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New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0
Dekortage writes "If you watch the Olympics gymnastics this year, you may be confused by the new scoring system which will let athletes score 14, 17, or even higher. The new rules are 'heavy on math' and employ two panels of judges: one for technical difficulty, which adds points up from a score of zero; the other for execution and technique, which starts at 10.0 and subtracts for errors. The two numbers are then combined for the final score. As one judge put it, 'The system rewards difficulty. But the mistakes are also more costly.' The new rules were adopted after South Korea protested a scoring at the 2004 Olympics." Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner, but their wives/girlfriends might seize control of the remote because they want to know who is the best at that ribbon-twirling thing.
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No single male would ever switch the gymnastics on and watch a bunch of young ladies do physical exercise in leotards.
In other news, the last porn site finally died, citing a "lack of market" for its product.
I was gonna say the same thing. Then I remembered all gymnasts look 12 years old.
Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, amiright? ...
Yes, and I didn't like the implication that any /. geek would not be able to override a TV remote.
Are you saying that our gymnasts now go to eleven?
Seriously. I'd expect more open-mindedness from a bunch of people whose hobbies are such interesting things as soldering and typing in a text editor.
You would think they could have just increased the floating point size to 10.00 instead!
But it goes to 11.
I get to use my slide rule again!
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Scoring only enters my mind when I watch the women's beach volleyball.
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Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, amiright? ...
Dunno. Are you attracted to powerful shoulders, an over-developed torso, flat chest, and short (Russian style) muscular legs?
If you are, you might be interested in the stocking clerk that works at my local grocery store. His name is Billy.
On the other hand, watching nubile athletic girls contort themselves does it for me.
What I wonder is why they made entertainment that only chicks dig more math-heavy. Now I'm gonna have to watch it just so I can explain it to her.
Your second comment is appropriate. I could care less. It doesn't mean that I do care more. If you were to assign a scoring system of 1 to 10 to my level of care, where 1 is absolute lack of care, and 10 is absolute care, the Olympics may rate a 3, at which point there is room in the scale to raise or lower my level of care. I could care less, but it wouldn't even matter, because it's lower than a neutral level of care (5), and has no direct impact on myself.
If there were to be a direct impact upon myself by the event, then that level of care would be more significant. Take the scenario "There's a truck coming down the road". If I were not in the road, I could care less, at a care level of 3, and it wouldn't matter. If I were standing in the road in front of the truck, at a care level of 3, and I did care less, that would definitely be a sign of deep depression, which would be resolved rather quickly, assuming the truck does it's job appropriately and runs me over. :)
It becomes a moot point, as the phrase "I could care less" entered colloquial English approximately 40 years, and it is already commonly understood to mean the same, either in the positive or negative syntax. It is found in print as far back as 1966. I'm only 35 years old, and I started speaking at 1 year old, so both versions of the phrase were already in common usage for 8 years.
http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/couldcare.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g09.html
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ico1.htm
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
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Since a moderator decides on objective criteria, slashdot posting is therefore a sport.
I fully expect this post to be moderated objectively.
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Wait until you're a parent of a 16 yr old daughter, and all her friends start looking hot to you.
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I was taught to respect my elders. The trouble is, it's getting harder and harder to find some.
Hey, they should have weight categories for dance, as well, so we could have medals for Heavywheight Mambo or Flyweight Waltz.
Ah, but the difficulty of his post was high enough to qualify him for the finals.
A post a day keeps productivity at bay.
How about an archery competition where you have to shoot it high and then catch it in some sort of bin. Extra points if you catch it by hand. Points are subtracted if the arrow ends up in your body. Now that's something I'd watch.
So because I make fun of the racists... I'm a racist?
If you're making fun of ME for being a racist, then by your own logic, you are a racist yourself, in which case, I'll be glad when you're hung from a pole, too.
I like to place meaningful quotes in my sig, so people will know that I know what meaningful quotes are.