grawk

We differ as to whether the school is doing a favor to anyone by doing that. If they like to fuck with students by giving hard exams, that doesn't mean the grading can't reflect that. Bell curves, however, cause people who don't understand the material to get rewarded, and are evil.

Then it's irrelevant how they did on other tests As long as the test out test isn't graded on a curve. I tested out of half of the coursework for computer science in college...it's a shame that's such an irrelevant degree

System administration is never taught in school But anyway, the job isn't a typical admin job, and if you have any interest in supercomputing, or massively parallel computational science, the job has LOTS of interesting directions it could go.

Send me a resume

He gets it. Life is not fair. But perhaps they should have had him teaching classes that required more skill, and weren't being taken by morons? If they understand the material, they should be able to demonstrate it on the test. If the test doesn't reflect the material to be understood, then the professor needs to be corrected.

(I'm currently interviewing people to work on my supercomputer, and by and large the candidate pool is incompetent - know any top notch easy to get along with system administration types?)

Perhaps that should be reflected in how the test is graded, and not by using statistical norming? If only 1 person understands the material, the other people in the class shouldn't be rewarded.

That doesn't mean the failing students should pass. Incompetent professors are not a reason to give failing students As. diet pepsi max, to get things back on track

Except that grading shouldn't be done on a curve. Either you learn the material or you don't. Curves are why colleges turn out morons.

Because of AT's tendency to do just that?

1 asshole who studied and who isn't a moron

And YOU'RE just a weanie

rofl, no her name is shannon

Yah, the real problem is the wife didn't say she wanted smoked shoulder until 2pm. Oh well.

I'll say the hickory smoke smells great. I dunno if I can last til it's done tho, I may end up making something quick and having the shoulder tomorrow.

I have to say, part of the problem is I absolutely detest the biggest firefly fan I know

I just stuck the dvds on my blockbuster queue. I couldn't find the torrent quickly enough.

Ok, I guess I'll torrent the first season

again, not eating, but cooking: smoking 2 pork shoulders. They're at 120F right now, and a nice reddy brown on the skin. I love my sidecar smoker.

Did you hate the movie because of the key death, or because it was poorly written and acted?

Ok, sell me on it? What do people see in the series that didn't make it to the surface in the movie? Is it that river is kinda cute, in an emo chick kinda way?

I wouldn't say it's the worst movie I've ever seen, but it certainly didn't live up to the amount of praise I'd read about both the movie and the series...

I watched the fucking movie, which should be at least an above average representation of the show, right? You certainly don't expect me to sit through 52 hours of that crap?

You mean like star wars, the remake of kirosawa's Hidden Fortress? Or take the space out of it, and you have kirosawa's remakes of the spaghetti westerns, including Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai, among others? Joss Whedon is no genius.