What kinds of unauthorized software are people using, exactly? If a company was actually concerned about people installing things on their office computers, couldn't they just keep the administrative privileges away from the employees and/or flag computers they catch using certain software?
I mean, on campus here they block any computer suspected of using peer to peer programs for two hours (which is annoying when you have skype which can get mistaken for a peer to peer program if you leave it running) and my supervisor hasn't given me sudo permission on my computer (although I'm trying to bug him for updates and whatever software in hopes that if I harass him enough he'll get annoyed and let me do it myself). It generally doesn't seem that hard to do.
I wonder if this will mean that he'll be able to get better funding for the sciences?
I mean, it's generally sad the way funding for science programs in the US is decided by congress, who generally know nothing about science, but perhaps an actual scientists in congress will be able to fix this.
Western also lets undergrads blatantly cheat off each other. I'm a TA for some undergrad courses here and last semester I caught at least 100 copied assignments in what is generally considered a bird course, I flagged them (as instructed), but absolutely nothing happened to these students. No marks were deducted, nothing.
The most I've been able to do about cheating is take off some marks for a lab discussion when some partners had identical lab books because the only part of the lab I could prove was copied was the discussion section (apparently identically wrong math doesn't count as cheating).
I mean, I don't know if cheating is this blatant, but in my undergrad if we were caught cheating on any part of an assignment, we would get 0 on that assignment (or in the course) and a note on the transcript. Granted, we still collaborated, but nobody that I know handed in identical work or just copied from other students like a number of students here are allowed to do.
I didn't go into the coop programme because I went to McMaster and wanted to do a physics degree with a specialization in astrophysics, but the only coop programmes that were available were those in core physics and in medical physics (though they're accommodating people who want to do co-op and specialize now). And I'm done my undergraduate degree anyways, so I'm not nearly as broke since I'm a grad student and get paid to be here.
I can't say I'm particularly interested in any tech fields either. Computers are neat in their way, but they're mostly just useful tools for doing science, which is actually interesting, imo. However, when you said that Canadian students weren't poor, it didn't seem like you were just referring to those in tech programmes and also, a student being poor doesn't really have a lot to do with parents being poor. My parents made enough money that I couldn't get OSAP or any scholarships and bursaries aimed at people in financial need, but not enough that I wasn't poor throughout undergrad, even with summer jobs.
I'm also a Canadian... and I was dirt poor through undergrad. Not everyone goes into a coop programme or gets a good summer job. Some of us borrow heavily from parents or banks and work the drive through at Tim Hortons 40 hours a week four months of the year before returning to school in September and barely scrape by with the rent.
Yes, I get a lot of articles for my work from online journals, but sometimes (especially with older articles) they aren't scanned in and I have actually gone through stacks of old journals and dug up an article and photocopied it. Aside from this, whenever I do find an article online, I print it off if it's important and relevant enough for me to read it and then I highlight it to hell and put notes everywhere. You can't do that with pdfs (well, if you want to save it anyways) and I can't curl up on the couch, lie on my back and hold my laptop above my face for an hour while reading an article either.
It would be terrible if we lost libraries and books. I can't imagine a generation of kids downloading books and printing them out or staring at a computer screen all day reading one. I know that when I was a kid I couldn't afford to get my own books and my parents seldom bought them for me (well, once I grew out of books they liked me to read) so the library was my salvation. I never would have gotten into a great number of authors and subjects if not for libraries.
Of course solar energy isn't going to work if you're sending probes out of the solar system, you sort of start to run out of sunlight after a while.
However, when it comes to a lunar base, solar power (if available all the time) would probably be better than hauling uranium up from the earth or having to search for and mine some on the moon (I'm not sure how much uranium there would be on the moon either, since it's less dense than the earth and probably contains fewer heavy elements).
I'm always more disturbed than turned on when I find a man more interested in his appearance (shoes included) than I am.
Maybe you found some women who like men to have closets full of shoes, that doesn't mean that owning a lot of nice shoes will get you laid. Being smart and having a good sense of humour coupled with the ability to be at least a little charming should be sufficient unless you are totally devoid of a personality or try for vapid, shallow women.
He has played by the exact same rules the evolutionists have played by for more than a century.
Evolutionists, you say? What rules are these? Last I checked, proponents of the theory of evolution tend to do things like look at evidence, see if it supports their theory and if it doesn't, they modify the theory. What Behe does is say "I don't think this can be explained naturally, therefore it must have been designed." and then, when presented with evidence to the contrary, pretends to be deaf and blind (unfortunately not mute though).
Opponents are right to say that Intelligent Design cannot be disproved. However, it might be that it can be proved or closely enough so.
You can't prove or disprove intelligent design, it's pure idiocy that doesn't remotely resemble reason. It's not even science.
Especially if one is paid in advance... I would personally just take the money and duck out 5 mins into the meeting for a bathroom break and not come back.
To me it sounds like more like "borderline dishonest". Anybody with a Ph.D (especially in something technical) is automatically going to have a strong understanding of the scientific method.
Actually, as an astronomy grad student I get paid more than biology grad students at my school. Even the ones with some external funding (i.e. NSERC) which I don't have. I doubt that physics and astronomy graduate students are the highest paid either.
How much do the other sources of these papers charge? If there isn't a way to search this site and look for one of 1.8 million court rulings then this might be a difficult task.
It also doesn't seem unreasonable to charge a small fee for online publications, I'm pretty sure that ApJ and the like charge at least a little to access their articles (fortunately for me, this is covered for computers on campus).
I'm pretty sure it's free in Canada too, but without real time limits (well, a time limit of until the store closes I suppose). One of my friends used to go into Starbuck's, buy one coffee, get their wireless password for the day and then he'd leave and if he needed internet later would sit on a bench outside and use the same password for free.
As a sovereign country they are free to do as they please, but we believe that they can either remain signatories to the treaty or disregard treaty obligations for their own standards, but not both.
Yes, because the US is so good at upholding treaties.
Americans only like treaties when they're in their best interest and then ignore them when they become inconvenient or involve playing fair.
or does eliminating certain DNA errors seem like a possibly very bad idea? I mean, let's say that a gene causes Alzheimer's disease later in life, but it gives its carrier immunity to a new virus that appears. Eliminating this gene from the entire species could wind up killing us all off in the end. Just because something appears to be a disadvantage doesn't mean that it's always so.
I think this is also why bookstores put comfy armchairs in the aisles near the books. Well, that and the fact that the longer people stay in the store, the more likely they are to buy more things.
I disagree about the cds though. There is a bit to be gained, usually a cd will have the booklet with lyrics and artwork and all this and that. Plus with the cd, you can put it into any digital format you want, but I'm not sure you can convert.mp3 files into.ogg files or something like this if you prefer the latter.
It's not just document stealing. Read the wiki article I linked, it talks about how the church of Scientology tried to frame people for various crimes because they spoke out about the church! They threaten to kill people for the same reason. This is happening now, not hundreds of years ago.
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What kinds of unauthorized software are people using, exactly? If a company was actually concerned about people installing things on their office computers, couldn't they just keep the administrative privileges away from the employees and/or flag computers they catch using certain software?
I mean, on campus here they block any computer suspected of using peer to peer programs for two hours (which is annoying when you have skype which can get mistaken for a peer to peer program if you leave it running) and my supervisor hasn't given me sudo permission on my computer (although I'm trying to bug him for updates and whatever software in hopes that if I harass him enough he'll get annoyed and let me do it myself). It generally doesn't seem that hard to do.
I wonder if this will mean that he'll be able to get better funding for the sciences?
I mean, it's generally sad the way funding for science programs in the US is decided by congress, who generally know nothing about science, but perhaps an actual scientists in congress will be able to fix this.
Because photons in a certain energy range are visible light and that's what the universe started off as?
Well, Newton was a dick. Apparently he derived great pleasure having people executed for counterfeiting.
And Leibniz's notation is much better than Newton's. Plus the Greeks beat them both to it anyways.
Western also lets undergrads blatantly cheat off each other. I'm a TA for some undergrad courses here and last semester I caught at least 100 copied assignments in what is generally considered a bird course, I flagged them (as instructed), but absolutely nothing happened to these students. No marks were deducted, nothing.
The most I've been able to do about cheating is take off some marks for a lab discussion when some partners had identical lab books because the only part of the lab I could prove was copied was the discussion section (apparently identically wrong math doesn't count as cheating).
I mean, I don't know if cheating is this blatant, but in my undergrad if we were caught cheating on any part of an assignment, we would get 0 on that assignment (or in the course) and a note on the transcript. Granted, we still collaborated, but nobody that I know handed in identical work or just copied from other students like a number of students here are allowed to do.
I didn't go into the coop programme because I went to McMaster and wanted to do a physics degree with a specialization in astrophysics, but the only coop programmes that were available were those in core physics and in medical physics (though they're accommodating people who want to do co-op and specialize now). And I'm done my undergraduate degree anyways, so I'm not nearly as broke since I'm a grad student and get paid to be here.
I can't say I'm particularly interested in any tech fields either. Computers are neat in their way, but they're mostly just useful tools for doing science, which is actually interesting, imo. However, when you said that Canadian students weren't poor, it didn't seem like you were just referring to those in tech programmes and also, a student being poor doesn't really have a lot to do with parents being poor. My parents made enough money that I couldn't get OSAP or any scholarships and bursaries aimed at people in financial need, but not enough that I wasn't poor throughout undergrad, even with summer jobs.
I'm also a Canadian... and I was dirt poor through undergrad. Not everyone goes into a coop programme or gets a good summer job. Some of us borrow heavily from parents or banks and work the drive through at Tim Hortons 40 hours a week four months of the year before returning to school in September and barely scrape by with the rent.
Which probably includes the same people who don't know how to spell Barrie.
Crazy. It's still not as transportable though.
Yes, I get a lot of articles for my work from online journals, but sometimes (especially with older articles) they aren't scanned in and I have actually gone through stacks of old journals and dug up an article and photocopied it. Aside from this, whenever I do find an article online, I print it off if it's important and relevant enough for me to read it and then I highlight it to hell and put notes everywhere. You can't do that with pdfs (well, if you want to save it anyways) and I can't curl up on the couch, lie on my back and hold my laptop above my face for an hour while reading an article either.
It would be terrible if we lost libraries and books. I can't imagine a generation of kids downloading books and printing them out or staring at a computer screen all day reading one. I know that when I was a kid I couldn't afford to get my own books and my parents seldom bought them for me (well, once I grew out of books they liked me to read) so the library was my salvation. I never would have gotten into a great number of authors and subjects if not for libraries.
Of course solar energy isn't going to work if you're sending probes out of the solar system, you sort of start to run out of sunlight after a while.
However, when it comes to a lunar base, solar power (if available all the time) would probably be better than hauling uranium up from the earth or having to search for and mine some on the moon (I'm not sure how much uranium there would be on the moon either, since it's less dense than the earth and probably contains fewer heavy elements).
I'm always more disturbed than turned on when I find a man more interested in his appearance (shoes included) than I am.
Maybe you found some women who like men to have closets full of shoes, that doesn't mean that owning a lot of nice shoes will get you laid. Being smart and having a good sense of humour coupled with the ability to be at least a little charming should be sufficient unless you are totally devoid of a personality or try for vapid, shallow women.
He has played by the exact same rules the evolutionists have played by for more than a century.
Evolutionists, you say? What rules are these? Last I checked, proponents of the theory of evolution tend to do things like look at evidence, see if it supports their theory and if it doesn't, they modify the theory. What Behe does is say "I don't think this can be explained naturally, therefore it must have been designed." and then, when presented with evidence to the contrary, pretends to be deaf and blind (unfortunately not mute though).
Opponents are right to say that Intelligent Design cannot be disproved. However, it might be that it can be proved or closely enough so.
You can't prove or disprove intelligent design, it's pure idiocy that doesn't remotely resemble reason. It's not even science.
Especially if one is paid in advance... I would personally just take the money and duck out 5 mins into the meeting for a bathroom break and not come back.
To me it sounds like more like "borderline dishonest". Anybody with a Ph.D (especially in something technical) is automatically going to have a strong understanding of the scientific method.
You've never heard of Michael Behe I take it?
Sadly there are a number of people with PhDs in the sciences who fail to understand the scientific method.
This looks like something from Star Trek!
If only we could warp drive and the whole Utopian society thing working too.
Actually, as an astronomy grad student I get paid more than biology grad students at my school. Even the ones with some external funding (i.e. NSERC) which I don't have. I doubt that physics and astronomy graduate students are the highest paid either.
How much do the other sources of these papers charge? If there isn't a way to search this site and look for one of 1.8 million court rulings then this might be a difficult task.
It also doesn't seem unreasonable to charge a small fee for online publications, I'm pretty sure that ApJ and the like charge at least a little to access their articles (fortunately for me, this is covered for computers on campus).
I'm pretty sure it's free in Canada too, but without real time limits (well, a time limit of until the store closes I suppose). One of my friends used to go into Starbuck's, buy one coffee, get their wireless password for the day and then he'd leave and if he needed internet later would sit on a bench outside and use the same password for free.
As a sovereign country they are free to do as they please, but we believe that they can either remain signatories to the treaty or disregard treaty obligations for their own standards, but not both.
Yes, because the US is so good at upholding treaties.
Americans only like treaties when they're in their best interest and then ignore them when they become inconvenient or involve playing fair.
I have never been so proud to be a Canadian.
We didn't used to have the whole global village thing going on like we do now.
or does eliminating certain DNA errors seem like a possibly very bad idea? I mean, let's say that a gene causes Alzheimer's disease later in life, but it gives its carrier immunity to a new virus that appears. Eliminating this gene from the entire species could wind up killing us all off in the end. Just because something appears to be a disadvantage doesn't mean that it's always so.
It makes sense to let people try before they buy.
.mp3 files into .ogg files or something like this if you prefer the latter.
I think this is also why bookstores put comfy armchairs in the aisles near the books. Well, that and the fact that the longer people stay in the store, the more likely they are to buy more things.
I disagree about the cds though. There is a bit to be gained, usually a cd will have the booklet with lyrics and artwork and all this and that. Plus with the cd, you can put it into any digital format you want, but I'm not sure you can convert
It's not just document stealing. Read the wiki article I linked, it talks about how the church of Scientology tried to frame people for various crimes because they spoke out about the church! They threaten to kill people for the same reason. This is happening now, not hundreds of years ago.