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The US forces are dangerously overstretched in East Asia. The main financial focus is on Afghanistan and the Fertile Crescent, which leaves East Asia vastly under financed even though from a long-term geopolitical point of view it is definitely by far the most important region due to the...

Ironically the most effective solution is probably to just have a pirated copy which is incapable of receiving updates cause back in the days of XP and 7, you only had to activate once since updates were purely optional. Ever since 10 though, where you can only postpone but not avoid an update...

You've just opened Pandora's box. :lol: On a serious note though, usage of genuine Windows 7 will rapidly drop now IMHO due to what Microsoft has officially called an immense slowdown of older OS following the release of patches after the recent revelations regarding CPU.

What I really meant by VR is that it tends to give the player primarily the visual experience and focuses more on the non-interactive aspect. Didn't mean VR literally so apologies for the confusion.

Tried it a while back and at least at the time, it felt more like a VR experience showcasing the visuals and the atmosphere (no pun intended) than a genuine systems and/or orbital mechanics simulator. But then again that's probably what the developer aimed for (unless it underwent changes since...

Where's Joe McCarthy when you need him..

Unfortunately the reality is that bureaucratic management advances primarily when making mistakes and rarely can it evolve or even maintain the same level of efficiency without stumbling upon obstacles that force it to elevate its degree of readiness and effectiveness. What happened yesterday...

Read the following in super mutant voice: "CNN Fake News. I stable genius. Hillary crooked. Sad."

On a related note..

On the bright side, if Fallout (the video game universe) is right, a pub is the best place to experience a nuclear holocaust due to the abundance of bottle caps (they are used as the main currency) which essentially makes pubs the equivalent of banks in post-nuclear environment.

According to a Reuters article:

According to a Reuters article, AMD is also affected by a similar flaw. I'd say that if Intel senses a long-term loss because of this revelation, they'll make sure they let everyone know that AMD was/is also affected.

Some early post-patch benchmarks for Linux: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-415-x86pti Also for gaming performance: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=x86-PTI-Initial-Gaming-Tests

I've got an issue while using the function "pre-load at session start" for the surface texture load options, even though i have the level 14/11 earth textures, it still loads the default one (low res), but when i switch "load on demand" option it displays correctly. Any idea why? Did a clean...