Problem: due to massive amount of other factors involved, conclusive evidence of effects would take decades to centuries to gather. Compare: smoking, which was far easier to trace due to clear multi-pathogen route and took decades regarless.
GMO are far more complex as their effects likely lie not in direct invasive pathogen such as smoke but indirect effects.
Right now? The main way of controlling North Korea's threat of levelling Seoul is currently tactical nuclear strikes against known artillery positions. Nothing else is even remotely fast enough.
That's why NATO training is about flying strategic nuclear bombers among other things. And that is what got North Korea to go nuts this time.
Human powered civilian surveillance drones known as "glass wearers" on the other hand should be completely legal. Unless they hack their glasses not to report back to google.
Multi core support was fine on XP. Still is. Improvements are minor and you need to really care about them to notice. In most cases, you're limited by applications you're running, not by OS regardless.
I do not use SSDs. If I did, I would probably buy something that is on PCI-E like OCZ REVO, which would mean no trim support under 7 anyway.
I do not use 4GB of RAM I have in my current 7 machine. XP has far less overhead and most games are made with consoles in mind and as a result simply do not need more then 3GB total of system RAM and VRAM. The few fringe cases that do, like the ultra high res version of GW2 could potentially run on XP with increased RAM cap to applications. Upgrade to 7's result is that I have less RAM available on 7 then I had on XP due to extra overhead in spite of only having mapped 3.5GB of system RAM on XP and all 4GB on 7. (Yes, I know, "it's caching stuff, it's faster", only there's not much to cache on a gaming/entertainment/office machine). And you know what? I never needed more. Not a single time, in spite of being an avid gamer. RAM is cheap, which is why people buy lots of it, but for most home users that do not use memory hogs like photoshop or multibox WoW, it's also utterly useless beyond slightly better cache management on 7. Which in itself is barely a compensation for massive increase in overhead in comparison to XP. There is a reason why game system requirements essentially state "X GB RAM for XP, X+1GB for 7".
This is bullcrap and it's a terrible shame that so many people actually bought it. XP is still miles faster and better then 7 in myriad of ways. The only reason I personally upgraded was DX11 because I like gaming and some games I wanted to play came with no DX9 support. That and terrible shape of XP 64 bit.
If you end up being forced to upgrade for the same reason as I, things like classic shell make the 7 UI bearable. It's still pretty fucked up, but it's tolerable enough after you unfuck much of the shit that microsoft put into it.
This is one of the biggest problems with totalitarianism. It generally needs to actively suppress the most talented and gifted individuals to remain in power. This dramatically reduces the potential pool of talented individuals needed for advanced roles in society. Essentially you become limited to the pool of those who choose to become loyal in exchange for joining the ruling clique and gain a lot of power outside their role, and such power tends to quickly and effectively corrupt people.
USSR skirted around this societal limitation by instituting close cities inhabited mostly by gifted people who were given significantly greater degree of freedom in both thinking and acting then general population. By necessity, these people were physically separated from general population, these cities were essentially closed fenced and guarded fortresses with much higher standard of living and were absent on official maps. They were also closely watched even while being allowed greater freedom, and were motivated by a polished combination of wealth, freedom and fear of losing both of these. It was basically a slightly different implementation of modern USA, built on slightly different ideological basis but that used largely the same crowd control tools within those confined islands inside the country that functioned on a completely different social and political system.
In a way, it was an admission that Western system of motivators is very effective at fostering the gifted portion of the populace.
However North Korea lacks the population numbers to do the same thing.
There is only one country in the world that has used nuclear warfare. It's the same country that is pushing current drakonian intellectual suppression regime known as copyright laws.
Considering the history of our propaganda machine, translation accuracy is highly likely to be low and intentionally misleading. We've seen this particular trick many, MANY times in the past.
Fun detail: machine I'm typing this on has 4GB of ram. It's a gamer's rig.
Just like photoshop likes memory, games like GPU power. But in general, games don't need all that much RAM, and photoshop doesn't need much GPU prowess.
As a result, most people who don't really use their PC for either can do with a weaker machine. Rest of us can assemble a machine that fits their exact needs, like you with a lot of RAM or me with little RAM but a powerful GPU
If you somehow believe that any Western leadership doesn't lie to its people, I have land on the moon to sell you.
The problem in NK is totalitarianism. Not "lying to the people". If that was a serious problem, all nations in the world would be in trouble, and us Western nations would probably be more in trouble then those with less freedoms, as politicians tend to generally talk less in those. And as a result they also lie less.
And now you understand why NK leadership acts the way it does. Who wouldn't when faced with people who outnumber and outgun you hilariously, and want you dead very, very much.
You keep repeating "Central Europe, Central Europe" like a mantra. Yet, no one here is talking about central Europe any more then you're talking about Antarctica.
Point is, your excuse is utterly invalid in spite of your attempts to grasp at it like at a straw. We have clearly shown that railroad works fine in BOTH scenarios of high and low population density.
Not a fan on newtonian physics model for space fighting sims. Fights in these games are basically jousting matches, you both accelerate toward each other, unload during short encounter, turn 180, keep accelerating toward each other...
Hi, I hail from a country with one of the lowest population densities on the planet: Finland. We have similar experiences with railroads as described by grandparent poster. Please try finding a better excuse.
Slashdot Mirror
Problem: due to massive amount of other factors involved, conclusive evidence of effects would take decades to centuries to gather. Compare: smoking, which was far easier to trace due to clear multi-pathogen route and took decades regarless.
GMO are far more complex as their effects likely lie not in direct invasive pathogen such as smoke but indirect effects.
Not sure if serious. I don't think even the most hardcore spammers who rage on spamhaus ever tried to compare blacklisting open relays to mass murder.
Terrorism, yes. Mass murder, not even they have sank that low. Congratulations, you sank lower then spammers!
Right now? The main way of controlling North Korea's threat of levelling Seoul is currently tactical nuclear strikes against known artillery positions. Nothing else is even remotely fast enough.
That's why NATO training is about flying strategic nuclear bombers among other things. And that is what got North Korea to go nuts this time.
Human powered civilian surveillance drones known as "glass wearers" on the other hand should be completely legal. Unless they hack their glasses not to report back to google.
Do No Evil.
Technically this is true. When an object lands on Mars, Mars lands on the object. They both have gravitational fields which attract one another.
Whether this means that Earth has also gone Soviet is up to debate.
Multi core support was fine on XP. Still is. Improvements are minor and you need to really care about them to notice. In most cases, you're limited by applications you're running, not by OS regardless.
I do not use SSDs. If I did, I would probably buy something that is on PCI-E like OCZ REVO, which would mean no trim support under 7 anyway.
I do not use 4GB of RAM I have in my current 7 machine. XP has far less overhead and most games are made with consoles in mind and as a result simply do not need more then 3GB total of system RAM and VRAM. The few fringe cases that do, like the ultra high res version of GW2 could potentially run on XP with increased RAM cap to applications. Upgrade to 7's result is that I have less RAM available on 7 then I had on XP due to extra overhead in spite of only having mapped 3.5GB of system RAM on XP and all 4GB on 7. (Yes, I know, "it's caching stuff, it's faster", only there's not much to cache on a gaming/entertainment/office machine). And you know what? I never needed more. Not a single time, in spite of being an avid gamer. RAM is cheap, which is why people buy lots of it, but for most home users that do not use memory hogs like photoshop or multibox WoW, it's also utterly useless beyond slightly better cache management on 7. Which in itself is barely a compensation for massive increase in overhead in comparison to XP. There is a reason why game system requirements essentially state "X GB RAM for XP, X+1GB for 7".
But it was. Didn't you read 1984?
It just came a bit late.
This is bullcrap and it's a terrible shame that so many people actually bought it. XP is still miles faster and better then 7 in myriad of ways. The only reason I personally upgraded was DX11 because I like gaming and some games I wanted to play came with no DX9 support. That and terrible shape of XP 64 bit.
If you end up being forced to upgrade for the same reason as I, things like classic shell make the 7 UI bearable. It's still pretty fucked up, but it's tolerable enough after you unfuck much of the shit that microsoft put into it.
This is one of the biggest problems with totalitarianism. It generally needs to actively suppress the most talented and gifted individuals to remain in power. This dramatically reduces the potential pool of talented individuals needed for advanced roles in society. Essentially you become limited to the pool of those who choose to become loyal in exchange for joining the ruling clique and gain a lot of power outside their role, and such power tends to quickly and effectively corrupt people.
USSR skirted around this societal limitation by instituting close cities inhabited mostly by gifted people who were given significantly greater degree of freedom in both thinking and acting then general population. By necessity, these people were physically separated from general population, these cities were essentially closed fenced and guarded fortresses with much higher standard of living and were absent on official maps. They were also closely watched even while being allowed greater freedom, and were motivated by a polished combination of wealth, freedom and fear of losing both of these. It was basically a slightly different implementation of modern USA, built on slightly different ideological basis but that used largely the same crowd control tools within those confined islands inside the country that functioned on a completely different social and political system.
In a way, it was an admission that Western system of motivators is very effective at fostering the gifted portion of the populace.
However North Korea lacks the population numbers to do the same thing.
There is only one country in the world that has used nuclear warfare. It's the same country that is pushing current drakonian intellectual suppression regime known as copyright laws.
So double whammy.
Considering the history of our propaganda machine, translation accuracy is highly likely to be low and intentionally misleading. We've seen this particular trick many, MANY times in the past.
That's okay. When there's Less Government, Halliburton and friend will have even more chokehold on power structures.
There's never a true power vacuum in human society. When it starts to form, something proceeds to fill the void.
Fun detail: machine I'm typing this on has 4GB of ram. It's a gamer's rig.
Just like photoshop likes memory, games like GPU power. But in general, games don't need all that much RAM, and photoshop doesn't need much GPU prowess.
As a result, most people who don't really use their PC for either can do with a weaker machine. Rest of us can assemble a machine that fits their exact needs, like you with a lot of RAM or me with little RAM but a powerful GPU
And also has what, 1/100th of size? 1/1000?
If you somehow believe that any Western leadership doesn't lie to its people, I have land on the moon to sell you.
The problem in NK is totalitarianism. Not "lying to the people". If that was a serious problem, all nations in the world would be in trouble, and us Western nations would probably be more in trouble then those with less freedoms, as politicians tend to generally talk less in those. And as a result they also lie less.
And now you understand why NK leadership acts the way it does. Who wouldn't when faced with people who outnumber and outgun you hilariously, and want you dead very, very much.
And the biggest pity of all is that you think you will be actually allowed to get that kind of presidential candidate in the first place.
And has about 1/4 of total population of New York.
Our country is thin and long. So we have "hundreds of miles" or railroads. Something you should see from wikipedia's map.
You keep repeating "Central Europe, Central Europe" like a mantra. Yet, no one here is talking about central Europe any more then you're talking about Antarctica.
Point is, your excuse is utterly invalid in spite of your attempts to grasp at it like at a straw. We have clearly shown that railroad works fine in BOTH scenarios of high and low population density.
Not a fan on newtonian physics model for space fighting sims. Fights in these games are basically jousting matches, you both accelerate toward each other, unload during short encounter, turn 180, keep accelerating toward each other...
Not fun.
I'm currently messing around in star conflict. It's a spacefighter sim in spirit of freelancer, with mouse controls. No open world though.
But it's a lot of fun because it focuses on one thing: fighting. And it does it pretty well once you get the hang of it.
http://star-conflict.com/en/
Notably it's free to play.
To be fair, "bioware" that did SWTOR is formely known as mythic. And many of the failures of SWTOR come copy-pasted from mythic's previous games.
And Finland has far less then US. And still has rail that functions well. Your move.
Hi, I hail from a country with one of the lowest population densities on the planet: Finland. We have similar experiences with railroads as described by grandparent poster. Please try finding a better excuse.