That's fine but his benchmarks are then worthless in the context of the real world. Not to mention the fact that comparing a 4-5 year old x86 processor to a relative newer ARM is highly disingenuous. Xeons from even two years back are far more efficient per watt than that X2.
You're an idiot. Employers can't force you to work after hours or buy equipment to do said after hours work. If you're so pussy-whipped that you just bend over to every demand made to you that's your own fault.
No, I'm saying it's disingenuous to say the diet is more energy efficient when you ignore the fact that vegans have to eat fortified foods or take supplements and such synthesizing of these vitamins and minerals costs energy to do.
And how much more energy efficient is it if you factor in the fact that you have to artificially synthesize things like B12 to fortify their foods with?
Only due to things like the isolation and artificial synthesizing of things like vitamin B12. There is a reason that the vegan movement is less than 65 years old. It would have been completely impractical for the vast, vast period of time that humans have existed. In any other time period, vegans would have died from things like pernicious anemia or other diseases related to B12, D, iron deficiencies.
I was never trying to claim these parents were astronaut candidates. The point is that poorly planned vegan diets can cause serious complications or death (and not just to babies). Just eating soy isn't going to be enough for these Mars astronauts.
If it's planned properly, you'll be fine on a vegan diet with no supplements.
This isn't accurate. One either has to directly take supplements or eat fortified foods (which is food supplemented with vitamins and nutrients) or else you will get vitamin and mineral deficiencies. There is just no way around it. This is why veganism is only about 65 years old (not but a decade or so after treatments for diseases due to B12 deficiencies were discovered). If one were to have tried a strict vegan diet even in the early 1900s you would most likely die from the complications of these deficiencies.
Yes, one would have to. This is why humans have always been omnivores. Even up to a few hundred years ago it would be been completely impractical to be a vegan due to the lack of supplements for essentials vitamins and minerals that one cannot reliably get from plant sources. Vitamin B12 deficiency is one of the leading issues with a poorly planned vegan diet and this vitamin was not even isolated until 1948. Before that point one was given liver extracts to treat things like pernicious anemia which results from B12 deficiency.
and the continued survival of the worlds vegan population indicates that there are no major health problems with such a diet.
And they only do so from being able to take supplements for things they can't get reliably get from plant sources such as B12. One couple got a life sentence because a vegan diet they imposed on their baby ended up killing it due to their ignorance on such nutritional deficiencies that can happen from such a lifestyle.
Here's where we get into the point of "professional tool" vs. "something I install on my home PC".
The GP was talking about software for his job. So no, your point has nothing to do with the topic.
For professional people, the cost of software like Photoshop, VS.Net, Final Cut Pro, and others is almost completely insignificant. Compared to all the other costs of doing business, it's almost crazy not to pay for it. However for the home user, or hobbyist, these products seem completely out of range with what you get out of them.
That's why home users buy Photoshop Elements and they will download Visual Studio Express.
Which is why professional graphic design have all dumped Photoshop for Duh GIMP? And all those people who work in professional video arena have dumped all their proprietary tools for KDenlive?
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That's fine but his benchmarks are then worthless in the context of the real world. Not to mention the fact that comparing a 4-5 year old x86 processor to a relative newer ARM is highly disingenuous. Xeons from even two years back are far more efficient per watt than that X2.
I've yet to encounter any such demands at all in the job I've had for 5 years. Maybe you should stop taking shitty job offers?
So, the smart move is to remain unemployed?
False dichotomy much? Are you seriously saying the only choices are unemployment or an exploitative job?
Because anyone actually thought that Apple was going to keep running two competing music stores?
You're an idiot. Employers can't force you to work after hours or buy equipment to do said after hours work. If you're so pussy-whipped that you just bend over to every demand made to you that's your own fault.
MS patented video codecs.
And those would be? Oh and before you mention WMV/VC-1, Microsoft holds only a tiny minority of the patents that make up the WMV/VC-1 pool.
Wow I've heard of not RTFA or RTFS but you couldn't even finish reading the title to find the information you wanted? It's only 10 words long.
No, I'm saying it's disingenuous to say the diet is more energy efficient when you ignore the fact that vegans have to eat fortified foods or take supplements and such synthesizing of these vitamins and minerals costs energy to do.
Who was counting in decimal?
Using one core on an AMD X2 2,8GHz and an ARM Cortex A8 core at 600MHz on a beagleboard, I've done some tests
An AMD X2 is fucking ancient. Compare it against something modern like an i7.
I thought there were only 10 numbers.
That's not true. The gaming industry is in high demand for these future grads that will help them tighten up the graphics on level 3.
Because you can't both be taking classes for this degree program and do video game design and programming on the side?
There's a whole lot of misinformation floating around in this thread, as there always is whenever veganism gets discussed around here.
Such as what exactly?
And how much more energy efficient is it if you factor in the fact that you have to artificially synthesize things like B12 to fortify their foods with?
It's not just B12. Iron and Vitamin D deficiencies are also highly common. There are others, but these 3 are the major ones.
or eggs/dairy.
That would no longer be a vegan diet.
He said they continually survive.
Only due to things like the isolation and artificial synthesizing of things like vitamin B12. There is a reason that the vegan movement is less than 65 years old. It would have been completely impractical for the vast, vast period of time that humans have existed. In any other time period, vegans would have died from things like pernicious anemia or other diseases related to B12, D, iron deficiencies.
I was never trying to claim these parents were astronaut candidates. The point is that poorly planned vegan diets can cause serious complications or death (and not just to babies). Just eating soy isn't going to be enough for these Mars astronauts.
If it's planned properly, you'll be fine on a vegan diet with no supplements.
This isn't accurate. One either has to directly take supplements or eat fortified foods (which is food supplemented with vitamins and nutrients) or else you will get vitamin and mineral deficiencies. There is just no way around it. This is why veganism is only about 65 years old (not but a decade or so after treatments for diseases due to B12 deficiencies were discovered). If one were to have tried a strict vegan diet even in the early 1900s you would most likely die from the complications of these deficiencies.
Yes, one would have to. This is why humans have always been omnivores. Even up to a few hundred years ago it would be been completely impractical to be a vegan due to the lack of supplements for essentials vitamins and minerals that one cannot reliably get from plant sources. Vitamin B12 deficiency is one of the leading issues with a poorly planned vegan diet and this vitamin was not even isolated until 1948. Before that point one was given liver extracts to treat things like pernicious anemia which results from B12 deficiency.
and the continued survival of the worlds vegan population indicates that there are no major health problems with such a diet.
And they only do so from being able to take supplements for things they can't get reliably get from plant sources such as B12. One couple got a life sentence because a vegan diet they imposed on their baby ended up killing it due to their ignorance on such nutritional deficiencies that can happen from such a lifestyle.
Here's where we get into the point of "professional tool" vs. "something I install on my home PC".
The GP was talking about software for his job. So no, your point has nothing to do with the topic.
For professional people, the cost of software like Photoshop, VS.Net, Final Cut Pro, and others is almost completely insignificant. Compared to all the other costs of doing business, it's almost crazy not to pay for it. However for the home user, or hobbyist, these products seem completely out of range with what you get out of them.
That's why home users buy Photoshop Elements and they will download Visual Studio Express.
The rest OpenSource handles quite well.
Which is why professional graphic design have all dumped Photoshop for Duh GIMP? And all those people who work in professional video arena have dumped all their proprietary tools for KDenlive?
Because you trusted it when it was in the hands of McAfee? LOL.
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