But is there a REAL difference? Is there an agreed upon criteria or is this just whatever someone feels like that day?

If they contain frog DNA for example? Is it vegan? I don't think this question has ever been addressed.

" It just states that a given modification didn't work as intended."

There's the rub. We are introducing combinations, some times cutting across kingdoms, never before seen into the gene pool. People are concern about the law of unintended consequences which can kick in with a vengeance when exotics are introduced into the Environment.

And checking references. And checking calling up "Joe" who worked with you at company X and is now at the same company the candidate is at to see what "Jo" thinks. If you have an area where tech workers are concentrated and people circulate from one employer to the next you can look someone's reputation up. It is also easy to 'blackball' someone if they burn you. I've heard of it, the casual get together at the bar, the exchange of banter, and a brief mention that "Tom" isn't working out so well because he is rather annoying to others around him.

What is the difference between the two? I have yet to hear a good definition of the roles.

Heh, I see someone knows their Spider-man. Thwippt! Though IMHO they should have had Emma Stone play Mary-Jane, NOT Gwen.

Citations? Also You can get private care in Britain and other socialist countries if you wish to carry private insurance or pay out-of-pocket.

"That's what a functional legislative body would do"

There's the rub. Congress has been horribly dysfunctional these past 4 years or so. In doing so they have abdicated to the President and The Courts...

"The job of the federal courts is not to re-write law but to affirm or strike down laws which are or are not Constitutional."

Actually, Judicial Review is NOT in the Constitution. But when it happened it was accepted and so it is now enshrined.

You are thinking like a PC gamer and thinking about ONLY the CPU and GPU when you compare the PC to the current gen consoles. Machines aren't just CPU's and GPU's, they have internal busses, I/O, RAM. Those matter.

And when it comes to those things, consoles are still specialized beasts.

Lets take the PS2. There were PC gamers claiming their GeForce 3 was better, their CPU faster, etc etc. That may have been true, but the PS2 wasn't an ordinary PC, it had specialized RAM and specialized internal busses. It could do things that a PC of that era simply could not do.

http://archive.arstechnica.com...

http://archive.arstechnica.com...

Watch the vector unit demos. They're running entirely on the vector unit in 16K of RAM, no CPU involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

IIRC, somebody came up with a Zlib implementation that ran entirely on a PS2 vector unit.

The PS3 is similar, fast Rambus RAM, SPU's, and fast internal busses. IIRC somebody smarter than me referred to it as "taking the multiprocessin ideas introduced with the PS2, further"

The PS4 is more "normal", but still has specialized RAM and internal busses. You simply can't buy a PC with GDDR5 main ram. Imagine if you had a PC with ALL of it's RAM as fast as the RAM on the video card. That would be nice, wouldn't it? But that can't happen, the PC is limited by PCIe.

The PS4 isn't.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/...

It can move data around in ways a PC simply can not do. It also doesn't have to deal with the problem that is Windows. Windows is a general purpose OS, even when it runs games.

The PS4 runs BSD, while it is also a general purpose OS, there's no need on the PS4 to keep "desktop computer services" running. The PS4 doesn't have to keep a print spool up, have a java updater constantly running, . It doesn't have to worry about the "needs" of an Office suite, or SMB shares, or Norton/Kaspersky/AVG, or any of the other things a PC does. It runs games. It can do other things as well but it's design focus is on games more than anything else.

I've told "masterrace" types saying that they can build a PC better than the PS4 for less than the PS4 that it isn't just the CPU and Videocard that matters. That the RAM matters as well but they always ignore that.

IIRC there were a couple of PC ports of PS2 and PS3 games that had similar issues because of those systems fast rambus RAM and fast system busses.

Yes, and I don't care for that one bit. Though with previous consoles, PC Gamer "masterrace" types claimed that the ability to patch was an advantage.

It can be, but it doesn't turn out that way due to laziness or being rushed.

Lots of *whole* grains, veggies, lean meats (or none at all), and fruit. It calls for low fat and sugar, not *no* fat and sugar.

"The part about *some* fats has *research suggesting that consumed in moderate amounts can be part of a healthy diet has been published" in the last several years."

Fixed that for you.

Also a Mediacom Internet customer, for 13 years now, and ditto. One always gets faster than the speed one is subscribed to.

Introductory rate for Ultra?

What's funny is that the satellite services now have bundles locally where their satellite service is bundled with Mediacom's internet. For those who don't know, Mediacom is a Cable company. But they are a better ISP and phone provider than they are a cable company. Well, except for their DNS servers having issues now and then.