I counted 2 as being average, and 3 as being poor, with respect to plot development. (Special effects and action sequences were good in both.) My opinion is that if one were to re-edit the footage for 2 and 3 into a single longer movie, the result would make for a much better sequel to the Matrix.
Required by Microsoft.
Example:
While I was working at a medium sized university, we used to buy single licenses for each computer, and charge the cost of the license to the department the computer was destined for. One year, while we were in the process of buying a bulk lot of licenses to upgrade our systems (from NT4 to 2000, if I remember correctly), our MS rep told us that we would not be able to proceed with the purchase unless we went with a volume license agreement. (This became inconvenient for us, since we didn't have a specific key to attach to the charge back, and some departments didn't want to change, but that's another story.)
Most large companies are required to negotiate a Volume Licensing agreement with MS which results in a specific amount of licensing costs based on the FTE (Full-Time Employment/Equivalent positions) of the company, which are adjusted periodically, usually quarterly or annually. These type of licensing deals typically allow any number of workstation licenses to be used, and often end up with a similar cost to a typical OEM license.
The $30/month price likely includes an enterprise SAN array (~$150k+), a high-end server fail-over cluster (~$20k-$30k), an enterprise tape backup system (~$80k), a network to connect them all to each other and the users (~$200k), and 4 people's salaries (the SAN admin, the server admin, the backup admin, and the network admin) (~$50k-90k each).
Bananas ripened on the tree are truly awe inspiring. Same goes for pineapple, mango, and most other fruits. Whenever I visit family in central america, I find that after I get back to the US I can't stand to eat supermarket fruit for several weeks until my taste buds forget the real flavor.
This is a very good point. Make the right arguments about academic freedom with regards to your code. So long as the code is not an implementation of business logic, a university will be hard pressed to win an argument over your academic freedom to publish, particularly if you intend to publish in a manner which could bring more accolades to your university.
* D&D Warning: I don't know if they really use 20-sided dice and before you think of responding and correcting me - think about it - think about how stupid that move would be. If you still can't see it - go for it.
Yes, we do use 20-sided dice, in addition to many other sizes of polyhedral dice. Though you are correct, the Ham radio is much more useful. You could, for instance, use it to play a long distance D&D game....
If it's bad enough, I'm sure they'll add it in retrotemporicontinuitively. The time line can only take so much abuse without modifying itself to make fun of something that horrid.
We look for earth-like worlds for the simple reason that water is the universal solvent. Liquid water makes possible a great deal of chemical and, ultimately, biological processes that aren't possible otherwise. We search for earth-like worlds because they are far and away the most likely to be able to support any type of life, not because of naïveté.
Water is a universal solvent, within a specific temperature range. There are possibilities for other solvents, particularly at colder temperatures such as liquid methane, which could conceivably be used by some type of life form, but we do not currently know what kind of chemical signature that type of life would have. So, until we actually find some other form of life which is vastly different from our own, the only type of life which we know how to look for is our own.
Since our type of life is found on earth, and we have yet to find evidence of our type of life anywhere else, we will tend to only look for life on planets which are earth-like. If we were to find some sort of methane-based life form on Titan, we would of course then be able to broaden our search parameters to look for more of that type of life as well.
With 30 percent larger brains than ours now, we can readily calculate that a population with a mean brain size of 1,750 cc would be expected to have an average IQ of 149,'
Hey dude!
You don't really need 1,750 cc. I have a smaller brain than that and they stopped measuring my IQ around 165.
For a moment of clarity, go look at the size of Einstein's brain. It wasn't that big. It still rocked.
There are three factors to the structure of the brain that I know of which help determine intelligence: cranium size, brain surface area, and interconnectedness (related to gray matter folding).
Increasing cranium size without increasing brain surface area results in lower interconnectedness, which may result in lower intelligence. The inverse can also be true, with a smaller cranium causing greater interconnectedness and greater intelligence. (Congrats on winning the genetic lottery.)
There has been some work with this on the genetics of rat brains, where they engineered rats with a gene to grow a brain with larger surface area (one found in humans, by the way), and left the genes for cranium size alone. The result was a rat brain with significantly increased folding, and rats with only slightly larger than normal craniums who were geniuses at solving mazes compared to unaltered rats.
Results where you increase both cranium size and brain surface area are likely unpredictable. For example, there is a dominant trait in my family for a large cranium. (My own head has a 24.5in diameter.) Most members of my family could be described as just about average, with some being well above normal. While I have found some benefit to being somewhat above average, there is a severe drawback: It is absolutely impossible to find a good hat.
Until about 50 years ago, it would have made him eligible to be elected to the House of Lords in the British Parliament, but now that is reserved only for most hereditary titles.
In my experience, the 'paper on the wall' Bachelors is typically viewed as worth 3-5 years of experience. A Masters in the same technical field usually counts as an additional 2-3 years. (An MBA is usually just counted for a foot in the door for management positions. Same for a lot of Certifications for technical positions.)
So, the paper usually lets someone start a bit higher up the chain. But, as you say, years of experience outweigh all else.
While the Kindle and Sony eReader have been coming down in price and being heard of more, I haven't seen an increase in PDF sales from the RPG/Fantasy front....
Speaking of gaming books, one issue here is probably the cost of the devices themselves. I may have over a thousand dollars worth of gaming books on my shelf, but they were all bought for $15 to $35.
While I had significant disposable income in college, now I only occasionally (1 or 2 times per year) have the spare money to shell out $20 to $30 for a new gaming book, and it is truly rare to find myself with a spare $250 to $500 to spend on a single purpose piece of electronics. Most other gamers I know have similar financial situations.
Further, I find it inconvenient that many publishers insist on charging the same amount for a PDF as they charge for a hardcover of the same title. $40 is more than I am willing to pay for a PDF when I can get a nice hardback for the same price. It would make much more sense to me to discount the electronic copy by an amount similar to the printing costs.
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on second thought, forget the blackjack and the network.
I counted 2 as being average, and 3 as being poor, with respect to plot development. (Special effects and action sequences were good in both.) My opinion is that if one were to re-edit the footage for 2 and 3 into a single longer movie, the result would make for a much better sequel to the Matrix.
Sounds like the tape in a Turing machine. They accelerate the data in one direction or the other, and can modify it when they stop.
Required by Microsoft.
Example:
While I was working at a medium sized university, we used to buy single licenses for each computer, and charge the cost of the license to the department the computer was destined for. One year, while we were in the process of buying a bulk lot of licenses to upgrade our systems (from NT4 to 2000, if I remember correctly), our MS rep told us that we would not be able to proceed with the purchase unless we went with a volume license agreement. (This became inconvenient for us, since we didn't have a specific key to attach to the charge back, and some departments didn't want to change, but that's another story.)
Most large companies are required to negotiate a Volume Licensing agreement with MS which results in a specific amount of licensing costs based on the FTE (Full-Time Employment/Equivalent positions) of the company, which are adjusted periodically, usually quarterly or annually. These type of licensing deals typically allow any number of workstation licenses to be used, and often end up with a similar cost to a typical OEM license.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought that this story should have been tagged "Schlock"
Though, it did start with 5 elephants, but one tripped.
The $30/month price likely includes an enterprise SAN array (~$150k+), a high-end server fail-over cluster (~$20k-$30k), an enterprise tape backup system (~$80k), a network to connect them all to each other and the users (~$200k), and 4 people's salaries (the SAN admin, the server admin, the backup admin, and the network admin) (~$50k-90k each).
Bananas ripened on the tree are truly awe inspiring. Same goes for pineapple, mango, and most other fruits. Whenever I visit family in central america, I find that after I get back to the US I can't stand to eat supermarket fruit for several weeks until my taste buds forget the real flavor.
This is a very good point. Make the right arguments about academic freedom with regards to your code. So long as the code is not an implementation of business logic, a university will be hard pressed to win an argument over your academic freedom to publish, particularly if you intend to publish in a manner which could bring more accolades to your university.
Zombie plan, man. Zombie plan.
* D&D Warning: I don't know if they really use 20-sided dice and before you think of responding and correcting me - think about it - think about how stupid that move would be. If you still can't see it - go for it.
Yes, we do use 20-sided dice, in addition to many other sizes of polyhedral dice. Though you are correct, the Ham radio is much more useful. You could, for instance, use it to play a long distance D&D game....
If it's bad enough, I'm sure they'll add it in retrotemporicontinuitively. The time line can only take so much abuse without modifying itself to make fun of something that horrid.
I know, I wouldn't want to be blamed for that movie either.
I laugh, therefore I snort coffee out my nose.
We are the GOOG. Why are you resisting? We have cake!
We look for earth-like worlds for the simple reason that water is the universal solvent. Liquid water makes possible a great deal of chemical and, ultimately, biological processes that aren't possible otherwise. We search for earth-like worlds because they are far and away the most likely to be able to support any type of life, not because of naïveté.
Water is a universal solvent, within a specific temperature range. There are possibilities for other solvents, particularly at colder temperatures such as liquid methane, which could conceivably be used by some type of life form, but we do not currently know what kind of chemical signature that type of life would have. So, until we actually find some other form of life which is vastly different from our own, the only type of life which we know how to look for is our own.
Since our type of life is found on earth, and we have yet to find evidence of our type of life anywhere else, we will tend to only look for life on planets which are earth-like. If we were to find some sort of methane-based life form on Titan, we would of course then be able to broaden our search parameters to look for more of that type of life as well.
Finally, an explanation for what happened to the woolly mammoth.
With 30 percent larger brains than ours now, we can readily calculate that a population with a mean brain size of 1,750 cc would be expected to have an average IQ of 149,'
Hey dude!
You don't really need 1,750 cc. I have a smaller brain than that and they stopped measuring my IQ around 165.
For a moment of clarity, go look at the size of Einstein's brain. It wasn't that big. It still rocked.
There are three factors to the structure of the brain that I know of which help determine intelligence: cranium size, brain surface area, and interconnectedness (related to gray matter folding).
Increasing cranium size without increasing brain surface area results in lower interconnectedness, which may result in lower intelligence. The inverse can also be true, with a smaller cranium causing greater interconnectedness and greater intelligence. (Congrats on winning the genetic lottery.)
There has been some work with this on the genetics of rat brains, where they engineered rats with a gene to grow a brain with larger surface area (one found in humans, by the way), and left the genes for cranium size alone. The result was a rat brain with significantly increased folding, and rats with only slightly larger than normal craniums who were geniuses at solving mazes compared to unaltered rats.
Results where you increase both cranium size and brain surface area are likely unpredictable. For example, there is a dominant trait in my family for a large cranium. (My own head has a 24.5in diameter.) Most members of my family could be described as just about average, with some being well above normal. While I have found some benefit to being somewhat above average, there is a severe drawback: It is absolutely impossible to find a good hat.
No, we only found an old Asgard colony. Where do you think the Norse got their myths from?
Until about 50 years ago, it would have made him eligible to be elected to the House of Lords in the British Parliament, but now that is reserved only for most hereditary titles.
In my experience, the 'paper on the wall' Bachelors is typically viewed as worth 3-5 years of experience. A Masters in the same technical field usually counts as an additional 2-3 years. (An MBA is usually just counted for a foot in the door for management positions. Same for a lot of Certifications for technical positions.)
So, the paper usually lets someone start a bit higher up the chain. But, as you say, years of experience outweigh all else.
While the Kindle and Sony eReader have been coming down in price and being heard of more, I haven't seen an increase in PDF sales from the RPG/Fantasy front. ...
Speaking of gaming books, one issue here is probably the cost of the devices themselves. I may have over a thousand dollars worth of gaming books on my shelf, but they were all bought for $15 to $35.
While I had significant disposable income in college, now I only occasionally (1 or 2 times per year) have the spare money to shell out $20 to $30 for a new gaming book, and it is truly rare to find myself with a spare $250 to $500 to spend on a single purpose piece of electronics. Most other gamers I know have similar financial situations.
Further, I find it inconvenient that many publishers insist on charging the same amount for a PDF as they charge for a hardcover of the same title. $40 is more than I am willing to pay for a PDF when I can get a nice hardback for the same price. It would make much more sense to me to discount the electronic copy by an amount similar to the printing costs.
Just so long as they don't call it Plan 9¾
Theres also a reason the ability to schmooze is given its own stat. Where else would all the politicians put their high ability scores?