Don't worry here in the US our elementary schools are also more challenging than our Universities. I frequently have difficulty helping my child do her homework, while I handle my CS degree work just fine.//Not really, the problem is more either understanding the nonsense directions given that can only be understood in context to the lecture my child obviously didn't listen to, or getting my child to understand basic concepts in order to do her homework.
The average blockbuster (meaning one that is intended to sell lots of tickets vs a niche market) movie budget is $100-$200 million. Game development cost are in the $10-$20 million dollar range. Game profits sometimes dwarf movie profits. Though I don't think game developers are going to be spending $200 million anytime soon (except for DNF) they will continue to make a profit regardless. The real interesting thing that is going to happen soon will be a break from the idea that every game has to be a blockbuster. More and more game studios are understanding a niche hit can be just as profitable as a blockbuster. Expect to see more small budget games even ones developed for the next gen consoles.
Also carbon was very common in the early formation of the universe according to most big bang models. So carbon based lifeforms, while only one possibility, are probably the most likely.
As other poster said, its an average. But its surprising how with even a family of 4 as I have how the doctors bills could potentially pile up. For instance a short while back 3 of us got strep throat, lets say we just dealt in cash. that $100 per visit per person plus $50-$100 per medication So your talking $500 easily. In one month just something minor. And health insurance is like auto insurance most months you won't be making major claims, you generally will be paying in more often than they pay out. But its not a terribly raw deal. Personally thinking about going with the Health Savings Accounts/High Deductible option, but my wife has been in the hospital at least once a year in the last three years (childbirth, and two minor operations). That right there offsets any savings.
Its possible that the PI lobby had a large effect as well. I can understand their need. Personally I'm all for the sure its illegal, but who's going to prosecute you for rescuing a child standard. Some laws frequently get broken in order to do the greater good, so what...
Well the $1000 a month is for the full family, not for the child alone, so your math is slightly off. But then you have to add the copays, which is at least $15 every time you visit your doctor, plus medicine. Either way, yea kids are expensive, though you can get cheaper insurance and only take them to the doctor when absolutely needed. Though if your poor enough to get Medicaid it helps a lot.
$1000 a month really isn't that disgusting, your health bills without it would be much more. Hell with my state employee plan if you add what the state pays to what I pay its $800 a month or so.
You don't get it do you? Effectively the plane will be computer controlled, but to meet regulations there will be a pilot and a manual override button. The pilot should NEVER override the computer, and there will be a dog there to make sure that happens.
Yes, but these people standing in line mostly were college students who didn't have much else to do with their time. And the few that sold them for $1000-$2000 profit made off quite well for their time.
No, not really, most of their games are 19.95, even relatively less popular games like bigmoney for instance, at 19.95. I personally couldn't imagine playing that much for such simple games, and I'm a casual gamer myself. But I'm perfectly happy playing their free online versions. So I guess if you have deep pockets and $20 is nothing this is a perfect deal. And apparently many are buying and their target demographic are seniors who have plenty of money and time.
Not to many, I've been scanning the Wii consoles on ebay for a week now, come across very few scams (aside from the buy an email address thing which is pretty constant, but I've seen none sold for more than a few bucks.)//Hoping the scalpers bought more than there is demand for and that prices will drop below retail by some desperate scalpers. So far no luck, prices have stayed pretty steady.
Nope, they are definitely getting sold. Of course after the first few days sellers had to start selling them for $1000 bucks or so. But nobody (unless just just screw up on their auction) is losing money... Unless you count only making $200 for 2 days standing in line.
Well they do release a lot of Betas, its just the issue of they make no money from the use of the Betas so there is a rush to get the final version out the door. While Google gets ad revenue despite the beta state, Google's only concern is, "Is it good enough to attract customers eyes".
Well hibrinate truly does use no power. And with faster hard drives, it creates an instant on capability. Still occasional shutdown is needed as memory leaks occur and whatnot.
Thats so stupid you keep your money you just don't get to earn any additional interest. Either way the original agreement with the government was 50 years and they are sticking with that. Kinda like a 50 year bond that doesn't earn interest unless its reinvested after the 50 years is up.
No, "Go" is considered the most difficult game to master. A computer version can't even come close to a master in any way. I'm pretty sure othello is computationally solved.
Note, this isn't the schools wanting to ban this stuff. Its the "Teachers Unions". If you ever hear a teachers union tell you something about what is good for schools or students, don't believe them.
Google just dropped 2 (or was it 3) billion on YouTube. I don't think they are afraid of dropping a few billion to develop an operating system. But there will be plenty of warning as any such system will have to receive lots of testing. Expect to hear rumors from employees who are forced to use this OS for their everyday work.
Web2.1? Rubbish it'll be Web3.0!!!!//Sadly I've already heard talk of Web3.0 in rubbish tech articles. Its suppositivly a network backed by AI to offer you the services you want.
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And thats what is great, they are an ad agency willing to create brand new technologies just to push their ads. Hell they encourage their employers to create random technologies with 20% of their paid time that may or may not do Google any good.
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Except, your hiding under a tree, vs using a line and bait.
Ahh the days of old when we didn't HAVE to buy every consumer product out there. HAHA how silly and out of debt we were...
Don't worry here in the US our elementary schools are also more challenging than our Universities. I frequently have difficulty helping my child do her homework, while I handle my CS degree work just fine. //Not really, the problem is more either understanding the nonsense directions given that can only be understood in context to the lecture my child obviously didn't listen to, or getting my child to understand basic concepts in order to do her homework.
The average blockbuster (meaning one that is intended to sell lots of tickets vs a niche market) movie budget is $100-$200 million. Game development cost are in the $10-$20 million dollar range. Game profits sometimes dwarf movie profits. Though I don't think game developers are going to be spending $200 million anytime soon (except for DNF) they will continue to make a profit regardless. The real interesting thing that is going to happen soon will be a break from the idea that every game has to be a blockbuster. More and more game studios are understanding a niche hit can be just as profitable as a blockbuster. Expect to see more small budget games even ones developed for the next gen consoles.
Also carbon was very common in the early formation of the universe according to most big bang models. So carbon based lifeforms, while only one possibility, are probably the most likely.
As other poster said, its an average. But its surprising how with even a family of 4 as I have how the doctors bills could potentially pile up. For instance a short while back 3 of us got strep throat, lets say we just dealt in cash. that $100 per visit per person plus $50-$100 per medication
So your talking $500 easily. In one month just something minor. And health insurance is like auto insurance most months you won't be making major claims, you generally will be paying in more often than they pay out. But its not a terribly raw deal.
Personally thinking about going with the Health Savings Accounts/High Deductible option, but my wife has been in the hospital at least once a year in the last three years (childbirth, and two minor operations). That right there offsets any savings.
Its possible that the PI lobby had a large effect as well. I can understand their need. Personally I'm all for the sure its illegal, but who's going to prosecute you for rescuing a child standard. Some laws frequently get broken in order to do the greater good, so what...
Well the $1000 a month is for the full family, not for the child alone, so your math is slightly off.
But then you have to add the copays, which is at least $15 every time you visit your doctor, plus medicine.
Either way, yea kids are expensive, though you can get cheaper insurance and only take them to the doctor when absolutely needed. Though if your poor enough to get Medicaid it helps a lot.
$1000 a month really isn't that disgusting, your health bills without it would be much more.
Hell with my state employee plan if you add what the state pays to what I pay its $800 a month or so.
Minivan? My 2001 Chevy Ventura minivan gets 23 city 30 highway actual. Better than my Malibu, so stick it!
You don't get it do you? Effectively the plane will be computer controlled, but to meet regulations there will be a pilot and a manual override button. The pilot should NEVER override the computer, and there will be a dog there to make sure that happens.
Not particularly valuable against a insurgency without an Anvil though. //Obscure?
Yes, but these people standing in line mostly were college students who didn't have much else to do with their time. And the few that sold them for $1000-$2000 profit made off quite well for their time.
No, not really, most of their games are 19.95, even relatively less popular games like bigmoney for instance, at 19.95. I personally couldn't imagine playing that much for such simple games, and I'm a casual gamer myself. But I'm perfectly happy playing their free online versions. So I guess if you have deep pockets and $20 is nothing this is a perfect deal. And apparently many are buying and their target demographic are seniors who have plenty of money and time.
Not to many, I've been scanning the Wii consoles on ebay for a week now, come across very few scams (aside from the buy an email address thing which is pretty constant, but I've seen none sold for more than a few bucks.) //Hoping the scalpers bought more than there is demand for and that prices will drop below retail by some desperate scalpers. So far no luck, prices have stayed pretty steady.
Nope, they are definitely getting sold. Of course after the first few days sellers had to start selling them for $1000 bucks or so. But nobody (unless just just screw up on their auction) is losing money... Unless you count only making $200 for 2 days standing in line.
Well they do release a lot of Betas, its just the issue of they make no money from the use of the Betas so there is a rush to get the final version out the door. While Google gets ad revenue despite the beta state, Google's only concern is, "Is it good enough to attract customers eyes".
Well hibrinate truly does use no power. And with faster hard drives, it creates an instant on capability. Still occasional shutdown is needed as memory leaks occur and whatnot.
Thats so stupid you keep your money you just don't get to earn any additional interest. Either way the original agreement with the government was 50 years and they are sticking with that. Kinda like a 50 year bond that doesn't earn interest unless its reinvested after the 50 years is up.
No, "Go" is considered the most difficult game to master. A computer version can't even come close to a master in any way.
I'm pretty sure othello is computationally solved.
Note, this isn't the schools wanting to ban this stuff. Its the "Teachers Unions". If you ever hear a teachers union tell you something about what is good for schools or students, don't believe them.
I'm pretty sure the Home version can't be used for the Base system. There is no way MS could stop you from installing Home on a virtual machine.
billions of dollars invested?
Google just dropped 2 (or was it 3) billion on YouTube. I don't think they are afraid of dropping a few billion to develop an operating system.
But there will be plenty of warning as any such system will have to receive lots of testing. Expect to hear rumors from employees who are forced to use this OS for their everyday work.
Web2.1? Rubbish it'll be Web3.0!!!! //Sadly I've already heard talk of Web3.0 in rubbish tech articles. Its suppositivly a network backed by AI to offer you the services you want.
HAHAH
And thats what is great, they are an ad agency willing to create brand new technologies just to push their ads. Hell they encourage their employers to create random technologies with 20% of their paid time that may or may not do Google any good.