I think the OP wildly underestimates the cost of driving a car, though they are not alone. Regular maintenance and repairs are expensive, and the more you drive the more quickly and more frequently you need them. Moreover, the cost of purchasing a car is absolutely a valid consideration - the more you drive the more quickly you come to the point of needing to buy yet another car, and they aren't cheap. Moreover, people who drive tend to consider the car more important then those that take public transport, and so they're likely to spend more on a more expensive car, perhaps in an effort to make their daily commute more palatable.
Since I started taking the train and bus to work each day (occasionally still driving), the miles I've put on my car (and the maintenance) has dropped massively. Plus I know long care what I'm driving. I'm driving an ugly beige 1997 Ford Escort and it does the trick! With the limited miles I'm putting on it, and the limited needs I have for it, I hope to be able to get another 5 years or more out of the car, and I can't say that it is working perfectly. When it's done for I'll pick up a cheap, probably ugly, used car that no daily-driver would set foot in. I don't care!
I'm fortunate in having a pretty nearby train station, although where I'm not lucky is in the need to connect with a bus. The actual ride on the bus isn't so bad, it's getting the two schedules to mesh that is a problem. That limits my choices dramatically. We need a ton more money to be put into public transportion so that the pain of connections goes away. If buses I could take arrived at the train station/work every 15 minutes during rush hours, and every 30 minutes at other times, it would be *so* much better . Plus with added convenience and a shortened commute, more people might choose to take public transportation instead of driving. Fewer cars on the road also means lower road and facility maintenance, less pollution, etc.
Star Trek has stunk for a very long time and I lost interest in it long ago. Yes, I loved the original series, but I have absolutely no problem with a refresh that re-imagines the original, indeed I think it's a great idea. For one thing, if they tried to make the new Star Trek be like the old Star Trek, it would forever seem like a lesser imitation and that's not a formula for success - trekkies would hate it for not being as good as the original and further tear it apart with every tiny inconsistency from the original storylines, and non-trekkies would hate it for being too much like the original. Mind you, the trailer doesn't make it look like they've succeeded, mainly because it's yet another "origin story", but perhaps good things will come of it later. Moreover I'm more interested in it now then I was before, which is to say that it had been completely off my radar, and now I'm intrigued enough to keep my eye on it and see what it ends up as.
I wrote all those positive articles about Obama. It's my fault - sorry. Next time I promise to write more articles about socially, economically and environmentally backward candidates.
I worried, while watching the results unfold, that we were witnessing another 2000. Thankfully that wasn't the case, but I still have to ask - how can you declare a winner in a given state when only 5% or some other small percent of the vote has been tallied? Exit polls are what they went on in 2000 and resulted in that results reporting fiasco. I guess the networks have decided that 8 years is enough time to pass and now they can go back to their irresponsible ways. This time it didn't bite them, but next?
Please, please bring it here. I need a car exactly like this and I don't want to spend money on another combustion engine car. It's pretty clear that the big manufacturers are going to go the FUD route again. We need the smaller manufacturers to come through for us, and it looks like Pininfarina is going to do that, but they need to bring it here to the US too.
Yes, but if the price is low, I don't think too many would complain. For one thing you are gaining greater portability (no need to carry the cartridges). I don't have a huge collection of GBA games, though. You could always sell the carts and buy the downloads, though.
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Virtual Portable. Not only downloadable GBA games, but GBC, GB, Gamegear, NeoGeo Pocket, Lynx, etc. That's not a press release, just my own note of an obvious thing for Nintendo to do. Aside from being able to play your GBA games this way, you'd be able to carry all of them with you without carrying/fiddling with any cartridges. Too bad they aren't doing the same with the DS games. Or are they? Or perhaps for new DSi-only games. That's certainly the direction they should be going: all download.
And I don't mean the enjoyable kind. The AppStore is fantastic and highly addictive, but they do need to get over this need to ensure that only non-competing apps appear and just open the damn thing up to everything. It will make them look good and it will certainly benefit us users.
I hope Google has success with Android and forces their hand. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that they've started things off right given their choice of phone for the launch. Also I do wonder: will the T-mobile allow competing music stores onto the platform? Did Amazon make an exclusive deal with them? Will Amazon be happy if they let competing stores in? If they don't will we bash Google and T-mobile like we are bashing Apple (rightly) now? I hope so.
... but for us, since getting a digital TV converter box we are able to pick up many more channels then before. In fact, with analog there was really only two or three channels we got that were watchable. Now we get far more channels, all of which look perfect, plus digital exclusive variants of some of those channels, such as two 24-hour local weather channels and two new PBS channels, one with different programming in english and one with different programming all in spanish.
The one real issue I have with it is the handling of 16:9 HD broadcasts. The converter box has the option, and it's on by default, to obey what the program tells it do with regard to whether to letterbox, zoom (aka crop) or stretch to 4:3, but the programs don't seem to be using this intelligently, often having 4:3 shows letterboxed anyway, for example, plus the converter box has a bug where after a while it just starts stretching everything, regardless of what the program tells it to do. In the end you end up having to make the decision yourself and manually switch between letterbox or zoomed. It's a nuisance, and probably one that most people wouldn't know what to do about anyway. They'd just end getting everything stretched (ack!)
Aside from no mention of a plug-in hybrid, when are we going to get some full EV cars from the manufacturers? For my commute I don't need a fossil-fuel burning car at all, plus EV cars are inherently more reliable with far fewer moving parts, no spark plugs, no oil changes ever, etc. Almost no maintenance at all. Which, it would seem, is the problem, as manufacturers makes tons of money from parts and maintenance.
If they can put out a small EV that has an 80 mile range, that would be more than enough for me. And they can - GM did it years ago with the EV-1. Surely with todays tech they can put out an affordable car that has similar range, and, for more money, much longer range if you want it, but most people don't need such range at least for a second car.
EVs wouldn't be for everyone, but they would definitely be good for many of us. I really hope I can keep my 1997 Escort running until we finally see an EV from some manufacturer, as I really don't want to spend any money on another gasoline powered car for me, hybrid or not. If they don't, my only other option would be to pay for or do a conversion myself. The big problem with that is we don't have the best technology available to us at an affordable price and usually you convert a really old car. We need the manufacturers to build EVs because they can build them in quantity, get the costs down and the technology in our hands.
VC = Virtual Console on the Wii. Games for past consoles are available there. It is far from comprehensive, but they keep adding more. The point is only that these games are being sold in, in effect, rom form there.
If you are buying games from ebay, that is good. I'm talking about downloading roms of games you don't own. Like you say, ebay is a great source for old system carts and discs. There are very, very few games that are never sold on ebay or elsewhere. As for Duke Nukem Forever, Quake XV and Doom XXXXX, I have no interest in that stuff either.
Actually, aside from ebay as you noted, where the old games and consoles are readily available, Nintendo and others are selling old games via, for example, the VC. Before that many were available on compilations/still are. If you want to play old games then buy them - they are available. If you aren't willing to buy them, then don't play them. If you do download and play roms of games you don't own, then at least acknowledge what it is - stealing - and stop making up bullshit excuses.
I just can't see many people expecting to get their 300+ dollars worth with a homebrew-only playing device such as Pandora. PSP, DS, Wii, Gamecube, etc, homebrew is either crap, emus (the use of which almost exclusively involves piracy), ports of Quake and Doom, or crap. Homebrew doesn't have a big enough audience to draw in good developers and/or keep good developers interested in it. A $300 Pandora, while not requiring hacking, still isn't going to make the market any bigger because of its price tag. In fact it will probably be smaller then ever. The developers of the Pandora are heading toward the wrong end. They should be producing a sub-$50 device to play homebrew on the run, and sell it at Walmart.
I had to undo the change so I could post this message here, but for those complaining, it's easy enough to get rid of idle: Click "Customize" in the top bar. Then click "Sections". Then for "Idle" choose the circle-slash option. Click "Save" at the bottom. *Poof* - no more (atrocious) "Idle".
Think of "Idle" as a "Roach Motel". Do you really want these "Idle" writers involved in the main articles? Better that they are stuck here. Now I'm going back to that setting....
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I think the OP wildly underestimates the cost of driving a car, though they are not alone. Regular maintenance and repairs are expensive, and the more you drive the more quickly and more frequently you need them. Moreover, the cost of purchasing a car is absolutely a valid consideration - the more you drive the more quickly you come to the point of needing to buy yet another car, and they aren't cheap. Moreover, people who drive tend to consider the car more important then those that take public transport, and so they're likely to spend more on a more expensive car, perhaps in an effort to make their daily commute more palatable.
Since I started taking the train and bus to work each day (occasionally still driving), the miles I've put on my car (and the maintenance) has dropped massively. Plus I know long care what I'm driving. I'm driving an ugly beige 1997 Ford Escort and it does the trick! With the limited miles I'm putting on it, and the limited needs I have for it, I hope to be able to get another 5 years or more out of the car, and I can't say that it is working perfectly. When it's done for I'll pick up a cheap, probably ugly, used car that no daily-driver would set foot in. I don't care!
I'm fortunate in having a pretty nearby train station, although where I'm not lucky is in the need to connect with a bus. The actual ride on the bus isn't so bad, it's getting the two schedules to mesh that is a problem. That limits my choices dramatically. We need a ton more money to be put into public transportion so that the pain of connections goes away. If buses I could take arrived at the train station/work every 15 minutes during rush hours, and every 30 minutes at other times, it would be *so* much better . Plus with added convenience and a shortened commute, more people might choose to take public transportation instead of driving. Fewer cars on the road also means lower road and facility maintenance, less pollution, etc.
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Star Trek has stunk for a very long time and I lost interest in it long ago. Yes, I loved the original series, but I have absolutely no problem with a refresh that re-imagines the original, indeed I think it's a great idea. For one thing, if they tried to make the new Star Trek be like the old Star Trek, it would forever seem like a lesser imitation and that's not a formula for success - trekkies would hate it for not being as good as the original and further tear it apart with every tiny inconsistency from the original storylines, and non-trekkies would hate it for being too much like the original. Mind you, the trailer doesn't make it look like they've succeeded, mainly because it's yet another "origin story", but perhaps good things will come of it later. Moreover I'm more interested in it now then I was before, which is to say that it had been completely off my radar, and now I'm intrigued enough to keep my eye on it and see what it ends up as.
I wrote all those positive articles about Obama. It's my fault - sorry. Next time I promise to write more articles about socially, economically and environmentally backward candidates.
I worried, while watching the results unfold, that we were witnessing another 2000. Thankfully that wasn't the case, but I still have to ask - how can you declare a winner in a given state when only 5% or some other small percent of the vote has been tallied? Exit polls are what they went on in 2000 and resulted in that results reporting fiasco. I guess the networks have decided that 8 years is enough time to pass and now they can go back to their irresponsible ways. This time it didn't bite them, but next?
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Please, please bring it here. I need a car exactly like this and I don't want to spend money on another combustion engine car. It's pretty clear that the big manufacturers are going to go the FUD route again. We need the smaller manufacturers to come through for us, and it looks like Pininfarina is going to do that, but they need to bring it here to the US too.
Yes, but if the price is low, I don't think too many would complain. For one thing you are gaining greater portability (no need to carry the cartridges). I don't have a huge collection of GBA games, though. You could always sell the carts and buy the downloads, though.
Virtual Portable. Not only downloadable GBA games, but GBC, GB, Gamegear, NeoGeo Pocket, Lynx, etc. That's not a press release, just my own note of an obvious thing for Nintendo to do. Aside from being able to play your GBA games this way, you'd be able to carry all of them with you without carrying/fiddling with any cartridges. Too bad they aren't doing the same with the DS games. Or are they? Or perhaps for new DSi-only games. That's certainly the direction they should be going: all download.
And I don't mean the enjoyable kind. The AppStore is fantastic and highly addictive, but they do need to get over this need to ensure that only non-competing apps appear and just open the damn thing up to everything. It will make them look good and it will certainly benefit us users.
I hope Google has success with Android and forces their hand. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that they've started things off right given their choice of phone for the launch. Also I do wonder: will the T-mobile allow competing music stores onto the platform? Did Amazon make an exclusive deal with them? Will Amazon be happy if they let competing stores in? If they don't will we bash Google and T-mobile like we are bashing Apple (rightly) now? I hope so.
... but for us, since getting a digital TV converter box we are able to pick up many more channels then before. In fact, with analog there was really only two or three channels we got that were watchable. Now we get far more channels, all of which look perfect, plus digital exclusive variants of some of those channels, such as two 24-hour local weather channels and two new PBS channels, one with different programming in english and one with different programming all in spanish.
The one real issue I have with it is the handling of 16:9 HD broadcasts. The converter box has the option, and it's on by default, to obey what the program tells it do with regard to whether to letterbox, zoom (aka crop) or stretch to 4:3, but the programs don't seem to be using this intelligently, often having 4:3 shows letterboxed anyway, for example, plus the converter box has a bug where after a while it just starts stretching everything, regardless of what the program tells it to do. In the end you end up having to make the decision yourself and manually switch between letterbox or zoomed. It's a nuisance, and probably one that most people wouldn't know what to do about anyway. They'd just end getting everything stretched (ack!)
Put all your money into video games, drugs and therapy and give our economy a boost!
Thanks for reminding me - I was suppose to be checking my email.
I'd love to see your sources for that "fact". GM? Exxon?
Aside from no mention of a plug-in hybrid, when are we going to get some full EV cars from the manufacturers? For my commute I don't need a fossil-fuel burning car at all, plus EV cars are inherently more reliable with far fewer moving parts, no spark plugs, no oil changes ever, etc. Almost no maintenance at all. Which, it would seem, is the problem, as manufacturers makes tons of money from parts and maintenance.
If they can put out a small EV that has an 80 mile range, that would be more than enough for me. And they can - GM did it years ago with the EV-1. Surely with todays tech they can put out an affordable car that has similar range, and, for more money, much longer range if you want it, but most people don't need such range at least for a second car.
EVs wouldn't be for everyone, but they would definitely be good for many of us. I really hope I can keep my 1997 Escort running until we finally see an EV from some manufacturer, as I really don't want to spend any money on another gasoline powered car for me, hybrid or not. If they don't, my only other option would be to pay for or do a conversion myself. The big problem with that is we don't have the best technology available to us at an affordable price and usually you convert a really old car. We need the manufacturers to build EVs because they can build them in quantity, get the costs down and the technology in our hands.
I think this is cool, but it will it work with my USB keychain changer?
VC = Virtual Console on the Wii. Games for past consoles are available there. It is far from comprehensive, but they keep adding more. The point is only that these games are being sold in, in effect, rom form there.
If you are buying games from ebay, that is good. I'm talking about downloading roms of games you don't own. Like you say, ebay is a great source for old system carts and discs. There are very, very few games that are never sold on ebay or elsewhere. As for Duke Nukem Forever, Quake XV and Doom XXXXX, I have no interest in that stuff either.
Actually, aside from ebay as you noted, where the old games and consoles are readily available, Nintendo and others are selling old games via, for example, the VC. Before that many were available on compilations/still are. If you want to play old games then buy them - they are available. If you aren't willing to buy them, then don't play them. If you do download and play roms of games you don't own, then at least acknowledge what it is - stealing - and stop making up bullshit excuses.
I just can't see many people expecting to get their 300+ dollars worth with a homebrew-only playing device such as Pandora. PSP, DS, Wii, Gamecube, etc, homebrew is either crap, emus (the use of which almost exclusively involves piracy), ports of Quake and Doom, or crap. Homebrew doesn't have a big enough audience to draw in good developers and/or keep good developers interested in it. A $300 Pandora, while not requiring hacking, still isn't going to make the market any bigger because of its price tag. In fact it will probably be smaller then ever. The developers of the Pandora are heading toward the wrong end. They should be producing a sub-$50 device to play homebrew on the run, and sell it at Walmart.
The Homo sapiens bought out the Neanderthals tools and buried them, thus ensuring the success of Homo sapien tools.
Crapmax would have done just as well
Oops. Well, it certainly should have been in Idle!
I had to undo the change so I could post this message here, but for those complaining, it's easy enough to get rid of idle: Click "Customize" in the top bar. Then click "Sections". Then for "Idle" choose the circle-slash option. Click "Save" at the bottom. *Poof* - no more (atrocious) "Idle".
Think of "Idle" as a "Roach Motel". Do you really want these "Idle" writers involved in the main articles? Better that they are stuck here. Now I'm going back to that setting....