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[THE QUESTION] Does this camera let you adjust compression?
The Napster case is just a prequel. The movie business was somewhat insulated from Internet piracy because digitized films used to take hours, even days, to download and even then were too murky and jerky to watch. But due to advances in data compression technology, and the spread of faster...
We believe that the primary purpose of grades is to reward students for the quality of their work, not to directly compare them to one another (although that is an inevitable side-effect). Many disagree, and argue that grade inflation is a problem only because grades are so compressed?...
Along the same lines, some have proposed to add an intermediate grade between an A-minus and a B-plus, corresponding to a 13 on Harvard’s grading scale. This, supposedly, would fight the current compression of the grade spectrum and give professors another option to reward excellent...
If current trends are allowed to continue, “compression in grades will create a system of grades in which A’s predominate and in which letters [of recommendation] consist primarily of praise. Meaningful distinctions will have disappeared,” according to the report.