It was throw away in that it drug out for an entire episode something that could have essentially been a short side-plot in an episode that was worth watching.
I see 541 advisories(many look like duplicates by distro at a glance), but I am NOT going to look for myself and see if any of them are major. That sounds like a lot of work.
The cannon shot sound for warp was fantastic, and resonated really well.
In Scottie's lab the background machinery was at a perfect level, and the sound was not too ping sounding (like TOS), or to grinding machinery.
There were a lot of other things too, but those two scenes (the first warp out, and the lab) really impressed me. I liked the use of subtle directionality for ambient sounds too (e.g. Scotties lab).
I guess these are not technically special effects, but it certainly made a huge difference in the enjoyability of the movie for me. I generally hate directional sound, but it was done so well for the movie that I liked it.
I would say that many sites unfortunately require you to enter a secret question to log in, rendering it very difficult.
When I am at a new computer I have a very hard time entering my birth city (is it where I popped out, what's on my birth certificate, the major metro I was in, or the state I was born, adding a layer of subterfuge).
Some even have rules for the secret question, making it even harder.
The customer support people actually recommended I use the same thing for every question when they had to re-grant me access to my bank account.
Well, if there were suddenly no market for $50 - $150 text books things may change.
They will definitely still get made though, because universities make big money. Perhaps they will tack on text book commissioning as a fee like they do for MS products.
Text books will continue to get written, as teaching students is big money.
What will happen is schools will band together and commission them (assuming people won't write them for free for reputation in a field). There very well could be fewer text books, but if your writing is at a high-quality it has a value to people who will make big money off of it.
Considering professors already pretty much have to write books (at least many of the ones I knew did) it is not a terrible stretch to imagine the non-profitability of text books having very little impact in the long run.
Your area needs to modernise it's teaching requirements.
Where I am, in a effort to get "highly qualified"* teachers the state allows them to get an MA in education while teaching simply by taking 5 classes, 2-3 of which are free, and the the rest very affordable in-state. The program is not too widely publicised, as the idea is that qualified individuals thinking about teaching will find it, but the people who simply "can't do" are not constantly having it advertised to them.
If someone values time off teaching is a job with fantastic pay (try getting anything reasonable at a traditional job with a 190 day work year. With 4 weeks of vacation mine is still over 230).
As a competent person
* term used by the state, it is defined as 30+ credits in a subject area.
You really need closer to 10,000 with todays tech, this allows it to take about 20 years before it is feasible to try and get it before the end of 30 years.
And by about 30 years it will be readily crackable.
Considering the time for even a modestly skilled person to get into most locks is < 5 minutes (home locks anyway), I would say that it is not perfect.
High-security locks take longer, as does high-security encryption. We only need to use algorithms that have a MTBF of around 1000 years today, and baring quantum breakthroughs your pretty safe. I mean how long does even the most sensitive data need to remain protected? 30 years?
I guess if you are a high-profile politician/activist, or a murderer a little longer?
I found that (especially at Comp USA), the 10% or so they dropped prices a month was pretty close to the natural drop in prices of their products due to obsolescence too.
20% off the original price of a digital camera that was replaced by new model in October (when it was February) hardly felt like a good deal (though some people thought it was I guess).
I actually thought their were some decent (nothing I needed though) deals at the Circuit City liquidation though.
The general terms of a mortgage are fairly simple, and don't require an attorney to understand.
Things like interest only, balloon, ARM are easy to understand to most everyone, unless they do not have it explained. The mortgage broker misrepresenting is not legal. Not that it matters, because their commission won't cover the damage done (houses losing 20% of their value when mortgaged against 100% of the purchase price).
The real problem is that nobody gave a shit, because if someone couldn't pay their mortgage, it was easy enough for them to sell the house for a profit and get out anyway. The banks didn't care, because they were getting money for nothing lending to people that couldn't afford it. Said people would just sell the house, and make money even.
A guy I work with purchased 3 houses interest only, turned them around in 8 months for a nice profit and purchased 3 more. Now the mortgages have adjusted, and are no longer interest only. He has one rented out now, with the rent being hundreds less than the mortgage payment. He knew what he was doing, and I am willing to bet that it was people like him that caused the crises much more than the un-informed masses.
I would hear a lot of "well if it is too much house, I can always sell it", even if it wasn't purely for profit, and just a nicer house than could be afforded.
I say this as someone who has nothing but benefited from the loser rules of the last 4 years.
They let me get a mortgage there was no way I could pay (using their calculations), I knew I could because I had 2 room-mates lined up for an additional $700/month they didn't consider, but I could easily have wanted to move my family of 4 into the house too. Nobody in the chain of responsibility would have cared, and this with about 1% down (plus 3% sellers assist). Mortgage + Car + Car Insurance left me $340/month to live.
I then went and purchased a house to move into about 6 months ago. My wife and I qualified for the second house, while I still owned the first. The two mortgages combined are within $1000 of our total take-home (best case). Considering the other costs we have to keep alive and employed it was a pretty bad bet to make IMO (and actually by that point people really should have known better).
Funny thing about corporate taxes. They only pay them if they make money.
This plan would have companies such as GM paying more taxes for the decades they were profitable, making the bailout more justified.
When a person buys a snack it is not taken out of income as a tax deduction, but if your employer buys you a snack, it is taken out of corporate profits for the sake of taxes.
All these companies full of fail are not going to be affected by this, as they are too full of fail.
As someone married to a teacher without an education degree (and whom is a member of the NEA) I have to ask WTF?
True. they are requiring her to take a few classes (the state not eh NEA), but the state I live in (Delaware) appears to think a bachelor or better in a subject (technically the requirement is 30 credits) makes one "highly qualified" and a priority to maintain over someone with an Ed. major and subject minor.
The NEA sucks in many ways, and has too much power perhaps, but it is not so omnipotent as you think.
I personally think the largest problem with the NEA is capitalism. For better or for worse our system thrives by everyone being self-interested and adversarial. This means the states want to fuck the teachers, and requires the teachers to protect themselves.
The unfortunate side-effect is an adversarial system where the body of teachers cannot in good faith work for the students, just as a corporation can't in good faith look after a community above profits.
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It was throw away in that it drug out for an entire episode something that could have essentially been a short side-plot in an episode that was worth watching.
There were plenty of filler episodes.
Cameron at the library for instance (that was good, but it was certainly filler).
The drugged up Sarah Conner interrogation episode was also filler and stupid.
That's how you will end up on the internet.
People will love the forbidden aspect of this, it will sell.
I see 541 advisories(many look like duplicates by distro at a glance), but I am NOT going to look for myself and see if any of them are major. That sounds like a lot of work.
I thought the sound was fantastic.
The cannon shot sound for warp was fantastic, and resonated really well.
In Scottie's lab the background machinery was at a perfect level, and the sound was not too ping sounding (like TOS), or to grinding machinery.
There were a lot of other things too, but those two scenes (the first warp out, and the lab) really impressed me. I liked the use of subtle directionality for ambient sounds too (e.g. Scotties lab).
I guess these are not technically special effects, but it certainly made a huge difference in the enjoyability of the movie for me. I generally hate directional sound, but it was done so well for the movie that I liked it.
they usually don't let you use your password as the answer(not that I've tried).
I would say that many sites unfortunately require you to enter a secret question to log in, rendering it very difficult.
When I am at a new computer I have a very hard time entering my birth city (is it where I popped out, what's on my birth certificate, the major metro I was in, or the state I was born, adding a layer of subterfuge).
Some even have rules for the secret question, making it even harder.
The customer support people actually recommended I use the same thing for every question when they had to re-grant me access to my bank account.
Well, if there were suddenly no market for $50 - $150 text books things may change.
They will definitely still get made though, because universities make big money. Perhaps they will tack on text book commissioning as a fee like they do for MS products.
Text books will continue to get written, as teaching students is big money.
What will happen is schools will band together and commission them (assuming people won't write them for free for reputation in a field). There very well could be fewer text books, but if your writing is at a high-quality it has a value to people who will make big money off of it.
Considering professors already pretty much have to write books (at least many of the ones I knew did) it is not a terrible stretch to imagine the non-profitability of text books having very little impact in the long run.
I would be particularly concerned about this. Especially because the native ants are presumably less evolved to defend against the fly.
Of course the native species could be doomed by being out-competed by fire ants anyway.
Ouch, spelling fail.
throw.
Have you seen the last handful of movies?
There are definitely reasons to through it all away.
Your area needs to modernise it's teaching requirements.
Where I am, in a effort to get "highly qualified"* teachers the state allows them to get an MA in education while teaching simply by taking 5 classes, 2-3 of which are free, and the the rest very affordable in-state. The program is not too widely publicised, as the idea is that qualified individuals thinking about teaching will find it, but the people who simply "can't do" are not constantly having it advertised to them.
If someone values time off teaching is a job with fantastic pay (try getting anything reasonable at a traditional job with a 190 day work year. With 4 weeks of vacation mine is still over 230).
As a competent person
* term used by the state, it is defined as 30+ credits in a subject area.
I just did it in base-2 and found that 100% of all primes start with the digit 1.
After thinking critically, I will amend my post.
You really need closer to 10,000 with todays tech, this allows it to take about 20 years before it is feasible to try and get it before the end of 30 years.
And by about 30 years it will be readily crackable.
Considering the time for even a modestly skilled person to get into most locks is < 5 minutes (home locks anyway), I would say that it is not perfect.
High-security locks take longer, as does high-security encryption. We only need to use algorithms that have a MTBF of around 1000 years today, and baring quantum breakthroughs your pretty safe. I mean how long does even the most sensitive data need to remain protected? 30 years?
I guess if you are a high-profile politician/activist, or a murderer a little longer?
I would hate the embedded version's maintainer to not want to fix a bug that was simply for 'for the sole benefit of this desktop crap.'
I found that (especially at Comp USA), the 10% or so they dropped prices a month was pretty close to the natural drop in prices of their products due to obsolescence too.
20% off the original price of a digital camera that was replaced by new model in October (when it was February) hardly felt like a good deal (though some people thought it was I guess).
I actually thought their were some decent (nothing I needed though) deals at the Circuit City liquidation though.
I don't think this is true.
The general terms of a mortgage are fairly simple, and don't require an attorney to understand.
Things like interest only, balloon, ARM are easy to understand to most everyone, unless they do not have it explained. The mortgage broker misrepresenting is not legal. Not that it matters, because their commission won't cover the damage done (houses losing 20% of their value when mortgaged against 100% of the purchase price).
The real problem is that nobody gave a shit, because if someone couldn't pay their mortgage, it was easy enough for them to sell the house for a profit and get out anyway. The banks didn't care, because they were getting money for nothing lending to people that couldn't afford it. Said people would just sell the house, and make money even.
A guy I work with purchased 3 houses interest only, turned them around in 8 months for a nice profit and purchased 3 more. Now the mortgages have adjusted, and are no longer interest only. He has one rented out now, with the rent being hundreds less than the mortgage payment. He knew what he was doing, and I am willing to bet that it was people like him that caused the crises much more than the un-informed masses.
I would hear a lot of "well if it is too much house, I can always sell it", even if it wasn't purely for profit, and just a nicer house than could be afforded.
I say this as someone who has nothing but benefited from the loser rules of the last 4 years.
They let me get a mortgage there was no way I could pay (using their calculations), I knew I could because I had 2 room-mates lined up for an additional $700/month they didn't consider, but I could easily have wanted to move my family of 4 into the house too. Nobody in the chain of responsibility would have cared, and this with about 1% down (plus 3% sellers assist). Mortgage + Car + Car Insurance left me $340/month to live.
I then went and purchased a house to move into about 6 months ago. My wife and I qualified for the second house, while I still owned the first. The two mortgages combined are within $1000 of our total take-home (best case). Considering the other costs we have to keep alive and employed it was a pretty bad bet to make IMO (and actually by that point people really should have known better).
First it is considered a fake.
Then all the experts argue about why it isn't.
Then some people may believe it is real.
But it is not "really" illegal.
Just as stealing $5.00 out of your girlfriends wallet may be illegal, but selling drugs to schoolchildren is "really illegal".
Funny thing about corporate taxes. They only pay them if they make money.
This plan would have companies such as GM paying more taxes for the decades they were profitable, making the bailout more justified.
When a person buys a snack it is not taken out of income as a tax deduction, but if your employer buys you a snack, it is taken out of corporate profits for the sake of taxes.
All these companies full of fail are not going to be affected by this, as they are too full of fail.
All the health officials I've heard say cough into your elbow, not your hand if you are without tissue.
It is pretty clearly anti-competitive.
This is the price for one class of people, this other price for a second class that uses a competitor.
As for the legality I would assume it is legal as IBM does not have a monopoly.
They would have some defense as a benefits consumers argument too.
As someone married to a teacher without an education degree (and whom is a member of the NEA) I have to ask WTF?
True. they are requiring her to take a few classes (the state not eh NEA), but the state I live in (Delaware) appears to think a bachelor or better in a subject (technically the requirement is 30 credits) makes one "highly qualified" and a priority to maintain over someone with an Ed. major and subject minor.
The NEA sucks in many ways, and has too much power perhaps, but it is not so omnipotent as you think.
I personally think the largest problem with the NEA is capitalism. For better or for worse our system thrives by everyone being self-interested and adversarial. This means the states want to fuck the teachers, and requires the teachers to protect themselves.
The unfortunate side-effect is an adversarial system where the body of teachers cannot in good faith work for the students, just as a corporation can't in good faith look after a community above profits.