True, there still are the "lemons" - both as a "this car is a lemon" and "this make/model/year is a lemon". However, I've ran 50k kilometers in my 1992 car without issues, and with few things more than fuel, oil and water. Most of the time, modern cars need little more than fuel (but in many cases when an old car would chug along, these new cars stop).
You get one lowly frigate for free. In one or two days of missions, you can get a better frigate with all the necessary equipment.
And yes, most corporation will give you money for a lowly frigate - you can fully equip one tackling frigate with less money than what you get from running a level 3 mission (missions running from level 1 to 4). Those 50,000 ISK we're talking about for a tackling frigate are nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's like being a clan member in a WoW clan and receiving a one-handed, level 15 sword and a similar shield for free.
Corporations also build things, and might have tens of frigates already built for profit.
One week is enough to grind your skills to do something useful. Maybe a couple of days would be enough, or maybe you could get useful with the original skills.
After all, a lowly frigate with a jump device interdictor is enough to pin down a battleship, and the big guns of a battleship are almost unusable against a small and agile target as a frigate. True, you'd only be the tackler and not dish any damage, but you'd be as important as the people doing the shooting.
As for skills, you only get 5% out of every additional skill level (and every additional skill level costs much more than the previous one), so as a new player you're only 5% to 20% weaker than the most seasoned veteran there is (so three-four new players could easily beat a seasoned veteran, assuming they're using somewhat similar ships and weapons). Compare to WoW (as everyone likes to do comparation with WoW)
Cortez with 600 men, a couple dozen of horses and a few cannons conquered the Mayans and sent home galleon after galleon of gold. The British East India Company was one of the richest companies in the Britain during its heyday, Jamaica (Westward Islands I think) sent to the British riches as sugar and molasses and this and that.
Colonizing other places was as much profit-driven as politics-driven.
Yellow allows you to cross IF YOU COULDN'T STOP IN TIME. Red doesn't allow you to cross, even if you couldn't stop in time.
Long yellows allows one to stop easily, and are just as good for the bottom line of the police (same fine I think)
Silly me for not reading the article.
This compares the photovoltaics and nuclear reactors, and it seems photovoltaics are becoming cheaper. Active solar water heating is even cheaper and more efficient - as long as there is sun.
Never knew photovoltaics are more "popular" than nuclear energy in sunny days
Roundabouts require space (that might not be available). Also, roundabouts slows general traffic on high traffic roads (in this respect, green wave semaphores work better).
However, roundabouts allow drivers on "yield" roads much easier left turns on high traffic roads (I know, I used to drive one before and after a roundabout was constructed).
Also, traffic lights are friendlier for pedestrians on high traffic roads.
But in cold and rainy climates, especially when electricity is used when it's cold outside (as opposed to when it's hot outside), nuclear can be much better than solar.
Giant squids that swallow ocean liners?
Some people with mod points need a whoosh. Ocean liners are some of the biggest ships that cruise the oceans (and due to the very importance of their cargo, tend to be some of the toughest). Also, they are very seaworthy, as their draft don't vary much depending on their load levels (unlike a tanker, cargo ship and so on).
I've found Max Payne to have an interesting story (or at least, a pretty interesting book with moving dialogues). Or maybe not interesting, but I remember it even now, years and years after playing it.
As for RTS games with RPG add-ons, Warcraft 3 had heroes, just like Battle for Middle Earth did.
I use tabs to maintain a "history" of sites/pages/threads that I will read in the near future (like I do a google search, open five tabs, from the first tab open another three tabs, and I keep web mail open in another tab and so on).
Otherwise, the magic in the address bar (quick finder or whatever) - I just type some words and let Firefox suggest the page (or let Google suggest the page)
Does "Intel Core2Duo E6300" rings a bell? What frequency does it run at? This was one of the first Intel processors sold after Netburst (Pentium 4 3600 MHz)
Meanwhile, I've bought an AMD Athlon 4400+ and have been very happy with it - the right performance for the right price, and a very silent cooler (unlike what I was used even on old Pentium 4 processors).
It's more like going to a boxing ring and telling all the people there that pay everything they earn that at most one of them will become world champion, and they'd better not try.
Usually a bunch of kids playing ball on a playground "play" for "fun", and aren't even training or really trying to be the next quarterback or whatever in the next winning team.
(I'm only speaking about my car here)
Yes, the engine has enough power to pull the car with the hand brake on in the first gear, and maybe in the second gear. However, with a properly pulled hand brake (like I'm doing, and not like my wife is doing) in the fourth or fifth gear the engine doesn't have enough torque for both driving AND handbrake pulling.
I often park the car on inclines and as such I'm always pulling hard on the hand brake (so hard sometime my wife needs both hands to free it).
The parking brake has low stopping power (I remember my old car isn't having much over 15% parking brake "efficiency" - compared to over 70% for service brake (brake pedal) for new cars. That makes the handbraking deceleration some 4 times slower than brake pedal deceleration, and that increases the braking distance 16-fold.
So, unless you're going down a steep hill, it's possible to stop the car with the hand brake - it just takes a lot of space.
(or he was pressing the gas pedal)
However, I remember a case when a Renault VelSatis had a similar problem: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/07/satanic_renault/ (as with other articles from theregister, take it with a grain of salt)
Better parenting skills usually comes with the kid being brought up in a "social" environment (many kids of different ages). Due to age-segregated learning, this happens less and less. I'd say current parents are even worse than the parents of old, even though the information on how to be a good parent is easy to COME BY USING COMPUTERS (not to mention lots of literature in bookstores).
Easy access to information doesn't make one a better parent (or a better child).
That initiative usually comes from culture (house-hold culture) or... let's call it peer pressure. The chances for a kid having initiative to learn on his own (but hasn't learned this things from someone in the family) are slim to none.
I live in another country (Romania), and the total money paid by insurances have about doubled, with a doubling of the insurance rates. I don't think many people would benefit from even the old maximum, not to mention the new much increased one.
I should mention that the insurance was mandatory from a long time ago, at least 7 years (but probably more than 15).
Italians flew some World War 2 bombing missions (with civilian crafts) that spent about 25 hours in the air. There was an around the world flight without refueling, so the technology is certainly there.
So Cuba is a Second World Country, just like North Korea, Vietnam? West Germany was a First World Country, while East Germany was a Second World country?
Where would you classify Switzerland (which was the definition of neutrality in the last couple of hundreds of years, if not more?) Also a Third World country?
Most of the time I spend in a station is dedicated to going to the desk, paying, looking around if I happen to need/want something from the fuel station's shop, and going back to the car (maybe cleaning windows or checking the tire pressure). Fueling is quick, and I wouldn't care if it took thrice as much.
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True, there still are the "lemons" - both as a "this car is a lemon" and "this make/model/year is a lemon". However, I've ran 50k kilometers in my 1992 car without issues, and with few things more than fuel, oil and water. Most of the time, modern cars need little more than fuel (but in many cases when an old car would chug along, these new cars stop).
You get one lowly frigate for free. In one or two days of missions, you can get a better frigate with all the necessary equipment.
And yes, most corporation will give you money for a lowly frigate - you can fully equip one tackling frigate with less money than what you get from running a level 3 mission (missions running from level 1 to 4). Those 50,000 ISK we're talking about for a tackling frigate are nothing in the grand scheme of things. It's like being a clan member in a WoW clan and receiving a one-handed, level 15 sword and a similar shield for free.
Corporations also build things, and might have tens of frigates already built for profit.
One week is enough to grind your skills to do something useful. Maybe a couple of days would be enough, or maybe you could get useful with the original skills.
After all, a lowly frigate with a jump device interdictor is enough to pin down a battleship, and the big guns of a battleship are almost unusable against a small and agile target as a frigate. True, you'd only be the tackler and not dish any damage, but you'd be as important as the people doing the shooting.
As for skills, you only get 5% out of every additional skill level (and every additional skill level costs much more than the previous one), so as a new player you're only 5% to 20% weaker than the most seasoned veteran there is (so three-four new players could easily beat a seasoned veteran, assuming they're using somewhat similar ships and weapons). Compare to WoW (as everyone likes to do comparation with WoW)
Cortez with 600 men, a couple dozen of horses and a few cannons conquered the Mayans and sent home galleon after galleon of gold.
The British East India Company was one of the richest companies in the Britain during its heyday, Jamaica (Westward Islands I think) sent to the British riches as sugar and molasses and this and that.
Colonizing other places was as much profit-driven as politics-driven.
Yellow allows you to cross IF YOU COULDN'T STOP IN TIME. Red doesn't allow you to cross, even if you couldn't stop in time.
Long yellows allows one to stop easily, and are just as good for the bottom line of the police (same fine I think)
Silly me for not reading the article.
This compares the photovoltaics and nuclear reactors, and it seems photovoltaics are becoming cheaper. Active solar water heating is even cheaper and more efficient - as long as there is sun.
Never knew photovoltaics are more "popular" than nuclear energy in sunny days
Roundabouts require space (that might not be available). Also, roundabouts slows general traffic on high traffic roads (in this respect, green wave semaphores work better).
However, roundabouts allow drivers on "yield" roads much easier left turns on high traffic roads (I know, I used to drive one before and after a roundabout was constructed).
Also, traffic lights are friendlier for pedestrians on high traffic roads.
As for studies/reports/..., I don't have any
But in cold and rainy climates, especially when electricity is used when it's cold outside (as opposed to when it's hot outside), nuclear can be much better than solar.
Giant squids that swallow ocean liners?
Some people with mod points need a whoosh. Ocean liners are some of the biggest ships that cruise the oceans (and due to the very importance of their cargo, tend to be some of the toughest). Also, they are very seaworthy, as their draft don't vary much depending on their load levels (unlike a tanker, cargo ship and so on).
I've found Max Payne to have an interesting story (or at least, a pretty interesting book with moving dialogues). Or maybe not interesting, but I remember it even now, years and years after playing it.
As for RTS games with RPG add-ons, Warcraft 3 had heroes, just like Battle for Middle Earth did.
I use tabs to maintain a "history" of sites/pages/threads that I will read in the near future (like I do a google search, open five tabs, from the first tab open another three tabs, and I keep web mail open in another tab and so on).
Otherwise, the magic in the address bar (quick finder or whatever) - I just type some words and let Firefox suggest the page (or let Google suggest the page)
Does "Intel Core2Duo E6300" rings a bell? What frequency does it run at? This was one of the first Intel processors sold after Netburst (Pentium 4 3600 MHz)
Meanwhile, I've bought an AMD Athlon 4400+ and have been very happy with it - the right performance for the right price, and a very silent cooler (unlike what I was used even on old Pentium 4 processors).
It's more like going to a boxing ring and telling all the people there that pay everything they earn that at most one of them will become world champion, and they'd better not try.
Usually a bunch of kids playing ball on a playground "play" for "fun", and aren't even training or really trying to be the next quarterback or whatever in the next winning team.
(I'm only speaking about my car here)
Yes, the engine has enough power to pull the car with the hand brake on in the first gear, and maybe in the second gear. However, with a properly pulled hand brake (like I'm doing, and not like my wife is doing) in the fourth or fifth gear the engine doesn't have enough torque for both driving AND handbrake pulling.
I often park the car on inclines and as such I'm always pulling hard on the hand brake (so hard sometime my wife needs both hands to free it).
The parking brake has low stopping power (I remember my old car isn't having much over 15% parking brake "efficiency" - compared to over 70% for service brake (brake pedal) for new cars. That makes the handbraking deceleration some 4 times slower than brake pedal deceleration, and that increases the braking distance 16-fold.
So, unless you're going down a steep hill, it's possible to stop the car with the hand brake - it just takes a lot of space.
(or he was pressing the gas pedal)
However, I remember a case when a Renault VelSatis had a similar problem:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/07/satanic_renault/
(as with other articles from theregister, take it with a grain of salt)
Better parenting skills usually comes with the kid being brought up in a "social" environment (many kids of different ages). Due to age-segregated learning, this happens less and less. I'd say current parents are even worse than the parents of old, even though the information on how to be a good parent is easy to COME BY USING COMPUTERS (not to mention lots of literature in bookstores).
Easy access to information doesn't make one a better parent (or a better child).
That initiative usually comes from culture (house-hold culture) or... let's call it peer pressure. The chances for a kid having initiative to learn on his own (but hasn't learned this things from someone in the family) are slim to none.
I live in another country (Romania), and the total money paid by insurances have about doubled, with a doubling of the insurance rates. I don't think many people would benefit from even the old maximum, not to mention the new much increased one.
I should mention that the insurance was mandatory from a long time ago, at least 7 years (but probably more than 15).
Italians flew some World War 2 bombing missions (with civilian crafts) that spent about 25 hours in the air. There was an around the world flight without refueling, so the technology is certainly there.
So Cuba is a Second World Country, just like North Korea, Vietnam? West Germany was a First World Country, while East Germany was a Second World country?
Where would you classify Switzerland (which was the definition of neutrality in the last couple of hundreds of years, if not more?) Also a Third World country?
Thanks, it was a long time since I've had that problem. Yes, it was related to "only use" capacitors and resistors.
It's Old World, New World and Thirld World
Or use four times the capacitors at 25% capacity and get to 200% efficiency.
Most of the time I spend in a station is dedicated to going to the desk, paying, looking around if I happen to need/want something from the fuel station's shop, and going back to the car (maybe cleaning windows or checking the tire pressure). Fueling is quick, and I wouldn't care if it took thrice as much.
Capacitor storage is 50% efficient