The purchase provides Blockbuster with a way to send movies straight into televisions and computers, complementing its store and movie-by-mail operations, where it competes with Netflix.
The handsome retro illustrations in pen and ink — no computers here — complement Reid's text, which suggests a series of outlandish swaps: a butterfly in the hand earns a wishbone, which in turn can be exchanged for a kite with a tail, then a straw hat, until eventually a tower is traded up for a small army (looking like proper tin soldiers) and even "11 towering icebergs".
In eventual reaction to the decline of industrial Dundee, locals turned to what had then become Abertay University with a suggestion: start a department for the study and teaching of computer games, complementing the established computer science department.
The initiative's focus on better software, faster networking, and brawnier computers would complement an ongoing $110 million-a-year federal program, called Next Generation Internet, that hooks leading research sites up with faster connections.
As such, there would appear a new generation of scientists (with training in molecular biology, bioengineering, physiopathology and pharmacology) who would bring to fruition an integral use of computers to complement research and imaging techniques.
Hungry Minds' computer books would complement Wiley's technical and professional publishing businesses.
Other recommendations include establishing Internet-ready computer centers to complement teaching, learning, and research in the library.
My advice to someone who is interested in this field: Work to develop a sound knowledge of biology, and keep it real by learning necessary computer skills that complement the field.
The BBC's new Micro Bit programmable device is designed to complement computers like the Raspberry Pi rather than compete with them, according to people involved with the project.
The incomes of the highly educated those with the skills to complement computers—have soared, while pay for others lower down the skill ladder has been squeezed.
