I m pretty sure my sister brought 2 DS (on two different trip) from china, the first one of those being gifted to her by our cousin (someone living in china). Second one was pretty easy to find too. I actually had no idea that this ban was in place
Maybe they're just reviewing it because the law is unenforceable ?
Hidden shmidden. If they didn't encrypt it, Skype could simply inspect the silence packet and get everything they are transmitting. It's only secret to someone who has a microphone in your room
By cyber pearl harbor, does he mean that the attack will destroy obsolete equipment, leaving critical infrastructure and equipment safe while at the same time providing an excuse for the us government to start a war ?
Writing from Belgium here, and i found that those kind of things are unfortunately a common occurrence , both in standardized and teacher-made test.
Far more than the simplification errors (example 1 and 2 in the article, though both seems kinda gross) it's the second type of error that are far more annoying for a student passing a test. For the first type of errors, intelligent students can generally realize that the test is just asking for them to give the (flawed) answer that they have been taught, and they'll do so while making a mental note about its correctness in their head. But questions with multiple correct answer will confuse anyone who happens to recognize them, making them lose time in addition to risking a wrong answer. (btw multiple choices sucks, anyone with half a brain can get a passing grade without studying by applying some simple reasoning)
Now onto a personal experience (the real reason i wrote this post : I m still wanting to vent nearly 15 years later)
Elementary school, fourth grade, the question is counting the number of "rectangle" on a drawing. So I do the counting, then naively write down the answer I deem correct. A few days later the result come in, I happen to have a mistake on that question : the "correct" answer is one less than the one I had given, because some idiots writing standardized tests don't think a square is a rectangle (justification is about the same as the one given in this article, student not "smart" enough to realize it)
Nowadays, i m a university student, and its gotten a lot better once out of high school (well maybe it's just my faculty, applied sciences. You should see an economy teacher trying to explain second derivative to engineering students : he appears to understand what it does (i d hope so), but from the way is teaching it, either he's the worst teacher on earth (not confirmed on the rest of his subject) or some students in other sections must have a really hard time grasping anything about it), but i still sometimes go and check test and report card of my little sister, and i m really appalled by some the questions given. Most of the time the problem lie in badly formulated questions, but sometimes you'll find questions where it seems obvious the teacher has only a passing familiarity with the subject at hand (this is a plague in elementary school).
Funniest part of the story : "Eye of the tiger" was written is because stallone couldn't get the right to "Another one bite the dust".
Maybe Gingrich should just commision a new version (or get the right to another one bite the dust:)).
Not to rain on your anti-IP parade (im not terribly pro-IP, at least not in their current state, but i do like argument based in fact and not around fantasy), but if you study European history a bit, you'll find that copyright and patent effectively ended the guild system (think organized mob that would disallow anyone not affiliated to use their idea). So yes patent and copyright aren't exactly old idea, but they certainly didn't replace free information exchange.
(fun fact : guilds were called corporations in france, draw parallel, etc., etc.)
Main problem here (and with the OP initiative) is that most people (me included) won't be able to exactly point out their symptoms clearly enough for a machine to be able to diagnoses their illness correctly
Still I don't understand how you USians do this. Every once in a while there will be a story that pops up about voting problem. I am living in belgium and we had (at least where i live) electronic voting system for (at least) the two last election and i haven't heard of problem yet. So either your politicians are just incredibly more corrupt than here, or they are just more stupid, and can't cheat without being caught, or last possibility, your tin foil hat is a tad to tight (or maybe our tin foil hat aren't tight enough).
Yeah i hear they invented something like this : every time the ball touches the grounds it leaves a visible mark. i think they call it Complex Layer Against Yelling, but i doubt Wimbledon and its tradition are ready to take the plunge
If you do however feel that there is a real need for programming in physics curriculum, please leave the introductory course(s) to the CS department instead of giving students ad hoc lessons during a non-related course, because that will not only lead to poor programming practices but also to students not really learning anything at all.
In a recent assignment* in a fluid mechanics course, we were tasked to do some numerical computation on a particular phenomenon (water hammer for those interested) that required us to use Excel/vba. Because we had the assurance that the corrector would not be able to tell that a program was copied from another(or didn't care), almost every student just copy-pasted its code from older works posted on internet, not because we are particularly lazy** but rather because you'd be sure to get a good grade.
Now what would happen if an assignment of the same difficulty was being asked by the CS department ? Well i can tell you, because i also have had such assignment too. With the core of the assignment being the code rather than the output it produces, you know that guy that will read the works will check them for copying. So you had to write it yourself.
As for giving student custom made assignment, of course they could do that but it would be easier to check for cheating so you can say they are not really motivated to do these kind of things.
(you need larger changes than just changing a few numerical values)
*I m currently doing a BS in engineering but the point stand
** civil engineer in the french community in belgium, where every student was required to pass an entrance exam on mathematics, so even more than in other part of the world you can't really call the students here lazy or unmotivated.
you know terrorist springing everywhere around the world, olympic games comming in a place where disease outbreak doesn't surprise anybody, security firm hired to protect the stuff, spreading pandemic instead.
I do hope ex-kgb agent aren't environementalist and still like money.
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I m pretty sure my sister brought 2 DS (on two different trip) from china, the first one of those being gifted to her by our cousin (someone living in china). Second one was pretty easy to find too. I actually had no idea that this ban was in place Maybe they're just reviewing it because the law is unenforceable ?
Hidden shmidden. If they didn't encrypt it, Skype could simply inspect the silence packet and get everything they are transmitting. It's only secret to someone who has a microphone in your room
By cyber pearl harbor, does he mean that the attack will destroy obsolete equipment, leaving critical infrastructure and equipment safe while at the same time providing an excuse for the us government to start a war ?
Writing from Belgium here, and i found that those kind of things are unfortunately a common occurrence , both in standardized and teacher-made test.
Far more than the simplification errors (example 1 and 2 in the article, though both seems kinda gross) it's the second type of error that are far more annoying for a student passing a test. For the first type of errors, intelligent students can generally realize that the test is just asking for them to give the (flawed) answer that they have been taught, and they'll do so while making a mental note about its correctness in their head. But questions with multiple correct answer will confuse anyone who happens to recognize them, making them lose time in addition to risking a wrong answer. (btw multiple choices sucks, anyone with half a brain can get a passing grade without studying by applying some simple reasoning)
Now onto a personal experience (the real reason i wrote this post : I m still wanting to vent nearly 15 years later)
Elementary school, fourth grade, the question is counting the number of "rectangle" on a drawing. So I do the counting, then naively write down the answer I deem correct. A few days later the result come in, I happen to have a mistake on that question : the "correct" answer is one less than the one I had given, because some idiots writing standardized tests don't think a square is a rectangle (justification is about the same as the one given in this article, student not "smart" enough to realize it)
Nowadays, i m a university student, and its gotten a lot better once out of high school (well maybe it's just my faculty, applied sciences. You should see an economy teacher trying to explain second derivative to engineering students : he appears to understand what it does (i d hope so), but from the way is teaching it, either he's the worst teacher on earth (not confirmed on the rest of his subject) or some students in other sections must have a really hard time grasping anything about it), but i still sometimes go and check test and report card of my little sister, and i m really appalled by some the questions given. Most of the time the problem lie in badly formulated questions, but sometimes you'll find questions where it seems obvious the teacher has only a passing familiarity with the subject at hand (this is a plague in elementary school).
phew, rant off, i m out
no at that point marketing will invent the next "must have" gimmick and it will start all over again
Funniest part of the story : "Eye of the tiger" was written is because stallone couldn't get the right to "Another one bite the dust". Maybe Gingrich should just commision a new version (or get the right to another one bite the dust :)).
Not to rain on your anti-IP parade (im not terribly pro-IP, at least not in their current state, but i do like argument based in fact and not around fantasy), but if you study European history a bit, you'll find that copyright and patent effectively ended the guild system (think organized mob that would disallow anyone not affiliated to use their idea). So yes patent and copyright aren't exactly old idea, but they certainly didn't replace free information exchange. (fun fact : guilds were called corporations in france, draw parallel, etc., etc.)
Capitalism is the exploitation of the man by the man. Communism is just the contrary
It's true, do we call sailor anyone who's been more than X miles away from the coast?
Main problem here (and with the OP initiative) is that most people (me included) won't be able to exactly point out their symptoms clearly enough for a machine to be able to diagnoses their illness correctly
That's what it is, just vaporware !
Still I don't understand how you USians do this. Every once in a while there will be a story that pops up about voting problem. I am living in belgium and we had (at least where i live) electronic voting system for (at least) the two last election and i haven't heard of problem yet. So either your politicians are just incredibly more corrupt than here, or they are just more stupid, and can't cheat without being caught, or last possibility, your tin foil hat is a tad to tight (or maybe our tin foil hat aren't tight enough).
Yeah i hear they invented something like this : every time the ball touches the grounds it leaves a visible mark. i think they call it Complex Layer Against Yelling, but i doubt Wimbledon and its tradition are ready to take the plunge
Because people are buying them
If you do however feel that there is a real need for programming in physics curriculum, please leave the introductory course(s) to the CS department instead of giving students ad hoc lessons during a non-related course, because that will not only lead to poor programming practices but also to students not really learning anything at all.
In a recent assignment* in a fluid mechanics course, we were tasked to do some numerical computation on a particular phenomenon (water hammer for those interested) that required us to use Excel/vba. Because we had the assurance that the corrector would not be able to tell that a program was copied from another(or didn't care), almost every student just copy-pasted its code from older works posted on internet, not because we are particularly lazy** but rather because you'd be sure to get a good grade.
Now what would happen if an assignment of the same difficulty was being asked by the CS department ? Well i can tell you, because i also have had such assignment too. With the core of the assignment being the code rather than the output it produces, you know that guy that will read the works will check them for copying. So you had to write it yourself.
As for giving student custom made assignment, of course they could do that but it would be easier to check for cheating so you can say they are not really motivated to do these kind of things. (you need larger changes than just changing a few numerical values)
*I m currently doing a BS in engineering but the point stand ** civil engineer in the french community in belgium, where every student was required to pass an entrance exam on mathematics, so even more than in other part of the world you can't really call the students here lazy or unmotivated.Oh the damned rabbit . but i'll get him one day McGregor
Doesn't the setting remind anyone of this.
you know terrorist springing everywhere around the world, olympic games comming in a place where disease outbreak doesn't surprise anybody, security firm hired to protect the stuff, spreading pandemic instead. I do hope ex-kgb agent aren't environementalist and still like money.
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