1/25    Computer Science Subject Test, GRE Standard:
        1996, 80 questions                1998, 70 questions
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        40/80 = 720, 81% percentile       35/70 = 680, 56% percentile
        46/80 = 760, 90% percentile       53/70 = 800, 90% percentile
        58/80 = 850, 99% percentile       64/70 = 860, 99% percentile
        Can someone PLEASE explain what is going on?
                                             -Mr. Industry Is For Dumb People
        \_ Industry is hot, more people want to study CS, more competition
        \_ first of all, subject tests are scored out of 990, so except
           for the lower percentiles these are comparable...also every
           time ETS rewrites the test they fuck with the percentiles,
           which they are very capable of tweaking arbitrarily.  math
           is much smaller than cs, but a 940 on math is only a low 60th
           percentile.  in conclusion, ETS is a bunch of useless assholes,
           and the material generated by ETS is typical that generated by
           assholes.
           \_ well said! Damn MF at ETS should be shot
           \_ i concur.  it should be <DEAD>ets.com<DEAD> not http://ets.org
                \_ i calculated that from start to finish i paid about
                   $500 to ETS during the graduate addmissions process.
                   All for a test scored by a scantron. that's not
                   business, it's extortion.
                   \_ ets.mil
                \_ I know the supposed differences btwn .com & .org. And I
                 know you're restricted from getting domain names like .edu
                 or .mil, etc if you're not really a .edu or .mil. So why is
                 it there's not more heavy restrictions on .com? I mean,
                 shouldn't it be http://www.lovehewitt.org not http://www.lovehewitt.com
                 \_ just like http://autobahn.org is realy a company
                \_ who cares?
                   \_ obviously not you.
                \_ because NSI doesn't give a shit anymore and have made the
                   *only* requirement for a domain in the .{com,net,org} TLD's
                   the $70 it takes to register a domain. -ERic
        \_ The longer you are out of school, the dumber (academic wise) you
           become.
           \_ Yeah, I really feel this way now that I've been out for 5 1/2
              years.  -- yuen

1/25    I have a garage door 'clicker' that I bought a long time
        ago.  It has 10 switches inside.  It recently died on
        me (new batteries didn't help).  I went back to Home
        Depot to buy a replacement, but they only had ones that
        were either 9 switch or 12 switch openers.  I also went
        to Sears and all they had were 9 switch ones.  Before I
        blow $20-30 on one, does anybody know if a 12 switch
        garage opener will work?  Or anybody know where I can buy
        the older 10 switch clicker garage door openers?
        \_ Sigh... Has no one any common sense?  Call the people who built
           your garage door opener and ask them how to get a replacement
           for your model.  The phone number and model should be on the motor
           hanging from the ceiling in your garage.

1/25    HTML job.  Practically braindead...if you're interested, email
        me, christine@taos.com  --chris
        \_ Huh?  Mail you?  What's your ZIP code?

1/25    Vollunteer your computer teaching fu: jobs/vollunteer.sp99
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