Grade inflation exists because no-one is willing to tell Johnny to get off his ass and actually WORK because he is dragging everyone else down with him.
You can't do this?
On another note, I used to work at a school where the guidance department had this recommendation at the end of the school year: If any student is going to fail the course for the year, apply a 5 point increase and see if they are still failing. If that doesn't work, add another 5 points and see if they are still failing. In the event that that doesn't work, add 5 more points and check to see if they are failing. Keep doing this as long as necessary. If we (teachers) didn't do that, then the guidance department would do that for us.
That was one year. The next year, the administration had a much more apathetic attitude towards students who needed holding back. I had a student that year who failed 6th grade, then went to another school and passed 6th but failed 7th, then came back to me and failed 7th. This kid was 15 in middle school, so there's that problem too. Schools are overcrowded as it is.
People think teachers make decisions about education. Sadly this is not the case.
I think instead of trying to make a feature film with music videos, they could make a good old fashioned concert movie. This wouldn't require as much apparatus as making a feature from scratch, and if it were in movie theaters, you would get somewhat of a concert experience (more immersive than watching a concert on TV I think) at a regular movie price. Cringely talked about something like this but was proposing a full concert tour before the album was released as the only way to experience the music. This is not to say that bands and their labels couldn't do both a concert tour and a movie. I tend to just listen to my existing (physical and downloaded) music collection and just have no real interest in current pop.
On the other hand, there must be some reason that you don't see all that many concert movies these days. Or maybe you do and I haven't been paying attention. So many possibilities.
Not to mention the fact that killing someone doesn't actually resolve the conflict. Say, for example, that Frog is debating income tax with Toad. There are two conflicts: one is the conflict between viewpoints, and the other is the interpersonal conflict between Frog and Toad. Say in the middle of the debate, Frog kills Toad. Only the interpersonal conflict has been resolved, and even then it was by default, not by an actual victory. There's no more conflict because there's no more person. On the viewpoint side, the killing may end up being counterproductive for Frog. This is the principle behind nonviolent opposition as I understand it. Remove the interpersonal conflict as irrelevant, and only the ideas remain.
The RIAA takes the P2P companies to court and wins.
Wins what? Couldn't they do that now? In this example, I think the P2P companies would be taking the RIAA to court for violating the EULA, or at least sending cease-and-desist letters. I don't see how adding the provision "You agree by using this Software that You will not attempt to degrade the effectiveness of the Network in any manner, including intentional distribution of flawed or nonsense files." gives the RIAA further grounds to do anything they're not doing now.
Gainward has a Geforce 4 MX 420, but I don't know if it's faster than GF2MX400. I always skip at least one upgrade cycle so I've been ignoring the Geforce4 cards.
I orginally noticed this card at the Mini-ITX store (http://www.mini-itx.com) as a replacement for onboard graphics that accompany ITX form factor motherboards. So one application would be media box PC's. The VIA EPIA series of motherboards don't have AGP slots.
Why is everyone surprised that a US court feels it can make this kind of ruling? Since when has the United States ever been a good neighbor, or stayed out of anyone's business? The only time America will refrain from walking all over you is when there's something to gain from not acting.
That doesn't even mean "when the people have something to gain", it refers instead to the owners of the two major parties. These people will go on treating the rest of the world like a blast furnace until power can't be bought anymore. I don't see that happening though. In a capitalist system, the individual is supposed to look out for him/herself first. You can't expect that training to lead to public service instead of self-service.
Maybe people are outraged because this one hits too close to home. When the US government bails out investment banks that lose money in 3rd world countries, we don't see posts on slashdot about it. Of course, that wouldn't be tech news exactly:)
It's useful to me if I'm considering working at a company. Beyond the hiring decision, I need to know what kind of culture I'm getting in to. Of course, knowing those percentages won't tell me everything I need to know about the environment there, but if I notice that the firm is all white, I don't know how comfortable I'd be there.
My current workplace is pretty white, and it's not really a problem, but then it's a school and that's different for a lot of other reasons.
Combat Mission isn't played in real time. It's actually a turn-based game where you have to specify your entire turn before you know what any of the results of your moves will be.
Once you've given your orders, one minute of combat is played out on screen. You can rewind and review this minute as many times as you want, so that's not "real-time" either. There is a discernible order, and some commands you issue take more than one minute to execute.
The gameplay itself, though, proceeds in turns. I think all this is written in the article:)
Ravi
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How can you *not* look back at your childhood and miss the innocence, and the feeling that your parents could save you from any evil? Sure, in the 70's we had the Soviet 'Menace', but it didn't seem so close to home as the twin towers.
Perhaps I'm missing some of the context the article provides because our firewall here somehow blocks Salon. Meanwhile, it is possible to grow up without innocence and without a belief in your parents' capacity to do much of anything. I'm a teacher; I've seen it many times. In that case, you don't miss the relative safety and comfort of your youth because there was none.
I think you're right about the Nexus. Sometimes these devices exist on Star Trek to abstract something. The wormhole aliens represent a view of time as a whole, or Odo's shapeshifting is a physical manifestation of his identity confusion.
I don't see anything like that about the Nexus. At least the others make some kind of sense. What kind of sense does a pocket universe that fuilfills your heart's desires make?
I can see wanting to make a swiss army knife set top box because it's fun, but other than that, why would you do such a thing? I can't see a need for all of that in one unit. Period. Why not make a sleek and specialized (and cheap) box instead?
For one thing, it would make a great gift, and for another, it cuts down on the number of components you have to use.
[etc etc]Sembler added in one of dozens of fund-raising memos the political parties turned over to a court hearing the first legal challenge of the nation's new campaign finance law.
These memos came to light during hearings challenging the country's new campaign finance law. That's McCain-Feingold, right, wherein the individual contribution limit is being raised to $2000 per year
and soft money is
banned? What exactly is it that opponents to this law want?
If copyright worked the way you think it does, you would have to ask the author's permission before using the facts in your research paper. A research paper constitutes an expression of facts (and hopefully ideas) but the facts themselves are not copyrighted.
The wording is a little vague in that spot, and could be taken to mean that expressions of ideas can be copyrighted and expressions of facts cannot. The way I read it was that the expressions can be copyrighted, but not the facts or ideas themselves.
Maybe I wasn't paying very close attention to the show when I watched it that one time, but I couldn't determine the hierarchy of the characters. I don't usually have that problem with a TV show, or in real life. That's not necessarily a flaw in the show, but it might explain some people's difficulty getting involved in the characters.
Someone must have thought that Esperanto was a better idea for an international language than English. This was probably in the interest of equity, although as I understand Esperanto, it leaves out a lot (for example, Indian languages.) When you made Incubus, was there any kind of ideology behind making the movie in Esperanto, or did it just seem like a good idea at the time for the filmmakers?
It is also possible for management to start removing responsibilities from your job description and create a new job from what was removed. In this way, you can be fired and replaced with someone who requires less trainig and qualifications, commands a smaller salary, and is easier to replace. The same "benefits" apply to the newly created job.
How many people buy EA sports games BECAUSE they are EA sports games? Or Sega racing games, or Nintendo platform games, Square RPGs, ID FPSs, or even (insert favorite brand) pick-up trucks?
Square, Sega, and id are developers. I'm not sure who develops the EA sports games. Fans of a movie director won't abandon her because she goes to a new studio. The same way, people still bought Neverwinter Nights even though it wasn't an Interplay product anymore.
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You can't do this?
On another note, I used to work at a school where the guidance department had this recommendation at the end of the school year: If any student is going to fail the course for the year, apply a 5 point increase and see if they are still failing. If that doesn't work, add another 5 points and see if they are still failing. In the event that that doesn't work, add 5 more points and check to see if they are failing. Keep doing this as long as necessary. If we (teachers) didn't do that, then the guidance department would do that for us.
That was one year. The next year, the administration had a much more apathetic attitude towards students who needed holding back. I had a student that year who failed 6th grade, then went to another school and passed 6th but failed 7th, then came back to me and failed 7th. This kid was 15 in middle school, so there's that problem too. Schools are overcrowded as it is.
People think teachers make decisions about education. Sadly this is not the case.
Ravi
I think instead of trying to make a feature film with music videos, they could make a good old fashioned concert movie. This wouldn't require as much apparatus as making a feature from scratch, and if it were in movie theaters, you would get somewhat of a concert experience (more immersive than watching a concert on TV I think) at a regular movie price. Cringely talked about something like this but was proposing a full concert tour before the album was released as the only way to experience the music. This is not to say that bands and their labels couldn't do both a concert tour and a movie. I tend to just listen to my existing (physical and downloaded) music collection and just have no real interest in current pop.
On the other hand, there must be some reason that you don't see all that many concert movies these days. Or maybe you do and I haven't been paying attention. So many possibilities.
Ravi
Not to mention the fact that killing someone doesn't actually resolve the conflict. Say, for example, that Frog is debating income tax with Toad. There are two conflicts: one is the conflict between viewpoints, and the other is the interpersonal conflict between Frog and Toad. Say in the middle of the debate, Frog kills Toad. Only the interpersonal conflict has been resolved, and even then it was by default, not by an actual victory. There's no more conflict because there's no more person. On the viewpoint side, the killing may end up being counterproductive for Frog. This is the principle behind nonviolent opposition as I understand it. Remove the interpersonal conflict as irrelevant, and only the ideas remain.
Your mileage may vary :)
Ravi
Wins what? Couldn't they do that now? In this example, I think the P2P companies would be taking the RIAA to court for violating the EULA, or at least sending cease-and-desist letters. I don't see how adding the provision "You agree by using this Software that You will not attempt to degrade the effectiveness of the Network in any manner, including intentional distribution of flawed or nonsense files." gives the RIAA further grounds to do anything they're not doing now.
Ravi
If you did that today with an optical mouse you wouldn't have that problem :)
Ravi
Gainward has a Geforce 4 MX 420, but I don't know if it's faster than GF2MX400. I always skip at least one upgrade cycle so I've been ignoring the Geforce4 cards.
I orginally noticed this card at the Mini-ITX store (http://www.mini-itx.com) as a replacement for onboard graphics that accompany ITX form factor motherboards. So one application would be media box PC's. The VIA EPIA series of motherboards don't have AGP slots.
Ravi
Why is everyone surprised that a US court feels it can make this kind of ruling? Since when has the United States ever been a good neighbor, or stayed out of anyone's business? The only time America will refrain from walking all over you is when there's something to gain from not acting.
That doesn't even mean "when the people have something to gain", it refers instead to the owners of the two major parties. These people will go on treating the rest of the world like a blast furnace until power can't be bought anymore. I don't see that happening though. In a capitalist system, the individual is supposed to look out for him/herself first. You can't expect that training to lead to public service instead of self-service.
Maybe people are outraged because this one hits too close to home. When the US government bails out investment banks that lose money in 3rd world countries, we don't see posts on slashdot about it. Of course, that wouldn't be tech news exactly :)
Ravi
It's useful to me if I'm considering working at a company. Beyond the hiring decision, I need to know what kind of culture I'm getting in to. Of course, knowing those percentages won't tell me everything I need to know about the environment there, but if I notice that the firm is all white, I don't know how comfortable I'd be there.
My current workplace is pretty white, and it's not really a problem, but then it's a school and that's different for a lot of other reasons.
Ravi
Combat Mission isn't played in real time. It's actually a turn-based game where you have to specify your entire turn before you know what any of the results of your moves will be.
Once you've given your orders, one minute of combat is played out on screen. You can rewind and review this minute as many times as you want, so that's not "real-time" either. There is a discernible order, and some commands you issue take more than one minute to execute.
The gameplay itself, though, proceeds in turns. I think all this is written in the article :)
Ravi
Perhaps I'm missing some of the context the article provides because our firewall here somehow blocks Salon. Meanwhile, it is possible to grow up without innocence and without a belief in your parents' capacity to do much of anything. I'm a teacher; I've seen it many times. In that case, you don't miss the relative safety and comfort of your youth because there was none.
Ravi
Where did the number 156 come from? I didn't see it in the article.
Maybe they counted DVD burners in there also, and came up with the number by the amount of data each could burn.
Ravi
Flaw notwithstanding, doesn't this just prove that if a=b then 0=0?
Ravi
It would have been better if he had said "If you are an actor...I will kill you where you stand."
Ravi
I think you're right about the Nexus. Sometimes these devices exist on Star Trek to abstract something. The wormhole aliens represent a view of time as a whole, or Odo's shapeshifting is a physical manifestation of his identity confusion.
I don't see anything like that about the Nexus. At least the others make some kind of sense. What kind of sense does a pocket universe that fuilfills your heart's desires make?
RaviFor one thing, it would make a great gift, and for another, it cuts down on the number of components you have to use.
RaviThese memos came to light during hearings challenging the country's new campaign finance law. That's McCain-Feingold, right, wherein the individual contribution limit is being raised to $2000 per year and soft money is banned? What exactly is it that opponents to this law want?
Ravi
Maybe job seekers should use hard currency instead of resumes. At least it wouldn't be spelled wrong.
Ravi
You equate support with representation. This is like saying that if you own (say) an apartment building, then you should have many votes.
If power and privilege weren't passed around like food at a dinner table for the upper class, you might have something.
Ravi
If copyright worked the way you think it does, you would have to ask the author's permission before using the facts in your research paper. A research paper constitutes an expression of facts (and hopefully ideas) but the facts themselves are not copyrighted.
The wording is a little vague in that spot, and could be taken to mean that expressions of ideas can be copyrighted and expressions of facts cannot. The way I read it was that the expressions can be copyrighted, but not the facts or ideas themselves.
Ravi
I want one program to open all my saved game files. If they can do that, they might have something.
Ravi
Maybe I wasn't paying very close attention to the show when I watched it that one time, but I couldn't determine the hierarchy of the characters. I don't usually have that problem with a TV show, or in real life. That's not necessarily a flaw in the show, but it might explain some people's difficulty getting involved in the characters.
Ravi
Someone must have thought that Esperanto was a better idea for an international language than English. This was probably in the interest of equity, although as I understand Esperanto, it leaves out a lot (for example, Indian languages.) When you made Incubus, was there any kind of ideology behind making the movie in Esperanto, or did it just seem like a good idea at the time for the filmmakers?
Ravi
It is also possible for management to start removing responsibilities from your job description and create a new job from what was removed. In this way, you can be fired and replaced with someone who requires less trainig and qualifications, commands a smaller salary, and is easier to replace. The same "benefits" apply to the newly created job.
Ravi
Um. You can run Mozilla under Windows. Or does my comment reveal that I'm missing something?
Ravi
by gmezero on Sunday November 03, @04:27AM
Square, Sega, and id are developers. I'm not sure who develops the EA sports games. Fans of a movie director won't abandon her because she goes to a new studio. The same way, people still bought Neverwinter Nights even though it wasn't an Interplay product anymore.
Ravi