The idea's still there in the administration tho. It's the Faculty who need to quit being butthurt about it.
Generalizing:
Working with leading faculty is a bit like working with the 'always answers in snippits' students from highschool 40 years later in their life. Procrastinate, panics when something isn't the way they expect it, and genuinely quirky. All it takes is one noisy tenure to make a stink to a VP/P and many things get shut down.
Maybe in a decade when the damage grade inflation has done to accreditation and the value of a degree becomes apparent the faculty will allow for this type of thing to exist.
Yeah, University employees are contractually held to a non-compete agreement which would prolly break down here when brought to general counsel.
The grade distribution information is not considered restricted under any FERPA or other policy, but it is considered 'sensitive' and requires an external party to jump through quite a few legal hoops to access.
Edit: I serve at the behest of the Provost. So that was basically the boss/boss saying "we made a mistake, please take that down."
Yup. Faculty don't like you pointing this out and actually complain loudly to the Provost level administration at a University when it is done so. Here's what happened to me a few years ago:
I created a web app at the request of one of the schools & deans at the University I work for. (I do stats/database reporting full time.) It was wildly popular with students for enrollment purposes. After a few days it got shut down by a direct Provost order. The faculty did not like it being so easy to compare their grades with their colleagues on "identical classes" (large foundational courses math and science) and worried that it would damage departmental and eventually school reputation.
Personally I thought it was bullshit to take down (not only because I worked so hard on it and it was fuckin cool.) The data is released to companies (by way of an Open Records Request) that make money by selling "pick the best professor for this class" rankings to naive students.
Our research department devoted resources to making the application because we thought making the data easy to use and public would in fact CORRECT for grade inflation over time. Basically, I feel that the old way has to die off before any changes will be made and there's some pretty big changes looming for higher ed in the future.
dunno about actual run-of-the-mill daily cycle but I've seen the reactor at K-State run a couple-dollar pulse. It looked about like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgNwtepP-6M
For the day to day operation it just looked like a big pool of distilled water with a ton of pipes running around in it.
I've done exactly this to moderate effect with "greenstuff" modeling epoxy. I use it in my other hobbies and had it on hand. It lacks the strength to really break multiple seals from some of the loctite's used in apple products.
(related: http://www.amazon.com/Games-Workshop-Green-Stuff-Modelling/d...)
Usually a tough Allen wrench of similar size and some luck works on those oddball sized heads.
I don't mean to be snarky but how is rape/murder/theft threat different than your daily life? Someone is going to go overboard and sucker people vs randomly kidnap someone at a Wendys?
I need breaks from what I'm working on - and this site fills that need. There's only so much I will get done in a day and this unquenched optimism & productivity that is common here is simply not something I do. I end up thinking back to something I read here months & years later, thus cementing it's leisure value above reddit, fukung and twitter.
The gas gauge is just another 'idiot light' to me. It doesn't really tell me anything reliable but it does spur further action. Similar to how a maintenance required light lets me know I need to plug in the code reader and check it out. When the gauge indicates low, I'll pay attention to how much mileage I'm expecting and then time the next fill-up around that.
(Tracking mileage is done on my phone. Using the data stored there I can accurately gauge how many miles I can get using the odometer. I've done this for the entire life of my truck and I can peg a 3500 mile roadtrip's cost within 5$)
That said - I feel that I would prefer an accurate reading on the tank status through the gauge to be standard. I wouldn't feel so uncertain when driving someone else car past the last gas station for 50m en route to Vegas.
FWIW - the feds restructured how ethnicity is defined for the 2010 census. Now if you have multiple ethnicities you are reported as such - before it was only what you considered your primary race. This will balloon diversity figures in formerly non-diverse areas. I expect to see many media-filler articles such as this once the full census report is published.
There's some additional depth to how the Hispanic grouping is classified. Essentially if you self report any Hispanic lineage you are considered a primarily Hispanic individual.
speaking for myself:
1. Shows my friends what I'm playing. This leads often to impromptu multiplayer in a diverse social group that never did so before. Fire up world of goo then get a couple of messages from friends who were 'away' a minute ago to ask "lets kill zombies."
2. keeps everything mostly up to date. Patches usually roll out in hours of their release and are automatically applied.
3. Steam Cloud. Settings, cd keys, savegames - all stored between my laptop and desktop without any effort.
4. Goddamn easy to buy.
side note, the church did send out some aggressive DVD & pamphlet sets claiming anonymous was a terrorist organization to anyone they pegged at a protest.
I tried this when it made the HN rounds about a year ago. My results were over about three months and my primary reason was to assist treating moderate eczema. I stopped using all soap and shampoo and just stuck with hot-as-hell water. My skin did get better, but after about two months my hair began to naturally dread. After I looked back on my notes of this endeavor I decided to use some scent-free shampoo to prevent dreads. I use soap to clean up when I finish painting/working on a car or other dirty project. I also use it before I prepare food for my family and friends. My hair did never really 'feel' right, much more like a dogs fur than clean hair. It didn't smell bad it just felt different and didn't behave.
The interesting thing that came out of my tracking this impromptu 'shower log' of no soap use - I was able to correlate my severe eczema outbreaks with inhaling allergens. In my case, breathing in pine dust & glue particulate causes outbreaks. I now wear my painting respirator 75% of the time in the shop and have very few incidents.
Just a thought - I've worked with a legally blind woman for a few years. She uses a variety of magnifying gadgets and devices during meetings to read handouts or lunch menus. I think that the present gen tablets are coming very close to being able to replace these expensive magnifying gadgets - and incorporate other technology.
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