Hell people use that argument here in Sweden, where 90% of electricity is supplied by hydro or nuclear, the rest being a mix of wind, biofuels and fossil fuels.
If the answers are publicly available before the test they can't reasonably expect those answers not to fall into the hands of students. It's what you get when you use pre-canned questions from a publisher. Even if they hadn't gotten access to the database, students could band together and create their own database of questions that have appeared on exams somewhere along with their answer.
If memorizing an answer key is enough to pass a test, that test is way to easy for university level course work. Multiple choice questions is a terrible way to create an exam in general, even more so when the exam is available to someone other than those involved in the course prior to the exam.
The professor should seriously be fired for negligence.
We have take home exams in some courses as well, but student's don't time themselves (how does that work?), the exam is published at a specific time and has to be submitted by a specific time, usually 24 or 48 hours after it's been published. In those cases it's always a pretty challenging exam, nothing you could find an answer to online without having prior knowledge of the course material. The more common form is the five hour proctored exam though, usually without any course material but a reference is often allowed for formulas and such if a lot of math is involved. Multiple choice answers are very uncommon, and if they are on the test they only make up a small part of the exam. Answers with no reasoning behind them, including calculations if necessary, are pretty much always given zero points, you have to show your work.
Why would it have to be multiple choice questions just because there are many students taking the class? A lot of students usually means there are also a lot of TAs available to grade the exams does it not?
Multiple choice questions are very rare where I go to school, and if they exist they are only a small part of the exam, never the entire exam. We usually get the results within three weeks of the exam, so it takes a while to grade them all but I'd say it's worth it to avoid brain-dead multiple choice questions.
The same is true in Sweden. I've never seen anyone use prefabricated exams, and exams from previous years are always available to students, usually on the course webpage and often including answers.
At least at my school, there is always at least one "exam guard" (tentavakt) in the room and at least one in the hallway checking the bathrooms and such. I heard that they recently actually found a text book in a bathroom during an exam. The punishment for cheating is first suspension pending review and then expulsion if the student is found guilty. The course leader (usually a professor) will usually come in either every hour or every other hour to clarify exam questions and correct errors in the exam if needed.
I'm no fan of cheaters, but that's not cheating, that's a lazy idiot of a professor. I've never seen anything like it in the course of my five years as a university student..
It's the section the manpage is in. For instance, printf(1) refers to the program printf, and printf(3) refers to the C function printf. You can search a specific section with man , so man 3 printf will result in the Linux Programmer's Manual entry for printf on my machine.
Do you seriously think he made his money in a vacuum? Society needs public money in order to provide essential services, and this includes providing welfare for the poor so they don't have to turn to crime in order to survive, and to provide education to poor children so they can one day become productive members of society. In the end, welfare and education benefits society a whole lot more than it costs.
Actually I think it would be very possible for facebook to predict when you'll get dumped (or get a girlfriend for that matter). They have tons of data on comments, wall posts, profile visits, how many photos the two of you have been tagged in together etc. Couple that with data on people hooking up or breaking up (and telling facebook about it), and they can probably build a pretty decent statistical model to predict when you're going to get dumped. Obviously it wouldn't be correct 100% of the time, but still.
This. We used the openable type of desk up to 6th grade, which was then replaced with regular tables and chairs essentially, and it's the same now in University (for the regular rooms obviously, not lecture halls). None of those one-piece tiny desks that seem to be so popular in the US. What idiot thought every person is the same and needs the exact same seating position, all the time? (I've used one of those desks when I've been in the US, uncomfortable and virtually no desk space)
Platinum or Palladium for the fuel cell isn't exactly lying around in droves in our streets either..
Hydrogen is a pain to store and transport, you have to build an entirely new infrastructure for it. We already have that infrastructure for electricity, though we obviously have to increase production and install new wires for charging stations to get enough juice, but its minimal compared to what's required for hydrogen storage and transport.
Not to mention that the electrolysis is only about 50-80% efficient, and the fuel cell can only convert about 50% of the energy stored in the hydrogen into electricity, for a total of 25-40% efficiency from the power source to the engine. Which means even more electricity production would be required.
I Am Not An Electrical Engineer, but I can read. These values are from Wikipedia articles on Electrolysis of Water and Fuel Cells.
(Already tried posting once but it apparently failed, excuse me if this leads to duplicates)
Platinum or Palladium for the fuel cell isn't exactly lying around in droves in our streets either..
Hydrogen is a pain to store and transport, you have to build an entirely new infrastructure for it. We already have that infrastructure for electricity, though we obviously have to increase production and install new wires for charging stations to get enough juice, but its minimal compared to what's required for hydrogen storage and transport.
Not to mention that the electrolysis is only about 50-80% efficient, and the fuel cell can only convert about 50% of the energy stored in the hydrogen into electricity, for a total of 25-40% efficiency from the power source to the engine. Which means even more electricity production would be required.
I Am Not An Electrical Engineer, but I can read. These values are from Wikipedia articles on Electrolysis of Water and Fuel Cells.
The debian website is terrible, always has been. It's pretty easy to install though. Personally I run Arch, the CD's are quite easy to find (click download on the mainpage), but the install process is not quite as userfriendly. On the upside, you get rolling releases of all the packages, so once it's set up, you'll generally keep it around for a while. I installed Arch on my desktop and laptop more than a year ago. I haven't touched the install since, but I have all the latest software..
I have an HTC Magic, my next phone will be MeeGo/Maemo based though. (assuming they don't remove features such as root access in MeeGo) I will wait for the N9 though, the N900 is better than my current phone but it seems a waste to get one now that N9 is on the horizon.
I don't know, I've seen a lot of people migrate to Chrome in the past year, even relatively non-technical users like my sister (without my prompting I might add). From what I've seen it's been mostly at the expense of Firefox though..
Or it may be because old hardware satisfies 95+% of all needs except for gaming, and most people don't play demanding games. My laptop is 3 years old, yet it has a pretty decent core2duo CPU...
The problem with Ubuntu LTS is the software gets outdated so quickly, they should backport more. I like quiet nowadays aswell, but I've chosen a different route, I use Arch and upgrade everything when I feel like it (rolling release). I haven't reinstalled my system once since I started using Arch yet I have the latest kernel, Xorg, KDE and applications.
Why? My current operating system runs everything I need fine, including StarCraft II. I'm not a big gamer, I have other things to do with my life, but StarCraft and Civilization are the exceptions to the rule. And I'll have you know that my neckbeard is quite clean.;)
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Hell people use that argument here in Sweden, where 90% of electricity is supplied by hydro or nuclear, the rest being a mix of wind, biofuels and fossil fuels.
If the answers are publicly available before the test they can't reasonably expect those answers not to fall into the hands of students. It's what you get when you use pre-canned questions from a publisher. Even if they hadn't gotten access to the database, students could band together and create their own database of questions that have appeared on exams somewhere along with their answer.
If memorizing an answer key is enough to pass a test, that test is way to easy for university level course work. Multiple choice questions is a terrible way to create an exam in general, even more so when the exam is available to someone other than those involved in the course prior to the exam.
The professor should seriously be fired for negligence.
We have take home exams in some courses as well, but student's don't time themselves (how does that work?), the exam is published at a specific time and has to be submitted by a specific time, usually 24 or 48 hours after it's been published. In those cases it's always a pretty challenging exam, nothing you could find an answer to online without having prior knowledge of the course material.
The more common form is the five hour proctored exam though, usually without any course material but a reference is often allowed for formulas and such if a lot of math is involved. Multiple choice answers are very uncommon, and if they are on the test they only make up a small part of the exam. Answers with no reasoning behind them, including calculations if necessary, are pretty much always given zero points, you have to show your work.
Why would it have to be multiple choice questions just because there are many students taking the class? A lot of students usually means there are also a lot of TAs available to grade the exams does it not?
Multiple choice questions are very rare where I go to school, and if they exist they are only a small part of the exam, never the entire exam. We usually get the results within three weeks of the exam, so it takes a while to grade them all but I'd say it's worth it to avoid brain-dead multiple choice questions.
The same is true in Sweden. I've never seen anyone use prefabricated exams, and exams from previous years are always available to students, usually on the course webpage and often including answers.
At least at my school, there is always at least one "exam guard" (tentavakt) in the room and at least one in the hallway checking the bathrooms and such. I heard that they recently actually found a text book in a bathroom during an exam. The punishment for cheating is first suspension pending review and then expulsion if the student is found guilty. The course leader (usually a professor) will usually come in either every hour or every other hour to clarify exam questions and correct errors in the exam if needed.
I'm no fan of cheaters, but that's not cheating, that's a lazy idiot of a professor. I've never seen anything like it in the course of my five years as a university student..
It's the section the manpage is in. For instance, printf(1) refers to the program printf, and printf(3) refers to the C function printf. You can search a specific section with man , so man 3 printf will result in the Linux Programmer's Manual entry for printf on my machine.
Do you seriously think he made his money in a vacuum?
Society needs public money in order to provide essential services, and this includes providing welfare for the poor so they don't have to turn to crime in order to survive, and to provide education to poor children so they can one day become productive members of society. In the end, welfare and education benefits society a whole lot more than it costs.
Actually I think it would be very possible for facebook to predict when you'll get dumped (or get a girlfriend for that matter). They have tons of data on comments, wall posts, profile visits, how many photos the two of you have been tagged in together etc. Couple that with data on people hooking up or breaking up (and telling facebook about it), and they can probably build a pretty decent statistical model to predict when you're going to get dumped. Obviously it wouldn't be correct 100% of the time, but still.
This. We used the openable type of desk up to 6th grade, which was then replaced with regular tables and chairs essentially, and it's the same now in University (for the regular rooms obviously, not lecture halls). None of those one-piece tiny desks that seem to be so popular in the US. What idiot thought every person is the same and needs the exact same seating position, all the time? (I've used one of those desks when I've been in the US, uncomfortable and virtually no desk space)
Platinum or Palladium for the fuel cell isn't exactly lying around in droves in our streets either..
Hydrogen is a pain to store and transport, you have to build an entirely new infrastructure for it. We already have that infrastructure for electricity, though we obviously have to increase production and install new wires for charging stations to get enough juice, but its minimal compared to what's required for hydrogen storage and transport.
Not to mention that the electrolysis is only about 50-80% efficient, and the fuel cell can only convert about 50% of the energy stored in the hydrogen into electricity, for a total of 25-40% efficiency from the power source to the engine. Which means even more electricity production would be required.
I Am Not An Electrical Engineer, but I can read. These values are from Wikipedia articles on Electrolysis of Water and Fuel Cells.
(Already tried posting once but it apparently failed, excuse me if this leads to duplicates)
Platinum or Palladium for the fuel cell isn't exactly lying around in droves in our streets either..
Hydrogen is a pain to store and transport, you have to build an entirely new infrastructure for it. We already have that infrastructure for electricity, though we obviously have to increase production and install new wires for charging stations to get enough juice, but its minimal compared to what's required for hydrogen storage and transport.
Not to mention that the electrolysis is only about 50-80% efficient, and the fuel cell can only convert about 50% of the energy stored in the hydrogen into electricity, for a total of 25-40% efficiency from the power source to the engine. Which means even more electricity production would be required.
I Am Not An Electrical Engineer, but I can read. These values are from Wikipedia articles on Electrolysis of Water and Fuel Cells.
Interesting idea.. The same should apply to career politicians, or any other profession involving a great deal of power over others..
It's not a matter of belief, but of experience...
The debian website is terrible, always has been. It's pretty easy to install though. Personally I run Arch, the CD's are quite easy to find (click download on the mainpage), but the install process is not quite as userfriendly. On the upside, you get rolling releases of all the packages, so once it's set up, you'll generally keep it around for a while. I installed Arch on my desktop and laptop more than a year ago. I haven't touched the install since, but I have all the latest software..
I have an HTC Magic, my next phone will be MeeGo/Maemo based though. (assuming they don't remove features such as root access in MeeGo)
I will wait for the N9 though, the N900 is better than my current phone but it seems a waste to get one now that N9 is on the horizon.
I'm exactly the opposite, I use Arch for my desktop and laptop where I want the latest and greatest, but on my servers I run Debian stable.
I don't know, I've seen a lot of people migrate to Chrome in the past year, even relatively non-technical users like my sister (without my prompting I might add). From what I've seen it's been mostly at the expense of Firefox though..
Or it may be because old hardware satisfies 95+% of all needs except for gaming, and most people don't play demanding games. My laptop is 3 years old, yet it has a pretty decent core2duo CPU...
The problem with Ubuntu LTS is the software gets outdated so quickly, they should backport more. I like quiet nowadays aswell, but I've chosen a different route, I use Arch and upgrade everything when I feel like it (rolling release). I haven't reinstalled my system once since I started using Arch yet I have the latest kernel, Xorg, KDE and applications.
I'm a fan of both. I can't see why the fanbases should adopt the bad blood between the creators. Just enjoy it for what it is.
Chrome 8? I'm still on Chromium 5 apparently, and it's from this year!
Why? My current operating system runs everything I need fine, including StarCraft II. I'm not a big gamer, I have other things to do with my life, but StarCraft and Civilization are the exceptions to the rule. ;)
And I'll have you know that my neckbeard is quite clean.
What is the wine status? I want to know whether to get it right away or wait for wine to gain proper support for it..