Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!atl-c02.usenetserver.com!chi1.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!msc1.onvoy!onvoy.com!news.netins.net!not-for-mail From: "Dawn M. Wolthuis" Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: database systems and organizational intelligence Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:50:48 -0500 Organization: netINS InterNetNews site Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <72f08f6c.0405231341.49d8d675@posting.google.com> <1xcsc.6800$L.1262@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <40b1f055@post.usenet.com> <40b48b19.9483676@news.wanadoo.es> <40b49336$1@post.usenet.com> <5Xotc.22642$So7.19056@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com> <2hp2n6Fflk47U1@uni-berlin.de> <2hpd9uFffp7iU1@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.120.93.7 X-Trace: news.netins.net 1085773859 31415 199.120.93.7 (28 May 2004 19:50:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@netins.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 19:50:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.theory:27324 "Alan" wrote in message news:2hpd9uFffp7iU1@uni-berlin.de... > Here's a little fun for you. To find out if anyone is reading your handouts, > bury a line real deep inside one that says something like, "The first > student to email me with the code word "extra" will get 10 extra points on > the next exam." > > Never had a taker. Always asked test questions from the handouts. and we are surprised when we elect [sic] a president who doesn't read. Hmmm -- students who haven't been programming in BASIC on their DOS machines (it's been some years), who cheat, and who don't read -- I hope they applaud at the end of each class period, 'cause I've been in industry and doing talks for a while and I need that applause. It should be a ride. smiles --dawn