It's funny that you mention that. Most electric plants can burn natural gas in addition to oil, so when the price of gas goes up they burn natural gas. This extra demand raises the price keeping it in step with oil.
Of course, there are some other issues as well. For example, we may determine that Methanol is the most POLLUTION EFFICIENT vehicle-power method available, but realize that in order to generate enough Methanol, we'd have to turn the entire continent of North America into a gigantic corn farm. Obviously, this would negate the value of Methanol. Similarly, if we need to dam every river in the country to generate enough electricity to power our cars, causing a complete kill off of their entire ecosystems, we wouldn't do so.
This is of course why we need to reduce our reliance on "private" transportation. If everyone didn't waste so much energy we wouldn't need to dam every river or an obscene raise corn. I put private into quotes because it's not private by any means I'm subsidizing even who chooses to drive with my tax money. Interstates and highways aren't built with fuel tax dollars. I'd be happy to see a $1 a gallon tax on gas that went to public transporation.
I'm sorry, I found a job close to where I live. I don't make as much as I could but I don't have to pay for a car so in the end I'm better off. Hopefully you've got some options; bus, light rail, etc. They all work very well in conjuction with a bike.
I ride all year round. It snows here I ride in it, I commute in 100 degree weather in the summer. It's fine to be attached to your car and the lifestyle it encourages. But the fact is we've got pollution free technology that's sustainable.
Of course to maintain a constant velocity you've got to be accelerating or you'll roll to a stop. Friction would be that unbalanced force doing the acting.
Sorry he's right. Even though the old cars emit far more pollution than the newer ones most green groups are against regulating them off the road only to be replaced by new cars. More pollution is created during the process of manufacturing the car than most will emit in their live times.
It's called a bicycle. It uses a highly efficient energy source that only needs food, water and air to operate and the byproducts aren't nearly as harmful to the environment as a gasoline engine. The best part? The cost, for less than one hundred dollars you too can have a bicycle. So stop killing yourself and the environment and get out of your car.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was up on their site the whole time. Speaking as someone who regularly has to try and find content on MS's site I can safely say that it's impossible. Often the same search will return different pages several days apart. Trying to find development info is a joke I spent two hours looking for a place to download the ADO update. After looking through 15+ pages of marketing fluff and presentation slides the search engine return, all of which were telling me how great the update is, I gave up and went looking for RDO info. Annoyingly from there I found a link to the DAC which apparently encompasses the ADO. The point of this rambling is that I was probably there in plain "Microsoft" sight, which translates to if you had the exact URL you could have found it.
Good luck sighting a graphic novel in a review, that was determined not be fair use. I could see this going the same way.
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You can play without the CD, just do a "/seta bot_enable 0" on the console and it won't check for a CD. You won't be able to create a game with bots but IMHO that's a feature. You'll be able to join Lan games but for internet games you'll need a key.
the formula should read: monthly salary / (40 hours * 4 weeks)
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Your analysis is flawed. The reason it is flawed is that you are being paid a salary. That means that the amount of money you bring in is fixed and independent of the amount of time you spend on the job. So you will save money if you to do the job of changing your oil yourself, since the time you'll spend doing it isn't time you could be paid for anyway. Now, if you were a contractor being paid by the hour, your analysis would make a lot more sense.
Actually he's correct. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act working more than 40 hours in a week entitles you to overtime pay (pay and a half). Salaried workers are also entitled to overtime, to quote from a Dept. of Labor fact sheet:
Salary for Workweek Exceeding 40 Hours: A fixed salary for a regular workweek longer than 40 hours does not discharge FLSA statutory obligations. For example, an employee may be hired to work a 45 hour workweek for a weekly salary of $300. In this instance the regular rate is obtained by dividing the $300 straight-time salary by 45 hours, resulting in a regular rate of $6.67. The employee is then due additional overtime computed by multiplying the 5 overtime hours by one-half the regular rate of pay ($3.335 x 5 = $16.68).
So assuming your salary is based on 40 hours a week, as most are, monthly salary / (40 hour a week days * 4 weeks a month) will do nicely for purposes of computing an approximate hourly rate.
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I can think of one other industry...
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At least you're not a professional athlete. You've probably got some education and could become middle management, the average 50-year-old football player isn't getting any new endorsements, and they blew all their money on coke and women back in '86, their best hope is to become a gym teacher in their home town.
The one gripe I've had since the begining (PalmOS 1.0 days) is that almost all the input is done at the bottom of the screen but the menus popup at the top. I hate having to move all the way from the very bottom of the screen to the very top to use the menu commands.
Not much point in ranting anymore it's something that's so entrenched it's not going to change. Maybe someday I'll get around to writing that hackmaster hack to fix it...
I'm really impressed, you got an absolutely content free moderated up to a 5.
You're paying ~$2000 for your average PC and you've already got supercomputer-level performance, although the supercomputer you're competing with is 10-15 years old. Hell my Palm III would put the top of the line 1950s mainframe to shame.
If tomorrow Intel or AMD found that they could manufacture a 1Ghz bus at a reasonable price the next computer you buy would have it. But if you want today's supercomputer-level performance you buy... that's right a supercomputer. But you'll pay... right again supercomputer-level price for it.
About the time this technology makes it way into the personal electronics market (if it ever does) you'll have a computer that can use all the bandwidth.
drewish
Now it's time to go meta-moderate and see if I can nail the people that moderated your message up.
After reading the treads you spawned today I had to wipe the tears from my eyes from laughing so hard. I have a suspicion that the original post wasn't written by you but you've taken credit for it and seem to enjoy the debate that followed (as I've enjoyed watching it). It's always nice to see people reduced to schoolyard taunts in the face of a calm reasonable argument.
No, you've got it backwards, you chose to drive a car and force me to subsidize your driving. Roads are built from property and income taxes, not from YOUR gas taxes or vehicle registrations, MY taxes. Even though I don't drive I pay for the roads that you use.
Interstates, which are built mainly with the federal money you mention, are the worst example. They're built over the old highway routes that anyone could use for transportation but in most states it is illegal for cyclists and pedestrians to walk or ride on the interstate. I'm prevented from using what I've paid for simply because I don't take a 2000 pound object with me where ever I go.
Don't even try to make it sound like the people who aren't greeedily choosing to waste resources are the people your supporting.
I think it's because of the way that Google finds winning sites. I'm sure someone can explain it better but, it's based on the theory that if enought sites link to another site it becomes an authority. If enough people a link to MS's page with the More Evil than Satan Himself near by MS becomes the authority on being more evil than Satan himself.
Doom added the ability to go up and down, but not to look up and down. Quake (and indeed, Heretic before it) added that, but Descent was the first mainstream game to have 6DOF (i.e., full 3D movement).
Hey what about Rise of the Triad? It had look up look down before Heretic, it had players on top of players (landing on someone was a much more satisfying kill than using an ax ever could be), More multiplayer options and games than ANY game since.
The Doom Movie?: id Software took a look at one script and decided it was terrible. Then they looked at another script and agreed it was pretty mediocre. Nobody moved on it and the option on the movie rights expired, so the project is -- for the time being -- dead in the water.
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You've also got public transporation, use it instead of bitching about fuel costs.
It's funny that you mention that. Most electric plants can burn natural gas in addition to oil, so when the price of gas goes up they burn natural gas. This extra demand raises the price keeping it in step with oil.
Of course, there are some other issues as well. For example, we may determine that Methanol is the most POLLUTION EFFICIENT vehicle-power method available, but realize that in order to generate enough Methanol, we'd have to turn the entire continent of North America into a gigantic corn farm. Obviously, this would negate the value of Methanol. Similarly, if we need to dam every river in the country to generate enough electricity to power our cars, causing a complete kill off of their entire ecosystems, we wouldn't do so.
This is of course why we need to reduce our reliance on "private" transportation. If everyone didn't waste so much energy we wouldn't need to dam every river or an obscene raise corn. I put private into quotes because it's not private by any means I'm subsidizing even who chooses to drive with my tax money. Interstates and highways aren't built with fuel tax dollars. I'd be happy to see a $1 a gallon tax on gas that went to public transporation.
I'm sorry, I found a job close to where I live. I don't make as much as I could but I don't have to pay for a car so in the end I'm better off. Hopefully you've got some options; bus, light rail, etc. They all work very well in conjuction with a bike.
I ride all year round. It snows here I ride in it, I commute in 100 degree weather in the summer. It's fine to be attached to your car and the lifestyle it encourages. But the fact is we've got pollution free technology that's sustainable.
Actually with a trailer you've got plenty of trunk space. Get a tandem and fall a alseep.
Of course to maintain a constant velocity you've got to be accelerating or you'll roll to a stop. Friction would be that unbalanced force doing the acting.
Sorry he's right. Even though the old cars emit far more pollution than the newer ones most green groups are against regulating them off the road only to be replaced by new cars. More pollution is created during the process of manufacturing the car than most will emit in their live times.
It's called a bicycle. It uses a highly efficient energy source that only needs food, water and air to operate and the byproducts aren't nearly as harmful to the environment as a gasoline engine. The best part? The cost, for less than one hundred dollars you too can have a bicycle. So stop killing yourself and the environment and get out of your car.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was up on their site the whole time. Speaking as someone who regularly has to try and find content on MS's site I can safely say that it's impossible. Often the same search will return different pages several days apart. Trying to find development info is a joke I spent two hours looking for a place to download the ADO update. After looking through 15+ pages of marketing fluff and presentation slides the search engine return, all of which were telling me how great the update is, I gave up and went looking for RDO info. Annoyingly from there I found a link to the DAC which apparently encompasses the ADO. The point of this rambling is that I was probably there in plain "Microsoft" sight, which translates to if you had the exact URL you could have found it.
Good luck sighting a graphic novel in a review, that was determined not be fair use. I could see this going the same way.
You can play without the CD, just do a "/seta bot_enable 0" on the console and it won't check for a CD. You won't be able to create a game with bots but IMHO that's a feature. You'll be able to join Lan games but for internet games you'll need a key.
the formula should read: monthly salary / (40 hours * 4 weeks)
Actually he's correct. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act working more than 40 hours in a week entitles you to overtime pay (pay and a half). Salaried workers are also entitled to overtime, to quote from a Dept. of Labor fact sheet:
So assuming your salary is based on 40 hours a week, as most are, monthly salary / (40 hour a week days * 4 weeks a month) will do nicely for purposes of computing an approximate hourly rate.
drewish
At least you're not a professional athlete. You've probably got some education and could become middle management, the average 50-year-old football player isn't getting any new endorsements, and they blew all their money on coke and women back in '86, their best hope is to become a gym teacher in their home town.
The one gripe I've had since the begining (PalmOS 1.0 days) is that almost all the input is done at the bottom of the screen but the menus popup at the top. I hate having to move all the way from the very bottom of the screen to the very top to use the menu commands.
Not much point in ranting anymore it's something that's so entrenched it's not going to change. Maybe someday I'll get around to writing that hackmaster hack to fix it...
for those of you who don't know what Goodwin's Law is check out: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/leg ends/godwin/
I'm really impressed, you got an absolutely content free moderated up to a 5.
You're paying ~$2000 for your average PC and you've already got supercomputer-level performance, although the supercomputer you're competing with is 10-15 years old. Hell my Palm III would put the top of the line 1950s mainframe to shame.
If tomorrow Intel or AMD found that they could manufacture a 1Ghz bus at a reasonable price the next computer you buy would have it. But if you want today's supercomputer-level performance you buy... that's right a supercomputer. But you'll pay... right again supercomputer-level price for it.
About the time this technology makes it way into the personal electronics market (if it ever does) you'll have a computer that can use all the bandwidth.
drewish
Now it's time to go meta-moderate and see if I can nail the people that moderated your message up.
this is stupid that this got moderated up as insightful, there's no link to a source. If it really has to be moderated up it should be as humor.
After reading the treads you spawned today I had to wipe the tears from my eyes from laughing so hard. I have a suspicion that the original post wasn't written by you but you've taken credit for it and seem to enjoy the debate that followed (as I've enjoyed watching it). It's always nice to see people reduced to schoolyard taunts in the face of a calm reasonable argument.
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No, you've got it backwards, you chose to drive a car and force me to subsidize your driving. Roads are built from property and income taxes, not from YOUR gas taxes or vehicle registrations, MY taxes. Even though I don't drive I pay for the roads that you use.
Interstates, which are built mainly with the federal money you mention, are the worst example. They're built over the old highway routes that anyone could use for transportation but in most states it is illegal for cyclists and pedestrians to walk or ride on the interstate. I'm prevented from using what I've paid for simply because I don't take a 2000 pound object with me where ever I go.
Don't even try to make it sound like the people who aren't greeedily choosing to waste resources are the people your supporting.
I think it's because of the way that Google finds winning sites. I'm sure someone can explain it better but, it's based on the theory that if enought sites link to another site it becomes an authority. If enough people a link to MS's page with the More Evil than Satan Himself near by MS becomes the authority on being more evil than Satan himself.
It's got to be one of the better hoaxes I've seen, if they'd had a spot for a credit card number wouldn't have been sure.
3D Action Planet had this from QuakeCon:
The Doom Movie?: id Software took a look at one script and decided it was terrible. Then they looked at another script and agreed it was pretty mediocre. Nobody moved on it and the option on the movie rights expired, so the project is -- for the time being -- dead in the water.