'05 Taurus. Every once in a while it gets all awesome and clicks off every 1/3 gallon unless I pump the first few gallons on that third ultra slow setting. My '01 kia spectra did the same thing
Since gas nozzles are basically standardized and tend to click off at the same point, this isn't a terrible assumption.
That's not necessarily a good way to do it either. Half the time the pump clicks off after ~8-10 gallons pumped, which I then have to top off the remaining 4-6 gallons. Sometimes is makes it closer to the 13 gallon mark before clicking off. I pretty much use the same gas station every time I fill up too.
It'd probably be more accurate to 'top off' as much as possible. Your tank can only hold so much, so ensuring it's completely full every time should provide more consistent results.
I'm not trying to defend texting while driving...I never do it myself. However, I have to disagree with this:
I can only imagine how much worse 'texting while driving' is.
Talking while driving requires two way communication (obviously). Without a handsfree unit, it requires you to hold your phone in a specific position as well. However, texting is something that doesn't require an immediate response, nor does it require you pay much attention to it. You can easily put your phone down for a minute, and you can pick it up at the next red light. If you're proficient at texting, you don't even have to look at the screen while doing it.
That said, I'm glad laws are heading this direction. People should be putting 100% of their attention on the road. Heck just last night on the local news there was a jackass kid who dropped his phone and ran into a school bus scrambling for it. What an idiot.
This article probably should have been linked in the summary. It explains what else the $9.95/month gets you. And before people freak out, the 'unique' gear is supposed to just be shinier, not statistically better.
...if I see Elton John's name, I know what to expect...That's why I use a different nickname on every site I participate in.
Elton John uses the same name on everything. Albums, on tour, DVDs, T-Shirts, etc. If he used a separate nickname for everything else he does, like you do, he'd use Elton John for Albums, Frank Timber while on tour, Jack Barnson for DVDs, Peter McDoodle on t-shirts, etc. Using a different nickname on each site is no different than posting as AC. You're not putting any reputation behind your name at all, so what's the point?
Being logged in as Toleraen to every site I participate in would be like releasing albums, dvds, tour tickets, t-shirts, etc as Toleraen. If I wanted to go to a movie, maybe I'd put on a hat and some glasses and go incognito, aka, AC.
The point would be that if you do that, I'll read it.
I really don't care if you read what I write. I just never understood the "All ACs are 'losers that post utter nonsense'" argument. I've never seen it explained by anything other than broad generalizations about all ACs. Plenty of AC posts have good information in them.
...I don't have time to read every single post on Slashdot...
So why don't you just read at +3, leaving ACs at their normal default? I've posted plenty of posts as AC that get moderated to +5. Those posts were obviously insightful, and not 'utter nonsense'. You're skipping past good, relevant information in doing that. If you just want to get to the good stuff, it seems like keeping the good AC posts visible would be the common sense thing to do.
I'm not trying to troll or pick a fight, I just plain don't understand that line of thinking. Then again I read at -1 (being the good little/. moderator that I am...). When I come across the inevitable troll thread, I just minimize the thread and move on. Quick, easy, and seemingly more informative.
So tell me, what's the difference between some anonymous person with a randomly generated user name, and some anonymous person that that didn't feel like adding even more user names to the/. database? Aren't they both anonymous (to you) in the end? How is the content of their post any less relevant? If it's junk (gnaa style), it's going to get moderated down anyway.
Besides, some of us actually use one common, original, uniquely identifying pseudonym for everything. It wouldn't be particularly difficult to identify who I am in RL. There are times when there is certain information I want to post, but I don't want it associated with me. What's the point in bothering to log off, log in as a different user, post, log off, and log back in? A simple check of the "Post Anon" box works much easier.
I'm guessing the reason they wait for one day is for their own internal QA process (hear me out!). It can be much easier to test and verify 10 patches at once, instead of testing one at a time. I would assume (hope) that they build systems with the new patches, and stress the systems for a certain amount of time to make sure their compliant with their own internal standards. Testing them all separately as they come out would require a lot more resources, and could end up taking even longer.
Obviously take that with a grain of salt, since we've all seen the 'emergency patch after patch day' deal. Just my take.
Well, since before each trailer a big "THE FOLLOWING PREVIEW HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR" MPAA screen shows up, I can't help but think that yes, it is an Americanism. And thankfully we have only the MPAA to blame!
If an 18-year-old goes to a party and drinks, is everyone over 21 who is at that party legally responsible?
Whoever's house/apartment it is gets the big ticket. Everyone else there can get the "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" ticket too, if they don't run fast enough. At least that's how it was in the college town I lived in (Wisconsin).
Good call...thanks. The link with the main story was blocked (thank you blog.washingtonpost...), so I couldn't RTFA. TFS said 'pictures', so that was my best guess.
Sure, you could load up Counter Strike and "know" how to play it after a few rounds, but to actually excel on a regular basis takes a whole lot of practice. I've been playing CS for 7 years now and I usually don't get much higher than a 3:2 kill ratio.
I would argue that most games in general are casual unfriendly. Whenever there's some sort of competition, it's just going to take a long time to get really good at it. Heck anything that requires skill over chance is just going to take a while.
And skill definitely is a very large asset in MMOs. Unless you're completely hardcore, raiding 40 hours a week, time isn't always your biggest asset. You can get loads done in short amounts of time, if you know what you're doing. When I played EQ I could three-box an instanced dungeon faster than if I was in a 6 person pickup group. I could spend all the time in the world waiting for a good group, but why bother when I could do it myself? Skill definitely helped more than the amount of time I had, which wasn't much.
No, I'm guessing that in the other pictures (since we only get to see the least offending picture of the bunch) show underage drinkers at the party. If someone with a teaching degree (or voc rehab, etc) is caught providing alcohol to minors, they get their certification revoked. I had a roommate in college with that situation...which got very annoying.
Still, since I'm guessing the 'underage' drinkers at the party weren't holding their IDs out in the picture, it makes for a ridiculous accusation that the school could take away her degree without proof that there were underage drinkers there.
I didn't say EVERY gaming session was going to be twenty minutes. If you only have twenty minutes to play though, and you're camped out near some mobs, it's not too tough to get a little xp before your twenty minutes are up. As in, you can solo very effectively in WoW. This is opposed to games like EQ, where 20 minutes isn't really going to get you anywhere.
So yes, I got to around level 50 in WoW by playing very casually, maybe 5 - 10 hours a week over a few months, tops. A lot of those hours were 20-30 minute sessions between classes. By MMOG standards, that is pretty casual.
8 - WoW is one of the most "Casual friendly" MMOs out there. You can just log in, solo for 20 minutes, and log off. With the "rested" xp bonuses, it makes leveling up as a casual player very easy. I haven't played in over a year, so it might have changed...but that's how I remember it. I had no trouble reaching ~level 50 with minimal time invested. If you want to raid for epic loot, then you're looking at a significant increase in required time to play.
Dig around, there are MMOs that meet all 8 of your criteria.
1 & 2 - Several MMOs have trials that you can play. Just off the top of my head I know that EQ1 and WoW have free trials, I'm sure there are others. I think I played EVE for some period for free as well.
3 - If there actually were millions of Linux using MMOGers out there, they'd make a client. But there aren't (not trying to troll, just being realistic). Cedega/Wine has several MMOs running as a secondary option.
4 - I don't remember ever playing any form of deathmatch(pvp?) in any MMOG. PvE is the focus of most MMOGs. PvP is usually a side game you can participate in if you choose.
5 - Are you saying that warp drives and ansibles are somehow more realistic than a teleportation spell? There are plenty of Sci-Fi based MMOGs...SWG, AO, EVE, TMO, etc.
6 - I think WoW is the only one to ever actually do it. Are there MMOs with tons of spyware all over?
7 - I've played several MMOs on my crappy laptop with Intel Graphics, including WoW and EQ, among others.
Somehow I doubt that your dollar an issue makes magazines much money. how much would it cost to print 100 full color pages (plus shipping) per issue? the cost of printed periodicals has long been subsidized by advertisements. The subscriber base only allows magazines to charge more for advertising space.
Really? It's been ~6 years since I was in high school, but I know that each year we had to have our parents sign an agreement to allow us access to the schools computers and the Internet. The terms on what we could do on the computers was pretty well defined on that sheet of paper.
Indeed, it would take a bot a while to figure out players betting strategies, and of course the bots can't get pocket aces every time either. A wall hack would do wonders though!
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'05 Taurus. Every once in a while it gets all awesome and clicks off every 1/3 gallon unless I pump the first few gallons on that third ultra slow setting. My '01 kia spectra did the same thing
Since gas nozzles are basically standardized and tend to click off at the same point, this isn't a terrible assumption.
That's not necessarily a good way to do it either. Half the time the pump clicks off after ~8-10 gallons pumped, which I then have to top off the remaining 4-6 gallons. Sometimes is makes it closer to the 13 gallon mark before clicking off. I pretty much use the same gas station every time I fill up too.
It'd probably be more accurate to 'top off' as much as possible. Your tank can only hold so much, so ensuring it's completely full every time should provide more consistent results.
Because it was designed for a console
Halo was designed for the PC. It was dumbed down to console level when MS purchased Bungie.
I'm not trying to defend texting while driving...I never do it myself. However, I have to disagree with this:
I can only imagine how much worse 'texting while driving' is.
Talking while driving requires two way communication (obviously). Without a handsfree unit, it requires you to hold your phone in a specific position as well. However, texting is something that doesn't require an immediate response, nor does it require you pay much attention to it. You can easily put your phone down for a minute, and you can pick it up at the next red light. If you're proficient at texting, you don't even have to look at the screen while doing it.
That said, I'm glad laws are heading this direction. People should be putting 100% of their attention on the road. Heck just last night on the local news there was a jackass kid who dropped his phone and ran into a school bus scrambling for it. What an idiot.
64GB should be close enough
...and then it's clarified later in the article. see the user comments.
This article probably should have been linked in the summary. It explains what else the $9.95/month gets you. And before people freak out, the 'unique' gear is supposed to just be shinier, not statistically better.
...if I see Elton John's name, I know what to expect...That's why I use a different nickname on every site I participate in.
...I don't have time to read every single post on Slashdot...
/. moderator that I am...). When I come across the inevitable troll thread, I just minimize the thread and move on. Quick, easy, and seemingly more informative.
Elton John uses the same name on everything. Albums, on tour, DVDs, T-Shirts, etc. If he used a separate nickname for everything else he does, like you do, he'd use Elton John for Albums, Frank Timber while on tour, Jack Barnson for DVDs, Peter McDoodle on t-shirts, etc. Using a different nickname on each site is no different than posting as AC. You're not putting any reputation behind your name at all, so what's the point?
Being logged in as Toleraen to every site I participate in would be like releasing albums, dvds, tour tickets, t-shirts, etc as Toleraen. If I wanted to go to a movie, maybe I'd put on a hat and some glasses and go incognito, aka, AC.
The point would be that if you do that, I'll read it.
I really don't care if you read what I write. I just never understood the "All ACs are 'losers that post utter nonsense'" argument. I've never seen it explained by anything other than broad generalizations about all ACs. Plenty of AC posts have good information in them.
So why don't you just read at +3, leaving ACs at their normal default? I've posted plenty of posts as AC that get moderated to +5. Those posts were obviously insightful, and not 'utter nonsense'. You're skipping past good, relevant information in doing that. If you just want to get to the good stuff, it seems like keeping the good AC posts visible would be the common sense thing to do.
I'm not trying to troll or pick a fight, I just plain don't understand that line of thinking. Then again I read at -1 (being the good little
So tell me, what's the difference between some anonymous person with a randomly generated user name, and some anonymous person that that didn't feel like adding even more user names to the /. database? Aren't they both anonymous (to you) in the end? How is the content of their post any less relevant? If it's junk (gnaa style), it's going to get moderated down anyway.
Besides, some of us actually use one common, original, uniquely identifying pseudonym for everything. It wouldn't be particularly difficult to identify who I am in RL. There are times when there is certain information I want to post, but I don't want it associated with me. What's the point in bothering to log off, log in as a different user, post, log off, and log back in? A simple check of the "Post Anon" box works much easier.
I'm guessing the reason they wait for one day is for their own internal QA process (hear me out!). It can be much easier to test and verify 10 patches at once, instead of testing one at a time. I would assume (hope) that they build systems with the new patches, and stress the systems for a certain amount of time to make sure their compliant with their own internal standards. Testing them all separately as they come out would require a lot more resources, and could end up taking even longer.
Obviously take that with a grain of salt, since we've all seen the 'emergency patch after patch day' deal. Just my take.
Well, since before each trailer a big "THE FOLLOWING PREVIEW HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR" MPAA screen shows up, I can't help but think that yes, it is an Americanism. And thankfully we have only the MPAA to blame!
If an 18-year-old goes to a party and drinks, is everyone over 21 who is at that party legally responsible?
Whoever's house/apartment it is gets the big ticket. Everyone else there can get the "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" ticket too, if they don't run fast enough. At least that's how it was in the college town I lived in (Wisconsin).
Good call...thanks. The link with the main story was blocked (thank you blog.washingtonpost...), so I couldn't RTFA. TFS said 'pictures', so that was my best guess.
Sure, you could load up Counter Strike and "know" how to play it after a few rounds, but to actually excel on a regular basis takes a whole lot of practice. I've been playing CS for 7 years now and I usually don't get much higher than a 3:2 kill ratio.
I would argue that most games in general are casual unfriendly. Whenever there's some sort of competition, it's just going to take a long time to get really good at it. Heck anything that requires skill over chance is just going to take a while.
And skill definitely is a very large asset in MMOs. Unless you're completely hardcore, raiding 40 hours a week, time isn't always your biggest asset. You can get loads done in short amounts of time, if you know what you're doing. When I played EQ I could three-box an instanced dungeon faster than if I was in a 6 person pickup group. I could spend all the time in the world waiting for a good group, but why bother when I could do it myself? Skill definitely helped more than the amount of time I had, which wasn't much.
No, I'm guessing that in the other pictures (since we only get to see the least offending picture of the bunch) show underage drinkers at the party. If someone with a teaching degree (or voc rehab, etc) is caught providing alcohol to minors, they get their certification revoked. I had a roommate in college with that situation...which got very annoying.
Still, since I'm guessing the 'underage' drinkers at the party weren't holding their IDs out in the picture, it makes for a ridiculous accusation that the school could take away her degree without proof that there were underage drinkers there.
I didn't say EVERY gaming session was going to be twenty minutes. If you only have twenty minutes to play though, and you're camped out near some mobs, it's not too tough to get a little xp before your twenty minutes are up. As in, you can solo very effectively in WoW. This is opposed to games like EQ, where 20 minutes isn't really going to get you anywhere.
So yes, I got to around level 50 in WoW by playing very casually, maybe 5 - 10 hours a week over a few months, tops. A lot of those hours were 20-30 minute sessions between classes. By MMOG standards, that is pretty casual.
I submit that they will use gedit when describing GNOME, and kedit when describing KDE.
8 - WoW is one of the most "Casual friendly" MMOs out there. You can just log in, solo for 20 minutes, and log off. With the "rested" xp bonuses, it makes leveling up as a casual player very easy. I haven't played in over a year, so it might have changed...but that's how I remember it. I had no trouble reaching ~level 50 with minimal time invested. If you want to raid for epic loot, then you're looking at a significant increase in required time to play.
Dig around, there are MMOs that meet all 8 of your criteria.
1 & 2 - Several MMOs have trials that you can play. Just off the top of my head I know that EQ1 and WoW have free trials, I'm sure there are others. I think I played EVE for some period for free as well.
3 - If there actually were millions of Linux using MMOGers out there, they'd make a client. But there aren't (not trying to troll, just being realistic). Cedega/Wine has several MMOs running as a secondary option.
4 - I don't remember ever playing any form of deathmatch(pvp?) in any MMOG. PvE is the focus of most MMOGs. PvP is usually a side game you can participate in if you choose.
5 - Are you saying that warp drives and ansibles are somehow more realistic than a teleportation spell? There are plenty of Sci-Fi based MMOGs...SWG, AO, EVE, TMO, etc.
6 - I think WoW is the only one to ever actually do it. Are there MMOs with tons of spyware all over?
7 - I've played several MMOs on my crappy laptop with Intel Graphics, including WoW and EQ, among others.
Somehow I doubt that your dollar an issue makes magazines much money. how much would it cost to print 100 full color pages (plus shipping) per issue? the cost of printed periodicals has long been subsidized by advertisements. The subscriber base only allows magazines to charge more for advertising space.
I.E., Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Pretty much common sense right there.
Really? It's been ~6 years since I was in high school, but I know that each year we had to have our parents sign an agreement to allow us access to the schools computers and the Internet. The terms on what we could do on the computers was pretty well defined on that sheet of paper.
Indeed, it would take a bot a while to figure out players betting strategies, and of course the bots can't get pocket aces every time either. A wall hack would do wonders though!