In a world where Flash is not required for any functionality, and where it has been a known security risk for a long while, websites that require it are either painfully incompetent, or malicious - feel free to remind hostmasters of this.
I don't know of a single Steam Linux game that incorporates Wine in any way. The licensing itself would be a bit of a nightmare to resolve.
I didn't bother spending much time on this, but a quick google show Transgaming (who uses Wine-code to "port" windows games) as declaring proudly that they have helped games get onto Steam - I also know that EVE:Online's Linux client, on Steam, uses Wine (via Transgaming's efforts, according to all parties). Yeah, that was 2 minutes So you might not know of any, but they do exist.
Ultimately, though, I guess the question comes down to: Are they stable on Linux? My experience on OSX has been far from stellar with games that were "ported" (recompiled using Wine-based solutions, such as Transgaming's offers), and I think that in the light of a more popular platform (OSX is more common that Linux Desktops from what I gather) being poorly supported, it is a valid question to ask if games coming from Windows run properly on Linux?
Note: I am aware that more recent versions of various Game Engines (such as Unreal, Unity3D...) have native Linux support - I'm currently enjoying a game (Swordcoast Legends), where they employ such an engine, and the result being fully native.
They are perhaps mostly used in England, and e.g. "piss-proud" is going out of common use, while "pissed" in the colonies have become synonymous with "angry". Regarding "taking the piss," you may instead have encountered the version "taking the mickey," which is cockney-slang (Mickey Bliss => piss) for the same.
There are plenty more urinary expressions, but I'll leave discovering them as an exercise to the readers:)
You would venture this? Based on what? Supposition? Do you have any actual experience?
I've lived in urban areas around the US; the public transit system is completely unusable outside of very dense places like Manhattan. Why do you think Uber is so popular here?
I've lived in multiple countries, I've travelled half the planet, and I've spent some time working in the US (Texas, Mississippi, Michigan, Ohio) - if the US, as a supposedly modern, rich country do not have proper affordable, public transportation, then this is by design (e.g. selling streetcar companies to automotive manufacturer for shuttering), and there is little we can do - the debate then simply becomes a question of Americans not understanding why the citizens of other countries would accept NOT getting fucked over by corporations, as opposed to a question of why others would accept using public transportation.
You could say I "would venture" my guess, based on an assumption that Americans aren't self-destructive idiots?
Note: I am aware that large swaths of Texas are inaccessible without a car, and that Michigan specifically sabotaged the continued availability of public transport due to automotive manufacturers (my former employers and customers), but I'm told(!) that other places have functional public transportation, although the only places I've used mass transit (outside of jetliners) in the US, was in New York and Las Vegas.
California is 95% urban by population New York is 87.9% urban by population
I specifically wrote to focus on population and not area - pointing out that these are large states with a lot of rural area seems...useless in this regard. If 87.9% of the population in a state lives in an urban setting, the fact that there is a lot of rural area in that state doesn't matter much when the question is about access to "affordable public transportation"; the vast majority of people live in settings where public transport is usually considered feasible.
In the US, there are almost no areas well served with affordable public transportation. If you can do without, that's great. But generally the $1000 cars that you have to fix yourself every weekend can save a ton of time and money and get you to a wider variety of jobs.
What if you change this from "area" to "population"? The 2010 Census noted 80.7% of the population living in urban areas, as opposed to rural, and I'd venture a guess that urban areas are smaller and better serviced, than rural ones. Sure, if you only look at Mississippi or Montana, "affordable public transportation" might be a rarity, but California? New York (state)? D.C.? If those places don't have it, it's because they fucked up:)
Simpler: "'make myself reasonably available'" "do so without compensation" The level of "reasonably" achieved "without compensation" is a great big "not at all".
I would think that the infrastructure behinds these extra wires and outlets need to be able to handle the increase; going from 16 to 60 concurrently charging cars would put a fair bit of load on the system.
Tesla uses 240v, 50A - if we assume there's a 10A option for slower charging, that's 100kW additional load, enough that the parking-garage might not have been spec'ed for it. At this point, it stops being just a bit more wire...
There's a "semi-recognized" affliction where people are addicted to exercising - they are not so much doing to become/stay healthy, they are doing it become they are compelled to do so, even to a point of it having a negative impact on health, family/relations, work etc.
(I use "semi-recognized" since it seems to differ quite a bit from country to country)
You're hitting on something interesting here. Not ONLY weren't the settings (New York) all that relevant, but the combination of Observational Humor and some sort of Reductio Ad Absurdum resulted in something distilled to a point where the original element of "Truth" is lost.
That, and seeing whats-his-face burst through a door gets old REAL fast.
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In a world where Flash is not required for any functionality, and where it has been a known security risk for a long while, websites that require it are either painfully incompetent, or malicious - feel free to remind hostmasters of this.
Virtually none.
I don't know of a single Steam Linux game that incorporates Wine in any way. The licensing itself would be a bit of a nightmare to resolve.
I didn't bother spending much time on this, but a quick google show Transgaming (who uses Wine-code to "port" windows games) as declaring proudly that they have helped games get onto Steam - I also know that EVE:Online's Linux client, on Steam, uses Wine (via Transgaming's efforts, according to all parties). Yeah, that was 2 minutes
So you might not know of any, but they do exist.
Ultimately, though, I guess the question comes down to: Are they stable on Linux?
My experience on OSX has been far from stellar with games that were "ported" (recompiled using Wine-based solutions, such as Transgaming's offers), and I think that in the light of a more popular platform (OSX is more common that Linux Desktops from what I gather) being poorly supported, it is a valid question to ask if games coming from Windows run properly on Linux?
Note: I am aware that more recent versions of various Game Engines (such as Unreal, Unity3D...) have native Linux support - I'm currently enjoying a game (Swordcoast Legends), where they employ such an engine, and the result being fully native.
How many of these are wine-wrapped, and slightly broken, games, much like the catalogue of Aspyr ports on OSX?
Demands to ISP:
3. You are paying for it too. Just pass the costs on to your customers or something.
Wouldn't that be the saving grace? If every ISP in the UK add a 5 GBP/Month surcharge to cover expenses, people will notice and react.
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Did you look into using a phone based on something else than Android, Windows, or iOS?
Deploying remote-controllable explosives, evil-genius style? :D
Uhm, in English speaking countries :)
They are perhaps mostly used in England, and e.g. "piss-proud" is going out of common use, while "pissed" in the colonies have become synonymous with "angry".
Regarding "taking the piss," you may instead have encountered the version "taking the mickey," which is cockney-slang (Mickey Bliss => piss) for the same.
There are plenty more urinary expressions, but I'll leave discovering them as an exercise to the readers :)
Pissed = drunk
Pissed off = angry
Taking the piss = a form of mockery
Piss-proud = unwarranted pride
kat.cr and done?
Why knock in the wall in when the key is laying under the welcome mate?
More interesting - why do you have a "welcome mate" ? Just how are visitors greeted?
You would venture this? Based on what? Supposition? Do you have any actual experience?
I've lived in urban areas around the US; the public transit system is completely unusable outside of very dense places like Manhattan. Why do you think Uber is so popular here?
I've lived in multiple countries, I've travelled half the planet, and I've spent some time working in the US (Texas, Mississippi, Michigan, Ohio) - if the US, as a supposedly modern, rich country do not have proper affordable, public transportation, then this is by design (e.g. selling streetcar companies to automotive manufacturer for shuttering), and there is little we can do - the debate then simply becomes a question of Americans not understanding why the citizens of other countries would accept NOT getting fucked over by corporations, as opposed to a question of why others would accept using public transportation.
You could say I "would venture" my guess, based on an assumption that Americans aren't self-destructive idiots?
Note: I am aware that large swaths of Texas are inaccessible without a car, and that Michigan specifically sabotaged the continued availability of public transport due to automotive manufacturers (my former employers and customers), but I'm told(!) that other places have functional public transportation, although the only places I've used mass transit (outside of jetliners) in the US, was in New York and Las Vegas.
California is 95% urban by population
New York is 87.9% urban by population
I specifically wrote to focus on population and not area - pointing out that these are large states with a lot of rural area seems...useless in this regard.
If 87.9% of the population in a state lives in an urban setting, the fact that there is a lot of rural area in that state doesn't matter much when the question is about access to "affordable public transportation"; the vast majority of people live in settings where public transport is usually considered feasible.
In the US, there are almost no areas well served with affordable public transportation. If you can do without, that's great. But generally the $1000 cars that you have to fix yourself every weekend can save a ton of time and money and get you to a wider variety of jobs.
What if you change this from "area" to "population"? :)
The 2010 Census noted 80.7% of the population living in urban areas, as opposed to rural, and I'd venture a guess that urban areas are smaller and better serviced, than rural ones.
Sure, if you only look at Mississippi or Montana, "affordable public transportation" might be a rarity, but California? New York (state)? D.C.? If those places don't have it, it's because they fucked up
Simpler:
"'make myself reasonably available'"
"do so without compensation"
The level of "reasonably" achieved "without compensation" is a great big "not at all".
These asshats need to pick a new TLA... IAB is already taken.
Almost all the three letter acronyms, except the ones using very unusual combinations, have been taken. Multiple times.
Clearly we need to upgrade to the Extended-TLA format (ETLA), which allows for 1 more letter!
http://www.linux-netbook.com/
Sounds like a feature ISPs can provide:
[X] Disable ads in Windows
[X] Disable tracking in Windows
2 wrongs don't make a right....
I would think that the infrastructure behinds these extra wires and outlets need to be able to handle the increase; going from 16 to 60 concurrently charging cars would put a fair bit of load on the system.
Tesla uses 240v, 50A - if we assume there's a 10A option for slower charging, that's 100kW additional load, enough that the parking-garage might not have been spec'ed for it. At this point, it stops being just a bit more wire...
We've had this in major cities in Denmark for years.
We have? Not aware of any ..
There are *plenty* of major cities in Denmark...
*golfclap*
We've had this in major cities in Denmark for years.
We have? Not aware of any ..
I'm sorry, but who is pushing a new iPhone "through the throats of customers"??
You are completely free to not fucking buy one.
You obviously have no clue how society works - if you're using a previous-gen iPhone, you're not cool enough, and you should go jump of a bridge.
There's a "semi-recognized" affliction where people are addicted to exercising - they are not so much doing to become/stay healthy, they are doing it become they are compelled to do so, even to a point of it having a negative impact on health, family/relations, work etc.
(I use "semi-recognized" since it seems to differ quite a bit from country to country)
You're hitting on something interesting here.
Not ONLY weren't the settings (New York) all that relevant, but the combination of Observational Humor and some sort of Reductio Ad Absurdum resulted in something distilled to a point where the original element of "Truth" is lost.
That, and seeing whats-his-face burst through a door gets old REAL fast.