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I guess you could call it an adventure game? Yeah, the ending was a bit unexpected, but then again so was everything else :D I enjoyed it a lot, and it reminded me how with early games the imagination did most of the work.
Though I found the sudden restart pointless, and I think it took away from the ending a little. Unless the point of course was that you crash, and find yourself in a room with a fire that's nearly gone out... [kinda like that book of the guy who rhymes with Peevin' Ping haha]
It was a lot of things. "Stabbing-me-in-the-back" was one of them, but "unexpected" it was not.
The first time I saw that "You're not coming back disclaimer", I knew: "Oh boy, they're not gonna throw me a parade when I get in space, nor generate another level... I'm just gonna get back in a dark room and start again. All this for...this!?"
Thanks for this note - I just finished (after about 6-7 hours of playing, and, I was 95% certain I had managed to dodge everything - but it wasn't completely clear)
Happy to know the game ends in the way that you described and I didn't miss anything.
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.
The idea here is that you "bring free energy home" from Tesla's solar-panel-powered stations (leaving you car battery empty), not that you get to use it twice.
utilities have looked into this "smart grid" application for a while.
The bigger issue, I think, is what's the likelihood that your house/grid will drain your car battery before it can be recharged enough for you to be able to drive somewhere?
And you just _know_ someone is going to complain about "my car battery was drained without my permission! privacy rights! privacy rights!"
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.
I make a half day the minimal billable unit for support of old projects. This helps control the problem of odd hours popping up here and there.
For companies that send you around the place internationally, I charge full days for international travel time - giving them the choice of sending you Business or Economy (and the corresponding amount of work that would be possible to undertake in flight).
EDIT: Re the last point - If they are paying by the hour/day/week, they are buying my time irrespective of whether I am able to work or not. Eg If they put me on economy, or put me through a day of meetings - they are going to be charged the day.
I'm not 100% clear on your last point, are you saying that if the send you Business-class you'll be able to get some amount of work done on the plane that you won't if Economy? I'm not arguing here, just trying to understand.
Can we speak a little more as to how you indicate that a half day is the minimal billable unit? My clients are happy to pay my high rate but I can't imagine ever suggesting to them that anything but an hour would be the minimal unit at this point.
I simply tell them billable time for support on old projects is rounded up to 4 hour blocks - this is with or without a retainer / support agreement. This covers switching time (pulling up virtual machines, getting your notes out etc, finding a Windows XP laptop etc), and scheduling it into current work schedule. I work with the client to ensure we gather work into 4 hour blocks where possible (eg. get them to build a todo list in Jira or equivalent). The idea is to avoid death by 1000 cuts - ie dribs and drabs of 1 hour jobs that they call thru at random.
Did you know that temp agencies for office staff -- receptionists, AAs, clerks, WP -- have a four-hour minimum too? WP can get as high at $25/hr for third-shift legal.
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
I'm not sure it's a lie, per se: they're comparing to the $50K model which doesn't exist anymore. But even the current low end model at $67K doesn't include navigation.
EDIT: No, looking further at their database, they have no data at all for Tesla, and everything is pretty much wrong. Total fail.
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.
Well, you can say this either way. It also packs 362 hp, which makes the other cars look like matchboxes in comparison.
Where I agree with you, though, is that it is crystal clear that they don't target the same customers, and in this regard, the comparison is indeed disingenuous, one way or the other. If it were traditional gasoline cars, you'd never see this (say, a Mustang alongside the Yaris, because, you know, they both use gasoline!).
