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Humans can eat raw meat and do. Tartare, sushi, uncooked shellfish, blue rare, and so on is all raw, though not necessarily common because of disease caused by unsafe handling of the meats and the potential for eating live parasites from when the animal was alive.

A secondary reason for cooking meat is that it'll be more nutritious from the heat making the nutrients more accessible for the human body's digestive system.

Also, just for the record animals that do eat raw meat can get sick from it and/ or acquire parasites just the same as humans. Most people who have pets (particularly dogs that'll eat anything) for a long time experience this at some point.

By building and providing a product or service that you need/want/like enough to pay for?

None of the vaguely famous underground/above-ground roads in Chicago, notably Wacker, Congress, and Michigan Ave, are pedestrian only above ground. It would also be pretty much lying to define those three roads as "large parts". There's probably 10-15 miles of drivable underground road in downtown (maybe less), most of which is used as not much more than service roads for garbage pickup and loading docks for the high rises above these.

Chicago is also somewhat of an exceptional city in this regard in that it was to an extent demolished and rebuilt twice, and the city was further built up from water level to accommodate underground plumbing and (IIRC) to reduce the swampiness of the land.

This is pretty reductive and ignores the fact that America is exceptionally racially, culturally, and economically different from region to region, state to state, city to city, et al.

Policy that works great in NYC isn't guaranteed to work great in LA. Laws that work well in Dallas or San Antonio might have negative effects in Detroit, Chicago, or St. Louis.

Displaying in the native resolution would lead to an even curiouser case where the iPhone 6's 4.7" screen displays more content than the iPhone 6+'s 5.5" screen (assuming integer scaling factors of 2x for the 6 and 3x for the 6+).

I do hope that there is some sort of programmable setting or API for enabling native resolution output so that games built with this option are rendering at 1080p and displaying at 1080p, or 1080p movies aren't needlessly being stretched and then downsampled. For legacy apps and not graphically intensive stuff it mostly makes sense to just display at 3x and scale down for simplicities sake, but if the option isn't otherwise there that seems pretty silly.

>No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame

Hello, half-mile away neighbor.

Literally the whole point of the hollywoodization of a natural environment was to prevent the damage done to an actual natural environment of having 350+ people there for a wedding, something both recommended by a conservation group and then gone over in the article.

There was of course that one amusing Onion article about some US intelligence agency making its own social network so that everyone would just voluntarily give up all their information.

>> The problem with this reasoning is that it presumes that GPA + test scores is the definition of merit. >So let me get this straight: GPA + test scores don't show merit, but race does?

I think he's implying that cultural differences could be coming into play that skew the curve while looking like racial discrimination. Just like Academic scores differ between races, I'm sure Athletic honors differ between races as well, as well as Club honors, and Arts (band/choir/etc) Honors, and so on.

If you want to argue that Academic merit is all students should be judged on when colleges are considering applications, that is a separate argument, but GP is probably just saying that GPA + test scores doesn't singlehandedly define "merit" to a college because things like community service and athletics and student council and... and... and... all altogether factor into the cumultive merit of any given applicant in addition to GPA and whatnot.

Most consoles sell at a loss, that is the price for a profit, including the cost of windows (while steambox will be linux), and at a manufacturing scale that is probably 1/500th or less of what Valve will be contracting.

Not to mention that may very well not be "the" steambox, as apparently Valve has said they will have multiple prototypes from multiple manufacturers.

Target knows you're pregnant, Facebook knows you're gay, now the government is working on knowing if you're a terrorist.

Big data isn't the future, its today.

Clearly you didn't take time to read the aforementioned article at all, or you would've seen the graph that puts the USA at roughly a bit more than triple the assault deaths per 100k vs an eyeball average of the other OECD nations (down from maybe 8-9 times as many in the 80s.)

I pulled the above statistic because of the specific context of mass shootings. But hey, at least you got a pithy retort out of it.

>15 of the 25 worst mass shootings in the last 50 years took place in the United States. In second place is Finland, with two entries.

That's a bit of a disparity.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/n...

I agree, the language is ambiguous as to what defines a "chip", but I assume given the context of the sentence and the technology that it is meant to be read as: the only manual layout of an ARM core to hit the market in several years.

Even then "several years" is unspecific, and could mean practically anything from the iPhone classic release era (which is basically ancient history by smartphone technology years at this point) to the (not that old) iPhone 4 release era.

No offense, but you should probably read at least the sections you're commenting on. Your reasoning is pretty correct but your conclusion is opposite the truth. The full quote:

"Generally, logic blocks are automagically laid out with the use of advanced computer software. However, it looks like the ARM core blocks were laid out manually—as in, by hand. A manual layout will usually result in faster processing speeds, but it is much more expensive and time consuming. The manual layout of the ARM processors lends much credence to the rumor that Apple designed a custom processor of the same caliber as the all-new Cortex-A15, and it just might be the only manual layout in a chip to hit the market in several years." (emphasis mine)

Slavery was fucked up, so we got rid of slavery.

Patent law is fucked up, so we get mad at Apple.

These two things are not alike, and the latter reaction doesn't really make sense.

I never said anything remotely close to the idea that I think what Apple is doing is OK, rather quite the opposite. But I'm not going to be mad at Apple about it because being mad at Apple accomplishes pretty much literally nothing. Instead I'll direct my frustration at the true cause of the insanity: the inane patent law itself.

The backlash toward Apple seems silly to me, they're playing the game within the rules that exist.

If you're mad that patents consisting of obvious combinations, evolution's, and (ux) optimizations of prior or existing technologies are a thing: rail against that, not against Apple. In the end who really cares if Apple wins or loses their patent dispute, almost undoubtedly eventually a settlement will be reached and there will be some sort of patent licensing agreement reached and someone will be out a few billion in fines.

If this case started a movement that was more like: "I don't like how Apple is able to abuse the patent law, lets change how patents work", and then real patent law got changed, that would be huge not only in regards to this particular case but to the whole industry. That would make sense. The media/community drama now? I don't get it.

Slightly OT: Maybe I'm just underestimating to the power of familiarity as a plus in marketing, but I've never been able to wrap my head around meat-imitation vegetarian and vegan options.

I understand things like veggie dogs or burgers, patty and tube shaped foods are just plain convenient to store and eat. But I don't really get: "... Beyond Meat™, the first plant protein that looks, feels, tastes, and acts like meat." Wouldn't it be more prudent to create an identity for next level plant-based products than essentially "It's like meat but not"?

Love the site, just wish I could have this at a different volume than Mumble/Skype.

I believe technically this would be considered APM in all games. In starcraft 1+2 even selecting a control group is considered an action, so simply hiting 1 2 3 4 5 in succession without building units or changing rallies or really doing anything would count as 5 actions.

eAPM, or effective APM is a more advanced attempt to filter out spammy actions (as you describe) and was made up a bit after APM first came out as a statistic and people started gaming the APM stat to try and inflate their egos.

In SC2 there is a bug on the live patch where the APM tab in replays or live games shows the eAPM stat, and the eAPM tab shows the APM stat due to some silly mixup that made it past QA.

I'm not hugely privy to the storyline, but it is my understanding a loose group of forum-goers from reddit, 4chan, neogaf, and probably other communities banded together to vote EA into the #1 status of worst company in america for various legitimate reasons. EA then very shortly after (like within a week) introduced this idea that they received the designation in part because of backlash regarding homosexual content in one game (of a series that has been featuring such content since '07). Now no one cares about why EA was really voted into this honor, but rather all the issues related to this (seeming) misdirection. This article is a perfect example.

EA: 1 Consumerist+Voters: 0

It would be a mistake for Sony to forget Valve and Steam in that list as well, rumor being they have a console in development as well.

As long as we're hitting this one out the ballpark we can imagine all the online services getting in on the action: like the OKCupid speed date commute, the Yelp surprise me whats for dinner restaurant ride, or the Groupon deal of the day carpool.

I believe click green works as size to content or size to vertical max.

shift-click green is maximize.

AT&T DSL here, pretty good for latency (low jitter, sub 60 ms, in WoW, SC2, TF2, and others while on wifi as well), not so good for throughput (only goes up to 6 mbps in my area, we have 3 mbps I think).

>> "ISPs also dislike high-PPS low-packet-size"

This is presumably what was specifically causing the WoW throttling from the article.

>>"We recently introduced a software modification to solve the problems our customers are experiencing with World of Warcraft. However, there have been recent changes to the game, which has created new problems. A second software modification to address these new issues will not be ready until June."

I'm not 100% sure, but iirc the "recent changes" had to do with WoW changing the TCP ack frequency when running, more than doubling or tripling the total number of packets sent over any given period of play time. They turned this on with a recent patch, but hotfixed it off temporarily because, as you said: "it quite negatively affects the network hardware". People with crappy routers/modems were apparently having problems staying connected.

A blizzard dev writes more in detail about it here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1965992365?page=15#2...

Command+x is cut, same as ctrl+x on windows. Might be application specific as I only tried in Chrome and Textedit but I'm fairly certain it is OS wide.

Indeed, I used to love MS Paint when I was using Windows on a daily basis.

It's simple, fast, easy to use, and does its one thing very well.

It wasn't until Paintbrush 2 came out that I didn't have any individual software from Windows that I missed when using OS X. I've never tried Pixelmator however so that might be a better replacement.

haha, this sounds like a piece of advice straight out of Starcraft 2. If you're anywhere but in the top 10% of ladder or above, you'll win more games and get better faster by just focusing on building more stuff than your opponent.

Unit composition, racial balance, specific attack/scouting timings, etc. profoundly don't matter if you can't scrape together a hundred food army and an expansion 10-15 mins into a game. If you can, you can start strategerizing.

The parallel is funny to me.