Why not though? In the workplace, if I have a problem I am having trouble with, I turn to the guy behind me and get his opinion. In university, most assignments are worth 10% total (ie. 5x2% or something). Assignments should really only ensure that a student is actually thinking about the material and understanding it. Copying work defeats the purpose as you don't learn anything, but working out problems with a friend isn't all that different from doing it yourself, as you learn just the same. We're talking about assignments after all. These are short, mostly self-contained problems. If you want to test a student's ability to do more rigorous, independent work, then give them a big project with a unique topic, so that working with someone else really isn't an option.
What is cheating though? Copying answers verbatim is cheating, yes. But my friend got caught "cheating" on an assignment. Really, her and her friend did the assignment together (ie. they worked out some of the problems together, rather than copying answers - they shared a dorm after all). Even I had a hard time believing that that was cheating. I've learned a great deal from friends in the same program as I. Similarly, I've learned many things by being the one doing the explaining, since it helps me organize my thoughts better and really think things through.
I believe the U.S. uses a first to the office approach. As in, whoever files the application first, gets the patent. In some other countries, there is a short grace period after someone else files a patent that you can file yours within, if you can prove you were first. For example, I'm pretty sure that, in Canada, you can file a patent up to a year after someone else has and still get it, if you can prove you made it first.
On the other hand, one of the big dangers of run-off from agriculture is eutrophication of nearby lakes, rivers, tributaries, etc, caused by all the fertilizer sprayed on crops. Perhaps GM could help solve this problem by creating crops that require less fertilizer. In other words, there are 2 sides to GM; for instance, while it can create crops that are resistant to pesticides, letting farmers spray they hell out of their crops without worry, but it could also create crops that don't need pesticides. That said, I still agree with you; without further evidence, we should stick with what we know.
LaTeX gives you a number of advantages over word. First, the equations. This matters more to some, then others, but being able to quickly write math equations, and even just symbols, inline is great. Being able to split up my thesis into different files by chapters was also great. So was the sane versioning since it is all text (using git, in my case). Easy references and what not are great too, especially since it is all text and you can quickly search(/replace) most anything, including formatting.
Your drawbacks were never an issue for me. Evince automatically refreshes files when they change on disk, so if I recompile my files to a DVI, or PS or PDF, it'll auto refresh it for me. Figure placement can be configured inline and there exists lots of packages to help with this as well.
They may have a monopoly on e-Ink displays, but don't have a monopoly on (what I imagine is) their largest market; e-Readers. If they are actually overpriced (ie. they COULD charge less), then they should really rethink their business strategy before everyone ditches e-Readers for more general purpose tablets.
Don't forget his free education from K-12/13 and the heavily subsidised post-secondary education. Or the men and women standing by to protect his freedom. Or the clean drinking water (if you think the $10/m you pay for water/sewage covers all the costs, you're mistaken). Obviously, the list goes on and on.
What's the difference? The system can still be used to identify someone from their fingerprints. They can just give the hash to the police, the police then use the system to compute a new hash from a lifted print, then they can verify, with some degree of accuracy, that the print belongs to a specific child.
Make friends with a car guy. Seriously. For most car troubles, I can nail down the problem to one of a few causes pretty quickly. Last 3 problems with friends' cars I nailed the problem exactly with either just descriptions of the problem or a quick ride/inspection. I'm not going to fix their car, but I will tell my friends the most likely problems and the price range it'll cost to fix each (at a mechanic), that way they can at least tell if the mechanic is bullshitting them or overcharging.
I used 8.04 at work for the past 2 years (desktop + dev. server). I don't recall any stability issues... Hrm. During 1 long stretch where I never updated the OS (terrible, I know) I got an uptime of 6 months. I finally caved an applied a kernel update and had to restart. Never froze or crashed and the services I was running were pretty solid.
I obviously don't own the copyright to the game and can't make illegal [1] copies of it, but it's otherwise mine to do with as I please.
Except the DRM they ship with most games doesn't let you do with it as you legally please. Further, the DMCA prevents you from circumventing these measures, so it is, in fact, illegal to make pretty much any copy of the game, other than an unplayable, direct bit-for-bit transfer.
Do I think you were breaking the law? No. Did Nintendo, back then, think you were? Probably not. Would a game company now think you were? Most definitely yes. My statement is not something I believe in, but what the game producers are actually doing (or at least believe they are doing). I was trying to make a point, because it really is an absurd statement.
I'd hope so. However, that still hasn't stopped software makers from shipping all products with DRM that enforces these "rights" they have given me to use their software. It would appear the courts haven't really enforced this ruling on any sort of large scale.
This is the problem with software; you can't apply laws that were made for books to it. You can't make a book whose text disappears if you give it to a friend, but you can do this with software. If first-sale applies to software, then the courts should make DRM that prevents exactly that illegal. However, nothing is being done, so I would still say software is firmly in the gray category.
What you say makes sense, but that does not make it a reality. People think they are buying a game (and rightly so) and game producers think they are licensing you the rights to play the game (usually with lots of DRM to enforce these rights).
Tell me about it. I subscribe to last.fm for $3/m, yet I cannot install the Android app from the Market place (it's free, just licensing issues with the Canadian record labels I guess). Luckily, finding a.apk of the latest version is not hard and there are not actual region-restrictions in the app itself.
You are under the impression you own the game; you do not. You own the, very limited, rights to play that game. These rights are not transferable to friends.
I'd definitely agree. First photo editing software I used was Jasc's Paintshop Pro. It was dead simple and everything seemed intuitive. Then I tried Photoshop. Compared to Paintshop Pro, it was a UI nightmare and I gave up on Photoshop pretty fast. GIMP wasn't any better; I only really gave GIMP a chance when I had pretty much stopped using Windows.
It will be interesting to see why ppl are having issues with the DVD's.
Same thing as usual, I suppose. This is a protection scheme that was not intended in the original spec, and so it has to try to work within those limitations (ie. they push the boundaries of the spec). With ARccOS, Sony hedged their bets on how well devices implemented the DVD spec and it backfired on them (many big name players, like Sony, Toshiba, Phillips, etc. crapped out). The presumption is that if the DVD players implemented the spec as written, the movie will play, but there is no such thing as a perfect implementation of spec (all software is flawed).
Don't discount MS yet. Windows CE runs on ARM, so clearly they have experience with it. Also, the best wireless router I ever had was running a version of CE. It was rock solid for 8 years, never crapped out or required a reboot (even while my roommate downloaded massive amounts of torrents all day). Finally retired because I wanted a router that supported 802.11n. I can't believe how often I have to restart my new POS router which cost twice as much as the MS one did 8 years ago.
Third, there's reliability, security and performance.
Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don't want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.
Hey parents, your kids wouldn't be so fat if you didn't feed them crap food and let them sit on their butts in front of the t.v. all day and night.
And that's really it; they're letting their kids eat crap. You can also get chicken nuggets, apple slices, and a small carton of milk as a happy meal (with a toy), rather than the burger, fries and soda that I'm sure most parents buy their kids. The toy isn't stopping the kid from eating healthy, it's all the parents.
You could also look at it like this. An intelligent alien life that has no problem with genocide, probably would've also killed each off long ago - at least to the degree to seriously hinder scientific advancement.
Meh. I maintain separate passwords for my bank, paypal, and a select few other sites. All others gets a default password. If someone hacks my Slashdot account, I'll create a new one. Not a huge deal. Really, the ideal is just for everyone to move to OpenID.
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Why not though? In the workplace, if I have a problem I am having trouble with, I turn to the guy behind me and get his opinion. In university, most assignments are worth 10% total (ie. 5x2% or something). Assignments should really only ensure that a student is actually thinking about the material and understanding it. Copying work defeats the purpose as you don't learn anything, but working out problems with a friend isn't all that different from doing it yourself, as you learn just the same. We're talking about assignments after all. These are short, mostly self-contained problems. If you want to test a student's ability to do more rigorous, independent work, then give them a big project with a unique topic, so that working with someone else really isn't an option.
What is cheating though? Copying answers verbatim is cheating, yes. But my friend got caught "cheating" on an assignment. Really, her and her friend did the assignment together (ie. they worked out some of the problems together, rather than copying answers - they shared a dorm after all). Even I had a hard time believing that that was cheating. I've learned a great deal from friends in the same program as I. Similarly, I've learned many things by being the one doing the explaining, since it helps me organize my thoughts better and really think things through.
I believe the U.S. uses a first to the office approach. As in, whoever files the application first, gets the patent. In some other countries, there is a short grace period after someone else files a patent that you can file yours within, if you can prove you were first. For example, I'm pretty sure that, in Canada, you can file a patent up to a year after someone else has and still get it, if you can prove you made it first.
On the other hand, one of the big dangers of run-off from agriculture is eutrophication of nearby lakes, rivers, tributaries, etc, caused by all the fertilizer sprayed on crops. Perhaps GM could help solve this problem by creating crops that require less fertilizer. In other words, there are 2 sides to GM; for instance, while it can create crops that are resistant to pesticides, letting farmers spray they hell out of their crops without worry, but it could also create crops that don't need pesticides. That said, I still agree with you; without further evidence, we should stick with what we know.
LaTeX gives you a number of advantages over word. First, the equations. This matters more to some, then others, but being able to quickly write math equations, and even just symbols, inline is great. Being able to split up my thesis into different files by chapters was also great. So was the sane versioning since it is all text (using git, in my case). Easy references and what not are great too, especially since it is all text and you can quickly search(/replace) most anything, including formatting.
Your drawbacks were never an issue for me. Evince automatically refreshes files when they change on disk, so if I recompile my files to a DVI, or PS or PDF, it'll auto refresh it for me. Figure placement can be configured inline and there exists lots of packages to help with this as well.
You may have missed the whole buildout thing, but setting up Plone is stupendously easy nowadays.
They may have a monopoly on e-Ink displays, but don't have a monopoly on (what I imagine is) their largest market; e-Readers. If they are actually overpriced (ie. they COULD charge less), then they should really rethink their business strategy before everyone ditches e-Readers for more general purpose tablets.
Don't forget his free education from K-12/13 and the heavily subsidised post-secondary education. Or the men and women standing by to protect his freedom. Or the clean drinking water (if you think the $10/m you pay for water/sewage covers all the costs, you're mistaken). Obviously, the list goes on and on.
What's the difference? The system can still be used to identify someone from their fingerprints. They can just give the hash to the police, the police then use the system to compute a new hash from a lifted print, then they can verify, with some degree of accuracy, that the print belongs to a specific child.
Make friends with a car guy. Seriously. For most car troubles, I can nail down the problem to one of a few causes pretty quickly. Last 3 problems with friends' cars I nailed the problem exactly with either just descriptions of the problem or a quick ride/inspection. I'm not going to fix their car, but I will tell my friends the most likely problems and the price range it'll cost to fix each (at a mechanic), that way they can at least tell if the mechanic is bullshitting them or overcharging.
I used 8.04 at work for the past 2 years (desktop + dev. server). I don't recall any stability issues... Hrm. During 1 long stretch where I never updated the OS (terrible, I know) I got an uptime of 6 months. I finally caved an applied a kernel update and had to restart. Never froze or crashed and the services I was running were pretty solid.
I obviously don't own the copyright to the game and can't make illegal [1] copies of it, but it's otherwise mine to do with as I please.
Except the DRM they ship with most games doesn't let you do with it as you legally please. Further, the DMCA prevents you from circumventing these measures, so it is, in fact, illegal to make pretty much any copy of the game, other than an unplayable, direct bit-for-bit transfer.
Do I think you were breaking the law? No. Did Nintendo, back then, think you were? Probably not. Would a game company now think you were? Most definitely yes. My statement is not something I believe in, but what the game producers are actually doing (or at least believe they are doing). I was trying to make a point, because it really is an absurd statement.
I'd hope so. However, that still hasn't stopped software makers from shipping all products with DRM that enforces these "rights" they have given me to use their software. It would appear the courts haven't really enforced this ruling on any sort of large scale.
This is the problem with software; you can't apply laws that were made for books to it. You can't make a book whose text disappears if you give it to a friend, but you can do this with software. If first-sale applies to software, then the courts should make DRM that prevents exactly that illegal. However, nothing is being done, so I would still say software is firmly in the gray category.
What you say makes sense, but that does not make it a reality. People think they are buying a game (and rightly so) and game producers think they are licensing you the rights to play the game (usually with lots of DRM to enforce these rights).
Tell me about it. I subscribe to last.fm for $3/m, yet I cannot install the Android app from the Market place (it's free, just licensing issues with the Canadian record labels I guess). Luckily, finding a .apk of the latest version is not hard and there are not actual region-restrictions in the app itself.
You are under the impression you own the game; you do not. You own the, very limited, rights to play that game. These rights are not transferable to friends.
I'd definitely agree. First photo editing software I used was Jasc's Paintshop Pro. It was dead simple and everything seemed intuitive. Then I tried Photoshop. Compared to Paintshop Pro, it was a UI nightmare and I gave up on Photoshop pretty fast. GIMP wasn't any better; I only really gave GIMP a chance when I had pretty much stopped using Windows.
It will be interesting to see why ppl are having issues with the DVD's.
Same thing as usual, I suppose. This is a protection scheme that was not intended in the original spec, and so it has to try to work within those limitations (ie. they push the boundaries of the spec). With ARccOS, Sony hedged their bets on how well devices implemented the DVD spec and it backfired on them (many big name players, like Sony, Toshiba, Phillips, etc. crapped out). The presumption is that if the DVD players implemented the spec as written, the movie will play, but there is no such thing as a perfect implementation of spec (all software is flawed).
Don't discount MS yet. Windows CE runs on ARM, so clearly they have experience with it. Also, the best wireless router I ever had was running a version of CE. It was rock solid for 8 years, never crapped out or required a reboot (even while my roommate downloaded massive amounts of torrents all day). Finally retired because I wanted a router that supported 802.11n. I can't believe how often I have to restart my new POS router which cost twice as much as the MS one did 8 years ago.
Third, there's reliability, security and performance. Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don't want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.
Hey parents, your kids wouldn't be so fat if you didn't feed them crap food and let them sit on their butts in front of the t.v. all day and night.
And that's really it; they're letting their kids eat crap. You can also get chicken nuggets, apple slices, and a small carton of milk as a happy meal (with a toy), rather than the burger, fries and soda that I'm sure most parents buy their kids. The toy isn't stopping the kid from eating healthy, it's all the parents.
There was a post on Slashdot recently, showing how Google had made public the number of requests for data by gov't for information. Brazil topped the list, beating the U.S. (even though it is 60% of the size of the U.S.). It would seem that Brazil already gets the information you are talking about.
You could also look at it like this. An intelligent alien life that has no problem with genocide, probably would've also killed each off long ago - at least to the degree to seriously hinder scientific advancement.
Meh. I maintain separate passwords for my bank, paypal, and a select few other sites. All others gets a default password. If someone hacks my Slashdot account, I'll create a new one. Not a huge deal. Really, the ideal is just for everyone to move to OpenID.