Did an otherwise qualified creationist really get rejected from an institution' biology department? I really hate kooky laws that are written to prevent unrealistic real world scenarios.
There are risks inherent with any job, though. Those of us in IT don't have particularly risky jobs (aside from carpal tunnel and other injuries.... I say this as I am typing with a wrist brace on!) but anyone doing any job has a risk someplace along the line of some magnitude and degree. Truckers risk traffic accidents. Industrial workers lose thumbs. Even the turn management dudes constantly expose themselves to chemicals, many of which have dubious safety studies done. The fact that they know these risks and are doing their jobs anyway is the heroism we should applaud. We also know the dangers, so ideally once the crisis is over they'll be closely monitored to catch cancer early for the rest of their lives.
Sounds like my job on a slow day as well. Sure, a server crashing is nowhere near the scale of disaster of a nuclear plant going belly up, but our normally lethargic techs spring into action the second we realize we have a problem.
They said they are rotating out workers once they reach "maximum lifetime exposure" of 100-250 mili-servients. Most workers are only staying for 24 hours before they are "retired" out and a fresh person brought in to replace them.
What most sci-fi directors fail to take into account is that good sci-fi isn't about the robots, the aliens, or the gagdets. It's about the people. At the heart of the best classic science fiction is solid character development and rich human interaction. Its really a psychological drama. That's why "I, Robot" failed so hard - the original book wasn't about the robots at all, but the humans who worked with them. Yeah, there is oohing and ahhing over the nifty toys, and nitpicking over the accuracy of the science, but ultimately what we remember are the characters.
Sprained my right wrist and mouse use over the course of the day causes pretty bad pain, even with a stiff brace. I'd kill for that eyeball tracking "mouse" right now.
Nope, DRM and region locking stuff still forces piracy even at cheap prices. I went to buy a song off iTunes from a German band and got told 'This song isn't available for purchase in your region.' Fine, I went and found an MP3 of it instead. I want to listen to the music I enjoy, not what RIAA says I'm allowed to listen to.
I was bored in regular classes, and I was even more bored in my EIP (Expansion of Interest) classes. Once our teacher realized we had little interest in the assigned weekly discussion topics, she set us loose with logic puzzles and Carmen San Diego instead. On the other hand, as an adult this might be a great way to brush up on all the stuff I missed in middle school and high school because I was so bored...
Hah, I wish it was that easy! That was the first thing I did. I went through a few other steps that folks suggested, including changing DNS servers (twice), sending them the about.net internals when the issue occurred, and fiddling with my router... It's odd that the issue has never occurred on any of the laptops in our house - there are four - but only my desktop, the one system that's wired into the router through ethernet.
They're offline for at least a week, so two minor MMORPGs (FFXI and FFXIV) are completely shut down for now. They are promising their subscribers free April service, as they cannot refund March since its already been billed. Some of the players are speculating that they're moving to an off-shore data center and restoring from backups, but since the games were online until last night, I'm not sure that's really necessary. Their official reason is because they have been asked to ration electricity, perfectly reasonable given the circumstances.
I invested in a sunrise clock to ease the transition. It lights up 30 minutes before the alarm goes off, and starts playing birdsong 15 minutes beforehand. Only if you haven't gotten up and shut the birds off at the appointed time does it actually sound the final alarm. As it stands, I'm wide awake and ready to strangle birds 5 minutes after the birdsong starts, and because of the light, I'm less cranky about the whole thing.
I'm liking FF4 so far. I was using Chrome but they never fixed my endless "Sending request" bug, no matter how many times I and others reported it, so I'm giving up on them for now.
Not just to charities created because of tragedies, but to any charity at all. Websites such as Charity Watchdog (http://www.charitywatch.org/) exist to allow you to confirm how legit any given organization is. (When in doubt, just throw ten bucks at Red Cross International or Doctors Without Borders.)
Likely not. Textbooks are how many professors make a living, and they're one of the few guaranteed places of profit for publishers. What you can do is determine what books you need before the semester starts and try to check them out of the library, and then put it right back on reserve any time it is recalled. Most school libraries will keep 1-2 copies of each textbook used in each class. You can save several hundred dollars a semester this way.
Yep, my friend Rachel who is a brick and mortor style author only got a $60K advance from her publisher for THREE books. 120K for a single title is off the charts.
Honestly, if I stare at 3D virtual reality for longer than a few minutes, I get nauseous. I think augmented reality is more likely to take off. Instead of viewing a fake world, view additions to the real world via the glasses.
Doesn't have to be a new game. Older games have been having major issues with new cards, mostly because of DirectX8 incompatibilities. My pet game, FFXI, was utterly broken on GeForce 400s until the latest driver release in January, and is still sub-par on many ATI cards. Nothing like 5 FPS on an 8 year old game on a $200 card to make you angry!
You've just hit the #1 reason anime and and manga are pirated out of Japan. Yeah, I'll wait six months for the "legit" release of the comics, but dammit, I want to read them hot and fresh off the presses too, and watch an episode within days of it being released, instead of twiddling my thumbs and hoping that 1. a US company acquires the right and 2. they actually make it a dual language DVD so I don't have to suffer through the horrible English voice acting. The industry's models haven't caught up with our impatience, and they suffer for it in the form of piracy.
A liberal arts degree shows that you have the ability to put up with BS, a very valuable people skill in and of itself. Someone with an English degree probably won't get a job working in publishing - they could be like me and work for a tech company that needs someone with solid writing skills.
For-profit schools will gladly pass failing students if it means they keep paying them money.
Non-profit private schools and state schools will just fail your butt if you aren't keeping up. They have a reputation to uphold. For example, a college of education that churns out students who subsequently fail their state teaching exams won't remain accredited. So they have to ensure that their graduates remain high quality. My best friend just finished the state veterinarian board exams, a grueling 7 hour test that students only get two opportunities to pass before graduation. Her school has a 98% pass rate - whereas other schools in the state sink as low as 50%. So the reputation of her vet school remains very high.
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Did an otherwise qualified creationist really get rejected from an institution' biology department? I really hate kooky laws that are written to prevent unrealistic real world scenarios.
There are risks inherent with any job, though. Those of us in IT don't have particularly risky jobs (aside from carpal tunnel and other injuries.... I say this as I am typing with a wrist brace on!) but anyone doing any job has a risk someplace along the line of some magnitude and degree. Truckers risk traffic accidents. Industrial workers lose thumbs. Even the turn management dudes constantly expose themselves to chemicals, many of which have dubious safety studies done. The fact that they know these risks and are doing their jobs anyway is the heroism we should applaud. We also know the dangers, so ideally once the crisis is over they'll be closely monitored to catch cancer early for the rest of their lives.
It was going to be decommissioned in a few years anyway, from what I understand.
Sounds like my job on a slow day as well. Sure, a server crashing is nowhere near the scale of disaster of a nuclear plant going belly up, but our normally lethargic techs spring into action the second we realize we have a problem.
They said they are rotating out workers once they reach "maximum lifetime exposure" of 100-250 mili-servients. Most workers are only staying for 24 hours before they are "retired" out and a fresh person brought in to replace them.
What most sci-fi directors fail to take into account is that good sci-fi isn't about the robots, the aliens, or the gagdets. It's about the people. At the heart of the best classic science fiction is solid character development and rich human interaction. Its really a psychological drama. That's why "I, Robot" failed so hard - the original book wasn't about the robots at all, but the humans who worked with them. Yeah, there is oohing and ahhing over the nifty toys, and nitpicking over the accuracy of the science, but ultimately what we remember are the characters.
Sprained my right wrist and mouse use over the course of the day causes pretty bad pain, even with a stiff brace. I'd kill for that eyeball tracking "mouse" right now.
Nope, DRM and region locking stuff still forces piracy even at cheap prices. I went to buy a song off iTunes from a German band and got told 'This song isn't available for purchase in your region.' Fine, I went and found an MP3 of it instead. I want to listen to the music I enjoy, not what RIAA says I'm allowed to listen to.
I bought both indie bundles and I very rarely buy games (but then again I don't pirate them, either.) So the plan actually worked for me.
I was bored in regular classes, and I was even more bored in my EIP (Expansion of Interest) classes. Once our teacher realized we had little interest in the assigned weekly discussion topics, she set us loose with logic puzzles and Carmen San Diego instead. On the other hand, as an adult this might be a great way to brush up on all the stuff I missed in middle school and high school because I was so bored...
Hah, I wish it was that easy! That was the first thing I did. I went through a few other steps that folks suggested, including changing DNS servers (twice), sending them the about.net internals when the issue occurred, and fiddling with my router... It's odd that the issue has never occurred on any of the laptops in our house - there are four - but only my desktop, the one system that's wired into the router through ethernet.
They're offline for at least a week, so two minor MMORPGs (FFXI and FFXIV) are completely shut down for now. They are promising their subscribers free April service, as they cannot refund March since its already been billed. Some of the players are speculating that they're moving to an off-shore data center and restoring from backups, but since the games were online until last night, I'm not sure that's really necessary. Their official reason is because they have been asked to ration electricity, perfectly reasonable given the circumstances.
I invested in a sunrise clock to ease the transition. It lights up 30 minutes before the alarm goes off, and starts playing birdsong 15 minutes beforehand. Only if you haven't gotten up and shut the birds off at the appointed time does it actually sound the final alarm. As it stands, I'm wide awake and ready to strangle birds 5 minutes after the birdsong starts, and because of the light, I'm less cranky about the whole thing.
I'm liking FF4 so far. I was using Chrome but they never fixed my endless "Sending request" bug, no matter how many times I and others reported it, so I'm giving up on them for now.
Not just to charities created because of tragedies, but to any charity at all. Websites such as Charity Watchdog (http://www.charitywatch.org/) exist to allow you to confirm how legit any given organization is. (When in doubt, just throw ten bucks at Red Cross International or Doctors Without Borders.)
We can actually see some failed-to-form star systems as the massive dust trails that surround the nucleus of the Milky Way, and other galaxies.
Likely not. Textbooks are how many professors make a living, and they're one of the few guaranteed places of profit for publishers. What you can do is determine what books you need before the semester starts and try to check them out of the library, and then put it right back on reserve any time it is recalled. Most school libraries will keep 1-2 copies of each textbook used in each class. You can save several hundred dollars a semester this way.
Yep, my friend Rachel who is a brick and mortor style author only got a $60K advance from her publisher for THREE books. 120K for a single title is off the charts.
Honestly, if I stare at 3D virtual reality for longer than a few minutes, I get nauseous. I think augmented reality is more likely to take off. Instead of viewing a fake world, view additions to the real world via the glasses.
Doesn't have to be a new game. Older games have been having major issues with new cards, mostly because of DirectX8 incompatibilities. My pet game, FFXI, was utterly broken on GeForce 400s until the latest driver release in January, and is still sub-par on many ATI cards. Nothing like 5 FPS on an 8 year old game on a $200 card to make you angry!
It's about exactly twice as much as the budget I've set aside for building my next PC...
You've just hit the #1 reason anime and and manga are pirated out of Japan. Yeah, I'll wait six months for the "legit" release of the comics, but dammit, I want to read them hot and fresh off the presses too, and watch an episode within days of it being released, instead of twiddling my thumbs and hoping that 1. a US company acquires the right and 2. they actually make it a dual language DVD so I don't have to suffer through the horrible English voice acting. The industry's models haven't caught up with our impatience, and they suffer for it in the form of piracy.
A liberal arts degree shows that you have the ability to put up with BS, a very valuable people skill in and of itself. Someone with an English degree probably won't get a job working in publishing - they could be like me and work for a tech company that needs someone with solid writing skills.
For-profit schools will gladly pass failing students if it means they keep paying them money. Non-profit private schools and state schools will just fail your butt if you aren't keeping up. They have a reputation to uphold. For example, a college of education that churns out students who subsequently fail their state teaching exams won't remain accredited. So they have to ensure that their graduates remain high quality. My best friend just finished the state veterinarian board exams, a grueling 7 hour test that students only get two opportunities to pass before graduation. Her school has a 98% pass rate - whereas other schools in the state sink as low as 50%. So the reputation of her vet school remains very high.
Not changing a password at least once in two semesters, i.e., a whole school year. Tsk tsk.