The only way to graduate in 4 years with an engineering degree at Texas A&M was to take the maximum allowed courses per semester (18 hours) - and that max was only allowed to A+ students, everyone else was limited to 16.
I was probably a weird girl (ok, not "probably"), and "how it affects me on a day-to-day basis" would not have attracted me. Math and science were like solving puzzles - it was fun, and there was a definite right answer, unlike English, where the rules on what was a good paper changed with every teacher - my grammar and spelling grades were always high, but the content grades were unpredictable. I hated that.
It was widely known that one of the English teachers deliberately gave the girl who was in the running for valedictorian slightly lower grades, so that she wouldn't get it - this teacher didn't think anyone who wasn't going straight to college deserved to graduate first. But even though this teacher had actually admitted it to another teacher, nothing could be done because English scores are subjective so it couldn't be proved.
I know no one it taking this seriously, but when the gender of a person is indeterminate or conditional, an established practice is for the author to use his own gender.
Established by whom? I've never heard of this.
The first time I saw an article use "she" for an indetermininate person, I thought I'd missed something and reread the article in a vain attempt to see who exactly the woman was.
powerful...I guess a North American would istantaneously die of claustrophobia upon entering in it
Are we talking the same Cinquecento here? One of my most lasting memories of my trip to England 9 years ago was two weeks of driving with my arms at full extension and my legs squished up, with the wheel well extending into the foot space so far my foot had to be at an odd angle to reach the gas.
My car's a Miata, so I'm no stranger to small, but that was ridiculous.
(Or were you going for a Funny mod? Can't imagine too many Americans even know what those are)
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I mean they stopped allowing clones because other people were making Macs better and cheaper then they were.
Cheaper yeah, better no. I had a clone at work. There were major, important software packages that simply wouldn't run on it, like Photoshop.
Agreed. In fact, that "feature" is the first thing I turn off when I do a fresh Office install.
How do I do that? And can I do it throughout Windows? It's amazing how Outlook Express, a program I have never used (I read mail on Unix) comes up in the short version of the "Programs" menu, while Hummingbird, something I use often, does not. You don't suppose it's biased towards MS products?
Whenever I catch myself thinking about the "good old days" when everything that was put out was good quality and worthwhile, I have to remind myself that things only seem that way in retrospect because I've forgotten about all of the drivel that was produced back then
It's one of the corollaries to Sturgeon's Law: "The past only looks good because we've forgotten the 90% that's crap"
"Are you there God, its me Margaret"...Its about a girl going through this new time in her life with new friends and waiting for her menstrual period and trying to get boys to notice her. The girls do things like open Playboy and say how they want to look like playmates, watch each other change to see how much they've developed.
I'm probably asking on the wrong place, but - do girls really do that? That just seems so weird. I am female, but then again, I'm posting on/. so I'm not exactly typical.
You're not required by law to continue your education beyond high school. In fact, you've made the choice to go to a university or college, and you've selected your class list.
Actually, for the first two years, you don't really have much choice in your class list in a US uni. In my first year of college only one of the classes I took was part of my major (CS, of course) - the rest were required English, History, etc. Though I love to read, given a choice I would not take English lit - the grading was too subjective. While I always got high marks on the grammar part of my essays (grammar:English::syntax:computer languages, after all), it seemed like my grades on the content varied at the whim of the instructor.
If you don't trust Real, then don't buy from them, but I fail to see how this is anything but a net positive for consumers
Suppose I bought some Real music, and only intended to play it on my iPod. Now suppose Apple wants to update the iPod, and that update happens to break Real's hack. Now my music doesn't play as Real promised it would - how is that positive?
I've worked at Apple; we tried to keep things backwards compatible even with 3rd party stuff or OS versions not officially supported - I kept Java working on 8.5 for several releases after it was officially dropped - but when it becomes impossible, the new feature wins. But that was for products we liked; even if Steve wasn't pissed off, I can't see any engineers bending over backwards to help Real
The airlines don't care about identifying corpses. What they do care about is people bypassing their silly fare rules.
It used to be common for businesses who needed to send someone out on an overnight trip to buy two sets of round-trip tickets, because a weekday overnight trip was very expensive but any trip with a Saturday-night stay was not.When I flew from TX to CA for an interview 12 years ago, I came out as me, and flew back as someone else. That someone else later used the two return flights for another overnight trip.
In this contest your challenge is to take modern products and display them in a vintage light, through advertisements. You can also reverse the challenge and take vintage products and display them in a modern way.
Women won't find the satisfaction most men will from watching their latest proggy run or finding a bug after several hours of searching. They tend to perfer a friendly smile and a light conversation, not really that complex is it?
I never prefer light conversation, and especially not when I'm debugging. And I'm a woman.
There are guys, usually in sales, who do seem to like that sort of thing; I can't see them with the patience to debug.
For every generalization, there's someone who is an exception.
Do you not know what your racial background is? English? German? Scottish? Swedish?
Yes
Oh, that was supposed to be multiple choice? Sorry.
You have a culture you can cling to. Learn about it. Be proud.
Well, for at least 150 years back, it's Southern. We all know we aren't supposed to be proud of the white Southern culture, even if our families came from the non-slave owning parts of it.
Ironically enough, the people in command that wears a suit usually has the simplest password.
Mid 80s, I was in the office of the Dean of Computer Science. Passwords appeared in the clear on terminals, but the terminal was supposed to put asterisks over them once you pressed enter. The Dean's terminal was broken, though, and put them on the next row down:
dddrewww
********
The Dean's surname? Drew, of course.
Alas, his userid had already scrolled off the screen.
The IT guys where I work say yeah, it's not that hard to pop it off; the cable pretty much only stops someone from grabbing it in passing. Sure it ruins the resale value of the PC, but the real value is in the data .
You know that they're [SciFi] making a miniseries to give Farscape a proper ending?
They aren't making it. They have the rights to air it, but they had nothing to do with making it. If it had been up to them, it wouldn't have been made.
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The only way to graduate in 4 years with an engineering degree at Texas A&M was to take the maximum allowed courses per semester (18 hours) - and that max was only allowed to A+ students, everyone else was limited to 16.
It was widely known that one of the English teachers deliberately gave the girl who was in the running for valedictorian slightly lower grades, so that she wouldn't get it - this teacher didn't think anyone who wasn't going straight to college deserved to graduate first. But even though this teacher had actually admitted it to another teacher, nothing could be done because English scores are subjective so it couldn't be proved.
You're assuming he fixes his own bugs, and that his bugs don't cause problems for other people, thereby decreasing their productivity.
Established by whom? I've never heard of this.
The first time I saw an article use "she" for an indetermininate person, I thought I'd missed something and reread the article in a vain attempt to see who exactly the woman was.
Are we talking the same Cinquecento here? One of my most lasting memories of my trip to England 9 years ago was two weeks of driving with my arms at full extension and my legs squished up, with the wheel well extending into the foot space so far my foot had to be at an odd angle to reach the gas.
My car's a Miata, so I'm no stranger to small, but that was ridiculous.
(Or were you going for a Funny mod? Can't imagine too many Americans even know what those are)
Cheaper yeah, better no. I had a clone at work. There were major, important software packages that simply wouldn't run on it, like Photoshop.
Roland, is that you?
How do I do that? And can I do it throughout Windows? It's amazing how Outlook Express, a program I have never used (I read mail on Unix) comes up in the short version of the "Programs" menu, while Hummingbird, something I use often, does not. You don't suppose it's biased towards MS products?
And if you weren't aware that your company had a problem, an overly-cheerful executive is generally a big clue.
It's one of the corollaries to Sturgeon's Law: "The past only looks good because we've forgotten the 90% that's crap"
I'm probably asking on the wrong place, but - do girls really do that? That just seems so weird. I am female, but then again, I'm posting on /. so I'm not exactly typical.
Actually, for the first two years, you don't really have much choice in your class list in a US uni. In my first year of college only one of the classes I took was part of my major (CS, of course) - the rest were required English, History, etc. Though I love to read, given a choice I would not take English lit - the grading was too subjective. While I always got high marks on the grammar part of my essays (grammar:English::syntax:computer languages, after all), it seemed like my grades on the content varied at the whim of the instructor.
Chicks did giant robots.
Suppose I bought some Real music, and only intended to play it on my iPod. Now suppose Apple wants to update the iPod, and that update happens to break Real's hack. Now my music doesn't play as Real promised it would - how is that positive?
I've worked at Apple; we tried to keep things backwards compatible even with 3rd party stuff or OS versions not officially supported - I kept Java working on 8.5 for several releases after it was officially dropped - but when it becomes impossible, the new feature wins. But that was for products we liked; even if Steve wasn't pissed off, I can't see any engineers bending over backwards to help Real
It used to be common for businesses who needed to send someone out on an overnight trip to buy two sets of round-trip tickets, because a weekday overnight trip was very expensive but any trip with a Saturday-night stay was not.When I flew from TX to CA for an interview 12 years ago, I came out as me, and flew back as someone else. That someone else later used the two return flights for another overnight trip.
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In this contest your challenge is to take modern products and display them in a vintage light, through advertisements. You can also reverse the challenge and take vintage products and display them in a modern way.
They didn't invent the market, because it didn't take off til the Palm, and they didn't invent the PDA either, it's based on the dynabook
I've never had that problem with the men, though I have occasionally got that from their wives.
I never prefer light conversation, and especially not when I'm debugging. And I'm a woman.
There are guys, usually in sales, who do seem to like that sort of thing; I can't see them with the patience to debug.
For every generalization, there's someone who is an exception.
Yes
Oh, that was supposed to be multiple choice? Sorry.
You have a culture you can cling to. Learn about it. Be proud.
Well, for at least 150 years back, it's Southern. We all know we aren't supposed to be proud of the white Southern culture, even if our families came from the non-slave owning parts of it.
I think they had to be 8 characters, so taking a 4-letter word and repeating the beginning and ending letters is pretty easy.
Mid 80s, I was in the office of the Dean of Computer Science. Passwords appeared in the clear on terminals, but the terminal was supposed to put asterisks over them once you pressed enter. The Dean's terminal was broken, though, and put them on the next row down:
dddrewww
********
The Dean's surname? Drew, of course.
Alas, his userid had already scrolled off the screen.
The IT guys where I work say yeah, it's not that hard to pop it off; the cable pretty much only stops someone from grabbing it in passing. Sure it ruins the resale value of the PC, but the real value is in the data .
You mean they're not?
Homosexual? No. Naked? Yeah
They aren't making it. They have the rights to air it, but they had nothing to do with making it. If it had been up to them, it wouldn't have been made.