People become sad, annoyed, when not allowed to communicate with their friends.
The only thing that has changed here is the mechanism of the communication.
I suppose it may have been some time since you were in high school.
Let me start by saying it has been a very long time since I have seen a 10 point grading scale. When I was in high school, two years ago, a 68% was falling.
You make the assertion that the grade average can be equated to degree of content mastery, and that as such a "floor" of 50% would skew the validity of this metric. This is a theory I disagree with in its entirety.
Let us look at a more plausible set of grades, both with and without this "50% floor".
For a given class there are two tests, each 25% of the grade, and five homework assignments, each 10%. Say that on the two tests I received a 93 (A-)and an 90 (B). From my test scores, its clear that I understand a fair degree of the material. Now lets see what happens when homework is factored in. On the first two assignments I get 90 each, and the other three I fail to turn in. The reason for this may be laziness, apathy, a difficult home situation, however this is not the point. This is about how accurately my understanding of the content is reflected by my final grade.
So under a traditional system my grade would be as follows:
Tests (50%)
93
90
Avg 91.5 (B)
Homework (50%)
90
90
0
0
0
36 (F)
Total
63.75(F)
Based on the work that was completed this is not at all an accurate reflection of degree of content mastery.br>
However with a 50% "floor" the grades would be:
Tests (50%)
93
90
Avg 91.5 (B)
Homework (50%)
90
90
50
50
50
66 (F)
Total
78.75(D)
Note that I neither pass my homework, and only barely pass the class with a D. It is clear by not turning in my work, I have lost at least two grade levels. However, it is also true that I understood the content of the class and should not have to repeat it simply because of a few missing homework assignments. This is why the 50% "floor" resulted in a much more accurate reflection of my over all performance as a student.
"Doom: The Boardgame $54.95"
At $15 more than Doom3 (the computer game) is going for at EB games is it really worth it? It seems that the slandering of plastic Imp figurines will never rival the much more viral experience of playing the PC game.
it worked. I just want to play HL2 single player. Normally I could ether a) connect to steam and let them make I'm not a no good pirate (Arrr!!), or b) in the event that I didn't have a connection to the internet simply start in offline mode. However offline mode requires that you be "logged into steam" on the machine you wish to play on. Unfortunately for me I was setting up a dedicated HL2 Deathmatch server earlier this week that, thru Valve's crappie DRM somehow "logged me out" of my main gaming machine. I miss the good old days, when if you wanted to play a game the only system you needed to be wore about being up was your own.
Or if you are running Firefox, like you should be, you can just get bugmenot! It gets past all those free reg requirements by using accounts that people have chosen to make public.
Ok, lets just say that IBM, M$ and Intel, hypothetically, strong arm the rest of the world into TC. What happens the fist time some one breaks into one of the DRM servers, and convinces it that all wma files are pirated? How many times will users put of with all of their newly 'protected' music suddenly disappearing? Or what if someone gets into the Phoenix TC server to release a new updated version of their BIOS that looks more like a copy of/dev/null? (You've gota love systems that update themselves silently;)) Once every one is done replacing their EEPROMs do you think that there will be much tolerance left for 'trusted' hardware? It seems that if you embed such a dramatic concentration of control over both software and hardware it will only server to make you the biggest target around. And keep in mind these are the same people that can't even write a jpeg parser that doesn't allow the execution of arbitrary code. It seems rather likely that some one will use these tools for, more, malicious purposes. Will TC + DRM make the world safe for antiquated media companies or release a bull in the China shop?
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People become sad, annoyed, when not allowed to communicate with their friends. The only thing that has changed here is the mechanism of the communication.
Once you're in the realm of completely subjective grading, none of the numbers matter much.
I suppose it may have been some time since you were in high school.
Let me start by saying it has been a very long time since I have seen a 10 point grading scale. When I was in high school, two years ago, a 68% was falling. You make the assertion that the grade average can be equated to degree of content mastery, and that as such a "floor" of 50% would skew the validity of this metric. This is a theory I disagree with in its entirety.
Let us look at a more plausible set of grades, both with and without this "50% floor".
For a given class there are two tests, each 25% of the grade, and five homework assignments, each 10%. Say that on the two tests I received a 93 (A-)and an 90 (B). From my test scores, its clear that I understand a fair degree of the material. Now lets see what happens when homework is factored in. On the first two assignments I get 90 each, and the other three I fail to turn in. The reason for this may be laziness, apathy, a difficult home situation, however this is not the point. This is about how accurately my understanding of the content is reflected by my final grade.
So under a traditional system my grade would be as follows:
Tests (50%)
93
90
Avg 91.5 (B)
Homework (50%)
90
90
0
0
0
36 (F)
Total
63.75(F)
Based on the work that was completed this is not at all an accurate reflection of degree of content mastery.br> However with a 50% "floor" the grades would be:
Tests (50%)
93
90
Avg 91.5 (B)
Homework (50%)
90
90
50
50
50
66 (F)
Total
78.75(D)
Note that I neither pass my homework, and only barely pass the class with a D. It is clear by not turning in my work, I have lost at least two grade levels. However, it is also true that I understood the content of the class and should not have to repeat it simply because of a few missing homework assignments. This is why the 50% "floor" resulted in a much more accurate reflection of my over all performance as a student.
I think the project you're referring to is Xdmx. Here's a decent tutorial.
Buying everything in sight, often to undercut a competitor, sound like the common tactic for that game, Monopoly. Nope, no irony there.
just in case.
Naw, they stopped emphasizing that after Netscape 4.
I find the spellchecking in OO compleatly lacking.
"Doom: The Boardgame $54.95" At $15 more than Doom3 (the computer game) is going for at EB games is it really worth it? It seems that the slandering of plastic Imp figurines will never rival the much more viral experience of playing the PC game.
it worked. I just want to play HL2 single player. Normally I could ether a) connect to steam and let them make I'm not a no good pirate (Arrr!!), or b) in the event that I didn't have a connection to the internet simply start in offline mode. However offline mode requires that you be "logged into steam" on the machine you wish to play on. Unfortunately for me I was setting up a dedicated HL2 Deathmatch server earlier this week that, thru Valve's crappie DRM somehow "logged me out" of my main gaming machine. I miss the good old days, when if you wanted to play a game the only system you needed to be wore about being up was your own.
Steam the worst state of H2O
let me!
Or if you are running Firefox, like you should be, you can just get bugmenot! It gets past all those free reg requirements by using accounts that people have chosen to make public.
The same thing has been done with several older macs also.
Ok, lets just say that IBM, M$ and Intel, hypothetically, strong arm the rest of the world into TC. What happens the fist time some one breaks into one of the DRM servers, and convinces it that all wma files are pirated? How many times will users put of with all of their newly 'protected' music suddenly disappearing? Or what if someone gets into the Phoenix TC server to release a new updated version of their BIOS that looks more like a copy of /dev/null? (You've gota love systems that update themselves silently ;)) Once every one is done replacing their EEPROMs do you think that there will be much tolerance left for 'trusted' hardware? It seems that if you embed such a dramatic concentration of control over both software and hardware it will only server to make you the biggest target around. And keep in mind these are the same people that can't even write a jpeg parser that doesn't allow the execution of arbitrary code. It seems rather likely that some one will use these tools for, more, malicious purposes. Will TC + DRM make the world safe for antiquated media companies or release a bull in the China shop?