Monkey Dust

Yeah the $150000 price does still seem too cheap. I wonder if it's a case of a diesel unit costs x, they wanted it to pay for itself over period y, so it had to be $150000 to customers (plus options) regardless of how much it cost to build. Telsa haven't shown much inclination to turn a profit yet, so they might be intending to sell at a loss to get more charging infrastructure in, and get people used to the idea of electric trucks. I wonder if they are planing a ridged body version too?

All support departments get the shitty end of the stick, it's no better in accounts. Or HR from what I understand. I think the problem is that people from outside the support departments don't really know what we do, we don't bring in business, we don't output a product. Their contact with us is normally when something has gone wrong or they've fucked up, and we're moaning at them.

I feel a quote from George Best (footballer & party animal, deceased) is appropriate here; 'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered'. You can't take money with you when you go, so if you're spending it on things that bring you pleasure, it's not really wasting it. For me personally it's cars, video games and occasionally, nights out.

looks interesting, many years away from coming to us gamers though.

As you're in a PAL region the N64 can be tricky to get a decent picture out of. Composite (the one with the yellow, red and white plugs) is best you can normally get out of a PAL N64, which doesn't look great on a 1080p TV. The RGB mod only works on North American consoles, which can't play PAL games. You can get an S-Video cable for the PAL N64, and it has to be for the PAL N64, the North American S-Video cable won't display properly. Further problems with the S-Video option are that it will only work on the early dark grey consoles, not the fancy transparent ones, and that European TVs don't normally support S-Video, even through Scart. The S-Video cable does work well with the Framemeister, but that is expensive, really expensive. N64s can be modded for HDMI, it's quite expensive but a lot cheaper than the Framemeister, and probably the best option. The Gamecube is much easier. The PAL Gamecube supports RGB, so as long as your TV has a Scart socket all you'll need is a genuine Nintendo Gamecube Scart lead, or a good quality 3rd party one (such as from here https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk/) and it looks really quite good. If you don't have a Scart socket, just HDMI, the cheapest and easiest way to play Gamecube games would be to get one of the early Wiis (any with the Gamecube controller ports under the flap) and get a Wii2HDMI adapter, which are really cheap. Of course all the handhelds avoid these issues...

The DS is good choice if you want to go handheld, plus the original DS and the DS Lite can also play GBA games. The PSP is also cheap to collect for, and has the really cool disc cartridges things. Home consoles anything from the previous gen or two; Nintendo Gamecube or Wii, PS2 or PS3, Xbox original or 360. Depends on your gaming preferences. Going older gets expensive, particularly Nintendo SNES and NES. And the older you go, the more challenging it can be to connect to a modern television. Some advice whichever you go for, do not attempt a complete collection. A complete collection will involve spending absurd sums on a games that are rubbish, but super rare. Be picky in what you purchase, it's better to spend €100 on a rare game you really want to play, than picking 25 games at €4 each that you're not really bothered about.

It's initial acceleration will be, like all really fast cars, limited by traction. The 0-60 time of 1.9 sec is probably as quick as electric cars are going to get until tyre technology improves.

As we are living in ever increasingly dense urban environments there will be less and less room for people to have their own metal box. By 2040 not owning a car could quite likely be the norm, replaced by more mass transit, more remote working and more cycling. So he may never buy an EV even once they become all that's available.

Very few will boycott it. A big chunk of Fifa's, and many sports games, fan base is separate from the traditional gamer community so won't be aware of it's issues. Parents buying it for their children for Christmas again probably won't be aware. Plus if you follow a premier league team you're already used to getting ripped off To be fair to EA (I know, I feel dirty just typing that) this ties in with the other thread about gamers being undercharged. For Fifa, or Star Wars Battlefront 2, EA will have paid, or committed to pay on each copy sold, an absolute fortune for rights to the IP. Add the IP costs to the cost of creating a game, marketing and distribution, they were unlikely to be making much profit at $60 a copy without extracting a little extra once the customers bought it.

It depends on the game, more tiers at different price points, allowing for the very best and biggest games to be more expensive, would be a good thing IMO. Game developers & publishers have become far too conservative. The $60 ceiling on game pricing creates a ceiling on development costs. I would love to see more games of the scale, and with the attention to detail, of GTA V, but at $60 a pop devs know will have to shift a lot of copies just to break even. No one like to pay more for stuff, but if you look at where gaming has got to; day 1 DLC, micro transactions in full price games, broken unfinished games, the demise of the single player experience. We may have to dig a little deeper in our pockets if we want gaming to continue to be a pastime worth spending time on.

The obvious answer to the question is the Porsche 911. Definitely a sports car, deep frunk and the back seats fold to give more luggage space, you can also stick roof bars on the coupé. And is available in RWD and 4WD flavours.

It's not the consumables, it's when it breaks. They are very complex, not very reliable vehicles. Search for 'Doug Demuro Range Rover warranty' on you tube for a feel of the cost of keeping a Land Rover product (Defender excepted) on the road.

Both the Porsche and the Disco will be absolute money pits. Does nothing with a Lexus badge take your fancy?

That should be fine.

This. Plus a separate aerial base you can move away from your case.

EA being dicks. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! Then again, if people buy their full priced games designed like a mobile game, to extract more money from you by frustrating you into a shortcut, I'm going to say EA aren't being the idiots in this scenario. But they are still dicks.

Or they could just stop bothering with a PC version. Devs and publishers will only continue to make games for PC if it is profitable If PC games sales decline, whether due to piracy or fewer PC gamers, fewer games will be released on PC. Of course DRM that makes the game worse for paying customers is to royally shot yourself in the foot. But this is Ubisoft and they have serous form in this area, and if you buy one of their games without checking it runs properly first, you only have yourself to blame.

If you're getting a short that can heat up the cars body, but that isn't blowing a fuse, firstly that is quite odd, secondly I'd focus on the wiring between the battery and the fuse boxes. This link may help pin down the offending circuit https://www.wikihow.com/Find-a-Parasitic-Battery-Drain

Just fancy packaging to help you justify the cost to yourself.

You need to maintain your cars better But yeah engine brake by shifting down through the gears, which if you have space to do this gradually won't damage the transmission in the slightest, from 1st to neutral and coast to a stop. What you shouldn't do is stick the car in 1st or 2nd when you are travelling too fast as you will lock the driven wheels (ABS or stability control won't help you with this) and crash anyway. And once down to a safe speed if you weave side to side you'll scrub off speed even more quickly. Though on a properly maintained modern(ish) car a complete brake failure is incredibly rare.

First he was making many of these passes at under-aged boys, which puts it in a different league. Also while in the strict legal sense he isn't guilty as he hasn't been convicted there have been a number of allegations. And while one, or maybe even two might (false allegation of sexual assault are very rare) be making it up, as the number of people who say Kevin Spacey assaulted them increases the odds of them all lying becomes vanishingly small.

The Switch while awesome, isn't getting the full version of Fifa 18, so for the OP not a good option. Is your PC, your TV and your bed all in the same room? If so plugging your PC into the TV and using a wireless Xbone controller would be the cheapest way of doing it. If not there really isn't a lot between the PS4 and the Xbone, unless the PS4's exclusives tickle your fancy, so you might as well go with which ever you can pick up cheapest.

Is it just because you rarely vacuum under the bed?

And in bold is why you should learn manual, lots of great cars are/were only available as a manual, or the the autobox ruined it. If you want to learn manual it will be easier if you start out with one, rather than trying to pick it up in your 30's.

Not really surprising though is it. Apple; A large devoted following, but not as large as the group of people who think 'I'm not paying that much for a phone', so it would make sense that it isn't the favourite. Amazon on the other hand, pretty much everyone with a internet connected device uses it, so it makes sense it has a lot of fans, even if we know deep down Amazon is evil. Apple sells to an, admittedly large, niche, Amazon sells to anything with a pulse. Twitter, I'm surprised it's a low as a third who wouldn't care if it disappeared. A lot of people struggle top see the point of Twitter, and personally I don't know a huge number of people who use it regularly enough to miss it if it disappeared. Facebook; Stories about Facebook selling targetted ads to depressed teenagers and experiments on it's users base haven't helped their cause. The changing privacy settings, the people who get scammed by fellow Facebook users, the difficulty in getting your profile deleted for good. Anyone who trusts them haven't been paying attention. And anecdotally from the people I know it's popularity is on the wane, replaced by whatsapp for those who just want to easily keep in touch, leaving FB for the attention seekers.