While that post is funny, it is also true, aren't you probably already working 9 hour days anyway? I've worked "Crazy Nines" as they were called, alternating between 8 hour Fridays and Fridays off and found it to be nearly identical to the standard work week, but with an extra day off every 2 weeks.
The big payoff for Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Sonnenfield, and Will Smith, is the rumored 10% each of the NET take for the first ten days of the film. If this sequel is not as successful as the first movie, and trails off or even tanks after the first week, the distributor will be taking a bath on it. I have heard of deals like this before, such as Saving Private Ryan, which Tom Hanks and Spielberg each got 17.5% of the box office over the entire run of the movie. 35% for Hanks and Spielberg is a giant backend deal almost equaled here by MIBII, although only over the first 10 days of US release.
This is true. I work IT at Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, down the road about 45 minutes from Holland, MI. At full power the plant puts out over 800MW. Across the highway they are building a multi-unit coal/natural gas burner that will produce over 1000MW. For a single unit, one reactor, at Palisades 800MW is on the high side, but still I don't see how these locomotives are going to make any kind of real difference in the actual supply of electric power, especially spread out in different locations. The power station at Michigan State University puts out maybe 60MW when all four units are up and burning. This is commonly not enough electricity to run the campus and so they have to buy power off Consumers Energy off the grid. So if every engine pulled up to your city, chances are there wouldn't be enough juice to jump online and post about it.
At Michigan State University they have used something similar to what you describe for at least 4 or 5 years. When I took an intro to C++ called CSE 231, Introduction to programming, it was in place and the same instructor still teaches that course. Here is his exact statement from his current syllabus:
Each project solution is electronically compared to all other solutions to
identify similar solutions. Teams or individuals that submit solutions
that are essentially identical will receive a score of zero for that
assignment. A student who is involved in a second such incident of
academic dishonesty will receive a grade of zero in the course.
Under no circumstances should you share a project solution with another
team or individual. Sharing your solution almost guarantees a zero score:
past experience shows that a student who asks to "look at" your solution
will copy parts of it or pass it along to someone else who copies it.
Can't you imagine how most well-rounded individuals would struggle with this? Being conditioned to share for all those childhood years. I share lots of stuff today even, files, music, movies, toothbrush...I, mean eh. yeah.
You can look at the entire sylabus
here.
As far as I know the DTV transmission and receiving standards that the FCC wishes to force upon the t.v. viewing nation do NOT require HDTV compatability. While t.v. broadcasters may find it profitable to simulcast a HDTV friendly signal on the ample bandwidth they're being traded for their current allotment, we will have to see if the standard sinks or swims. I am assuming that there will be available conversion boxes for HDTV and I am assuming that they will cost a bundle compared to the regular television conversion boxes that are planned on being made cheaply available to the non-DTV owning masses. Buying any television is a scarier proposition every day as there really is no way of knowing if the DTV standard will actually be forced or not.
...is the coolest console game I've played in a long time. It will ruin me because next week are finals and my thumbs will be throbbing too much to think of anything else. Gamecube doesn't have any Simpsons titles? That is a strike against it. Not a DVD player? Two strikes. I believe PS2 will hang tough with Xbox and Gamecube for a long time and ultimitely prohibit both other systems from doing as well as anticipated.
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While that post is funny, it is also true, aren't you probably already working 9 hour days anyway? I've worked "Crazy Nines" as they were called, alternating between 8 hour Fridays and Fridays off and found it to be nearly identical to the standard work week, but with an extra day off every 2 weeks.
https://jobs-monstercable.icims.com/monstercable_jobs/jobs/candidate/job.jsp?jobid=1503&mode=view We should all try to apply at least once. Making valid legal arguments apparently is not a job requirement.
The big payoff for Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Sonnenfield, and Will Smith, is the rumored 10% each of the NET take for the first ten days of the film. If this sequel is not as successful as the first movie, and trails off or even tanks after the first week, the distributor will be taking a bath on it. I have heard of deals like this before, such as Saving Private Ryan, which Tom Hanks and Spielberg each got 17.5% of the box office over the entire run of the movie. 35% for Hanks and Spielberg is a giant backend deal almost equaled here by MIBII, although only over the first 10 days of US release.
This is true. I work IT at Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, down the road about 45 minutes from Holland, MI. At full power the plant puts out over 800MW. Across the highway they are building a multi-unit coal/natural gas burner that will produce over 1000MW. For a single unit, one reactor, at Palisades 800MW is on the high side, but still I don't see how these locomotives are going to make any kind of real difference in the actual supply of electric power, especially spread out in different locations. The power station at Michigan State University puts out maybe 60MW when all four units are up and burning. This is commonly not enough electricity to run the campus and so they have to buy power off Consumers Energy off the grid. So if every engine pulled up to your city, chances are there wouldn't be enough juice to jump online and post about it.
Can't you imagine how most well-rounded individuals would struggle with this? Being conditioned to share for all those childhood years. I share lots of stuff today even, files, music, movies, toothbrush...I, mean eh. yeah. You can look at the entire sylabus here.
As far as I know the DTV transmission and receiving standards that the FCC wishes to force upon the t.v. viewing nation do NOT require HDTV compatability. While t.v. broadcasters may find it profitable to simulcast a HDTV friendly signal on the ample bandwidth they're being traded for their current allotment, we will have to see if the standard sinks or swims. I am assuming that there will be available conversion boxes for HDTV and I am assuming that they will cost a bundle compared to the regular television conversion boxes that are planned on being made cheaply available to the non-DTV owning masses. Buying any television is a scarier proposition every day as there really is no way of knowing if the DTV standard will actually be forced or not.
...is the coolest console game I've played in a long time. It will ruin me because next week are finals and my thumbs will be throbbing too much to think of anything else. Gamecube doesn't have any Simpsons titles? That is a strike against it. Not a DVD player? Two strikes. I believe PS2 will hang tough with Xbox and Gamecube for a long time and ultimitely prohibit both other systems from doing as well as anticipated.