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Pope Mobile posted:I'm going back to school starting the fall quarter and just registered for classes. Is 20 credits really the max I can take per quarter? Four classes? That doesn't seem like a lot. 20 credit hours is a ton of work depending on the school. At the university I graduated from, a typical undergrad class was 3 credit hours, and you have to get permission for anything over 18 credit hours in a semester. I did 18 during the second semester of my senior year (so I wouldn't have to walk and then come back for summer session) and it was really rough.
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Pope Mobile posted:I'm going back to school starting the fall quarter and just registered for classes. Is 20 credits really the max I can take per quarter? Four classes? That doesn't seem like a lot. There are a lot of different "credits" systems in use so it's hard to compare, but four classes sounds about right for a full-time student. My college used a weird system of 1 class = 1 credit and would only allow a max of 3.5 credits in a trimester unless you had a pretty good reason to go over. Bear in mind that college-level courses tend to be more work than high school courses, so don't expect to handle seven or eight at a time anymore.
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Jul 12, 2013 18:49
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That all makes sense, thanks. The way they described it in orientation, it felt like I'd be at the school 60 hours a week or something. I've got one daily, two MW, and an online.
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Jul 12, 2013 18:54
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I have what we believe to be a Chinese bronze vase and I am trying to find out what this mark on the bottom of it says. Can anyone translate? Edit: Several different orientations:  Straithate fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Jul 12, 2013 19:01
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Does anyone have any good suggestions for cable management on a built-in desk? The desktop and monitor and on top of the desk, there's no "backside" for the cables to drop down to and there's a drawer underneath to drilling holes and running cables under is going so be either very difficult or impossible.
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Jul 12, 2013 19:40
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With the recent water question that reminded me of a dumb question: what would I do if I wanted to make like a plastic or rubber fish that would half-sink/half-float and hang out and be bros with my real fish? Find some 3D printer company and fill it (somehow) until it was semi-buoyant in the middle of the tank?
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Jul 12, 2013 19:45
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FCKGW posted:Does anyone have any good suggestions for cable management on a built-in desk? The desktop and monitor and on top of the desk, there's no "backside" for the cables to drop down to and there's a drawer underneath to drilling holes and running cables under is going so be either very difficult or impossible.
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Jul 12, 2013 19:48
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Does anyone make a reasonable keychain sized knife/bottle opener? I don't want to look like some goon walking around with a huge leatherman. I was thinking something along the size of the Buck Metro, or smaller, but less goofy looking.
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Jul 12, 2013 20:11
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Volume posted:Changing a 110V outlet to a 220V outlet. Is this somthing a weekend warrior like my self can do or should I consult an expert? Personally I'll gently caress around with 110V stuff, but 220V I leave alone. I'm guessing you're talking about one of the outlets that has a T-shaped slot rather than one of the big mofos for dryers or ranges? Regardless, for something like that it really would be best to either run wire from an existing outlet on a 110V circuit, or put in a new breaker and run wire from that. It's not particularly difficult, but fishing wire can definitely be a pain in the rear end. There is a wiring thread in DIY with some regular posters who are professionals, so you could probably get better info out of there than here.
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Jul 12, 2013 20:18
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Knightmare posted:With the recent water question that reminded me of a dumb question: what would I do if I wanted to make like a plastic or rubber fish that would half-sink/half-float and hang out and be bros with my real fish? Find some 3D printer company and fill it (somehow) until it was semi-buoyant in the middle of the tank? Just a thought: Buy a rubber fish (squeaky toy?), cut a slit, filled with coins, glue back shut. You can find out how many coins if do water displacement to find the fish volume and mass the fish and one penny. Add pennies until total mass / fish volume equals that of water. You'll need a decent scale and liquid volume measuring stuff for this. Or just add coins til it floats. E: if it's a squeaky toy, make sure to glue the squeaky hole.
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Jul 12, 2013 20:27
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FCKGW posted:Does anyone have any good suggestions for cable management on a built-in desk? The desktop and monitor and on top of the desk, there's no "backside" for the cables to drop down to and there's a drawer underneath to drilling holes and running cables under is going so be either very difficult or impossible. Put a power strip behind the monitor, plug everything into that. Then you just have one cable to deal with.
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Jul 12, 2013 20:37
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Pope Mobile posted:That all makes sense, thanks. The way they described it in orientation, it felt like I'd be at the school 60 hours a week or something. I've got one daily, two MW, and an online. So that 18 credits corresponds to 18 hours worth of lectures per week. If any of them are lab credits, those expectations no longer stand - I'd have 3-hour labs that were only worth 1 credit. Also, keep in mind that you can expect anywhere from .5 to 2 hours of homework per hour of coursework, depending on the level of your classes. I remember being fine taking 18 credits worth of classes during my Sophomore year while working on-campus for a professor, but 15 hours worth of classes were killing me senior year, when I was also interning 10-15 hours per week.
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Jul 12, 2013 20:40
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Lyz posted:Looks more like water droplets on the camera to me. I'm guessing they don't really check the quality as they go along. They look way too square to be water in my opinion.
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Jul 12, 2013 20:56
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Tiggum posted:You posted a public message on a public page and you're annoyed that other people can see it? Lyz posted:I think the only way you can hide it is to go into your activity log and click the X on your comment and it should show you a "hide from timeline" option.
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Jul 12, 2013 21:17
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:Use some kind of surface-mount raceway. Panduit makes some. You could also get some flexible cable mesh or the plastic tubing with the slit cut down the side. Are you just trying to make them less conspicuous or are you asking for a way send it under the desk? Can you install something like a PowerBridge? The power and ethernet are also located above the desk (on opposite sides of the monitor no less) so there's no reason to run one of those through the wall. I'm trying to make it less conspicuous and if running it under the desk is the best way to achieve that then so be it. Schweinhund posted:Put a power strip behind the monitor, plug everything into that. Then you just have one cable to deal with. That's what I have now but it doesn't hide everything going to the tower like the ethernet, k/b, speakers, DVI, webcam, etc... I saw this kit I might pick up and give it a try: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10520&cs_id=1052005&p_id=8288&seq=1&format=2
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Jul 12, 2013 21:40
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KoB posted:They look way too square to be water in my opinion. Overzealous censorship-by-request? Maybe that picture was retaken and the previous version had material that was censored and it never got corrected?
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Jul 12, 2013 21:44
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Straithate posted:I have what we believe to be a Chinese bronze vase and I am trying to find out what this mark on the bottom of it says. Can anyone translate? I know Chinese but not Japanese. This looks like Japanese... I can make out (using this chart: http://goo.gl/hT6nU): The first thing is maybe the "wa" or the "re", the second thing is definitely the "n" in the top left corner. The third thing is a Chinese character 弘 which means like "great" or "magnificent". Someone who knows Japanese can tell you the full meaning probably. edit: Found a way to type Japanese poo poo わ/れん弘 angel opportunity fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Jul 12, 2013 21:46
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FCKGW posted:The power and ethernet are also located above the desk (on opposite sides of the monitor no less) so there's no reason to run one of those through the wall. I'm trying to make it less conspicuous and if running it under the desk is the best way to achieve that then so be it.
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Jul 12, 2013 21:50
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systran posted:I know Chinese but not Japanese. This looks like Japanese... Thanks a lot, I didn't really think it looked like Chinese but we took it in to an auction house and an appraiser said that it was. According to her the vase depicts Chinese ceremonial vessels. Weird.
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Jul 12, 2013 21:56
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Wait for more people to chime in and post it in both the Chinese and Japanese threads in the Academic subforum. No matter how I look at it, I can't get those two things that look like Japanese to form a Chinese character, but it's possible I am mistaken.
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Jul 12, 2013 22:00
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Ciaphas posted:Overzealous censorship-by-request? Maybe that picture was retaken and the previous version had material that was censored and it never got corrected? Sometimes the detection algorithms just go haywire. For example, it's supposed to autoblur out people's faces who happened to be walking by, but random objects that could look kind of like a face will get picked up and blurred. There was a random highway near where I live that used to have just completely random blur blocks on street view - like it was a freeway that was just going through some woody area so there would be no people or even signs around. The current street view for the location doesn't have it anymore but is a newer picture set.
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Jul 12, 2013 23:06
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Straithate posted:Thanks a lot, I didn't really think it looked like Chinese but we took it in to an auction house and an appraiser said that it was. According to her the vase depicts Chinese ceremonial vessels. Weird. It's not Chinese - more like a scribble.
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Where can i find the extension for chrome that replaces the names and pictures of a facebook post for when you want to take a screenshot? I tried Blur Facebook and Status Snapper but neither one of them seem to work for me 
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Jul 12, 2013 23:28
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jackpot posted:There's a difference between making a post on a public page that anyone can (but most won't) see, and making that same post which facebook then goes out of its way to show to all of my friends. It's like striking up a conversation with someone I just met at a party, and then finding out the entire conversation was broadcast simultaneously to all of my friends. It's weird. Unpleasant. Seems like you have a fundamental misunderstanding about what Facebook is. It's not like a private conversation at a party at all. The broadcasting to you friends is a feature, not a mistake. Christopher Robin posted:Where can i find the extension for chrome that replaces the names and pictures of a facebook post for when you want to take a screenshot? I tried Blur Facebook and Status Snapper but neither one of them seem to work for me Social Fixer
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Jul 13, 2013 03:28
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In GMail, is there any way to widen the "people in this thread" column? I've always hated how gmail uses only people's first names there (it's especially annoying if, say, half the people at your office are named Jennifer), so I found and tweaked a greasemonkey script to fix that. But the trouble now is that only one name (or at most two) will fit in that column, and I can't find any official or unofficial way to widen it. I've found userscripts that will widen the far-left column, the one with all the labels, but that's not what I need. The only thing about this exact problem that I can find are various forum posts, going back years, of people asking for this feature. Does anyone know a top-secret method?
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Jul 13, 2013 04:18
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Tiggum posted:Seems like you have a fundamental misunderstanding about what Facebook is. It's not like a private conversation at a party at all. The broadcasting to you friends is a feature, not a mistake. Seems to me he understands perfectly well how it works now and just would prefer it to work another way for a perfectly valid reason. Your post is really obnoxious.
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Jul 13, 2013 04:24
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Would anyone know where I could track down a good English translation of La Légende des siècles? The only one I could find was on Scribd, and all the words and punctutation were hosed up.
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Jul 13, 2013 05:15
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Is poopsocking an urban myth or are there accounts of actual people actually doing it?
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Jul 13, 2013 11:37
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Schweinhund posted:Seems to me he understands perfectly well how it works now and just would prefer it to work another way for a perfectly valid reason. Your post is really obnoxious. If you're trying to eat your soup with a fork, don't complain that it's a bad design, get a spoon.
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Jul 13, 2013 11:45
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Is Anna Torv from Fringe hot or not? It's weird - I'm watching the show and in some scenes she looks extremely hot and in others she looks really strange? I think it's her mouth - it's so wide while her face is really round 
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Jul 13, 2013 13:58
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brylcreem posted:Is Anna Torv from Fringe hot or not? Every answer you get to this question will be purely subjective. Some people may find her hideous, despite her good scenes, and others will find her ridiculously good looking, even on her worst days. I personally find her unattractive. She's seems butch, and her facial features are harsh. Plus, her side profile is the strangest thing, she resembles some weird kind of goblin from the side. Welcome to the internet, where we're all alpha males that have the luxury of being so picky. Qubee fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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brylcreem posted:Is Anna Torv from Fringe hot or not? ^^^Alpha female checking in... Her face has always bothered me a bit. Her face proportions are a just little bit off, and head-on shots of her make her mouth seem wider than her actual face and from the side she looks slightly goblin-y. But yes, in my opinion she is "hot" or "doable" or "bangtastic" or whatever you kids are calling it these days. Also you're creepy for asking like that. fizzymercury fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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Jul 13, 2013 14:30
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I think she looks a little odd because she's actually not a real person, she's claymation features stuck onto a hard boiled egg.
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Jul 13, 2013 14:48
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fizzymercy posted:But yes, in my opinion she is "hot" or "doable" or "bangtastic" or whatever you kids are calling it these days. Also you're creepy for asking like that. I don't even ...  But thanks for clarifying the proportions and asymmetry for me! Those were the words I couldn't think of.
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brylcreem posted:I don't even ... Yeah I admit that was weird. I shouldn't post half awake and hungover...just ignore the dumbass bits.
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Jul 13, 2013 15:03
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Shagadelic is the current adjective, I believe. Also; everyone is beautiful, we are all made of stars.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Shagadelic is the current adjective, I believe. Also; everyone is beautiful, we are all made of stars. Some people need a brown paper bag placed over their star-stuff, though.
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I actually liked that her face was a little bit off. It took a little while getting used to, but it's refreshing to have the main female lead of a show not be obviously attractive. It adds a bit of realism or something.
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Loopoo posted:Some people need a brown paper bag placed over their star-stuff, though. Fortunately that brown paper bag is also made of star stuff 
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I have a question I need a few more opinions on. In mid-late June I went across the border to the US (I'm Canadian) via car to go visit my friend and his roommate for a week. When I was at the border, I was stopped and brought into a room for questioning. I'm a white, young adult girl and I have heard that they have been stopping young girls who have been travelling alone more often because they could be mules or something. Anyway, I was held back for a long time. They typed a lot of stuff onto a computer, double-checking facts with me over and over and over and over. They eventually let me leave, but I was pretty shaken that they were going to turn me around and tell me to go home. I had my vacation and went home, the Canadian side of the border gave me zero issues and I was in and out in less than five minutes. But now I have the money to go back to see them again, this time I want to go for 2-3 weeks, and I want to do it at the end of this month or early August. I need to take a Greyhound bus to the border which is about 9 hours away. It's a lot of money and I don't have a lot of wiggle room. My question is, how likely is it that they're going to turn me around at the border and I'm not going to get to go to the US? I don't want to have to do 9 hours back home for nothing and have wasted lots of money. I am worried because they had stopped me before for a long time and typed poo poo on their computer. I have nothing to hide and told them everything straight, so folks I've talked to have said "well then you have nothing to fear", but I've heard a lot of stories about people being denied entry for BS or nonexistent reasons.
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