Shouldn't you consider the fact that monitoring volcanoes can save quite a lot of money.
A billion dollars saved by evacuating people and materials from affected areas due to the early warning from monitoring systems is just as valuable as billion dollars created by building and selling cars.
Of course, the amount of money saved can be small and there can be much more efficient ways of stimulating the economy, but saying that the money is completely wasted is just utterly wrong.
Next time you should buy a small-sized Thinkpad. I bought a used x31 (12") for half the price of a netbook. I'm still finding new stuff on it (like a reading light and a microphone), the performance is comparable to a netbook, and you really can not find a manlier laptop on the planet.
"The handles pop out as you are within a meter of your door"
This doesn't mean that the door locks itself immediately when you close it - just that you can open the doors without fumbling with keys and whatnot. When you exit the 1-meter radius the car locks the doors automatically. This system has been in use in high-end cars for years (called keyless entry) and works quite well.
"Then the car starts while you are sitting"
Remember that this car is electric. This "starting" means the same as in a normal car to turn the key for two notches (i.e. you have radio, air conditioning etc.) - the engine does not start up until needed. Electric engines are perfectly happy sitting at 0 rpm until power is required - and can spin up from there immediately.
My Nokia 6500 classic has only a micro USB connection, which is used for charging, PC connection and handsfree/headphones. Charging the phone is possible using the data cable, and this will also work on any PC without installing drivers. The phone shows up like a memory stick when connected to a PC without the drivers.
Fallout games have always had a 20-level cap. This is the 3rd fallout game in the series. You'd expect its game mechanics to follow the other two, even if it is in 3d and not 2d isometric.
Wrong! None of the older Fallout games had a level cap. In Fallout the last new perks came available at level 18 and in Fallout 2 & Tactics last perks were at level 24.
Of course you would run out of meaningful quests at around this time, but there was nothing stopping you from gaining experience or levels in random encounters or by slaughtering the whole ingame populace.
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A stock M3? Most likely.
The Loaded M3 is of course way lighter than a Veyron, being practically a GT-racecar, with track tires, and as such is faster on the Nurburgring.
Shouldn't you consider the fact that monitoring volcanoes can save quite a lot of money.
A billion dollars saved by evacuating people and materials from affected areas due to the early warning from monitoring systems is just as valuable as billion dollars created by building and selling cars.
Of course, the amount of money saved can be small and there can be much more efficient ways of stimulating the economy, but saying that the money is completely wasted is just utterly wrong.
Next time you should buy a small-sized Thinkpad. I bought a used x31 (12") for half the price of a netbook. I'm still finding new stuff on it (like a reading light and a microphone), the performance is comparable to a netbook, and you really can not find a manlier laptop on the planet.
"The handles pop out as you are within a meter of your door"
This doesn't mean that the door locks itself immediately when you close it - just that you can open the doors without fumbling with keys and whatnot. When you exit the 1-meter radius the car locks the doors automatically. This system has been in use in high-end cars for years (called keyless entry) and works quite well.
"Then the car starts while you are sitting"
Remember that this car is electric. This "starting" means the same as in a normal car to turn the key for two notches (i.e. you have radio, air conditioning etc.) - the engine does not start up until needed. Electric engines are perfectly happy sitting at 0 rpm until power is required - and can spin up from there immediately.
My Nokia 6500 classic has only a micro USB connection, which is used for charging, PC connection and handsfree/headphones. Charging the phone is possible using the data cable, and this will also work on any PC without installing drivers. The phone shows up like a memory stick when connected to a PC without the drivers.
Fallout games have always had a 20-level cap. This is the 3rd fallout game in the series. You'd expect its game mechanics to follow the other two, even if it is in 3d and not 2d isometric.
Wrong! None of the older Fallout games had a level cap. In Fallout the last new perks came available at level 18 and in Fallout 2 & Tactics last perks were at level 24. Of course you would run out of meaningful quests at around this time, but there was nothing stopping you from gaining experience or levels in random encounters or by slaughtering the whole ingame populace.
Has there been a new game in the same genre as Deus Ex with even 90% of its awesomeness?
Well Fallout 3 is quite similar and it even has moderate amounts of awesomeness. Not 90% but close.