I think you meant "equivalent" to plagiarism in that the effects and repercussions are the same, but it's still not ''equal'' to plagiarism because plagiarism is a very specific thing. Even if they specify in the university policies that the use here constitutes "plagiarism", they can't really change the nature of the thing that people commonly refer to as plagiarism.
No it isn't. By definition, plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as your own. You fundamentally cannot plagiarize yourself.
The school and the professor may have a point that repeating a class requires putting the same level of effort into the class, but the efficiency-seeking nerd in me doesn't like that argument.
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I have them now. The practical effect is that my brain and eyes actually adjust to the glasses faster than the glasses adjust to the environment. I'm never really conscious of whether the glasses are light or dark. It's weird because every now and again someone asks me why I'm wearing sunglasses and I have no idea what they're talking about.
Years ago, I sent in an application to one company in New York City but never heard back. I mentioned that to someone who was familiar with that company. According to him, it is nearly impossible for anyone without a degree from an Ivy League School to get any kind of development job there. I don't know what company you're talking about and hell, even if I did, I'd have no idea of their hiring practices, but this strikes me as an attempt to rationalize not getting hired.
I think people on the outside see competitive companies with a lot of employees from big-name schools and deduce that getting hired requires the big-name degree. Certainly, they do give some weight to where you've from, but they want to have a big pool to draw on to get the best candidates, too. I just think that in life there are some people who are highly motivated to be the "best". A lot of them follow the same path through the same schools to the same companies, because those are the "best" schools and the "best" companies. I say this coming from a state school myself. Now I work alongside those people at a pretty competitive tech company, so the school name didn't hurt me too much.
I guess my point is that as long as you're talented and motivated, the school won't matter as much as appearances would lead you to believe. I think I'm a fairly good example of that. In high school I wasn't particularly interested in running the extra mile to compete against the kids who spent 4 years thinking about how to get into college. I got decent grades so I went to a decent college. However, I was much more motivated to get a good job and that ended up paying off. I didn't really get stellar grades even. Mostly I had just enough of an idea of what I wanted to do that I was able to take the classes I need to really concentrate and excel in that area.
So to bring it all the way back to the original topic, my advice would be to get a 4 year degree from the best university you can, but don't fret if you don't get into that #1 school. And as a side note get an internship, at least one, but as many as possible. An internship with a big name company is much more helpful.
TECH.BLORGE's source for their item was Telstra plays it cool on iPhone from the AAP. Without their incredible spin on it, Winn's comments weren't really that negative. For example:
"I think people overreacted to it - there was not a lot of tremendously new stuff if you think about it," he said. "It was maybe kind of cool on the touchscreen technology but touchscreen technology is another domain, so it's only a matter of time before it went to the device." The author turns that into "Aussie telco Telstra slams Apple iPhone: 'people over reacted to it'". C'mon. I expect better reporting from Fox News.
These are computer systems like any other, and thus require a skilled administrator to configure them in a secure fashion. Don't assume because some device is 'purpose-built' that it isn't hackable. That's actually Cisco's position as well. They provide an expensive and Cisco-specific method of demonstrating that you are a skilled administrator. So from management's point of view, Cisco ASA + CCXX is more secure than Linux + Random Slashdotter.
... you should never EVER... Never use absolutes, because they are always wrong. Would you care to explain how you would go about writing your own patch for a closed-source system? Hell, suppose the exploit is in some network device which employs signed firmware. Even if you could write a patch, you couldn't apply it.
Sometimes increasing the magnitude of the problem is the only way to solve it, because some businesses won't bother to do anything unless the problem is widespread. Will the company do anything if it only affects 0.1% of customers? Probably not, but it's a pretty shitty situation for the people in the 0.1%.
Right, like I said, this could prove to be a real competitor to satellite providers in rural areas (with caveats). The GP was talking about DSL being too expensive, which is a bit odd considering that DSL is the same price dial up was a few years ago.
I don't expect you to betray anyone's confidence, but I am a little peeved by this tendency in our society to treat salaries like grandma's meatloaf recipe. Even if I knew your friends' names and salaries, there's not much I could do with that information that would harm them. On the other hand, your employer knows exactly how much you make and probably has a better idea of how much you're worth on the open market than you do. It just doesn't seem fair to me.
Many people in the U.S. are still on dial-up. If Google offered them a way to dramatically increase the speed of web page loads for an extra $2 a month, they'd probably take that option over the much more expensive DSL or Cable services. Your comments and this plan would have made more sense about 5 years ago. DSL is widely available now and it's not that expensive. Now that the telcos have rolled out the DSL infrastructure and bandwidth prices have fallen, the costs of operating a DSL ISP are pretty much the same as dial up. Eager to grab the dial up users, DSL providers have thus dropped the price on low-end DSL considerably. For example, AT&T/SBC offers 768Kbps DSL for $14.99 a month, which was the price point for dial up for a long time. Dial up ISPs have responded with gimmicks, add-on software, and long-term contracts because they can't afford to lower their prices too much. After you get past the introductory pricing, PeoplePC, Earthlink, and NetZero are all about $10/month. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a huge market segment to be had in between.
There is something to be said about rural customers, but putting towers in remote areas is still a rather hefty investment per customer, since by definition such areas are sparsely populated. If they can work out that little problem, it could be a decent competitor to satellite internet access, but splitting that market won't make them much money.
Even so, I have a hunch the ultimate goal here is not really to create a new type of ISP. If you listen to the anonymous "person affiliated with the coalition", it seems they may be gunning to replace WiFi in your home wireless network. That makes a little more sense to me if the TV spectrum can deliver better speed and/or range than WiFi.
And I don't suppose you care to spill the beans on those approximate numbers... This taboo in our culture about not talking about salaries only serves to create an uninformed market, to the benefit of the employer.
Anyway, I heard starting salary for an SDE/SDET in Redmond was in the $70-80k range. Google is more than that?
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, most US cities offer door-to-door shuttle service for disabled people who cannot reach or use the normal bus or rail lines by themselves. More information is available from the transit authority for Santa Clara County, which covers most of Silicon Valley. Similar programs are available throughout the Bay Area and nearly all major cities.
What about Eris (previously 2003 UB313, aka Xena), which is spherical and bigger than Pluto? Based on your criteria, there are at least half a dozen objects that would qualify as planets.
"We may not be able to offer the same compensation as our competitors but we do offer transportation to and from work which we see as a valuable fringe benefit which both enhances the employee paycheck and works to preserve the environment." What kind of compensation does Google offer? I've heard over this line and over that Google doesn't pay as well as their competitors, relying instead on these intangible perks, but how does that translate into dollars and cents?
I think it may have ended, but when I was at college, I got full copies of Windows, Visual Studio, and Office for less than $15 each. The fees were for the CDs and shipping from Microsoft. If you didn't care about having the media, you could borrow the CDs from the library, get a product key from Microsoft's website and pay nothing.
The retarded thing is that the school bookstore still sold the stuff at full price (actually, at a small "academic" discount price). They really didn't advertise the program at all. I only found out about in my senior year if I remember correctly.
Gah, I've had that sig literally for years (at least 6) and this is the first anyone's commented on it. (Conclusive proof that it sucks and needs to be changed.) Apparently I got it from this page, which is a super-nerdy treatise on Star Trek. I was about to claim they copied it from me, but considering it was written in 1993, I probably got it from them.
The watermark is so they can go after you if you do anything that violates the copyright. It's slightly less onerous than DRM because it doesn't restrict use that has nothing to do with copyright infringement, such as making backups. It's a compromise that acknowledges that the content producers have a legitimate reason to want to stop copyright infringement. Not everyone is a pirate; some people would rather pay to have a legitimate copy even if it were inferior.
Unfortunately, it's fundamentally impossible to design an effective watermark that doesn't interfere with the content. No one likes that, including the content producers.
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I think you meant "equivalent" to plagiarism in that the effects and repercussions are the same, but it's still not ''equal'' to plagiarism because plagiarism is a very specific thing. Even if they specify in the university policies that the use here constitutes "plagiarism", they can't really change the nature of the thing that people commonly refer to as plagiarism.
My model predicts that they will win at least one game. That makes me right for all six out of the last six years, so I guess I've got him beat.
No it isn't. By definition, plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as your own. You fundamentally cannot plagiarize yourself.
The school and the professor may have a point that repeating a class requires putting the same level of effort into the class, but the efficiency-seeking nerd in me doesn't like that argument.
I have them now. The practical effect is that my brain and eyes actually adjust to the glasses faster than the glasses adjust to the environment. I'm never really conscious of whether the glasses are light or dark. It's weird because every now and again someone asks me why I'm wearing sunglasses and I have no idea what they're talking about.
I think people on the outside see competitive companies with a lot of employees from big-name schools and deduce that getting hired requires the big-name degree. Certainly, they do give some weight to where you've from, but they want to have a big pool to draw on to get the best candidates, too. I just think that in life there are some people who are highly motivated to be the "best". A lot of them follow the same path through the same schools to the same companies, because those are the "best" schools and the "best" companies. I say this coming from a state school myself. Now I work alongside those people at a pretty competitive tech company, so the school name didn't hurt me too much.
I guess my point is that as long as you're talented and motivated, the school won't matter as much as appearances would lead you to believe. I think I'm a fairly good example of that. In high school I wasn't particularly interested in running the extra mile to compete against the kids who spent 4 years thinking about how to get into college. I got decent grades so I went to a decent college. However, I was much more motivated to get a good job and that ended up paying off. I didn't really get stellar grades even. Mostly I had just enough of an idea of what I wanted to do that I was able to take the classes I need to really concentrate and excel in that area.
So to bring it all the way back to the original topic, my advice would be to get a 4 year degree from the best university you can, but don't fret if you don't get into that #1 school. And as a side note get an internship, at least one, but as many as possible. An internship with a big name company is much more helpful.
Reminds me of how ethnically-diverse and culturally-sensitive 12th century England was.
... you should never EVERI'll be the first to chant the "MySpace sucks" mantra, but you're telling me an IE exploit (your words) is MySpace's responsibility?
Sometimes increasing the magnitude of the problem is the only way to solve it, because some businesses won't bother to do anything unless the problem is widespread. Will the company do anything if it only affects 0.1% of customers? Probably not, but it's a pretty shitty situation for the people in the 0.1%.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Raul654 might just be this Raul654. I don't think he's a student at an all-girls high school.
Firefox was ever so nice as to convert that into Punycode for me: xn--gba.com
Strangely, accessing ©.com in IE directed me to an advertisement for VeriSign's IDN client software. xn--gba.com works just fine in IE though.
Right, like I said, this could prove to be a real competitor to satellite providers in rural areas (with caveats). The GP was talking about DSL being too expensive, which is a bit odd considering that DSL is the same price dial up was a few years ago.
I don't expect you to betray anyone's confidence, but I am a little peeved by this tendency in our society to treat salaries like grandma's meatloaf recipe. Even if I knew your friends' names and salaries, there's not much I could do with that information that would harm them. On the other hand, your employer knows exactly how much you make and probably has a better idea of how much you're worth on the open market than you do. It just doesn't seem fair to me.
There is something to be said about rural customers, but putting towers in remote areas is still a rather hefty investment per customer, since by definition such areas are sparsely populated. If they can work out that little problem, it could be a decent competitor to satellite internet access, but splitting that market won't make them much money.
Even so, I have a hunch the ultimate goal here is not really to create a new type of ISP. If you listen to the anonymous "person affiliated with the coalition", it seems they may be gunning to replace WiFi in your home wireless network. That makes a little more sense to me if the TV spectrum can deliver better speed and/or range than WiFi.
And I don't suppose you care to spill the beans on those approximate numbers... This taboo in our culture about not talking about salaries only serves to create an uninformed market, to the benefit of the employer.
Anyway, I heard starting salary for an SDE/SDET in Redmond was in the $70-80k range. Google is more than that?
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, most US cities offer door-to-door shuttle service for disabled people who cannot reach or use the normal bus or rail lines by themselves. More information is available from the transit authority for Santa Clara County, which covers most of Silicon Valley. Similar programs are available throughout the Bay Area and nearly all major cities.
What about Eris (previously 2003 UB313, aka Xena), which is spherical and bigger than Pluto? Based on your criteria, there are at least half a dozen objects that would qualify as planets.
I think it may have ended, but when I was at college, I got full copies of Windows, Visual Studio, and Office for less than $15 each. The fees were for the CDs and shipping from Microsoft. If you didn't care about having the media, you could borrow the CDs from the library, get a product key from Microsoft's website and pay nothing.
The retarded thing is that the school bookstore still sold the stuff at full price (actually, at a small "academic" discount price). They really didn't advertise the program at all. I only found out about in my senior year if I remember correctly.
I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends."
Gah, I've had that sig literally for years (at least 6) and this is the first anyone's commented on it. (Conclusive proof that it sucks and needs to be changed.) Apparently I got it from this page, which is a super-nerdy treatise on Star Trek. I was about to claim they copied it from me, but considering it was written in 1993, I probably got it from them.
If there were encoded data, a good place to look might be the DNA rainbow. It was covered on Slashdot less than a month ago, complete with comparisons to the Bible code.
The watermark is so they can go after you if you do anything that violates the copyright. It's slightly less onerous than DRM because it doesn't restrict use that has nothing to do with copyright infringement, such as making backups. It's a compromise that acknowledges that the content producers have a legitimate reason to want to stop copyright infringement. Not everyone is a pirate; some people would rather pay to have a legitimate copy even if it were inferior.
Unfortunately, it's fundamentally impossible to design an effective watermark that doesn't interfere with the content. No one likes that, including the content producers.