Below that there's also a very vast, very whispery, voice that may not work in words at all - it may be working in impressions or emotions, or simple flags (e.g.: that's not right; that sounds good; let's go that way), though in some cases I think there are words but it's rarely lengthy sentences.
Or you might just have a Rat King living in your cellar.
The new standards still require every student, regardless of background, to correctly answer the same number of questions to pass SOL tests.
For example, every student who takes the third-grade math exam must answer correctly 23 of 35 questions to pass, no matter their race or background.... The state did set new pass rates, or goals for how many students in each group pass each exam.
Using the same example of the third-grade math test: the state goal is for 45 percent of black students to answer 23 of 35 items correctly and for 82 percent of Asian students to answer 23 of 35 items correctly.
It's still stupid, ignorant, and racist as all get-out (redundancy noted), but black students won't be getting "C" grades for 45% scores.
And 50 to 48 doesn't look like a pretty even split to you?
You missed the point. Florida is a swing state. We have enough "nearly-dead old farts" and "toothless chew-spewing rednecks" voting R match the "homo-loving commie pantywastes" and "dirty immigrant parasites" voting D.
Personally, I voted "blow up the panhandle and let this shithole sink into the sea" but, as usual, I didn't get much support.
Full disclosure: I am not an engineer Comcast, but a lowly technician. When a firmware update goes through, it resets defaults on everything. Thats how hardware works.
I think it's akin to what techies have called "The Microsoft Tax," or paying for a copy of Windows that you might not want when buying a new PC. IANAB, but as I understand it, you CAN buy a TV without a BBC license, if you're only using it as a monitor for a DVD player, console, computer, etc... but there's some hoops to jump through to get them to stop bugging you about it.
Middle-clicking (open link in new tab) in Firefox worked fine. I'm using NoScript, but not sure if that has something to do with it, or if FF doesn't send a referer[sic] tag at all.
Cool, I wasn't aware of that. Apparently my information is dated. I'm not sure how much it will help me personally, since the EE was always my bottleneck, but I'll have to grab a newer version and try it now that GW2 is getting stale(r).
I wouldn't be too quick to throw Florida in as a "liberal" state. Granted, it went to Obama this time, but only by a razor-thin margin (49.14% to 50%) [citation supplied], and they went D for the senate seat that was up, but 15 of the 22 "opposed" representative races went to republicans, and it's pretty red at the state level, too.
They completely missed an opportunity to show us Anakin's descent into evil in a way that made you feel for him. Like feel... Anything. Betrayed, happy, angry, *something* would have been good
That's not true at all. I absolutely felt anger. Rage, in fact.
"They took the biggest, most ass-kicking badass since Satan, and made him into THAT?!"
Another thing to consider is this: Yes, PCSX2 requires a beast of a CPU, but it will only use 2 cores. That's all it was coded for. Unfortunately, when CPUs started expanding by adding cores instead of upping mips, the emulator didn't benefit from it. A 3.2GhZ 8-core is pretty much 3.2GhZ dual-core as far as PCSX2 is concerned.
Sadly, coupled with the fact that most of the game-specific optimizations are for the popular crap I don't want to play (Final Fantasy Whatever, etc...) it never reached its full potential for me. It does play Persona 3 rather nicely, though, so it's better than nothing!
Maybe a case of projecting my experience onto the submitter, but it came off to me like he's the poor bastard who has to clean up the mess, rather than the boss. Having been in that boat myself (and still, to this day, occasionally find slushy little coiled piles of things like "converting" AM/PM to 24h format using 13 chained "if/then/else" statements) I'm willing to give a lot of leeway for "frustration venting."
As I understand it, the original promotion was that IF 100k people pledged to vote, THEN everyone could get a free copy. Not that you only get a copy if you vote.
Of course, the "press release" on the site reads like something off The Onion, so YMMV.
Slashdot Mirror
And it's not a wholly owned subsidiary of The Lumber Cartel, which also does not exist, either.
Hey! My AdTrap missed this one! I want a refund!!!
Bullshit. The law is right on, for once (if a little toothless, like most good laws).
You want to send people your shit, you get them to Opt-IN. Not out.
Papa Johns is one of the better nationwide chains of pizza
That's like saying "Having electrodes pasted onto your nuts is one of the more tolerable forms of torture."
Calling the stuff you buy at Starbucks "coffee" is like calling what you buy at McDonald's "food."
Fitting, considering the post he was responding to, and it's rather generous definition of "Armageddon."
I still don't understand this 1950s impression that "power plant == bomb."
Below that there's also a very vast, very whispery, voice that may not work in words at all - it may be working in impressions or emotions, or simple flags (e.g.: that's not right; that sounds good; let's go that way), though in some cases I think there are words but it's rarely lengthy sentences.
Or you might just have a Rat King living in your cellar.
Florida appears to have set the passing rate (and not the passing scores) differently (per TFA); while VA simple set different passing scores.
No, Virginia didn't. The shitty summary just made it look like they did.
Another ref, besides TFA: [Citation]
The new standards still require every student, regardless of background, to correctly answer the same number of questions to pass SOL tests.
For example, every student who takes the third-grade math exam must answer correctly 23 of 35 questions to pass, no matter their race or background. ...
The state did set new pass rates, or goals for how many students in each group pass each exam.
Using the same example of the third-grade math test: the state goal is for 45 percent of black students to answer 23 of 35 items correctly and for 82 percent of Asian students to answer 23 of 35 items correctly.
It's still stupid, ignorant, and racist as all get-out (redundancy noted), but black students won't be getting "C" grades for 45% scores.
And 50 to 48 doesn't look like a pretty even split to you?
You missed the point. Florida is a swing state. We have enough "nearly-dead old farts" and "toothless chew-spewing rednecks" voting R match the "homo-loving commie pantywastes" and "dirty immigrant parasites" voting D.
Personally, I voted "blow up the panhandle and let this shithole sink into the sea" but, as usual, I didn't get much support.
Full disclosure: I am not an engineer Comcast, but a lowly technician. When a firmware update goes through, it resets defaults on everything. Thats how hardware works.
Reason 0xF21C to never use Comcast as a provider.
I think it's akin to what techies have called "The Microsoft Tax," or paying for a copy of Windows that you might not want when buying a new PC. IANAB, but as I understand it, you CAN buy a TV without a BBC license, if you're only using it as a monitor for a DVD player, console, computer, etc... but there's some hoops to jump through to get them to stop bugging you about it.
Middle-clicking (open link in new tab) in Firefox worked fine. I'm using NoScript, but not sure if that has something to do with it, or if FF doesn't send a referer[sic] tag at all.
Can't be arsed to mess with it to find out.
Of course!
The Hair Club For Men's R&D division is expecting a satisfying conclusion to their statistical research on "Goatee/Evilness" correlation any day now!
Cool, I wasn't aware of that. Apparently my information is dated. I'm not sure how much it will help me personally, since the EE was always my bottleneck, but I'll have to grab a newer version and try it now that GW2 is getting stale(r).
I wouldn't be too quick to throw Florida in as a "liberal" state. Granted, it went to Obama this time, but only by a razor-thin margin (49.14% to 50%) [citation supplied], and they went D for the senate seat that was up, but 15 of the 22 "opposed" representative races went to republicans, and it's pretty red at the state level, too.
They completely missed an opportunity to show us Anakin's descent into evil in a way that made you feel for him. Like feel... Anything. Betrayed, happy, angry, *something* would have been good
That's not true at all. I absolutely felt anger. Rage, in fact.
"They took the biggest, most ass-kicking badass since Satan, and made him into THAT?!"
I nearly blew a vein in my head.
Another thing to consider is this: Yes, PCSX2 requires a beast of a CPU, but it will only use 2 cores. That's all it was coded for. Unfortunately, when CPUs started expanding by adding cores instead of upping mips, the emulator didn't benefit from it. A 3.2GhZ 8-core is pretty much 3.2GhZ dual-core as far as PCSX2 is concerned.
Sadly, coupled with the fact that most of the game-specific optimizations are for the popular crap I don't want to play (Final Fantasy Whatever, etc...) it never reached its full potential for me. It does play Persona 3 rather nicely, though, so it's better than nothing!
You say that so glibly, it's almost as if you think that that's exactly what X was designed to do, or something.
Damn slashdotters...
Maybe a case of projecting my experience onto the submitter, but it came off to me like he's the poor bastard who has to clean up the mess, rather than the boss. Having been in that boat myself (and still, to this day, occasionally find slushy little coiled piles of things like "converting" AM/PM to 24h format using 13 chained "if/then/else" statements) I'm willing to give a lot of leeway for "frustration venting."
Of course it would. It generally accomplishes the task of increasing the ambient temperature to 36C anyway. :)
As I understand it, the original promotion was that IF 100k people pledged to vote, THEN everyone could get a free copy. Not that you only get a copy if you vote.
Of course, the "press release" on the site reads like something off The Onion, so YMMV.
Zis is /.! Ve don't RTFA here!
FTFZTG.
You know, I thought those pricks from the Pillars of Creation were acting kind of hinky...
K-k-k-kamikaze Koding!!!!
I always just read it as a portmanteau of "Postgres" and "SQL": "Post-gress-queue-elle".