Of course, if you want to do it at any serious scale, you need to have at least a few million dollars in spare cash lying around, but it turns out, a surprising number of people do have that kind of play money.
The ideal result is that more and more people can meet their own needs and perform the all-important function of playing with the data, but when it comes time to get serious or to scale, use the same techniques.
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Avian flu viruses can sometimes spread to domestic poultry and cause large-scale outbreaks of serious disease.
Given the extent to which business is being done on an international scale, this is a serious shortcoming.
But its main purpose is serious: to reveal the large-scale structure of the universe and thus uncover what happened in the first billion-trillion-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang to cause things to turn out the way they did.
So this is intriguing to me, especially because it could help foster a robust game economy similar to that in EVE which not only gives more casual players a chance to scale down, but rewards serious players for their time investment.
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Nonetheless and as will be made even more acute by recent events in the energy sector, Israel confronts serious deficiencies in access to project financing for large-scale infrastructure.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has classified the Tokaimura accident, which was the worst in Japanese history, as level four on its seven-point scale, making it the world's most serious since the level-seven disaster at Chernobyl in 1986.
Nokia needs to pull out all the heavy artillery -- major device launches, carrier support, impressive software, and a seamless user experience -- if it wants the Ovi Store to succeed on a grand scale, and by all accounts, they're serious about making that happen with the recent integrations of MOSH and WidSets.
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Police forces in England and Wales have begun a large-scale operation to collect DNA samples from about 12, 000 serious offenders who are not on the national DNA database.
Boehner and Republicans say the president and Democrats have yet to propose a serious plan to reduce spending, including costly entitlement programs, on a scale necessary to bring chronic federal deficits and debt under control.
If the government is serious about development, some say, agro-industry is much more promising than small-scale farming.
"There is serious momentum already in the free schools movement, but if free schools are to go to scale then profit has to be considered, " she said.
If America wants to recapture its 3.3% average rate of growth it has enjoyed since World War II, it had better get serious about removing the tax and regulatory barriers for these kind of startups with the potential to scale.
This takes us into serious crunching - and we have to look to people who've studied the problem on a big scale.
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