Econ
Define a natural monopoly
When a single firm can supply the market at lower cost than could others
Rods have an opsin called..
Rhodopsin
"Temp Love" is the ...
Risk a director likes the temp track so much so that they refuse to use the final
What is the name for the factor that, in one of the realities, kills one out of four babies?
The plague
(or: cancer)
A high-level programming language allows programmers to ..
Write programs with a mixture of math and English
Define a patent
The exclusive rights to a new technology for a period of twenty years
Hyperpolarization is ..
A change in the membrane potential to a more negative value
In the first decades of the 20th century, the main role of music in film was to..
To mask the sounds of the audience and projector
What kind of system is the GPRT system?
A transit system
The EDVAC improved the writing of new programs by..
Each instruction supported by the machine was assigned a unique numeric code
Increasing supply causes economic profits to increase so long as what occurs?
So long as marginal revenue is greater than marginal costs
The role of retinal ganglion cells in vision is ..
Transmitting visual information to the brain via the optic nerve
Another term for source music is..
Diegetic music
In the first reality in which Aliens seemed to attack Earth, the bombs caused Mount Hood to erupt. In the later more peaceful reality, what happens to Mount Hood?
It erupts without being bombed
The device called the “plan preparation machine” automated the creation of new programs. It was designed by..
Konrad Zuse
The legislation meant to increase market competition is
the Sherman Anti- Trust act of 1890
Amacrine cells in the retina are responsible for
..distributing information from one bipolar cell to many ganglion cells
Name three works by Ligeti used in 2001, A Space Odyssey.
Kyrie, Lux Aeterna, Aventures and Atmosphères
Who says “To go is to return”?
Asfah
Who concluded that any general-purpose computer could be programmed to do almost anything, including translating algorithms?
Heinz Rutishauser
Examples of the government using anti-trust laws:
AT&T split in 1984, and the unbundling of internet explorer from the Windows operating system
Why is the point where retinal ganglion cells exit the retina referred to as a blind spot?
There are no photoreceptors in this area and no light can be transduced from this spot.
The name for an orchestral work that suggests certain mental images without the use of words is ..
A tone poem
Orr meets an Alien on the street who says “You are human capable of” —what?
iahklu’
Who made the realization that about 75% of the cost of running a computer was in paying programmers to write, test and debug their programs?
John Backus from IBM