The question shouldn't be how much less than new-price Gamestop sells it for. It should be how much less than their wholesale cost they buy it for. We don't have their wholesale pricelist, but I would estimate there's a pretty big markup. The pittance they pay for used games might even be 50% of their cost for stocking new games.
A white man, an Indian man, a Black man and an Asian man have far better chances of forming a stable team than a white man and a white woman.
The statistics regarding the number of successful 'teams' of the types you describe completely debunk your argument. The numbers aren't even of the same magnitude.
The way you describe the situation makes it sound like you're approaching deer or birdwatching. Have you considered just developing a rapport for some of your fellow human beings who happen to be of the opposite gender? Don't think of yourself as a bear lumbering out of the bushes in attack mode.
It's a useful filter, so should stay in common usage.
When you're looking around at the games in the Play Store or iTunes, quite a few games say 'the most addictive....' which identifies them as games probably not worth downloading since their developer/distributor has to rely on stale memes to market them.
A robust flashlight has to run theoretically 20 years on a charge. That is, it has to be ready to use when you want, and self-sustaining. What was this demo flashlight doing before being picked up to use for 20 minutes? Charging for 20 hours?
The whole idea of capturing and using ambient temperature differences to produce energy has to be: to produce as much as used, as its being used in the environment it is being used in.
But I've worked with many who find the idea of planning ahead and having a structure in place before you start slinging code to be positively frightful.
Last time I encountered a Mine Shaft Gap I fell down it. No creepers needed, simple self-destruction will suffice. It was a hassle getting down there to pick up all my stuff, too.
And it's not an east-west thing, as Minecraft does not come from either Russia or the U.S.
If you are as tired as some of us are with the Firefox folks stripping functionality out of the Mozilla browser, why not use SeaMonkey instead? For those who don't know of it, SeaMonkey is a Mozilla fork that includes the whole 'classic' Mozilla/Netscape Suite. It has the Browser/Composer/Email/News bundle in one interface. It also will run most Firefox plugins (or Seamonkey versions thereof) NoScript is very easy to install.
I couldn't get by without Seamonkey for the way I interact with the Web. If I encounter formatted HTML on a page that I want to locally capture, I open up a Composer window and cut and past the formatted HTML into a new HTML file and save it locally. The democratic Web is based on a symmetrical web experience: that is, the browser and composer should both be available to all Web users. If you want a web browser where there's an 'Edit' choice in the 'File' menu at the left end of the menu bar, so you can open up a local copy, tweak and save a local copy of most any page you navigate to, you want Seamonkey.
Seamonkey can be explored and downloaded Here. It's available as source or a binary package for most freenixes and a Windows installer.
If Apple disappeared and 1 Infinite Loop became an instant smoking crater, the market demand for cell phones with Samsung chips and displays would not disappear. So some other company would make those cell phones with Samsung chips and displays in them. Perhaps an enlarged division of Samsung. Perhaps some other customer of Samsung.
The fact that a bunch of speculators leapt at a rumor like that is more a reflection of how flaky investors are, not a reflect on anything about Samsung.
Actually, in the 1950's, IT departments had decks of punched cards. And machines with jumper-wire panels to sort the cards in those decks into the order needed to generate a report, or print invoices or mailing labels.
When new data had to be punched into the 'database' it was entered as lines, with each line a card in a card deck.
Card punches, card sorters, big cabinets to contain the cards. Line printers that could have their jumper wires configured to transpose the data fields on cards read in the card reader attached to them to fields on the printout. That was IBM for it's first half century.
Also clocks, timeclocks, typewriters, and for awhile photocopiers.
We have such an inflated view of our importance that there is a popular notion that 'history is over' and that it's simply up to us to sift through the strata and write everything down.
Which is problematic, to say the least. Modern human Archeologists do more to damage the historical record than any other force on earth. If a 'site' is discovered it 'MUST' be excavated, the delicate but preserved relics within it removed and stored in modern steel-and-glass buildings.
Whenever I encounter the whooping raving rants of 'historical preservationists' I worry that they're about to tear into another 'valuable site' that contains historical strata. Two hundred years from now when we have developed non-invasive, non-destructive means to study and explore historical strata, i.e. three-dimensional x-ray methods, the scientists of that era will be thankful of any small areas remain that 'those idiots' in the 20-21 century didn't discover and tear apart.
No, it doesn't matter at all to ultimate 'history' if you got that grant from the government to tear into the ground and dig up graves from the past. It matters to you because you wanted to never leave campus after grad school. Be forewarned that in the long term, things may not end up the way you thought they would. Future peoples may curse the fact that you got tenure.
I try to make sure that all the equipment in our labs is designated as Test Equipment and not 'IT' stuff. Lots of modern test equipment incorporates computers, but the goober who installs the anti-virus suite is NOT getting near it. If you have the test equipment networked, keep it on a separate network from the 'IT' stuff and completely isolated from the Internet. Also prohibit non-tech people from having access on it.
By partitioning your 'test equipment' away from IT, you can keep it out of the IT budget.
I'm forced to listen to a narrow selection of that music every time somebody at work decides to have the 'Classic Rawck' station playing on the radio on his workbench.
I bought 5 Pink Floyd CDs yesterday morning at a garage sale.
The 'old stuff' isn't a be-all and end-all. My favorite album right now is David Bowie's new album that he released this spring.
My father's favorite music is the stuff that was popular a few years before he started listening to music: the big band stuff like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. I like that music, too. But it's not a be-all and end-all.
What Phillip Glass and John Cage and those folks are doing actually eclipses all the popular crap. I'd certain rather listen to a recording of an orchestra playing a Charles Ives work than any of the pop musick.
Or Terry Riley's The Harp of New Albion which I can barely listen to at the moment, because my Klipsch speakers aren't hooked up, and so many of the subharmonics of the detuned piano are missing when it's played on low quality equipment.
What President Clinton engaged in was not private sexual activity. Any HR person from any private company in the US will tell you that when an executive engages in sexual acts with a subordinate within an organization, it constitutes sexual harassment. Consensual or not, higher level people are not supposed to engage in sex, particularly when on-duty, with subordinates.
Of course, there are different rules for admired Political Leaders than there are for the rest of us. Especially there are different rules when the admired one is a known and documented predator.
The companies that make wingnuts, and distributors like Graingers and McMaster, are careful in their estimations. It's expensive to keep too much stock on hand.
It might seem strange, but one would think that third party developers would be hesitant to just immediately glom onto new tech that almost none of their customers will have available anytime soon.
Then again, the revenue from the chumps who line up at the store to buy every.new.release probably is greater on a per-customer basis.
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In your world. And in your fanciful mockup of what the U.S. government is. But why litter the discussion with fantasy jabber?
I didn't see a 'very' in there anywhere.
The question shouldn't be how much less than new-price Gamestop sells it for. It should be how much less than their wholesale cost they buy it for. We don't have their wholesale pricelist, but I would estimate there's a pretty big markup. The pittance they pay for used games might even be 50% of their cost for stocking new games.
Steam is not the sole, take-it-or-leave-it offering on PC.
And XBox is not the sole take-it-or-leave-it offering on console games. Don't like Xbox One's digital shop? Buy a Wii or Playstation.
Russia to Cuba
Cuba to Venezuela
Uh... "it puts the lotion on it's skin."
A white man, an Indian man, a Black man and an Asian man have far better chances of forming a stable team than a white man and a white woman.
The statistics regarding the number of successful 'teams' of the types you describe completely debunk your argument. The numbers aren't even of the same magnitude.
The way you describe the situation makes it sound like you're approaching deer or birdwatching. Have you considered just developing a rapport for some of your fellow human beings who happen to be of the opposite gender? Don't think of yourself as a bear lumbering out of the bushes in attack mode.
They're not nearly as common as you seem to assume. Really. I've not had those experiences.
It's a useful filter, so should stay in common usage.
When you're looking around at the games in the Play Store or iTunes, quite a few games say 'the most addictive....' which identifies them as games probably not worth downloading since their developer/distributor has to rely on stale memes to market them.
A robust flashlight has to run theoretically 20 years on a charge. That is, it has to be ready to use when you want, and self-sustaining. What was this demo flashlight doing before being picked up to use for 20 minutes? Charging for 20 hours?
The whole idea of capturing and using ambient temperature differences to produce energy has to be: to produce as much as used, as its being used in the environment it is being used in.
I happen to like Flowcharts, and planning ahead.
But I've worked with many who find the idea of planning ahead and having a structure in place before you start slinging code to be positively frightful.
Last time I encountered a Mine Shaft Gap I fell down it. No creepers needed, simple self-destruction will suffice. It was a hassle getting down there to pick up all my stuff, too.
And it's not an east-west thing, as Minecraft does not come from either Russia or the U.S.
If you are as tired as some of us are with the Firefox folks stripping functionality out of the Mozilla browser, why not use SeaMonkey instead? For those who don't know of it, SeaMonkey is a Mozilla fork that includes the whole 'classic' Mozilla/Netscape Suite. It has the Browser/Composer/Email/News bundle in one interface. It also will run most Firefox plugins (or Seamonkey versions thereof) NoScript is very easy to install.
I couldn't get by without Seamonkey for the way I interact with the Web. If I encounter formatted HTML on a page that I want to locally capture, I open up a Composer window and cut and past the formatted HTML into a new HTML file and save it locally. The democratic Web is based on a symmetrical web experience: that is, the browser and composer should both be available to all Web users. If you want a web browser where there's an 'Edit' choice in the 'File' menu at the left end of the menu bar, so you can open up a local copy, tweak and save a local copy of most any page you navigate to, you want Seamonkey.
Seamonkey can be explored and downloaded Here. It's available as source or a binary package for most freenixes and a Windows installer.
The fork already happened, ages ago. Seamonkey is the Mozilla fork that happened when the Firefox devs decided to go crazy and start stripping out useful stuff. Download Seamonkey and use it. It's very up to date because it's based on the same code from Mozilla as Firefox. Also, it has the Composer and Email and other integrated stuff intact.
And NoScript runs on it.
If Apple disappeared and 1 Infinite Loop became an instant smoking crater, the market demand for cell phones with Samsung chips and displays would not disappear. So some other company would make those cell phones with Samsung chips and displays in them. Perhaps an enlarged division of Samsung. Perhaps some other customer of Samsung.
The fact that a bunch of speculators leapt at a rumor like that is more a reflection of how flaky investors are, not a reflect on anything about Samsung.
Actually, in the 1950's, IT departments had decks of punched cards. And machines with jumper-wire panels to sort the cards in those decks into the order needed to generate a report, or print invoices or mailing labels.
When new data had to be punched into the 'database' it was entered as lines, with each line a card in a card deck.
Card punches, card sorters, big cabinets to contain the cards. Line printers that could have their jumper wires configured to transpose the data fields on cards read in the card reader attached to them to fields on the printout. That was IBM for it's first half century.
Also clocks, timeclocks, typewriters, and for awhile photocopiers.
We have such an inflated view of our importance that there is a popular notion that 'history is over' and that it's simply up to us to sift through the strata and write everything down.
Which is problematic, to say the least. Modern human Archeologists do more to damage the historical record than any other force on earth. If a 'site' is discovered it 'MUST' be excavated, the delicate but preserved relics within it removed and stored in modern steel-and-glass buildings.
Whenever I encounter the whooping raving rants of 'historical preservationists' I worry that they're about to tear into another 'valuable site' that contains historical strata. Two hundred years from now when we have developed non-invasive, non-destructive means to study and explore historical strata, i.e. three-dimensional x-ray methods, the scientists of that era will be thankful of any small areas remain that 'those idiots' in the 20-21 century didn't discover and tear apart.
No, it doesn't matter at all to ultimate 'history' if you got that grant from the government to tear into the ground and dig up graves from the past. It matters to you because you wanted to never leave campus after grad school. Be forewarned that in the long term, things may not end up the way you thought they would. Future peoples may curse the fact that you got tenure.
Mostly when they close a plant, General Motors either sells it to another industrial concern or demolishes it.
I try to make sure that all the equipment in our labs is designated as Test Equipment and not 'IT' stuff. Lots of modern test equipment incorporates computers, but the goober who installs the anti-virus suite is NOT getting near it. If you have the test equipment networked, keep it on a separate network from the 'IT' stuff and completely isolated from the Internet. Also prohibit non-tech people from having access on it.
By partitioning your 'test equipment' away from IT, you can keep it out of the IT budget.
I'm forced to listen to a narrow selection of that music every time somebody at work decides to have the 'Classic Rawck' station playing on the radio on his workbench.
I bought 5 Pink Floyd CDs yesterday morning at a garage sale.
The 'old stuff' isn't a be-all and end-all. My favorite album right now is David Bowie's new album that he released this spring.
My father's favorite music is the stuff that was popular a few years before he started listening to music: the big band stuff like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. I like that music, too. But it's not a be-all and end-all.
What Phillip Glass and John Cage and those folks are doing actually eclipses all the popular crap. I'd certain rather listen to a recording of an orchestra playing a Charles Ives work than any of the pop musick.
Or Terry Riley's The Harp of New Albion which I can barely listen to at the moment, because my Klipsch speakers aren't hooked up, and so many of the subharmonics of the detuned piano are missing when it's played on low quality equipment.
Check out Phillip Glass' 'Dracula' in the Piano arrangement. There's a CD release.
What President Clinton engaged in was not private sexual activity. Any HR person from any private company in the US will tell you that when an executive engages in sexual acts with a subordinate within an organization, it constitutes sexual harassment. Consensual or not, higher level people are not supposed to engage in sex, particularly when on-duty, with subordinates.
Of course, there are different rules for admired Political Leaders than there are for the rest of us. Especially there are different rules when the admired one is a known and documented predator.
The companies that make wingnuts, and distributors like Graingers and McMaster, are careful in their estimations. It's expensive to keep too much stock on hand.
But "desktop presentation" is for the marketing types with their tasselated shoes.
The rest of us, the first thing we do is look for the settings to scrub that shit off the screen.
It might seem strange, but one would think that third party developers would be hesitant to just immediately glom onto new tech that almost none of their customers will have available anytime soon.
Then again, the revenue from the chumps who line up at the store to buy every.new.release probably is greater on a per-customer basis.