If you fly frequently at all, you don't. Delta AmEx card holders don't pay baggage fees, Medallion members don't pay them, first class doesn't pay them.
I don't know how old she is... but for the sake of her eyes, make her read outside. Lack of exposure to some of the blue wavelengths induces myopia. I say this as someone whose prescription is -11 diopter in contacts and -13.25 in glasses.
Travel back in time 20 years. Grab me. I'm a 19-year-old college freshman home for Christmas break.
I can't check my email, because there aren't any commercial ISPs where I live and long-distance is brutally expensive (and the college's modem bank is only 2400 bps, anyway), but that's okay because almost nobody I know outside of a few college friends uses email. The WWW is still largely theoretical. Next summer, I'll be able to get free 2400 bps service from a local university by working in a lab there, but meanwhile my 14.4k modem is stuck checking the old local BBSes. I have a 66 MHz 486 with a 540 MB hard drive and 16 MB memory. Its monitor does 1024x768. I've got a Creative SoundBlaster 16, so I can record really short clips in CD quality and play them back, marveling at how good they sound.
Now, tell me that in twenty years I'll be carrying a device in my pocket that has 2 GB of memory, 32 GB of storage on a chip, a 1500 MHz processor, built-in data and telephony (and data will be ~10 Mbit in good service areas), with better resolution. It works almost everywhere on earth. It has the ability to use GPS to map where I am and show me how to get places, and it can even translate languages for me (badly, but well enough to be understood). And it will be a year and a half old and I'll be thinking of replacing it.
Those technological achievements are happening for everyone on earth. I couldn't even dream of this stuff when I was a kid. I mean, there was that science-fiction novel (from the fifties) whose premise was that on January 1, 2000, they abolished all long-distance charges for the entire world (along with all the flying cars and stuff). We're basically there, now, for those who know how to set up SIP. My grandmother was born in a world where cars were hand-built curiosities; she died just after Berners-Lee announced the Web. That entire time, we've been accelerating.
There is a reason that the stereotype of programmers as nerds exists, and there is a reason that the stereotype of nerds as mostly male exists.
Look, if you want to make sure that blatant sexism is out, then I'm all for it. Nobody should have to work in a hostile environment. I'm a doctor, not a coder, though, and I'm looking at it from a different angle. Of my practice group of twelve, three have wives who are also physicians. One is a stay-at-home mom, one works part-time (that's my wife), and one works a clinic job with no call. As women have become a greater percentage of medical students, subspecialties of medicine have clearly divided - women flock to those with better lifestyles, while men disproportionately go for long hours and more money.
Women, by and large, just don't care about amping up their paycheck by putting nose to grindstone. There's no reason to put down those who do - e.g., I knew a lesbian couple where the relationship roles were clearly defined (one took the other's last name), and the "husband" of the family was the doctor who took call all the time and the "wife" was the one who bore their child. But it's silly to pretend that these differences don't, on average, exist.
Little girls, given the choice between dolls and building blocks, overwhelmingly choose the dolls. You can't reverse biology, and it's idiotic to do so.
That's not to say women can't do CS. Plenty can. Most choose not to do so.
How many cars are sold without cruise control these days? A quick glance suggests that it's only on the very most basic trim level of the very most basic cars that you don't have cruise as a standard item.
The average person has no idea how many people come in with vague pain complaints that are clearly psychiatric in origin. They are legion.
That doesn't mean that the pain isn't perceived as real - I have no doubt that people with fibromyalgia hurt. But the pain is inside their brain, not in their muscles or guts. Opioid pain medications are a terrible choice.
As I put it to a friend recently, I am a practicing physician. I can think of several multibillion-dollar ideas in health care - but I don't see how you can implement them without several hundred million dollars worth of investment and about a decade of lead time, at which point the ROI isn't so spectactular.
Can you imagine a pack of modern house cat's successfully patrolling farmland?
Yes. Easily. As a child, I had a cat that was a holy terror to squirrels and birds. 3-4 dead critters a week and he wasn't even doing it for food. He never ate them - just left the bodies there. Our other cat ate them. I had no doubt that he could provide for himself in the absence of us.
Actually, the word is "catercorner". Amusing that both Canadians and US Southerners have picked up on the "cat" aspect of the word - down here it's usually referred to as "catty-corner".
The "Mayday" button is a brilliant idea. I'll keep buying iPads for myself and my wife, but anyone I have to support is getting an HDX with support by Amazon.
Get him a Kindle Fire HDX. It's not the best tablet on the market, but it's a decent one, and it has the "Mayday" button - press it and he has Amazon, not you, doing tech support 24/7/365.
Some rural hospitals used the flammables as late as the seventies, but by around 1980 (AIUI) they were pretty much gone. The texts from the era about how to ensure a spark-free environment are pretty interesting, though. Staff had small chains that dragged on a conductive flooring surface, you couldn't use cautery, etc.
We haven't used flammable anesthetics in the US in a looooooong time. Newer ORs don't even have the "restricted to nonflammable anesthetic agents only" signs.
To elaborate: if you need to build a project doing X with product Y (for whatever reason), it's far more important that the project manager have experience with building things to do X, and far more important that the people doing implementation have experience with any project using Y.
Your problem is that the vegan market is so small as to be nonexistent in most places. And the number of people who are both a) vegans and b) interested in junk food is even smaller.
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If you fly once a month, an Amex Platinum quickly pays for itself.
If you fly frequently at all, you don't. Delta AmEx card holders don't pay baggage fees, Medallion members don't pay them, first class doesn't pay them.
I don't know how old she is... but for the sake of her eyes, make her read outside. Lack of exposure to some of the blue wavelengths induces myopia. I say this as someone whose prescription is -11 diopter in contacts and -13.25 in glasses.
Travel back in time 20 years. Grab me. I'm a 19-year-old college freshman home for Christmas break.
I can't check my email, because there aren't any commercial ISPs where I live and long-distance is brutally expensive (and the college's modem bank is only 2400 bps, anyway), but that's okay because almost nobody I know outside of a few college friends uses email. The WWW is still largely theoretical. Next summer, I'll be able to get free 2400 bps service from a local university by working in a lab there, but meanwhile my 14.4k modem is stuck checking the old local BBSes. I have a 66 MHz 486 with a 540 MB hard drive and 16 MB memory. Its monitor does 1024x768. I've got a Creative SoundBlaster 16, so I can record really short clips in CD quality and play them back, marveling at how good they sound.
Now, tell me that in twenty years I'll be carrying a device in my pocket that has 2 GB of memory, 32 GB of storage on a chip, a 1500 MHz processor, built-in data and telephony (and data will be ~10 Mbit in good service areas), with better resolution. It works almost everywhere on earth. It has the ability to use GPS to map where I am and show me how to get places, and it can even translate languages for me (badly, but well enough to be understood). And it will be a year and a half old and I'll be thinking of replacing it.
Those technological achievements are happening for everyone on earth. I couldn't even dream of this stuff when I was a kid. I mean, there was that science-fiction novel (from the fifties) whose premise was that on January 1, 2000, they abolished all long-distance charges for the entire world (along with all the flying cars and stuff). We're basically there, now, for those who know how to set up SIP. My grandmother was born in a world where cars were hand-built curiosities; she died just after Berners-Lee announced the Web. That entire time, we've been accelerating.
Right, there's absolutely no biology involved. Whatever.
As if nerdy guys aren't largely ostracized by the high school system.
Right, so an AC is the representative sample of women. Okeydokey.
There is a reason that the stereotype of programmers as nerds exists, and there is a reason that the stereotype of nerds as mostly male exists.
Look, if you want to make sure that blatant sexism is out, then I'm all for it. Nobody should have to work in a hostile environment. I'm a doctor, not a coder, though, and I'm looking at it from a different angle. Of my practice group of twelve, three have wives who are also physicians. One is a stay-at-home mom, one works part-time (that's my wife), and one works a clinic job with no call. As women have become a greater percentage of medical students, subspecialties of medicine have clearly divided - women flock to those with better lifestyles, while men disproportionately go for long hours and more money.
Women, by and large, just don't care about amping up their paycheck by putting nose to grindstone. There's no reason to put down those who do - e.g., I knew a lesbian couple where the relationship roles were clearly defined (one took the other's last name), and the "husband" of the family was the doctor who took call all the time and the "wife" was the one who bore their child. But it's silly to pretend that these differences don't, on average, exist.
It would be a great elective class.
No kidding. I would have loved to have gotten some CS early on. Programming, doubly so.
I'm a doctor, not a programmer, but I did take CS 101/102 my senior year in college and enjoyed it. I wish I'd had that exposure earlier.
Little girls, given the choice between dolls and building blocks, overwhelmingly choose the dolls. You can't reverse biology, and it's idiotic to do so.
That's not to say women can't do CS. Plenty can. Most choose not to do so.
How many cars are sold without cruise control these days? A quick glance suggests that it's only on the very most basic trim level of the very most basic cars that you don't have cruise as a standard item.
... you need to think that one through again.
I'm sure there's an amusing joke here, I'm just missing it. What does their respiration rate have to do with anything?
The average person has no idea how many people come in with vague pain complaints that are clearly psychiatric in origin. They are legion.
That doesn't mean that the pain isn't perceived as real - I have no doubt that people with fibromyalgia hurt. But the pain is inside their brain, not in their muscles or guts. Opioid pain medications are a terrible choice.
As I put it to a friend recently, I am a practicing physician. I can think of several multibillion-dollar ideas in health care - but I don't see how you can implement them without several hundred million dollars worth of investment and about a decade of lead time, at which point the ROI isn't so spectactular.
Can you imagine a pack of modern house cat's successfully patrolling farmland?
Yes. Easily. As a child, I had a cat that was a holy terror to squirrels and birds. 3-4 dead critters a week and he wasn't even doing it for food. He never ate them - just left the bodies there. Our other cat ate them. I had no doubt that he could provide for himself in the absence of us.
That was stupid. At least in the US, registered mail is the most secure way to get things from A to B. Jewelers use it for everything they can.
kitty corner
Actually, the word is "catercorner". Amusing that both Canadians and US Southerners have picked up on the "cat" aspect of the word - down here it's usually referred to as "catty-corner".
The "Mayday" button is a brilliant idea. I'll keep buying iPads for myself and my wife, but anyone I have to support is getting an HDX with support by Amazon.
Get him a Kindle Fire HDX. It's not the best tablet on the market, but it's a decent one, and it has the "Mayday" button - press it and he has Amazon, not you, doing tech support 24/7/365.
Sure thing.
Some rural hospitals used the flammables as late as the seventies, but by around 1980 (AIUI) they were pretty much gone. The texts from the era about how to ensure a spark-free environment are pretty interesting, though. Staff had small chains that dragged on a conductive flooring surface, you couldn't use cautery, etc.
I'm an anesthesiologist. I'm sure.
We haven't used flammable anesthetics in the US in a looooooong time. Newer ORs don't even have the "restricted to nonflammable anesthetic agents only" signs.
All kinds of stuff in an OR is not certified for medical use - computers, keyboards, etc. As long as it doesn't touch the patient, that's fine.
To elaborate: if you need to build a project doing X with product Y (for whatever reason), it's far more important that the project manager have experience with building things to do X, and far more important that the people doing implementation have experience with any project using Y.
Your problem is that the vegan market is so small as to be nonexistent in most places. And the number of people who are both a) vegans and b) interested in junk food is even smaller.