This reasoning makes 100% sense to me. Something something newsletter.

I disagree that D is redundant. Letting little Johnny and his parents know that he needs to try a little harder to pass the class (receiving a D) is different enough than letting Johnny and his parents that he failed hard to warrant having the two separate failing grades.

I don't think that removing Ds from the scale is going to do anything. If they don't want to give credit for a D, then don't! Giving a bit of granularity to the system, saying "you almost passed, try a bit harder" is a lot different than "you were nowhere near passing. Why don't you try something else instead?"

How about just not giving credit for D's? Am I missing something here?

Actually I have been thinking about having my enemies beheaded several times, just for the fun of it, when I finally take over world domination and declare myself Eternal God-Emperor. Can always dispose of them properly later, and the people love a good beheading on Sunday afternoon. What better way to demonstrate that those fallen from my Grace are not better than ordinary flatworms?

I'm not sure why people say this.

I recently purchased my first android phone. People say that it is 'open'. But, people say a lot of things.

My phone isn't open. It's very much locked down. If I want to delete an application like 'Sprint Nascar Cup' - I can't. It won't let me.

If I call up Sprint customer support and ask them how to delete it, they tell me it's impossible. I know, because I asked. It can't be done.

'Rooting' the phone is possible; but it violates your warranty, it forfeits your right to customer service, and comes with some risk of bricking your phone. If you are willing to take that risk; how is that any different from what is available with the iPhone?

Replying here in the comments since we all know people don't read the summary, much less the article. :-)

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Must be a bug. I've told my squadmates to take cover behind something, and a few minutes later I'll realize that they're not assisting me at all, because they're still in the previous room, exactly where I told them to be.

The World Ends With You for DS does exactly that. You can change the difficulty of the game at any time (except in battles), which affects the items and XP you get from fights. If you lose a fight, you have 3 options: Quit, Retry, and Retry on Easy. Great system.

If you actually read any of the newsposts related to that game, you would have realized that the comic was supposed to be FUNNY, and the Penny Arcade guys (Tycho, at the very least) love the game. It gets my thumbs-up, by the by.

All this discussion and nobody's brought up Phoenix Wright? That series of games is nothing but puzzles, and all of them make sense. I've played through 2 of them, and there was only 1 time in each game that I felt was ridiculously hard (what do you mean I have to look at the painting then the desk then the painting again? There's no clue on the desk that makes me want to look at the painting again! ARGH!) The "puzzles" aren't puzzles in the truest sense of the word, but you do have to think about the topic at hand and decide which piece of evidence would fit best into the situation... isn't that a puzzle?