It's also worth mentioning that while Weight has gone up, so has performance.
The engine efficiency has gone up drastically when you consider horse power and weight per mpg.
Weight and power are driving forces of todays market so you can hardly blame the engineers or car companies. Weight for safety against accidents/suv's and hp for performance and passing power at freeway speeds.
Of course, market demand would probably focus more on fuel economy if the fuel crisis did happen. You'd see the lighter smaller cars re-appear. Heck, they already are starting to here in America. The Yaris, Versa, Fit are all new product lines for us. Even the smart car is going to be comming here soon.
My 88 accord got 30mpg city driving. I had the LXi model, so it was fuel injected. Of course the engine eventually blew a head gasket three years ago, so it might have been running a little lean.
The Dr. Brain series was actually a childhood favorite of mine... It is a puzzle based game that deals with the various sections of the brain. Vision, thought process, music. Turned into entertaining games like herding Neurons and trying not to wreck trains.
The musical aspect was by far my worst. (I'm horrible with music, and... apparently tone deaf from what it's been described to me as..) But that section dealt with splitting up a few lines of musical notes from Beethoven or Mozart and mixing them up a bit. Your goal? Reassemble them in the proper order with nothing but a recording of the right music to go by.
I don't think I would ever do current events in a game like that, because I think people have enough trouble separating fantasy from reality sometimes... But reinactment of historical events that happens to come with a world map of the time? That could work;)
You could be playing as part of the civil war - with a bonus mission that you can unlock to kill lincoln or something =)
Well, you say that we have an obligation to clean up our mess, and I agree with you. But it's an important detail that our mess cleanup effort doesn't produce more mess.
In this case - it looks like it doesn't. Which is good... I just wanted to throw that out there for perspective.
Starwars galaxies? Yea - that's fine at 15-30... But try playing burnout at 15 fps and you will notice a difference...
Above 30 I will admit, I don't really notice too much. It's more of a smoothness thing though. If 30 is as low as it goes, I won't complain too much, but if that's as high as it goes, or even the average - it probably dips much lower... and that IS noticable.
Virtual Machines tend to compress really well as a matter of fact.
A few stations at work have 4-8gb vm images (static hd capacities tend to run better...) that compress to about 2.5
Most of window's files are very compressable, and then you've got all that extra disk space that's basically nothing.
Anyway - the actual media wouldn't compress well, and adding 2.5 gigs onto that is some serious overhead - but we are living in an era of broadband. If we can reasonably keep the broadband providers from doing traffic shaping - 2.5gigs isn't an insurmountable amount.
I imagine there's also a bonus of keeping the economy a bit more local. You'll have to pay people to run this building, and they will also be the ones likely to purchase from it as well. That's gotta be good for the economy, right?
We had secret shoppers - it wasn't just one person though. But they'd come through the drive-through and then come in and order the same thing.
The basic idea is they are grading you on certain criteria.
In my case, the quality and accuracy of the food and if you tried to up-sell, things of that nature. The store would then get a score card.
It's not really a bad idea. The company sets certain guidelines for service and they expect you to meet them. You shouldn't be treated negatively because of a secret shopper because - well - that's the way you should be treated anyways. Personalized service is nice but when you are paying someone 6-7$ a hour to do a monotonous task - don't get your hopes up... Routines set in.
I've got to agree with the parent here. The attempt to control the situation by any means necessary is part of why the US is trading freedom for protection. More specifically, why we as citizens are letting it happen.
It's not unnatural, or even that ineffective. I'd rather think that we could solve these problems in other ways, but that's pretty idealistic.
Vehicle registration for a new car is about 250 a year. More if you have a bigger vehicle. This will go down as your car gets older. My 88's cost about 25 a year...
Then there's also your tax on the purchase. And if you think 250 covers the vehicle getting emissions tested - they don't test that for about 5 years.
I know it's a shocking concept, but some people try software out and then buy it.
Hell, I had a copy of starcraft before i bought it *3* times, expansion pack and all... Shocking I know. Of course, when I copied it - I didn't have money to buy the game, and barely had a computer (hand me down - needed upgrades - quake 2 at 320x240 with 2d graphics ftw?)
I probably never would have bought either of those games had i not had a free copy to ensure they were worth spending my precious money on. I also probably wouldn't have worked so hard to GET that money in the first place, but meh.
Then again - you'll just retort with an argument about how that's great for the totally awesome titles, but not the medeocre ones, or the ones who don't have much in the way of replay value.
Then again - those games don't provide that much value and cost the same - for a lower price I'd get them, and have (starlancer for 1$ anyone?)
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That and generalizations like the one above us are flawed. You might see 10 people in 1000 make some remark once, and never again. As long as about 10 people continue to make a similar remark, perception will be that there's some group that's always doing blah blah - when in truth, no one does it all the time - just that they have a 1/100 rate of doing so...
Using Traffic as an example, if someone exits the freeway from the farthest lane, they look like an ass hole. If I see two people every day do this - it looks like a pretty common problem, when really, I see many, many more people who drive sane, and a few people each day forget when their exit's comming up. It's not a select group of asshats merging off the freeway unsafely, its just a few people making mistakes every once in a while and performing a risky maneuver without thought.
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You can also say that if a newborn child somehow managed to survive without his or her parents, he is no less "human" - Although he may not integrate well with society. Anyway, there are Natural influences in how we become what we are, and there are environmental. The person above us is just saying that the Environmental ones are a defining characteristic to being human, and I think it's a weak argument.
Well, probably not now - but in a year or two, maybe. Of course his graphics card will probably be outdated by then too, but he can buy another 8800GTS and sli them, as well.
I have cox... They do have a policy about excessive bandwidth usage, and monthly caps in the gigabytes range.
However, having a 12mb/1mb line (slower out here, actually - they have 12/2mb) I haven't received any sort of notice of excessive bandwidth usage, despite continually uploading at 40k/s+
My guess is that they really don't care until you start impacting other people's service.
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Thank you.
It's also worth mentioning that while Weight has gone up, so has performance.
The engine efficiency has gone up drastically when you consider horse power and weight per mpg.
Weight and power are driving forces of todays market so you can hardly blame the engineers or car companies. Weight for safety against accidents/suv's and hp for performance and passing power at freeway speeds.
Of course, market demand would probably focus more on fuel economy if the fuel crisis did happen. You'd see the lighter smaller cars re-appear. Heck, they already are starting to here in America. The Yaris, Versa, Fit are all new product lines for us. Even the smart car is going to be comming here soon.
My 88 accord got 30mpg city driving. I had the LXi model, so it was fuel injected. Of course the engine eventually blew a head gasket three years ago, so it might have been running a little lean.
One valid reason to be afraid in a fight or combat is being overwhelmed.
If you're not good under pressure... bingo.
Most of these posts about god seem strikingly familiar with mass.
Maybe I'm wrong =)
I looked up water engines. They had a model that used salt water and some cheap comodity metal to produce hydrogen.
;)
My guess is that metal is lead, no?
I would find it ironic that we'd look at running a combustion engine off of a battery in such a direct form
The Dr. Brain series was actually a childhood favorite of mine...
... apparently tone deaf from what it's been described to me as..) But that section dealt with splitting up a few lines of musical notes from Beethoven or Mozart and mixing them up a bit. Your goal? Reassemble them in the proper order with nothing but a recording of the right music to go by.
It is a puzzle based game that deals with the various sections of the brain. Vision, thought process, music. Turned into entertaining games like herding Neurons and trying not to wreck trains.
The musical aspect was by far my worst. (I'm horrible with music, and
I don't think I would ever do current events in a game like that, because I think people have enough trouble separating fantasy from reality sometimes... But reinactment of historical events that happens to come with a world map of the time? That could work ;)
You could be playing as part of the civil war - with a bonus mission that you can unlock to kill lincoln or something =)
Well, you say that we have an obligation to clean up our mess, and I agree with you. But it's an important detail that our mess cleanup effort doesn't produce more mess.
... I just wanted to throw that out there for perspective.
In this case - it looks like it doesn't. Which is good
Yes, As long as you're also interisted in warming your own blood. You're made of plenty of water ...
Also Microwaves I'm sure are pretty focused - whereas wifi isn't so you'd need that much more wattage =)
It depends on the game, and the amt of movement.
... But try playing burnout at 15 fps and you will notice a difference...
Starwars galaxies? Yea - that's fine at 15-30
Above 30 I will admit, I don't really notice too much. It's more of a smoothness thing though. If 30 is as low as it goes, I won't complain too much, but if that's as high as it goes, or even the average - it probably dips much lower... and that IS noticable.
Virtual Machines tend to compress really well as a matter of fact.
A few stations at work have 4-8gb vm images (static hd capacities tend to run better...) that compress to about 2.5
Most of window's files are very compressable, and then you've got all that extra disk space that's basically nothing.
Anyway - the actual media wouldn't compress well, and adding 2.5 gigs onto that is some serious overhead - but we are living in an era of broadband. If we can reasonably keep the broadband providers from doing traffic shaping - 2.5gigs isn't an insurmountable amount.
I imagine there's also a bonus of keeping the economy a bit more local.
You'll have to pay people to run this building, and they will also be the ones likely to purchase from it as well. That's gotta be good for the economy, right?
At a fast food restaraunt...
We had secret shoppers - it wasn't just one person though. But they'd come through the drive-through and then come in and order the same thing.
The basic idea is they are grading you on certain criteria.
In my case, the quality and accuracy of the food and if you tried to up-sell, things of that nature. The store would then get a score card.
It's not really a bad idea. The company sets certain guidelines for service and they expect you to meet them. You shouldn't be treated negatively because of a secret shopper because - well - that's the way you should be treated anyways. Personalized service is nice but when you are paying someone 6-7$ a hour to do a monotonous task - don't get your hopes up... Routines set in.
I've got to agree with the parent here. The attempt to control the situation by any means necessary is part of why the US is trading freedom for protection. More specifically, why we as citizens are letting it happen.
It's not unnatural, or even that ineffective. I'd rather think that we could solve these problems in other ways, but that's pretty idealistic.
Vehicle registration for a new car is about 250 a year. More if you have a bigger vehicle. This will go down as your car gets older. My 88's cost about 25 a year ...
Then there's also your tax on the purchase. And if you think 250 covers the vehicle getting emissions tested - they don't test that for about 5 years.
While I agree with you to a point, if you throw currency into the economy without taking any out you wind up with inflation.
I do believe Germany did this after the first world war and it made problems worse.
The damage to roads from cars and light trucks compared to semi's is pretty drastic as it is... Cars do almost nothing.
We do. Sort of ...
The dmv charges you for your services such as renewing your tags, notorizing your titles, getting a license plate.
I'm pretty sure that stuff's already covered.
I suppose every game has demo's don't they..
That's also a one sided argument.
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I know it's a shocking concept, but some people try software out and then buy it.
Hell, I had a copy of starcraft before i bought it *3* times, expansion pack and all
Shocking I know. Of course, when I copied it - I didn't have money to buy the game, and barely had a computer (hand me down - needed upgrades - quake 2 at 320x240 with 2d graphics ftw?)
I probably never would have bought either of those games had i not had a free copy to ensure they were worth spending my precious money on. I also probably wouldn't have worked so hard to GET that money in the first place, but meh.
Then again - you'll just retort with an argument about how that's great for the totally awesome titles, but not the medeocre ones, or the ones who don't have much in the way of replay value.
Then again - those games don't provide that much value and cost the same - for a lower price I'd get them, and have (starlancer for 1$ anyone?)
That and generalizations like the one above us are flawed. You might see 10 people in 1000 make some remark once, and never again. As long as about 10 people continue to make a similar remark, perception will be that there's some group that's always doing blah blah - when in truth, no one does it all the time - just that they have a 1/100 rate of doing so ...
Using Traffic as an example, if someone exits the freeway from the farthest lane, they look like an ass hole. If I see two people every day do this - it looks like a pretty common problem, when really, I see many, many more people who drive sane, and a few people each day forget when their exit's comming up. It's not a select group of asshats merging off the freeway unsafely, its just a few people making mistakes every once in a while and performing a risky maneuver without thought.
You can also say that if a newborn child somehow managed to survive without his or her parents, he is no less "human" - Although he may not integrate well with society. Anyway, there are Natural influences in how we become what we are, and there are environmental. The person above us is just saying that the Environmental ones are a defining characteristic to being human, and I think it's a weak argument.
Well, probably not now - but in a year or two, maybe. Of course his graphics card will probably be outdated by then too, but he can buy another 8800GTS and sli them, as well.
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All a matter of how much money you have
I have cox ... They do have a policy about excessive bandwidth usage, and monthly caps in the gigabytes range.
However, having a 12mb/1mb line (slower out here, actually - they have 12/2mb) I haven't received any sort of notice of excessive bandwidth usage, despite continually uploading at 40k/s+
My guess is that they really don't care until you start impacting other people's service.