I went through that type of system for a Chemistry class. After class, the entire class would wander down to the computer lab and do the homework together. We'd get a question, find the [book] answer, then have each person try to obtain the correct [computer-identified] solution on the first try, trying various syntax adjustments each time. Of the three chances we got, someone usually got the right syntax before everyone had failed the question the second time.
Best benefit? Getting a group of people in the same place to research, debate, and agree on a single answer, then be open-minded and organized enough to shape the solution to fit the constraints given.
I can't believe anyone would bother posting an RFC on FTL communications. Seriously, when this comes to occur.. why doesn't the future simply publish the RFC?! At least they'll be able to narrate the proper standards to ensure a seamless transition.
The things I see here is not that he changed, it's that the intent of the photo changed.
To wit: The first picture? "I gathered every item with a microchip."
The second picture? "This is what I use in my life now."
Does that actually mean that he doesn't have those things any more, or that he just doesn't use them any more? That seems pretty darn unclear. If it *is* that he doesn't have them anymore, then props to him. I don't have enough time in my life to purge all the old tech and convert the pertinent info to my new storage systems.
Not only that, but technology is not just about the microchip - if he has improved his kitchen from the el-cheapo microwave to a built-in convection oven, or whatever - has he truly reduced his microchip count by one? I think not. Did he push his fridge into the shot? No. I'd lay odds if he's redone his kitchen to accommodate a new oven he likely has a pretty nice fridge too (which could easily have a microchip).
I improved my own home recently, and put electronic thermostats in that enabled me to reduce my energy consumption (and my heating bill) by 30%. Should things like that count? Absolutely.
Are you a troll? Lets go back to that 'reading comprehension' piece you mentioned.
"I am in my late 20s, live in the U.S., work in the IT industry, and am going to school to upgrade from an associate's degree to a bachelor's degree. One of my classes is a web-based course that requires students to write blogs. I am not attending one of those questionable for-profit schools. This is a large, state-funded, public university. In this course I have noticed poor writing skills are the norm rather than the exception. It is a 3rd year course, so students should have successfully completed some sort of writing course prior to this one. Blog posts, which students are graded on, tend to be very poorly written. They are not organized into paragraphs, have multiple run-on sentences, and sometimes don't make sense. I do not know what grades they are receiving for these posts. Slashdot, is what I am seeing the exception, or the norm? Is the bar being lowered for university students, or am I just expecting too much?"
So.. he is taking a third year course at a public university.
Students are asked to post their homework as blogs online that will be graded, presumably by the professor.
This is an online course that could be either a program requirement (doubtful), an elective (possible), or [what I consider to be] one of those self-help educational classes.
The OP has no idea what grades are given for this assignment, does not mention when in the class it is given, how much weight it carries in the class, and based on this asks, "is the bar being lowered".
From what I can tell, I would venture the guess that if the students in that class are willing to submit crappy work, then there must be a reason. Either the assignment doesn't weigh very much toward the final grade, or the students are going to get dinged for it. There's no evidence here that instructors are part of a war on consciousness / thought as suggested. There's no evidence here that has anything to do with science, school boards, or congressmen.
Am I whining? My argument was that the article submitted by the OP was essentially a shill article - asking a question that is neither newsy, nerdsy, or relevant to anything, and is merely meant to encourage group-think in the general direction of the current owners - dice.com. I maintain that belief.
With respect to your straw-man, let me counter with my own: Before the X generation came along and turned Universities into refuges from the war, Universities served a very different purpose than they do now. They used to be an avenue for a moderately wealthy family to ensure their children would remain in their social class. Generation X turned that brought grade inflation, and the changing view on debt turned universities into a means for anyone to rise above their social class. The problem is that Universities aren't required to explain to their students precisely how to succeed, nor how to live with integrity, honesty, compassion, how to think critically, or even how to engage in a discussion without resorting to petty name-calling.
Now, since/. is essentially a blog.. look at your own post. You use run-on sentences, misspelled words, crappy grammar, and colloquialisms. You could arguably earn a pretty crappy grade in his course.
The Dice.com content generation team hasn't realized that yet.
This sounds like (judging from the tenor of the well-written "ask slashdot") another shill article along the lines of the "how to get the job interview" crap they're posting nowadays.
What about the slashdot article a few weeks back about the Dallas Cowboys complaining that Facebook wanted to charge him three grand to send out one update to his facebook friends?
Also, what about the fact that, at that level of users (100k+ish) Facebook *won't* post your update to each of your facebook friends? They just silently drop messages.
I don't know - just a thought.
The only reason I'm upset is because Slashdot editors are treating this as a 'Hoax'. It's not. It's crappy journalism reporting on some nutjobs' intellectual porn site as though it were news. What's next, reporting on the Onion press releases?
I've been here for years, but slashdot getting bought out has really ruined the last toehold on reality and relevance they had.
My understanding has always been that the road has a dotted white line regularly, and at an intersection that dotted line changes to solid at the point where it is still feasible to make it through the light without gunning it (given driving at the speed limit, of course).
Of course, I've also read (and seen) the reports of cities not getting enough revenue off of the red light cameras that they shorten the yellow lights.
When I was doing work in that line, my motif was "lets build a dozen, test em all, and use the one that worked right." Nothin redundant about it. Sure, the other eleven might be saved somehow, but let's not forget that when you're talking materials that have to survive in extreme conditions, you test your systems on the ones that won't survive, and ship the one that will.
Ever since slashdot's parent company got bought, I've noticed a notable change in the articles. Namely, the "ask slashdot" questions have gotten absolutely remedial, the science articles are wholly off kilter (see this one), and the paranoid anti-TSA articles have all but disappeared. I don't so much mind the last one, but only because it'd gotten pretty over the top.
Well, she *was* his biographer. I'd guess 20-30,000 emails probably had a lot of "I don't really want to look like a douche", or "I had no idea that was happening, but lets spin it like I meant it to happen".
Again, I'm going to reiterate my point. I don't care if they spend a billion dollars on a campaign (I prefer my privacy, thanks) on one condition:
Use your datamining to actually get government right. Figure out what everybody wants, and find a solution. If you're going to "run 66,000 campaign predictions a night", how many can you run that analyze the effects of your policies, actions, and decisions.
Cause honestly, it looks to me like government has gotten really good at screwing things up. I'd hate to lose my faith in humanity before I'm dead.
Well yes and no. You don't care as much about the Mass, you care about gravity, i.e. downward acceleration. That *is* essentially Thrust, just in the wrong direction. His equation where he divides the FlyingMass by the LiftToDragRatio accommodates that issue seamlessly.
My apologies for the threadjacking; I'd really like to raise a key point I seem to think these campaigns tend to overlook.
If campaigns are so keen on doing whatever they can to get one guy into office.. why can't they do enough research to model the effects of their decisions over the next dozen years?
I'll make it very simple: If you want my vote, prove to me that your choices will benefit our Country. A Billion dollars spent to obtain a four year career ought to be sufficient to prove that. Do *that* FIRST! Then you'll get my vote.
Their cold air is essentially room temperature, as they're using 80 degrees (presumably F) for that side. So really they've just contained the servers, sucked all the heat out, cooled it down to room temperature, and dumped it back into the room. It's far more efficient because they're not using the servers to heat a whole room / building, then air condition each room for human usage.
That isn't even what the article indicates. The article indicated that US Military tested a dolphin named Say for 15 days before a storm halted their experiment. The only other notable information in the article is that the dolphin achieved a 99% accuracy throughout the course of the experiments. That's better than your average (burger) flipper.
If we wanted to do that then we would say "ok/.ers. Europeans are like Magic the Gathering and Asians are like Pokemon".
No! I asked for a *CAR* analogy! No, the D is not silent!
More like, Asians produce toyota - those popular cheap cars that people drive, the ones that have all the essential parts to make a car go (you know the asian cars), and europeans produce those sophisticated luxury cars that have all the nice, leather seats and air conditioning (like those european cars do).
He's not slow, he just hasn't finished the "quitting AOL" exit process. You know the one where you had to all but get a court order from a Judge for AOL to acknowledge and cancel your subscription..
Except that this is Slashdot, and nobody here thinks that the summary has anything to do with the commentary on whatever blog reposted (and likely mutilated) the original link. We just come here to express mutual outrage at the politics today.
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I went through that type of system for a Chemistry class. After class, the entire class would wander down to the computer lab and do the homework together. We'd get a question, find the [book] answer, then have each person try to obtain the correct [computer-identified] solution on the first try, trying various syntax adjustments each time. Of the three chances we got, someone usually got the right syntax before everyone had failed the question the second time.
Best benefit? Getting a group of people in the same place to research, debate, and agree on a single answer, then be open-minded and organized enough to shape the solution to fit the constraints given.
I can't believe anyone would bother posting an RFC on FTL communications. Seriously, when this comes to occur .. why doesn't the future simply publish the RFC?! At least they'll be able to narrate the proper standards to ensure a seamless transition.
The things I see here is not that he changed, it's that the intent of the photo changed.
To wit: The first picture? "I gathered every item with a microchip."
The second picture? "This is what I use in my life now."
Does that actually mean that he doesn't have those things any more, or that he just doesn't use them any more? That seems pretty darn unclear. If it *is* that he doesn't have them anymore, then props to him. I don't have enough time in my life to purge all the old tech and convert the pertinent info to my new storage systems.
Not only that, but technology is not just about the microchip - if he has improved his kitchen from the el-cheapo microwave to a built-in convection oven, or whatever - has he truly reduced his microchip count by one? I think not. Did he push his fridge into the shot? No. I'd lay odds if he's redone his kitchen to accommodate a new oven he likely has a pretty nice fridge too (which could easily have a microchip).
I improved my own home recently, and put electronic thermostats in that enabled me to reduce my energy consumption (and my heating bill) by 30%. Should things like that count? Absolutely.
"I am in my late 20s, live in the U.S., work in the IT industry, and am going to school to upgrade from an associate's degree to a bachelor's degree. One of my classes is a web-based course that requires students to write blogs. I am not attending one of those questionable for-profit schools. This is a large, state-funded, public university. In this course I have noticed poor writing skills are the norm rather than the exception. It is a 3rd year course, so students should have successfully completed some sort of writing course prior to this one. Blog posts, which students are graded on, tend to be very poorly written. They are not organized into paragraphs, have multiple run-on sentences, and sometimes don't make sense. I do not know what grades they are receiving for these posts. Slashdot, is what I am seeing the exception, or the norm? Is the bar being lowered for university students, or am I just expecting too much?"
So .. he is taking a third year course at a public university.
/. is essentially a blog .. look at your own post. You use run-on sentences, misspelled words, crappy grammar, and colloquialisms. You could arguably earn a pretty crappy grade in his course.
Students are asked to post their homework as blogs online that will be graded, presumably by the professor.
This is an online course that could be either a program requirement (doubtful), an elective (possible), or [what I consider to be] one of those self-help educational classes.
The OP has no idea what grades are given for this assignment, does not mention when in the class it is given, how much weight it carries in the class, and based on this asks, "is the bar being lowered".
From what I can tell, I would venture the guess that if the students in that class are willing to submit crappy work, then there must be a reason. Either the assignment doesn't weigh very much toward the final grade, or the students are going to get dinged for it. There's no evidence here that instructors are part of a war on consciousness / thought as suggested. There's no evidence here that has anything to do with science, school boards, or congressmen.
Am I whining? My argument was that the article submitted by the OP was essentially a shill article - asking a question that is neither newsy, nerdsy, or relevant to anything, and is merely meant to encourage group-think in the general direction of the current owners - dice.com. I maintain that belief.
With respect to your straw-man, let me counter with my own: Before the X generation came along and turned Universities into refuges from the war, Universities served a very different purpose than they do now. They used to be an avenue for a moderately wealthy family to ensure their children would remain in their social class. Generation X turned that brought grade inflation, and the changing view on debt turned universities into a means for anyone to rise above their social class. The problem is that Universities aren't required to explain to their students precisely how to succeed, nor how to live with integrity, honesty, compassion, how to think critically, or even how to engage in a discussion without resorting to petty name-calling.
Now, since
The Dice.com content generation team hasn't realized that yet.
This sounds like (judging from the tenor of the well-written "ask slashdot") another shill article along the lines of the "how to get the job interview" crap they're posting nowadays.
Dude .. that's true, but have you checked out the hot chicks at spat-ooh-laa-laa world?!
That gets us up to 8 google pages of unsecured printers. I don't think my settings are at 10k sites per page ... I could be wrong though.
Because the management at the time of the acceptance phase of the product had their hand in the till http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123102821.html. The current management does not.
That would be 'we are' [grammar] nazis all the way down.
What about the slashdot article a few weeks back about the Dallas Cowboys complaining that Facebook wanted to charge him three grand to send out one update to his facebook friends?
Also, what about the fact that, at that level of users (100k+ish) Facebook *won't* post your update to each of your facebook friends? They just silently drop messages.
I don't know - just a thought.
The only reason I'm upset is because Slashdot editors are treating this as a 'Hoax'. It's not. It's crappy journalism reporting on some nutjobs' intellectual porn site as though it were news. What's next, reporting on the Onion press releases?
I've been here for years, but slashdot getting bought out has really ruined the last toehold on reality and relevance they had.
My understanding has always been that the road has a dotted white line regularly, and at an intersection that dotted line changes to solid at the point where it is still feasible to make it through the light without gunning it (given driving at the speed limit, of course).
Of course, I've also read (and seen) the reports of cities not getting enough revenue off of the red light cameras that they shorten the yellow lights.
When I was doing work in that line, my motif was "lets build a dozen, test em all, and use the one that worked right." Nothin redundant about it. Sure, the other eleven might be saved somehow, but let's not forget that when you're talking materials that have to survive in extreme conditions, you test your systems on the ones that won't survive, and ship the one that will.
Ever since slashdot's parent company got bought, I've noticed a notable change in the articles. Namely, the "ask slashdot" questions have gotten absolutely remedial, the science articles are wholly off kilter (see this one), and the paranoid anti-TSA articles have all but disappeared. I don't so much mind the last one, but only because it'd gotten pretty over the top.
Well, she *was* his biographer. I'd guess 20-30,000 emails probably had a lot of "I don't really want to look like a douche", or "I had no idea that was happening, but lets spin it like I meant it to happen".
Again, I'm going to reiterate my point. I don't care if they spend a billion dollars on a campaign (I prefer my privacy, thanks) on one condition:
Use your datamining to actually get government right. Figure out what everybody wants, and find a solution. If you're going to "run 66,000 campaign predictions a night", how many can you run that analyze the effects of your policies, actions, and decisions.
Cause honestly, it looks to me like government has gotten really good at screwing things up. I'd hate to lose my faith in humanity before I'm dead.
Well yes and no. You don't care as much about the Mass, you care about gravity, i.e. downward acceleration. That *is* essentially Thrust, just in the wrong direction. His equation where he divides the FlyingMass by the LiftToDragRatio accommodates that issue seamlessly.
My apologies for the threadjacking; I'd really like to raise a key point I seem to think these campaigns tend to overlook.
.. why can't they do enough research to model the effects of their decisions over the next dozen years?
If campaigns are so keen on doing whatever they can to get one guy into office
I'll make it very simple: If you want my vote, prove to me that your choices will benefit our Country. A Billion dollars spent to obtain a four year career ought to be sufficient to prove that. Do *that* FIRST! Then you'll get my vote.
Their cold air is essentially room temperature, as they're using 80 degrees (presumably F) for that side. So really they've just contained the servers, sucked all the heat out, cooled it down to room temperature, and dumped it back into the room. It's far more efficient because they're not using the servers to heat a whole room / building, then air condition each room for human usage.
That isn't even what the article indicates. The article indicated that US Military tested a dolphin named Say for 15 days before a storm halted their experiment. The only other notable information in the article is that the dolphin achieved a 99% accuracy throughout the course of the experiments. That's better than your average (burger) flipper.
Seriously! If I wanted my vehicle to drive for me, I'd take the bloody bus!
If they're so hot on not letting me actually drive a vehicle I own, why should I pay for it?
If we wanted to do that then we would say "ok /.ers. Europeans are like Magic the Gathering and Asians are like Pokemon".
No! I asked for a *CAR* analogy! No, the D is not silent!
More like, Asians produce toyota - those popular cheap cars that people drive, the ones that have all the essential parts to make a car go (you know the asian cars), and europeans produce those sophisticated luxury cars that have all the nice, leather seats and air conditioning (like those european cars do).
Just had to point out how appropriate this xkcd is:
http://xkcd.com/447/
He's not slow, he just hasn't finished the "quitting AOL" exit process. You know the one where you had to all but get a court order from a Judge for AOL to acknowledge and cancel your subscription ..
Except that this is Slashdot, and nobody here thinks that the summary has anything to do with the commentary on whatever blog reposted (and likely mutilated) the original link. We just come here to express mutual outrage at the politics today.