I think most science majors can get over disliking grade inflation in the humanities for reasons of jealousy. It seems that it's easy enough for science students to simply pat their humanity major counterparts on the head and say great for you. Perhaps it should bother those who are well aware they are receiving grade inflation; knowing full well that they are deamingly not being held to the high standards others are, but like many receipients of affirmative action treatment, it is simply too unescapably pleasant basking in the bright side of a double standard.
Teaching is indeed an honorable choice, and if somone is encouraged into it by the promise of easy A's, well good for them, and hopefully they turn out to be a great teacher (although, if I were a parent, I doubt my attitude would be so lax here). The disturbing issue for those still being held to real standards is that their grade to gross grade average ratio drops and drops inproportionately at that since there is no easy way to calculate a correction for the percentage of students receiving grade boosts and even more difficult to make comparisons across schools. Grade inflation in any sector muddles the grading standard itself and therefore makes excellence and mediocrity more difficult to detect in any student.
aren't you suppossed to break the bottle of champagne on the vessel? The picture shows him preparing to pour it on. If he's planning to get involved with giant squid I hope the thing isn't so fragile that it can't handle a glass bottle smashing into it.
Installing video cameras with a monitoring service inside homes of people over 65 can reduce the chance that they fall down the stairs unnoticed.
Any takers? Anybody want to install spycams in their parents house?
Don't be so compliant. There are better ways of doing things -- think about those ways and promote them rather than accepting solutions that breach human rights and can turn into problems even larger than the one originally trying to be solved.
I can just imagine the real money maker here being technology used to turn off the damn warning lights every time your tires lose half a psi.
I'm not sure whether the ABS sensing system detection limit of 25% is a physical limit; more likely it's an applied limit that could be pushed to a plenty sufficient 15% with some R&D (if companys like Phillips weren't tossing their funds into more abstruse approachs)
well most portable phones now operate exactly at 2.4ghz, which is optimal for water resonance and yes your brain is a watery hunk of tissue, but the real take home message the poster makes is that power matters here. There is no reason to think that there's an additive effect over years of 2.4ghz phone use when the subwatt power of the frequency doesn't even begin to significantly excite water molecules.
The thing I'm curious about, and would love an explanation for is why my 2.4ghz phone works in my microwave? Shouldn't my microwave be blocking those signals?
your telephone is the most basic piece of technology in your house? Wow! You must live in like a space house or something! Do you have robots that wash your dishes and harness latent radiation from the earth to power your laser refraction light source?
Your tiolet flusher alone must be pretty incredible!
Huh? do you live in the states or some country where Nascar is regulated?
Have you ever visited a southern town or any place with a population under 10,000?
The only thing you'll see in greater abudance than plastic American flags and fat people are Nascar stickers.
I for one am NOT comfortable with this.
btw: softcore porn is hardly taboo in the states. Have you been to a major bookstore recently (you know the kind that serves rancid coffee and hides classic literature and paperbacks in general in some dusty forgotten alcove)? Softcore porn literature sells like hotcakes... and ya know who buys it? Women... lots and lots of them. These are the mothers or future mothers of our society and also the ones that have traditionally instilled our gross national sense of morality.
Softcore porn has proliferated in television and is truly a staple in movies (name the last three to five good movies you've seen... if less than half of them lacked explicit nudity you are truly a wayward filmgoer --or perhaps a parent).
Unfortunately sexuality is such an obligitory part of modern cinema that it seems so forced in many films (sex for the sake of satifying America's sexual frustration... did I say satisfying? I meant for provoking). Sadly the partial relaxation of media censorship has apparantly come to late to prevent the substitution of sexual gratification with raw violence; violent rage remains a jaded staple in television, film, and literature.
How is this news for nerds? Are there nerds out there that aren't already painfully aware of this? Doesn't putting numbers on the obvious just through salt in open wounds?
hey! That was my first computer! (oldcomputers.net) That was also when I began my disdain for apple because the copy of "Snakebite" I pirated wouldn't run on my spiffy "portable" system.
Your dad was wrong. Ignorance is not an excuse for law breaking. We should all fear injust and backwards laws that can land us in trouble for actions that we never conceived were illegal. We need to fear and challenge laws at all times otherwise they will continue to be created and built upon until they become oppressive. Blind compliance is a petri-dish for the growth of oppression.
generally if you do to others as you'd do to yourself you'll be fine
You are SO fortunate to live in a place where you can make such a generalization. There are millions of people in this world that would believe that statement no more than they'd believe that many American's own over ten pairs of shoes!
The kind of blind faith in our legal system embedded in your father's statement is not the mentality that has granted you the freedom you have today.
I've been trying to get myself on this list using the online sign-up, but it keeps having technical difficulties. I hope that the loopholes are tight enough for this to be relatively effective, but I'm very skeptical. What I really want to know is how the website works b/c it seems like I can type anyone's phone# in and have them entered on the list. Seems that a good samartin could whip up a bit of code that would transfer switchboard's MA listings into the govconnect input field.
What in the world does a super high tech killing machine from the future need boobs for? I have no problem with breasts, I'm sure they're great fun, but with the artiliry that robot is packing I hardly see the need for seduction or milk production so what gives? Perhaps they'll be justified as detachable missiles like in an episode of Voltron I recall (this might be the only audience in the world where someone might actually recognize that reference).
I'm hoping that the hairspray of the future isn't flamable too, because she seems to have a lot of it and with all those sparks flying around, trouble is abrewin' (Ahhh!! my hair heater!).
true, and in order to prevent these "contributions" from happening, new programs such as the Homeland Security Bill have been passed to assure that henious contributions are terminated while they are still in the idea stage.
It's becoming a lot like Minority Report, only less funny to watch because it's real
I don't think I'd risk introducing myself as any sort of "phile" at a frat house; the ambient background is too high and I'd hate to have that one misunderstood.
working in sound has definitely blessed me with more than a moderate level of sensorineuronal loss (almost as much as alcohol has blessed me with), which is why I can tolerate a degree of compression (as long as the song doesn't have a lot of low end in it as I can still call my lows pretty well) in my music.
A great performance is a great performance, but most live recordings don't capture that. When you're in a studio all day you've got time to get things to sound just right, and if they don't, the processing to make them sound just right can often happen because your small mistakes have at least been captured correctly.
I think most people I know would consider me a phile (no this isn't always a good thing), but I'm not a music snob. I'll listen to a standard concert rip (do the kids trade brahms on p2p these days? and if so are they plagued by screams from people with broken legs at the bottom of the mosh pit like so many bootlegs are?) to hear great performers, but I can't say that I won't be wishing that it wasn't mic'd better or that I had been able to drop a soundproof booth over the artist and hop behind a board.
I'm also a chocophile (have you ever had cookies baked with Ghirardelli? don't believe a word cooking light tells you.), but hand me a standard issue hersheys and I'll still chomp with gratitude!
but who out there is an audiophile that listens to live bootlegs?
While you can get multi-mic'd professional recordings of some select shows, most of the stuff on P2P is stereo mic'd minidisc at best.
musiclovers eat such stuff up, but speaking as an audiophile, I'll stick to studio and a select few good live recordings <posh>thank you very much"</posh>
Didn't Tito's money go into the russian space program? Just because he had more fun than most of us doesn't necessarily mean his actions were completely unproductive. $$ can = productivity (as well as the obligitory $= PROFIT!!!)
Finding out what large groups of people are interested in doesn't take this fancy technology. It's been done for years using simple statistics. I cannot believe that making the leap from most common radio station on the road at time-X to product of greatest intrest to advertise could be more accurate that a simple statistical analysis (i.e. survey, or do a several scans at different times using this channel detection technology-- no need to maintain it constantly).
I already have a pretty good idea what the data will show:
most popular @ morning: talk show featuring two overweight men with deep voices and 7th grade reading levels.
all other times: clearchannel station with greatest reception - impossible to differentiate listners' favorite genre since all of these stations will be playing "a mix of your favorites from yesterday and today's greatest hits!"
> The people who pirate something would have rarely bought it to begin with.
?? no way. the people who are pirating desperately desire the stuff they're copying. Have you ever heard the pleas in a warez chat room? People pirate this stuff because they can't afford it . I can get 12 hit songs overnight, sure I'd love the higher quality CD originals with cover-art and all those extra tracks, but I could not afford to buy 12 CDs in one weekend.
Mangu is right. There is no reason for us to sympathize with artists or the riaa. we have glorified these people with fame and money for too long while real heros like medical researchers continue to work without recognition for peanuts. I hope this is the end of an era. If individuals are gifted and truley love the arts they will continue to create great work, but now let the limelight shine elsewhere. Isn't the world tired of hearing on primetime news about extravegant details of some barbie-doll singer with an oversized pocketbook and no real creative spirit to boot? I for one wouldn't miss such spectacles a bit.
Well, now that we know where the blame lies isn't it time to take action? Has anyone alerted president Bush or at least drafted some bills that could prevent this from happening in the future? Shouldn't we at least take the now-standard precaution of stripping citizens of their liberties at least until a more oppressive solution can be devised?
But if you were like "US" you'd understand that in the fast-paced software world an old browser that has a history of relative stability means nothing right now (as in the present) in the light of a browser that evolved from a dingy second class unstable hack to a high performance stable one that is making efforts to please users by blocking unwanted ads and now spam too rather than Promoting it.
It's software, not a horse. Ol' Bessie done me well means nothing here.
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I think most science majors can get over disliking grade inflation in the humanities for reasons of jealousy. It seems that it's easy enough for science students to simply pat their humanity major counterparts on the head and say great for you. Perhaps it should bother those who are well aware they are receiving grade inflation; knowing full well that they are deamingly not being held to the high standards others are, but like many receipients of affirmative action treatment, it is simply too unescapably pleasant basking in the bright side of a double standard.
Teaching is indeed an honorable choice, and if somone is encouraged into it by the promise of easy A's, well good for them, and hopefully they turn out to be a great teacher (although, if I were a parent, I doubt my attitude would be so lax here). The disturbing issue for those still being held to real standards is that their grade to gross grade average ratio drops and drops inproportionately at that since there is no easy way to calculate a correction for the percentage of students receiving grade boosts and even more difficult to make comparisons across schools. Grade inflation in any sector muddles the grading standard itself and therefore makes excellence and mediocrity more difficult to detect in any student.
aren't you suppossed to break the bottle of champagne on the vessel? The picture shows him preparing to pour it on. If he's planning to get involved with giant squid I hope the thing isn't so fragile that it can't handle a glass bottle smashing into it.
Any technology that lets me see Tom Cruise AND Top Gun at the same time gets my thumbs up!
or... the joke's on the folks eating the choco-chunk ice cream.
Oh, in a pro priate.
filterglass or films would take care of this issue easily
Go for it! ????????
Installing video cameras with a monitoring service inside homes of people over 65 can reduce the chance that they fall down the stairs unnoticed.
Any takers? Anybody want to install spycams in their parents house?
Don't be so compliant. There are better ways of doing things -- think about those ways and promote them rather than accepting solutions that breach human rights and can turn into problems even larger than the one originally trying to be solved.
I can just imagine the real money maker here being technology used to turn off the damn warning lights every time your tires lose half a psi.
I'm not sure whether the ABS sensing system detection limit of 25% is a physical limit; more likely it's an applied limit that could be pushed to a plenty sufficient 15% with some R&D (if companys like Phillips weren't tossing their funds into more abstruse approachs)
well most portable phones now operate exactly at 2.4ghz, which is optimal for water resonance and yes your brain is a watery hunk of tissue, but the real take home message the poster makes is that power matters here. There is no reason to think that there's an additive effect over years of 2.4ghz phone use when the subwatt power of the frequency doesn't even begin to significantly excite water molecules.
The thing I'm curious about, and would love an explanation for is why my 2.4ghz phone works in my microwave? Shouldn't my microwave be blocking those signals?
your telephone is the most basic piece of technology in your house? Wow! You must live in like a space house or something! Do you have robots that wash your dishes and harness latent radiation from the earth to power your laser refraction light source?
Your tiolet flusher alone must be pretty incredible!
Do you have pictures?
Huh? do you live in the states or some country where Nascar is regulated?
Have you ever visited a southern town or any place with a population under 10,000?
The only thing you'll see in greater abudance than plastic American flags and fat people are Nascar stickers.
I for one am NOT comfortable with this.
btw: softcore porn is hardly taboo in the states. Have you been to a major bookstore recently (you know the kind that serves rancid coffee and hides classic literature and paperbacks in general in some dusty forgotten alcove)? Softcore porn literature sells like hotcakes... and ya know who buys it? Women... lots and lots of them. These are the mothers or future mothers of our society and also the ones that have traditionally instilled our gross national sense of morality.
Softcore porn has proliferated in television and is truly a staple in movies (name the last three to five good movies you've seen... if less than half of them lacked explicit nudity you are truly a wayward filmgoer --or perhaps a parent).
Unfortunately sexuality is such an obligitory part of modern cinema that it seems so forced in many films (sex for the sake of satifying America's sexual frustration... did I say satisfying? I meant for provoking). Sadly the partial relaxation of media censorship has apparantly come to late to prevent the substitution of sexual gratification with raw violence; violent rage remains a jaded staple in television, film, and literature.
How is this news for nerds? Are there nerds out there that aren't already painfully aware of this? Doesn't putting numbers on the obvious just through salt in open wounds?
hey! That was my first computer! (oldcomputers.net) That was also when I began my disdain for apple because the copy of "Snakebite" I pirated wouldn't run on my spiffy "portable" system.
You are SO fortunate to live in a place where you can make such a generalization. There are millions of people in this world that would believe that statement no more than they'd believe that many American's own over ten pairs of shoes!
The kind of blind faith in our legal system embedded in your father's statement is not the mentality that has granted you the freedom you have today.I've been trying to get myself on this list using the online sign-up, but it keeps having technical difficulties. I hope that the loopholes are tight enough for this to be relatively effective, but I'm very skeptical. What I really want to know is how the website works b/c it seems like I can type anyone's phone# in and have them entered on the list. Seems that a good samartin could whip up a bit of code that would transfer switchboard's MA listings into the govconnect input field.
Sure have.
What in the world does a super high tech killing machine from the future need boobs for? I have no problem with breasts, I'm sure they're great fun, but with the artiliry that robot is packing I hardly see the need for seduction or milk production so what gives? Perhaps they'll be justified as detachable missiles like in an episode of Voltron I recall (this might be the only audience in the world where someone might actually recognize that reference).
I'm hoping that the hairspray of the future isn't flamable too, because she seems to have a lot of it and with all those sparks flying around, trouble is abrewin' (Ahhh!! my hair heater!).
So where is the link to the website with pics of horrible things being inflicted upon this bobble-doll??
true, and in order to prevent these "contributions" from happening, new programs such as the Homeland Security Bill have been passed to assure that henious contributions are terminated while they are still in the idea stage.
It's becoming a lot like Minority Report, only less funny to watch because it's real
working in sound has definitely blessed me with more than a moderate level of sensorineuronal loss (almost as much as alcohol has blessed me with), which is why I can tolerate a degree of compression (as long as the song doesn't have a lot of low end in it as I can still call my lows pretty well) in my music.
A great performance is a great performance, but most live recordings don't capture that. When you're in a studio all day you've got time to get things to sound just right, and if they don't, the processing to make them sound just right can often happen because your small mistakes have at least been captured correctly.
I think most people I know would consider me a phile (no this isn't always a good thing), but I'm not a music snob. I'll listen to a standard concert rip (do the kids trade brahms on p2p these days? and if so are they plagued by screams from people with broken legs at the bottom of the mosh pit like so many bootlegs are?) to hear great performers, but I can't say that I won't be wishing that it wasn't mic'd better or that I had been able to drop a soundproof booth over the artist and hop behind a board.
I'm also a chocophile (have you ever had cookies baked with Ghirardelli? don't believe a word cooking light tells you.), but hand me a standard issue hersheys and I'll still chomp with gratitude!
While you can get multi-mic'd professional recordings of some select shows, most of the stuff on P2P is stereo mic'd minidisc at best.
musiclovers eat such stuff up, but speaking as an audiophile, I'll stick to studio and a select few good live recordings <posh>thank you very much"</posh>
Didn't Tito's money go into the russian space program? Just because he had more fun than most of us doesn't necessarily mean his actions were completely unproductive. $$ can = productivity (as well as the obligitory $= PROFIT!!!)
Finding out what large groups of people are interested in doesn't take this fancy technology. It's been done for years using simple statistics. I cannot believe that making the leap from most common radio station on the road at time-X to product of greatest intrest to advertise could be more accurate that a simple statistical analysis (i.e. survey, or do a several scans at different times using this channel detection technology-- no need to maintain it constantly).
I already have a pretty good idea what the data will show:
most popular @ morning: talk show featuring two overweight men with deep voices and 7th grade reading levels.
all other times: clearchannel station with greatest reception - impossible to differentiate listners' favorite genre since all of these stations will be playing "a mix of your favorites from yesterday and today's greatest hits!"
> The people who pirate something would have rarely bought it to begin with.
?? no way. the people who are pirating desperately desire the stuff they're copying. Have you ever heard the pleas in a warez chat room? People pirate this stuff because they can't afford it . I can get 12 hit songs overnight, sure I'd love the higher quality CD originals with cover-art and all those extra tracks, but I could not afford to buy 12 CDs in one weekend.
Mangu is right. There is no reason for us to sympathize with artists or the riaa. we have glorified these people with fame and money for too long while real heros like medical researchers continue to work without recognition for peanuts. I hope this is the end of an era. If individuals are gifted and truley love the arts they will continue to create great work, but now let the limelight shine elsewhere. Isn't the world tired of hearing on primetime news about extravegant details of some barbie-doll singer with an oversized pocketbook and no real creative spirit to boot? I for one wouldn't miss such spectacles a bit.
true music lover
Well, now that we know where the blame lies isn't it time to take action? Has anyone alerted president Bush or at least drafted some bills that could prevent this from happening in the future? Shouldn't we at least take the now-standard precaution of stripping citizens of their liberties at least until a more oppressive solution can be devised?
They really do, I've seen them.
AT&T broadband also digests fecal matter in large quantities, but I guess they haven't come out and said it on a webpage like verizon has yet.