OK, so there's a net gain. But I would consider using power from the grid anyways. It is likely they could profit better by buying power wholesale and paying for it with the profits from the oil they don't have to burn.
And to play the game at a somewhat difficult level requires massive amounts of 'rough' easy mental addition.
Problem 1:
You have 5 cities producing one gunship apiece each turn. Each turn has a duration of 1 year. The gunships can reach an enemy city in 3 turns from your cities. How many decades will it take to kill that spearman?
No. I think the per-mile toll rate, just like the rate on Toll Roads/State Turnpikes, should be tied to how many tires a vehicle has. The Smart has 3 right? Or maybe I'm thinking of the Sparrow.
The Fourtwos have 4 wheels. By "Sparrow", I assume you mean this. Interesting, because only other (production) electric vehicle I had known about was the Xebra.
In any case a car owner would pay a heck of lot less than a 6-wheel, 8-wheel, or 10-wheel truck driver. (They are the ones who really tear up the road.) I think that's fair for an *initial* setup of the system and adjustments can be made later to make it fairer.
But that system makes no distinction between a Honda CRX, a Hummer, and a 4-wheeled backhoe.
This would be taxed more than this (OK, so it won't go on roads very often, but it happens) if we don't make a distinction by tire size. More weight will generally correspond with more tires, but is it doesn't account for the fringe cases as simply and elegantly as just taxing by weight.
The Prius hybrid is one of the heaviest sedans on the road (thanks to the added weight of the battery, DC/DC converters, and three motors). It's almost 4000 pounds. You really want to punish Prius owners by taxing them more than a 25mpg teeny-tiny Miata gets?
Yes. Since neither causes much wear the higher tax on the Prius' extra weight could be negligible (the $-per-ton graph doesn't have to be linear).
Technically an owner of a Honda Civic pays less in "road" tax (aka gas tax) then an owner of a Grand Cherokee. Equal amount of road used, but the Cherokee, having worse fuel efficiency, will eat more guess, and therefore pay more in taxes.
I don't see a problem.
Doesn't the Cherokee, being heavier, cause more damage to the road?
Taxing mileage eliminates the incentive to drive more efficient vehicles because it assumes all vehicles are the same. A Hummer and a Prius would be taxed the same even though the later is far more fuel efficient.
Fuel efficiency isn't the goal here. Road maintenance is.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they are spending quite a few dimes for QA testing.
Specifically: Quad-core 4GB test machines with Gigabit Ethernet and running freshly-installed OSs.
What I don't understand is why people go onto eBay and buy stuff you can buy online at Amazon or retail, often for the same price or less.
Rather than check what the retail price is, some people just expect the bidding to stop at or near that price. So when you have two or more of these people after the same item, each keeps expecting that the other person will stop at or near the appropriate price.
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Well, we've tried having it not set in stone. End result: Copyright only gets longer.
...something as trivial as copyrights should not be part of the very foundation of our country. Its not THAT critical.
It already is part of that foundation. commodore64_love's amendment would edit one line of the Constitution, not add new ones.
It certainly hasn't been my experience with the various major releases of OS X - on the same hardware, each release has been faster.
Compare 10.3 and 10.4 on a G3 iMac.
You have 5 cities producing one gunship [wikipedia.org] apiece each turn.
OK, so there's a net gain. But I would consider using power from the grid anyways. It is likely they could profit better by buying power wholesale and paying for it with the profits from the oil they don't have to burn.
I saw a Pen & Teller "Bullshit" episode yesterday about dolphins being more intelligent than humans.
And to play the game at a somewhat difficult level requires massive amounts of 'rough' easy mental addition.
Problem 1:
You have 5 cities producing one gunship apiece each turn. Each turn has a duration of 1 year. The gunships can reach an enemy city in 3 turns from your cities. How many decades will it take to kill that spearman?
No. I think the per-mile toll rate, just like the rate on Toll Roads/State Turnpikes, should be tied to how many tires a vehicle has. The Smart has 3 right? Or maybe I'm thinking of the Sparrow.
The Fourtwos have 4 wheels. By "Sparrow", I assume you mean this. Interesting, because only other (production) electric vehicle I had known about was the Xebra.
In any case a car owner would pay a heck of lot less than a 6-wheel, 8-wheel, or 10-wheel truck driver. (They are the ones who really tear up the road.) I think that's fair for an *initial* setup of the system and adjustments can be made later to make it fairer.
But that system makes no distinction between a Honda CRX, a Hummer, and a 4-wheeled backhoe. This would be taxed more than this (OK, so it won't go on roads very often, but it happens) if we don't make a distinction by tire size. More weight will generally correspond with more tires, but is it doesn't account for the fringe cases as simply and elegantly as just taxing by weight.
The Prius hybrid is one of the heaviest sedans on the road (thanks to the added weight of the battery, DC/DC converters, and three motors). It's almost 4000 pounds. You really want to punish Prius owners by taxing them more than a 25mpg teeny-tiny Miata gets?
Yes. Since neither causes much wear the higher tax on the Prius' extra weight could be negligible (the $-per-ton graph doesn't have to be linear).
Personally, I think copyright protection can often be useful to states...
Care to provide an example of how?
Approximately:
if $CURRENT_TEMP < ($AVG_HUMAN_TEMP - 10 Kelvin)
then $COLD = True
Technically an owner of a Honda Civic pays less in "road" tax (aka gas tax) then an owner of a Grand Cherokee. Equal amount of road used, but the Cherokee, having worse fuel efficiency, will eat more guess, and therefore pay more in taxes.
I don't see a problem.
Doesn't the Cherokee, being heavier, cause more damage to the road?
Taxing mileage eliminates the incentive to drive more efficient vehicles because it assumes all vehicles are the same. A Hummer and a Prius would be taxed the same even though the later is far more fuel efficient.
Fuel efficiency isn't the goal here. Road maintenance is.
I hope they get sued to hell and back. And then back again.
They would likely be allowed to pay any judgments against them with a lot of "Get 1 free copy of Windows 7" coupons.
Set up Ubuntu on a laptop, then show someone how to open Firefox and thats it; their sorted.
Thats really not the case for OpenSolaris; nowhere near it.
What about Nexenta?
creating the world's first animal model entirely lacking NK cells
Lab Rat 2.0?
Meh.
I do know that radar detectors are still very useful because I have and use one myself and it has saved me from a ticket in a number of situations.
Why were you driving in a manner that you needed a radar detector to not get a ticket?
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Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they are spending quite a few dimes for QA testing.
Specifically: Quad-core 4GB test machines with Gigabit Ethernet and running freshly-installed OSs.
What I don't understand is why people go onto eBay and buy stuff you can buy online at Amazon or retail, often for the same price or less.
Rather than check what the retail price is, some people just expect the bidding to stop at or near that price. So when you have two or more of these people after the same item, each keeps expecting that the other person will stop at or near the appropriate price.
Why didn't they tell us earlier?
iFixIt? Because they just found out.
Apple still hasn't told anybody.
Why would they stop now that he's leaving?
Out of sight, out of mind? If he was their primary supply of FOSS news...
So don't buy one if you need floating-point operations.
...do not reproduce by division.
So?
So the editors are trying to trick us into reading the article by hiding it in the summary? Good thing it didn't work.