When I first moved to NYC I took a job at 90k. 90k quickly becomes about 55k after the city, state and federal take their cuts. Drop another 30k for rent (Upper West Side) and that leaves 25k a year to live in Manhattan.
55k after taxes; sounds right.
30k for rent = $2500 / month for one person ??? You can find a great studio in the upper west or upper east side for $1600 (down to as low as $1200 for still-not-so-bad ones). More like $18,000 for rent, unless you insist upon living in absolute luxury.
55-18 = 37k left.
Like to eat out (or have to because your kitchen is the size of a toaster)? Add a grand a month, easy.
$1000/30 days = $33/day. Sounds about right, even a little low if you eat 3 meals out every day. Save money with a box of cereal and a gallon of milk each week for breakfast. Make your own sandwich for lunch, and cook a nice dinner (george foreman grills are your friend:-)) on the weekdays. That figure drops to $500/month or so. ($6000/year)
If you eat out every day, yes you'll soon run out of money, but that applies to any neighborhood in the country, not just manhattan. And BTW, if you're paying $2500/month I hope your kitchen is large than a toaster;-)
Now we have about 13k in which to pay bills, entertain yourself, etc...
With my numbers, you now have 31k leftover, more than double.
Be a little more frugal (and stop living way above your means with a $2500/month apartment) and you'll be able to start saving, and be on your way to true wealth!
That being said, I knew people who seemed to live okay on the island for 40-50k/year. Usually with a couple of roommates in either the Lower (lower, lower) East Side or in Harlem or the Bronx
You can live fine on 40-50k per year as long as you don't waste your money on overpriced apartments and meals.
Featured on NPR's Car Talk radio show and their car tunes CD: "You Can't Get There from Here in Jersey - Jason Didner Though it's about New Jersey, Jason's ode could apply to every overdeveloped highway in every sprawling suburb, everywhere. And, yes, Jason does live in New Jersey (Exit 159)."
re: eTickets replacing airport personnel. Last time I walked up to one of those it was staffed with a human, who took my ticket and put it in the machine...
That's probably a union thing; the airline worker's union fought to have her keep her job, and letting her staff the eTicket machine was the compromise. Or maybe the machine was acting up that day, so they had someone there to help in case it malfunctioned. I've used eTicket machines myself, and no one was staffing it.
Digital content such as text, video, and music are stored as part of a compressed and encrypted data file, or object, at a client computer, such as a personal home computer. The content is inaccessible to a user until a payment or use authorization occurs. Payment or use authorization occurs via a real-time, transparent authorization process whereby the user enters account or use data at the client computer, the account or use data is transmitted to a payment server computer, the account or use data is preprocessed at the payment server computer and if payment information is required and is present, the payment information is transmitted to a payment authorization center. The payment authorization center approves or rejects the payment transaction, and bills the corresponding account. The authorization center then transmits an authorization signal to the payment server computer indicating whether the transaction was approved and if not, which information was deficient. In response, the payment server computer transmits a token to the client computer, and if the token indicates approval, an installation process is initiated at the client computer whereby the object is activated and locked to the particular client computer. The object can be reopened and reused at any time on that particular computer. If the object is transmitted or copied to a different computer, the required payment or use information must again be tendered for access to the content.
Every time I find one like this, I wonder why I haven't patented a method of sustaining life by diluting ionized liquids in the human body by transferring di-hydrogen oxide from a residential source, via a smoothed glass semisphere, through the esophogus and into the human Gastrointestinal subsystem.
Then all you water drinking pirates would have pay me royalties!
HTML rendering was added to Pine only fairly recently. Given the quantity of HTML spam out there, it might have been a mistake.
I think that spam filters should perform HTML rendering before processing the message, or at least strip out anything in <sneaky tags> before analyzing a message. There's no excuse for something as simple as "via<invisible comment when html rendered>gra" getting through a filter.
SCO are terrorists, trying to hurt the USA economy, and they must be stopped, even if it means suspending their constitutional rights for a little while. They want to start charging money for free software, charging companies that can barely make ends meet as it is? They're trying to terrorize our nation. Off to Cuba with them.
So what's involved in becoming a Jedi? Is it attainable? With Sony's history, I'd have a really hard time believing that it works on release. Take a look at EQ's big quests - great idea, but they were broken for months or years even before they were fixed.
As excited as we all are to become Jedi, the devs are just as excited. If you were one of the developers, wouldn't your heart make you want to work to make sure the Jedia class was in? If Jedi truly are not attainable at this point, there's be a lot of SW loving programmers lying to everyone in writing, and I just don't believe that.
4. It takes too long to walk around, or to do anything.
No arguments here, although it shouldn't move as fast as other games do (since it's so complex it'd be wrong to rush past things and experiences).
5. You are totally dependant on other players...
That's the idea, and it makes it the most pure MMORPG to date:-) It forces you to interact with other characters. If you don't want to interact or travel to a more populated city with better doctors, then learn to become a medic and heal yourself, it's your choice. If you want free instant healing from an NPC with each town visit, play a different game.
8. The Jedi scam. It's really such a joke that the devs are saying "well, for the time period, the Jedi were very rare so it will be hard to become one". Please. It's such a money making gimmick it's not funny.
It's not a scam. Jedi's just aren't as cheap and boring and common as they have been in other Star Wars games. Too many games (diablo II comes to mind) make it way too easy to become an uber-elite character in just a few days. I think it's great that the only Jedi in the game will be people who really care and work very hard to become one.
10. The inventory is horrible, you can't sort it in anyway, and it seems to move stuff around by itself.
You can sort it...click Change View to get a spreadsheet style view (as opposed to the standard Icon style view), then click the column titles.
...We don't measure our worth by how many hamburgers we can flip in a single day...
Some folks do flip burgers as their source of income, and when you're that tight for cash, you don't have time to prance around licking eachother's flavored iMacs.
(where as on the Mac, a copy of M$ Office is just a drag to the hard drive to your iPod away from a CompUSA Kiosk).
Ok, you can either pay for things you value, or you can steal software from CompUSA. Choose one.
Yeah, we are wierd...
No, you're just common elitist artist-wannabes. Nothing weird about that.
$21/month in Japan should be actually less in the US when you think of exchange rates, inflation and cost-of-living (Big Macs are what? Like $8 over there? I'm too lazy to go look - sorry). $21 here would be chicken feed... Hell, I would pay $30/month to dump my current cable modem service for something like this.
$30/month? Most folks pay $49 for DSL or Cable after the first few cheap introductory months. I'd glady pay the same $49/month for higher speeds (duh), but I'm not sure if I'd pay too much more. The download speed I get with cable (sometimes near 5 megabit) is fast enough for almost everything I do online.
Although I realize that 1500 vs. 1501 words isn't very significant, many of our laws draw a clear line. You may not operate a vehicle if your blood alcohol is greater than or equal to.1 (now.8 in some areas). You may not purchase cigarettes if you're under 18; alcohol if you're under 21. These laws don't say "you can't purchase these goods if you're sort of young."
But Fair Use is definitely vague, and after a little research, I found out that congress did that intentionally in order to examine each case individually, since it varies so often. "Lawmakers wanted fair use to remain flexible, so that it would meet changing needs without new legislation every few years."
True, there's no way to argue that you have a right to distribute 15,000 digital copies of a song for which you don't own the copyright. But it's gone so far that CD-R's labeled for Music actually have a few cents of the price going to the recording industry. I can't see how that's fair, either.
You can't escape responsibility for your actions by declaring that your personal "interpretation" of the law tells you your actions were legal.
I know I can't just hide behind the shield of my own interpretation of justice, but I hate when laws are vague. Since you don't know where the boundaries are, you are forced to live cnoservatively and not get all the rights that the law might have been intended to give. If you have a dangerous neighbor who shoots trespasssers, you'd damn well better have a clear fence marking the line between his yard and yours.
If a law is vague enough, it may as well say "whatever the judge decides," and that gives too much legislative power to the judicial branch. I'm not represented by the appointed federal judges in the way that I am by my elected congressfolk, so I'd rather have my direct representatives be very clear about the law than have a conservative-appointed judge "interpret" it.
Here's the text. I cnosider this fair use clause very disappointing, and I can't believe we pay people to come up with this stuff. How can they write into law "the nature of the work" without explaining what that means? What if I interpret that the digital nature of a CD makes it ok to make as many digital copies as I can? This Fair Use clause is VERY vague.
Also, two of the qualifications for a library or archive to make ONE backup copy of a work are: "(1) the reproduction or distribution is made without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage; (2) the collections of the library or archives are open to the public". So I'm allowed to make one digital copy of the song on my CD as long as I register a non-profit mp3-archive.org and then stream it to the public off of my server?
Hmmm, was quoting this fair use?;-)
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use38 Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include --
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
I think in the original Zelda for NES, if you named your character Zelda you could play the harder difficulty level (which to get otherwise you had to beat the game once)
I'd have to say the real culprit for the heat is the fact that the case (at least part of it) is made from the same metal that's used in great abundance in really nice cookware. Aluminum is a wonderful conductor of heat.
Actually, having the whole case made of aluminum would make it cooler, since it'd act as a giant heatsink and would spread out the heat better.
The other extreme option would be to make the case with neoprene or some other thermally insulating material, and have only a small opening to exhaust the hot air. But spreading out the heat is generally safer and keeps spot temperatures lower.
plus, a piercing guided-arrow zon with a buriza could take out any boss in the game in a few minutes. It was waaaaaaay overpowered; basically guaranteeing the zon at least 3 powerful damage enhanced always-hit strikes per guided arrow fired.
Skeleton nerfing seems unfair to the necromancer, unless those 7 skeletons are much more powerful now. But zon's were way overpowered.
We all know that when a kid goes on a killing spree, violent video games will be blamed.
But why is it that when someone does something wonderful, their good deed is not credited to the fact that they were a fan of video games where the ultimate goal is something wonderful, like saving a hostage or rescuing your kid sister?
I'm willing to bet that at least one of the soldiers that rescued Pvt. Jessica Lynch in Iraq had at one point in time played Zelda or Mario Brothers, where the goal is to save a princess. Why wasn't that connection mentioned?
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When I first moved to NYC I took a job at 90k. 90k quickly becomes about 55k after the city, state and federal take their cuts. Drop another 30k for rent (Upper West Side) and that leaves 25k a year to live in Manhattan.
;-)
55k after taxes; sounds right.
30k for rent = $2500 / month for one person ??? You can find a great studio in the upper west or upper east side for $1600 (down to as low as $1200 for still-not-so-bad ones). More like $18,000 for rent, unless you insist upon living in absolute luxury.
55-18 = 37k left.
Like to eat out (or have to because your kitchen is the size of a toaster)? Add a grand a month, easy.
$1000/30 days = $33/day. Sounds about right, even a little low if you eat 3 meals out every day. Save money with a box of cereal and a gallon of milk each week for breakfast. Make your own sandwich for lunch, and cook a nice dinner (george foreman grills are your friend:-)) on the weekdays. That figure drops to $500/month or so. ($6000/year)
If you eat out every day, yes you'll soon run out of money, but that applies to any neighborhood in the country, not just manhattan. And BTW, if you're paying $2500/month I hope your kitchen is large than a toaster
Now we have about 13k in which to pay bills, entertain yourself, etc...
With my numbers, you now have 31k leftover, more than double.
Be a little more frugal (and stop living way above your means with a $2500/month apartment) and you'll be able to start saving, and be on your way to true wealth!
That being said, I knew people who seemed to live okay on the island for 40-50k/year. Usually with a couple of roommates in either the Lower (lower, lower) East Side or in Harlem or the Bronx
You can live fine on 40-50k per year as long as you don't waste your money on overpriced apartments and meals.
If you have enough outlets and a hub, you can reload several machines at the same time.
You can't get there from here in Jersey...great song about driving in NJ.
Featured on NPR's Car Talk radio show and their car tunes CD: "You Can't Get There from Here in Jersey - Jason Didner Though it's about New Jersey, Jason's ode could apply to every overdeveloped highway in every sprawling suburb, everywhere. And, yes, Jason does live in New Jersey (Exit 159)."
re: eTickets replacing airport personnel.
Last time I walked up to one of those it was staffed with a human, who took my ticket and put it in the machine...
That's probably a union thing; the airline worker's union fought to have her keep her job, and letting her staff the eTicket machine was the compromise. Or maybe the machine was acting up that day, so they had someone there to help in case it malfunctioned. I've used eTicket machines myself, and no one was staffing it.
Then all you water drinking pirates would have pay me royalties!
HTML rendering was added to Pine only fairly recently. Given the quantity of HTML spam out there, it might have been a mistake.
I think that spam filters should perform HTML rendering before processing the message, or at least strip out anything in <sneaky tags> before analyzing a message. There's no excuse for something as simple as "via<invisible comment when html rendered>gra" getting through a filter.
SCO are terrorists, trying to hurt the USA economy, and they must be stopped, even if it means suspending their constitutional rights for a little while. They want to start charging money for free software, charging companies that can barely make ends meet as it is? They're trying to terrorize our nation. Off to Cuba with them.
So what's involved in becoming a Jedi? Is it attainable? With Sony's history, I'd have a really hard time believing that it works on release. Take a look at EQ's big quests - great idea, but they were broken for months or years even before they were fixed.
As excited as we all are to become Jedi, the devs are just as excited. If you were one of the developers, wouldn't your heart make you want to work to make sure the Jedia class was in? If Jedi truly are not attainable at this point, there's be a lot of SW loving programmers lying to everyone in writing, and I just don't believe that.
That said, it doesn't mean it'll be easy.
4. It takes too long to walk around, or to do anything.
:-) It forces you to interact with other characters. If you don't want to interact or travel to a more populated city with better doctors, then learn to become a medic and heal yourself, it's your choice. If you want free instant healing from an NPC with each town visit, play a different game.
No arguments here, although it shouldn't move as fast as other games do (since it's so complex it'd be wrong to rush past things and experiences).
5. You are totally dependant on other players...
That's the idea, and it makes it the most pure MMORPG to date
8. The Jedi scam. It's really such a joke that the devs are saying "well, for the time period, the Jedi were very rare so it will be hard to become one". Please. It's such a money making gimmick it's not funny.
It's not a scam. Jedi's just aren't as cheap and boring and common as they have been in other Star Wars games. Too many games (diablo II comes to mind) make it way too easy to become an uber-elite character in just a few days. I think it's great that the only Jedi in the game will be people who really care and work very hard to become one.
10. The inventory is horrible, you can't sort it in anyway, and it seems to move stuff around by itself.
You can sort it...click Change View to get a spreadsheet style view (as opposed to the standard Icon style view), then click the column titles.
...We don't measure our worth by how many hamburgers we can flip in a single day...
Some folks do flip burgers as their source of income, and when you're that tight for cash, you don't have time to prance around licking eachother's flavored iMacs.
(where as on the Mac, a copy of M$ Office is just a drag to the hard drive to your iPod away from a CompUSA Kiosk).
Ok, you can either pay for things you value, or you can steal software from CompUSA. Choose one.
Yeah, we are wierd...
No, you're just common elitist artist-wannabes. Nothing weird about that.
Number Five is Alive!!
Reassemble, Stephanie. Reassemble!
$21/month in Japan should be actually less in the US when you think of exchange rates, inflation and cost-of-living (Big Macs are what? Like $8 over there? I'm too lazy to go look - sorry). $21 here would be chicken feed... .
Hell, I would pay $30/month to dump my current cable modem service for something like this
$30/month? Most folks pay $49 for DSL or Cable after the first few cheap introductory months. I'd glady pay the same $49/month for higher speeds (duh), but I'm not sure if I'd pay too much more. The download speed I get with cable (sometimes near 5 megabit) is fast enough for almost everything I do online.
Although I realize that 1500 vs. 1501 words isn't very significant, many of our laws draw a clear line. You may not operate a vehicle if your blood alcohol is greater than or equal to .1 (now .8 in some areas). You may not purchase cigarettes if you're under 18; alcohol if you're under 21. These laws don't say "you can't purchase these goods if you're sort of young."
But Fair Use is definitely vague, and after a little research, I found out that congress did that intentionally in order to examine each case individually, since it varies so often. "Lawmakers wanted fair use to remain flexible, so that it would meet changing needs without new legislation every few years."
True, there's no way to argue that you have a right to distribute 15,000 digital copies of a song for which you don't own the copyright. But it's gone so far that CD-R's labeled for Music actually have a few cents of the price going to the recording industry. I can't see how that's fair, either.
You can't escape responsibility for your actions by declaring that your personal "interpretation" of the law tells you your actions were legal.
I know I can't just hide behind the shield of my own interpretation of justice, but I hate when laws are vague. Since you don't know where the boundaries are, you are forced to live cnoservatively and not get all the rights that the law might have been intended to give. If you have a dangerous neighbor who shoots trespasssers, you'd damn well better have a clear fence marking the line between his yard and yours.
If a law is vague enough, it may as well say "whatever the judge decides," and that gives too much legislative power to the judicial branch. I'm not represented by the appointed federal judges in the way that I am by my elected congressfolk, so I'd rather have my direct representatives be very clear about the law than have a conservative-appointed judge "interpret" it.
Here's the text. I cnosider this fair use clause very disappointing, and I can't believe we pay people to come up with this stuff. How can they write into law "the nature of the work" without explaining what that means? What if I interpret that the digital nature of a CD makes it ok to make as many digital copies as I can? This Fair Use clause is VERY vague.
;-)
Also, two of the qualifications for a library or archive to make ONE backup copy of a work are: "(1) the reproduction or distribution is made without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage; (2) the collections of the library or archives are open to the public". So I'm allowed to make one digital copy of the song on my CD as long as I register a non-profit mp3-archive.org and then stream it to the public off of my server?
Hmmm, was quoting this fair use?
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use38
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include --
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
I think in the original Zelda for NES, if you named your character Zelda you could play the harder difficulty level (which to get otherwise you had to beat the game once)
Diablo2X:
Bowazon: Pincherz
Paladin: Stabyte
Werebear: Krunchin
ThrowBarb: Great_Throwdini
SWG:
Female Wookie Medic: Ykkoni
FYI: From Dell's hungarian website:
OptiPlexTM GX270
Please call a Dell Local Distributor to order
There you have it. He can get Dell products, but can't order online.
I'd have to say the real culprit for the heat is the fact that the case (at least part of it) is made from the same metal that's used in great abundance in really nice cookware. Aluminum is a wonderful conductor of heat.
Actually, having the whole case made of aluminum would make it cooler, since it'd act as a giant heatsink and would spread out the heat better.
The other extreme option would be to make the case with neoprene or some other thermally insulating material, and have only a small opening to exhaust the hot air. But spreading out the heat is generally safer and keeps spot temperatures lower.
plus, a piercing guided-arrow zon with a buriza could take out any boss in the game in a few minutes. It was waaaaaaay overpowered; basically guaranteeing the zon at least 3 powerful damage enhanced always-hit strikes per guided arrow fired.
Skeleton nerfing seems unfair to the necromancer, unless those 7 skeletons are much more powerful now. But zon's were way overpowered.
Perhaps I can plan some horrible "Leisure Suit Larry"-inspired crime!
:-)
hmmm, now that wouldn't be so horrible
We all know that when a kid goes on a killing spree, violent video games will be blamed.
But why is it that when someone does something wonderful, their good deed is not credited to the fact that they were a fan of video games where the ultimate goal is something wonderful, like saving a hostage or rescuing your kid sister?
I'm willing to bet that at least one of the soldiers that rescued Pvt. Jessica Lynch in Iraq had at one point in time played Zelda or Mario Brothers, where the goal is to save a princess. Why wasn't that connection mentioned?
You have a problem with his somewhat blunt response, but not of the blatantly discriminatory comment he was responding to?
Wasn't this feature available with the Neo-Geo?
No, God made it open source. You can make as many copies as you like.
As long as you don't make a commercial derivative work from it...goodbye organized religion!