Yep. For all its drawbacks the PC was an amazing platform for its day.

When it came out, nothing could beat the Amiga for versatility, though. It was even better at having all kinds of stuff on its bus at once than the PC was. The bus wasn't any faster than 16 bit ISA in the real world, but it was at least a dozen times more convenient.

Sure, but roads are the same in that regard — we pay for them, too. But they are a lot less efficient and they lead to a lot more pollution, and arguably just as importantly they just get clogged up with more cars in short order and then we've essentially spent that money to hasten our own destruction and make more people sit in traffic longer.

They should have put it closer. But puttering down the strip on foot checking everything out, and then hitting the monorail for a 1-way ride all the way back, is a pretty common thing I think. That, or staying in the hotel where your meetings/conference/gambling is, and hardly going outside. Or going to the Raiders game or F1 race.

At least I think we can all see the monorail does have decent ridership, and the extra-wide sidewalks of the strip are relatively crowded, much moreso than typical in the US other than exceptional places like NYC.

That's a pretty decent amount of game to be able to run in 64kB.

I did have a memory expansion on the ISA bus of my IBM 5150. The additional 384kB brought it up to 448kB, which was enough to run most but not all DOS software that would run on an XT (which could be expanded to 640kB onboard.)

I probably should have piggybacked the system memory, I could have gotten it up to 512kB which really would have run almost everything. But instead I got a 286-6 with 1MB and ran Xenix on it.

There's no reason it needs any more than a USB-C cable to carry power and compressed video. When I think "substantial" cable I think something like a VGA cable, where even the narrowest ones are quite a bit bigger than that (and also absolute smeg quality.) By the same token, there's no reason it needs to be driven by a computer any larger than a typical power bank, which will fit comfortably in pocket or purse. Your average decent phone has enough processing power to drive such a device, unless you have high expectations for graphics. What it doesn't have is enough battery power to last very long, but if you're eliminating the screen and making it thicker you can solve that problem easily enough.

All of the real problems relate to the hardware on your head. Making it smaller and lighter and at least equally importantly solving the focal depth problem are the real issues.

The monorail was placed off the strip for the benefit of the MGM Grand and Ballyâ(TM)s. It was designed to be worthless to everyone else, bypassing other properties. Then it was extended to go to the Flamingo and near Harrahâ(TM)s and Imperial Palace. From everywhere else it's a substantial distance away. By the time you've gotten to it, you could have walked most of the way to your destination, unless you're going from one end to the other. If they had put it over the strip, it would have really been something.

It's tax dollars at work to support not needing to build a wider highway, not just now but also in the future. Traffic on the route from LA to LV can literally double the time it takes to get there, while in the very best case it takes about 3 hours.

This is the same argument for the stalled California HSR project. It is a good and reasonable argument. We equate the ability to travel with freedom. Making travel more possible while also reducing transportation-related pollution is a good use of tax money. Unfortunately, we should have built a new rail corridor decades ago when it would have been more legally feasible, and a lot cheaper. It wouldn't have been HSR at the time, but it would have avoided a whole lot of senseless freeway expansion that only ever provided momentary relief.

That's 9.16% of the route. It's less than 1/10 high speed rail!

Well, no. The correct answer is never God. Even if God were real and were involved, he always works through someone else.

That entire region was populated for literally thousands of years before there even were Jews as we know them.

"many hundreds of years ago" is not a date, nor is it the first history of the region.

I will say this, of all the places you might want to visit without a car in the US, which can probably be counted on one hand, Las Vegas might be at the top of that list. Most visitors are going to the strip, which has the monorail, or the football stadium.

China will figure all that out for us, they're like 30 years ahead in adoption of high speed rail

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You would get to keep nothing you have without them, and the richness of this nation is based on military action and always has been. You don't even understand the argument.

They may be able to continue producing potatoes. The rest of that stuff is going to suffer from the increased unpredictability, especially the grain

Especially since the construction of the rail line is in a race with the electrification of cars and the transition to green energy, both of which are making rapid progress in California every year.

I've heard there are long lines at the recharging stations between LA and Las Vegas on big weekends. Obviously that's not great in itself, but it shows that 400,000 tons number is set to shrink. Of course you'll still never beat a train for efficiency in moving a bunch of people along the same route at the same time, like for a raiders game.

Nope, I have yet to ever run Wayland. I'm still on good old X. It happened with my 970, it happened with my 1070, and it happened with my 4060. And then I went to XFCE4 with Compiz (with the emerald decorator.) I still have KDE installed and occasionally use some kwhatever app.

Anyway I had this problem with several games, across wine, proton, and proton-ge. Mostly with games that were bitchy about alt-tab. I tried it with and without focus protection, too. But ultimately it just boiled down to being KDE, and I finally found mention of it someplace and then I gave up and switched.