to society of all those drugs being distributed - increased crime rates, broken lives, costly addiction, death by overdose, economic depression as money is funneled into vice industries."

ludwigk commented on Apple Finally Unleashes Lawyers, Force Lightning on Psystar

"@Hvedhrungr: You don't get to turn arguments around like that."

ludwigk commented on 3 Ways To Beat The Grocery Shrink Ray

"#1 is currently going out of style, but a good one. A lot of the bigger, older sized products are EOL'ed, and grocery stores are clearance-ing them as a result."

ludwigk commented on Coffee-Shop Threatens To "Punch" Customer In His "Dick"

"Adding ice to hot espresso might cause some of the flavor compounds to crystalize and precipitate out of solution."

ludwigk commented on Nintendo Reveals "Wii Speak" Chat For Wii

"1) friend code, and other "code" derived buddy systems still suck 2) Why isn't there a camera in this thing? 3) Sensor bar was already unstable enough without additional weight on top of it (stupid HDTVs and their lack of boxiness)."