The professor mentioned a test bank and then later proceeded to mention the publishing companies of certain textbooks used by the department and the university in general - these test banks are sometimes floating around the internet, on amazon.com, etc. Some publishers put out CD test banks and others only make them available online. Either way, they're in a handily spreadable digital format. However, apparently whoever got a hold of that test bank was not discreet in with whom she/he was sharing it (my guess). And since so many apparently had the test bank, it gives me the impression someone might have been selling it (otherwise, why give it away to so many students).
I've always assumed any exam could be thrown out at any university, in any class, if there were a large number of people cheating at any given time on a given exam.
So now everyone who works at one of these airports with body scanners needs to be scanned themselves. Every time they leave and reenter a secured area. Everyday they show up for work. I hope their insurance covers repeated exposure to low-level backscatter x-rays.
after all, it's been around likely over 120,000 years.
I work at a science research institution in DC where several people have been researching e coli at high pressure and standard atp. Yes, Virginia, there is life at 5 GPa. And beyond. I'm amazed how these microbe survive for years at depths and pressures far below what many people think of as a high pressure regime. It almost makes all the Lost City studies rather silly when researchers make claims about life at the bottom of a 7 mile deep trench.
Let me start off with first saying that my first set of expectations were (and I believe still are) pretty low when it comes to portable e-readers. I only want to do one thing on them - read books. Yes, I don't need mp3, email, internet, news mags, etc. I just want to read books. As long as the font is "readable", just like most textbooks and paperbacks, I don't need adjustable fonts. Of course, now that I've been introduced to adjustable fonts on the Sony PRS-505, I like the feature. As long as there is good contrast and the display is easy to read, I don't want extras. It has to be well constructed, of course.
Having said that, the only others things I care about are title availability, price, and file format, and the price of the reader. While I'm impressed with all of the things that I've *read* about the Kindle and the iLiad, they're too expensive for me because I *only want a reader*. I can't say if they're worth the money since I don't personally believe there are enough e-readers on the market right now to make a meaningful price comparison.
Okay, there are some other things - I would like to see consistent support for PDF's and junk the proprietary formats. Textbooks I need to write in, so I'll always buy paper. Scientific journal articles I would *like* to read on an e-reader, hence my concern over PDF's.
We have a Sony PRS-505 at home. It's amazingly comfortable to use and (I did not think this would happen) I don't even "process" that I'm using an e-reader. If I'm enjoying what I'm reading, my mind isn't focused on the e-reader itself, it's focused on the story/information. Isn't that what books are for?
Someone offer me a $149 e-reader, let me see what it can do (I hope not too much), and I'll think about it.
I thought e-ink was inexpensive? Is the demand for them helping to keep a inflated price? Maybe I'm missing something...
I thought "independently purchased" in government terms meant "not properly approved"- a friend of mine who works for the Treasury Dept can't even bring in her own trackball instead of using a mouse. And the sub-department she works in won't order one, they say the pc mouse is just fine, thank you.
I agree, they probably got a supervisor's (at least one) ok on buying their own usb drive, it caught on, and then everyone started using them. Who knows if it was management that first decided to use non-approved drives. All we know is that the drives were not "coorrectly/officially" approved by the right department with the mandatory 100-page approval document.
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The professor mentioned a test bank and then later proceeded to mention the publishing companies of certain textbooks used by the department and the university in general - these test banks are sometimes floating around the internet, on amazon.com, etc. Some publishers put out CD test banks and others only make them available online. Either way, they're in a handily spreadable digital format. However, apparently whoever got a hold of that test bank was not discreet in with whom she/he was sharing it (my guess). And since so many apparently had the test bank, it gives me the impression someone might have been selling it (otherwise, why give it away to so many students). I've always assumed any exam could be thrown out at any university, in any class, if there were a large number of people cheating at any given time on a given exam.
So now everyone who works at one of these airports with body scanners needs to be scanned themselves. Every time they leave and reenter a secured area. Everyday they show up for work. I hope their insurance covers repeated exposure to low-level backscatter x-rays.
after all, it's been around likely over 120,000 years. I work at a science research institution in DC where several people have been researching e coli at high pressure and standard atp. Yes, Virginia, there is life at 5 GPa. And beyond. I'm amazed how these microbe survive for years at depths and pressures far below what many people think of as a high pressure regime. It almost makes all the Lost City studies rather silly when researchers make claims about life at the bottom of a 7 mile deep trench.
Let me start off with first saying that my first set of expectations were (and I believe still are) pretty low when it comes to portable e-readers. I only want to do one thing on them - read books. Yes, I don't need mp3, email, internet, news mags, etc. I just want to read books. As long as the font is "readable", just like most textbooks and paperbacks, I don't need adjustable fonts. Of course, now that I've been introduced to adjustable fonts on the Sony PRS-505, I like the feature. As long as there is good contrast and the display is easy to read, I don't want extras. It has to be well constructed, of course. Having said that, the only others things I care about are title availability, price, and file format, and the price of the reader. While I'm impressed with all of the things that I've *read* about the Kindle and the iLiad, they're too expensive for me because I *only want a reader*. I can't say if they're worth the money since I don't personally believe there are enough e-readers on the market right now to make a meaningful price comparison. Okay, there are some other things - I would like to see consistent support for PDF's and junk the proprietary formats. Textbooks I need to write in, so I'll always buy paper. Scientific journal articles I would *like* to read on an e-reader, hence my concern over PDF's. We have a Sony PRS-505 at home. It's amazingly comfortable to use and (I did not think this would happen) I don't even "process" that I'm using an e-reader. If I'm enjoying what I'm reading, my mind isn't focused on the e-reader itself, it's focused on the story/information. Isn't that what books are for? Someone offer me a $149 e-reader, let me see what it can do (I hope not too much), and I'll think about it. I thought e-ink was inexpensive? Is the demand for them helping to keep a inflated price? Maybe I'm missing something...
I thought "independently purchased" in government terms meant "not properly approved"- a friend of mine who works for the Treasury Dept can't even bring in her own trackball instead of using a mouse. And the sub-department she works in won't order one, they say the pc mouse is just fine, thank you.
I agree, they probably got a supervisor's (at least one) ok on buying their own usb drive, it caught on, and then everyone started using them. Who knows if it was management that first decided to use non-approved drives. All we know is that the drives were not "coorrectly/officially" approved by the right department with the mandatory 100-page approval document.