I'm waiting for SUNY (NY's state university system) to pull together and offer SUNY degrees not tied to any specific campus. Plenty of SUNY schools offer online courses, but there's nothing that pulls courses from SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Albany, SUNY Brockport, SUNY IT, etc into one degree independent of an individual campus.
I'd call it "Massachusetts Online Technology Learning: Earn Your Certification, Really Understand Electronics!"
The classes would be full of Girls, Girls, Girls and would be taught by Dr. Feelgood. At the end of the day, we'd all be Smokin' In The Boys Room.
There's plenty of articles about why textbooks are so expensive in the first place, ranging from the obvious (higher quality paper, colored pictures and graphs) to the less obvious (professors pay nothing so they don't care, students will just keep paying and never speak up). I paid a relatively modest $2,438.16 for textbooks over the course of a four year degree, of which I was able to resell most of them for $838.77. I did keep several books that I could have sold for another $150 or so. My first semester cost the most (in spite of having the fewest classes) and I was only able to resell one of the books for less than 10% of the purchase cost in spite of being in like-new condition. This was also the only semester that I bought and sold to/from the campus bookstore.
Interestingly, my most expensive books were for accounting, microbiology, human resources, Visual Basic and astronomy. My core IT books were among the least expensive books to buy and yielded the biggest returns relative to purchase price (I resold several for a decent profit). I know my professors also re-used these books the most.
And yes, I did keep a nice color-coded spreadsheet of every single book I bough and sold throughout college. For that amount of money, you'd have to be stupid to ignore the overall cost.
So the question becomes... why does a guy that intentionally uploaded this for others, a month before the movie comes out (where I would expect the studio to make a huge chunk of its profit on the movie) only get a year in prison when someone who accidentally shares a few crappy songs gets a financial punishment that makes a year in prison look quite tame?
Having gone to college and seeing how bad they tend to screw things up, I could easily see this being the case. Of course, I went to a state school where you get the double whammy of crappy administration PLUS crappy government requirements. Because microbiology and astronomy totally helped my network admin degree.
I typicially do... however, there are the odd times when I have greater expenses than I have available cash for the month. In August, I bought a new car. By tapping my credit card, I was able to put down a much larger down payment, which resulted in a considerably more favorable car loan. I saved a lot more on the lower interest car loan than I lost over the three months it took to pay off that down payment on my credit card. If the card still had 3.85% APR, I would have bought the entire car on it.
I also had some unexpected medical expenses this year that my insurance did not fully cover... those went on my credit card and were paid off over the following six months which was a good deal easier and cheaper than taking the payment plan offered by the medical provider.
A credit card is just another tool. Improper use can screw you over, but using it intelligently can really boost you ahead.
A blank Blu-ray disc (consumer grade) is still easily 6 to 12 times more expensive than DVDs, commercial discs probably have a similar gap, so DVDs still have an advantage in price per GB, especially if the game is only going to use the capacity of two or three DVDs. CDs didn't replace multiple floppies and DVDs didn't replace multiple CDs until the price difference of blank media was a lot smaller.
I still have a lot of PC games with 4-5 CDs before DVDs hit it big, and I know plenty of consoles that used multiple CDs... it's a little bit of a pain in the ass, but far from a deal breaker for most people wanting to play a bigger/fancier/longer game that takes multiple discs.
It wouldn't surprise me if the drone was mostly COTS components wrapped in a custom airframe... commercial tech is pretty advanced these days, especially if you have a big budget.
Just like the Hyundai Accent isn't poised to kill the Ford F-150... two different markets with two very price tags and two related but still quite different usages
When I was looking for scholarships about 6 years ago, KFC required something like a half dozen short essays on various idiotic topics. Now you send them a picture. Times have changed...
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I'm waiting for SUNY (NY's state university system) to pull together and offer SUNY degrees not tied to any specific campus. Plenty of SUNY schools offer online courses, but there's nothing that pulls courses from SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Albany, SUNY Brockport, SUNY IT, etc into one degree independent of an individual campus.
I'd call it "Massachusetts Online Technology Learning: Earn Your Certification, Really Understand Electronics!" The classes would be full of Girls, Girls, Girls and would be taught by Dr. Feelgood. At the end of the day, we'd all be Smokin' In The Boys Room.
There's plenty of articles about why textbooks are so expensive in the first place, ranging from the obvious (higher quality paper, colored pictures and graphs) to the less obvious (professors pay nothing so they don't care, students will just keep paying and never speak up). I paid a relatively modest $2,438.16 for textbooks over the course of a four year degree, of which I was able to resell most of them for $838.77. I did keep several books that I could have sold for another $150 or so. My first semester cost the most (in spite of having the fewest classes) and I was only able to resell one of the books for less than 10% of the purchase cost in spite of being in like-new condition. This was also the only semester that I bought and sold to/from the campus bookstore. Interestingly, my most expensive books were for accounting, microbiology, human resources, Visual Basic and astronomy. My core IT books were among the least expensive books to buy and yielded the biggest returns relative to purchase price (I resold several for a decent profit). I know my professors also re-used these books the most. And yes, I did keep a nice color-coded spreadsheet of every single book I bough and sold throughout college. For that amount of money, you'd have to be stupid to ignore the overall cost.
"but also something just a touch smaller — a Venus." If there's a Venus and no known Mars... then does that mean it's all women? Sign me up!
So the question becomes... why does a guy that intentionally uploaded this for others, a month before the movie comes out (where I would expect the studio to make a huge chunk of its profit on the movie) only get a year in prison when someone who accidentally shares a few crappy songs gets a financial punishment that makes a year in prison look quite tame?
Let's hope Visual Kitty works better than Acoustic Kitty did in the 60's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
This is the start of UMG's war against cats doing funny things
Yeah, when I see a picture of a burger covering the entire front window of Burger King, I want a burger that big. And for $2 too!
The Chinese have been preparing for the Rapture.
Having gone to college and seeing how bad they tend to screw things up, I could easily see this being the case. Of course, I went to a state school where you get the double whammy of crappy administration PLUS crappy government requirements. Because microbiology and astronomy totally helped my network admin degree.
I typicially do... however, there are the odd times when I have greater expenses than I have available cash for the month. In August, I bought a new car. By tapping my credit card, I was able to put down a much larger down payment, which resulted in a considerably more favorable car loan. I saved a lot more on the lower interest car loan than I lost over the three months it took to pay off that down payment on my credit card. If the card still had 3.85% APR, I would have bought the entire car on it.
I also had some unexpected medical expenses this year that my insurance did not fully cover... those went on my credit card and were paid off over the following six months which was a good deal easier and cheaper than taking the payment plan offered by the medical provider.
A credit card is just another tool. Improper use can screw you over, but using it intelligently can really boost you ahead.
We're concerned about our credit worthiness because the banks, other lenders, employers, etc are.
I, for one, liked having a 3.85% APR on my credit card before the economy went down the crapper.
Just because everybody knows about it doesn't mean that an official declaration was issued or had to be issued.
A blank Blu-ray disc (consumer grade) is still easily 6 to 12 times more expensive than DVDs, commercial discs probably have a similar gap, so DVDs still have an advantage in price per GB, especially if the game is only going to use the capacity of two or three DVDs. CDs didn't replace multiple floppies and DVDs didn't replace multiple CDs until the price difference of blank media was a lot smaller.
I still have a lot of PC games with 4-5 CDs before DVDs hit it big, and I know plenty of consoles that used multiple CDs... it's a little bit of a pain in the ass, but far from a deal breaker for most people wanting to play a bigger/fancier/longer game that takes multiple discs.
What could possibly go boom?
But not impossible. Corpses still have DNA...
It wouldn't surprise me if the drone was mostly COTS components wrapped in a custom airframe... commercial tech is pretty advanced these days, especially if you have a big budget.
Now that's just a police action, there's a difference. Hell if I know what it is.
Scots can wear their national dress, but I'll stick to my national pants and national shirt
Wearing skirts is also cultural, not biological
If my math is right, light travels a little over 1/100th of an inch (or a little under 0.3 mm) per frame.
I love the whooshing sound deadlines make as they fly by, maybe this will slow them down enough to see what they look like too!
Just like the Hyundai Accent isn't poised to kill the Ford F-150... two different markets with two very price tags and two related but still quite different usages
When I was looking for scholarships about 6 years ago, KFC required something like a half dozen short essays on various idiotic topics. Now you send them a picture. Times have changed...