Seriously, the return on investment for most degrees is just plain ridiculous. My wife has two degrees a general studies B.A. and a B.S.N. (nursing degree). She makes less than some factory workers!!! Her student loans will drive us into a deep hole and if not for IT (my career) we would be in a really bad situation. Salaries in most fields just do not make for much chance of being profitable. On top of that our income is too high to qualify for any type of low interest home loans, but not high enoughto make house payments very manageable (again thanks to IT we can do it). Our only hope is that our house will appreciate sufficiently that by the time we get the loans for school paid that we will be able to take a second morgtage to clean up all the credit cards and other things we had to use to survive initially. The IT boom was a blessing not a curse many of us will be in a position to have cash later thanks to it. The market certainly isnt helping anyone and a college educcation is not much help except in a few specialized areas (definitely not teaching, nursing, or other allied health fields). My own degree in Clinical Lab Science isnt worth the paper its printed on. I got an increase of nearly 100% by switching to IT which was a hobby for me previously (thank god!).
I got my first BB gun when I was 6 and my first shotgun when I was 10. I was firing rifles and shotguns by 8 and hunting rabbits and birds at that point. It is very common in rural areas. It is also why you see fewer accidental shootings. We had conservation officers teaching gun safety as early as third grade in school. City kids learn about guns watching TV.
Only Jon Lovitz would suggest this. You must have missed the actual story. That is possibly the worst possible suggestion for the part, with the exception perhaps of...crap whats his name the guy from My Cousin Vinny.....or maybe Danny DeVito anyhow, go back and read up on Zaphod he is the guy who gets the chick, he is a star. He is not short, or squat.
It wasn't limited to Deities and Demigods, but also listed epic heroes. That is why Fafhrd and Grey Mouser are listed. As for assigning values to the Deities, well many people had games that involved characters of such extreme levels and power that they themselves challenged the gods and became gods in their campaign world. I had a friend who ran a campaign where the original characters eventually attained power that elevated them to this status. Not everyone just whacked some orcs and goblins, though personally I preferred the low level adventures over the ridiculoously overpowered mega-characters. My own campaigns often trapped those types by setting them against opponents that were equally silly in power. The Dancing Hut of Babba Yagga (sp?) module from Dragon Magazine was excellent for taking people down a few notches when you threw in some of the nasty traps, from a third party book (I forget the name). Think your level 75 mage is tough? Let him put on a necklace of strangulation, ninth level spells aren't very tough when you can't speak....
There was a study done that showed it was in fact the sauce that burns you so badly when you eat hot pizza. Apparently the sauce trapped under all the toppings retains a large amount of heat even though the top is cool enough to eat.
When I built a mosquito it used a AAA I am pretty sure. It was many years ago. Anyway, we had a similar story, only ours was assemled and allowed to dry for a proper period. When it was laucnhed it also went well up to the point where the rocket blew up. We found the pieces, it had managed to dislodge the fins and nose cone. It was the only launch we ever had go badly.
" Before this the aggregate performance of all 500 system was smaller THEN 30TF/s."
I find it difficult to give the author any credibility when he cannot tell the difference between then and than.
I think that MMORPG companies are missing the point entirely with this issue. If you have ever played these games you would see that there is a large interest in exchanging gear, in game coin, or experience points (via "power-leveling"). The person who is seling this stuff still has to get it the same way the person buying it would have, by playing the game. Given the huge audiences of some of these games, why would you limit such transactions? WHy not provide a marketplace for the "merchandise" similar to Ebay and reap the rewards of the extra interest generated and make a nice little percentage charge on each transaction. So what if someone can buy the uber-high-level-whammy-thingy-of-might? It most likely requires more time than anyone with a real life can invest anyway. Where is the harm in accts and such being sold?
For that matter why is there a need for Yoda to move at all. With his expertise at manipulating the force I would think he could just "animate" his sabre to do the work for him while he stands back serenely and controls the action.
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They Might Be Giants did it at a show I saw. It was during the "stump the band" encore where they play a song that the crowd picks. They actually did a passable job.
How utterly disgusting that you point out that it is not customary to speak ill of the dead yet launch into such a vile derogatory on a man's work. The reason it is not customary is that it is rude and uncalled for. What goal did you have in mind there? As for your vaunted criticisms. I see that the substance of them is rather thin. These "critics" are themselves criticized by Gould and we are supposed to be somehow impressed that they just call his work fictitous (sp?)? Of course they would try to debunk him, but it is laughable to debunk such work by calling it fiction. PROVE he was wrong. I doubt they will succeed there. In any event, how do you think Darwin's works were received? How are they received today? That these people would be so against it means little to nothing. Until someone else writes something concrete to disprove what Gould stated then his work is as valid as any other.
But don't get a degree in IT unless you plan to program. Get a degree in Business, Management, accounting something different. This sort of dual expertise is very valuable. For one, you will have a second skill set that is marketable, and two you get to demonstrate you have the drive and ambition to earn a degree while working. The business degree is also good because in omst situations you are going to need to understand how these things work if you are a SysAdmin. Your employer will love having a guy who understands the financial impact of purchases and recommendations.
THe review says that the council assigned Obi-Wan and Anniken to protect Amidala (I doubt I spelled those right). Why would they do that when they refused to make Anniken a Jedi in Episode I?
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Seriously, the return on investment for most degrees is just plain ridiculous. My wife has two degrees a general studies B.A. and a B.S.N. (nursing degree). She makes less than some factory workers!!! Her student loans will drive us into a deep hole and if not for IT (my career) we would be in a really bad situation. Salaries in most fields just do not make for much chance of being profitable. On top of that our income is too high to qualify for any type of low interest home loans, but not high enoughto make house payments very manageable (again thanks to IT we can do it). Our only hope is that our house will appreciate sufficiently that by the time we get the loans for school paid that we will be able to take a second morgtage to clean up all the credit cards and other things we had to use to survive initially. The IT boom was a blessing not a curse many of us will be in a position to have cash later thanks to it. The market certainly isnt helping anyone and a college educcation is not much help except in a few specialized areas (definitely not teaching, nursing, or other allied health fields). My own degree in Clinical Lab Science isnt worth the paper its printed on. I got an increase of nearly 100% by switching to IT which was a hobby for me previously (thank god!).
I got my first BB gun when I was 6 and my first shotgun when I was 10. I was firing rifles and shotguns by 8 and hunting rabbits and birds at that point. It is very common in rural areas. It is also why you see fewer accidental shootings. We had conservation officers teaching gun safety as early as third grade in school. City kids learn about guns watching TV.
Only Jon Lovitz would suggest this. You must have missed the actual story. That is possibly the worst possible suggestion for the part, with the exception perhaps of ...crap whats his name the guy from My Cousin Vinny.....or maybe Danny DeVito anyhow, go back and read up on Zaphod he is the guy who gets the chick, he is a star. He is not short, or squat.
It wasn't limited to Deities and Demigods, but also listed epic heroes. That is why Fafhrd and Grey Mouser are listed. As for assigning values to the Deities, well many people had games that involved characters of such extreme levels and power that they themselves challenged the gods and became gods in their campaign world. I had a friend who ran a campaign where the original characters eventually attained power that elevated them to this status. Not everyone just whacked some orcs and goblins, though personally I preferred the low level adventures over the ridiculoously overpowered mega-characters. My own campaigns often trapped those types by setting them against opponents that were equally silly in power. The Dancing Hut of Babba Yagga (sp?) module from Dragon Magazine was excellent for taking people down a few notches when you threw in some of the nasty traps, from a third party book (I forget the name). Think your level 75 mage is tough? Let him put on a necklace of strangulation, ninth level spells aren't very tough when you can't speak....
There was a study done that showed it was in fact the sauce that burns you so badly when you eat hot pizza. Apparently the sauce trapped under all the toppings retains a large amount of heat even though the top is cool enough to eat.
When I built a mosquito it used a AAA I am pretty sure. It was many years ago. Anyway, we had a similar story, only ours was assemled and allowed to dry for a proper period. When it was laucnhed it also went well up to the point where the rocket blew up. We found the pieces, it had managed to dislodge the fins and nose cone. It was the only launch we ever had go badly.
" Before this the aggregate performance of all 500 system was smaller THEN 30TF/s." I find it difficult to give the author any credibility when he cannot tell the difference between then and than.
I think that MMORPG companies are missing the point entirely with this issue. If you have ever played these games you would see that there is a large interest in exchanging gear, in game coin, or experience points (via "power-leveling"). The person who is seling this stuff still has to get it the same way the person buying it would have, by playing the game. Given the huge audiences of some of these games, why would you limit such transactions? WHy not provide a marketplace for the "merchandise" similar to Ebay and reap the rewards of the extra interest generated and make a nice little percentage charge on each transaction. So what if someone can buy the uber-high-level-whammy-thingy-of-might? It most likely requires more time than anyone with a real life can invest anyway. Where is the harm in accts and such being sold?
For that matter why is there a need for Yoda to move at all. With his expertise at manipulating the force I would think he could just "animate" his sabre to do the work for him while he stands back serenely and controls the action.
They Might Be Giants did it at a show I saw. It was during the "stump the band" encore where they play a song that the crowd picks. They actually did a passable job.
Ok this is about as geeky as geeky gets, but wheres the news?
How utterly disgusting that you point out that it is not customary to speak ill of the dead yet launch into such a vile derogatory on a man's work. The reason it is not customary is that it is rude and uncalled for. What goal did you have in mind there? As for your vaunted criticisms. I see that the substance of them is rather thin. These "critics" are themselves criticized by Gould and we are supposed to be somehow impressed that they just call his work fictitous (sp?)? Of course they would try to debunk him, but it is laughable to debunk such work by calling it fiction. PROVE he was wrong. I doubt they will succeed there. In any event, how do you think Darwin's works were received? How are they received today? That these people would be so against it means little to nothing. Until someone else writes something concrete to disprove what Gould stated then his work is as valid as any other.
But don't get a degree in IT unless you plan to program. Get a degree in Business, Management, accounting something different. This sort of dual expertise is very valuable. For one, you will have a second skill set that is marketable, and two you get to demonstrate you have the drive and ambition to earn a degree while working. The business degree is also good because in omst situations you are going to need to understand how these things work if you are a SysAdmin. Your employer will love having a guy who understands the financial impact of purchases and recommendations.
THe review says that the council assigned Obi-Wan and Anniken to protect Amidala (I doubt I spelled those right). Why would they do that when they refused to make Anniken a Jedi in Episode I?