A young doctor who just graduated tells his father, also a doctor: "Dad, do you remember that old women whom you treated for 20 years? Well, I just cured her!" "That's nice son, she really deserved it. After all, it was her who paid your way through medical school".
It meant that in some cases, it didn't. I ran ME for about 3 years on a home PC, and it was actually far more stable then 98SE I switched from.
I have no idea why to this very day, I've had huge amount of problems getting rid of ME "exploding" on family/friends' computers I was maintaining. But my home PC with ME was rock stable (at least by standards of that age).
That depends. If you blow it up above center of New-York, there won't be enough people left alive after initial blast to die from residual issues to top the initial casualties.
We're no longer living in the age of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these bombs are several orders of magnitude more powerful, delivered far more accurately and people live far more tightly packed then before.
It's not so much a "slope" as "giving it small amount of momentum".
This is aimed directly at the elderly market in Japan, that is exploding. Many elderly can give such a machine attached to their legs momentum that is sufficient for it to walk, but insufficient to propel themselves without the help of the aid. That is the commercial application, and if they succeed while keeping price relatively low in comparison to competing hardware (which is where lack of external energy source comes in), they have a shot at having a best seller on a very wealthy market.
When all is said and done, chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and while most governments that handle bomb-quality nuclear materiel tend to apply very rigorous selection process to personnel involved, we do have recorded cases of failures, from bombs falling from planes to bombs being displaced across pretty much all nuclear powers (yes, including US).
Which is why these bombs are made so that it's exceptionally difficult to actually get them to go critical in the first place. Even falling from a plane and hitting the ground, they are unlikely to cause a nuclear detonation, much less from "hammer impact". This minimizes the "human factor", and is one of the main reasons why we never had a nuclear conflagration in spite of all the nuclear-armed weapon systems fully armed and ready to go during cold war.
Same way it helps your "N-word" when you scrap old aircraft carriers in favor of new ones. You don't have to pay upkeep costs for weapon system that is utterly outdated and unlikely to ever get used (as ballistic missile arsenal has long picked up that slack).
Granted it's pretty damn scary when idiots who honestly think that bigger nuclear explosion is better, and it should be "dropped on [x]" as there have been multiple suggestions in this discussion, which rather efficiently dispels the question marks over why most of the world views US as a bigger threat to world peace then Iran. You may wish to moderate yourself at least a little bit, so you don't end up looking too much like the people you hate so much. Two sides of the same coin and all.
All nukes have. Ever since ballistic missiles have formed the backbone of MAD for both sides, it was judged that having MIRV warhead with a large amount of smaller yield bombs was far more destructive then a single huge bomb that can do more damage at its single hit site, but the total kill area is far smaller.
This is the same for USA, USSR/Russia, China, GB and France. Can't really speak for India and Pakistan as I haven't looked at their arsenals much, but logic would suggest that they would want small tactical weapons over big strategic ones in general, as they are simply too close to each other to employ multi-megaton level weapons without getting badly hit by the fallout from their own weapons.
You're correct, these are the part of strategic rather then tactical arsenal, and are a part of MAD deterrent far more then a bunker buster (though they could probably remove Ural mountains when needed). But these are old, and as ballistic missile deterrent came a bit later, it was upgraded to have MIRV payload where smaller bombs were scattered from a single warhead over larger kill zone.
They are far more efficient when it comes to MAD scenario then a single huge bomb.
The biggest portion causing fatalities would probably be heat emission and kinetic shockwave following it. Rather hard to say which one would demand more casualties, as it will depend on where it is dropped. Steel frame buildings will most likely protect from the heat of the blast outside epicenter at the very least though.
And of course, at epicenter you're going to be fucked even if you're in a bunker. That caliber of a bomb is the type that can change the maps.
It's pretty unlikely to trigger a nuclear explosion considering the requirements to reach criticality in a bomb. In most cases, you'll have explosives go off by accident on such a bomb, they don't do enough compression to cause criticality and end up being essentially a dirty bomb scattering highly enriched uranium or plutonium around.
Which is what bunker is designed to protect against.
Something I forgot to add. The great example from modern games is BF3. It's significantly more limited on consoles in comparison to the PC version in multiplayer complexity, specifically because of memory issues.
(I'm not touching on obvious graphics issues, for obvious reasons).
That is because these games limit levels themselves in a very massive way on consoles, such as object reduction. This enables them to shrink memory usage enough to allow for PC-like level streaming. It comes at a very heavy complexity cost.
Fun detail: as far as we know, no one died as a result of the fukushima (outside one worked who fell down to his death or something similar - clarify this point if you have more info). Over 30k died as a result of tsunami.
The best example is bigger levels. Compare DA2 (short pipe run levels with frequent loading) vs witcher 2 (big levels with minimal loading) vs WoW (huge world, only loads when teleporting).
Latter two cannot be done on console, mainly because of RAM issues. you have to go the way of DA2 and severely limit your designers when it comes to size of each level.
As arab spring has proved, it's significantly more difficult to enforce totalitarian rule when internet is free. TPM is a key element in locking internet down from the client's side.
Notably, this is one of the biggest differences between engineers of pre-internet era and those of post-internet era. Pre-internet information was scarce, and skill to find information on your own was very valuable.
Internet changed this upside down. Now it's a flood of information, and those who are considered best are those who can pick the needed information out of the constant stream of useless informational overload. In this regard, using slashdot and similar sites as a filter against general flood and a starting point to isolating which pieces of information are important is a mark of a successful modern engineer.
I'll give you a good comparison: If you live in Mexico City (about 2km above sea level), you get more radiation then you got in Tokyo in any day during or after Fukushima due to having 2km less atmosphere buffering radiation from the Sun.
Fun part? There is no statistical cancer or child birth defect spike in Mexico City in comparison to any other city.
One of the reason why Valmet and similar finnish companies can work the way they do is because everyone and their grandmother at least understands decent english around here.
Neither Finland nor Switzerland are in NATO. Swiss remained neutral in WW2, while finns were part of the axis, and were subjected to the most fierce land assault of entire world war 2, as well as one of the most one sided wars in history fought to a standstill in winter war.
As it is now, Finland remains the only country in Europe to be a part of Molotov-Ribbentrop that retained its sovereignty both before and after WW2, in spite of Stalin sparing no effort, materiel or cost to annex it. And it's still neutral, not part of either former (and currently collapsed) Warsaw pact nor NATO. Considering that NATO's war plan during cold war a pre-emptive tactical nuclear bombardment of the country to deny USSR the usage of its infrastructure, its love for NATO is understandably low.
So if you seriously think that someone in Finland or Switzerland thinks that US will do anything but stab the country in the back when a serious conflict occurs, you're talking out of your ass.
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A young doctor who just graduated tells his father, also a doctor:
"Dad, do you remember that old women whom you treated for 20 years? Well, I just cured her!"
"That's nice son, she really deserved it. After all, it was her who paid your way through medical school".
It meant that in some cases, it didn't. I ran ME for about 3 years on a home PC, and it was actually far more stable then 98SE I switched from.
I have no idea why to this very day, I've had huge amount of problems getting rid of ME "exploding" on family/friends' computers I was maintaining. But my home PC with ME was rock stable (at least by standards of that age).
That depends. If you blow it up above center of New-York, there won't be enough people left alive after initial blast to die from residual issues to top the initial casualties.
We're no longer living in the age of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these bombs are several orders of magnitude more powerful, delivered far more accurately and people live far more tightly packed then before.
It's not so much a "slope" as "giving it small amount of momentum".
This is aimed directly at the elderly market in Japan, that is exploding. Many elderly can give such a machine attached to their legs momentum that is sufficient for it to walk, but insufficient to propel themselves without the help of the aid. That is the commercial application, and if they succeed while keeping price relatively low in comparison to competing hardware (which is where lack of external energy source comes in), they have a shot at having a best seller on a very wealthy market.
It's a good thing that everyone something to hide, isn't it?
When all is said and done, chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and while most governments that handle bomb-quality nuclear materiel tend to apply very rigorous selection process to personnel involved, we do have recorded cases of failures, from bombs falling from planes to bombs being displaced across pretty much all nuclear powers (yes, including US).
Which is why these bombs are made so that it's exceptionally difficult to actually get them to go critical in the first place. Even falling from a plane and hitting the ground, they are unlikely to cause a nuclear detonation, much less from "hammer impact". This minimizes the "human factor", and is one of the main reasons why we never had a nuclear conflagration in spite of all the nuclear-armed weapon systems fully armed and ready to go during cold war.
Same way it helps your "N-word" when you scrap old aircraft carriers in favor of new ones. You don't have to pay upkeep costs for weapon system that is utterly outdated and unlikely to ever get used (as ballistic missile arsenal has long picked up that slack).
Granted it's pretty damn scary when idiots who honestly think that bigger nuclear explosion is better, and it should be "dropped on [x]" as there have been multiple suggestions in this discussion, which rather efficiently dispels the question marks over why most of the world views US as a bigger threat to world peace then Iran. You may wish to moderate yourself at least a little bit, so you don't end up looking too much like the people you hate so much. Two sides of the same coin and all.
All nukes have. Ever since ballistic missiles have formed the backbone of MAD for both sides, it was judged that having MIRV warhead with a large amount of smaller yield bombs was far more destructive then a single huge bomb that can do more damage at its single hit site, but the total kill area is far smaller.
This is the same for USA, USSR/Russia, China, GB and France. Can't really speak for India and Pakistan as I haven't looked at their arsenals much, but logic would suggest that they would want small tactical weapons over big strategic ones in general, as they are simply too close to each other to employ multi-megaton level weapons without getting badly hit by the fallout from their own weapons.
Israel is a big question mark.
You're correct, these are the part of strategic rather then tactical arsenal, and are a part of MAD deterrent far more then a bunker buster (though they could probably remove Ural mountains when needed). But these are old, and as ballistic missile deterrent came a bit later, it was upgraded to have MIRV payload where smaller bombs were scattered from a single warhead over larger kill zone.
They are far more efficient when it comes to MAD scenario then a single huge bomb.
The biggest portion causing fatalities would probably be heat emission and kinetic shockwave following it. Rather hard to say which one would demand more casualties, as it will depend on where it is dropped. Steel frame buildings will most likely protect from the heat of the blast outside epicenter at the very least though.
And of course, at epicenter you're going to be fucked even if you're in a bunker. That caliber of a bomb is the type that can change the maps.
It's pretty unlikely to trigger a nuclear explosion considering the requirements to reach criticality in a bomb. In most cases, you'll have explosives go off by accident on such a bomb, they don't do enough compression to cause criticality and end up being essentially a dirty bomb scattering highly enriched uranium or plutonium around.
Which is what bunker is designed to protect against.
Something I forgot to add. The great example from modern games is BF3. It's significantly more limited on consoles in comparison to the PC version in multiplayer complexity, specifically because of memory issues.
(I'm not touching on obvious graphics issues, for obvious reasons).
That is because these games limit levels themselves in a very massive way on consoles, such as object reduction. This enables them to shrink memory usage enough to allow for PC-like level streaming. It comes at a very heavy complexity cost.
Fun detail: as far as we know, no one died as a result of the fukushima (outside one worked who fell down to his death or something similar - clarify this point if you have more info). Over 30k died as a result of tsunami.
Who do we throw in prison for tsunami?
The best example is bigger levels. Compare DA2 (short pipe run levels with frequent loading) vs witcher 2 (big levels with minimal loading) vs WoW (huge world, only loads when teleporting).
Latter two cannot be done on console, mainly because of RAM issues. you have to go the way of DA2 and severely limit your designers when it comes to size of each level.
That is quite possibly the most offensive, yet the most factual and truthful way to address the grandparent's point.
And I have no mod points...
As arab spring has proved, it's significantly more difficult to enforce totalitarian rule when internet is free. TPM is a key element in locking internet down from the client's side.
Notably, this is one of the biggest differences between engineers of pre-internet era and those of post-internet era. Pre-internet information was scarce, and skill to find information on your own was very valuable.
Internet changed this upside down. Now it's a flood of information, and those who are considered best are those who can pick the needed information out of the constant stream of useless informational overload. In this regard, using slashdot and similar sites as a filter against general flood and a starting point to isolating which pieces of information are important is a mark of a successful modern engineer.
I'll give you a good comparison: If you live in Mexico City (about 2km above sea level), you get more radiation then you got in Tokyo in any day during or after Fukushima due to having 2km less atmosphere buffering radiation from the Sun.
Fun part? There is no statistical cancer or child birth defect spike in Mexico City in comparison to any other city.
I keep imagining these botnet creators hacking reaper drones to put high exlosive missiles into huge mobs of computer users.
Yeah, I was playing orcs must die a moment ago. Connect the dots.
And when talking about servers, I will be forced to agree with you. My disks don't come close to those levels of wear and tear.
Funnily, this made front page within an hour of being announced.
Like it or not, WoW is still popular.
One of the reason why Valmet and similar finnish companies can work the way they do is because everyone and their grandmother at least understands decent english around here.
Ikea is Swedish. Next time someone mixes up you and a canadian, remember this moment.
Neither Finland nor Switzerland are in NATO. Swiss remained neutral in WW2, while finns were part of the axis, and were subjected to the most fierce land assault of entire world war 2, as well as one of the most one sided wars in history fought to a standstill in winter war.
As it is now, Finland remains the only country in Europe to be a part of Molotov-Ribbentrop that retained its sovereignty both before and after WW2, in spite of Stalin sparing no effort, materiel or cost to annex it. And it's still neutral, not part of either former (and currently collapsed) Warsaw pact nor NATO. Considering that NATO's war plan during cold war a pre-emptive tactical nuclear bombardment of the country to deny USSR the usage of its infrastructure, its love for NATO is understandably low.
So if you seriously think that someone in Finland or Switzerland thinks that US will do anything but stab the country in the back when a serious conflict occurs, you're talking out of your ass.