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Comment Problem is GPA matters after college in some place (Score 1) 125

by frankrachel (#65755852) Attached to: Harvard Says It's Been Giving Too Many A Grades To Students

Unfortunately places like Med School and Law School (just to name 2) use GPA as a very-heavily-weighted factor for admissions.

In reality any group of people is going to have above average, average, and below average. Just so happens that theoretically, the below average Harvard student is still way above the national average.

A self-contained system like a college, imo, should still have a general bell curve and be giving out mostly C's. Of course the material would need to be adjusted so that only a few very top students can really master it all, while most will be average, and some below average..

But since after graduation your GPA matters for a place like Med School, where they don't really care very much if it was from U of or Harvard, they have to keep it comparable, even though a 2.0 at Harvard may be equivalent to a 3.8 at U of ..
First Person Shooters (Games)

Quake 3 For Android 137

Posted by Soulskill from the can-i-get-a-hell-yeah dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Over the last two months I ported Quake 3 to Android as a hobby project. It only took a few days to get the game working. More time was spent on tweaking the game experience. Right now the game runs at 25fps on a Motorola Milestone/Droid. 'Normally when you compile C/C++ code using the Android NDK, the compiler targets a generic ARMv5 CPU which uses software floating-point. Without any optimizations and audio Quake 3 runs at 22fps. Since Quake 3 uses a lot of floating-point calculations, I tried a better C-compiler (GCC 4.4.0 from Android GIT) which supports modern CPUs and Neon SIMD instructions. Quake 3 optimized for Cortex-A8 with Neon is about 15% faster without audio and 35% with audio compared to the generic ARMv5 build. Most likely the performance improvement compared to the ARMv5 build is not that big because the system libraries of the Milestone have been compiled with FPU support, so sin/cos/log/.. take advantage of the FPU.''
Graphics

Replacements For Adobe Creative Suite 3 Apps? 270

Posted by timothy from the best-of-luck-to-ye dept.
Gilmoure writes "With rumors of Adobe not supporting Creative Suite 3 applications on Mac OS X 10.6, I was wondering what Open Source apps folks would recommend to replace Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver? If the apps can work with the native file formats, all the better but if they provide the same functionality, that's still good. I have several designer friends that are looking forward to the speed boost of OS X 10.6 but don't want to go through the Adobe upgrades so soon after the CS2 to CS3 upgrades. Especially when Adobe's already working on CS5."
Security

Fannie Mae Worker Indicted For Malicious Script 325

Posted by Soulskill from the good-thing-their-engineers-bailed-them-out dept.
dfdashh writes "A former Fannie Mae contractor has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Baltimore, MD for computer intrusion. He attempted to propagate a malicious script throughout the company's 4,000 servers. The DC Examiner has details of the incident: 'Had this malicious script executed, [Fannie Mae] engineers expect it would have caused millions of dollars of damage and reduced if not shutdown operations at [Fannie Mae] for at least one week. ... The virus was set to execute at 9 a.m. Jan. 31, first disabling Fannie Mae's computer monitoring system and then cutting all access to the company's 4,000 servers, Nye wrote. Anyone trying to log in would receive a message saying "Server Graveyard." From there, the virus would wipe out all Fannie Mae data, replacing it with zeros, Nye wrote. Finally, the virus would shut down the servers.'"

Comment Re:So it starts... (Score 1) 758

by frankrachel (#13347258) Attached to: Mac OS X on x86 Videos Get Apple's Attention
I'm sorry, that still doesn't hold water. If I saw chips on the shelf of my local supermarket that said MAY ONLY BE EATEN WITH OFFICIAL DIP I'd have no doubt that it was unenforcable bullshit. Insanity


But, if those chips tated awful unless a special chemical in the "official dip" initiated a reaction, you can't complain to the manufacturer if they still taste like crap if you don't use the official dip, or you use a 3rd-party dip.

Then after eating your awful tasting chips you go around telling everyone how awful they are, but not attributing the awfulness to your own usage of the non-supported dip, potentially hurting the manufacturer's reputation with customers.

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