Oh look a bunch of unnatural activity, change the governor to performance instead of on_demand.
That shouldn't make that much of a difference... if the governor is in the low_power setting, limiting the CPU to minimum clock speed, then there'll be a performance hit on benchmarks, but with on_demand, by the time the system has realized it needs to change the governor to performance, the clock speed will have already been increased to maximum due to CPU load. Meanwhile, you're wasting clock cycles monitoring what stuff is doing....
"Should I get GTA V on Steam or Super Mario 3D World on Wii U?"
Why would you think that? My Steam library has shooters like Metro 2033 or the Saints Row series, it's got side-scrollers like Trine and Trine 2, it's got RPG's like the Neverwinter Nights series; there's goofy point & clicks like Deponia, and a whole swath of other game types from stuff like Brutal Legend to sports sims.
Why can't I have both games? I'm not a big fan of the GTA series (well, I liked the top scrolling GTA and GTA2), but you could easily substitute Saints Row 4 and I would be having the same type of decision to make. I don't think I'm in the minority when it comes to gamers... most of the gamers I know have a variety of games they play.
My (german) grandmother has advanced alzheimer's, and is has reverted pretty much to her childhood. On a good day, she's in her 20's (which covers the period from 1939-1945). She has been known to wax poetical about Hitler, and has interesting ideas about homosexuals, gypsies, and the jews.
I still visit her. I leave my girlfriend at home when I visit her, and smile politely when she tries to introduce me to men she knows (knew back then). One time, she tried to hook me up with my uncle. At family events, my GF is "a good friend who didn't have anybody to visit" for the benefit of my grandmother. You may choose to sweep the elderly under the rug, I choose not to. We can still be compassionate in how we treat them, and there are constructive ways to deal with people who hold beliefs that we disagree with.
Isn't it better to stop looking for excuses why not to upgrade the energy (re)distribution infrastructure? Over a large area, there's sun or wind somewhere most of the time, definitely more often than over a small area. Perhaps it's time to stop thinking locally.
Even thinking locally, with an efficient enough panel you'll still get meaningful energy output during a rain storm. It's not total darkness during these conditions, and supplemented with battery backup to even out the load during lean times you should be fine.
That being said, I still prefer ideas like the liquid salt plant outside of Seville. Focus the sun's light with mirrors to a giant thermal battery and use that to power turbines.
The thing that bothers me the most about it is that insects look like they contain a lot more gut and chitin, and a lot less meaty morsels compared to the other multi-limbed critters we eat regularly.
They do. That's one of the reasons I've never eaten insects, despite having been in parts of the world where they are a part of the normal diet. And that's also something we don't consider in the western world: spiders are considered a delicacy in Thailand. Anything being discussed here is stuff that's already been proven healthy/safe to eat, just that it's kind of squick for people used to a different diet.
Larger insects do have more meat, though, and stuff like grasshoppers/locusts are more meaty to begin with. Ultimately, it's about improving protein availability, and we may not have a choice if the population continues to increase. If you're able to eat meat on a regular basis, you're part of the 1% in the world....
While I've never eaten grasshopper, spider, or cricket, I do know people who have eaten them and they say that it doesn't taste that significantly different. Apparently, locusts taste like chicken.
Esgargots are similar to squid, I find... they don't really have much flavour on their own and get most of their flavour from how they're prepared. Fried up in garlic and butter, they're quite tasty.
P.S. Kudos to our financial wizards for figuring out how to create and use a wormhole. Contrary to the cynics who think they just plain cheated, using a wormhole is not forbidden by any financial regulation.
Why does it have to be a wormhole? Couldn't it be quantum entangled bits as well? We did just successfully complete quantum teleportation in a lab last week....
And certainly some people who don't adopt the neutral + hand brake will keep he car stationary on hills using a combination of the clutch and accelerator. That involved keeping the clutch partially depressed for an extended period and will indeed cause unnecessary wear.
while that's certainly true for old cars, the patent on Hill Holder expired over 50 years ago. I wouldn't buy a car that doesn't have one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill-holder.
It holds the brake applied on hills as long as the clutch pedal is fully pressed so that you don't need to do something like a handbrake start when going up a hill, and having driven many cars that were equipped with one, I can attest that they do work. I was taught how to do a handbrake start without riding the clutch when I first learned to drive, and haven't had to do it since. With hill holder, you press the clutch in fully and apply the brakes fully. You can then safely take your foot off the brake pedal without needing to apply the hand brake, as it keeps the brakes applied, and releases them when you release the clutch. (though you should still keep your foot on the brake pedal until you're ready to go).
As a co-worker and I were just discussing, the radio in your car is also a communications device.
Most laws define a communications device as something that allows two-way communication. If your radio has a built-in Bluetooth, your argument has some weight, but even then, most cell phone/driving laws make an exception for bluetooth or other hands-free systems.
I've almost been hit a number of times as drivers inch through a cross walk when they aren't paying attention.
Somebody did that to me the other day... I climbed up and walked across her hood, then hopped back down onto the pavement to continue along the crosswalk. She was non-thrilled, and rolled down her window to shout at me, and I shouted back "put down the damned phone and drive"... she sheepishly rolled up her window. Was feeling quite smug, that day.:)
There is nothing short of an absolute, death-like issue that you need to be texting at a red light, or anywhere else while driving.
If there's an absolute death-like issue going on, you're probably distracted enough that you shouldn't be driving in the first place. Pull over and park at the side of the road to deal with the text messages, even in a situation like that.
In some other countries where most have manual transmissions, drivers are trained to place the car into neutral and engage the handbrake at a red light. That at least makes this a somewhat safer practice.
You're nuts. I've been driving a manual transmission for my entire life and was *never* told to put the hand brake on at a red light. In fact, I was specifically told not to, because it takes time to disengage and can impede traffic if you have it on when the signal turns to green. As for putting it in neutral, usually not. I leave it in 1st, with my foot on the clutch. That's a safer stall than leaving the car not in gear at all: if my foot slips from the clutch, the car will lurch and stall completely, and the engine will keep it from moving further until I turn it back on. My other foot is on the brake at intersections, btw.
And I still think it's stupid to be programming a GPS at a traffic stop. Find a safe spot to pull over and program it there. Or better yet, program the bloody thing before you leave. Cell phone GPS get their maps from Google (or whoever), and are able to recalculate your route on the fly. The current version of Google Navigate even pulls in the current traffic conditions if you're in an area where it's supported, and will recalculate your route to avoid traffic jams.
Because it's *so* difficult to pull over, put it in park, and program the GPS while not in motion?
My phone's GPS especially... tie it to Bluetooth, put on some music, and let the voice command play through the car's radio... it'll turn down the music volume to state the direction, and then turn it back up. And if I miss a turn, it will recalculate almost immediately and doesn't need to be reprogrammed. There's literally no sane reason for you to need to futz with it while the car is in a traffic lane.
Not really... "the west" generally refers to members of the cold war 1st world, of which Israel was very definitely a member. By that criteria, Australia also gets lumped in with "the west", even though it's a south Pacific nation and has closer ties to the southeast Asian economy than it does the European.
"the west" also gets used to refer to wealthy industrialized nations because, until quite recently, almost all of the wealthy industrialized nations were in Europe or North America... again by that criteria, though, Israel is a wealthy industrialized nation. Granted, a *lot* of its wealth has come from "aid" money from the United States, Israel still has a lot more money than much of the world. In this sense, "the west" refers to the 1% nations. (and if you have access to indoor plumbing and can eat meat on a regular basis, you're part of the 1% in the world).
Besides, do you think Israel is the only nation that's ever carried out extrajudicial executions of people it deems a threat? Every nation in the G20 has done it at some point in history. It's naive to think the Americans and the Brits haven't been messing with Iran's nuclear ambitions, and the French have probably fucked with them too. Hell, even the Canadians have conducted espionage in Iran in the past and it's not a stretch to think they're doing it now.
Well, it is a practical way to overcome the relative dearth of Linux games on Steam. But it probably won't endear this device to the hardcore Linux crowd, who were no doubt hoping for the Steambox to be a boon for Linux games (especially in light of a lot of recent pro-Linux talk by Valve).
With the help of the Indie Bundle and Steam's increasingly large library of games on Linux, it's been over a year since I bought a game that doesn't have a Linux native version, and I'm buying a fairly large number of games.
I have exactly 1 game I still play that actually requires Windows to play, and this would allow me to play that on a Linux system as well, as it's a Steam title.
The workers she hires are from India, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. But never from America. I see no reason that welfare recipients shouldn't be put to work on tasks like this instead of munching potato chips in front of the TV.'équote.
Because if they`re stuck doing menial tasks for less than minimum wage, then the ones who want to do better won`t have the chance because they won`t have the time to look for a job or upgrade their skills?
With proper mental health care, a great deal of those people could be medicated, counseled and otherwise treated to the point where they could become contributing members of society, and the ones that are too far gone for that, could be off the streets and getting proper care somewhere.
We have free/public health care in Canada, as well as public drug plans like the Trillium plan here in Ontario, which can offer up to 100% drug coverage depending on your income level. We still have homeless people with mental illness. We probably have less than in the US, but you can only help people who want to be helped, and some people will always choose to live on the street. (some people will end up there because they don't realize they have a choice, but that is a different discussion entirely)
Give them a basic salary and then choose what menial position the Bureau of Suggested (Forced) Labor deems is best for their skills. Maybe that is doing stupid shit on the internet, I don't know, nor care, but they damn well should be doing SOMETHING.
Finding a job is, itself, a full time job. What you're proposing is a bad idea, because once you get into a workfare system, it's damned near impossible to get out of it because you don't have the time to either upgrade your skills or search for a better job. Meanwhile, every time it's been implemented to date, it works out to paying *significantly* less than minimum wage.
Some people will abuse the system. People will always find a way to abuse the system. But the system should *not* be set up to penalize everybody for the actions of a few, especially not when setting it up that way ends up making it impossible to get out of the system.
That's mostly because of stupid import laws, not because of union pay rates. All of the car manufacture in Canada and the US is unionized too....
You will find that a substantial portion of the cars being made in the US have a Japanese badge on them, and a (slightly smaller but still important) portion have a German badge. You will also find that none of the cars being made in Germany have a US badge on them.
depends on who you're asking. some people like seeing big numbers and don't care how they got there.
Grinding for hours only to have the RNG give you something for a completely different class also sucks. Does D3 have a feature like Torchlight, where you can convert rare items from one class into a random rare for your own class?
that's half of the equation. the other half is the preemptive vaccination program. usually, the vaccine that shows up in hospitals is a best guess as to what we're most likely to see in the flu season. I can't find the link at the moment, but there was a discussion earlier this year on CBC's Quirks and Quarks about how they do it: they look at what new bugs show up in the southern hemisphere in the April, and vaccinate against that in October in the northern hemisphere. For the southern hemisphere, they look at the north and vaccinate in the south.
Usually, they do pretty well at predicting what the next season's bug is going to be. Sometimes they get it wrong, and there will always be some viruses showing up that weren't vaccinated against (in fact, that's how they choose what to vaccinate against for the next season), but for the most part they have an accurate enough guess to improve herd immunity to the point that a pandemic of the scale that happened in 1918 is significantly less likely.
You're assuming that they vaccinate against the right bug. There's hundreds of different flu bugs floating around, and usually they only vaccinate against one or two. There are people who are paid to predict which one is likely to make a resurgence, and sometimes they get it wrong.
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Oh look a bunch of unnatural activity, change the governor to performance instead of on_demand.
That shouldn't make that much of a difference... if the governor is in the low_power setting, limiting the CPU to minimum clock speed, then there'll be a performance hit on benchmarks, but with on_demand, by the time the system has realized it needs to change the governor to performance, the clock speed will have already been increased to maximum due to CPU load. Meanwhile, you're wasting clock cycles monitoring what stuff is doing....
"Should I get GTA V on Steam or Super Mario 3D World on Wii U?"
Why would you think that? My Steam library has shooters like Metro 2033 or the Saints Row series, it's got side-scrollers like Trine and Trine 2, it's got RPG's like the Neverwinter Nights series; there's goofy point & clicks like Deponia, and a whole swath of other game types from stuff like Brutal Legend to sports sims.
Why can't I have both games? I'm not a big fan of the GTA series (well, I liked the top scrolling GTA and GTA2), but you could easily substitute Saints Row 4 and I would be having the same type of decision to make. I don't think I'm in the minority when it comes to gamers... most of the gamers I know have a variety of games they play.
My (german) grandmother has advanced alzheimer's, and is has reverted pretty much to her childhood. On a good day, she's in her 20's (which covers the period from 1939-1945). She has been known to wax poetical about Hitler, and has interesting ideas about homosexuals, gypsies, and the jews.
I still visit her. I leave my girlfriend at home when I visit her, and smile politely when she tries to introduce me to men she knows (knew back then). One time, she tried to hook me up with my uncle. At family events, my GF is "a good friend who didn't have anybody to visit" for the benefit of my grandmother. You may choose to sweep the elderly under the rug, I choose not to. We can still be compassionate in how we treat them, and there are constructive ways to deal with people who hold beliefs that we disagree with.
Ooh. I like that... I think I need to get some of those for my next camping trip. :)
Isn't it better to stop looking for excuses why not to upgrade the energy (re)distribution infrastructure? Over a large area, there's sun or wind somewhere most of the time, definitely more often than over a small area. Perhaps it's time to stop thinking locally.
Even thinking locally, with an efficient enough panel you'll still get meaningful energy output during a rain storm. It's not total darkness during these conditions, and supplemented with battery backup to even out the load during lean times you should be fine.
That being said, I still prefer ideas like the liquid salt plant outside of Seville. Focus the sun's light with mirrors to a giant thermal battery and use that to power turbines.
The thing that bothers me the most about it is that insects look like they contain a lot more gut and chitin, and a lot less meaty morsels compared to the other multi-limbed critters we eat regularly.
They do. That's one of the reasons I've never eaten insects, despite having been in parts of the world where they are a part of the normal diet. And that's also something we don't consider in the western world: spiders are considered a delicacy in Thailand. Anything being discussed here is stuff that's already been proven healthy/safe to eat, just that it's kind of squick for people used to a different diet.
Larger insects do have more meat, though, and stuff like grasshoppers/locusts are more meaty to begin with. Ultimately, it's about improving protein availability, and we may not have a choice if the population continues to increase. If you're able to eat meat on a regular basis, you're part of the 1% in the world....
That's your call to make.
While I've never eaten grasshopper, spider, or cricket, I do know people who have eaten them and they say that it doesn't taste that significantly different. Apparently, locusts taste like chicken.
Esgargots are similar to squid, I find... they don't really have much flavour on their own and get most of their flavour from how they're prepared. Fried up in garlic and butter, they're quite tasty.
P.S. Kudos to our financial wizards for figuring out how to create and use a wormhole. Contrary to the cynics who think they just plain cheated, using a wormhole is not forbidden by any financial regulation.
Why does it have to be a wormhole? Couldn't it be quantum entangled bits as well? We did just successfully complete quantum teleportation in a lab last week....
And certainly some people who don't adopt the neutral + hand brake will keep he car stationary on hills using a combination of the clutch and accelerator. That involved keeping the clutch partially depressed for an extended period and will indeed cause unnecessary wear.
while that's certainly true for old cars, the patent on Hill Holder expired over 50 years ago. I wouldn't buy a car that doesn't have one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill-holder.
It holds the brake applied on hills as long as the clutch pedal is fully pressed so that you don't need to do something like a handbrake start when going up a hill, and having driven many cars that were equipped with one, I can attest that they do work. I was taught how to do a handbrake start without riding the clutch when I first learned to drive, and haven't had to do it since. With hill holder, you press the clutch in fully and apply the brakes fully. You can then safely take your foot off the brake pedal without needing to apply the hand brake, as it keeps the brakes applied, and releases them when you release the clutch. (though you should still keep your foot on the brake pedal until you're ready to go).
As a co-worker and I were just discussing, the radio in your car is also a communications device.
Most laws define a communications device as something that allows two-way communication. If your radio has a built-in Bluetooth, your argument has some weight, but even then, most cell phone/driving laws make an exception for bluetooth or other hands-free systems.
I've almost been hit a number of times as drivers inch through a cross walk when they aren't paying attention.
Somebody did that to me the other day... I climbed up and walked across her hood, then hopped back down onto the pavement to continue along the crosswalk. She was non-thrilled, and rolled down her window to shout at me, and I shouted back "put down the damned phone and drive"... she sheepishly rolled up her window. Was feeling quite smug, that day. :)
There is nothing short of an absolute, death-like issue that you need to be texting at a red light, or anywhere else while driving.
If there's an absolute death-like issue going on, you're probably distracted enough that you shouldn't be driving in the first place. Pull over and park at the side of the road to deal with the text messages, even in a situation like that.
You're not legally driving if your car is in park.
No, you're parked. In a traffic lane. Impeding the flow of traffic is against the law, too.
In fact, having a car in Park is one of the few exceptions written into the law.
Yes, because there are other laws to cover parking in traffic. If you want to be texting, then pull over, FFS.
In some other countries where most have manual transmissions, drivers are trained to place the car into neutral and engage the handbrake at a red light. That at least makes this a somewhat safer practice.
You're nuts. I've been driving a manual transmission for my entire life and was *never* told to put the hand brake on at a red light. In fact, I was specifically told not to, because it takes time to disengage and can impede traffic if you have it on when the signal turns to green. As for putting it in neutral, usually not. I leave it in 1st, with my foot on the clutch. That's a safer stall than leaving the car not in gear at all: if my foot slips from the clutch, the car will lurch and stall completely, and the engine will keep it from moving further until I turn it back on. My other foot is on the brake at intersections, btw.
And I still think it's stupid to be programming a GPS at a traffic stop. Find a safe spot to pull over and program it there. Or better yet, program the bloody thing before you leave. Cell phone GPS get their maps from Google (or whoever), and are able to recalculate your route on the fly. The current version of Google Navigate even pulls in the current traffic conditions if you're in an area where it's supported, and will recalculate your route to avoid traffic jams.
Because it's *so* difficult to pull over, put it in park, and program the GPS while not in motion?
My phone's GPS especially... tie it to Bluetooth, put on some music, and let the voice command play through the car's radio... it'll turn down the music volume to state the direction, and then turn it back up. And if I miss a turn, it will recalculate almost immediately and doesn't need to be reprogrammed. There's literally no sane reason for you to need to futz with it while the car is in a traffic lane.
Not really... "the west" generally refers to members of the cold war 1st world, of which Israel was very definitely a member. By that criteria, Australia also gets lumped in with "the west", even though it's a south Pacific nation and has closer ties to the southeast Asian economy than it does the European.
"the west" also gets used to refer to wealthy industrialized nations because, until quite recently, almost all of the wealthy industrialized nations were in Europe or North America... again by that criteria, though, Israel is a wealthy industrialized nation. Granted, a *lot* of its wealth has come from "aid" money from the United States, Israel still has a lot more money than much of the world. In this sense, "the west" refers to the 1% nations. (and if you have access to indoor plumbing and can eat meat on a regular basis, you're part of the 1% in the world).
Besides, do you think Israel is the only nation that's ever carried out extrajudicial executions of people it deems a threat? Every nation in the G20 has done it at some point in history. It's naive to think the Americans and the Brits haven't been messing with Iran's nuclear ambitions, and the French have probably fucked with them too. Hell, even the Canadians have conducted espionage in Iran in the past and it's not a stretch to think they're doing it now.
Well, it is a practical way to overcome the relative dearth of Linux games on Steam. But it probably won't endear this device to the hardcore Linux crowd, who were no doubt hoping for the Steambox to be a boon for Linux games (especially in light of a lot of recent pro-Linux talk by Valve).
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/
With the help of the Indie Bundle and Steam's increasingly large library of games on Linux, it's been over a year since I bought a game that doesn't have a Linux native version, and I'm buying a fairly large number of games.
I have exactly 1 game I still play that actually requires Windows to play, and this would allow me to play that on a Linux system as well, as it's a Steam title.
The workers she hires are from India, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, etc. But never from America. I see no reason that welfare recipients shouldn't be put to work on tasks like this instead of munching potato chips in front of the TV.'équote.
Because if they`re stuck doing menial tasks for less than minimum wage, then the ones who want to do better won`t have the chance because they won`t have the time to look for a job or upgrade their skills?
With proper mental health care, a great deal of those people could be medicated, counseled and otherwise treated to the point where they could become contributing members of society, and the ones that are too far gone for that, could be off the streets and getting proper care somewhere.
We have free/public health care in Canada, as well as public drug plans like the Trillium plan here in Ontario, which can offer up to 100% drug coverage depending on your income level. We still have homeless people with mental illness. We probably have less than in the US, but you can only help people who want to be helped, and some people will always choose to live on the street. (some people will end up there because they don't realize they have a choice, but that is a different discussion entirely)
Give them a basic salary and then choose what menial position the Bureau of Suggested (Forced) Labor deems is best for their skills. Maybe that is doing stupid shit on the internet, I don't know, nor care, but they damn well should be doing SOMETHING.
Finding a job is, itself, a full time job. What you're proposing is a bad idea, because once you get into a workfare system, it's damned near impossible to get out of it because you don't have the time to either upgrade your skills or search for a better job. Meanwhile, every time it's been implemented to date, it works out to paying *significantly* less than minimum wage.
Some people will abuse the system. People will always find a way to abuse the system. But the system should *not* be set up to penalize everybody for the actions of a few, especially not when setting it up that way ends up making it impossible to get out of the system.
That's mostly because of stupid import laws, not because of union pay rates. All of the car manufacture in Canada and the US is unionized too....
You will find that a substantial portion of the cars being made in the US have a Japanese badge on them, and a (slightly smaller but still important) portion have a German badge. You will also find that none of the cars being made in Germany have a US badge on them.
While it is tragically ugly, I have seen stupider looking cars on the road... the Cube comes to mind, as does the PT Cruiser....
P2W does not give much satisfaction.
depends on who you're asking. some people like seeing big numbers and don't care how they got there.
Grinding for hours only to have the RNG give you something for a completely different class also sucks. Does D3 have a feature like Torchlight, where you can convert rare items from one class into a random rare for your own class?
that's half of the equation. the other half is the preemptive vaccination program. usually, the vaccine that shows up in hospitals is a best guess as to what we're most likely to see in the flu season. I can't find the link at the moment, but there was a discussion earlier this year on CBC's Quirks and Quarks about how they do it: they look at what new bugs show up in the southern hemisphere in the April, and vaccinate against that in October in the northern hemisphere. For the southern hemisphere, they look at the north and vaccinate in the south.
Usually, they do pretty well at predicting what the next season's bug is going to be. Sometimes they get it wrong, and there will always be some viruses showing up that weren't vaccinated against (in fact, that's how they choose what to vaccinate against for the next season), but for the most part they have an accurate enough guess to improve herd immunity to the point that a pandemic of the scale that happened in 1918 is significantly less likely.
You're assuming that they vaccinate against the right bug. There's hundreds of different flu bugs floating around, and usually they only vaccinate against one or two. There are people who are paid to predict which one is likely to make a resurgence, and sometimes they get it wrong.