That's normal for warranty returns to the manufacturer, too...I've had that happen 2 or 3 times with drive returns (most recently I sent in a 300GB drive and got back a 400GB). I imagine it's got to be a lot cheaper for them than trying to replace it with the exact drive that you send in if it's old.
He also has another book called Titan (that I'm reading right now) where there's a shuttle accident along with a new president election that basically discontinues NASA...they end up getting a mission off to Titan (Saturn's moon) before that happens as a way of using up the tech rather than letting it rust. There's a lot of lamenting of lost opportunities and such related to the space program.
Your GPA alone is meaningless unless the class average of each course is known. So you got a A in
cs4xxx hey, well look at this the average grade was a B+. Kind of takes the luster off the A doesn't it?
Not necessarily...depends on who's in the class. It could be a class full of top notch students where everyone gets A's & B's and really deserves them.
Since the GPA is used to gauge the relative performance of different groups of students (whole school or dept or those applying to a specific company or whatever) and the grades are handed out by different instructors teaching under different circumstances, it seems like your only real choice is to assume that they'll average out to something meaningful in the end. It doesn't seem that narrowing down the population whose average you're looking at (e.g. class average) would necessarily give a more accurate measure of how well a particular student is relative to a particular employer's needs.
(spoken by a software engineer, not a statistician:)).
FYI...I spent a while trying to debug my local forwarding DNS server before I discovered all that. My DHCP gave me 4 DNS server addresses from them, but one of them didn't seem to have that hijacked root domain trick (the 204.127.198.4 address seemed OK...the others 63.x & 12.x IPs were messed up). I suppose an alternative is to forward to someone else's DNS server...picking something that's hopefully close to you on the Internet.
Uhhh...the GUI on Linux isn't really part of the OS. The same GUI software can be had for practically any modernish Unix-like OS.
Now...maybe you don't get all those things pre-packaged with the OS distribution from the vendor, but it's not generally that hard to get them. So, it comes back to a cost - benefit analysis. Getting the system setup the way your user(s) like it can take a little more effort.
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That's normal for warranty returns to the manufacturer, too...I've had that happen 2 or 3 times with drive returns (most recently I sent in a 300GB drive and got back a 400GB). I imagine it's got to be a lot cheaper for them than trying to replace it with the exact drive that you send in if it's old.
He also has another book called Titan (that I'm reading right now) where there's a shuttle accident along with a new president election that basically discontinues NASA...they end up getting a mission off to Titan (Saturn's moon) before that happens as a way of using up the tech rather than letting it rust. There's a lot of lamenting of lost opportunities and such related to the space program.
Not necessarily...depends on who's in the class. It could be a class full of top notch students where everyone gets A's & B's and really deserves them.
Since the GPA is used to gauge the relative performance of different groups of students (whole school or dept or those applying to a specific company or whatever) and the grades are handed out by different instructors teaching under different circumstances, it seems like your only real choice is to assume that they'll average out to something meaningful in the end. It doesn't seem that narrowing down the population whose average you're looking at (e.g. class average) would necessarily give a more accurate measure of how well a particular student is relative to a particular employer's needs.
(spoken by a software engineer, not a statistician :)).
FYI...I spent a while trying to debug my local forwarding DNS server before I discovered all that. My DHCP gave me 4 DNS server addresses from them, but one of them didn't seem to have that hijacked root domain trick (the 204.127.198.4 address seemed OK...the others 63.x & 12.x IPs were messed up). I suppose an alternative is to forward to someone else's DNS server...picking something that's hopefully close to you on the Internet.
Uhhh...the GUI on Linux isn't really part of the OS. The same GUI software can be had for practically any modernish Unix-like OS. Now...maybe you don't get all those things pre-packaged with the OS distribution from the vendor, but it's not generally that hard to get them. So, it comes back to a cost - benefit analysis. Getting the system setup the way your user(s) like it can take a little more effort.