Meateater here, and I absolutely agree with the above. I love vegetarian meals and dishes too (vegan is rarer, I love cheese), not every meal has to have meat. Anything that tries to emulate meat (or a different type of meat, eg. turkey ham, beef sausages) is diabolical. Spinach and ricotta is sublime (though again, not vegan obviously), and I've made decent tomato/bean/mushroom curries too (which would have been vegan without the bit of butter to fry in, which could easily be replaced).
Anyway, my point is that meat is meat and although there's nothing like a good steak, there are loads of good vegan meals everyone should be eating sometimes, and even more vegetarian meals. Fake meat should never be eaten by someone who eats meat... there's no point. If I were vegetarian or vegan, I would definitely not eat that processed crap still.
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No... that doesn't help latency. All current _monitors_ have latency, some of up to 100ms. Mine is ok, but not great, about 30ms. Old CRTs are basically 0. It doesn't matter what the video card does, it can't get rid of that latency.
The story has nothing to do with why, or assumptions or anything else. It merely reports the results. Now please stop getting your knickers in a twist about some supposed butthurt over some imaginary feminism or whatever it is you believe has happened.
However, TFS has plenty of assumptions, and false conclusions : "Even though nearly half of the gaming population is composed of women, they account for less than 10% of the players in competitions."
Women play different games, and play less competitive games generally. Playing Candy Crush or Solitaire, no matter how much you play them, will not help you play competitive Starcraft 2. Note that I'm not saying that all women just play crap games, and all men don't, but I am saying that the female game playing population is far more skewed to the "casual" side. I wouldn't be surprised if the SC professional male/female proportions were broadly similar to the general SC male/female proportions.
The point I'm making is that claiming because 50% of gamers are women does not mean that 50% of gamers of a particular game will be. It's disingenuous comparing total gameplaying population to that of one game, and blaming one aspect of the gameplaying community (the professional leagues) for being non-representative of the entire gaming community, despite being representative of their game's community.
Those records are not representative of good darts - they're just oddball records. Hardly anyone actually tries to do them. The gap between men and women in darts is far closer than those records imply, but there is a definite small gap, as I posted above.
Women don't score as well as men in darts. In the BDO darts finals, only once in the last 20 years have either of the male finalists averaged less than the best ever women's average in a final, and that was last year. Only once has a male finalist averaged less than 80, and that was Leighton Rees losing in a whitewash back in 1979 - Anastasia Dobromyslova won the woman's final in 2009 with an average of 73.95. Men regularly average over 90 in the finals, which has never been achieved by a woman.
Where did you get the idea women were as good as men at darts?
I am against violent extremists, aren't you? Certainly many ordinary Muslims are against the extremists and just want to live in peace.
I think the Palestinians have been saying this for ages, but Israel's armed forces don't seem to be listening.
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Back in the 90's, I had single digit internet quake pings, with an ISDN, hooked up to a CRT (so actual single digit pings). Now I have about 3 times that latency just between me and my monitor.
Perhaps we should start looking into using CRT technology for VR glasses to reduce the pings further;)
Horizontal space is a trickier question. Some readers demand words that go from one side of their 1920px-wide monitor to the other. Usability studies have shown that doing so actually decreases readability [baymard.com]. Given that we can't set a different width for every user, we've got to try to figure something out. We also have to take into account comment indenting.
The source that link cites is a book from the Sixties. That is not especially relevant on a web forum, especially when we can now choose how many characters are per line ourselves by zooming in or not.
India already has nuclear weapons, as do Pakistan, so I'm not sure what nuclear proliferation you're talking about.
For most of December, the central European wholesale price of electricity was negative. Yes, that means people paid other people to take their electricity away. This was a direct result of reliance on wind power. This is _not_ a good thing.
The total construction and decommission costs of wind farms and the problems associated with them have not been realised yet. They may well be lower, but until we actually start taking them down and getting rid of the tonnes of concrete and other infrastructure for each turbine, we don't really know.
Here in Europe we've got subsidised wind farms, lots of wind, and not enough demand because it's quite warm. The result in December was negative wholesale electricity prices.
I'll leave it to the reader to decide whether negative energy prices are good for the market or not.
Four 3TB drive cost about £300, in the UK, VAT included. Three 4TB drives cost about £375. 5TB drives aren't out, and when they are will be expensive.
My point was that newer drives are more expensive, and probably more prone to failure. Unless you really have physical space limitations for hard drives, or have not enough SATA connections, 3tb drives are best at the moment. I wasn't disagreeing with you.
I don't understand this mentality. GP, along with millions of others have bought tablets, in preference to laptops. Most of these purchases were deliberate, and most people who purchased tablets do actually know laptops exist.
Why are you saying they are wrong about what they want?
I have some 15K RPM SCSI drives in a couple of my systems. I mostly use them as secondary cache these days. It still makes me chuckle when I think about when I upgraded to SSD from those for my primary drive. It was a noticeable difference, but nothing like what people who had 5400 and 7200 RPM drives went on about.
In terms of performance, a 15K rpm SCSI is about the same as two striped 7200 consumer drives. That's what I have, now, and I've used this since about 2005 or so. I've had one drive fail, but everything I needed to not lose had been backed up to other places.
The newest larger capacity hard drives are almost always pointless, in any circumstance. If you want larger capacity, cheaper, get 2 hard drives. That's without the addition benefits having 2 drives have. If you want fast, one big hard drive is not the way to go. If you want reliable, new is not the way to go. If you're short of SATA connections, you're probably a fringe case.
Vegetarianism is about the minimization of cruelty and suffering.
No, it's not. Every vegetarian I know would not, for example, eat a deer that had been hit by a car, or had died of some other cause. The deer is already dead, there is no more suffering by eating it, but most vegetarians would not eat it.
Plant life does not factor into it because they can not suffer. They can’t suffer because they have no nervous system with which to think. They also have no physical mechanisms with which to feel pain. And even if they did, they have no thoughts, so the pain would mean nothing. They have no fear, panic, or sadness. They live, but they live without consciousness. So you can not torture a plant or make it suffer.
You're essentially saying here that eating meat necessarily means that something suffers. That is not the case. We keep chickens for eggs here, and they have a pretty good life generally. When the flock gets a bit low, we let some hatch... half of them will be male, and small flocks with lots of roosters are not good places to be for the chickens. What do you think should be done with the males? Should they be killed and thrown away?
None of these chickens would have lived if we did not keep them for eggs and occasionally meat. They would not have had their life. There would be zero suffering at all, admittedly, but that's because there would be no life at all.
Also, there are plenty of animals which by any reasonable definition probably do not feel pain either. I would argue killing a 500 year old oak tree is probably worse than killing a placozoa. If you admit that killing and eating placozoa is ethically ok, at some point you're going to have to differentiate between animals it is ok to eat, and animals it is not.
It's tempting to think that. But the top 3 animals for intelligence after man are the dolphin, the chimp and the pig, with the exact order open to debate. Yet people are quite happy to kill and eat pigs.
Cats and dogs are much lower on the intelligence scale, but most cultures find it unacceptable to kill them for sport or food.
Citation needed, for all of this. For example, the only animals ever seen to have created new tools in captivity are crows. Dogs can perform feats of intelligence no other animals can exhibit.
I'm about 100 metres from my closest grocery shop, but it's a farm shop... it does vegetables, fruit, bread, and milk, and that's about it. My next closest shop is a Tesco, more than 5 miles away. I live in Suffolk, south east England (about the most densely populated area in the UK).
My Vista system used to boot from BIOS to usable desktop in 15 seconds. I timed it. It's a lot worse now (almost a minute), but it hasn't been cleared out properly for 4 years or so. This is on a striped pair of oldish 500gb hard drives.
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Meateater here, and I absolutely agree with the above. I love vegetarian meals and dishes too (vegan is rarer, I love cheese), not every meal has to have meat. Anything that tries to emulate meat (or a different type of meat, eg. turkey ham, beef sausages) is diabolical. Spinach and ricotta is sublime (though again, not vegan obviously), and I've made decent tomato/bean/mushroom curries too (which would have been vegan without the bit of butter to fry in, which could easily be replaced).
Anyway, my point is that meat is meat and although there's nothing like a good steak, there are loads of good vegan meals everyone should be eating sometimes, and even more vegetarian meals. Fake meat should never be eaten by someone who eats meat... there's no point. If I were vegetarian or vegan, I would definitely not eat that processed crap still.
No... that doesn't help latency. All current _monitors_ have latency, some of up to 100ms. Mine is ok, but not great, about 30ms. Old CRTs are basically 0. It doesn't matter what the video card does, it can't get rid of that latency.
The story has nothing to do with why, or assumptions or anything else. It merely reports the results. Now please stop getting your knickers in a twist about some supposed butthurt over some imaginary feminism or whatever it is you believe has happened.
However, TFS has plenty of assumptions, and false conclusions : "Even though nearly half of the gaming population is composed of women, they account for less than 10% of the players in competitions."
Women play different games, and play less competitive games generally. Playing Candy Crush or Solitaire, no matter how much you play them, will not help you play competitive Starcraft 2. Note that I'm not saying that all women just play crap games, and all men don't, but I am saying that the female game playing population is far more skewed to the "casual" side. I wouldn't be surprised if the SC professional male/female proportions were broadly similar to the general SC male/female proportions.
The point I'm making is that claiming because 50% of gamers are women does not mean that 50% of gamers of a particular game will be. It's disingenuous comparing total gameplaying population to that of one game, and blaming one aspect of the gameplaying community (the professional leagues) for being non-representative of the entire gaming community, despite being representative of their game's community.
Those records are not representative of good darts - they're just oddball records. Hardly anyone actually tries to do them. The gap between men and women in darts is far closer than those records imply, but there is a definite small gap, as I posted above.
Women don't score as well as men in darts. In the BDO darts finals, only once in the last 20 years have either of the male finalists averaged less than the best ever women's average in a final, and that was last year. Only once has a male finalist averaged less than 80, and that was Leighton Rees losing in a whitewash back in 1979 - Anastasia Dobromyslova won the woman's final in 2009 with an average of 73.95. Men regularly average over 90 in the finals, which has never been achieved by a woman.
Where did you get the idea women were as good as men at darts?
I am against violent extremists, aren't you? Certainly many ordinary Muslims are against the extremists and just want to live in peace.
I think the Palestinians have been saying this for ages, but Israel's armed forces don't seem to be listening.
Back in the 90's, I had single digit internet quake pings, with an ISDN, hooked up to a CRT (so actual single digit pings). Now I have about 3 times that latency just between me and my monitor.
Perhaps we should start looking into using CRT technology for VR glasses to reduce the pings further ;)
Horizontal space is a trickier question. Some readers demand words that go from one side of their 1920px-wide monitor to the other. Usability studies have shown that doing so actually decreases readability [baymard.com]. Given that we can't set a different width for every user, we've got to try to figure something out. We also have to take into account comment indenting.
The source that link cites is a book from the Sixties. That is not especially relevant on a web forum, especially when we can now choose how many characters are per line ourselves by zooming in or not.
India already has nuclear weapons, as do Pakistan, so I'm not sure what nuclear proliferation you're talking about.
For most of December, the central European wholesale price of electricity was negative. Yes, that means people paid other people to take their electricity away. This was a direct result of reliance on wind power. This is _not_ a good thing.
The total construction and decommission costs of wind farms and the problems associated with them have not been realised yet. They may well be lower, but until we actually start taking them down and getting rid of the tonnes of concrete and other infrastructure for each turbine, we don't really know.
It's hundreds of miles from Pakistan. It's also hundreds of miles south of Kashmir.
There are good reasons why a brother and sister can't get married. There aren't good reasons why two brothers can't get married.
I'm not advocating it... all I'm saying is that saying that they can't get married is irrational.
Calling people stupid does not solve the problem, which is that "stupid" people as you call them get to decide who runs the country.
I'm not sure what you're hoping to achieve here..
It was for about 3 weeks in December. And yes, power companies during that period paid other companies to use electricity.
Here's another link.
The IBM's being sold now are a hell of a lot closer in terms of architecture to their ancestors than current macs are to theirs.
Here in Europe we've got subsidised wind farms, lots of wind, and not enough demand because it's quite warm. The result in December was negative wholesale electricity prices.
I'll leave it to the reader to decide whether negative energy prices are good for the market or not.
Four 3TB drive cost about £300, in the UK, VAT included. Three 4TB drives cost about £375. 5TB drives aren't out, and when they are will be expensive.
My point was that newer drives are more expensive, and probably more prone to failure. Unless you really have physical space limitations for hard drives, or have not enough SATA connections, 3tb drives are best at the moment. I wasn't disagreeing with you.
I don't understand this mentality. GP, along with millions of others have bought tablets, in preference to laptops. Most of these purchases were deliberate, and most people who purchased tablets do actually know laptops exist.
Why are you saying they are wrong about what they want?
I have some 15K RPM SCSI drives in a couple of my systems. I mostly use them as secondary cache these days. It still makes me chuckle when I think about when I upgraded to SSD from those for my primary drive. It was a noticeable difference, but nothing like what people who had 5400 and 7200 RPM drives went on about.
In terms of performance, a 15K rpm SCSI is about the same as two striped 7200 consumer drives. That's what I have, now, and I've used this since about 2005 or so. I've had one drive fail, but everything I needed to not lose had been backed up to other places.
I would have modded up had I not already commented.
I'd guess that fewer platters results in quicker seek, at least in principle, but this may not be true in practice.
GP... do you see what you did?
The newest larger capacity hard drives are almost always pointless, in any circumstance. If you want larger capacity, cheaper, get 2 hard drives. That's without the addition benefits having 2 drives have. If you want fast, one big hard drive is not the way to go. If you want reliable, new is not the way to go. If you're short of SATA connections, you're probably a fringe case.
Vegetarianism is about the minimization of cruelty and suffering.
No, it's not. Every vegetarian I know would not, for example, eat a deer that had been hit by a car, or had died of some other cause. The deer is already dead, there is no more suffering by eating it, but most vegetarians would not eat it.
Plant life does not factor into it because they can not suffer. They can’t suffer because they have no nervous system with which to think. They also have no physical mechanisms with which to feel pain. And even if they did, they have no thoughts, so the pain would mean nothing. They have no fear, panic, or sadness. They live, but they live without consciousness. So you can not torture a plant or make it suffer.
You're essentially saying here that eating meat necessarily means that something suffers. That is not the case. We keep chickens for eggs here, and they have a pretty good life generally. When the flock gets a bit low, we let some hatch... half of them will be male, and small flocks with lots of roosters are not good places to be for the chickens. What do you think should be done with the males? Should they be killed and thrown away?
None of these chickens would have lived if we did not keep them for eggs and occasionally meat. They would not have had their life. There would be zero suffering at all, admittedly, but that's because there would be no life at all.
Also, there are plenty of animals which by any reasonable definition probably do not feel pain either. I would argue killing a 500 year old oak tree is probably worse than killing a placozoa. If you admit that killing and eating placozoa is ethically ok, at some point you're going to have to differentiate between animals it is ok to eat, and animals it is not.
It's tempting to think that. But the top 3 animals for intelligence after man are the dolphin, the chimp and the pig, with the exact order open to debate. Yet people are quite happy to kill and eat pigs.
Cats and dogs are much lower on the intelligence scale, but most cultures find it unacceptable to kill them for sport or food.
Citation needed, for all of this. For example, the only animals ever seen to have created new tools in captivity are crows. Dogs can perform feats of intelligence no other animals can exhibit.
It's all up for debate...
Denying the Holocaust is illegal here in Germany not because of opinion but because it is a false statement, clearly and irrefutably documented.
No, it's because it's the Holocaust. Just making a false statement is not illegal.
I'm about 100 metres from my closest grocery shop, but it's a farm shop... it does vegetables, fruit, bread, and milk, and that's about it. My next closest shop is a Tesco, more than 5 miles away. I live in Suffolk, south east England (about the most densely populated area in the UK).
My Vista system used to boot from BIOS to usable desktop in 15 seconds. I timed it. It's a lot worse now (almost a minute), but it hasn't been cleared out properly for 4 years or so. This is on a striped pair of oldish 500gb hard drives.