Maybe the new armor in the next expansion will be branded by Nike.... I see this being something you game nerds could really dig on.
Hmm... For some reason I don't get the feeling that a union of Nike (an athletics company) and video game playing nerds is likely to be a hot marketing synergy.;)
Initially it was the idea of programming games that caught my eye back when I was in middle school/high school in the mid-late 90s. I started off making simple games in Basic which provided a great environment to learn the basic. I later graduated to C++ when programming became more of a fun puzzle/problem solving activity than just a means to create games. There are now several pseudo programming languages out there that are specifically geared towards learning programming concepts and creating games. Depending on the age of the child these may be appropriate or they may be too simple.
Here here! I heartily agree with your assessments. The current practices of the textbook publishing are what will drive it into the ground. Hopefully they will not make the same mistakes as the recording industry and learn sooner rather than later that a providing a digital distribution network would be in their favor.
"Canadian scientists are developing a 143-lb microsatellite to detect and track near-earth asteroids and comets, as well as satellites and space junk."
So when this thing dies it becomes what it was once tracking. Not to say that this may not have value, just sort of ironic that is doomed to become what it observes. (Unless of course it falls out of orbit and burns up in the atmosphere.)
Most companies will tend to recruit from within This may be true when you are a direct employee of the company that you are serving on the helpdesk of. But my experience as an on-site contractor didn't pan out this way.
I was on a helpdesk where we were all contractors who worked on the client's site. This meant we were too far removed from our company to really move up the ladder. (Out of site, out of mind.) The client company wouldn't touch a contractor with a 10-foot pole when filling positions either. So we really were stuck at a dead end.
The lesson to be learned though is if you are going to start a career in IT at the helpdesk level, choose carefully who your employer is. I was having to serve two masters and neither one was in the position to help advance my career.
Not to put a damper on your enthusiasm but I would assume that the mass production of cloned meats would likely have similar production flaws that any mass produced product might have. Just because it is made artificially does not mean that it could not become contaminated. And should the source of cloned food products become contaminated, then that can only propagate down until caught.
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Thanks for the link!
Anyone know how long it will take the probe to get there? They didn't make any mention of the travel time in the article.
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Maybe the new armor in the next expansion will be branded by Nike. ... I see this being something you game nerds could really dig on.
Hmm... For some reason I don't get the feeling that a union of Nike (an athletics company) and video game playing nerds is likely to be a hot marketing synergy. ;)
Initially it was the idea of programming games that caught my eye back when I was in middle school/high school in the mid-late 90s. I started off making simple games in Basic which provided a great environment to learn the basic. I later graduated to C++ when programming became more of a fun puzzle/problem solving activity than just a means to create games. There are now several pseudo programming languages out there that are specifically geared towards learning programming concepts and creating games. Depending on the age of the child these may be appropriate or they may be too simple.
Here here! I heartily agree with your assessments. The current practices of the textbook publishing are what will drive it into the ground. Hopefully they will not make the same mistakes as the recording industry and learn sooner rather than later that a providing a digital distribution network would be in their favor.
"Canadian scientists are developing a 143-lb microsatellite to detect and track near-earth asteroids and comets, as well as satellites and space junk."
So when this thing dies it becomes what it was once tracking. Not to say that this may not have value, just sort of ironic that is doomed to become what it observes. (Unless of course it falls out of orbit and burns up in the atmosphere.)
I was on a helpdesk where we were all contractors who worked on the client's site. This meant we were too far removed from our company to really move up the ladder. (Out of site, out of mind.) The client company wouldn't touch a contractor with a 10-foot pole when filling positions either. So we really were stuck at a dead end.
The lesson to be learned though is if you are going to start a career in IT at the helpdesk level, choose carefully who your employer is. I was having to serve two masters and neither one was in the position to help advance my career.
Not to put a damper on your enthusiasm but I would assume that the mass production of cloned meats would likely have similar production flaws that any mass produced product might have. Just because it is made artificially does not mean that it could not become contaminated. And should the source of cloned food products become contaminated, then that can only propagate down until caught.