Surely the Narita airport has video surveillance; if there is any truth to this, a video will surface eventually if it evades the RDF.... The article claims he basically threw a fit; if there is sound, I'm sure it would make for some entertaining video remixes...
After being written up in the campus newspaper, one professor "took a stand" by curving everyone's grade up one letter grade, essentially bribing the class into submission.
Eh? written up for what? How did this bribery help? I'm sure there's a relevant story behind this sentence, but I couldn't figure out what it has to do with the topic based on this.
The student is in the course so presumably speaks enough of the home language to be able to take such a course. Honestly there are plenty of English-as-a-FIRST-language students in my classes who could benefit from reading a dictionary. There are words on exams that even your native students won't understand, and they don't need a dictionary -- they raise their hands and maybe approach your desk and say "what does insidious mean?" and you patiently explain it. If two or three students ask about the same word you announce it to to the class so that you don't have to keep answering the same question. ESL students can do this too; there is no need to allow dictionaries on tests. But if you do want to allow it -- on an open book test -- then allow a dictionary that is a book. Problem solved.
For now, anyway. When they invent e-paper that fits on a regular page in a book and can connect to the internet, well, then come back and post another ask slashdot....
Yeah there's really no other way to look up words than a networkable computer. It's just too bad nobody's invented a dictionary that works with simple nonelectronic parts like wood pulp and pigments. This is an open-book exam here, I guess an easy solution to this guy's problem is to have a dictionary that was built into, you know, a book.
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What does it taste like?
that's only like 8 perls
"Please stop quoting me. Not everything I say is some witty quotation." -- Mark Twain
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it's an iPad but it comes with a dongle.
learn to swim. If he had made it across the river they never would've busted him...
#5 is now this page
That explains why people post to Twitter. Why do people read it?
Who says anybody reads it?
I picked the wrong day to quit throwing stars.
For instance, just this year a city-wide ban on smoking was enacted
In Oceano? Yet they still let people drive their trucks right on the beach?
yeah I noticed that shortly after I hit "post."... I'm guessing KIX might have a security camera or two as well though ;)
There's something wrong in your kernel. Please reinstall and configure whoooosh.c and try again.
Epictetus said something about how talking about the affairs of others leads to small-mindedness. He couldn't have been more on the money.
Maybe so but did you know that Epictetus was having an affair with one of his slavegirls?
Surely the Narita airport has video surveillance; if there is any truth to this, a video will surface eventually if it evades the RDF.... The article claims he basically threw a fit; if there is sound, I'm sure it would make for some entertaining video remixes...
he was holding them wrong
After being written up in the campus newspaper, one professor "took a stand" by curving everyone's grade up one letter grade, essentially bribing the class into submission.
Eh? written up for what? How did this bribery help? I'm sure there's a relevant story behind this sentence, but I couldn't figure out what it has to do with the topic based on this.
he went on to become a teacher after that.
The student is in the course so presumably speaks enough of the home language to be able to take such a course. Honestly there are plenty of English-as-a-FIRST-language students in my classes who could benefit from reading a dictionary. There are words on exams that even your native students won't understand, and they don't need a dictionary -- they raise their hands and maybe approach your desk and say "what does insidious mean?" and you patiently explain it. If two or three students ask about the same word you announce it to to the class so that you don't have to keep answering the same question. ESL students can do this too; there is no need to allow dictionaries on tests. But if you do want to allow it -- on an open book test -- then allow a dictionary that is a book. Problem solved.
For now, anyway. When they invent e-paper that fits on a regular page in a book and can connect to the internet, well, then come back and post another ask slashdot....
And the earth has no official source of light and heat.
Yeah there's really no other way to look up words than a networkable computer. It's just too bad nobody's invented a dictionary that works with simple nonelectronic parts like wood pulp and pigments. This is an open-book exam here, I guess an easy solution to this guy's problem is to have a dictionary that was built into, you know, a book.
have been playing too much Mafia Wars
Hey let me just ask the /. community about this.
If the song is not about whoever "you/your/yourself/you're" refers to? then who/what the hell is it about?
you.
I thought that was slashdot?
is that the overwhelming majority of comments are from people with facebook icons. That's right -- they're already fucking logged in to facebook.
There's an easier way. Start playing Mafia Wars and just shoot the guy.