FFXI's major problem now is that it's run into a brick wall with the limitations on the Playstation 2. Unless SE drops PS2 support and reprograms it from the ground up, it literally cannot expand any further. NPCs have to be shifted around constantly because of memory limitations. There is a maximum of 255 zone IDs, of which 246 are already in use. While the PC and Xbox users have had some minor graphical tweaks, it can never go onto the Crystal engine so long as it's tied to the PS2. I believe SE is waiting until Sony announces the end of support for PS2 before they call it quits for good.
If you haven't played in the last year, consider coming back. SE has done wonderful things - an increase in the level of casual friendly content, and raising the level cap up to 95 with a planned final cap of 99.
I still manage about 500 desktops, and we're constantly ordering parts from NewEgg. While the consumer PC era is being described as ending (not true in my experience), the business workstation is going to be around for a long, long time.
My master's level program has some classes that are "hybrid" - classes alternate between online and traditional classroom settings. We get the benefits of both learning styles that way. Things that require class participation and interaction with the professor get them. Things that are busywork straight out the textbook (or online tutorial) can be done at home whenever.
I'm a process documenter these days, but since I work for a tech support company I call what I do "IT" because otherwise I'll have to spend a half hour explaining what process documentation is.
I would look carefully into what each job description says. Someone may really need a coder, but not know how to go about asking one, so they tell HR to get them another "computer person." When HR goes to actually list what they need, they'll have a bullet point list of qualifications. If it looks like stuff you took classes in, chances are it's actually a programming position and not tech support. Or, it could be tech support for a very complex database program. I've had to put in trouble tickets for EMR databases I monitor that I tell you, no one but a code monkey could ever figure out.
This argument falls apart when you look at real world examples. My city of 100,000 people is a midsize university town, with many graduates choosing to stay here after graduating because the housing is inexpensive and we like the place. Yet, with so many BAs swimming around, jobs for anything above service level are scarce, and those without a BA live in poverty - 30% of the city lives on wages below the federal poverty rate. The city has been unable to attract the kind of white collar jobs that the educational level of the population really needs, other than medical offices (I work in medical IT.) When half the city has a college degree, McDonald's will hire the person with the college degree as the manager and live the high school diploma person chucking burgers.
Accrediation is usually a state process, actually, and the national accredidation agencies are private companies. For example, NCATE for educational colleges. http://www.ncate.org/Public/AboutNCATE/QuickFacts/tabid/343/Default.aspx - Non-profit, non-governmental organization. The US federal government has very little to do with national college accredidation.
We're a Research I university, so most of our hangers-on are from the Department of Agriculture, actually. And even they're chronically underfunded because of all the revenue cuts.
Actually, the set up at my uni was this: High performing students from in-state high schools get free tuition. Not as high performing students paid in-state rates, which were significantly cheaper than the out-of-state rate. Unfortunately, the admissions process became so selective at the flagship school that every in-state student accepted was "high performing" - the average SAT score is now well over 1200, and the average GPA is 3.75. So the free tuition rider had to go, because the university was going broke.
If B&N made this an optional thing for consumers, I'd be okay with it. "Were you a Borders Rewards user? Like to have your personal preferences and history transferred over to our B&N card? Just let us know, and as a transferring bonus, we'll give you an extra 10% off any one item." Yeah, I might sign up if it was presented to me as a choice.
There are plenty of big names in the electronic medical records world that are designed to integrate databases with each other. It looks like the NHS realized they were trying to find a solution for a problem that didn't really exist, because the private sector had already solved it. Sure, you have to pay extra money for the integration and translation programs from each company, but it's still probably cheaper for a hospital to pay the license fees to its own EMR provider for that software than it is to purchase an entire new system.
There's the "normal" type of moody, whereby a teenager has a bad day, comes into the house, ignores the parents, goes to his room and slams the door, and then secretly weeps into the pillow while listening to loud, angry music. Then there's the "scary" type of moody, where the teenager has a bad day, comes into the house, ignores the parents, goes to his room and slams the door, and emerges some time later with cut marks on his arm.
Yup. Leukemia costs an insurance company at least a million bucks per patient, for all 3-4 rounds of chemo that is the standard treatment. As long as this treatment is as effective and cheaper, insurance companies will push for it, against the will of Big Pharma.
The body already accepts them - they were his cells, after all. Just like any immune reaction, once the cells "detect" that the threat is no longer present, they'll calm down and go back to the proverbial barracks (lymph nodes) until they're needed again.
Not yet, but if it's possible to reprogram white blood cells via retroviruses, then perhaps someday it will be as simple as doing a plasma collection and then a few days later having the cells re-infused.
Uh... it's a fluorescent glow, not an internal glow. The fluorescent protein is bound to keratin, the protein that makes up a cat's fur and claws. These are more accurately described as "blacklight reactive kitties."
No, this is GOOD NEWS. FIV is the number one reason many cats in shelters are put to death - it was conflated with HIV and since it is transmissible through bites, FIV positive cats are often considered "un-adoptable" and killed, since they have an unknowable lifespan. If these little guys are resistant to FIV because of this protein, it might mean additional promising avenues of research for this disease - and eventually a cure.
Yep, we just had to re-image a brand new server back to 2003 because the client's ERM software wouldn't run on 2008. Surprised us, but that's what legacy software will get you.
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FFXI's major problem now is that it's run into a brick wall with the limitations on the Playstation 2. Unless SE drops PS2 support and reprograms it from the ground up, it literally cannot expand any further. NPCs have to be shifted around constantly because of memory limitations. There is a maximum of 255 zone IDs, of which 246 are already in use. While the PC and Xbox users have had some minor graphical tweaks, it can never go onto the Crystal engine so long as it's tied to the PS2. I believe SE is waiting until Sony announces the end of support for PS2 before they call it quits for good.
If you haven't played in the last year, consider coming back. SE has done wonderful things - an increase in the level of casual friendly content, and raising the level cap up to 95 with a planned final cap of 99.
I still manage about 500 desktops, and we're constantly ordering parts from NewEgg. While the consumer PC era is being described as ending (not true in my experience), the business workstation is going to be around for a long, long time.
My master's level program has some classes that are "hybrid" - classes alternate between online and traditional classroom settings. We get the benefits of both learning styles that way. Things that require class participation and interaction with the professor get them. Things that are busywork straight out the textbook (or online tutorial) can be done at home whenever.
I'm a process documenter these days, but since I work for a tech support company I call what I do "IT" because otherwise I'll have to spend a half hour explaining what process documentation is.
I would look carefully into what each job description says. Someone may really need a coder, but not know how to go about asking one, so they tell HR to get them another "computer person." When HR goes to actually list what they need, they'll have a bullet point list of qualifications. If it looks like stuff you took classes in, chances are it's actually a programming position and not tech support. Or, it could be tech support for a very complex database program. I've had to put in trouble tickets for EMR databases I monitor that I tell you, no one but a code monkey could ever figure out.
This argument falls apart when you look at real world examples. My city of 100,000 people is a midsize university town, with many graduates choosing to stay here after graduating because the housing is inexpensive and we like the place. Yet, with so many BAs swimming around, jobs for anything above service level are scarce, and those without a BA live in poverty - 30% of the city lives on wages below the federal poverty rate. The city has been unable to attract the kind of white collar jobs that the educational level of the population really needs, other than medical offices (I work in medical IT.) When half the city has a college degree, McDonald's will hire the person with the college degree as the manager and live the high school diploma person chucking burgers.
And yet, if you ever want to advance to a D or C level position, you need a master's degree.
Accrediation is usually a state process, actually, and the national accredidation agencies are private companies. For example, NCATE for educational colleges. http://www.ncate.org/Public/AboutNCATE/QuickFacts/tabid/343/Default.aspx - Non-profit, non-governmental organization. The US federal government has very little to do with national college accredidation.
We're a Research I university, so most of our hangers-on are from the Department of Agriculture, actually. And even they're chronically underfunded because of all the revenue cuts.
The visual degradation is from the optic nerve, not from a mishaped cornea, if you had RTFA.
Is that both undergrad and graduate students? That could account for the difference in figures.
Actually, the set up at my uni was this: High performing students from in-state high schools get free tuition. Not as high performing students paid in-state rates, which were significantly cheaper than the out-of-state rate. Unfortunately, the admissions process became so selective at the flagship school that every in-state student accepted was "high performing" - the average SAT score is now well over 1200, and the average GPA is 3.75. So the free tuition rider had to go, because the university was going broke.
My state university has all these beautiful new buildings that are half empty because they can't afford the faculty to put into them.
If B&N made this an optional thing for consumers, I'd be okay with it. "Were you a Borders Rewards user? Like to have your personal preferences and history transferred over to our B&N card? Just let us know, and as a transferring bonus, we'll give you an extra 10% off any one item." Yeah, I might sign up if it was presented to me as a choice.
There are plenty of big names in the electronic medical records world that are designed to integrate databases with each other. It looks like the NHS realized they were trying to find a solution for a problem that didn't really exist, because the private sector had already solved it. Sure, you have to pay extra money for the integration and translation programs from each company, but it's still probably cheaper for a hospital to pay the license fees to its own EMR provider for that software than it is to purchase an entire new system.
There's the "normal" type of moody, whereby a teenager has a bad day, comes into the house, ignores the parents, goes to his room and slams the door, and then secretly weeps into the pillow while listening to loud, angry music. Then there's the "scary" type of moody, where the teenager has a bad day, comes into the house, ignores the parents, goes to his room and slams the door, and emerges some time later with cut marks on his arm.
Yup. Leukemia costs an insurance company at least a million bucks per patient, for all 3-4 rounds of chemo that is the standard treatment. As long as this treatment is as effective and cheaper, insurance companies will push for it, against the will of Big Pharma.
The body already accepts them - they were his cells, after all. Just like any immune reaction, once the cells "detect" that the threat is no longer present, they'll calm down and go back to the proverbial barracks (lymph nodes) until they're needed again.
Not yet, but if it's possible to reprogram white blood cells via retroviruses, then perhaps someday it will be as simple as doing a plasma collection and then a few days later having the cells re-infused.
I managed to get into Test4Theory before it got overwhelmed a few weeks ago and I'm happily cruching data for Cern. Sorry, SkyNet.
Uh... it's a fluorescent glow, not an internal glow. The fluorescent protein is bound to keratin, the protein that makes up a cat's fur and claws. These are more accurately described as "blacklight reactive kitties."
No, this is GOOD NEWS. FIV is the number one reason many cats in shelters are put to death - it was conflated with HIV and since it is transmissible through bites, FIV positive cats are often considered "un-adoptable" and killed, since they have an unknowable lifespan. If these little guys are resistant to FIV because of this protein, it might mean additional promising avenues of research for this disease - and eventually a cure.
Yep, we just had to re-image a brand new server back to 2003 because the client's ERM software wouldn't run on 2008. Surprised us, but that's what legacy software will get you.
Based on the pictures included in the article, it does not appear to affect their eye proteins, only the keratin in their fur.
If I had a cat like this I'd install the blacklights in my light fixtures and keep the normal lights off all the time.