Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 08:03 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Wow, I had no idea that that German company had infiltrated the US, I > new the Dutch company Ahold had plenty of stores under different names) > but Aldi? Do you have any Lidl stores around? They are major > competitors of Aldi in Germany and The Netherlands. Have not seen Lidl. In fact, Aldi has 5 location here in Grand Rapids, MI USA. There are many more within 50 miles. They have stores in many places in the USA. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nigel Henry wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2007 22:43, Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 22:19 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 14:46 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/30/07 13:59, John Hasler wrote: >> Ron Johnson writes: >>> We buy the cheapest *whole* wheat bread at the local store that >>> doesn't taste like crumbly cardboard. >> See? You're picky. > Taste pickiness != snob pickiness. (Although snobs like to pretend > it is.) > >> Cathy Consumer buys the cheapest white bread, >> full stop. > Not true unless you're on a very tight budget. Ask your wife > whether she'd spend an extra 30 cents on bread from a brand she > trusts. We buy Bread at Aldi. $0.45 a loaf or $0.15 a loaf when trying to sell off before tomorrow's shipment. Seem pretty much everything is that way at Aldi. The white bread is very good for "tasteless" bread. Wheat is $0.50, $0.15 respectively, I like the wheat better than most "branded" kind. >>> Which country is this? Here, Aldi doesn't ever sell bread that cheap. >> The good ole US of 'Murica. Specifically in Grand Rapids, MI. >> >> And to be honest, the only thing I don't like about Aldi bread, is that >> it isn't always the "tradition" loaf shape. Sometimes a bit deformed. >> >> I'll go out on a short limb and say that more than 95% of the stuff Aldi >> carries that has direct "brand-name" equivalents, is better tasting... >> or SUCH a great value, that the taste doesn't matter at that point. Most >> fall in the first category. Cereal, Milk, Bread, Ground Beef, Pork >> Chops, "frozen" burritos, Fish Sticks, Fired Potatoes, Potatoe Chips, >> "Juice" (cranberry, Apple, Sunny D knock off orange, etc) drinks, Soda >> pop, Vegetable oil(different kinds), shampoo, hand soap, Paper Towels, >> Tissue, Frozen seafood, fresh vegetables, beef Steak cuts, brats, >> sausage, yogurt, pre-made pudding, boxed stuffing, "mac and >> cheese" ($0.29 each box and significantly better tasting than Kraft >> equivalent) and many other products in similar shape and form. >> >> One product that falls into the second category: >> >> "Manwich" costs $1.99 in most stores(plus or minus $0.20) >> >> Aldi equivalent $0.29. It isn't quite as flavorful, but it still >> tastes a might good better in comparison to plain ground beef >> and really is only slight less tasty than "Manwich" >> >> I mean, since the price difference is so HUGE and the quality is mostly >> as good or even better, why Aldi is not deluged by people from open to >> close, I'll never know. >> -- >> greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Recently bought a webcam from Aldi. Reduced from 25 to 5€. It works fine > using > the ov511 driver. They had some more there at the same price, so I bought 2 > more. Nothing like having a couple of spares. > > And the breads ok too. > > You don't find the usual brand names, but I have no problem with the stuff > they provide. It tastes ok, and all I'm trying to do is stay alive. > > Nigel. > > > I don't know if they sell them there, but here aldi sells computers too. I did a little digging and they are all over the place. A simple visit to http:/www.aldi.com will tell you all of the countries they are in. Quite a world player. 'Twas news to me. Maybe I'd recognize some of the products they sell. I did buy a computer from them once. It was a bargain price for a very well designed computer. Of course, it came with Windows. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGDfz8iXBCVWpc5J4RAvxTAJ42eRamav/QskxkEWeoR1FTm6iEIQCfXO6R b7yTLjJpPA/pgvMKbDmBD0A= =xONu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 22:19 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 14:46 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/30/07 13:59, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: >> We buy the cheapest *whole* wheat bread at the local store that doesn't >> taste like crumbly cardboard. > See? You're picky. Taste pickiness != snob pickiness. (Although snobs like to pretend it is.) > Cathy Consumer buys the cheapest white bread, full > stop. Not true unless you're on a very tight budget. Ask your wife whether she'd spend an extra 30 cents on bread from a brand she trusts. >>> We buy Bread at Aldi. $0.45 a loaf or $0.15 a loaf when trying to sell >>> off before tomorrow's shipment. Seem pretty much everything is that way >>> at Aldi. >>> >>> The white bread is very good for "tasteless" bread. Wheat is $0.50, >>> $0.15 respectively, I like the wheat better than most "branded" kind. >> Which country is this? Here, Aldi doesn't ever sell bread that cheap. > > The good ole US of 'Murica. Specifically in Grand Rapids, MI. > > And to be honest, the only thing I don't like about Aldi bread, is that > it isn't always the "tradition" loaf shape. Sometimes a bit deformed. > > I'll go out on a short limb and say that more than 95% of the stuff Aldi > carries that has direct "brand-name" equivalents, is better tasting... > or SUCH a great value, that the taste doesn't matter at that point. Most > fall in the first category. Cereal, Milk, Bread, Ground Beef, Pork > Chops, "frozen" burritos, Fish Sticks, Fired Potatoes, Potatoe Chips, > "Juice" (cranberry, Apple, Sunny D knock off orange, etc) drinks, Soda > pop, Vegetable oil(different kinds), shampoo, hand soap, Paper Towels, > Tissue, Frozen seafood, fresh vegetables, beef Steak cuts, brats, > sausage, yogurt, pre-made pudding, boxed stuffing, "mac and > cheese" ($0.29 each box and significantly better tasting than Kraft > equivalent) and many other products in similar shape and form. > > One product that falls into the second category: > > "Manwich" costs $1.99 in most stores(plus or minus $0.20) > > Aldi equivalent $0.29. It isn't quite as flavorful, but it still > tastes a might good better in comparison to plain ground beef > and really is only slight less tasty than "Manwich" > > I mean, since the price difference is so HUGE and the quality is mostly > as good or even better, why Aldi is not deluged by people from open to > close, I'll never know. Wow, I had no idea that that German company had infiltrated the US, I new the Dutch company Ahold had plenty of stores under different names) but Aldi? Do you have any Lidl stores around? They are major competitors of Aldi in Germany and The Netherlands. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGDfnMiXBCVWpc5J4RAhgWAKC3oyn36ZHFdsbGCYjqyikHDf9pxgCgq/Df 6tqVBapa0jtov9uRf+e5lHY= =6m1U -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
All* rechargable AA batteries are 1.2v whilst normal AA batteries are 1.5v. How embarrassing. I guess the battery was just broken then. There are a lot of other arguments against Sony still. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.
Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:49:35PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > quality), and I tried again. Then with a better recharger. I eventually gave > up and put the batteries away. One year later, I looked at the batteries and > realized why they did not work. > They were Sony batteries. Of course they couldn't make a standard battery > and actually compete on price/quality. > So the battery voltage was 1.2v, even though the battery looked exactly like > a standard AA battery. > W. T. F. All* rechargable AA batteries are 1.2v whilst normal AA batteries are 1.5v. Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechargeable_battery -- "To the extent that we overreact, we proffer the terrorists the greatest tribute." - High Court Judge Michael Kirby -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
I'll go out on a short limb and say that more than 95% of the stuff Aldi carries that has direct "brand-name" equivalents, is better tasting... This reminds me of restaurants. I like the small, family food ones 10 times better than the expensive ones. I prefer tasty food over fancy food that tastes like crap. This also reminds me of when I tried to convince my friend that there are good digital cameras outside Sony. Nothing could change his mind. Not the fact that there are a lot of famous digital camera brands besides Sony. Not my observations that Sony does not even have a good quality record, such as keeping their products from exploding. Not the fact that everithing in a Sony produt is non-standard* and the Sony parts cost you an arm and a leg. . He (and many other friends of mine) would only accept Sony. * Once I bought a pair of rechargeable batteries from a friend of mine. They wouldn't work. At first I thought it was the recharger (which was low quality), and I tried again. Then with a better recharger. I eventually gave up and put the batteries away. One year later, I looked at the batteries and realized why they did not work. They were Sony batteries. Of course they couldn't make a standard battery and actually compete on price/quality. So the battery voltage was 1.2v, even though the battery looked exactly like a standard AA battery. W. T. F. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.
Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
On Friday 30 March 2007 22:43, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 22:19 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 14:46 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> On 03/30/07 13:59, John Hasler wrote: > > >>> Ron Johnson writes: > > We buy the cheapest *whole* wheat bread at the local store that > > doesn't taste like crumbly cardboard. > > >>> > > >>> See? You're picky. > > >> > > >> Taste pickiness != snob pickiness. (Although snobs like to pretend > > >> it is.) > > >> > > >>> Cathy Consumer buys the cheapest white bread, > > >>> full stop. > > >> > > >> Not true unless you're on a very tight budget. Ask your wife > > >> whether she'd spend an extra 30 cents on bread from a brand she > > >> trusts. > > > > > > We buy Bread at Aldi. $0.45 a loaf or $0.15 a loaf when trying to sell > > > off before tomorrow's shipment. Seem pretty much everything is that way > > > at Aldi. > > > > > > The white bread is very good for "tasteless" bread. Wheat is $0.50, > > > $0.15 respectively, I like the wheat better than most "branded" kind. > > > > Which country is this? Here, Aldi doesn't ever sell bread that cheap. > > The good ole US of 'Murica. Specifically in Grand Rapids, MI. > > And to be honest, the only thing I don't like about Aldi bread, is that > it isn't always the "tradition" loaf shape. Sometimes a bit deformed. > > I'll go out on a short limb and say that more than 95% of the stuff Aldi > carries that has direct "brand-name" equivalents, is better tasting... > or SUCH a great value, that the taste doesn't matter at that point. Most > fall in the first category. Cereal, Milk, Bread, Ground Beef, Pork > Chops, "frozen" burritos, Fish Sticks, Fired Potatoes, Potatoe Chips, > "Juice" (cranberry, Apple, Sunny D knock off orange, etc) drinks, Soda > pop, Vegetable oil(different kinds), shampoo, hand soap, Paper Towels, > Tissue, Frozen seafood, fresh vegetables, beef Steak cuts, brats, > sausage, yogurt, pre-made pudding, boxed stuffing, "mac and > cheese" ($0.29 each box and significantly better tasting than Kraft > equivalent) and many other products in similar shape and form. > > One product that falls into the second category: > > "Manwich" costs $1.99 in most stores(plus or minus $0.20) > > Aldi equivalent $0.29. It isn't quite as flavorful, but it still > tastes a might good better in comparison to plain ground beef > and really is only slight less tasty than "Manwich" > > I mean, since the price difference is so HUGE and the quality is mostly > as good or even better, why Aldi is not deluged by people from open to > close, I'll never know. > -- > greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recently bought a webcam from Aldi. Reduced from 25 to 5€. It works fine using the ov511 driver. They had some more there at the same price, so I bought 2 more. Nothing like having a couple of spares. And the breads ok too. You don't find the usual brand names, but I have no problem with the stuff they provide. It tastes ok, and all I'm trying to do is stay alive. Nigel.
Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/30/07 15:52, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> I mean, since the price difference is so HUGE and the quality is mostly >> as good or even better, why Aldi is not deluged by people from open to >> close, I'll never know. > > For the same reason people want SUVs. > For the same reason women like gold and diamond. > For the same reason people want brand clothes. > > I sometimes imagine how would I explain the human society to an alien > > ET: Why do people kill each other and go to wars over this "diamond" > substance? What is it for? > > Me: Well, aside from its industrial applications, people want it for the > precise reason that it is hard to get. If its abundance increased, people > would cease using it. And sparkly. Very, very sparkly. Analogous is gold. Very very shiny. Which is why women like gold more than they like platinum. > ET: WTF!? > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDX9KS9HxQb37XmcRAgFOAKDAIW24SMGu8tBGzUWhMOjLopul7gCdGWo7 kuX/u5vrIfMdFtM2g09q92A= =EEFk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:52:14PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > ET: Why do people kill each other and go to wars over this "diamond" > substance? What is it for? > > Me: Well, aside from its industrial applications, people want it for the > precise reason that it is hard to get. If its abundance increased, people ^ > would cease using it. > > ET: WTF!? Diamond is *perceived* to be hard to get. In fact, diamond is a very abundant stone. It is so abundant that if DeBeers did not have a stranglehold on the world's diamond production, it would probably be considered only semi-precious. There was an interesting article in IEEE Spectrum (or maybe another IEEE magazine, though not a journal or scholarly pub) a couple of years ago about two different guys developing different methods for lab production of diamonds. In both cases the diamonds were *indistinguishable* from natural diamonds. This scared the crap out of DeBeers. One was "pressured" to sell out to DeBeers. The other had more than one attempt on his life. (Take a guess at who was probably behind that?) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
I mean, since the price difference is so HUGE and the quality is mostly as good or even better, why Aldi is not deluged by people from open to close, I'll never know. For the same reason people want SUVs. For the same reason women like gold and diamond. For the same reason people want brand clothes. I sometimes imagine how would I explain the human society to an alien ET: Why do people kill each other and go to wars over this "diamond" substance? What is it for? Me: Well, aside from its industrial applications, people want it for the precise reason that it is hard to get. If its abundance increased, people would cease using it. ET: WTF!?
Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 22:19 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 14:46 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/30/07 13:59, John Hasler wrote: > >>> Ron Johnson writes: > We buy the cheapest *whole* wheat bread at the local store that doesn't > taste like crumbly cardboard. > >>> See? You're picky. > >> Taste pickiness != snob pickiness. (Although snobs like to pretend > >> it is.) > >> > >>> Cathy Consumer buys the cheapest white bread, full > >>> stop. > >> Not true unless you're on a very tight budget. Ask your wife > >> whether she'd spend an extra 30 cents on bread from a brand she trusts. > > > > We buy Bread at Aldi. $0.45 a loaf or $0.15 a loaf when trying to sell > > off before tomorrow's shipment. Seem pretty much everything is that way > > at Aldi. > > > > The white bread is very good for "tasteless" bread. Wheat is $0.50, > > $0.15 respectively, I like the wheat better than most "branded" kind. > > Which country is this? Here, Aldi doesn't ever sell bread that cheap. The good ole US of 'Murica. Specifically in Grand Rapids, MI. And to be honest, the only thing I don't like about Aldi bread, is that it isn't always the "tradition" loaf shape. Sometimes a bit deformed. I'll go out on a short limb and say that more than 95% of the stuff Aldi carries that has direct "brand-name" equivalents, is better tasting... or SUCH a great value, that the taste doesn't matter at that point. Most fall in the first category. Cereal, Milk, Bread, Ground Beef, Pork Chops, "frozen" burritos, Fish Sticks, Fired Potatoes, Potatoe Chips, "Juice" (cranberry, Apple, Sunny D knock off orange, etc) drinks, Soda pop, Vegetable oil(different kinds), shampoo, hand soap, Paper Towels, Tissue, Frozen seafood, fresh vegetables, beef Steak cuts, brats, sausage, yogurt, pre-made pudding, boxed stuffing, "mac and cheese" ($0.29 each box and significantly better tasting than Kraft equivalent) and many other products in similar shape and form. One product that falls into the second category: "Manwich" costs $1.99 in most stores(plus or minus $0.20) Aldi equivalent $0.29. It isn't quite as flavorful, but it still tastes a might good better in comparison to plain ground beef and really is only slight less tasty than "Manwich" I mean, since the price difference is so HUGE and the quality is mostly as good or even better, why Aldi is not deluged by people from open to close, I'll never know. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 14:46 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 03/30/07 13:59, John Hasler wrote: >>> Ron Johnson writes: We buy the cheapest *whole* wheat bread at the local store that doesn't taste like crumbly cardboard. >>> See? You're picky. >> Taste pickiness != snob pickiness. (Although snobs like to pretend >> it is.) >> >>> Cathy Consumer buys the cheapest white bread, full >>> stop. >> Not true unless you're on a very tight budget. Ask your wife >> whether she'd spend an extra 30 cents on bread from a brand she trusts. > > We buy Bread at Aldi. $0.45 a loaf or $0.15 a loaf when trying to sell > off before tomorrow's shipment. Seem pretty much everything is that way > at Aldi. > > The white bread is very good for "tasteless" bread. Wheat is $0.50, > $0.15 respectively, I like the wheat better than most "branded" kind. Which country is this? Here, Aldi doesn't ever sell bread that cheap. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGDXDliXBCVWpc5J4RAkCrAKCHHX/FOzDyql/2p2RHuznG6KEjjQCggV7l pIaERvhAGsbY37WOiWOVUus= =bJj3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
