All the exam papers are hand corrected and manually totaled. During the grading process, the graders tend to give marks which total to an even number. For example, say the total up until the previous question is 23. Then if the next question is for 6 marks, the grader might assign 5 marks for that answer to get the total so far to 28. Mental arithmetic of even numbers is easier and this saves the grader from going over two passes to obtain the total at the end. All of these several hundred thousand papers are manually graded between the end of exams in April and the declaration of results in June.
The graders only work with a roll number and school number so they have no information about the identity of the student when grading. This has nothing to do with the caste system as some people here are suggesting. The identity of the student is matched with the roll number *after* the papers are graded.
I'm from the region. FWIW that post had nothing to do with religion and Shiv Sena are a chauvinistic bunch of goons in the guise of politicians who are against everything and everyone who is not a native of their state irrespective of religion. They pander to the lowest common denominator and frequently vandalize all around the state and force city shutdowns with political clout and blatant violence. Unfortunately even the Central government has been responsible for similar arrests and attempts to curb free speech and expression in the recent past.
What did you do when you had to do stuff which was boring but you knew that it had to be done? Following from that question, did you run into periods of lack of motivation where you didn't get ideas or solutions easily? If so, how did you resolve these?
It will be interesting to see how network security is handled on automobiles as we'll soon be in an age of constantly connected automobiles. How long until someone remotely hacks into a car and takes control?
Look out of the window at the cars passing by. One in ten will be fidgeting with their smartphones with one or no hands on the wheel. Not only does this behavior increase accidents, it contributes to slowing flow and causes jams.
And then we shift the onus of safety from us onto the vehicle and go buy a big SUV to be 'safe'.
We've experienced this with the iPhone 4. I've had the second generation iPhone which is the primary phone and the iPhone 4 which is on WiFi on all days except on the weekend. iPhone 2 with unlimited data plan didn't go over 200 Mb per month for two and a half years but the iPhone 4 transferred 65 Mb **when the phone was on WiFi**. And the data transfers were at odd hours. And this was with the phone on it's default settings, no apps and all notifications turned off. Sure enough we talked to AT&T about this who just told us to complain to Apple. We went ahead and filed a complaint with FCC.
That's both anecdotal and marred by my own recollection of the story, but it supports the "never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of backup tapes on the highway" saying.
A variation of the example and the above quote are from Andrew Tanenbaum's book on Computer Networks.
Has there been an election or study where the voter has *one* vote which can be exercised either for *or* against a candidate? This would be a useful option when faced with the a bunch of candidates who are all unspectacular.
The current spec Formula 1 engines are 2.4 liter V8 engines which have a typical life of about 2500 km on the race track. The efficiency of the engines is much better than that of a Prius but it burns about 150 kg of race fuel per race, not including qualifying and practice sessions.
The engine rules are set to change for 2013 though to employ technology which can be transferred to road cars. Another energy saving measure introduced last year was KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) which stored energy generated from braking which could be used as addition bhp during the race.
Unfortunately this is not limited to the US. American pop culture reaches more parts of the world through the media and the internet than any other culture. And somehow children all over the world take what they see happening in America to be cool and something they should follow. For example, reading and having an interest in classical music is considered nerdy and uncool in most parts of urban India.
So many replies into this and no one has yet wondered if Schmidt is just 'warming' the public up to the idea that this might happen in the very near future? It is quite probable that Google is considering changes in its privacy policies resulting from constant pressure from world governments and powerful institutions.
I thought that apart from leaving aside some things to the domain of metaphysics, they could've had a semi-plausible explanation of a number of things. Since the island was shown to have a core of extremely high electromagnetic activity that caused the plane to crash in the first place, they could've shown that to be the reason for the island having a warped spacetime. The flashes could've been portrayed as times when wormholes were generated which connected different spacetimes. Once the donkeywheel was fixed in place, this didn't happen anymore and the bunch was stuck in the 70s until the subsequent flash and the second plane crash. Due to the extremely warped spacetime, the clock time on the island would go really slowly as compared to the clock time in the present world. One can only guess as to what it is like in such a region of spacetime and that would've given the writers considerable leeway as to what they could get away with transformation between states of matter (smokey).
The explosion of the bomb would've been a good shot at what might happen if one was faced with the Grandfather Paradox and if that would prevent the course of events from the time cone from that point on. Also, it would've been a good take on what happens when a tremendous amount of energy is released at the source of a tremendous electromagnetic field. The bunch could've lived a lifetime on the island which had a slow time clock and still this lifetime might seem like a fraction of a second in the real time during their flight on Oceanic 815.
I wonder what the implications of a lack of social fear result in. Would these individuals be more likely to commit asocial activities? A lack of fear of being ridiculed might make one of them come up with a radical theory while it might make another commit a crime without thinking of the social implications.
I was a Teaching Assistant for a freshman year C++ course for two years in grad school. We divided the assignment scores of the students we caught cheating by 1000. Btw, we used Moss [http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/] as well.
By affixing spelling and stabilizing it, you preserve access to the past generations' writings. By allowing changes, you end-up with incomprehensible documents
Hardly. Purists never will accept such change but that is how languages develop. Short forms in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics eventually led to the usage of one symbol and a group of symbols used in conjunction to convey different meanings and express abstract ideas. This shortened form was frowned upon by the erudite of the Egyptian civilization too. I hate misspellings and 'lolspeak' as much as anyone else but they variations in language used by the masses lead to the evolution of language.
The parent post confuses the mutations between copying to mutations while copying. A better analogy would be that the hardware containing the 4TB of data at each stage between copies along the years has bits flipped due to hardware corruption or degeneration.
I think it has a lot to do with consciously correcting yourself when you see the little red wavy line when on IM or composing an email in FF. A lot of people get dragged into using incorrect punctuation and misspell to follow an unsaid IM and email 'protocol'. A number of my friends find it annoying when I use 'you' instead of 'u' and other abbreviated words in IM conversations (Some even complained that they thought I used a bot to auto-converse in IM).
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All the exam papers are hand corrected and manually totaled. During the grading process, the graders tend to give marks which total to an even number. For example, say the total up until the previous question is 23. Then if the next question is for 6 marks, the grader might assign 5 marks for that answer to get the total so far to 28. Mental arithmetic of even numbers is easier and this saves the grader from going over two passes to obtain the total at the end. All of these several hundred thousand papers are manually graded between the end of exams in April and the declaration of results in June.
The graders only work with a roll number and school number so they have no information about the identity of the student when grading. This has nothing to do with the caste system as some people here are suggesting. The identity of the student is matched with the roll number *after* the papers are graded.
How many times has this been discussed already?
https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&rlz=&q=site%3Aslashdot.org+tech+bubble&oq=site%3Aslashdot.org+tech+bubble
The discussion on Slashdot has been in decline for some time now.
I'm from the region. FWIW that post had nothing to do with religion and Shiv Sena are a chauvinistic bunch of goons in the guise of politicians who are against everything and everyone who is not a native of their state irrespective of religion. They pander to the lowest common denominator and frequently vandalize all around the state and force city shutdowns with political clout and blatant violence. Unfortunately even the Central government has been responsible for similar arrests and attempts to curb free speech and expression in the recent past.
Good for the consumers and bad for competition, namely Google.
What did you do when you had to do stuff which was boring but you knew that it had to be done? Following from that question, did you run into periods of lack of motivation where you didn't get ideas or solutions easily? If so, how did you resolve these?
It will be interesting to see how network security is handled on automobiles as we'll soon be in an age of constantly connected automobiles. How long until someone remotely hacks into a car and takes control?
Look out of the window at the cars passing by. One in ten will be fidgeting with their smartphones with one or no hands on the wheel. Not only does this behavior increase accidents, it contributes to slowing flow and causes jams. And then we shift the onus of safety from us onto the vehicle and go buy a big SUV to be 'safe'.
In racing terms, DNF stands for 'Did Not Finish'.
We've experienced this with the iPhone 4. I've had the second generation iPhone which is the primary phone and the iPhone 4 which is on WiFi on all days except on the weekend. iPhone 2 with unlimited data plan didn't go over 200 Mb per month for two and a half years but the iPhone 4 transferred 65 Mb **when the phone was on WiFi**. And the data transfers were at odd hours. And this was with the phone on it's default settings, no apps and all notifications turned off. Sure enough we talked to AT&T about this who just told us to complain to Apple. We went ahead and filed a complaint with FCC.
That's both anecdotal and marred by my own recollection of the story, but it supports the "never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of backup tapes on the highway" saying.
A variation of the example and the above quote are from Andrew Tanenbaum's book on Computer Networks.
Obama could fire the director of TSA tomorrow and end this bullshit policy if he was so inclined.
Oh yes. And the headline next day would be that he supports the terrorists.
Has there been an election or study where the voter has *one* vote which can be exercised either for *or* against a candidate? This would be a useful option when faced with the a bunch of candidates who are all unspectacular.
The current spec Formula 1 engines are 2.4 liter V8 engines which have a typical life of about 2500 km on the race track. The efficiency of the engines is much better than that of a Prius but it burns about 150 kg of race fuel per race, not including qualifying and practice sessions. The engine rules are set to change for 2013 though to employ technology which can be transferred to road cars. Another energy saving measure introduced last year was KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) which stored energy generated from braking which could be used as addition bhp during the race.
Unfortunately this is not limited to the US. American pop culture reaches more parts of the world through the media and the internet than any other culture. And somehow children all over the world take what they see happening in America to be cool and something they should follow. For example, reading and having an interest in classical music is considered nerdy and uncool in most parts of urban India.
So many replies into this and no one has yet wondered if Schmidt is just 'warming' the public up to the idea that this might happen in the very near future? It is quite probable that Google is considering changes in its privacy policies resulting from constant pressure from world governments and powerful institutions.
I thought that apart from leaving aside some things to the domain of metaphysics, they could've had a semi-plausible explanation of a number of things. Since the island was shown to have a core of extremely high electromagnetic activity that caused the plane to crash in the first place, they could've shown that to be the reason for the island having a warped spacetime. The flashes could've been portrayed as times when wormholes were generated which connected different spacetimes. Once the donkeywheel was fixed in place, this didn't happen anymore and the bunch was stuck in the 70s until the subsequent flash and the second plane crash. Due to the extremely warped spacetime, the clock time on the island would go really slowly as compared to the clock time in the present world. One can only guess as to what it is like in such a region of spacetime and that would've given the writers considerable leeway as to what they could get away with transformation between states of matter (smokey). The explosion of the bomb would've been a good shot at what might happen if one was faced with the Grandfather Paradox and if that would prevent the course of events from the time cone from that point on. Also, it would've been a good take on what happens when a tremendous amount of energy is released at the source of a tremendous electromagnetic field. The bunch could've lived a lifetime on the island which had a slow time clock and still this lifetime might seem like a fraction of a second in the real time during their flight on Oceanic 815.
I wonder what the implications of a lack of social fear result in. Would these individuals be more likely to commit asocial activities? A lack of fear of being ridiculed might make one of them come up with a radical theory while it might make another commit a crime without thinking of the social implications.
Are you a tall, dark and handsome fellow who's obviously not happy with these findings?
I was a Teaching Assistant for a freshman year C++ course for two years in grad school. We divided the assignment scores of the students we caught cheating by 1000. Btw, we used Moss [http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/] as well.
By affixing spelling and stabilizing it, you preserve access to the past generations' writings. By allowing changes, you end-up with incomprehensible documents
Hardly. Purists never will accept such change but that is how languages develop. Short forms in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics eventually led to the usage of one symbol and a group of symbols used in conjunction to convey different meanings and express abstract ideas. This shortened form was frowned upon by the erudite of the Egyptian civilization too. I hate misspellings and 'lolspeak' as much as anyone else but they variations in language used by the masses lead to the evolution of language.
The parent post confuses the mutations between copying to mutations while copying. A better analogy would be that the hardware containing the 4TB of data at each stage between copies along the years has bits flipped due to hardware corruption or degeneration.
I think it has a lot to do with consciously correcting yourself when you see the little red wavy line when on IM or composing an email in FF. A lot of people get dragged into using incorrect punctuation and misspell to follow an unsaid IM and email 'protocol'. A number of my friends find it annoying when I use 'you' instead of 'u' and other abbreviated words in IM conversations (Some even complained that they thought I used a bot to auto-converse in IM).