The National Museum of Play as it is a great place to spend the day with your kids. There is a ton of stuff to do for younger kids ( 13) and there is often some cool exhibits for the older kids.
If your in the area check it out.
One of the biggest issues for current MOOCs is the large attrition rate (in the 90% range). Assuming that people signing up are at least average intelligence (on average of course), this suggests that average students are unable, for whatever reasons, to complete these courses. Part of it is that the instructors come from elite universities, are used to teaching elite students, and approach the MOOC in the same way, leaving the average student in the dust. Another part is that average students lack the motivation, discipline, as well as the smarts to learn complex concepts without a real-life instruction.
New Years Resolutions also have a high failure rate too, are people too dumb to lose weight?
The bottom line is that people change their minds, lose focus, are lazy, have ADD, don't get that job, adjust career goals, on and on and on. You being an elitist, attribute the attrition rate to ignorant peasants attempting to learn the skills of the gods, while the truth is that life happens and people saw something shiny and they signed up... then forgot about it
Taking release day off is a waste of time. Lag, starting area congestion, server restarts, etc etc... is not an efficient use of time for leveling.
Now, taking Thursday and Friday off to be level capped, and running heroics by Teusday reset. Yes, that is totally an option.
As someone who manages TSM and a pair of IBM 3584's, I am rather surprised that people think tape has been out. How else are you going to off-site your backups? Sync across a WAN? Not when you are backing up many TB's of data each day...
If you have been playing their games for 15+ years, then this game is going to be exactly what you have come to expect from id. A cutting edge game engine, with a bare bones but enjoyable game running on it. I played for about an hour last night (via wine) and it was alright. Was it worth $60? no probably not. The product I have seen is pretty much the same as the single player Doom 3 and Quake2/4. I don't think it is as horrible as the Ars review makes it out, but then they probably had higher expectations.
I look forward to trying out some multi-player.
While loosing almost 10% of the player base is significant, people are making too big of a deal over it. The vast majority of these accounts could easily have been gold selling accounts, multi-boxers who lost interest, etc. There was a huge surge in the popularity of multi-boxing at the end of wrath, and fads which gained popularity due to boredom, will fade once new content is released.
As many have pointed out, there is more competition now too...
We are being required to get both flu shots (seasonal and H1N1 when it arrives), and we are also required to sign a waiver releasing the hospital of all responsibility if something goes wrong.
IANAL but this seems like a really shady thing to do. But in today's economy you can force people to do just about anything....
If the ISP didn't charge for something like this, they would be inundated by requests from law enforcement, and others. The $$ keeps the agencies from making frivolous requests.
his job is to run the network. and he is one of those people who, right or wrong, thought that this task was to be performed in spite of perceived incompetence. i would doubt that there is any reasonably sized IT department that does not have this sort of thing going on. be it an individual or a small group who feel that they, and they alone, are the only ones who should be touching certain devices. truth be told, there concerns are usual valid to some degree. if you work in a good sized IT department, there are people who have access to systems which they have no business working on. sometimes you have people who don't know there own limitations, and will with best intentions, totally screw things up. many people can relate to his fears...
Step 1: like what? i mean, what can you do to piss off the president? mock his ears, speaking ability, or his intelligence? like he gives a shit... Step 2: threatening peoples lives, plotting to kill people or destroy buildings, taking up arms against this country are all perfectly good reasons to have your "civil liberties" taken away. i strongly recommend you refrain from those activities, and you should be fine... Step 2b: see 2 Step 3: your a nut...
This was known in February when the CPL decided to do what they do best: organize lan parties and distribute press releases about stuff they are or might be doing. The CPL, world reknowned wedding, and lan party organizer, will be picking out table linen and flower arrangements for the "World Series of Video Games", which will undoubtedly take the place of The CPL World Tour...
and if your reporting about the plight of the iraqi people, trying to help restore power, water, and other services, you get kidnapped and have your head cut off, the video of which is then shipped around to media outlets...
seriously, dont you have a creek to drive your date into?
I couldnt agree more. Why should the US abuse prisoners behind close doors, when others are able to practice barbaric practices while bathed in the sympathy of the worlds press. The US needs to adopt a policy of hanging bodies of captives from bridges, releasing good quality videos of their beheadings, and just more interesting forms of abuse in general. It needs to be made clear that naked pyramids, barking dogs, and sleep deprivation isnt the worst that might happen to you when you attempt to kill US citizens. (but if you try to join a college fraternity you can expect those activities along with some butt-chugs and the consumption of vast quantities of alcohol or goldfish. i hear the abu ghraib hazing is all the rage)
Honestly, if they are gonna torture prisoners in my name, I wish they would be more mature about it...
or more accurately, it looks great on the others (opera and mozilla) and looks fsckd up on IE. in my experience IE's padding and margin implementations are often the problem
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"Who knew IT was so complicated??!"
Only government and academia value a PhD. Otherwise, as many have pointed out, your both overqualified and underexperienced.
The National Museum of Play as it is a great place to spend the day with your kids. There is a ton of stuff to do for younger kids ( 13) and there is often some cool exhibits for the older kids. If your in the area check it out.
$80k is pretty good money for those of us living in the state of New York outside of NYC.
One of the biggest issues for current MOOCs is the large attrition rate (in the 90% range). Assuming that people signing up are at least average intelligence (on average of course), this suggests that average students are unable, for whatever reasons, to complete these courses. Part of it is that the instructors come from elite universities, are used to teaching elite students, and approach the MOOC in the same way, leaving the average student in the dust. Another part is that average students lack the motivation, discipline, as well as the smarts to learn complex concepts without a real-life instruction.
New Years Resolutions also have a high failure rate too, are people too dumb to lose weight? The bottom line is that people change their minds, lose focus, are lazy, have ADD, don't get that job, adjust career goals, on and on and on. You being an elitist, attribute the attrition rate to ignorant peasants attempting to learn the skills of the gods, while the truth is that life happens and people saw something shiny and they signed up ... then forgot about it
Taking release day off is a waste of time. Lag, starting area congestion, server restarts, etc etc ... is not an efficient use of time for leveling.
Now, taking Thursday and Friday off to be level capped, and running heroics by Teusday reset. Yes, that is totally an option.
As someone who manages TSM and a pair of IBM 3584's, I am rather surprised that people think tape has been out. How else are you going to off-site your backups? Sync across a WAN? Not when you are backing up many TB's of data each day ...
If you have been playing their games for 15+ years, then this game is going to be exactly what you have come to expect from id. A cutting edge game engine, with a bare bones but enjoyable game running on it. I played for about an hour last night (via wine) and it was alright. Was it worth $60? no probably not. The product I have seen is pretty much the same as the single player Doom 3 and Quake2/4. I don't think it is as horrible as the Ars review makes it out, but then they probably had higher expectations. I look forward to trying out some multi-player.
While loosing almost 10% of the player base is significant, people are making too big of a deal over it. The vast majority of these accounts could easily have been gold selling accounts, multi-boxers who lost interest, etc. There was a huge surge in the popularity of multi-boxing at the end of wrath, and fads which gained popularity due to boredom, will fade once new content is released. As many have pointed out, there is more competition now too ...
Stimpy, whatever you do, don't touch the big red button!
No matter where you go, there it is.
We are being required to get both flu shots (seasonal and H1N1 when it arrives), and we are also required to sign a waiver releasing the hospital of all responsibility if something goes wrong. IANAL but this seems like a really shady thing to do. But in today's economy you can force people to do just about anything ....
If the ISP didn't charge for something like this, they would be inundated by requests from law enforcement, and others. The $$ keeps the agencies from making frivolous requests.
his job is to run the network. and he is one of those people who, right or wrong, thought that this task was to be performed in spite of perceived incompetence. i would doubt that there is any reasonably sized IT department that does not have this sort of thing going on. be it an individual or a small group who feel that they, and they alone, are the only ones who should be touching certain devices. truth be told, there concerns are usual valid to some degree. if you work in a good sized IT department, there are people who have access to systems which they have no business working on. sometimes you have people who don't know there own limitations, and will with best intentions, totally screw things up. many people can relate to his fears ...
bad for those of us with a lazy eye, use hand disinfectants, and weave to warm up our tires.
On the number of LCD's _the_ super computer has attached to it.
Is prompting you for approval every time you run an app really considered innovative security?
and move that source repository to a more secure Windows 2003 Server platform.
Step 1: like what? i mean, what can you do to piss off the president? mock his ears, speaking ability, or his intelligence? like he gives a shit ... ... ...
Step 2: threatening peoples lives, plotting to kill people or destroy buildings, taking up arms against this country are all perfectly good reasons to have your "civil liberties" taken away. i strongly recommend you refrain from those activities, and you should be fine
Step 2b: see 2
Step 3: your a nut
This was known in February when the CPL decided to do what they do best: organize lan parties and distribute press releases about stuff they are or might be doing. The CPL, world reknowned wedding, and lan party organizer, will be picking out table linen and flower arrangements for the "World Series of Video Games", which will undoubtedly take the place of The CPL World Tour ...
Ya, I bet he was involved in all the CPL's shady dealings, since he owns the friggin company.
and if your reporting about the plight of the iraqi people, trying to help restore power, water, and other services, you get kidnapped and have your head cut off, the video of which is then shipped around to media outlets ...
seriously, dont you have a creek to drive your date into?
I couldnt agree more. Why should the US abuse prisoners behind close doors, when others are able to practice barbaric practices while bathed in the sympathy of the worlds press. The US needs to adopt a policy of hanging bodies of captives from bridges, releasing good quality videos of their beheadings, and just more interesting forms of abuse in general. It needs to be made clear that naked pyramids, barking dogs, and sleep deprivation isnt the worst that might happen to you when you attempt to kill US citizens. (but if you try to join a college fraternity you can expect those activities along with some butt-chugs and the consumption of vast quantities of alcohol or goldfish. i hear the abu ghraib hazing is all the rage)
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Honestly, if they are gonna torture prisoners in my name, I wish they would be more mature about it
or more accurately, it looks great on the others (opera and mozilla) and looks fsckd up on IE. in my experience IE's padding and margin implementations are often the problem
Is a 73 Ford Falcon, then a sawed off shotgun, and a leather outfit ... hmmm
Then I should be all set for Doomsday!