What kind of an idiot is willing to pay however much per year to insure their car, but not willing to pay a measly $80 once-off for an immobiliser?
Plus, I'd much rather have my car not stolen than have an insurance company give me money when it is stolen. Especially considering the headache you have to go through in order to get it.
Ignoring the fact that (the way I interpret it) his comment was that the class average was 58%, not his mark; scaling is a way of compensating for the impossibility of creating assessments that are identical in difficulty. Why should I take a class one year and get 58%, but if I took it the next year I could get 78%? This is especially true if a course is new, or if the lecturer has changed from previous years?
It also means that I should take classes that are known to be easier, instead of relevant/interesting ones, to up my grades. Of course, this is sort of the case anyway (as more difficult classes attract smarter people, so my ranking in the class will be lower), but not as much as it could be.
I once had a test that had a check box for how confident you were your answer was correct, that affected your score the following way:
If you ticked "confident" and you were wrong, -2 If you ticked "confident and you were right, +2 If you ticked "unsure" and you were wrong, -0 If you ticked "unsure" and you were right, +1
I guess the point is that it's advantageous to guess, but only if you choose the lesser-scoring option.
I know that this is a terrible comparison, but I found that running code on Mathematica on Windows takes a lot longer than it did on Windows (for numeric tests, I chose not to compare graphics-related tasks). That was about a year ago (I only run Windows in VMWare now, so I can't make any more fair comparisons).
So what if I have a choice between openoffice.org, abiword or LaTeX to produce my documents? As long as I save it as a PDF, anyone can read it. If I use Microsoft Word, I either install a 3rd party program to save it as a PDF, or require that the people I send the document to have the same version of Word as me, running on the same platform.
Disclaimer: I didnt' read the article.
Well Sony can call it whatever they like, that change anything. I would think that the average person would buy a PS3 because they want to play [insert PS3 game(s) here], not because its media format has some small advantage over some other format that would require a week's reading up on to understand anyway. Do you really think that Joe Public is going to go "well, I really want to play Ratchet & Clank with my 8 year old daughter, but the Dolby Digital High Resolution Audio Codec runs at 3Mbit/s on HD-DVD instead of 1.7 on Blu-ray, so I guess I'll buy an X-Box instead."
You can't relate sales of PS3s to preferred media formats, it's a game console. That's like saying that more people buy mice than keyboards, therefore round is a better shape for monitors than rectangular.
Sometimes I'm eating with one hand and wish to change to another desktop, and in that case I can press Ctrl+Alt+{left,right,up,down} with only one hand if the right alt is configured to be alt.
Also, why do the British pluralize "math," yet singularize "sports?"
To avoid loss of generality: playing "sport" means that you play one or more sports, whereas playing "sports" means that you play two or more sports. And the abbreviation of mathematics to "math" or "maths" is entirely arbitrary anyway.
You really shouldn't equate having computer-specific knowledge with having intelligence. Just because some guy doesn't care enough to learn more about his computer than how to get work done doesn't mean he lacks intelligence.
Not really. Cold air isn't very good at escaping through gaps at the top of a container. It's a lot more efficient than those open-top freezers at supermarkets, which aren't too horrendous.
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Consider me officially shocked and appalled.
I'm just shocked that there are people that don't already have them installed.
What kind of an idiot is willing to pay however much per year to insure their car, but not willing to pay a measly $80 once-off for an immobiliser?
Plus, I'd much rather have my car not stolen than have an insurance company give me money when it is stolen. Especially considering the headache you have to go through in order to get it.
That's not similar at all. Filling up with petrol more often doesn't cost you extra money. Replacing ink cartridges more often does.
Ignoring the fact that (the way I interpret it) his comment was that the class average was 58%, not his mark; scaling is a way of compensating for the impossibility of creating assessments that are identical in difficulty. Why should I take a class one year and get 58%, but if I took it the next year I could get 78%? This is especially true if a course is new, or if the lecturer has changed from previous years? It also means that I should take classes that are known to be easier, instead of relevant/interesting ones, to up my grades. Of course, this is sort of the case anyway (as more difficult classes attract smarter people, so my ranking in the class will be lower), but not as much as it could be.
I've personally not heard of it, but that's not to say that my lecturer hadn't.
I once had a test that had a check box for how confident you were your answer was correct, that affected your score the following way:
If you ticked "confident" and you were wrong, -2
If you ticked "confident and you were right, +2
If you ticked "unsure" and you were wrong, -0
If you ticked "unsure" and you were right, +1
I guess the point is that it's advantageous to guess, but only if you choose the lesser-scoring option.
I can't even find a flash drive that survives a year of being treated well
1. Open code in vim :%s/ebay.com/ebay.com.au/g :wq
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Someone needs to write a virus that silently installs a bit torrent client, uploads a whole bunch of torrents and lets me steal all of their media.
1. Rename "Junior Customer Service Representative" to "CEO's Executive Assistant"
2. ???
3. Profit
It's a good thing that Sim City 2000/3000 make up for all those boring games that released equally boring and identical sequels.
I know that this is a terrible comparison, but I found that running code on Mathematica on Windows takes a lot longer than it did on Windows (for numeric tests, I chose not to compare graphics-related tasks). That was about a year ago (I only run Windows in VMWare now, so I can't make any more fair comparisons).
So what if I have a choice between openoffice.org, abiword or LaTeX to produce my documents? As long as I save it as a PDF, anyone can read it. If I use Microsoft Word, I either install a 3rd party program to save it as a PDF, or require that the people I send the document to have the same version of Word as me, running on the same platform. Disclaimer: I didnt' read the article.
Read Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" for illumination.
That pun brightened my day!
Well Sony can call it whatever they like, that change anything. I would think that the average person would buy a PS3 because they want to play [insert PS3 game(s) here], not because its media format has some small advantage over some other format that would require a week's reading up on to understand anyway. Do you really think that Joe Public is going to go "well, I really want to play Ratchet & Clank with my 8 year old daughter, but the Dolby Digital High Resolution Audio Codec runs at 3Mbit/s on HD-DVD instead of 1.7 on Blu-ray, so I guess I'll buy an X-Box instead."
You can't relate sales of PS3s to preferred media formats, it's a game console. That's like saying that more people buy mice than keyboards, therefore round is a better shape for monitors than rectangular.
Sometimes I'm eating with one hand and wish to change to another desktop, and in that case I can press Ctrl+Alt+{left,right,up,down} with only one hand if the right alt is configured to be alt.
tim@morbo$ ./index.html
./index.html: 2: Syntax error: newline unexpected
The same place as always... xorg.conf :(
Also, why do the British pluralize "math," yet singularize "sports?"
To avoid loss of generality: playing "sport" means that you play one or more sports, whereas playing "sports" means that you play two or more sports. And the abbreviation of mathematics to "math" or "maths" is entirely arbitrary anyway.
Why would you need to focus the address bar to type unless your right hand was on the keyboard?
You really shouldn't equate having computer-specific knowledge with having intelligence. Just because some guy doesn't care enough to learn more about his computer than how to get work done doesn't mean he lacks intelligence.
Not really. Cold air isn't very good at escaping through gaps at the top of a container. It's a lot more efficient than those open-top freezers at supermarkets, which aren't too horrendous.
Yeah, well I only need it for quick-and-dirty graphs and statistics.