It's just too bad that Cedar Fair keeps plowing all the loot back into Cedar Point -- Valleyfair (in the Twin Cities) and Worlds of Fun (in KC) have a stranglehold on a large geographic, if not populous area, and they keep getting crappy rides like "Thunder Hawke" at WoF and "Power Tower" at Valleyfair.
I'd sure like not to have to catch a freaking airplane in order to ride decent coasters.
Superman: The Escape at Six Flags Magic Mountain (North LA) is powered by Linear Synchronous Motors -- which, if my hours whiling away watching the Travel Channel serve me -- are functionally an EM-pressor-repulsor rail gun.
http://www.me.utexas.edu/~uer/roller/superman.html
Besides, what kind of name is "Six Flags" anyway. It's like "5 stones" or "Two Flowers" or some other bunk. "Great Adventure" at least means something.
It's a reference to how six national flags have flown over Texas:
Spain France Mexico Texas The Confederate States of America The United States of America
Because the first Six Flags was Six Flags over Texas, in Arlington, between Dallas and Fort Worth.
http://www.parktimes.com/articles/theflags.htm (Why Texans find it a point of pride that they've been passed around like a drunken cheerleader is beyond me.)
A Brief History of Time? Cosmos? On the Origin of Species?
Not that I think or even suspect those gentelmen are/were fundamentalist atheists -- after all, deism still wouldn't be atheism -- I just can't think of any other books discussing the origin of life, the universe, and everything without being an element of ${HOLY_BOOK}[].
As a college student who chased it from station to station, time slot to time slot, (Oh, what I would have given for TiVo in those days!) I was fully aware of the fact that JMS wrote the preponderance of the episodes as well as the entirety of season 3.
I was contrasting DriveThruRPG.com's price for a first-run D&D manual at 34.95$ (with bonus DRM!) vs. RPGnow.com's second-run at 5-10$, noting that other successful electronic publishers also use the same model as RPGnow.com.
Baen books has been demonstrating that e-publishing without DRM at significant discount to dead-tree prices is a workable model. Of course, you have to settle for Profit! rather than OBSCENE PROFIT!, but you'll likely make it up in volume.
Considering the royalty (expressed as a percentage) expected for a hardcover is generally a significant multiple of the royalty (expressed as a fraction) expected for an electronic book, I cannot condone DriveThruRPG.com's pricing model.
In good old slashdot parlance...
1. Obtain electronic rights to old geeky stuff.
2. Price at original cost for hardcover.
3. Skip the ??? step.
4. Profit!
Baen books sells its first run issuance DRM-free for 5-6$ -- heck, you can't even get them in pdf -- where the dead-tree version is 24$. If the publisher or the authors were taking a bath over it, they'd have stopped by now, as they've been doing this since 1999.
Some publishers do not understand the concept of viral marketing, and price the electronic media accordingly. I wonder what the price they charge libraries is -- after all, hundreds, if not thousands of people might read that book, and it was only paid for once!
Unless, of course, you can scan, copy edit, and publish a PDF of a 100+ page book in under a minute.
Call me crazy, but the smart money says you can't. I guess if you insist on violating the copyright of others, no one says the copyright holder has to make it easier for you.
Everyone seems to be missing one aspect with regard to the prevention of abduction....
If every member of your group's RFID tags are associated, then no one should be able to remove a child from the facility without said associated RFID tag.
And for the tin-foil hat squad -- if you think giving the purveyor of the park better data with regard to hot and cold-spot without having to take action is tantamount to 1984, well, you may wish to consider that not every slope is that slippery and that there is a gigantic difference in what a private company can do on its property and what the government can mandate.
>You might be able to get a renters policy.
Generally, a dependent's goods in a dorm or college apartment are covered under a homeowner's policy.
Leastwise, that was the case with USAA -- obviously, YMMV.
Discounted or simply lower priced?
After all, porting a console game (especially Xbox) to PC is fairly straightforward, so marginal costs will likely be low. However, no royalties will be owed to Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo.
Generally, multi-platform PC games are $10 cheaper than their console brethren. My estimate of console royalties is... lessee... carry the five... $10.
The corresponding disadvantage, of course, is the lack of secondary markets for PC games.
As a mathematician working in the computer field, discrete math (logic, set theory, and the like) is the single most important class a programmer needs. It's always entertaining when Joe Programmer, DeVry class of 2003, can't understand why his code isn't working right when he's managed to write an unintentional negative tautology.
If you're going code serious database apps -- like anything with concurrency -- and you don't understand set theory, you may as well shoot yourself now and save your customer base the aggravation.
Learning language-du-jour may be neat. Learning algorithms is better. Learning why the algorithms work they way they do is best, and without discrete math, you can't get there.
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I'd sure like not to have to catch a freaking airplane in order to ride decent coasters.
Of course, both Eisner World and EisnerLand in the US have the Wild Mouse as well -- except in the dark and with a soundtrack.
Superman: The Escape at Six Flags Magic Mountain (North LA) is powered by Linear Synchronous Motors -- which, if my hours whiling away watching the Travel Channel serve me -- are functionally an EM-pressor-repulsor rail gun. http://www.me.utexas.edu/~uer/roller/superman.html
It's a reference to how six national flags have flown over Texas:
Spain
France
Mexico
Texas
The Confederate States of America
The United States of America
Because the first Six Flags was Six Flags over Texas, in Arlington, between Dallas and Fort Worth.
http://www.parktimes.com/articles/theflags.htm
(Why Texans find it a point of pride that they've been passed around like a drunken cheerleader is beyond me.)
Not that I think or even suspect those gentelmen are/were fundamentalist atheists -- after all, deism still wouldn't be atheism -- I just can't think of any other books discussing the origin of life, the universe, and everything without being an element of ${HOLY_BOOK}[].
No, because I do not believe the human mind can comprehend time on the geologic scale. 8-)
As a college student who chased it from station to station, time slot to time slot, (Oh, what I would have given for TiVo in those days!) I was fully aware of the fact that JMS wrote the preponderance of the episodes as well as the entirety of season 3.
You must have that confused with the Tom Bombadil interlude in FoTR.
Could have fooled me.
And the OP referred to both sites.
I was contrasting DriveThruRPG.com's price for a first-run D&D manual at 34.95$ (with bonus DRM!) vs. RPGnow.com's second-run at 5-10$, noting that other successful electronic publishers also use the same model as RPGnow.com.
Baen books has been demonstrating that e-publishing without DRM at significant discount to dead-tree prices is a workable model. Of course, you have to settle for Profit! rather than OBSCENE PROFIT!, but you'll likely make it up in volume.
In good old slashdot parlance...
1. Obtain electronic rights to old geeky stuff.
2. Price at original cost for hardcover.
3. Skip the ??? step.
4. Profit!
Baen books sells its first run issuance DRM-free for 5-6$ -- heck, you can't even get them in pdf -- where the dead-tree version is 24$. If the publisher or the authors were taking a bath over it, they'd have stopped by now, as they've been doing this since 1999.
Some publishers do not understand the concept of viral marketing, and price the electronic media accordingly. I wonder what the price they charge libraries is -- after all, hundreds, if not thousands of people might read that book, and it was only paid for once!
Unless, of course, you can scan, copy edit, and publish a PDF of a 100+ page book in under a minute.
Call me crazy, but the smart money says you can't. I guess if you insist on violating the copyright of others, no one says the copyright holder has to make it easier for you.
That's why they got 4 inches of rain from the remains of Frances and almost 7 from the remains of Ivan.
Check the Pittburgh Post-Gazette's flood coverage if you don't believe that Pittsburgh can get hit with a hurricane.
Everyone seems to be missing one aspect with regard to the prevention of abduction.... If every member of your group's RFID tags are associated, then no one should be able to remove a child from the facility without said associated RFID tag. And for the tin-foil hat squad -- if you think giving the purveyor of the park better data with regard to hot and cold-spot without having to take action is tantamount to 1984, well, you may wish to consider that not every slope is that slippery and that there is a gigantic difference in what a private company can do on its property and what the government can mandate.
>You might be able to get a renters policy. Generally, a dependent's goods in a dorm or college apartment are covered under a homeowner's policy. Leastwise, that was the case with USAA -- obviously, YMMV.
Discounted or simply lower priced? After all, porting a console game (especially Xbox) to PC is fairly straightforward, so marginal costs will likely be low. However, no royalties will be owed to Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo. Generally, multi-platform PC games are $10 cheaper than their console brethren. My estimate of console royalties is... lessee... carry the five... $10. The corresponding disadvantage, of course, is the lack of secondary markets for PC games.
If you're going code serious database apps -- like anything with concurrency -- and you don't understand set theory, you may as well shoot yourself now and save your customer base the aggravation.
Learning language-du-jour may be neat. Learning algorithms is better. Learning why the algorithms work they way they do is best, and without discrete math, you can't get there.