Why is that? If you had two students, one that you knew was brilliant and one that you knew wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, would you give them the same grade for the same paper? If the smarter person put 20 minutes of effort into the paper while the dumber person worked their ass off for a week on it, why shouldn't the grades be different?
This is why essays SHOULD be subjectively graded instead of objectively graded. You need to take into account the writing abilities of the student and determine if it's a good or a bad paper based on what they're capable of in addition to technical aspects of the paper.
Isn't this why there are remedial and accelerated english classes? To take into account the different levels of intelligence in students? If you took an 'A' paper from a remedial class, it's quite likely that it would be a 'D' in the accelerated class.
I'm sure they wouldn't make it so there was no dispute process. They'd have to be complete morons to make it so the grade the computer gave you was final. (not that that's unheard of from high-school personnel...)
I'm sure the computer can't tell sarcasm, or tell when a paper is a parody, or give extra points to a particularly good paper from a stupid student or take away points for a particularly bad paper from a brilliant student.
Actually, this makes it far better than the old way (assuming people adhere to it).
Wouldn't you rather be able to plainly see the e-mails that are spam? Or do you prefer to play guessing games when you get an e-mail that says "Hey, what's up?" from a person named "Tom"?
Bingo. Laws that try to regulate spam are doomed to fail. Spammers really just don't care! If they're out of the country, this doesn't apply to them. If they're in the country but are clever enough to not be traced, this doesn't apply to them.
What I'd like to see is legislation that says the company advertising in the spam has the responsibility of making sure the spammer adheres to the laws (sexual explicit tagging, do-not-email-me-again lists, etc). Naturally, you'd have to prove that the company actually hired the spammers, but I'm sure we'd see a dramatic cutback in spam if you could hold the company accountable.
Unless you are planning not to bother going to see it, which as geeks and nerds, I frankly don't believe.
You're going to get a whole bunch of replies saying "I'M NOT GOING TO SEE IT! I REFUSE TO BECAUSE THE OTHER ONES WERE OMGSOBAD", but I'd wager that 95% of those people are just on the "The prequels suck!" bandwagon and will see it anyway. Plus, considering that this movie is the one that SO many people were waiting for (seeing Anakin turn into Darth Vader), it's even more unlikely that people will follow through with that.
Either way, the movie is going to make many hundreds of millions of dollars, so it doesn't really matter if a few hardcore Star Wars geks don't see it on principle.
Isn't the whole point of defragmenting to make it so files don't take as long to open? Wouldn't adding a defragmentation step make it so that it actually takes LONGER to open a fragmented file the first time you want it?
What's the advantage of this over having your system defragment itself every night while you're sleeping?
I worked as a grocery store cashier for quite a while, and the two main types of coupons that popped out of those machines were:
- You bought 2 of product A. Next time, if you buy 3 of product A, you'll get $0.35 off! - (Ooh, they bought brand A of paper towels!) If you buy brand B of paper towels next time, you'll get $0.35 off!
It was quite common to have a coupon print out for a competitor. It sticks out in my mind because a lot of customers would complain about getting coupons for products they don't like instead of the ones they actually use.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. There are obviously plenty of people who DO like it, otherwise it wouldn't still be on the air. I, personally, don't care for 'Enterprise', but I don't whine about it - I just don't watch it. If other people do like it then hey, that's grand, they can watch it all they want. Their opinion is no less valid than mine.
It's the same with the people who wish episodes 1 and 2 (and probably 3, when it comes out) of Star Wars weren't made because they think George Lucas "ruined" the series with them. Or people who wish that any Final Fantasy game past 6 was not made (even though 7 was the second best in the series after 1, you bastards).
Many people (myself not included) would rather have nothing at all than something they don't like when it comes to their favorite TV shows / movies / etc.
So explain to me how he defrauded paypal, ebay, and fedex again? I guess getting money to ship an item is fraud against paypal? Using ebay to try and sell a legitimate item, then getting an offer OUTSIDE ebay is defrauding ebay? Shipping an item to someone is defrauding fedex? He used these services as they were intended, and did not commit fraud against any of them.
It's a HUGE stretch to even consider this "fraud" by the seller in the first place, considering THERE WAS NO REAL TRANSACTION TO BEGIN WITH.
I would also like to point out that this seller defrauded Paypal, Fedex, eBay
Did you even READ the damn story? The "transaction" went through a FAKE ESCROW SERVICE, not Paypal. The scammer did NOT buy the item through ebay, it was settled outside of ebay.
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Why is that? If you had two students, one that you knew was brilliant and one that you knew wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, would you give them the same grade for the same paper? If the smarter person put 20 minutes of effort into the paper while the dumber person worked their ass off for a week on it, why shouldn't the grades be different?
This is why essays SHOULD be subjectively graded instead of objectively graded. You need to take into account the writing abilities of the student and determine if it's a good or a bad paper based on what they're capable of in addition to technical aspects of the paper.
Isn't this why there are remedial and accelerated english classes? To take into account the different levels of intelligence in students? If you took an 'A' paper from a remedial class, it's quite likely that it would be a 'D' in the accelerated class.
I'm sure they wouldn't make it so there was no dispute process. They'd have to be complete morons to make it so the grade the computer gave you was final. (not that that's unheard of from high-school personnel...)
I'm sure the computer can't tell sarcasm, or tell when a paper is a parody, or give extra points to a particularly good paper from a stupid student or take away points for a particularly bad paper from a brilliant student.
Actually, this makes it far better than the old way (assuming people adhere to it).
Wouldn't you rather be able to plainly see the e-mails that are spam? Or do you prefer to play guessing games when you get an e-mail that says "Hey, what's up?" from a person named "Tom"?
Bingo. Laws that try to regulate spam are doomed to fail. Spammers really just don't care! If they're out of the country, this doesn't apply to them. If they're in the country but are clever enough to not be traced, this doesn't apply to them.
What I'd like to see is legislation that says the company advertising in the spam has the responsibility of making sure the spammer adheres to the laws (sexual explicit tagging, do-not-email-me-again lists, etc). Naturally, you'd have to prove that the company actually hired the spammers, but I'm sure we'd see a dramatic cutback in spam if you could hold the company accountable.
Unless you are planning not to bother going to see it, which as geeks and nerds, I frankly don't believe.
You're going to get a whole bunch of replies saying "I'M NOT GOING TO SEE IT! I REFUSE TO BECAUSE THE OTHER ONES WERE OMGSOBAD", but I'd wager that 95% of those people are just on the "The prequels suck!" bandwagon and will see it anyway. Plus, considering that this movie is the one that SO many people were waiting for (seeing Anakin turn into Darth Vader), it's even more unlikely that people will follow through with that.
Either way, the movie is going to make many hundreds of millions of dollars, so it doesn't really matter if a few hardcore Star Wars geks don't see it on principle.
I know we all like to assume things here, but has anyone here actually seen the movie yet? No? Okay then, how do we know it NEEDS to be "saved"?
I've got this mat here with conclusions written all over it. You know what to do.
Well, that'll teach me to post before reading the article completely
You must be trying to start a new slashdot trend of not even reading the headline completely.
Those who can, do, those who can't, teach?
Those who can't teach, teach theory.
I can imagine the embarassment of many teenagers when their mother searches for "mom's pictures" and comes up with MILFHunter shoots...
Isn't the whole point of defragmenting to make it so files don't take as long to open? Wouldn't adding a defragmentation step make it so that it actually takes LONGER to open a fragmented file the first time you want it?
What's the advantage of this over having your system defragment itself every night while you're sleeping?
I'd love to rewire OpenOffice's save function through Evolution so it stores it right on my GMail address.
Couldn't you just have it save the file then e-mail it to your google account? (assuming you have a mail server running)
I worked as a grocery store cashier for quite a while, and the two main types of coupons that popped out of those machines were:
- You bought 2 of product A. Next time, if you buy 3 of product A, you'll get $0.35 off!
- (Ooh, they bought brand A of paper towels!) If you buy brand B of paper towels next time, you'll get $0.35 off!
It was quite common to have a coupon print out for a competitor. It sticks out in my mind because a lot of customers would complain about getting coupons for products they don't like instead of the ones they actually use.
What kind of self-respecting nerd uses a VCR nowadays? DVR man, DVR!
What makes your opinion any more valid than the opinions of people who liked the movies?
Dammit, now Gin and Juice will be the theme for the next series.
These are the voyages of the starship Escalade...
Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. There are obviously plenty of people who DO like it, otherwise it wouldn't still be on the air. I, personally, don't care for 'Enterprise', but I don't whine about it - I just don't watch it. If other people do like it then hey, that's grand, they can watch it all they want. Their opinion is no less valid than mine.
It's the same with the people who wish episodes 1 and 2 (and probably 3, when it comes out) of Star Wars weren't made because they think George Lucas "ruined" the series with them. Or people who wish that any Final Fantasy game past 6 was not made (even though 7 was the second best in the series after 1, you bastards).
Many people (myself not included) would rather have nothing at all than something they don't like when it comes to their favorite TV shows / movies / etc.
Hell, I don't even live in a low-wage country and I'll do it! I could use an extra $3.50 per hour just to play a game.
Now I only need to figure out some way to play it while I'm at my real job...
I missed the first word and thought this was going to be an article about Suprnova.
It looks like you're trying to break a box!
Would you like to:
* Bash
* Smash
* Crush
* Impale
That would be humorous, but I have a feeling it would get matched to a different infamous ass that is quite unpleasant to view.
They may be voluntarily doing a beta test, but we're giving them an involuntary stress-test.
They failed.
Same here, and then I got confused because the WINE logo is red.
So explain to me how he defrauded paypal, ebay, and fedex again? I guess getting money to ship an item is fraud against paypal? Using ebay to try and sell a legitimate item, then getting an offer OUTSIDE ebay is defrauding ebay? Shipping an item to someone is defrauding fedex? He used these services as they were intended, and did not commit fraud against any of them.
It's a HUGE stretch to even consider this "fraud" by the seller in the first place, considering THERE WAS NO REAL TRANSACTION TO BEGIN WITH.
I would also like to point out that this seller defrauded Paypal, Fedex, eBay
Did you even READ the damn story? The "transaction" went through a FAKE ESCROW SERVICE, not Paypal. The scammer did NOT buy the item through ebay, it was settled outside of ebay.
Read->Comprehend->Post.