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Comment Re: It's called work (Score 0) 225

I am simplifying the situation just as much as is called for.

Publicly held corporations exist specifically to separate the people profiting from a corporation's actions from responsibility for those actions. They have no other purpose as literally everything else a public corporation does can be done by some other type of entity.

Comment Re:ISA (Score 1) 42

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.

Comment Re:tax dollars at work (Score 2) 209

yes but, the fares won't cover the cost, we end up paying for it.

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.

Comment For the original PC? (Score 2) 42

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.

Comment Re: Where is the killer app? (Score 1) 129

Not unless you want your Glasses physically tethered to a powerful computer with a substantial cable, rather than something you can freely roam around with for at least a few hours.

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.

Comment Re:Bare minimum in EU (Score 1) 209

Most visitors are going to the strip, which has the monorail, or the football stadium.

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.

Comment Re:tax dollars at work (Score 1) 209

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.

Comment Re: It's called work (Score 1) 225

Depends on whom you are asking, the correct answer to `who founded the nation of Israel?' is either `Lord, our God' or `the Jews'.

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

Palestine is a Latin name (not an Arabic name?! but why?!) invented by the Romans for their PROVINCIA IUDAEA to erase every memory of the Jewish state that they brutally subdued.

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

Take any printed book or a Jewish manuscript dating many hundreds of years ago, you will find that the area is called `The Land of Israel' and not by any other name.

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

Comment Re: All sounds great but⦠(Score 1) 52

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.

Comment Re: It's called work (Score 1) 225

You "protest" on your own time. If you don't like the actions of your employer you can raise those concerns internally, or quit. Your boss has NO obligation to accommodate your desire to protest at your place of work, and other workers who don't want to participate shouldn't have to put up with it either.

You have a right to protest. They have a right to fire you for it, and have you removed from the premises. In my opinion, you should also not be able to win a retaliation suit in such a case. You and your employer both have rights.

If you don't want employees to protest your behavior, amass a bunch of followers. No doubt you can come up with some way to achieve that through hiring and layoff practices. Just don't be surprised if their work is low-rate.

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