As an american with friends in Canada... that is complete and utter bullshit. I can get an appointment on the same day with either of my doctors ( general internist or specialist [migraines] ) for a visit. My friends moved to Canada from California for a job. They loathe the health system, the waiting lists. It's too bad.
What is it that makes you feel your time is worth $800.00 an hour? (I arrived at this figure by timing how long my physician spends with me vs. how much I pay them.)
Here is what you are missing: most of what you (or rather, your insurance plan/HMO) 'pays them' doesn't actually go to them. Sometime actually sit down and read through your insurance receipts. There are huge discounts between your HMO and your provider, sometimes upwards of 50% the cost of the service. Secondly, the doctor pays for the rent of the facility, the secretary at the door, the nursing staff, etc. So cut that $800 by 25-50%, knock off rent, pay the secretary and a few nurses, and you are getting to the realm of what a good (Mechanical/Aerospace) engineer with a PhD might be making once you take into account how many years the doctor spent in med school/interning.
And seeing as a lot of cell phones out there (Blackjack, Q, anything running Windows Mobile) are essentially windows devices already made by windows vendors... Microsoft is not new to the cell phone game. If anything it is old hat to them. They definitely have a leg up over Apple, who only has the ROKR (which was a failure any way you look at it) to date.
Yeah, I'm one of those people that still proudly plays regular EQ. Been playing it since the first expansion (Kunark). World of Warcraft - I played it since day 1, hit 60 in under 2 months (with a wife and young son... without I would have hit it a lot sooner), sold the account. It was way too easy for me. But let me remove some of the innacuracies from your post:
eliminated corpse runs (talk to a spirit healer)
If you want **no** penalies than you **cannot** talk to the spirit healer. Otherwise you **do** have penalties. And EQ eliminated the corpse run with the guild lobby system, where you can summon your corpse from any zone in the game.
xp penalties
With the guild hall, this is a moot point, summon and rez. It might take a few minutes but you will get 96% of your experiance back.
easily obtainable mounts, flight paths, warlock summons, now meeting stones at instance entrances
Mounts are not level capped, so you can have them at level 1 (Unlike WoW). Not hard to get. There are multiple tiers from 10k-100k platinum. 10k plat is not hard to come by anymore. That's less than 10 hours of grinding in a good group. Magicians in EQ can summon players in a zone, not quite a warlock summon but close. Druids and Wizards can port across zones and egress (port to a safe spot in the zone), which has no equivalent in WoW. EQ also has a cross-zone 'Looking for Group' tool where you can post what kind of group you are looking for, or what player(s) you need to fill your group. Something WoW also does not have.
Grinds- the leveling grind is fairly easy, and made easier in the expansion.
You can grind a character 0-70 in EQ quicker than 0-70 in WoW. When Ykesha came out, a froglok cleric was ground this way in about 24 hours. Recently posted on Digg, the first level 70 in WoW (with the assistance of a bunch of guild members, the frog cleric only had **1** person helping him) was ground that high in about 20 hours. I doubt the first 60 would come in 4 hours...
There. Mostly debunked. EQ is a challenge, but some of us like a challenge.
Yeah. The word on the street is they ran out of investor money and had to push the product to market a little early. That being said, I still enjoyed the (closed) beta I participated in and will probably pick the game up soon myself.
Yeah, but for all intensive purposes it shouldn't be rotating in for the hit. IIRC the kill vehicle has laterally mounted squibs to adjust trajectory, which would induce very, very minor moments (negligible when compared to the order of KEtrans).
It doesn't matter anyway because Microsoft is fucked because their ability to attract top talent has been eroded by Google.
That's funny, because Microsoft still does attract talent. They do a lot of R&D work that is more than just coding web applications, which seems to be the limit that Google will commit to.
Microsoft's offers of stock are less attractive when you see that the stock isn't going anywhere.
That is even funnier, because Microsoft stock made 12% last year and Google stock made only 9%.
In the next few years, there are more countries than just Russia that we will have to be worried about defending ourselves from... the treaty covered our whole ABM defense system, regardless of the fact that other threats might emerge.
Sorry man, if I was in his shoes after much string-pulling and financial handwaving I would probably come to the same conclusion. The welfare of my wife and two children (and last tiny remnants of college loans and the mortgage, when I hit 31... ) is way more important than a **suborbital** joyride.
Or go to a real auction website that is aimed (almost) exclusively at gaming 'properties'... www.playerauctions.com... its what I've used to sell various accounts when I'm tired of (insert MMO here).
The comment from Jon, Dec. 29 2006: They don't always round up. If the mills digit is 5 or higher, they round up to the nearest penny, otherwise they round down.
If you want proof, here is the info from 153 of my last 164 fillups (forgot to record 11 of them). This goes back to July, 2001. Cumulative overcharge due to rounding: $0.051629. Note that some of the below are displayed in scientific notation.
He then list his last 153 gas pump transactions to confirm. If you really wanted to game the system you could fill it up so the mills digit was under 5 and 'screw over' the gas pumps. But if getting screwed over by half a cent really concerns you, you probably have bigger problems...
There is no reason you couldn't make a WiiMote and sensor bar for a XBOX360 (or playstation for that reason). Then you'd have the best of both worlds - all available input methods, and 1080p.
They are aiming at 20 years in the future. This is a test release on a single aircraft. They want the system to be feasible and cheap in 20 years, when they feel it will probably be needed (and yea, saleable to the middle east / Africa / etc)
Ugh. I'm horrible at making these sorts of guesstimates. Well, Astronautix lists the F-1 as having 94.07:1 Thrust to Weight. (1,740,134 lbf/~18,500lbs) Looking at the engine, it looks like solid stainless steel and either copper or brass. So... how does 100 to 150 lbs sound as a range? Which would give it a thrust to weight ratio of somewhere between 75:1 to 50:1.
At the moment its a piece of crap (thrust to weight wise) - it is a heat sink design, so there is extra copper around the throat of the engine to just sink the heat, versus a F1 which was regeneratively cooled. The next iterative phase will be regeneratively cooled, which will reduce the weight of the engine.
that's why I said to use your critical reading skills. He's right about making methane... the process exists, the process has been carried out here on earth with materials we have verified on Mars with a spectrometer. But a lot of what he says... well, I have strong reservations (as an aerospace engineer).
But it's still not being developed for a traditional launch system.
CEV/Constellation is becoming our "traditional" launch system.
If you have the actual ratios, feels free to chip in.
Hehe... no I don't. XCOR is keeping the numbers close to their chest. As they should... the numbers belong to NASA under contract. But you can back out a rough guesstimate since they gave you the thrust.
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As an american with friends in Canada... that is complete and utter bullshit. I can get an appointment on the same day with either of my doctors ( general internist or specialist [migraines] ) for a visit. My friends moved to Canada from California for a job. They loathe the health system, the waiting lists. It's too bad.
What is it that makes you feel your time is worth $800.00 an hour? (I arrived at this figure by timing how long my physician spends with me vs. how much I pay them.)
Here is what you are missing: most of what you (or rather, your insurance plan/HMO) 'pays them' doesn't actually go to them. Sometime actually sit down and read through your insurance receipts. There are huge discounts between your HMO and your provider, sometimes upwards of 50% the cost of the service. Secondly, the doctor pays for the rent of the facility, the secretary at the door, the nursing staff, etc. So cut that $800 by 25-50%, knock off rent, pay the secretary and a few nurses, and you are getting to the realm of what a good (Mechanical/Aerospace) engineer with a PhD might be making once you take into account how many years the doctor spent in med school/interning.
He didn't break his brother ...
And seeing as a lot of cell phones out there (Blackjack, Q, anything running Windows Mobile) are essentially windows devices already made by windows vendors ... Microsoft is not new to the cell phone game. If anything it is old hat to them. They definitely have a leg up over Apple, who only has the ROKR (which was a failure any way you look at it) to date.
Now bow before your digital rulers!
Yeah, I'm one of those people that still proudly plays regular EQ. Been playing it since the first expansion (Kunark). World of Warcraft - I played it since day 1, hit 60 in under 2 months (with a wife and young son... without I would have hit it a lot sooner), sold the account. It was way too easy for me. But let me remove some of the innacuracies from your post:
...
eliminated corpse runs (talk to a spirit healer)
If you want **no** penalies than you **cannot** talk to the spirit healer. Otherwise you **do** have penalties. And EQ eliminated the corpse run with the guild lobby system, where you can summon your corpse from any zone in the game. xp penalties
With the guild hall, this is a moot point, summon and rez. It might take a few minutes but you will get 96% of your experiance back. easily obtainable mounts, flight paths, warlock summons, now meeting stones at instance entrances
Mounts are not level capped, so you can have them at level 1 (Unlike WoW). Not hard to get. There are multiple tiers from 10k-100k platinum. 10k plat is not hard to come by anymore. That's less than 10 hours of grinding in a good group. Magicians in EQ can summon players in a zone, not quite a warlock summon but close. Druids and Wizards can port across zones and egress (port to a safe spot in the zone), which has no equivalent in WoW. EQ also has a cross-zone 'Looking for Group' tool where you can post what kind of group you are looking for, or what player(s) you need to fill your group. Something WoW also does not have. Grinds- the leveling grind is fairly easy, and made easier in the expansion.
You can grind a character 0-70 in EQ quicker than 0-70 in WoW. When Ykesha came out, a froglok cleric was ground this way in about 24 hours. Recently posted on Digg, the first level 70 in WoW (with the assistance of a bunch of guild members, the frog cleric only had **1** person helping him) was ground that high in about 20 hours. I doubt the first 60 would come in 4 hours
There. Mostly debunked. EQ is a challenge, but some of us like a challenge.
Yeah. The word on the street is they ran out of investor money and had to push the product to market a little early. That being said, I still enjoyed the (closed) beta I participated in and will probably pick the game up soon myself.
Yeah, but for all intensive purposes it shouldn't be rotating in for the hit. IIRC the kill vehicle has laterally mounted squibs to adjust trajectory, which would induce very, very minor moments (negligible when compared to the order of KEtrans).
It doesn't matter anyway because Microsoft is fucked because their ability to attract top talent has been eroded by Google.
That's funny, because Microsoft still does attract talent. They do a lot of R&D work that is more than just coding web applications, which seems to be the limit that Google will commit to.
Microsoft's offers of stock are less attractive when you see that the stock isn't going anywhere.
That is even funnier, because Microsoft stock made 12% last year and Google stock made only 9%.
In the next few years, there are more countries than just Russia that we will have to be worried about defending ourselves from ... the treaty covered our whole ABM defense system, regardless of the fact that other threats might emerge.
It uses kinetic energy to destroy a target (1/2 * m * v**2), no explosives onboard.
Married, with children.
Sorry man, if I was in his shoes after much string-pulling and financial handwaving I would probably come to the same conclusion. The welfare of my wife and two children (and last tiny remnants of college loans and the mortgage, when I hit 31... ) is way more important than a **suborbital** joyride.
Or go to a real auction website that is aimed (almost) exclusively at gaming 'properties' ... www.playerauctions.com ... its what I've used to sell various accounts when I'm tired of (insert MMO here).
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The comment from Jon, Dec. 29 2006:
They don't always round up. If the mills digit is 5 or higher, they round up to the nearest penny, otherwise they round down. If you want proof, here is the info from 153 of my last 164 fillups (forgot to record 11 of them). This goes back to July, 2001. Cumulative overcharge due to rounding: $0.051629. Note that some of the below are displayed in scientific notation.
He then list his last 153 gas pump transactions to confirm. If you really wanted to game the system you could fill it up so the mills digit was under 5 and 'screw over' the gas pumps. But if getting screwed over by half a cent really concerns you, you probably have bigger problems...
Don'tchaknow.
Don't buy cheap-ass $15 wireless routers, for Pete's sakes. You get what you pay for.
There is no reason you couldn't make a WiiMote and sensor bar for a XBOX360 (or playstation for that reason). Then you'd have the best of both worlds - all available input methods, and 1080p.
The result is the same, if you catch my meaning...
go rent clerks, bloobloo.
Find me a console with a good MMORPG.
There are some things a computer is just better at.
They are aiming at 20 years in the future. This is a test release on a single aircraft. They want the system to be feasible and cheap in 20 years, when they feel it will probably be needed (and yea, saleable to the middle east / Africa / etc)
Ugh. I'm horrible at making these sorts of guesstimates. Well, Astronautix lists the F-1 as having 94.07:1 Thrust to Weight. (1,740,134 lbf/~18,500lbs) Looking at the engine, it looks like solid stainless steel and either copper or brass. So... how does 100 to 150 lbs sound as a range? Which would give it a thrust to weight ratio of somewhere between 75:1 to 50:1.
At the moment its a piece of crap (thrust to weight wise) - it is a heat sink design, so there is extra copper around the throat of the engine to just sink the heat, versus a F1 which was regeneratively cooled. The next iterative phase will be regeneratively cooled, which will reduce the weight of the engine.
that's why I said to use your critical reading skills. He's right about making methane... the process exists, the process has been carried out here on earth with materials we have verified on Mars with a spectrometer. But a lot of what he says... well, I have strong reservations (as an aerospace engineer).
How many million-dollar cruise missiles are you firing a day?
Most likely it will end up as an augment. One of the virtues of this system being, though, it can set up a shot quicker than a Tomahawk.
But it's still not being developed for a traditional launch system.
CEV/Constellation is becoming our "traditional" launch system.
If you have the actual ratios, feels free to chip in.
Hehe... no I don't. XCOR is keeping the numbers close to their chest. As they should... the numbers belong to NASA under contract. But you can back out a rough guesstimate since they gave you the thrust.