I did finish them. What got me to drop the major was the worst instructor in the history of mankind for a mandatory CS 400 level course , that had no hope of there being a different instructor in the forseeable future.
To give you an idea how bad he was, for the first test, getting 70 points out of 400 curved to an A. And, he yelled at and berated the student who got that score. My 30 out of 400 was a D+. I made the decision midway through the second test, which I proceeded to fill out with utter nonsense. It still got a 20 (out of 300ish), and another D+. There was also one moment in class where a light fixture had fallen on top of him. The groans of disappointment when we realized he was OK were louder than his moans of pain.
I had actually completed the applied physics portion of the BS, all that was left was a handful of 400 level courses. But my bean counting job is pretty stress free, so no complaints. I dodged a bullet there, wouldn't want what I do to actually matter, that would be terrifying...
For the more common types of programming, the complex math and difficult parts are irrelevant. The two semesters of physics and two semesters of calculus I took in my BS program have gone completely unused and forgotten about. The courses that came only with the BA I switched to (Computer Networks, Computer Hardware, Web programming and design, and even upper level psychology) were a lot more useful in the real world. The pinnacle course of the program involved interviewing for jobs with actual recruiters for local tech companies, in which the recruiters graded us on how well we interviewed.
Apparently 1/3rd of Buffalo airport's travellers are Torontonians (and other Ontarians) avoiding the high cost of Canadian flights... there's enough of an industry that there are cross-border airport shuttles.
The randomness is to keep you from "relying" on it, a lame effort to keep ne'er do wells on their toes. However, did you buy Precheck? If so was it standalone or part of Global Entry? Basically the more information you gave to the government and the more hoops you went through to get your Trusted Traveller document, the less random it is. So Global Entry gets Precheck maybe 90% of the time, while standalone Precheck would be 75% (numbers pulled out of my ass, but this is what I've heard on various flyer forums).
You mean third world countries like Florida? I'm currently vacationing in Canada right now and overheard people basically saying they shouldn't be letting people who've come from Florida back into Canada...
Bedbugs were already effectively extinct in the US (I think it was mainly thanks to DDT) until people brought them back in from 3rd world countries, so we've already tested that theory. Now DDT is banned and since there is no other OTC pesticide that works on them, we're screwed. If you really want to avoid them (and other nasty buggers), make sure your domicile is 100% free of potted plants, wood, and other natural construction materials. The more plastic, metal, concrete and brick you use, the less convenient your place is for insects.
Common sense (via sense of self preservation) is that the larger vehicle always has the right of way, regardless of what the rules say. They're harder to maneuver and require more distance to stop. Or you can choose to be dead right, either way the driver of the rig / bus / truck will be fine, and likely so will the vehicle they are operating (which often isn't theirs anyway, so no skin off their back if it gets a few dings).
That built in navigation speed restriction is in a lot of cars (though for mine it's only the text input fields). This is reasonable but only if I'm the only one in the car. If I have a passenger there is no reason they shouldn't be able to type in an address. In a perfect world they'd put a button on the passenger side door which will give 1 minute of typing function, that only activates on initial press (so that taping it down doesn't work).
Wrong way around, more like taxing wind to subsidize coal. Historically taxes of that nature worked as your example: the government taxes the older, less glamorous thing to help the new thing. For example there was a 10% tax on railroad tickets from 1942 to 1962 (originally intended for WW2) which eventually was used to fund airport and interstate construction, which helped doom the private railroads.
If the government wanted to do it consistent with history and your example, taxi fares would be taxed to subsidize ride sharing even as they're losing money.
Yes, it's not the 80s anymore and a Linux desktop (*especially* Mint) is perfectly usable without programming. If given a plain vanilla Mint install, I can get it set up and able to do what I need it to do in the same amount of time as a vanilla Windows 10 install. Here's pretty much how it would go: 1. Install Mint 2. Install proprietary Nvidia drivers from their website. While it's a command line wizard, it's nothing more complex than the Windows version of the same. There's a stupid script provided by Mint which is intended to always fail (I think it has one line "return false" or something to that nature) that gets in the way, so there is a -1 there. 3. Install latest wine from Wine Repos. Minor tweaking from Winecfg (which is technically a windows GUI application) and all games I care to play work 4. Install vmware-view from VMware package, as the Mint/Ubuntu provided one is out of date. This would have been another -1, except I would need to download an installer for Windows anyway, so it's a wash. 5. Install Chrome, same effort as installing it on Windows. Everything else I could possibly need is an apt-get away at this point.
Interesting stance of "appearance for cooperation":).
I cross the Canadian border a lot, just be direct and honest and I've never had a real problem. The worst was a situation (entering US, of course) where they rifled through my car and made me go in the building to talk to them, an hour later was back on the road. That one was triggered by one of my travelling companions.
I would say 15% of the CBSA and 50% of the US CBP are douches. The good news is if you get an a-hole and sent for further scrutiny, there's still a 50/50 chance the second line of questioners aren't out to ruin your day. And the good ones are *really good*; they talk to you without any hint of interrogation, almost like a co-worker asking "how was your trip". And these guys are probably the ones who actually catch the bad players because they get your guard down, rather than the Guantanamo interrogator wannabes.
You can set most smartphones to wipe after N incorrect password entries; if you use auto backup it should be no big deal if you set it to something low like 2 or 3...
The solution to this is any one of the following: 1. only be a landlord in areas without those silly requirements 2. charge a rent high enough to cover such eventualities
You've basically explained exactly why rents in SF are so high. SImply not worth the hassle, try your luck in Denver or any Texas city....
If you use Sprint or T-Mobile, that assumption is actually correct.
Much to my surprise, a month before the date I had decided on for switching to T-Mobile, I discovered Sprint includes unlimited (3g) international data while out of the country. Staved off my switch, they now have to *really* fuck up to undo the goodwill generated with that.
DC (the actual district) has the fewest registered cars of any mainland US jurisdiction, and the plates are very noticeable. I'd imagine outside the northeast, it is possible to go your entire life without ever seeing a DC plate.
That cop would probably have a heart attack if he saw New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die!" plates...
PA's liquor laws mainly hurt border town grocery and convenience stores. This includes the entire city of Philadelphia, so close to NJ that even the carless can take local buses and trains over the border without much effort.
The liquor laws also hurt the poor (surprise!) because if you don't have a car, it's a pretty big sacrifice to go to the distributor and haul 24 bottles of beer home. So then you have to buy at a bar with the standard inflated bar prices. Meanwhile in the rest of the country, integrating a 12 pack into your regular grocery shopping isn't a sacrifice in time or money.
Except I'm usually *not* a fan of DCU things... As a non-fan of both title characters, I was pleasantly surprised. My biggest complaint was Lex Luthor being extremely out of character, usually he gives himself an out/escape strategy. His character in this movie was basically a rich Joker.
What they are claiming is there is a bias *towards* the MCU and *against* the DCCU (Suicide Squad is DC). While I don't necessarily agree, I will say Batman vs Superman was a lot better than critics gave it credit for.
A bunch of moving cars in close proximity is inherently more dangerous than cars which are spaced out. If the passing lane is kept empty, it provides a space for emergency swerving if something unexpected happens (tire blow out, turkey in road, etc). When two people form a wall, you have two lines of traffic with no leeway.
It would have been an extra second or two to react. Since the guy was a moron and not looking, would have made no difference, but a person using it properly would have hit the brake.
Also I've never seen an area with 65MPH speed limits and cross streets, seems like a dumb idea to begin with. US-15 and NY-17 drop the speed limit to 55 whenever you're outside the limited access parts...
It's not just the one guy behind you, it's also the entire line of people going reasonable speeds behind him. There's also the chance the guy you're passing will speed up as you attempt to overtake, resulting in you two slowpokes creating a wall. *That* is when the guy behind you will tailgate. As the guy in the passing lane it's your job to break the stalemate, either by committing to the pass and speeding up, or "cancelling" and slowing down to go behind the other slowpoke. Otherwise, you create a far more dangerous situation than exceeding the speed limit would create.
RSA has software tokens too. The app prompts for a pin and regardless of what you enter, will generate a token code. The catch is, the resulting token code will simply not work if the wrong pin is entered. No way to brute force that, you'd have to take the software token and submit that to the login form to see if the combination was correct (which after 3 tries will still lock you out). Pretty ingenious, the app doesn't need network access and will still work when you change your PIN.
What's even sillier is the one in NY.... I87 / US 9 have one in the middle of Adirondack park, 90 miles from the border... basically there's no way you're getting around that without adding a massive amount of time to the trip. It's also only there randomly, presumably to tempt anyone interesting into taking the direct route. But seriously what are they worried Canadians are going to do, bring us decent healthcare? Make us speak French? Kill us with delicious poutine? Most of the people on the road are just Plattsburgh residents trying to get the hell out of there and to somewhere interesting...
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I did finish them. What got me to drop the major was the worst instructor in the history of mankind for a mandatory CS 400 level course , that had no hope of there being a different instructor in the forseeable future.
To give you an idea how bad he was, for the first test, getting 70 points out of 400 curved to an A. And, he yelled at and berated the student who got that score. My 30 out of 400 was a D+. I made the decision midway through the second test, which I proceeded to fill out with utter nonsense. It still got a 20 (out of 300ish), and another D+. There was also one moment in class where a light fixture had fallen on top of him. The groans of disappointment when we realized he was OK were louder than his moans of pain.
I had actually completed the applied physics portion of the BS, all that was left was a handful of 400 level courses. But my bean counting job is pretty stress free, so no complaints. I dodged a bullet there, wouldn't want what I do to actually matter, that would be terrifying...
For the more common types of programming, the complex math and difficult parts are irrelevant. The two semesters of physics and two semesters of calculus I took in my BS program have gone completely unused and forgotten about. The courses that came only with the BA I switched to (Computer Networks, Computer Hardware, Web programming and design, and even upper level psychology) were a lot more useful in the real world. The pinnacle course of the program involved interviewing for jobs with actual recruiters for local tech companies, in which the recruiters graded us on how well we interviewed.
Apparently 1/3rd of Buffalo airport's travellers are Torontonians (and other Ontarians) avoiding the high cost of Canadian flights... there's enough of an industry that there are cross-border airport shuttles.
The randomness is to keep you from "relying" on it, a lame effort to keep ne'er do wells on their toes. However, did you buy Precheck? If so was it standalone or part of Global Entry? Basically the more information you gave to the government and the more hoops you went through to get your Trusted Traveller document, the less random it is. So Global Entry gets Precheck maybe 90% of the time, while standalone Precheck would be 75% (numbers pulled out of my ass, but this is what I've heard on various flyer forums).
You mean third world countries like Florida? I'm currently vacationing in Canada right now and overheard people basically saying they shouldn't be letting people who've come from Florida back into Canada...
Bedbugs were already effectively extinct in the US (I think it was mainly thanks to DDT) until people brought them back in from 3rd world countries, so we've already tested that theory. Now DDT is banned and since there is no other OTC pesticide that works on them, we're screwed. If you really want to avoid them (and other nasty buggers), make sure your domicile is 100% free of potted plants, wood, and other natural construction materials. The more plastic, metal, concrete and brick you use, the less convenient your place is for insects.
Common sense (via sense of self preservation) is that the larger vehicle always has the right of way, regardless of what the rules say. They're harder to maneuver and require more distance to stop. Or you can choose to be dead right, either way the driver of the rig / bus / truck will be fine, and likely so will the vehicle they are operating (which often isn't theirs anyway, so no skin off their back if it gets a few dings).
That built in navigation speed restriction is in a lot of cars (though for mine it's only the text input fields). This is reasonable but only if I'm the only one in the car. If I have a passenger there is no reason they shouldn't be able to type in an address. In a perfect world they'd put a button on the passenger side door which will give 1 minute of typing function, that only activates on initial press (so that taping it down doesn't work).
Wrong way around, more like taxing wind to subsidize coal. Historically taxes of that nature worked as your example: the government taxes the older, less glamorous thing to help the new thing. For example there was a 10% tax on railroad tickets from 1942 to 1962 (originally intended for WW2) which eventually was used to fund airport and interstate construction, which helped doom the private railroads.
If the government wanted to do it consistent with history and your example, taxi fares would be taxed to subsidize ride sharing even as they're losing money.
Yes, it's not the 80s anymore and a Linux desktop (*especially* Mint) is perfectly usable without programming. If given a plain vanilla Mint install, I can get it set up and able to do what I need it to do in the same amount of time as a vanilla Windows 10 install. Here's pretty much how it would go:
1. Install Mint
2. Install proprietary Nvidia drivers from their website. While it's a command line wizard, it's nothing more complex than the Windows version of the same. There's a stupid script provided by Mint which is intended to always fail (I think it has one line "return false" or something to that nature) that gets in the way, so there is a -1 there.
3. Install latest wine from Wine Repos. Minor tweaking from Winecfg (which is technically a windows GUI application) and all games I care to play work
4. Install vmware-view from VMware package, as the Mint/Ubuntu provided one is out of date. This would have been another -1, except I would need to download an installer for Windows anyway, so it's a wash.
5. Install Chrome, same effort as installing it on Windows.
Everything else I could possibly need is an apt-get away at this point.
But,
Interesting stance of "appearance for cooperation" :).
I cross the Canadian border a lot, just be direct and honest and I've never had a real problem. The worst was a situation (entering US, of course) where they rifled through my car and made me go in the building to talk to them, an hour later was back on the road. That one was triggered by one of my travelling companions.
I would say 15% of the CBSA and 50% of the US CBP are douches. The good news is if you get an a-hole and sent for further scrutiny, there's still a 50/50 chance the second line of questioners aren't out to ruin your day. And the good ones are *really good*; they talk to you without any hint of interrogation, almost like a co-worker asking "how was your trip". And these guys are probably the ones who actually catch the bad players because they get your guard down, rather than the Guantanamo interrogator wannabes.
You can set most smartphones to wipe after N incorrect password entries; if you use auto backup it should be no big deal if you set it to something low like 2 or 3...
The solution to this is any one of the following:
1. only be a landlord in areas without those silly requirements
2. charge a rent high enough to cover such eventualities
You've basically explained exactly why rents in SF are so high. SImply not worth the hassle, try your luck in Denver or any Texas city....
If you use Sprint or T-Mobile, that assumption is actually correct.
Much to my surprise, a month before the date I had decided on for switching to T-Mobile, I discovered Sprint includes unlimited (3g) international data while out of the country. Staved off my switch, they now have to *really* fuck up to undo the goodwill generated with that.
DC (the actual district) has the fewest registered cars of any mainland US jurisdiction, and the plates are very noticeable. I'd imagine outside the northeast, it is possible to go your entire life without ever seeing a DC plate.
That cop would probably have a heart attack if he saw New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die!" plates...
You could by 10 PC laptops with those specs at the same price off ebay, throw out the duds, and will still come out ahead.
PA's liquor laws mainly hurt border town grocery and convenience stores. This includes the entire city of Philadelphia, so close to NJ that even the carless can take local buses and trains over the border without much effort.
The liquor laws also hurt the poor (surprise!) because if you don't have a car, it's a pretty big sacrifice to go to the distributor and haul 24 bottles of beer home. So then you have to buy at a bar with the standard inflated bar prices. Meanwhile in the rest of the country, integrating a 12 pack into your regular grocery shopping isn't a sacrifice in time or money.
Except I'm usually *not* a fan of DCU things... As a non-fan of both title characters, I was pleasantly surprised. My biggest complaint was Lex Luthor being extremely out of character, usually he gives himself an out/escape strategy. His character in this movie was basically a rich Joker.
What they are claiming is there is a bias *towards* the MCU and *against* the DCCU (Suicide Squad is DC). While I don't necessarily agree, I will say Batman vs Superman was a lot better than critics gave it credit for.
A bunch of moving cars in close proximity is inherently more dangerous than cars which are spaced out. If the passing lane is kept empty, it provides a space for emergency swerving if something unexpected happens (tire blow out, turkey in road, etc). When two people form a wall, you have two lines of traffic with no leeway.
It would have been an extra second or two to react. Since the guy was a moron and not looking, would have made no difference, but a person using it properly would have hit the brake.
Also I've never seen an area with 65MPH speed limits and cross streets, seems like a dumb idea to begin with. US-15 and NY-17 drop the speed limit to 55 whenever you're outside the limited access parts...
It's not just the one guy behind you, it's also the entire line of people going reasonable speeds behind him. There's also the chance the guy you're passing will speed up as you attempt to overtake, resulting in you two slowpokes creating a wall. *That* is when the guy behind you will tailgate. As the guy in the passing lane it's your job to break the stalemate, either by committing to the pass and speeding up, or "cancelling" and slowing down to go behind the other slowpoke. Otherwise, you create a far more dangerous situation than exceeding the speed limit would create.
People without credit cards or cell phones are actually real people too, believe it or not
Yes but they don't actually matter to to large corporations. Accommodating a few outliers is simply more trouble than it's worth.
RSA has software tokens too. The app prompts for a pin and regardless of what you enter, will generate a token code. The catch is, the resulting token code will simply not work if the wrong pin is entered. No way to brute force that, you'd have to take the software token and submit that to the login form to see if the combination was correct (which after 3 tries will still lock you out). Pretty ingenious, the app doesn't need network access and will still work when you change your PIN.
What's even sillier is the one in NY.... I87 / US 9 have one in the middle of Adirondack park, 90 miles from the border... basically there's no way you're getting around that without adding a massive amount of time to the trip. It's also only there randomly, presumably to tempt anyone interesting into taking the direct route. But seriously what are they worried Canadians are going to do, bring us decent healthcare? Make us speak French? Kill us with delicious poutine? Most of the people on the road are just Plattsburgh residents trying to get the hell out of there and to somewhere interesting...