For those following along at home, the draft is the part of the boat under the water line. Judging from the picture, assuming less than 10' of the boat sinks into the seabed, you've got a good three stories (four or five depending on what's still left of the radar dishes) of ship above the 130' depth. Most of the interesting bits (on the deck) should still be accessible to 100' divers.
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I was under the impression that Tauruses (Taurii?) built after 2002(ish) were all E85, along with the F150, Ranger and a few other "fleet" vehicles that Ford makes. I know the F150 I rented from U-Haul was E85 compatible, and was actually one of the reasons I went with that model - when you have to refill the tank back up to 3/4 full or whatever, especially two years ago when we had $4/gal gas, it was way cheaper to top it off with E85 than it was regular "petrol".
The big problem is, there are no other choices for oxygenate additives in California, and by extension MA, NY, NJ, OH, NH, VT, etc.
And Texas. Only interesting because we're the third largest state by population and the largest producer of oil. Also the 9th largest economy if California (8th largest) and TX were their own independent nations (again).
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You'd be surprised by how many things are now printed (B&W) with soy ink these days. I'm not sure why it's so cheap or "green" but I noticed in the last two years all of our vendor literature is now stamped "MADE WITH 100% RENEWABLE SOY INK" on the inside/back cover.
Ethanol is a politician's dream agenda item. Especially if you are running for, or plan to run for president. Why? What state has the first presidential caucus, potentially the most important point in the presidential race*? I'll give you a hint: they grow corn
Ethanol is the great green hoax of politics. It's clearly not the best solution, but by god, it will help you hugely when it comes time to run for president. The price of corn has what? Almost doubled? Since we forced Americans to use 15% corn fuel (ethanol) in our gas for cars and trucks. Now that the flyover states are entitled to all this extra money coming their way, do you think any politician would ever dare take that away from them, effectively removing them forever from presidential candidacy. That's like admitting you're openly gay or like to club baby seals in political circles.
*selecting insane, hunting moose from a helicopter female governors as VPs exempted
So what you're saying is that Wine is way behind on development because the admin keeps rejecting code patches, causing the same code to be written, over and over again? Nice.
Err the credit crisis is completely unrelated to how microsoft's mfg, reseller (corperate licences) and retail price tiering is set up.
You are correct in rephrasing what I said, in that microsoft is very good at marketing to people willing to pay high prices for their product. Q.e.d. The price is whatevr the market will pay for it.
I get you're trying to devalue the cost of the OS to make linux look better; you're preaching to the choir here. From a busness standpoint though MS has real fixed costs, like salaries of thousands of $100,000+ employes, their benefits, marketing, R&D, capital costs like server maintanence, the ms campus in redmond etc. You can't sell all your copies for $25 - your average sell price needs to be probably $50 or more to sustain the company. Various sales avenues help them achieve this; between windows and office is pretty much what keeps them afloat. As soon as you bring software below those magic price points the company is no longer profitable. Yes it would be good if all commercial software were free or almost no cost but reality will never have a stupid low price like that. Not from a major software vendor, especially at retail.linux has no fixed costs (unless you're red hat or cannonical) so it can be free (but someone is still paying for the server, bandwidth). There is no free lunch. Someday you'll take high school economics and accounting, realize how this all works.
The price of an item is what the purchaser will pay for it. If you're a 10 million unit computer manufacture of low margin computers, it may only be worth $15 to you if the other option is $Free linux. If you're a corporate business with 10,000 seats and your company runs on microsoft and will grind to a halt without it, it's probably worth $50-90 per seat. If you're a customer in a store and HAVE to have the latest version of Windows on your computer, and you're already in the store because you didn't want to buy a new computer from dell with it preinstalled for $400, then yeah, Windows is probably worth $100-450 to you.
I do a lot (A LOT) of web surfing; the only time I've ever encountered silverlight was when trying to watch some of the more obscure, untelevised sports (Sailing, Fencing anyone?). There may have been a slashdot article about MLB being broadcast online exclusively in silverlight where I checked it out to confirm. Unless your corperate website requires it there's a good chance many people have never encountered it.
HDMI is just DVI in a USB-style connector. Or were you planning on playing Blu-Ray discs on your netbook's internal optical drive? Oh wait that doesn't exist. Netbooks have trouble with vanilla 720p video, let alone 1080i. You can just buy an HDMI -> DVI adapter anyways.
Most people don't want to touch my mail after its been used as a cat box liner:) shredders tend to last a week past their warranties; my cat's bladder is always full it seems
Tell that to mall retailers who are employing out of work (laid off) skilled IT people. Tell that to (legal) immigrants with no marketable skills. Tell that to people who dropped out of high school/did not go to college/dropped out of college. People age 18-25 need to eat too. Preferably without working 2+ jobs without health insurance because their employer won't schedule them for more than 39 hours a week to avoid it.
That would be great. The cost on double sided, "output to pdf" scanners is comming down and I'd love to not have a "fat" computer attached to one just so I can scan my mail. Scanner + wall wart server on the entryway table, with a trash can right below it. Scan and trash. W00t.
It's not a bad idea. Counter Strike is getting pretty long in tooth but it's a very, very (arguably THE most popular game on the planet) popular game. If Valve could siphon off even 10% of that community to TF2, they'd all be driving gold plated Ferraris. Well maybe not, but they've owned that IP for quite some time now and while they're clearly profiting off it, they haven't done much with it until Arena came along. Since there's no AWP I gladly welcome any CS:S players who jump ship to TF2.
I think everyone here can agree Junction is possibly the worst serious TF2 map ever, to the point that most people have blocked it from their memory that valve ever included it. No I'm talking about a grainary/well/badlands style map that valve carefully put together and playtested. Those are fantastic maps and it shows in their replyability. Junction, Fastlane, Egypt etc are terrible community maps with low replay value. Payload maps are popular, but its 5 pt CP maps that make this game, keep the core group of gamers playing and people coming back. Which is why I'm jonesing for another Valve branded CP map.
For those unfamiliar, there are no actual crabs in the game. Crab walking is this really bizzare motion due to his spindly arms/legs that the spy has if you crouch, look straight up while selecting the disguise menu. Sort of the ultimate spy-taunt. Oh, I am looking forward to all the new taunts(!) all games should take note and add taunts.
Valve is really paying us some fan service. Spy backstabs the sniper in the middle of his spotlight? Classic! Feign death has been sorely missed and should add a whole new dimension to what is already the most rewarding class in the game. Glad to see Arena mode is getting some love, the server I play on - 74.86.155.168:27015 - has only the stock maps so it will be good to see some more "arena only" maps by Valve (Watchtower doesn't count). Hopefully this should breathe some more life into the game; the "old guard" in the community is finally starting to move on.
Fingers crossed for some Valve branded CP maps. Last one we had was cp_badlands, which came out in, I think the Pyro Patch? Last February I think. In the mean time the community has responded with some really good CP maps, and in the last four months there's been a huge surge in quality arena maps (arena_harvest, arena_freight, I'm looking at you).
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I'm sure the current 4 will work fine for the next 150 years or so, barring cheap FTL travel.
For those following along at home, the draft is the part of the boat under the water line. Judging from the picture, assuming less than 10' of the boat sinks into the seabed, you've got a good three stories (four or five depending on what's still left of the radar dishes) of ship above the 130' depth. Most of the interesting bits (on the deck) should still be accessible to 100' divers.
The truth hurts.
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I was under the impression that Tauruses (Taurii?) built after 2002(ish) were all E85, along with the F150, Ranger and a few other "fleet" vehicles that Ford makes. I know the F150 I rented from U-Haul was E85 compatible, and was actually one of the reasons I went with that model - when you have to refill the tank back up to 3/4 full or whatever, especially two years ago when we had $4/gal gas, it was way cheaper to top it off with E85 than it was regular "petrol".
And Texas. Only interesting because we're the third largest state by population and the largest producer of oil. Also the 9th largest economy if California (8th largest) and TX were their own independent nations (again).
You'd be surprised by how many things are now printed (B&W) with soy ink these days. I'm not sure why it's so cheap or "green" but I noticed in the last two years all of our vendor literature is now stamped "MADE WITH 100% RENEWABLE SOY INK" on the inside/back cover.
With the exception of extremely old (talking avg plant age 700 years) growth forests burning crops is carbon neutral.
Ethanol is a politician's dream agenda item. Especially if you are running for, or plan to run for president. Why? What state has the first presidential caucus, potentially the most important point in the presidential race*? I'll give you a hint: they grow corn
Ethanol is the great green hoax of politics. It's clearly not the best solution, but by god, it will help you hugely when it comes time to run for president. The price of corn has what? Almost doubled? Since we forced Americans to use 15% corn fuel (ethanol) in our gas for cars and trucks. Now that the flyover states are entitled to all this extra money coming their way, do you think any politician would ever dare take that away from them, effectively removing them forever from presidential candidacy. That's like admitting you're openly gay or like to club baby seals in political circles.
*selecting insane, hunting moose from a helicopter female governors as VPs exempted
So what you're saying is that Wine is way behind on development because the admin keeps rejecting code patches, causing the same code to be written, over and over again? Nice.
Err the credit crisis is completely unrelated to how microsoft's mfg, reseller (corperate licences) and retail price tiering is set up.
You are correct in rephrasing what I said, in that microsoft is very good at marketing to people willing to pay high prices for their product. Q.e.d. The price is whatevr the market will pay for it.
I get you're trying to devalue the cost of the OS to make linux look better; you're preaching to the choir here. From a busness standpoint though MS has real fixed costs, like salaries of thousands of $100,000+ employes, their benefits, marketing, R&D, capital costs like server maintanence, the ms campus in redmond etc. You can't sell all your copies for $25 - your average sell price needs to be probably $50 or more to sustain the company. Various sales avenues help them achieve this; between windows and office is pretty much what keeps them afloat. As soon as you bring software below those magic price points the company is no longer profitable. Yes it would be good if all commercial software were free or almost no cost but reality will never have a stupid low price like that. Not from a major software vendor, especially at retail.linux has no fixed costs (unless you're red hat or cannonical) so it can be free (but someone is still paying for the server, bandwidth). There is no free lunch. Someday you'll take high school economics and accounting, realize how this all works.
The price of an item is what the purchaser will pay for it. If you're a 10 million unit computer manufacture of low margin computers, it may only be worth $15 to you if the other option is $Free linux. If you're a corporate business with 10,000 seats and your company runs on microsoft and will grind to a halt without it, it's probably worth $50-90 per seat. If you're a customer in a store and HAVE to have the latest version of Windows on your computer, and you're already in the store because you didn't want to buy a new computer from dell with it preinstalled for $400, then yeah, Windows is probably worth $100-450 to you.
I do a lot (A LOT) of web surfing; the only time I've ever encountered silverlight was when trying to watch some of the more obscure, untelevised sports (Sailing, Fencing anyone?). There may have been a slashdot article about MLB being broadcast online exclusively in silverlight where I checked it out to confirm. Unless your corperate website requires it there's a good chance many people have never encountered it.
HDMI is just DVI in a USB-style connector. Or were you planning on playing Blu-Ray discs on your netbook's internal optical drive? Oh wait that doesn't exist. Netbooks have trouble with vanilla 720p video, let alone 1080i. You can just buy an HDMI -> DVI adapter anyways.
Just scan everything, if you need it search by date and rename it if it's that important.
Most people don't want to touch my mail after its been used as a cat box liner :) shredders tend to last a week past their warranties; my cat's bladder is always full it seems
Tell that to mall retailers who are employing out of work (laid off) skilled IT people. Tell that to (legal) immigrants with no marketable skills. Tell that to people who dropped out of high school/did not go to college/dropped out of college. People age 18-25 need to eat too. Preferably without working 2+ jobs without health insurance because their employer won't schedule them for more than 39 hours a week to avoid it.
That would be great. The cost on double sided, "output to pdf" scanners is comming down and I'd love to not have a "fat" computer attached to one just so I can scan my mail. Scanner + wall wart server on the entryway table, with a trash can right below it. Scan and trash. W00t.
It's cp_badlands.
Which of those maps is used in competitive play.
It's not a bad idea. Counter Strike is getting pretty long in tooth but it's a very, very (arguably THE most popular game on the planet) popular game. If Valve could siphon off even 10% of that community to TF2, they'd all be driving gold plated Ferraris. Well maybe not, but they've owned that IP for quite some time now and while they're clearly profiting off it, they haven't done much with it until Arena came along. Since there's no AWP I gladly welcome any CS:S players who jump ship to TF2.
I think everyone here can agree Junction is possibly the worst serious TF2 map ever, to the point that most people have blocked it from their memory that valve ever included it. No I'm talking about a grainary/well/badlands style map that valve carefully put together and playtested. Those are fantastic maps and it shows in their replyability. Junction, Fastlane, Egypt etc are terrible community maps with low replay value. Payload maps are popular, but its 5 pt CP maps that make this game, keep the core group of gamers playing and people coming back. Which is why I'm jonesing for another Valve branded CP map.
Did you see the crab-walking kit on clearance? I love it.
For those unfamiliar, there are no actual crabs in the game. Crab walking is this really bizzare motion due to his spindly arms/legs that the spy has if you crouch, look straight up while selecting the disguise menu. Sort of the ultimate spy-taunt. Oh, I am looking forward to all the new taunts(!) all games should take note and add taunts.
Valve is really paying us some fan service. Spy backstabs the sniper in the middle of his spotlight? Classic! Feign death has been sorely missed and should add a whole new dimension to what is already the most rewarding class in the game. Glad to see Arena mode is getting some love, the server I play on - 74.86.155.168:27015 - has only the stock maps so it will be good to see some more "arena only" maps by Valve (Watchtower doesn't count). Hopefully this should breathe some more life into the game; the "old guard" in the community is finally starting to move on.
Fingers crossed for some Valve branded CP maps. Last one we had was cp_badlands, which came out in, I think the Pyro Patch? Last February I think. In the mean time the community has responded with some really good CP maps, and in the last four months there's been a huge surge in quality arena maps (arena_harvest, arena_freight, I'm looking at you).
What? Just fax the local news paper some copies from Fedex or whatever.