I'm in the humanities and I don't know anyone that uses Linux (I'm probably one of the few that have ever even tried it) and if people use something besides Word for writing it would be Apple's Pages. I would be surprised if I knew anyone who has even heard of LaTeX let alone used it.
This guy must be huge because I'm 6ft 4 and 245lbs and last week I rented a Chevy Cobalt which is classified as a subcompact and I had plenty of room. It was kind of tough to get out of it because it was lower to the ground than I'm used to but I actually had to move the seat up a little bit.
It also depends on what the parody song is about. Is it parodying the song itself, as Weird Al does, or is it using the melody of the song to create a parody of something else. I'm not a lawyer, and I've never heard of Below Average Dave before so I've no idea if this is the case (or even true) but if the song is not parodying the original song but just using the melody to parody something else, then using the song is not fair use. The Penny Arcade guys ran into this when they ran a parody of American McGee's Alice which used Strawberry Shortcake.
What college did you go to and what major was it? I've never experienced anything like that. I haven't ever had a professor even use a textbook he or she wrote. The only time I had anything close was a guy who wrote a textbook 20 years ago for a math class and when it went out of print he just kept using it and giving us photocopies of it.
You've got your story posted on the NYTimes website and here at slashdot. So you've got your name and that particular search term listed on two sites with very high Google pagerank with in effect pushes the other links down. This seems like a good start in making it harder to pirate the books in question.
I kept getting a Star Wars feeling from this. When Kirk is hanging from the drill platform I was waiting for him to use The Force to pull his lightsaber to him. There were the multiple exotic locations, the emphasis on action, and there was even a medal ceremony at the end.
It was entertaining and leaves some interesting places for sequels but I'm unhappy that the odds of any of the TNG, DS9 or even Voyager characters to appear any more are very low (I still think a film with all the characters thrown together would have been fun).
Newspapers need to eliminate the things that other mass media do better. Why do newspapers have sports sections? I can see reporting high school sports for some local papers but why do they cover the professional sports? If someone really cares about yesterday's game wouldn't they either watch it, watch Sportscenter, or look up the results online? Why do they report yesterday's national news when you have 3 (4 if you count Headline News) 24 hour news channels and network news and local television news? Why are there horoscopes and comic strips that haven't been entertaining since the 70s? (of course in most cases horoscopes are little more than filler for the ads on the page)
Focus on things they do better: local news that isn't covered by local television.
I taught high school and the only thing the Teacher's Union did for me was make my paycheck smaller by taking money out of it.
If there is some teacher's union out there with all these magical powers that people always claim they have it obviously wasn't the one that I was part of...
Since NoScript recently put up a forum I figured I would go over to see what people on there had to say. Here's a thread which starts with a discussion of noscript breaking adblock and then turns into a discussion of the specific issue: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=877
Here's a post where the NoScript guy asserts his reasoning for it: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?p=2777#p2777 basically he says that the update to the filterset broke noscript.net making things like the menus unusable.
I didn't experience any issues updating to IE8 but I did experience MS hijacking my firefox search and homepage when I installed their Live stuff.
I restarted my computer after installing the latest updates including the Live stuff and when I restarted Firefox, the addons window popped up with something called "Microsoft Choice Guard." With a name like "choice guard" it sounded like spyware to me and I was basically right.
The easiest way to prevent plagiarism is to make your assignments specific to the class and basically plagiarism proof. Rather than just say, "write a paper about shakespeare" make the assignment more specific and require them to include some of the things that we have read in class and it takes a lot more work to plagiarize a paper. Sure a student could still plagiarize large sections but to make the paper fit the assignment they would have to tweak it or the paper will get a poor grade simply because it doesn't meet the assignment guidelines.
Value to whom and for what? This stuff is of historical importance just as much as the diaries of people in the previous decades is to historians. Why not preserve it?
I love his response. In typical Jacko fashion he doesn't see this as a set back at all. He claims he has 4 other ways to get his license back that are even more likely to work than the Supreme Court.
why do I suspect that one of them involves changing his name so he can try to get a license under his new name?
Wait, a Craig Anderson cronie finds something bad about videogames? That's amazing!
There's no story here. Gentile has published lots of papers with Craig Anderson (here is Gentile's list of publications http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/~dgentile/publications.htm ). Anderson has never met a form of media that didn't have negative effects. This is like Jack Thompson saying videogames are murder simulators.
As a graduate student who teaches college courses I find turnitin to be a horrible company that I refuse to use as either a student or a teacher.
As a student I refuse to turn over my intellectual property to some company and I refuse to be accused of plagiarism before the professor even sees my paper. I refuse to allow them to profit off of the sweat of my brow. The more papers they have in their system the more they can claim to be useful.
As a teacher I think that if I don't know my students well enough or I don't craft my assignments specifically enough that they are difficult to plagiarize then my students should be able to get away with it. I won't subject my students to such a system that I won't submit to and I won't threaten my relationship with my students by subjecting them to this kind of accusatory system.
I remember seeing this stuff back in the day and how it worked in Netscape but never in Firefox. A sad step backwards. We had a decent solution (at least from the enduser's perspective) and now a decade later we don't have that ability.
facebook, and stumbleupon, and pretty much every search engine's image search...
I think the combination of the urlshortening and the frame was what caused the tempest in the teapot.
I"ve read a lot of these studies and every one I've read has been incredibly flawed.
First, they most often talk about "aggression" rather than "violence." The problem is that in all the studies I've read they never define exactly what they mean by "aggression." One study gave examples -- in a graph and none in the body of the article -- that called "raising one's voice" a form of aggression. I'm no psychologist but I think there's a lot of difference between yelling -- and not necessarily even yelling at someone -- and killing someone.
Secondly, these studies rarely study what they say they are studying. For example there was a study from IU Medical that alleged to study reactions to videogame violence but if you read the actual study it turns out that the subjects didn't actually play videogames but watched a video of a videogame.
Finally, in the USA youth crime rates have been going down since the introduction of the PlayStation. One would think that if there really was some problem with videogame violence that the rates of youth crime would be increasing not decreasing.
I remember Jacko denying that particular quote and it is certainly possible that he did not say that. However, he has lied and exaggerated before so there is no reason to believe that he is not lying about that as well.
Jacko's pattern is to appear rational and sane in national media or in isolation and only reveal his true colors online
I wonder if the article is a bit wrong. Sure there have been some high profile scifi failures but there have also been a lot of fantasy mmorpgs that failed.
There actually are a fair number of scifi-themed mmorpgs out there. They aren't as successful as WoW but they are still around. I've never played any of these (I've never played WoW either) but someone is still playing Anarchy Online, Eve Online, Star Wars:Galaxies, the Matrix Online, and Planetside. They are all still around so they must not be losing too much money.
In the USA these types of places tend to actually be private property with the company that built all the houses owning and maintaining the streets. In situations like this then Google would be trespassing. I've no idea how things work in the UK though.
Regardless, their rage is useless since satellite imagery of the area shows everything pretty clearly. It looks like anything larger than approximately half a meter shows up when you zoom all the way in.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm in the humanities and I don't know anyone that uses Linux (I'm probably one of the few that have ever even tried it) and if people use something besides Word for writing it would be Apple's Pages. I would be surprised if I knew anyone who has even heard of LaTeX let alone used it.
It worked last summer when gas went up. I've seen a lot fewer Hummers on the road since then.
This guy must be huge because I'm 6ft 4 and 245lbs and last week I rented a Chevy Cobalt which is classified as a subcompact and I had plenty of room. It was kind of tough to get out of it because it was lower to the ground than I'm used to but I actually had to move the seat up a little bit.
People call the computer the "cpu" in the USA too. I've never heard someone call it the hard drive.
one of the things it suggested was to put in your hometown. I can't get it to recognize that my hometown of Napoleon, Indiana exists. It keeps trying to compare Napoleon, Ohio to the state of Indiana. I know it isn't a google killer or anything but google does recognize my hometown exists.
It also depends on what the parody song is about. Is it parodying the song itself, as Weird Al does, or is it using the melody of the song to create a parody of something else. I'm not a lawyer, and I've never heard of Below Average Dave before so I've no idea if this is the case (or even true) but if the song is not parodying the original song but just using the melody to parody something else, then using the song is not fair use. The Penny Arcade guys ran into this when they ran a parody of American McGee's Alice which used Strawberry Shortcake.
What college did you go to and what major was it? I've never experienced anything like that. I haven't ever had a professor even use a textbook he or she wrote. The only time I had anything close was a guy who wrote a textbook 20 years ago for a math class and when it went out of print he just kept using it and giving us photocopies of it.
You've got your story posted on the NYTimes website and here at slashdot. So you've got your name and that particular search term listed on two sites with very high Google pagerank with in effect pushes the other links down. This seems like a good start in making it harder to pirate the books in question.
I kept getting a Star Wars feeling from this. When Kirk is hanging from the drill platform I was waiting for him to use The Force to pull his lightsaber to him. There were the multiple exotic locations, the emphasis on action, and there was even a medal ceremony at the end.
It was entertaining and leaves some interesting places for sequels but I'm unhappy that the odds of any of the TNG, DS9 or even Voyager characters to appear any more are very low (I still think a film with all the characters thrown together would have been fun).
For newspapers to survive they need to quit catering to senior citizens. According to a study from the Pew Research Center the only group of people that had a majority of respondents say they would personally care if their local newspaper disappeared were people over the age of 65
Newspapers need to eliminate the things that other mass media do better. Why do newspapers have sports sections? I can see reporting high school sports for some local papers but why do they cover the professional sports? If someone really cares about yesterday's game wouldn't they either watch it, watch Sportscenter, or look up the results online? Why do they report yesterday's national news when you have 3 (4 if you count Headline News) 24 hour news channels and network news and local television news? Why are there horoscopes and comic strips that haven't been entertaining since the 70s? (of course in most cases horoscopes are little more than filler for the ads on the page)
Focus on things they do better: local news that isn't covered by local television.
I taught high school and the only thing the Teacher's Union did for me was make my paycheck smaller by taking money out of it.
If there is some teacher's union out there with all these magical powers that people always claim they have it obviously wasn't the one that I was part of...
Since NoScript recently put up a forum I figured I would go over to see what people on there had to say. Here's a thread which starts with a discussion of noscript breaking adblock and then turns into a discussion of the specific issue: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=877
Here's a post where the NoScript guy asserts his reasoning for it: http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?p=2777#p2777 basically he says that the update to the filterset broke noscript.net making things like the menus unusable.
In this post http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=877&start=90#p3162 he claims that the inability to remove the noscript filterset is a bug and that the next update to noscript will fix that and prompt users beforehand.
I didn't experience any issues updating to IE8 but I did experience MS hijacking my firefox search and homepage when I installed their Live stuff.
I restarted my computer after installing the latest updates including the Live stuff and when I restarted Firefox, the addons window popped up with something called "Microsoft Choice Guard." With a name like "choice guard" it sounded like spyware to me and I was basically right.
It turns out that if you aren't paying attention MS will install this http://help.live.com/help.aspx?market=en-us&project=wlinstallerv3&querytype=keyword&query=draug_eciohc
This isn't going to win MS any friends...
The easiest way to prevent plagiarism is to make your assignments specific to the class and basically plagiarism proof. Rather than just say, "write a paper about shakespeare" make the assignment more specific and require them to include some of the things that we have read in class and it takes a lot more work to plagiarize a paper. Sure a student could still plagiarize large sections but to make the paper fit the assignment they would have to tweak it or the paper will get a poor grade simply because it doesn't meet the assignment guidelines.
If I had a TA when I taught a class of 60 I would be in heaven. You are lucky to get a TA if you have 100 students in a class at my university...
Value to whom and for what? This stuff is of historical importance just as much as the diaries of people in the previous decades is to historians. Why not preserve it?
I love his response. In typical Jacko fashion he doesn't see this as a set back at all. He claims he has 4 other ways to get his license back that are even more likely to work than the Supreme Court.
why do I suspect that one of them involves changing his name so he can try to get a license under his new name?
Wait, a Craig Anderson cronie finds something bad about videogames? That's amazing!
There's no story here. Gentile has published lots of papers with Craig Anderson (here is Gentile's list of publications http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/~dgentile/publications.htm ). Anderson has never met a form of media that didn't have negative effects. This is like Jack Thompson saying videogames are murder simulators.
As a graduate student who teaches college courses I find turnitin to be a horrible company that I refuse to use as either a student or a teacher.
As a student I refuse to turn over my intellectual property to some company and I refuse to be accused of plagiarism before the professor even sees my paper. I refuse to allow them to profit off of the sweat of my brow. The more papers they have in their system the more they can claim to be useful.
As a teacher I think that if I don't know my students well enough or I don't craft my assignments specifically enough that they are difficult to plagiarize then my students should be able to get away with it. I won't subject my students to such a system that I won't submit to and I won't threaten my relationship with my students by subjecting them to this kind of accusatory system.
I remember seeing this stuff back in the day and how it worked in Netscape but never in Firefox. A sad step backwards. We had a decent solution (at least from the enduser's perspective) and now a decade later we don't have that ability.
facebook, and stumbleupon, and pretty much every search engine's image search... I think the combination of the urlshortening and the frame was what caused the tempest in the teapot.
I"ve read a lot of these studies and every one I've read has been incredibly flawed.
First, they most often talk about "aggression" rather than "violence." The problem is that in all the studies I've read they never define exactly what they mean by "aggression." One study gave examples -- in a graph and none in the body of the article -- that called "raising one's voice" a form of aggression. I'm no psychologist but I think there's a lot of difference between yelling -- and not necessarily even yelling at someone -- and killing someone.
Secondly, these studies rarely study what they say they are studying. For example there was a study from IU Medical that alleged to study reactions to videogame violence but if you read the actual study it turns out that the subjects didn't actually play videogames but watched a video of a videogame.
Finally, in the USA youth crime rates have been going down since the introduction of the PlayStation. One would think that if there really was some problem with videogame violence that the rates of youth crime would be increasing not decreasing.
I remember Jacko denying that particular quote and it is certainly possible that he did not say that. However, he has lied and exaggerated before so there is no reason to believe that he is not lying about that as well. Jacko's pattern is to appear rational and sane in national media or in isolation and only reveal his true colors online
I wonder if the article is a bit wrong. Sure there have been some high profile scifi failures but there have also been a lot of fantasy mmorpgs that failed.
There actually are a fair number of scifi-themed mmorpgs out there. They aren't as successful as WoW but they are still around. I've never played any of these (I've never played WoW either) but someone is still playing Anarchy Online, Eve Online, Star Wars:Galaxies, the Matrix Online, and Planetside. They are all still around so they must not be losing too much money.
That's actually not it. There are apparently a few places in the UK called Broughton. The Broughton in questions appears to be a housing developement.
In the USA these types of places tend to actually be private property with the company that built all the houses owning and maintaining the streets. In situations like this then Google would be trespassing. I've no idea how things work in the UK though.
Regardless, their rage is useless since satellite imagery of the area shows everything pretty clearly. It looks like anything larger than approximately half a meter shows up when you zoom all the way in.