Lets also consider the fact that many people spend less on their car than an equivalent bus or train ticket.
I'm cheap. I bought a car six years ago (seven next May) that was 10 years old at the time of purchase for £850.00. I read this post and decided to finally work out what it's cost me directly over this time, so I opened up my filing cabinet and spent about an hour going through the paperwork. Road Tax is approximated since I get my statements online and that's where I've drawn my "can be bothered" line, so I've calculated the whole time period based on this years rate. The fuel is also based on what I seem to spend. I budget £10 per week for fuel and I usually end up putting a little more in... but not much.
The total cost for my car in six years and ten months of running it is...
Initial purchase: £850.00
Insurance: £2703.42
Road tax @£190.00 annually: £1140.00
MOT testing once annually: £195.00
Fuel (at approximately £11 weekly): £3432
Parts (thermostat replacement, timing belt, rear brake line adjuster, middle and rear exhaust): £188.50
Misc. parts (bulbs & everything else like wiper blades): about £130.00, I lost some receipts so I've rounded up
Labour is all self done: £0.00
Tools: £0.00 (never had to buy anything I didn't already have thankfully)
TOTAL: £8638.92
Total months on the road: 82
Total cost per month so far: £105.35
Cost per day (monthly over 30 for simplicity): £3.50
Daily spend: I'd spend that on a return ticket to the nearest city on the train and I'd have to walk to and from the station... and that's just for me.
Given that I do all my school runs, three per day because my youngest school age child is only in half days, all my trips to my work office, see all my clients, do all my shopping for a big family it's easy to see the benefits here. I can't imagine what it would be like to feed my family without a car, I'd be travelling to the shop daily at least. But there's more! Here's the kicker... I also travel to the mainland EU to visit relatives at least twice a year. Add £90 to £100 in fuel for that per trip then compare that to flying the cheapest airline with three children then renting a car. There's no comparison, even if we stop at a hotel there and back again to break the journey up (approx £100 per stay for us all).
If you can look after your own vehicle, buy sensibly and factor costs then you can get maximum convenience (i.e. your own method of transport at your disposal at all times) for something very cost effective. If you're getting a contract hire car that's tax deductible then you can achieve the same results I am but with a brand new car even.
There is no public transport that is as convenient as your own method of transport or, if you're doing it like I do, as cost effective. I know all cars are not made equal, I know that some will break so badly that they get scrapped rather than be salvaged, and I know that a lot of people aren't skilled mechanics. But there's lots of people, like me, that drive cheap successfully.
Of course, as ottffssent has shown you don't have to be as cheap as me and drive an older car. You can get cost effective car transport even with a new car. I just wanted to add another angle to ottffssent's point.
There's no denying that the future of transport is changing, but there's also no point in denying me either. I'm quite real, so is my situation, and it's hardly a unique situation to be in. I'm not willing to spend the huge outlay on an electric vehicle regardless of whatever road tax incentives the UK government offers me. I get cost effective transport now and until something come along that's, shall we say, within the triple the cost ballpark I dobut I'll change my habits, and I'm not alone there either. Many people, I'd hasten to say most
I programmed an AI when I was at university over a decade ago that was a foul mouthed chatbot. Seems like it's the same thing except it's better at teaching itself new words.
I'm 99% sure that the majority of game play in Battlefield is actually just 12 year old's screaming at each other. With an Aimbot.
If I remember correctly the best way to overcome this is to compensate for it just like in Star Trek. The idea is sound: compensate for Heisenberg with Heisenberg compensators. This is just a simple engineering problem, working out the most practical method of implementation.
I really don't understand why this hasn't been done yet. It's probably due to lobbying from the airlines.
Good to see legitimately educational videos being made easily available to kids online.
It's like vaccination: expose them to just enough stupid for them to build up a sufficient tolerance.
I couldn't care less about page intrusions, content that's difficult to read, nonsense that I don't want to buy, or even scams in adverts. Those things have never been an issue for me as they're ignoble. I don't enjoy the privacy intrusions at all, that's some scary stuff, but that's not the biggest issue for me personally. The biggest problem with advertising on websites is the possibility of being served malicious adverts. I've got a lot of code on my machines and I've got a lot of NDA's for clients. I'm contractually bound to take every reasonable precaution to protect their property that either I myself directly or my company has developed for them. I'm bound by law to keep their information private and secure.
Ad blockers are just one of several efforts taken to reduce the risk and mitigate liability should anything ever get out that ought not be out. I've never had a virus on this network so far, nor any successful unwanted intrusion... though many attempts. Mostly bots from Russia or China but some from the USA.
I intend to keep it that way. Until the web advertising platforms are legitimately safe I'll continue to block adverts on all of my work machines and any personally used machine that even comes close to the work ones.
I do however frequently lament that so few of my clients are willing to use a Linux based platform but not half as much as I lament that most of my employees insist on using Windows.
I remember looking for a job in 2003 and every job I looked at was asking for programmers with 5 to 10 years or more of.NET programming experience.... it's no wonder some people embellish their resumes.
To be fair, and not to be overly condescending or accusatory... you really should have seen what was coming and gotten that experience in before the technology was actually developed. Just because the technology doesn't exist is no excuse for not being experienced in it. If you're not able to work miracles then you're unlikely to have a successful career in software. Case in point: Zuckerberg has a website that isn't even good and he's basically God now.
Given that future scientists will lack motivation to bother uploading your brain I think I know the only potential way to get them to bother. Here's what I'd get engraved on my glassed forehead:
"I have buried a large volume of gold and I have memorised the seed for a bitcoin wallet that contains whole integer volumes of bitcoins - wake me up and I'll tell you"
Might work. Of course you're powerless if they just turn the server off afterwards.
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Lets also consider the fact that many people spend less on their car than an equivalent bus or train ticket.
I'm cheap. I bought a car six years ago (seven next May) that was 10 years old at the time of purchase for £850.00. I read this post and decided to finally work out what it's cost me directly over this time, so I opened up my filing cabinet and spent about an hour going through the paperwork. Road Tax is approximated since I get my statements online and that's where I've drawn my "can be bothered" line, so I've calculated the whole time period based on this years rate. The fuel is also based on what I seem to spend. I budget £10 per week for fuel and I usually end up putting a little more in... but not much.
The total cost for my car in six years and ten months of running it is...
Total months on the road: 82
Total cost per month so far: £105.35
Cost per day (monthly over 30 for simplicity): £3.50
Daily spend: I'd spend that on a return ticket to the nearest city on the train and I'd have to walk to and from the station... and that's just for me.
Given that I do all my school runs, three per day because my youngest school age child is only in half days, all my trips to my work office, see all my clients, do all my shopping for a big family it's easy to see the benefits here. I can't imagine what it would be like to feed my family without a car, I'd be travelling to the shop daily at least. But there's more! Here's the kicker... I also travel to the mainland EU to visit relatives at least twice a year. Add £90 to £100 in fuel for that per trip then compare that to flying the cheapest airline with three children then renting a car. There's no comparison, even if we stop at a hotel there and back again to break the journey up (approx £100 per stay for us all).
If you can look after your own vehicle, buy sensibly and factor costs then you can get maximum convenience (i.e. your own method of transport at your disposal at all times) for something very cost effective. If you're getting a contract hire car that's tax deductible then you can achieve the same results I am but with a brand new car even.
There is no public transport that is as convenient as your own method of transport or, if you're doing it like I do, as cost effective. I know all cars are not made equal, I know that some will break so badly that they get scrapped rather than be salvaged, and I know that a lot of people aren't skilled mechanics. But there's lots of people, like me, that drive cheap successfully.
Of course, as ottffssent has shown you don't have to be as cheap as me and drive an older car. You can get cost effective car transport even with a new car. I just wanted to add another angle to ottffssent's point.
There's no denying that the future of transport is changing, but there's also no point in denying me either. I'm quite real, so is my situation, and it's hardly a unique situation to be in. I'm not willing to spend the huge outlay on an electric vehicle regardless of whatever road tax incentives the UK government offers me. I get cost effective transport now and until something come along that's, shall we say, within the triple the cost ballpark I dobut I'll change my habits, and I'm not alone there either. Many people, I'd hasten to say most
Beau is already so woke I don't think he can tell when he's asleep.
I programmed an AI when I was at university over a decade ago that was a foul mouthed chatbot. Seems like it's the same thing except it's better at teaching itself new words.
I'm 99% sure that the majority of game play in Battlefield is actually just 12 year old's screaming at each other. With an Aimbot.
If I remember correctly the best way to overcome this is to compensate for it just like in Star Trek. The idea is sound: compensate for Heisenberg with Heisenberg compensators. This is just a simple engineering problem, working out the most practical method of implementation.
I really don't understand why this hasn't been done yet. It's probably due to lobbying from the airlines.
More features to turn off in the settings so I can improve frame rates and actually see what I'm supposed to be looking at.
If you're not watching Steve eat a 30 year old MRE then the only person missing out is you my friend.
Nice.
Good to see legitimately educational videos being made easily available to kids online. It's like vaccination: expose them to just enough stupid for them to build up a sufficient tolerance.
... is the fact that those search suggestions are likely the result of them being popular searches. It's a sick world, really.
I couldn't care less about page intrusions, content that's difficult to read, nonsense that I don't want to buy, or even scams in adverts. Those things have never been an issue for me as they're ignoble. I don't enjoy the privacy intrusions at all, that's some scary stuff, but that's not the biggest issue for me personally. The biggest problem with advertising on websites is the possibility of being served malicious adverts. I've got a lot of code on my machines and I've got a lot of NDA's for clients. I'm contractually bound to take every reasonable precaution to protect their property that either I myself directly or my company has developed for them. I'm bound by law to keep their information private and secure.
Ad blockers are just one of several efforts taken to reduce the risk and mitigate liability should anything ever get out that ought not be out. I've never had a virus on this network so far, nor any successful unwanted intrusion... though many attempts. Mostly bots from Russia or China but some from the USA.
I intend to keep it that way. Until the web advertising platforms are legitimately safe I'll continue to block adverts on all of my work machines and any personally used machine that even comes close to the work ones.
I do however frequently lament that so few of my clients are willing to use a Linux based platform but not half as much as I lament that most of my employees insist on using Windows.
Skill level and employment status tend to be tentatively linked at the best of times.
I remember looking for a job in 2003 and every job I looked at was asking for programmers with 5 to 10 years or more of .NET programming experience. ... it's no wonder some people embellish their resumes.
To be fair, and not to be overly condescending or accusatory... you really should have seen what was coming and gotten that experience in before the technology was actually developed. Just because the technology doesn't exist is no excuse for not being experienced in it. If you're not able to work miracles then you're unlikely to have a successful career in software. Case in point: Zuckerberg has a website that isn't even good and he's basically God now.
No miracles: no salaries.
It's the software industry mantra.
Given that future scientists will lack motivation to bother uploading your brain I think I know the only potential way to get them to bother. Here's what I'd get engraved on my glassed forehead: "I have buried a large volume of gold and I have memorised the seed for a bitcoin wallet that contains whole integer volumes of bitcoins - wake me up and I'll tell you" Might work. Of course you're powerless if they just turn the server off afterwards.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/c... Good luck changing human nature and all. A noble goal overshadowed only by its ludicrousness.