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Someone needs to go back and watch Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The Force was entirely and adequately explained by Obi Wan to Luke. Lucas felt it needed further explanation in his more recent cinematic abortions.
If people want to use the Internet to download massive amounts of p2p content, do they really expect they should pay the same as Grandma who checks her email once a day?
Yes. Especially when the broadband ISP touted it as unlimited when I signed up (not with Bell). Then my ISP introduced caps (and subsequently attempted to change the definition of "unlimited"). But the price never went down, in fact it has gone up almost every year since.
And then you come back to what sconeu was replying to. The point that if the home computers can't run linux off a USB stick, they're probably going to struggle to run a virtualized system.
The solution is simple. Give the students USB sticks with a bootable linux distribution installed. Those that can run it from home can do so. Those that can't can go out and pay $300 for a computer that can or use the school's computers.
"There's a lot of infrastructure that needs to be built and a lot of effort that goes into creating a homework problem. There's a disincentive for professors to change those problems every semester. So we tend to reassign similar problems, and that causes cheating because past solutions are available," Pitt says, adding that the University of Illinois checks homework against a repository of past solutions.
So the profs are lazy and don't want to make new assignments and re-use old ones. Slightly hypocritical to then penalize lazy students that do basically the same thing. If a prof can't be bothered to show an interest in the subject material and come up with new and creative ways of getting the ideas across, why should the students be expected to perform any differently?
Not flaws if you had bothered to read the text below the video. They don't expect you to always wear the tracking necklace. It is just a novelty item they included.
Meh. All the hype around this useless toy device reminds me of the hype around the Segway. "It will revolutionize urban transportation." "It will change the way engineers plan cities." Blah, blah, blah.
Do it without the $130 device
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As long as your goofing off doesn't interfere with the other students in the class who are actually there to learn.
Nothing worse than having to listen to the inane babble of "who drank how much over the weekender" or "whether or not that chick in the bar called yet" when trying to focus on what the prof is saying.
Yeah great we can get tethering. Whoop dee farking doo when you look at the shit data plans Canadian providers give us. Rogers 2GB a month for $80. Bell and Telus are not any better.
Maybe that is true now, but not when they first released it. I don't have a Google profile. I just use GMail and nothing else and yet one of my contacts was able to follow me on Buzz and I was automatically set up to follow him. On top of that, I wound up with friends of his in my contacts because they follow him on Buzz and I've never had contact with them (ie. I never sent any of them an e-mail, ever).
Oh, and in reply to your response to my original post, I did opt-out of Buzz when first presented with it. I hate Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc. and didn't want to have anything to do with Buzz but for some reason Google decided otherwise on my behalf.
And it still did something that completely stunned me.
I didn't want buzz. I don't like Facebook, Myspace, or Twitter. I just want a damn e-mail account that just sends e-mail. So when it popped up and asked if I wanted to use Buzz, I clicked No. Small point here that is important later...I have never created nor set up a Google Profile.
So, a friend whom I e-mail quite regularly buzzed a few things. I was automatically set up to follow him. Why? I said, "I don't want Buzz, take me to my inbox."
Then a few friends of his, who I know of but I have never exchanged e-mails with, replied to his buzz. *This becomes "interesting" in a second. *
So today, I read through Slashdot and find a link explaining how to truly turn off buzz. One step is to look at your profile. I don't have a profile I says to myself. So I go to the Google profile page and log in, not Create a Profile, but log in. Oh look, a skeleton profile, with a big blue Create Profile button at the bottom. I click the "Contacts" tab at the top and there are a bunch of contacts that are not mine. People I have never e-mailed, at all. I look at the names and recognize them as friends of my friend. I may have received some e-mails in the past with them in the Cc field, but I never e-mailed these people. And here they are as part of my contacts all because they replied to my friend's Buzz.
WTF? Why do I then have to explicitly remove them as contacts? I never explicitly added them, Google made that decision without asking me. It was a shitty implementation and a complete failure at security and privacy.
Because when you signed up for Twitter you knew exactly what you were getting...an open communication forum where anyone with a Twitter account can follow you.
When I signed up for GMail, many years ago, I got an e-mail account that behaved like an e-mail account. People could only read items I expressly passed onto them. Google's launch of Buzz basically broke that level of privacy.
I for one would rather not see Foundation get made into a movie if it is going to be the cinematic abortion that Emmerich will undoubtedly spew forth onto the screen.
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Someone needs to go back and watch Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The Force was entirely and adequately explained by Obi Wan to Luke. Lucas felt it needed further explanation in his more recent cinematic abortions.
Of course you could just use your other credit card and buy two more.
How many samples of dog DNA, cat DNA, or other non-human DNA do slashdotters think UC Berkeley is going to get?
If people want to use the Internet to download massive amounts of p2p content, do they really expect they should pay the same as Grandma who checks her email once a day?
Yes. Especially when the broadband ISP touted it as unlimited when I signed up (not with Bell). Then my ISP introduced caps (and subsequently attempted to change the definition of "unlimited"). But the price never went down, in fact it has gone up almost every year since.
Rogers already does this. I thought Bell already did this as well to customers that went over the monthly cap.
And your password is as short and simple as "sugar" (from the article) you deserve to be targeted by Chinese script-kiddie hackers.
And then you come back to what sconeu was replying to. The point that if the home computers can't run linux off a USB stick, they're probably going to struggle to run a virtualized system.
The solution is simple. Give the students USB sticks with a bootable linux distribution installed. Those that can run it from home can do so. Those that can't can go out and pay $300 for a computer that can or use the school's computers.
"There's a lot of infrastructure that needs to be built and a lot of effort that goes into creating a homework problem. There's a disincentive for professors to change those problems every semester. So we tend to reassign similar problems, and that causes cheating because past solutions are available," Pitt says, adding that the University of Illinois checks homework against a repository of past solutions.
So the profs are lazy and don't want to make new assignments and re-use old ones. Slightly hypocritical to then penalize lazy students that do basically the same thing. If a prof can't be bothered to show an interest in the subject material and come up with new and creative ways of getting the ideas across, why should the students be expected to perform any differently?
Not flaws if you had bothered to read the text below the video. They don't expect you to always wear the tracking necklace. It is just a novelty item they included.
Meh. All the hype around this useless toy device reminds me of the hype around the Segway. "It will revolutionize urban transportation." "It will change the way engineers plan cities." Blah, blah, blah.
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Just a note to our cousins across the pond, British police officers *do not* look like that :(
True. But I would hope strip-o-grams do look like that. That is basically what she was, only for the kiddies that watch they said "kiss-o-gram"
And tlongshore needs to realize that China would happily buy Canada's oil, gas, wood, wheat, uranium, and other exports. All with US greenbacks.
Ah, so you think that the EU has the right to dictate Canadian law?
I think you are supposed to stand around it.
No, there won't be usable e-ink displays next year. All we'll get is a shitty iPad.
*Looks at kindle*
*Looks at Sony e-Reader*
*Scratches head*
Huh?
Except picking up the SSID that is being openly broadcast is not even remotely similar to pinging that same router.
As long as your goofing off doesn't interfere with the other students in the class who are actually there to learn.
Nothing worse than having to listen to the inane babble of "who drank how much over the weekender" or "whether or not that chick in the bar called yet" when trying to focus on what the prof is saying.
Yeah great we can get tethering. Whoop dee farking doo when you look at the shit data plans Canadian providers give us. Rogers 2GB a month for $80. Bell and Telus are not any better.
Maybe that is true now, but not when they first released it. I don't have a Google profile. I just use GMail and nothing else and yet one of my contacts was able to follow me on Buzz and I was automatically set up to follow him. On top of that, I wound up with friends of his in my contacts because they follow him on Buzz and I've never had contact with them (ie. I never sent any of them an e-mail, ever).
Oh, and in reply to your response to my original post, I did opt-out of Buzz when first presented with it. I hate Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc. and didn't want to have anything to do with Buzz but for some reason Google decided otherwise on my behalf.
And it still did something that completely stunned me.
I didn't want buzz. I don't like Facebook, Myspace, or Twitter. I just want a damn e-mail account that just sends e-mail. So when it popped up and asked if I wanted to use Buzz, I clicked No.
Small point here that is important later...I have never created nor set up a Google Profile.
So, a friend whom I e-mail quite regularly buzzed a few things. I was automatically set up to follow him. Why? I said, "I don't want Buzz, take me to my inbox."
Then a few friends of his, who I know of but I have never exchanged e-mails with, replied to his buzz. *This becomes "interesting" in a second. *
So today, I read through Slashdot and find a link explaining how to truly turn off buzz. One step is to look at your profile. I don't have a profile I says to myself. So I go to the Google profile page and log in, not Create a Profile, but log in. Oh look, a skeleton profile, with a big blue Create Profile button at the bottom. I click the "Contacts" tab at the top and there are a bunch of contacts that are not mine. People I have never e-mailed, at all. I look at the names and recognize them as friends of my friend. I may have received some e-mails in the past with them in the Cc field, but I never e-mailed these people. And here they are as part of my contacts all because they replied to my friend's Buzz.
WTF? Why do I then have to explicitly remove them as contacts? I never explicitly added them, Google made that decision without asking me. It was a shitty implementation and a complete failure at security and privacy.
Because when you signed up for Twitter you knew exactly what you were getting...an open communication forum where anyone with a Twitter account can follow you.
When I signed up for GMail, many years ago, I got an e-mail account that behaved like an e-mail account. People could only read items I expressly passed onto them. Google's launch of Buzz basically broke that level of privacy.
I for one would rather not see Foundation get made into a movie if it is going to be the cinematic abortion that Emmerich will undoubtedly spew forth onto the screen.
*WHOOSH* Right over your head.
Oh, that's because Hollywood is completely and utterly out of original ideas and has been for some time now.