The US doesn't eat sheep for the most part; lamb is popular for richer people, but almost no one eats mutton in western countries. Cattle are often grass fed but this is becoming less common, and almost all are fattened up in the last few months on corn and such, in the US at least, becauses fatty meats sell better than lean.
As for pasture, yes, they eat grass. But much of that grass will come in the form of hay, because naturally grown grass isn't there year round, and they're putting more cows in the same amount of area than they used to these days, at least in the US. Pastures can be overgrazed. And the hay is an agricultural product itself, grown on crop land, irrigated, fertilized, harvested, and delivered. Now certainly this varies by region; my family is in California so things are done differently than in Texas.
Don't forget dairy cattle too, they're rarely fed in pastures.
Look at this from the American view. We've added way more meat to our typical diet than was eaten in the past by most societies. You don't have to cut out meat completely to make a huge difference. Drop it down to 10% of the diet or less.
Not really, because so many plants are used to raise meat animals. Think of animals raised for meat as middle-men. For the same amount of calories there would be fewer overall plants consumed if you ate the plants directly rather than going through the meat middleman.
I remember seeing a news article from a sensationalistic source that had a picture of a chip. I immediately though that we had one of those chips, and it was just just an RF filter with only 2 pins. Of course, no one ever had a picture of the actual alleged chip but it was funny enough that they picked some random chip in order to scare their readers while everyone in the know would have known the picture was bogus.
Almost all the women I know in tech now are awesome. The reason for this is that the gender bias occurs at the mediocre level, not at the top tier level. So the best women get hired, as one would expect, however it is still much easier for a mediocre man to get hired than a mediocre woman. Sadly, even at the incompetent leve men still get hired even by companies who claim they only hire the best. Friends of friends, past coworkers, lots of ways to get past a rigorous interview.
In my view, women will be treated as equasl when medicore women get hired at the same rate as medicore men, and they don't have to be better than the best to get a foot in the door.
The achievements for the most part that I've run across (PC games only), tend to either be automatic achievements you can't help but earn if you finish the game, additional easter-egg type things that yu may as well add to your TODO list, and stuff in DLCs so that you feel obligated to spend more money. I don't mind the TODO stuff myself and they can be fun (ie, finding how to destroy all the monitors in Portal 2, which you might not know is possible if it wasn't listed as an achievement).
You shouldn't even need such an account. Buy your games somewhere other than the account and then you always have them. If you lose the account that keeps track of meaningless trophies, it's no big deal as you make a new one. If Sony is tying all your gaming to an account, then boycott them.
Apparently there are enterprise users of Google+, news to me. What they mean is that they'll keep enterprise Google+ but get rid of the general public version. The enterprise version will still have users and customers.
I'm on google+. I actually get more updates there than on Facebook (mostly because facebook is dying and I never joined any "groups" on facebook). The best part of G+ is that it is not Facebook. Its method of segregating your posts to different groups (circles) is pretty nice; Facebook has nothing as comprehensive as that and really is not a suitable replacement for google+.
Sure it's not huge, but neither is slashdot. So why are slashdot readers concerned about the popularity contest?
China has already gone pretty much capitalist as far as allowing private corporations and profit making. Going further down this route won't necessarily change the Chinese government, and it doesn't mean "society" there becomes capitalist. An economic policy does not change all aspects of society.
As for the Chinese government, they really don't have a strong centralized control over the country as is often portrayed. More power seems to be regional and that's where a lot of government corruption comes in. For instance, journalists can criticize a neighboring region in their coverage, usually cannot criticize your own region without someone being detained for proper instruction.
Yep, you need ability to test the device; which means ability to turn off time synching with NTP or servers or a way to use special testing servers, stick it on a closed network, etc. I have had QA tell me "but if I change time on the device it will screw up all my other tests!", but that's just how it is so schedule extra testing time.
DST changes at different times in different countries. The November change in the US is particular to a relatively recent act of congress; many countries follow the US lead but also many do not.
Ha. We were coding some of this up to convert times from a third party device into UTC. I gave the appropriate hints and advice to the developer, but at some point in implementing it he came and asked "please tell me we don't have to support Australia!"
I had to do some of this, as there was no built in library that did this. There were some helpers in a small C library but ti was somewhat bulky so I trimmed some of this down, and also had to interface to the onboard real time chip which had its own quirks.
The snag is that the real world wants local time. Introducing UTC makes some things siimpler, but it also means you need to be converting time for some operations. For example, there are real world business needs for knowing what the daily power usage was starting at 12:00AM local time, they don't really care about what this means in a neighboring state or country. Meanwhile there may be an operations manager panicking because he thinks billing software will screw up if they feed in 25 hours in a single day.
It's a lot like metric vs imperial; metric makes more sense but some countries are still not 100% metric because it's difficult to migrate. And migrating away from time zones and DST is amazingly hard to do, even if some programmers think otherwise.
It's a problem to be sure, and I've stumbled into it several times in the past at different companies. Logic says to just use UTC and simplify it all, then convert to local time only when necessary to display the time. But in reality, the customers and product managers want local time and they don't really understand that some days have 23 hours and some have 25.
Twice a year at one job I had to write up a summary of what would happen with data collection that straddled a time change. Every single time it seems people forgot the previous email and started panicking when a customer would ask that question. At a different job we had a customer's site straddle time zones, and yet "by design" we only used local time instead of UTC because the designer thought local time was simpler. There are a lot of simpler embedded systems out there that assume only local time, some of which don't have the capability to update the DST rules or move to other countries without a full firmware update. I know of one gas meter that artificially adds or subtracts an hourly reading to account for DST such that every day has 24 hours... For such a simple and well known problem, I'm amazed at how badly it's handled.
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The US doesn't eat sheep for the most part; lamb is popular for richer people, but almost no one eats mutton in western countries. Cattle are often grass fed but this is becoming less common, and almost all are fattened up in the last few months on corn and such, in the US at least, becauses fatty meats sell better than lean.
As for pasture, yes, they eat grass. But much of that grass will come in the form of hay, because naturally grown grass isn't there year round, and they're putting more cows in the same amount of area than they used to these days, at least in the US. Pastures can be overgrazed. And the hay is an agricultural product itself, grown on crop land, irrigated, fertilized, harvested, and delivered. Now certainly this varies by region; my family is in California so things are done differently than in Texas.
Don't forget dairy cattle too, they're rarely fed in pastures.
Look at this from the American view. We've added way more meat to our typical diet than was eaten in the past by most societies. You don't have to cut out meat completely to make a huge difference. Drop it down to 10% of the diet or less.
Even when grazing cattle there is a whole industry devoted to raising alfalfa used only to supplement feed; especially in winter.
Does it matter much? If you get the 2012 version and it still works then why be anxious over new versions?
Not really, because so many plants are used to raise meat animals. Think of animals raised for meat as middle-men. For the same amount of calories there would be fewer overall plants consumed if you ate the plants directly rather than going through the meat middleman.
It may be small and flea ridden, but at least it's not Facebook.
I remember seeing a news article from a sensationalistic source that had a picture of a chip. I immediately though that we had one of those chips, and it was just just an RF filter with only 2 pins. Of course, no one ever had a picture of the actual alleged chip but it was funny enough that they picked some random chip in order to scare their readers while everyone in the know would have known the picture was bogus.
Almost all the women I know in tech now are awesome. The reason for this is that the gender bias occurs at the mediocre level, not at the top tier level. So the best women get hired, as one would expect, however it is still much easier for a mediocre man to get hired than a mediocre woman. Sadly, even at the incompetent leve men still get hired even by companies who claim they only hire the best. Friends of friends, past coworkers, lots of ways to get past a rigorous interview.
In my view, women will be treated as equasl when medicore women get hired at the same rate as medicore men, and they don't have to be better than the best to get a foot in the door.
The achievements for the most part that I've run across (PC games only), tend to either be automatic achievements you can't help but earn if you finish the game, additional easter-egg type things that yu may as well add to your TODO list, and stuff in DLCs so that you feel obligated to spend more money. I don't mind the TODO stuff myself and they can be fun (ie, finding how to destroy all the monitors in Portal 2, which you might not know is possible if it wasn't listed as an achievement).
You can re-earn achievements without much trouble. I know some platforms attach money to these, which I always thought was crazy.
(In Fallout 4 they pushed out a patch that prevented achievements if you used any mods, so the next day someone had a mod to re-enable achievments)
You shouldn't even need such an account. Buy your games somewhere other than the account and then you always have them. If you lose the account that keeps track of meaningless trophies, it's no big deal as you make a new one. If Sony is tying all your gaming to an account, then boycott them.
It means multiple facebook accounts so that your satanic ritual orgy posts don't accidentally get seen by your mom.
Apparently there are enterprise users of Google+, news to me. What they mean is that they'll keep enterprise Google+ but get rid of the general public version. The enterprise version will still have users and customers.
I'm on google+. I actually get more updates there than on Facebook (mostly because facebook is dying and I never joined any "groups" on facebook). The best part of G+ is that it is not Facebook. Its method of segregating your posts to different groups (circles) is pretty nice; Facebook has nothing as comprehensive as that and really is not a suitable replacement for google+.
Sure it's not huge, but neither is slashdot. So why are slashdot readers concerned about the popularity contest?
China has already gone pretty much capitalist as far as allowing private corporations and profit making. Going further down this route won't necessarily change the Chinese government, and it doesn't mean "society" there becomes capitalist. An economic policy does not change all aspects of society.
As for the Chinese government, they really don't have a strong centralized control over the country as is often portrayed. More power seems to be regional and that's where a lot of government corruption comes in. For instance, journalists can criticize a neighboring region in their coverage, usually cannot criticize your own region without someone being detained for proper instruction.
It still leaves the bugs of having to support multiple time zones and local variants.
Yep, you need ability to test the device; which means ability to turn off time synching with NTP or servers or a way to use special testing servers, stick it on a closed network, etc. I have had QA tell me "but if I change time on the device it will screw up all my other tests!", but that's just how it is so schedule extra testing time.
DST changes at different times in different countries. The November change in the US is particular to a relatively recent act of congress; many countries follow the US lead but also many do not.
Ha. We were coding some of this up to convert times from a third party device into UTC. I gave the appropriate hints and advice to the developer, but at some point in implementing it he came and asked "please tell me we don't have to support Australia!"
(and no, pre-existing libraries were no help)
If they didn't lock the door on your then you don't have a case.
I had to do some of this, as there was no built in library that did this. There were some helpers in a small C library but ti was somewhat bulky so I trimmed some of this down, and also had to interface to the onboard real time chip which had its own quirks.
The snag is that the real world wants local time. Introducing UTC makes some things siimpler, but it also means you need to be converting time for some operations. For example, there are real world business needs for knowing what the daily power usage was starting at 12:00AM local time, they don't really care about what this means in a neighboring state or country. Meanwhile there may be an operations manager panicking because he thinks billing software will screw up if they feed in 25 hours in a single day.
It's a lot like metric vs imperial; metric makes more sense but some countries are still not 100% metric because it's difficult to migrate. And migrating away from time zones and DST is amazingly hard to do, even if some programmers think otherwise.
It's a problem to be sure, and I've stumbled into it several times in the past at different companies. Logic says to just use UTC and simplify it all, then convert to local time only when necessary to display the time. But in reality, the customers and product managers want local time and they don't really understand that some days have 23 hours and some have 25.
Twice a year at one job I had to write up a summary of what would happen with data collection that straddled a time change. Every single time it seems people forgot the previous email and started panicking when a customer would ask that question. At a different job we had a customer's site straddle time zones, and yet "by design" we only used local time instead of UTC because the designer thought local time was simpler. There are a lot of simpler embedded systems out there that assume only local time, some of which don't have the capability to update the DST rules or move to other countries without a full firmware update. I know of one gas meter that artificially adds or subtracts an hourly reading to account for DST such that every day has 24 hours... For such a simple and well known problem, I'm amazed at how badly it's handled.
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