The original Halo was available on PC but most of the later Halo titles are only on Xbox. The latest fps Halo game is only on Xbox. Halo Wars is on the PC but it's a RTS.
However, all Microsoft Studios 1st party games are now supposed to be part of UWP and available on the PC. The next fps Halo game should also be on PC as well.
Yes and no. Xbox doesn't support a mouse and keyboard setup. However, there are some expensive third part devices that will fake it. These are controversial though since they provide an advantage and one of the big reasons some people play on consoles is that everyone has similar hardware.
Also many people on consoles aren't sitting at a desk and don't have a place for a mouse. It's more comfortable to sit on a couch in front of a tv than it is to sit at a computer desk.
No, they have the correct incident but are just referring to it as the wrong type of ship. There have been multiple ships named USS Yorktown but the one that was in service in the 1990s was a cruiser. There have been 2 carriers named USS Yorktown, one was sunk in 1942 and the other decommissioned in 1970.
It was originally reported that the ship had to be towed back to port but there is some disagreement as to whether or not that actually happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The proper way to pay for this would be to take the expense of TSA security and pay for it with a surcharge on every ticket sold, instead of via the general tax fund.
There is a surcharge called the "September 11th Security Fee" for the TSA on every plane ticket. It's just that airlines include all the mandatory taxes & fees with the advertised ticket price. In 2016 the TSA collected about $3.7 billion from the fees which is about half of their budget.
Whats the different between Xbox Gold and Xbox Pass?
Xbox Live Gold is required for multiplayer. It gives you 4 free games a month. Sometimes the games are good, but sometimes its not unusual for me to not like any of the games for the month.
Xbox Game Pass will give you access to a larger library of over 100 games at a time but you will still need to subscribe to Gold to play multiplayer. Much of the value here will depend on the exact titles which haven't been announced. It will probably be like EA Access where you get lots of good games but not games that have been released in the last 9 months or so.
"Each week, Xbox Live Gold members can save up to 50-75%"
Pass saves you 20%
Again, the titles being discounted here really matter. If the game pass gives you 20% off a $40 or $60 title then to me that's better than 75% off of a $5 title. However, if you were subscribed to Game Pass and have access to a game then you don't have any immediate incentive to buy the game.
Not a lot of ocean front property in Oklahoma and in Texas the shorelines are already dotted with oil rigs. Last I checked oil companies weren't big fans of wind power. (pun slightly intended) Yeah they have on-shore wind but that's not the same thing.
It's not as if there are so many oil rigs in Texas that there isn't enough room for wind turbines. The ocean is really big and the Gulf a Mexico is relatively shallow. Most of the oil rigs are built far enough offshore that they aren't visible from the shoreline.
US leads in total wind capacity but not per capita or as a percentage of total energy produced. total renewables by country
Different countries face different challenges so there isn't really point in comparing wind by itself, you need to look at their entire energy production. A country like Iceland is much greener than the US for energy production but doesn't have wind production at all. If you look at all renewable resources the US is well behind most of Europe. Also China is not ahead of the US in wind production but they have much more hydopower.
Amazon wouldn't but the owner of the book would have the right to reclaim their property. If you refuse they could come into your house and take it back. It would end up being the same as if you bought stolen property, the rightful owner is entitled to get the item back. The only reason they wouldn't raid your house to reclaim the item is because it isn't worth the trouble and expense for a $10 item.
As a sports fan I don't see how this is a good deal. Right now I can watch all of ESPN's content that isn't air on TV with the ESPN app. If Amazon buys the streaming rights I will have to pay an extra fee to Amazon to watch it. I also will have to keep paying ESPN indirectly through my cable company because Amazon isn't trying to buy the rights to the better games that are aired on TV. So to keep seeing everything I watch now I will end up paying both companies.
They don't spend as much on advertising and they don't play nicely with the US Carriers so you have to buy it directly from them. Past versions of their phones don't work on Verizon and T-mobile networks (I haven't read up on the 3T to know if that is still the case). Those things keep them from being as well known as some of the other manufacturers.
I own a OnePlus 3 and I don't have any complaints with it.
It seems to me that with this app you can now watch standard videos with a device that effectively have a large screen, is portable, and doesn't use much storage space.
Without VR you don't have anything that does all three of those. You would have to choose between a mobile device with a small screen for portablity, or a large tv/projector which you can't move to a different room easily.
That seems like a valid use case to me and not something that has to be a fad.
The problem is by colluding with the other providers you prevent customers who want to pay an extra $5 from being able to see it. They end up having to pirate the games or go without watching. If some providers offered it and others didn't then the customer could look at two providers' prices and channels and choose which one is better for them. With collusion both providers will end up with the same content at the same price and you either hurt the customers who don't want to pay the extra $5 or you hurt the customers who want the channel.
Gunther, Max (1985). D. B. Cooper: What Really Happened. Chicago: Contemporary Books. ISBN 0-8092-5180-9. (Based on interviews with a woman known as "Clara", who claimed to have discovered an injured Cooper two days after the hijacking and lived with him until he died a decade later; considered a hoax by the FBI.)
There isn't any way to know how much aircraft knowledge he had or how much he planned without asking him. It looks like Wikipedia is using very questionable source about someone who claims to of known him and then cites it as fact.
It would help other investigations much more than the germanwinds flight. Look at SilkAir Flight 185. That flight was intentionally crashed by the pilot but the investigation conclusions are disputed between the NTSB and the Indonesian government. Before the crash the CVR stopped recording and NTSB believes that because you don't hear a click on the voice recorder that the circuit breaker was intentionally pulled by the pilot. If they had a video recorded then there would be conclusive because you would see video of whether or not the pilot intentionally pulled the circuit breaker for the cockpit voice (or video) recorder.
Silk Air 185
More importantly you have other crashes where its hard to tell why a pilot did certain things. If for instance there is a bad cockpit design where the pilot can do touch something by mistake you wouldn't be able to tell from the CVR or FDR. You would just know the controls that were hit, and not who hit them or if they were hit while they were trying to do something else and didn't realize it. With a video recorder you would see exactly what the pilot does, and you wouldn't have to guess from listening to clicks and matching those clicks up to the FDR and a simulator.
Microsoft isn't that much different from Apple for how long their 1st generation tablets worked with new OS versions. Here is what I pieced together from wikipedia of how long it took to get to unsupported for the different tablets.
Apple
ipad released April 2010
IOS 6 released June 2012 without support for original ipad.
Microsoft
Surface RT released Oct 26, 2012
Windows 10 planned to be released in 2015 without support
Google
Nexus 7 released July 2012
Supports latest Andriod.
Samsung
Galaxy Tab released Sept 2010
Andriod 3.0 Honeycomb released Feb 2011, not compatible.
For MOST of those playing MMORPGs its a hobby or a diversion. Like sewing, knitting, pottery, computer game design etc. A potter, can make a vase identical to the one that has been sold for $10 000 (US). If he puts flowers on it, and keeps it on his mantle, its not income. Just like if you were to write a computer game, until you convert it to income, its just a hobby.
This isn't the same thing. There is no transaction occurring, so there is nothing to tax. If you keep it on your mantle it shouldn't be taxable, but if you sell it or trade it away then there is a transaction and its taxable.
This article also discusses the same topic. The author gives a good discussion on the topic and calls to ask the irs about the status of taxing his gaming income. The person he eventually talks with tells him that it probably is taxable income but that was just their opinion and its not covered by any existing ruling. He could pay a $650 fee to get a ruling if he wanted to.
This is almost certainly mistaken, simply because there is no evidence of any extinction - everything didn't die!
How do you know there isn't any examples of any extinction? There have been many mass extinction events and the parent didn't mention when this was to occur. The time period that this was supposed to occur was about 500 million years ago preceding a time when complex multicelled organisms appeared.
And unless there was at least some open water to allow gaseous exchange, everything beyond bacteria would probably have died. So, the idea of a totally frozen Earth is not feasible.
Only microbial life would of have survived, that is part of the theory. Even then it would be difficult though.
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The original Halo was available on PC but most of the later Halo titles are only on Xbox. The latest fps Halo game is only on Xbox. Halo Wars is on the PC but it's a RTS.
However, all Microsoft Studios 1st party games are now supposed to be part of UWP and available on the PC. The next fps Halo game should also be on PC as well.
Yes and no. Xbox doesn't support a mouse and keyboard setup. However, there are some expensive third part devices that will fake it. These are controversial though since they provide an advantage and one of the big reasons some people play on consoles is that everyone has similar hardware.
Also many people on consoles aren't sitting at a desk and don't have a place for a mouse. It's more comfortable to sit on a couch in front of a tv than it is to sit at a computer desk.
No, they have the correct incident but are just referring to it as the wrong type of ship. There have been multiple ships named USS Yorktown but the one that was in service in the 1990s was a cruiser. There have been 2 carriers named USS Yorktown, one was sunk in 1942 and the other decommissioned in 1970.
It was originally reported that the ship had to be towed back to port but there is some disagreement as to whether or not that actually happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The proper way to pay for this would be to take the expense of TSA security and pay for it with a surcharge on every ticket sold, instead of via the general tax fund.
There is a surcharge called the "September 11th Security Fee" for the TSA on every plane ticket. It's just that airlines include all the mandatory taxes & fees with the advertised ticket price. In 2016 the TSA collected about $3.7 billion from the fees which is about half of their budget.
Whats the different between Xbox Gold and Xbox Pass?
Xbox Live Gold is required for multiplayer. It gives you 4 free games a month. Sometimes the games are good, but sometimes its not unusual for me to not like any of the games for the month.
Xbox Game Pass will give you access to a larger library of over 100 games at a time but you will still need to subscribe to Gold to play multiplayer. Much of the value here will depend on the exact titles which haven't been announced. It will probably be like EA Access where you get lots of good games but not games that have been released in the last 9 months or so.
"Each week, Xbox Live Gold members can save up to 50-75%" Pass saves you 20%
Again, the titles being discounted here really matter. If the game pass gives you 20% off a $40 or $60 title then to me that's better than 75% off of a $5 title. However, if you were subscribed to Game Pass and have access to a game then you don't have any immediate incentive to buy the game.
Here is the actual report: State of Global Air 2017
You can get a Bluetooth Casette Adapter https://www.amazon.com/ION-Aud...
Not a lot of ocean front property in Oklahoma and in Texas the shorelines are already dotted with oil rigs. Last I checked oil companies weren't big fans of wind power. (pun slightly intended) Yeah they have on-shore wind but that's not the same thing.
It's not as if there are so many oil rigs in Texas that there isn't enough room for wind turbines. The ocean is really big and the Gulf a Mexico is relatively shallow. Most of the oil rigs are built far enough offshore that they aren't visible from the shoreline.
US leads in total wind capacity but not per capita or as a percentage of total energy produced.
total renewables by country
Different countries face different challenges so there isn't really point in comparing wind by itself, you need to look at their entire energy production. A country like Iceland is much greener than the US for energy production but doesn't have wind production at all. If you look at all renewable resources the US is well behind most of Europe. Also China is not ahead of the US in wind production but they have much more hydopower.
Amazon wouldn't but the owner of the book would have the right to reclaim their property. If you refuse they could come into your house and take it back. It would end up being the same as if you bought stolen property, the rightful owner is entitled to get the item back. The only reason they wouldn't raid your house to reclaim the item is because it isn't worth the trouble and expense for a $10 item.
As a sports fan I don't see how this is a good deal. Right now I can watch all of ESPN's content that isn't air on TV with the ESPN app. If Amazon buys the streaming rights I will have to pay an extra fee to Amazon to watch it. I also will have to keep paying ESPN indirectly through my cable company because Amazon isn't trying to buy the rights to the better games that are aired on TV. So to keep seeing everything I watch now I will end up paying both companies.
They don't spend as much on advertising and they don't play nicely with the US Carriers so you have to buy it directly from them. Past versions of their phones don't work on Verizon and T-mobile networks (I haven't read up on the 3T to know if that is still the case). Those things keep them from being as well known as some of the other manufacturers.
I own a OnePlus 3 and I don't have any complaints with it.
OnePlus 3 is $399
OnePlus 3t starts at $439
Its only $40 more, not $100.
It seems to me that with this app you can now watch standard videos with a device that effectively have a large screen, is portable, and doesn't use much storage space.
Without VR you don't have anything that does all three of those. You would have to choose between a mobile device with a small screen for portablity, or a large tv/projector which you can't move to a different room easily.
That seems like a valid use case to me and not something that has to be a fad.
The problem is by colluding with the other providers you prevent customers who want to pay an extra $5 from being able to see it. They end up having to pirate the games or go without watching. If some providers offered it and others didn't then the customer could look at two providers' prices and channels and choose which one is better for them. With collusion both providers will end up with the same content at the same price and you either hurt the customers who don't want to pay the extra $5 or you hurt the customers who want the channel.
About 60% of passengers check a bag if you calculate it out from TSA's numbers
(TSA screened 708 million passengers) / (TSA screened 432 million checked bags) = 0.61
source
So if Delta's passengers check bags at a rate similar to the industry average then they lost about 0.3%, or roughly 1 in every 300 bags.
So I guess if you're in the car business you have to use elevator analogies instead of the obligatory car analogy
Ford added Carplay and Android Auto as at least an option to pretty much all of its 2017 models. That's better than most manufacturers at this point.
See the current lists yourself:
https://www.android.com/auto/
http://www.apple.com/ios/carpl...
Here is Wikipedia's site for most of that:
Gunther, Max (1985). D. B. Cooper: What Really Happened. Chicago: Contemporary Books. ISBN 0-8092-5180-9. (Based on interviews with a woman known as "Clara", who claimed to have discovered an injured Cooper two days after the hijacking and lived with him until he died a decade later; considered a hoax by the FBI.)
There isn't any way to know how much aircraft knowledge he had or how much he planned without asking him. It looks like Wikipedia is using very questionable source about someone who claims to of known him and then cites it as fact.
It would help other investigations much more than the germanwinds flight. Look at SilkAir Flight 185. That flight was intentionally crashed by the pilot but the investigation conclusions are disputed between the NTSB and the Indonesian government. Before the crash the CVR stopped recording and NTSB believes that because you don't hear a click on the voice recorder that the circuit breaker was intentionally pulled by the pilot. If they had a video recorded then there would be conclusive because you would see video of whether or not the pilot intentionally pulled the circuit breaker for the cockpit voice (or video) recorder.
Silk Air 185
More importantly you have other crashes where its hard to tell why a pilot did certain things. If for instance there is a bad cockpit design where the pilot can do touch something by mistake you wouldn't be able to tell from the CVR or FDR. You would just know the controls that were hit, and not who hit them or if they were hit while they were trying to do something else and didn't realize it. With a video recorder you would see exactly what the pilot does, and you wouldn't have to guess from listening to clicks and matching those clicks up to the FDR and a simulator.
Microsoft isn't that much different from Apple for how long their 1st generation tablets worked with new OS versions. Here is what I pieced together from wikipedia of how long it took to get to unsupported for the different tablets.
Apple
ipad released April 2010
IOS 6 released June 2012 without support for original ipad.
Microsoft
Surface RT released Oct 26, 2012
Windows 10 planned to be released in 2015 without support
Google
Nexus 7 released July 2012
Supports latest Andriod.
Samsung
Galaxy Tab released Sept 2010
Andriod 3.0 Honeycomb released Feb 2011, not compatible.
For MOST of those playing MMORPGs its a hobby or a diversion. Like sewing, knitting, pottery, computer game design etc. A potter, can make a vase identical to the one that has been sold for $10 000 (US). If he puts flowers on it, and keeps it on his mantle, its not income. Just like if you were to write a computer game, until you convert it to income, its just a hobby.
This isn't the same thing. There is no transaction occurring, so there is nothing to tax. If you keep it on your mantle it shouldn't be taxable, but if you sell it or trade it away then there is a transaction and its taxable.
This article also discusses the same topic. The author gives a good discussion on the topic and calls to ask the irs about the status of taxing his gaming income. The person he eventually talks with tells him that it probably is taxable income but that was just their opinion and its not covered by any existing ruling. He could pay a $650 fee to get a ruling if he wanted to.
This is almost certainly mistaken, simply because there is no evidence of any extinction - everything didn't die!
How do you know there isn't any examples of any extinction? There have been many mass extinction events and the parent didn't mention when this was to occur. The time period that this was supposed to occur was about 500 million years ago preceding a time when complex multicelled organisms appeared.
And unless there was at least some open water to allow gaseous exchange, everything beyond bacteria would probably have died. So, the idea of a totally frozen Earth is not feasible.
Only microbial life would of have survived, that is part of the theory. Even then it would be difficult though.
Its been awhile but this is essentially the same discussion as we had before .
What Happens To Your Data When You Die?
It even incudes the same jokes about finding grandfather's porn collection.