Nope, there is no awards/rewards reduction after X number of hours playing, unless you are refering to needing more xp per level at the higher levels (and facing tougher foes after lvl 40-ish). The only way CoH discourages "powerleveling" is by having plenty of low/mid game content and a relatively easy to reach lvl 50 security level cap (the cap was lvl 40 at release). Although I myself don't have one (I have shown a strong tendancy try a different archtype by level 30), I do know several people who have managed to get 2 or more lvl 50 "toons" without quitting their job/social life.
You may be thinking of World of Warcraft, as they were attempting to implement something like that.
As a Honda Insight owner, I'm betting the "five year" battery life myth comes from length of warranty. It certainly doesn't come from the service department, sales reps, or owners manual. My owners manual's maintenance schedule for severe conditions (constant stop-n-go driving, 5 miles/trip, extreeme temps, etc.) says NOTHING about any maintenance to the 144V system what-so-ever for the first 10 years/120,000 miles.
I was averaging 59.4 lifetime mpg over 25,882 miles in a 2001 CVT Insight rated at "only" 57mpg city and 56mpg highway (yes, it's rated higher in the city). Unfortunately, on April 27th, some moron in a John Conti delivery truck slammed into my Insight while I was stopped in traffic, pushing me halfway under the F-250 in front of me.
Drink 0.5L or more of water (depending on your body size) just before you go to bed. If you figure out about the right amount for your body to take in, you won't actually wake up in the middle of the night, but you'll have a strong urge to piss when you get out of bed to wall across the room and hit that alarm clock. You'll then have two choices: either lay in bed trying to hold your bladder in check (which is only delaying the inevitable and ain't gonna get you back to sleep) or walk to the bathroom and take a piss (which will give you some time and activity to become fully awake). Either way, you're getting up.
Off topic? Off Topic?! A post of lyrics to a Who song, on a story by Taco - and the song is the same as the name of the product reviewed - is off topic? Ten bucks says that tune was at least thought of during the writing of the review.
Hell, I don't even really like The Who, and the song got stuck in my head. I'm actually suprised the review wasn't from the "daddy never sleeps at night" department.
That was a great suggestion back when the 9500 Pro was still in production. Problem is, people figured that out, and that (along with the stop of production) drove up prices. Then there's the little problem of the stock 9500 Pro being faster than the stock 9600 Pro in most benchmarks. Back in mid-April, Anandtech said "The Radeon 9600 Pro is the perfect example of bigger numbers not necessarily meaning higher performance; as we noted in our overview of the RV350's technology, the Radeon 9600 Pro is actually more like a regular Radeon 9500 than a Radeon 9500 Pro."
Currently, the cheapest 9500 Pro 128MB lists at $199 on pricewatch... only $10 cheaper than the cheapest AIW 9600 Pro 128MB. If you found the 9500 for $99 recently, or bought it back before the prices rose, consider yourself one of the lucky ones.
Excerpt from "Islam, My Islam", an essay by Dave Sim:
My Thesis is that, once you get down to the base level of people who seriously believe that babies are soldiers and that blowing yourself up next to women and children is a legitimate form of warfare, you are no longer dealing with human beings, you are dealing with homicidal nutcases.
Armed homicidal nutcases. Armed homicidal nutcases who constitute a minority within a minority within a minority. That is to say, a "handful" of armed homicidal nutcases. The only sensible reaction to a "handful" of armed homicidal nutcases is the one the Israeli forces have been using: targeted killings. "Early retirement," coupled with surgical incursions into the homicidal nutcase breeding grounds, incarceration and interrogation to seperate the 1,450 terrorist participants from the 4,500 (relatively) harmless civilians. Contrary to conventional wisdom, I don't think homicidal nutcases are able to breed that fast. When you are dealing with 10% of 10% of 10% of 10%, it's basically a "grooming" operation: the way that apes comb through each other's fur to get the lice and ticks out. Do they get all of the lice and ticks out? No. Do the lice and ticks come back? Certainly. Then what's the point? The point is to keep the population of lice and ticks in your fur to a minimum.
Let's see... Israel targets known terrorists/murderers and tries to take them out before they can kill again with a minimum of collateral damage. Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Aqsa, etc. consider infants and toddlers (as long as they're Jewish) to be "enemy combatants."
I guess I can see that a sane, reasoning mind could find some Jewish guy building a house next to yours reason enough to strap a bomb to your chest and blow yourself up in a cafe. Eye for an eye, and all that.
Indeed. Driving style can make a HUGE impact on fuel economy. I've got a 2001 Insight with the CVT transmission. If I drive like Joe Sixpack in his '84 Mustang (crushing the gas on every takeoff and waiting 'til the last second to brake), I get around 45mpg. On the other hand, I've had trips where I've averaged over 90mpg. The major keys to high gas mileage on my Insight are:
1. Try to maintain a constant speed. 2. Accelerate evenly when taking off, using a moderate amount of electric motor assist. 3. Try to maintain a steady cruising speed between 35 and 45mph. The mpg bar will show you know when you've found the "sweet spot". 4. Gas mileage is noticeably higher in warmer weather. 5. Maintain large following distances, avoid hard braking, and roll through stops whenever possible. If you start braking early enough for that stop light, it could turn green while you're at 12mph instead of sitting at a dead stop. 6. Use the hardest, lowest rolling resistance tires you feel comfortable with (the stock Bridgestone Potenzas are good for me). Keep them properly inflated; underinflation decreases fuel economy. 7. Above about 30mph, you get better mpg with the windows up and air conditioner/vent in "economy" than with the windows down. Never use "auto" mode, since it disables the Insight's auto-stop feature.
Contrary to popular opinion, using a higher-grade gasoline has shown no noticeable affect on fuel economy.
My lifetime mpg over ~22,800 miles is 59.7mpg, including a trip from Louisville, KY to Seattle, WA and back by way of Montana. Through Snoqualmie and Lookout Pass. In January. With stock tires & no chains. As long as you don't try to plow through snow deeper than about 5-6", you should be fine through the winter.
Final note: don't forget to check with your accountant for a possible tax break (both state and federal) on your "green" vehicle. Being able to write off a couple thousand in taxes can make that $20,000 Insight a hell of a lot more appealing.
When choosing rechargeables, please keep in mind lithium, cadmium, mercury, and copper are all things you don't want in your local landfill. If you don't want the hassel of trying to find a place to recycle NiCD, lithium, zinc air, or very old (pre 1985) alkaline batteries, use the alkaline rechargeables. They can be thrown out with the regular trash. Can't hold a charge as well as some of the other options, but they sure are alot easier to dispose of (I'm assuming you're not the kind of person who pours their motor oil out in the grass beside their garage).
There's actually some interesting stories behind a few of those "Yogi-isms". For instance, the "when you come to a fork in the road..." comment was originally said while giving someone directions to his home. Supposedly, the road splits and both directions looped around to his house. It really didn't matter which way you took.
An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist went to the horse races one Saturday and laid their money down. Commiserating in the bar after the race, the engineer says, "I don't understand why I lost all my money. I measured all the horses and calculated their strength and mechanical advantage and figured out how fast they could run..."
The physicist interrupted him: "...but you didn't take individual variations into account. I did a statistical analysis of their previous performances and bet on the horses with the highest probability of winning..."
"...so if you're so hot why are you broke?" asked the engineer. But before the argument can grow, the mathematician takes out his pipe and they get a glimpse of his well-fattened wallet. Obviously here was a man who knows something about horses. They both demanded to know his secret.
"Well," he says, between puffs on the pipe, "first I assumed all the horses were identical and spherical..."
Factories to visit in the Louisville, KY area that may be of interest:
General Electric's Appliance Park
Louisville Slugger bat factory/museum
Ford truck assembly plant
National Corvette Museum/assembly plant (in nearby Bowling Green)
Howard Steamboat Museum/JeffBoat(U.S. largest inland shipbuilder)
Zimmerman Art Glass factory(Corydon, IN - 30min drive)
Falls City Ironworks ...and enough Kentucky bourbon distilleries to make a man giddy. Other than those, I can't think of any production facilities that encourage public tours. The McAlpine Locks & Dam (not sure if the power plant is open for tours) is a pretty interesting site, even if it isn't a factory.
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"class B nuclear submarine"???
I've been out for a while, but I thought classes of submarines were named after either the first ship of that style (i.e., "Skipjack" class, "Los Angeles" class), or the hull number of the first ship (i.e. "637", "688"). Of course, the exception to that rule is the Permit class, since nobody really wanted to say they were on a "Thresher class" boat after it failed to keep the dive:rise ratio at 1:1.
Alternately, you could be refering to the type of reactor. But --again, correct me if I'm wrong-- I thought the common nomenclature looked more like "S5W" rather than "Class B".
I entered "class B nuclear submarine" as a string into Google and turned up zero hits. Please, enlighten me: name a couple "class B nuclear submarines" so that I know what you're talking about.
I remember my first night onboard as a nub. Met the boat in Chinhae, left port the same day. Torpedo room bunk, foward starboard, all the way inboard. Had a nice, thick steel beam about a foot above my head.
I've got a 2" scar on my hairline as a permanent reminder of the first time I ever heard a "water slug".
True, those aren't mind-blowing numbers, but my lil silver bullet isn't any worse off than all the SUVs, vans, and econo-boxes on the road. Hell, I'm better off than most SUVs.
In my opinion, the real thing that keeps you from nailing the gas in the Insight isn't it's lack of power... it's that damn fuel display on the dash. It gets to the point where it's almost like playing a video game: I'm constantly trying to beat my "high score" with a better mpg rating in between fill-ups. After driving the Insight for a while, you find yourself driving slower, brakeing sooner, accelerating smoothly, refusing to "creep" at traffic lights (if you do, the gas engine will kick back on), driving on a hot summer day with the widows up & air conditioner off, etc.
Currently, I'm getting 65.8mpg over the last 500 or so miles. That's with the CVT transmission rated at 57 city/56 highway (it's about 20 miles along I-65 and I-264 to and from work). It's all in the driving style.
Well, that and the weather. It definitely does better in a hot climate. My mileage went straight to hell when I took it on a new years trip from Louisville to Seattle & back. I probably averaged about 48mpg on the trip, average speed being about 70mph. And yes, it went through Snoqualmie & Lookout passes in winter without a problem. Without chains.
Aluminum alloy monocoque frame,.25 Coefficient of drag (lowest of any mass produced vehicle), continuously variable transmission, integrated motor assist, SULEV certified, great gas mileage, what-the-hell-is-that styling (as opposed to the just-another-boring-econobox styling of the prius), and a sub $20,000 price tag. And I'll beat that SUV in a sprint for the last parking spot at the mall. They were too big to fit in there anyways.
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Nope, there is no awards/rewards reduction after X number of hours playing, unless you are refering to needing more xp per level at the higher levels (and facing tougher foes after lvl 40-ish). The only way CoH discourages "powerleveling" is by having plenty of low/mid game content and a relatively easy to reach lvl 50 security level cap (the cap was lvl 40 at release). Although I myself don't have one (I have shown a strong tendancy try a different archtype by level 30), I do know several people who have managed to get 2 or more lvl 50 "toons" without quitting their job/social life.
You may be thinking of World of Warcraft, as they were attempting to implement something like that.
"What we've got here is what we call a "Boeing Bomb". See the peanut? Dead giveaway."
"Nuh-uh... thats a 'Space Peanut.'"
As a Honda Insight owner, I'm betting the "five year" battery life myth comes from length of warranty. It certainly doesn't come from the service department, sales reps, or owners manual. My owners manual's maintenance schedule for severe conditions (constant stop-n-go driving, 5 miles/trip, extreeme temps, etc.) says NOTHING about any maintenance to the 144V system what-so-ever for the first 10 years/120,000 miles.
I was averaging 59.4 lifetime mpg over 25,882 miles in a 2001 CVT Insight rated at "only" 57mpg city and 56mpg highway (yes, it's rated higher in the city). Unfortunately, on April 27th, some moron in a John Conti delivery truck slammed into my Insight while I was stopped in traffic, pushing me halfway under the F-250 in front of me.
2001 Insight #002205, R.I.P.
Drink 0.5L or more of water (depending on your body size) just before you go to bed. If you figure out about the right amount for your body to take in, you won't actually wake up in the middle of the night, but you'll have a strong urge to piss when you get out of bed to wall across the room and hit that alarm clock. You'll then have two choices: either lay in bed trying to hold your bladder in check (which is only delaying the inevitable and ain't gonna get you back to sleep) or walk to the bathroom and take a piss (which will give you some time and activity to become fully awake). Either way, you're getting up.
Bedwetters please ignore the above suggestion.
Off topic? Off Topic?! A post of lyrics to a Who song, on a story by Taco - and the song is the same as the name of the product reviewed - is off topic? Ten bucks says that tune was at least thought of during the writing of the review.
Hell, I don't even really like The Who, and the song got stuck in my head. I'm actually suprised the review wasn't from the "daddy never sleeps at night" department.
That was a great suggestion back when the 9500 Pro was still in production. Problem is, people figured that out, and that (along with the stop of production) drove up prices. Then there's the little problem of the stock 9500 Pro being faster than the stock 9600 Pro in most benchmarks. Back in mid-April, Anandtech said "The Radeon 9600 Pro is the perfect example of bigger numbers not necessarily meaning higher performance; as we noted in our overview of the RV350's technology, the Radeon 9600 Pro is actually more like a regular Radeon 9500 than a Radeon 9500 Pro."
Currently, the cheapest 9500 Pro 128MB lists at $199 on pricewatch... only $10 cheaper than the cheapest AIW 9600 Pro 128MB. If you found the 9500 for $99 recently, or bought it back before the prices rose, consider yourself one of the lucky ones.
Let's see... Israel targets known terrorists/murderers and tries to take them out before they can kill again with a minimum of collateral damage. Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Aqsa, etc. consider infants and toddlers (as long as they're Jewish) to be "enemy combatants."
I guess I can see that a sane, reasoning mind could find some Jewish guy building a house next to yours reason enough to strap a bomb to your chest and blow yourself up in a cafe. Eye for an eye, and all that.
Indeed. Driving style can make a HUGE impact on fuel economy. I've got a 2001 Insight with the CVT transmission. If I drive like Joe Sixpack in his '84 Mustang (crushing the gas on every takeoff and waiting 'til the last second to brake), I get around 45mpg. On the other hand, I've had trips where I've averaged over 90mpg. The major keys to high gas mileage on my Insight are:
1. Try to maintain a constant speed.
2. Accelerate evenly when taking off, using a moderate amount of electric motor assist.
3. Try to maintain a steady cruising speed between 35 and 45mph. The mpg bar will show you know when you've found the "sweet spot".
4. Gas mileage is noticeably higher in warmer weather.
5. Maintain large following distances, avoid hard braking, and roll through stops whenever possible. If you start braking early enough for that stop light, it could turn green while you're at 12mph instead of sitting at a dead stop.
6. Use the hardest, lowest rolling resistance tires you feel comfortable with (the stock Bridgestone Potenzas are good for me). Keep them properly inflated; underinflation decreases fuel economy.
7. Above about 30mph, you get better mpg with the windows up and air conditioner/vent in "economy" than with the windows down. Never use "auto" mode, since it disables the Insight's auto-stop feature.
Contrary to popular opinion, using a higher-grade gasoline has shown no noticeable affect on fuel economy.
My lifetime mpg over ~22,800 miles is 59.7mpg, including a trip from Louisville, KY to Seattle, WA and back by way of Montana. Through Snoqualmie and Lookout Pass. In January. With stock tires & no chains. As long as you don't try to plow through snow deeper than about 5-6", you should be fine through the winter.
Final note: don't forget to check with your accountant for a possible tax break (both state and federal) on your "green" vehicle. Being able to write off a couple thousand in taxes can make that $20,000 Insight a hell of a lot more appealing.
When choosing rechargeables, please keep in mind lithium, cadmium, mercury, and copper are all things you don't want in your local landfill. If you don't want the hassel of trying to find a place to recycle NiCD, lithium, zinc air, or very old (pre 1985) alkaline batteries, use the alkaline rechargeables. They can be thrown out with the regular trash. Can't hold a charge as well as some of the other options, but they sure are alot easier to dispose of (I'm assuming you're not the kind of person who pours their motor oil out in the grass beside their garage).
There's actually some interesting stories behind a few of those "Yogi-isms". For instance, the "when you come to a fork in the road..." comment was originally said while giving someone directions to his home. Supposedly, the road splits and both directions looped around to his house. It really didn't matter which way you took.
Supposedly. Grain of salt not included.
An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist went to the horse races one Saturday and laid their money down. Commiserating in the bar after the race, the engineer says, "I don't understand why I lost all my money. I measured all the horses and calculated their strength and mechanical advantage and figured out how fast they could run..."
The physicist interrupted him: "...but you didn't take individual variations into account. I did a statistical analysis of their previous performances and bet on the horses with the highest probability of winning..."
"...so if you're so hot why are you broke?" asked the engineer. But before the argument can grow, the mathematician takes out his pipe and they get a glimpse of his well-fattened wallet. Obviously here was a man who knows something about horses. They both demanded to know his secret.
"Well," he says, between puffs on the pipe, "first I assumed all the horses were identical and spherical..."
I was hoping I wasn't the only one humming that song all day. ;0)
General Electric's Appliance Park
Louisville Slugger bat factory/museum
Ford truck assembly plant
National Corvette Museum/assembly plant (in nearby Bowling Green)
Howard Steamboat Museum/JeffBoat(U.S. largest inland shipbuilder)
Zimmerman Art Glass factory(Corydon, IN - 30min drive)
Falls City Ironworks
...and enough Kentucky bourbon distilleries to make a man giddy. Other than those, I can't think of any production facilities that encourage public tours. The McAlpine Locks & Dam (not sure if the power plant is open for tours) is a pretty interesting site, even if it isn't a factory.
I've been out for a while, but I thought classes of submarines were named after either the first ship of that style (i.e., "Skipjack" class, "Los Angeles" class), or the hull number of the first ship (i.e. "637", "688"). Of course, the exception to that rule is the Permit class, since nobody really wanted to say they were on a "Thresher class" boat after it failed to keep the dive:rise ratio at 1:1.
Alternately, you could be refering to the type of reactor. But --again, correct me if I'm wrong-- I thought the common nomenclature looked more like "S5W" rather than "Class B".
I entered "class B nuclear submarine" as a string into Google and turned up zero hits. Please, enlighten me: name a couple "class B nuclear submarines" so that I know what you're talking about.
I've got a 2" scar on my hairline as a permanent reminder of the first time I ever heard a "water slug".
True, those aren't mind-blowing numbers, but my lil silver bullet isn't any worse off than all the SUVs, vans, and econo-boxes on the road. Hell, I'm better off than most SUVs.
/56 highway (it's about 20 miles along I-65 and I-264 to and from work). It's all in the driving style.
.25 Coefficient of drag (lowest of any mass produced vehicle), continuously variable transmission, integrated motor assist, SULEV certified, great gas mileage, what-the-hell-is-that styling (as opposed to the just-another-boring-econobox styling of the prius), and a sub $20,000 price tag. And I'll beat that SUV in a sprint for the last parking spot at the mall. They were too big to fit in there anyways.
In my opinion, the real thing that keeps you from nailing the gas in the Insight isn't it's lack of power... it's that damn fuel display on the dash. It gets to the point where it's almost like playing a video game: I'm constantly trying to beat my "high score" with a better mpg rating in between fill-ups. After driving the Insight for a while, you find yourself driving slower, brakeing sooner, accelerating smoothly, refusing to "creep" at traffic lights (if you do, the gas engine will kick back on), driving on a hot summer day with the widows up & air conditioner off, etc.
Currently, I'm getting 65.8mpg over the last 500 or so miles. That's with the CVT transmission rated at 57 city
Well, that and the weather. It definitely does better in a hot climate. My mileage went straight to hell when I took it on a new years trip from Louisville to Seattle & back. I probably averaged about 48mpg on the trip, average speed being about 70mph. And yes, it went through Snoqualmie & Lookout passes in winter without a problem. Without chains.
Aluminum alloy monocoque frame,