China has long been home to a booming illicit "trade" for new iPhones smuggled into the country through ports like Hong Kong or Shanghai. And the iPhone 6 is no exception: Customs officials have reported that hundreds of 6s and 6 Pluses have been confiscated this month.
D Gthe first xbox exclusive I've been interested in since Halo.
ScreamRide is an Xbox 360 and Xbox One game due out this spring that should appeal to those of us RollerCoaster Tycoon players who regularly have "accidents" happen at our amusement parks.
Now, it's more action than simulation, but you're still building and riding your own custom-made roller coasters -- up until the point at which you intentionally launch off into a building in an attempt to bring it crashing down. Like, the buildings even have weak points. Twisted stuff.
Consoles seem like a less than ideal place to play a game like this, but I'm interested all the same.
I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper. It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be done by hand. Not surprisingly, the process is extremely slow compared to hardware mining and is entirely impractical. But performing the algorithm manually is a good way to understand exactly how it works.
Nintendo has stuck with plastic cartridges for its portable gaming machines, but every other console you can buy today left them behind years ago. Which is too bad, because there was a certain charm to swapping those old seemingly indestructible game carts. And if you're feeling nostalgic for them, you can now deck out your home with this wallpaper homage to those far-from-forgotten cartridges from your childhood.
See the accompanying economic analysis, Major Decisions: What Graduates Earn Over Their Lifetimes.
Over the entire working life, the typical college graduate will earn $1.19 million in today’s dollars. This is more than twice as much as the lifetime earnings of a typical high school graduate ($580,000), and $335,000, or 39 percent, more than that of a typical associate’s degree graduate. What is less understood is that not all college degrees are the same, and what you study matters far more than where you study it. Earnings differ dramatically across majors—in starting salaries, wage growth over time, and ultimately lifetime earnings.
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, we have calculated annual median earnings from career start to retirement for 80 majors (top figure). We have also calculated lifetime earnings for these majors, taking into account that some graduates fare better than others, even within the same major (bottom figure). You can choose or search from each of these majors, as well as education levels below a bachelor’s degree, using the four selection boxes above. By default, earnings profiles exclude people with graduate degrees but include part-time workers and those who experience unemployment throughout the year, as the risks of unemployment and underemployment differ across education levels and majors. You can, however, view earnings among only those working full-time, or include workers with graduate degrees, by clicking the check boxes up top.
Approximately 15 miles east of Yellowstone National Park sits a structure known as the Smith Mansion. This rambling, five-story house built out of salvaged, wildfire-damaged pine was the passion of an eccentric engineer named Francis Lee Smith, who built the structure single-handedly.
Smith began the project in approximately 1980, intending on building a log cabin home for his family that blended in with the glorious Wyoming wilderness. His family lived in the house for a while, despite there being no electricity except that provided by an extension cord connected to a generator. A wood stove was the only source of heat. The family dining table was a large tree stump, with smaller stumps as chairs. Smith built no separated bedrooms in the house; instead, he, his wife and two children slept in sleeping bags on the floor.
This arrangement satisfied Mrs. Smith for a few years, until her husband's constant work on the house instead of family time pushed her too far. She divorced him in the early 1980s, took the children and moved to another city. A dejected Smith poured everything he had into the house, building addition after addition, without blueprints from which to work. In 1992, Smith lost his life to his obsession when he fell from a balcony while working on the house and died from his injuries.
Smith's chaotic building of a house with no planned ending is reminiscent of possibly mentally unstable personalities such as Sarah Winchester, heiress to to the Winchester gun fortune, who kept building her San Jose mansion until she died in an effort to assuage the spirits of those shot by Winchester guns. Yet Smith's ex wife and daughter both claim his furious construction was not the result of mental illness. Smith's daughter Sunny Larsen is currently the owner of the structure and is attempting to raise money for its rehabilitation. Visit her website and view the video below to learn more.
After several years of wanting to create a classic-style film noir, David Fincher may have finally found such a project. As The Playlist reports, Fincher is pairing up with crime fiction writer and author of the The Black Dahlia and LA Confidential, James Ellroy, for a potential 1950s-set noir series, with HBO currently in conversations with the duo.
Fincher, the director of Zodiac and Se7en, was once attached to direct an adaptation of Dahlia — Fincher envisioned it as a miniseries — and has not kept his interest in the crime genre secret. Similarly, the series currently being talked about with HBO is said to be a crime show with a noir-like vibe, set in Los Angeles.
Washington Nationals pitcher Gio Gonzalez’s Frenchie Stitch salutes Yankees star Derek Jeter on his final game today.
From Carol H.
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