alainbryden
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Comment · 13 years ago
And if you just can't conjure up the skill required to hear the whole song, the main menu fortunately links to its soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dutoncmusic/du-tonc-surging-memories
Comment · 13 years ago
I think you're referring to the "tyranny of the rocket equation". Learned about it on an XKCD what-if: http://what-if.xkcd.com/38/
Comment · 13 years ago
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Comment · 13 years ago
Agreed. A minute of dodging, ship goes zoom, and then a game reset. It'd be nice to at least see a summary of my resources, or a score, or anything.
Comment · 13 years ago
I wonder if anyone has considered buying a Tesla (free recharges for life), driving home every day and finding a way to discharge the battery back into the grid through their meter to negate their home electricity bill.
Comment · 13 years ago
I've been billing daily but yeah, in my limited consulting experience hourly is way more stressful and it isn't practical to have to account for your work at that level of granularity. Especially since this is a question specifically about long term work.
That being said, this question is more useful as an hourly rate since some people set their daily/weekly rate different because they work more or less than an 8 hour day / 40 hour week.
Comment · 13 years ago
"The history of zero is a bit complicated."
I see what you did there
Comment · 13 years ago
The stat sheet (http://autos.nydailynews.com/compare/1525-1606-1613-3976/201...) suggests that the Tesla S has none of the features of the other cars (including some obviously false claims like that it has no driver and passenger seat airbags). All of Tesla's features can be found here http://www.teslamotors.com/models/features Almost every one of those red 'x's placed in the Tesla column is a bold faced lie.
The stat sheet states outright that Tesla has no backup assist, video display, usb audio connections, bluetooth, climate control, navigation, on and on, and every single one of those is included as a feature on this section of the Tesla page: http://www.teslamotors.com/models/features#/interior
Comment · 13 years ago
After the third paragraph sits this comparison with the Tesla Model S. http://autos.nydailynews.com/compare/1525-1606-1613-3976/201...
The word 'disingenuous' comes to mind, as you can see they've deliberately started off with a Tesla Model S column containing nothing but red "x" marks suggesting it lacks every feature of every other car. Looks like a disguised smear campaign to me.