I’m impressed the case has handled the changes. Cases back then weren’t much to work with.

Yea, motherboard is my metric. It’s what defines the base system capability.

You have backups or replicants of your data, right?

Lol, no, they aren’t.

Linux isn’t the desktop of choice for business, which is what MS cares about. That’s where they make their money.

And that means SMB will run Windows Server to manage user accounts and the environment in general.

Add Excel to that equation, and Linux has no relevance in the business world (and before you mention any OSS competitor I have one word: tables. And I’ll add decades of automation).

Yes, you could do things like Linux as the OS then run virtualization layers or Wine or whatever, but there’s no value in that for a typical SMB, and a lot of risk.

Enterprise is even more of a lock-in for MS, because it’s a simple choice, they get all the support they need from MS, and it “just works” for them.

MS has a mature user, machine, and software management infrastructure that’s well known by millions of technical people. Desktop and office apps have the same familiarity (and again I’ll mention decades of extant automation built around excel).

Linux doesn’t stand a chance against MS in a business environment for the desktop. Can it be done? Sure. But in very specific use-cases and hoping you’ll never grow into a circumstance where you suddenly need Office or some other element to interop with a vendor or client. This is exactly the situation management doesn’t want to be blamed for.

Servers are different question altogether, and have been since 2000.

It’s self-evident

I don’t see where that was stated at all, just automatic.

And DCTs are definitely automatics.

There are other forms of automatic besides torque-converter based systems, even in the 50’s.

First came the dinosaurs…

It’s “de lementations”… Gotta say it right!

Because I said so.

Tough call, most of it really sucks anymore, so I guess it’s easy to parody?

(That said, there’s been a LOT of sucky sci-fi forever, so…)

Different argument altogether.

For e-reader, it really depends on the user’s sensitivity to size.

I don’t care for e-readers at all. I love the concept of many books on a single device, it just doesn’t work for me.

If they’ve been convicted, show their faces.

Population density is definitely part of it - the only places where it would make sense is on the coasts, and that land is already in use.

If you could get past the land-use issues, where would they run? Boston to Miami is 1500 miles. If a train was built there (again, assuming land use wasn’t an issue) - where would it stop? How long could it maintain those speeds?

Anywhere it didn’t stop, why would those towns/cities/states support their tax dollars going to such an investment?

Then there’s the Final Mile problem - how would people get around once they got somewhere?

I’ve ridden trains in Europe - they work there for multiple reasons. One is density, but there’s also that Europe infrastructure either didn’t exist prior to WWII or what did exist got heavily damaged. They had to invest in trains, country by country post-WWII. It wasn’t like there was a Grand Europe Train Plan as many countries were still antagonistic at the time, and the train system incompatibilities that still exist reflect this.

What Europe has today is a result of a long, slow development of infrastructure and political relationships.

There’s lots more involved, but even these things show how different Europe is from the US - it takes sixteen OECD countries to equal the landmass of the US, divided between 50 states.

Imagine trying to build the Western Europe rail system(s) today if it didn’t exist, and much of that land was currently in use for manufacturing or farming.

Apples and oranges.

I think you’re right that it’s likely a hardware issue since it happens with all demanding games and it’s pretty instant.

I would think it’s either the power supply or video card.

Can you set the video settings super low and run the game? This may help clarify where the problem comes from.

The US doesn’t have pubs like Britain - ours are mostly bars, or food places with beer, or beer places with food. I’ve known only a few places that are similar to British pubs where it’s more like your local place for food and beer, where you’ll see families and kids - though most chains are geared towards families too, it’s not the same atmosphere as your “local” - at my local many people know each other, it’s that “local”.

Sports bars will have screens everywhere showing current games. Can be raucus during football season, but soccer is growing in the US.

Lots of places are simply the family name of the owner “Johnson’s Tavern” kind of thing, some have simple names “The Pub” or mildy clever.

Chains have a certain motif - see BW3. And while not really pub-like, you could take kids there for meals.

Take a look in Google Maps - pick a US city and search for “bar” or “pub”.

Dammit, now I will forever hear “artisanal” this way.

Probably not a bad thing considering how the word has been abused.

Yea, seems like the distinction is a scientific one, not a language one.

Still interesting, I had no idea.

Ooh, nutmeg? Ok, gotta try that!

I use GPS to find different routes, or help me work around problems.

If anything it’s helped me understand an area better.

Is it a specific game or with all games?