I feel like I've been at a significant disadvantage, not cheating on any of my tests??? Here I was feeling shitty about an 89 but you cheated and got a 95, and studied less? How do I notate this on my resume next to my GPA?
Batteries run out, devices inexplicably break, crash, bsod etc. If you allow electronic doodads in the testing area, are you expected to let them retake their test if their iPod touch freezes on them? Paper book dictionaries typically don't catastrophically break. I don't blame you for not allowing electronics in the testing area, I wouldn't.
Paid for? Try "rigged and planted" by cell phone manufacturers. You'll note energizer, duracell and rayovac haven't jumped into the aftermarket cell phone battery ring....
I think RSS was supposed to be a user generated, local, personal feed aggregator, a sort of "roll your own fark, digg, slashdot" - because face it, those sites really only pull highlighted stories from 10-25 other sites on a weekly basis.
RSS was really neat, and back in the heyday of online webcomics (what, 2001-2005?) RSS was a great tool for cartoonists trying to "spread the word".
Unfortunately, a) people are lazy, and few people want to collect, maintain, and prune their RSS feed list b) the internet can now load news stories faster than people can read them, and c) news aggregators like news.google.com, fark, digg, slashdot went mainstream, and a whole lot of niche blogs which act as news aggregators for more obscure collections of sites (boingboing specializes in scifi writing, steampunk, banannas, and DIY for example) -- why maintain your own RSS stuff when people are actively doing this for you, and probably a better job? A geek can cover 99% of their bases scanning boingboing, slashdot, digg, fark and google news in about 15 minutes, and get (mostly) interesting commentary about the stories, without having to register for the individual news website's forums everytime they want to leave a comment.
Here in Texas a PA can first assist in surgeries, prescribe medicine, diagnose and most other things a regular doctor can, except it's only a 4 year degree, with (I think) one of those years being a residency. Their main restrictions are that they can't work independently of physicians, and a doctor has to review their casework weekly/monthly, also here in Texas PAs can't deliver babies, some weird legal restriction since it steps on the toes of midwives. Your pay salary is capped around $100,000 a year, but you get to do most things a doctor would do, but without the additional half million dollars of tuition you're on the hook for, and you get to keep those 4 years of your life rather than waste them as a resident.
I think it's not a gradual climb in price, it's the immediate (we're talking 60-90 days) 50%-200% increase in price as demand outstrips supply. Yes, you can still afford to put gas in your car if gas climbs to $8/gallon, but most trucking companies will go under when their profit margins evaporate (see also: freight industry consolidation 2008-2010), and the cost of shipping doubles, causing those costs to be passed on to the consumer, instant 20-30% price spike in goods and services. So what started out as $8/gallon gas is now a 20-40% increase in the cost of living overall, combined with decreased wages to keep people employed. Basically, imagine the incredible, rapid price inflation of fall 2008 (that everyone seems to have forgotten about), but as a permanent change.
Just google "credit card merchant account" and most terms for internet only merchant accounts is something like $15/mo + flat $0.30/ transaction + 2% of the gross amount. They all have 1-800 numbers with live, english speaking (native speakers, even).. it's pretty legitimate, and has been around for quite some time. Many of them have free plugins to use with your Drupal site, etc to use. It might have been rocket science in 2003 but it's just a set of credentials, a piece of code, and a bank account number now.
Actually, I was referring to the abysmal "The Stand" TV miniseries - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand_(TV_miniseries)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand_(TV_miniseries) It's kind of hard to find since the DVD is out of production (with good reason) but if you need an example of how bad Stephen King TV miniseries can be, this is a good starting point to write your dissertation on the subject.
I think a lot of people don't realize that it's a ~20 minute process and less than $50 to get a merchant CC account setup. But then again that's why this minecraft developer hired an office manager, because he's obviously a very talented programmer, but lacking in the necessary business skills.
It's a primary source, in printed form, of the developments of the Iraq war for ~6 years. This is sort of like (but not really) having the transcription of every town hall meeting and journalist's notes from the Civil War in your bookshelves to reference if you wanted to write the de-facto book on the subject. Somewhere in there is some fact of number that was deemed too obscure or too specific for a general wikipedia article buried in those 12 volumes that someone might use in a book some day. Primary sources are very important when doing research, just ask your 8th grade social studies teacher:)
This reads like, "we have a plan that cannot fail! let me outline how we will plan to suck all the life and joy out of King's story while generating the greatest profit possible in a series of alternating movies and made for TV movies^H^H^H^H 1 hour TV drama seasons".
Stephen King has sort of thrown in the towel and is happy to let the visual media butcher his stories in the past, while people buy his the books to understand what the hell directors were trying to convey. I don't see this being any different this time around. There's an opportunity to tell this story in a series of 7 or 8 movies, or as a 7 season TV series, but alternating between the two is a recipe for disaster, as Serenity has taught us.
Official support for backporting it to the 10.04 LTS release is fantastic news. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see unofficial backport support for 8.10-9.10. In this era, this is something that is just as important for laptop users as basic VGA or USB support.
Ubuntu 10.10 is in Beta, and presumably a feature freeze -- is it possible to sneak these into the development for 10.10? If there's one thing I hate about installing Linux on my netbook, it's getting the fscking wifi drivers working shuttling files via USB thumb drive because I lost the eithernet cable or don't have access to a physical port.
Yes, this is a real problem for some people, and many college dorms are starting to go wifi only, meaning you have to hijack a library or computerlab eithernet connection to fix the wifi on your linux netbook.
From what I can tell, Larry Ellison knows Mr. Hurd personally, and also Hurd's ability to not run HP into the ground during a major worldwide recession (despite his paycheck) are pretty good indicators of how he'll do at Oracle. Think of Hurd as a very well paid sales person. Think Pete Campbell from Mad Men.
Do you both teach and grade the classes? The 200+ student classes I took were taught by a professor, but graded and "office hours" were typically with TAs.
200 person classes are typically freshman, state-required (for state college board accreditation) weed-out classes. i.e. worthless classes that would otherwise require you to hire an extra six entry level professors ($400,000, plus benefits = about half a million dollars) to handle the teaching load. Assuming an average class size of 30.
If you're in a 200 person class for junior and senior level classes, you're either at a degree mill, you've pissed off your advior/dean, or both.
I would imagine the new Apple TV is just an iPad with HDMI out and no internal touch screen. If there's Hulu for the iPad, Hulu for the Apple TV isn't far behind. I'll probably be buying one of these before the end of the year and dropping my cable subscription for good.
Where/when did you buy your SNES? I remember the color scheme being part of the logo in some of the early marketing, but I bought one about 6 months after release, and the buttons were...
Left Y Pink, Right A Purple, Down B Purple, Up X Pink
I think they used the "xbox color scheme" on some of their Japanese controllers, but AFAIK only third party and Japanese had the 4 color button controllers. Otherwise more SNES developers would have used the color instead of the letters.
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I feel like I've been at a significant disadvantage, not cheating on any of my tests??? Here I was feeling shitty about an 89 but you cheated and got a 95, and studied less? How do I notate this on my resume next to my GPA?
Batteries run out, devices inexplicably break, crash, bsod etc. If you allow electronic doodads in the testing area, are you expected to let them retake their test if their iPod touch freezes on them? Paper book dictionaries typically don't catastrophically break. I don't blame you for not allowing electronics in the testing area, I wouldn't.
Paid for? Try "rigged and planted" by cell phone manufacturers. You'll note energizer, duracell and rayovac haven't jumped into the aftermarket cell phone battery ring....
I think RSS was supposed to be a user generated, local, personal feed aggregator, a sort of "roll your own fark, digg, slashdot" - because face it, those sites really only pull highlighted stories from 10-25 other sites on a weekly basis.
RSS was really neat, and back in the heyday of online webcomics (what, 2001-2005?) RSS was a great tool for cartoonists trying to "spread the word".
Unfortunately, a) people are lazy, and few people want to collect, maintain, and prune their RSS feed list b) the internet can now load news stories faster than people can read them, and c) news aggregators like news.google.com, fark, digg, slashdot went mainstream, and a whole lot of niche blogs which act as news aggregators for more obscure collections of sites (boingboing specializes in scifi writing, steampunk, banannas, and DIY for example) -- why maintain your own RSS stuff when people are actively doing this for you, and probably a better job? A geek can cover 99% of their bases scanning boingboing, slashdot, digg, fark and google news in about 15 minutes, and get (mostly) interesting commentary about the stories, without having to register for the individual news website's forums everytime they want to leave a comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_assistant
Here in Texas a PA can first assist in surgeries, prescribe medicine, diagnose and most other things a regular doctor can, except it's only a 4 year degree, with (I think) one of those years being a residency. Their main restrictions are that they can't work independently of physicians, and a doctor has to review their casework weekly/monthly, also here in Texas PAs can't deliver babies, some weird legal restriction since it steps on the toes of midwives. Your pay salary is capped around $100,000 a year, but you get to do most things a doctor would do, but without the additional half million dollars of tuition you're on the hook for, and you get to keep those 4 years of your life rather than waste them as a resident.
I think it's not a gradual climb in price, it's the immediate (we're talking 60-90 days) 50%-200% increase in price as demand outstrips supply. Yes, you can still afford to put gas in your car if gas climbs to $8/gallon, but most trucking companies will go under when their profit margins evaporate (see also: freight industry consolidation 2008-2010), and the cost of shipping doubles, causing those costs to be passed on to the consumer, instant 20-30% price spike in goods and services. So what started out as $8/gallon gas is now a 20-40% increase in the cost of living overall, combined with decreased wages to keep people employed. Basically, imagine the incredible, rapid price inflation of fall 2008 (that everyone seems to have forgotten about), but as a permanent change.
Just google "credit card merchant account" and most terms for internet only merchant accounts is something like $15/mo + flat $0.30/ transaction + 2% of the gross amount. They all have 1-800 numbers with live, english speaking (native speakers, even).. it's pretty legitimate, and has been around for quite some time. Many of them have free plugins to use with your Drupal site, etc to use. It might have been rocket science in 2003 but it's just a set of credentials, a piece of code, and a bank account number now.
Actually, I was referring to the abysmal "The Stand" TV miniseries - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand_(TV_miniseries)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand_(TV_miniseries) It's kind of hard to find since the DVD is out of production (with good reason) but if you need an example of how bad Stephen King TV miniseries can be, this is a good starting point to write your dissertation on the subject.
I think a lot of people don't realize that it's a ~20 minute process and less than $50 to get a merchant CC account setup. But then again that's why this minecraft developer hired an office manager, because he's obviously a very talented programmer, but lacking in the necessary business skills.
It's a primary source, in printed form, of the developments of the Iraq war for ~6 years. This is sort of like (but not really) having the transcription of every town hall meeting and journalist's notes from the Civil War in your bookshelves to reference if you wanted to write the de-facto book on the subject. Somewhere in there is some fact of number that was deemed too obscure or too specific for a general wikipedia article buried in those 12 volumes that someone might use in a book some day. Primary sources are very important when doing research, just ask your 8th grade social studies teacher :)
As opposed to the totally inclusive [b]New York/London-centric[/b] image of history given by book publishers/editors/collectors though the ages?
Fixed that for you :)
This reads like, "we have a plan that cannot fail! let me outline how we will plan to suck all the life and joy out of King's story while generating the greatest profit possible in a series of alternating movies and made for TV movies^H^H^H^H 1 hour TV drama seasons".
Stephen King has sort of thrown in the towel and is happy to let the visual media butcher his stories in the past, while people buy his the books to understand what the hell directors were trying to convey. I don't see this being any different this time around. There's an opportunity to tell this story in a series of 7 or 8 movies, or as a 7 season TV series, but alternating between the two is a recipe for disaster, as Serenity has taught us.
So what you're saying is that in 48 hours I should start looking for 100-150mw wifi drivers for my broadcom chipped laptop on the pirate bay?
Official support for backporting it to the 10.04 LTS release is fantastic news. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see unofficial backport support for 8.10-9.10. In this era, this is something that is just as important for laptop users as basic VGA or USB support.
Is that DSP code licensed from a third party or some sort of unpatentable trade secret?
Ubuntu 10.10 is in Beta, and presumably a feature freeze -- is it possible to sneak these into the development for 10.10? If there's one thing I hate about installing Linux on my netbook, it's getting the fscking wifi drivers working shuttling files via USB thumb drive because I lost the eithernet cable or don't have access to a physical port.
Yes, this is a real problem for some people, and many college dorms are starting to go wifi only, meaning you have to hijack a library or computerlab eithernet connection to fix the wifi on your linux netbook.
From what I can tell, Larry Ellison knows Mr. Hurd personally, and also Hurd's ability to not run HP into the ground during a major worldwide recession (despite his paycheck) are pretty good indicators of how he'll do at Oracle. Think of Hurd as a very well paid sales person. Think Pete Campbell from Mad Men.
OpenID is really expensive to run though; it requires a verisign security cert, which runs $250+/year.
Try using 8.8.8.8 as your primary DNS http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html
Still functioning for me here in Texas.
Do you both teach and grade the classes? The 200+ student classes I took were taught by a professor, but graded and "office hours" were typically with TAs.
200 person classes are typically freshman, state-required (for state college board accreditation) weed-out classes. i.e. worthless classes that would otherwise require you to hire an extra six entry level professors ($400,000, plus benefits = about half a million dollars) to handle the teaching load. Assuming an average class size of 30.
If you're in a 200 person class for junior and senior level classes, you're either at a degree mill, you've pissed off your advior/dean, or both.
I would imagine the new Apple TV is just an iPad with HDMI out and no internal touch screen. If there's Hulu for the iPad, Hulu for the Apple TV isn't far behind. I'll probably be buying one of these before the end of the year and dropping my cable subscription for good.
Where/when did you buy your SNES? I remember the color scheme being part of the logo in some of the early marketing, but I bought one about 6 months after release, and the buttons were...
Left Y Pink, Right A Purple, Down B Purple, Up X Pink
I think they used the "xbox color scheme" on some of their Japanese controllers, but AFAIK only third party and Japanese had the 4 color button controllers. Otherwise more SNES developers would have used the color instead of the letters.
You must not have attended college 1999-2004 where every dorm room, common area or frat house had one and was playing Super Smash Brothers near 24/7