I think the "don't rub your chopsticks together" bit is misunderstood by a lot of people. The ones that come in a paper sleeve that you break apart ARE cheap. No one cares if you remove the splinters from those before you start eating with them. However, if you were to do that with a pair of real wooden chopsticks…

Visible demonstration of just how much torque your car is putting down

Call me a heretic, but I never liked any Aston Martin models (or for that matter most British makes), they just never really appealed to me. I also don't much care for Mercedes, but I do love the look of BMW and Audi

Air boat racing?

There are CPU bound games out there, there are just not quite as many. Also, a very high end GPU can end up becoming "bottlenecked" by a slower CPU. I don't think we'll see much of a difference on the performance side in the next tock (or is it tick?) of intel processors, they're probably just going to move more of…

Gaming quality is a very subjective thing to measure. I'm sure with DDR2 RAM and a Core 2 Quad processor from 5 years ago, your gaming experience is probably not identical to mine, but if it is sufficient to not make you want to upgrade, then there is no need for it. I agree about not needing to upgrade to Haswell…

In Austin, Texas you can't smoke indoors in places like restaurants, bars, stores, schools, government buildings, etc. You can, however, smoke in a strip club. When I lived in CT it was the same. No smoking within 50 ft of the entrance of a public building, but the strip clubs allowed people to smoke in them.

No, it doesn't happen all at once, but you end up playing the waiting game, and at some point, everything is out of date

Noi j'itat! this!

There comes a point where your cpu is out of date, the new ones use a diff socket, necessitating a new mobo, and your gpu needs replacement, and your current psu doesn't support the gpu(s) that you are going to use, at which point the only leftover parts would be hard drive (unless you upgrade that too), optical…

Needs moar lens flare!

My only question for you is when did "geek" become a positive description for someone? It was always used against myself and my fellow d&d/video game/anime/tech/computer enthusiasts as a term of derision. All through my school years, all of us kept wanting to not be thought of as "geeks". Now people are proud to be…

Aren't Gen Xers the ones that are in their 40s now? I figured I was on the gap between X and Y

That last sentence of yours kind of bugs me. What's a "real gamer girl"? Is the person a girl? Check. Does this girl enjoy spending time playing video games? Ok, that seems to me to make the case for gamer and girl. Sure, there are varying degrees which one could use to determine whether someone is a "gamer" or if…

The effectiveness from eating many meals over the course of the day as opposed to the 1-3 that many people find time for is more about allowing you to more accurately regulate your macros. You can plan out several of these small meals, and you make this routine that you can adhere to, and then you have your exact…

If speed limits are set due to some sort of civil engineering formula as you say, then why are nearly identical highways so far apart in speed limit? SH-130 and SH-45 through most of central TX are 80 MPH. That's far in excess of most other highways in non populated areas. In no way am I advocating that anyone go…

Let me get this straight...you're advocating the MURDER of someone for mentioning that Jalops get all up in arms any time someone engages in driving faster than the limit, which as a result, made a bunch of jalops get up in arms? Because you encountered a reckless driver once?

I never said that engineers repair machines. I said that someone will always have to repair them. They don't always design machines either. The ones I work with more or less optimize the work going through them (consumable liftetimes, maintenance intervals, recipe changes, etc) and the monitoring parameters to try to…

This. They may outsource IT jobs to India, automate certain jobs away, and all that, but people will always need someone to repair other people, repair the machines that do the work, etc. I am fairly confident that even if my specific position of employment were to not last for 50 years, my skillset would still be in…

I believe the term footballer exclusively applies to soccer, vice football player applying to American football.