median equivalised disposable income is not a good representation of the amount of money the population has. The median net worth is a better measure and the US is below many EU countries by that method : https://www.visualcapitalist.c... The value of public old age social security benefits is not included in these numbers. I think social security benefits may be more generous in many EU countries than in the US, which further tips the balance.

It seems these researchers don't know anything about actual maple syrup production.
Most of the world's maple syrup is produced within 100km around where I live and I have visited multiple production sites.

There is an accumulation of >100cm of snow every winter in the forests here.
In the spring, the snow melts slowly and keeps the soil drenched for weeks.
This is the time when maple water is collected and also the time when tree growth happens.
Even with a warming of multiple degrees and a reduction in precipitation, there will still be snow accumulation and drenched soil in the spring.
Anyway, a mature maple tree has roots deep enough to be able to catch water below the water table, even during a summer drought.

It can take as much as 80 years for a maple tree to be mature enough to be a good producer of maple water.
Starting a new plantation takes decades, stunted growth or not.
Whether it takes 80 or 120 years will not affect the market.
The important is the production levels of the existing trees.

What could affect maple syrup production is if gets hot quicker in the spring.
The maple trees produce only during the period in the spring when it freezes during the night and it
If, due to global warming, the spring weather goes quickly from "winter-like" to hot enough that it does not freeze at night, then the maple season would be shortened.
There is already a huge variation in production levels from year to year caused by the differences in spring temperature.

NVIDIA does exactly that : warps the image according to most recent (or even predicted) head position.
Works on their recent high end cards
http://www.slashgear.com/nvidi...

I don't think I want to take a pain pill...

Easiest way to do GPU on .Net is Cudafy :
http://cudafy.codeplex.com/
Allows you to write .Net code that runs on a nVidia GPU
(an OpenCL version is in the works)

For more advanced work, CMSoft have a great complete tutorial on using OpenCL with .Net :
http://www.cmsoft.com.br/?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=41&Itemid=75

No movie from France has ever, that I know of, been dubbed for the Quebec market. It is the same language and only a few local expressions or street talk would require subtitles, but this is not necessary in most movies/tv shows.
Why many people ask Hollywood to have a translation in Quebec for the Quebec market is that many Hollywood movies contain some amount of street talk and swearing which, when translated in France, sounds quite strange.

This is completely false. The difference in Quebec French and France French is much smaller than the difference in The Queen's Englsh and the American English.

The games will still be playable in english. The only difference is that now, games that are translated in french for the european market will need to have that french version available in the province of Quebec (normally on the same game disk as the english version). Many game publishers were already doing this for many years.

> Could this be a very clever virus that doesn't run as a process?

Possibly. More and more viruses run in a DLL that is attached to a necessary Windows process (like winlogon.exe)