Yeah, of all of the OSes I deal with on a regular basis, Windows is by far the hardest to install. XP for instance loves to balk if you have a non-NTFS partition on your hard drive. I've many times had to go and fire up something like Ranish partition manager to change the ID of some non-NTFS partition just so I can get the XP installer to start. If I weren't computer savvy that would be a complete roadblock.
Yes, like I said before, it makes sense that the regular car would see a boost in it's MPG in that secenario, but the Hybrid should be getting exactly the same results. They Hybrid doesn't care how long you sit idle, it's perfectly willing to leave the engine off for as long as it takes.
In any case, the MPG ratings aren't measured against other cars, they're only measured on the car you are testing. The fact that some other car gains or loses on the MPG ratings means nothing for your own car's ratings.
The problem is that there are a lot of factors that go into your gas mileage beyond just the design and features of your car. There's also maintenance (the guy who's tires are always 10psi under pressure because he never checks them will get worse mileage than the guy who keeps them properly inflated), driving style (aggressive drivers get worse mileage), and even location (hot vs. cold, hilly vs. flat, lots of traffic on the road vs. empty roads).
I hear people complain all of the time about how they don't get as much mileage as the sticker said they would, but personally I tend to exceed the sticker's rating, especially in the city. I don't have a hybrid though. I also think it's odd that the hybrids aren't getting the MPG they said because the EPA's testing involves a lot of sitting at red lights? Everybody's MPG is 0 when sitting at a light (well, I guess it's undefined with a Hybrid because the engine is off). I can see where regular cars would be lowballed by that assumption, but I'm not sure why it was giving such a massive advantage to hybrids.
Personally, I prefer having shows end with a well thought out conclusion that ties up as many plot threads as possible instead of what happens to most TV shows where they just start to suck for a season or two and are abruptly canceled with little chance to actually finish up the story. It's hard to argue against the fact that the last season had a lot of filler in it, and it's probably about time for the writers to start wrapping it up. They need to have more episodes like the last one of the season and less like the stupid boxing episode.
Yeah, a big reason Baidu is so big in China is that they don't get randomly blocked by the great firewall. Remember that for the most part people just want to do their searches, they don't care about the great rights struggle and whatnot. If Google doesn't work 50% of the time then people will just switch to one that does, even if it is run by the Communist party and not as good.
Depressingly, yes. Not only could you model it with your avatars (I'm sure someone out there has a poop script), but you can also pipe movies into the client from anywhere you want.
Eh, it gets lumped in with other MMOs/the sims, although it's closer to a graphical chat room IMHO. It's close enough to a game that it gets this category on Slashdot.
Oh, they'll be hacked/reverse engineered eventually if the companies don't come through, but by that point all of the cards they figured out will be so old you won't be able to buy them in stores anymore.
You know the worst part? I already have candidates knocking on my door introducing themselves. The election isn't for over a year! I say all of the states should have their primary on the same day and further back in the year (perhaps near where most of them were a few short decades ago). This early primary nonsense just means more money spent and more political wrangling IMHO. Sure it means the candidates will have to more or less ignore smaller states in the primary, but frankly they have months to go and make themselves a name in those states after the primary (and before really). Plus, it's a level playing field. It would also cut down on what I consider a "bandwagon" vote, where people tend to get behind whomever won in New Hampshire.
Shame you don't live in the DC area. Around DC if you get Fios you have the option of getting a 30Mb/5Mb connection for $55/month, which isn't too shabby.
FWIW, I have 30Mbps down/5Mbps up with FIOS. The 5Mbps up is a godsend, since I use my computer for more than just passive web browsing (and no, that doesn't mean P2P/piracy!).
It's really nice to be in a game and go: Gee, it would be nice to set up a Vent server, oh wait, I can run it locally, I have the bandwidth.
Does anybody know of a website that has a list of what to look for when checking IDs for each state? That sort of thing could be a big benefit to bartenders who could probably memorize the major features of each state's ID in relatively short order. Google only turned up a bunch of individual DMV websites that didn't actually have a picture of the ID and one book that you can buy in quantities of 100 with the same information. This seems like exactly the sort of thing you'd expect to see online. Wikipedia let me down too.
The only reason they haven't put these restrictions on the DVRs yet is that they have to compete with TiVo. Once the competition is gone and they've gotten the market sealed up again you can expect these sort of restrictions to start appearing on their own DVRs. MythTV boxes don't count either. It seems to me that the cable companies only embraced DVRs in an attempt to kill them off, I imagine if they manage to drive TiVo out of business then they'll go back to their old tricks.
The problem with the one's I've tried is that you have to find a piece of empty spectrum three channels wide so you can plop yourself down right in the middle of the empty space. If there are broadcasters on either side of you the transmitter will pick up their signal, amplify and distort it and rebroadcast it to your radio. In major metropolitan areas, there are no radio segments like that. Heck, even with major broadcasters you'll often hear adjacent stations creeking through the background, sometimes even clobbering the station you're trying to listen to if the reflections off of the buildings get too strong.
I still say you're better off using a line-in on your radio.
Those FM transmitters suck though, and they don't work in areas where there are a lot of radio stations. They also tend to transmit only in mono and flatten the sound. You're way better off with a line-in jack if you can swing it.
Playing it without spoilers is just crazy though. It takes multiple hours to get to the lower levels of the dungeon, and if you need to know about some trick a mob has or you're screwed, you're just out several hours to learn that trick. Then you get to repeat that (plus some extra time you spend fighting the original mob) to learn the special tricks of the next mob.
Plus, the RNG can be cruel and really screw you from time to time. Falling down a pit that just happens to be exceptionally difficult to detect into a monster room is one of those things that can easily end an otherwise good run in about 1 turn.
I've heard that a lot, and when the lawyers at whatever company it is get their panties in a bunch, well, that loyalty counts for zip. There are no shortage of stories of companies suing their most dedicated fans, the very ones that would otherwise evangelize the company's products for free and generate tremendous positive buzz. Lawyers don't care about buzz, they care that someone is breaking their EULA or infringing on their copyrights.
You can always escape. You can hit the "go home" menu option and they can't stop you from zoning. If they are in your home, then ban them from your land and sit your way out of whatever strange contraption they have set up. If you wore an object some random person in SL gave you, then take it off and log off/log on if you have to so you clear the script. Calling this rape is ridiculous.
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In most major MMOs you can report unwanted sexual chat to the GMs (all chat is logged) and they'll warn/ban the offending player depending on how severe the infraction is. Also, you can always/ignore.
In SecondLife (which is apparently what the article was about), you have the ban tools available on your own character. You can literally ban people from entering your land and there is not a lot they can do about it. If they try real hard to harass you anyway, then you can involve the Lindens and have them sent to the cornfield, but that measure is almost never necessary since the regular ban tools are generally enough to get the point across.
The whole article reads like this to me:
This is like a guy walking up to a girl and going "I just totally undressed you with my mind", and the girl going "OMG! I'm ruined for life now! Nobody will marry me! I'll be a virgin FOREVER!"
The proper response was a slap to the face, not a 2000 word post on your blog about the atrocities of "mental rape".
Heck, this appears to be talking about SecondLife, you don't even have to log off. All you have to do (assuming it's your own land) is simply ban the guy from your land. It's like 2 clicks, it certainly would be faster than spewing out 2000 words of blog post about it. People online are dicks, don't let them get to you. That is the rule of the internet.
That can be true, and has defiantly been the downfall of companies (especially when they can the R&D departments for some short term price cutting and stock boost), but one of the great things about paying out mostly in options is that you can't exercise them for a few years, meaning that the CEO is discouraged from doing anything that hurts the medium term survivability of the company.
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Yeah, of all of the OSes I deal with on a regular basis, Windows is by far the hardest to install. XP for instance loves to balk if you have a non-NTFS partition on your hard drive. I've many times had to go and fire up something like Ranish partition manager to change the ID of some non-NTFS partition just so I can get the XP installer to start. If I weren't computer savvy that would be a complete roadblock.
Yes, like I said before, it makes sense that the regular car would see a boost in it's MPG in that secenario, but the Hybrid should be getting exactly the same results. They Hybrid doesn't care how long you sit idle, it's perfectly willing to leave the engine off for as long as it takes.
In any case, the MPG ratings aren't measured against other cars, they're only measured on the car you are testing. The fact that some other car gains or loses on the MPG ratings means nothing for your own car's ratings.
Ouch, 30W is downright paltry for something moving that much rock.
It was 30Kw IIRC, still no mean feat given the weight constraints.
The problem is that there are a lot of factors that go into your gas mileage beyond just the design and features of your car. There's also maintenance (the guy who's tires are always 10psi under pressure because he never checks them will get worse mileage than the guy who keeps them properly inflated), driving style (aggressive drivers get worse mileage), and even location (hot vs. cold, hilly vs. flat, lots of traffic on the road vs. empty roads).
I hear people complain all of the time about how they don't get as much mileage as the sticker said they would, but personally I tend to exceed the sticker's rating, especially in the city. I don't have a hybrid though. I also think it's odd that the hybrids aren't getting the MPG they said because the EPA's testing involves a lot of sitting at red lights? Everybody's MPG is 0 when sitting at a light (well, I guess it's undefined with a Hybrid because the engine is off). I can see where regular cars would be lowballed by that assumption, but I'm not sure why it was giving such a massive advantage to hybrids.
Personally, I prefer having shows end with a well thought out conclusion that ties up as many plot threads as possible instead of what happens to most TV shows where they just start to suck for a season or two and are abruptly canceled with little chance to actually finish up the story. It's hard to argue against the fact that the last season had a lot of filler in it, and it's probably about time for the writers to start wrapping it up. They need to have more episodes like the last one of the season and less like the stupid boxing episode.
Also, Is Starbuck Jesus?
Yeah, a big reason Baidu is so big in China is that they don't get randomly blocked by the great firewall. Remember that for the most part people just want to do their searches, they don't care about the great rights struggle and whatnot. If Google doesn't work 50% of the time then people will just switch to one that does, even if it is run by the Communist party and not as good.
Depressingly, yes. Not only could you model it with your avatars (I'm sure someone out there has a poop script), but you can also pipe movies into the client from anywhere you want.
Eh, it gets lumped in with other MMOs/the sims, although it's closer to a graphical chat room IMHO. It's close enough to a game that it gets this category on Slashdot.
Oh, they'll be hacked/reverse engineered eventually if the companies don't come through, but by that point all of the cards they figured out will be so old you won't be able to buy them in stores anymore.
You know the worst part? I already have candidates knocking on my door introducing themselves. The election isn't for over a year! I say all of the states should have their primary on the same day and further back in the year (perhaps near where most of them were a few short decades ago). This early primary nonsense just means more money spent and more political wrangling IMHO. Sure it means the candidates will have to more or less ignore smaller states in the primary, but frankly they have months to go and make themselves a name in those states after the primary (and before really). Plus, it's a level playing field. It would also cut down on what I consider a "bandwagon" vote, where people tend to get behind whomever won in New Hampshire.
Shame you don't live in the DC area. Around DC if you get Fios you have the option of getting a 30Mb/5Mb connection for $55/month, which isn't too shabby.
FWIW, I have 30Mbps down/5Mbps up with FIOS. The 5Mbps up is a godsend, since I use my computer for more than just passive web browsing (and no, that doesn't mean P2P/piracy!).
It's really nice to be in a game and go: Gee, it would be nice to set up a Vent server, oh wait, I can run it locally, I have the bandwidth.
Does anybody know of a website that has a list of what to look for when checking IDs for each state? That sort of thing could be a big benefit to bartenders who could probably memorize the major features of each state's ID in relatively short order. Google only turned up a bunch of individual DMV websites that didn't actually have a picture of the ID and one book that you can buy in quantities of 100 with the same information. This seems like exactly the sort of thing you'd expect to see online. Wikipedia let me down too.
The only reason they haven't put these restrictions on the DVRs yet is that they have to compete with TiVo. Once the competition is gone and they've gotten the market sealed up again you can expect these sort of restrictions to start appearing on their own DVRs. MythTV boxes don't count either. It seems to me that the cable companies only embraced DVRs in an attempt to kill them off, I imagine if they manage to drive TiVo out of business then they'll go back to their old tricks.
The problem with the one's I've tried is that you have to find a piece of empty spectrum three channels wide so you can plop yourself down right in the middle of the empty space. If there are broadcasters on either side of you the transmitter will pick up their signal, amplify and distort it and rebroadcast it to your radio. In major metropolitan areas, there are no radio segments like that. Heck, even with major broadcasters you'll often hear adjacent stations creeking through the background, sometimes even clobbering the station you're trying to listen to if the reflections off of the buildings get too strong.
I still say you're better off using a line-in on your radio.
Those FM transmitters suck though, and they don't work in areas where there are a lot of radio stations. They also tend to transmit only in mono and flatten the sound. You're way better off with a line-in jack if you can swing it.
Playing it without spoilers is just crazy though. It takes multiple hours to get to the lower levels of the dungeon, and if you need to know about some trick a mob has or you're screwed, you're just out several hours to learn that trick. Then you get to repeat that (plus some extra time you spend fighting the original mob) to learn the special tricks of the next mob.
Plus, the RNG can be cruel and really screw you from time to time. Falling down a pit that just happens to be exceptionally difficult to detect into a monster room is one of those things that can easily end an otherwise good run in about 1 turn.
Stop posting Slashvertisments and get back to work. There are already rumblings that your game is vapor.
I've heard that a lot, and when the lawyers at whatever company it is get their panties in a bunch, well, that loyalty counts for zip. There are no shortage of stories of companies suing their most dedicated fans, the very ones that would otherwise evangelize the company's products for free and generate tremendous positive buzz. Lawyers don't care about buzz, they care that someone is breaking their EULA or infringing on their copyrights.
You can always escape. You can hit the "go home" menu option and they can't stop you from zoning. If they are in your home, then ban them from your land and sit your way out of whatever strange contraption they have set up. If you wore an object some random person in SL gave you, then take it off and log off/log on if you have to so you clear the script. Calling this rape is ridiculous.
In SecondLife (which is apparently what the article was about), you have the ban tools available on your own character. You can literally ban people from entering your land and there is not a lot they can do about it. If they try real hard to harass you anyway, then you can involve the Lindens and have them sent to the cornfield, but that measure is almost never necessary since the regular ban tools are generally enough to get the point across.
The whole article reads like this to me: The proper response was a slap to the face, not a 2000 word post on your blog about the atrocities of "mental rape".
Logging on to SecondLife probably counts. Double if she had a furry outfit on.
Heck, this appears to be talking about SecondLife, you don't even have to log off. All you have to do (assuming it's your own land) is simply ban the guy from your land. It's like 2 clicks, it certainly would be faster than spewing out 2000 words of blog post about it. People online are dicks, don't let them get to you. That is the rule of the internet.
That can be true, and has defiantly been the downfall of companies (especially when they can the R&D departments for some short term price cutting and stock boost), but one of the great things about paying out mostly in options is that you can't exercise them for a few years, meaning that the CEO is discouraged from doing anything that hurts the medium term survivability of the company.