Of course, this ruling is of no consequence should our absolutely despicable, elected-just-for-a-lark styrofoam-Conservative government feel the least bit gutsy. Le neutralite de reseau est mort; vive le neutralite de reseau.
It's funny how "honour code" and "honour system" mean the exact opposite...
That being said, I sincerely doubt your school was able to catch all of the cheaters with such a mild approach, especially in mathematics and the sciences. There are a lot of problems where even 'show your work' isn't a guarantee you'll get more than a little bit of variation in how students answer each question. High-level analytics on multiple-choice questions (e.g. "did these students get the same ones wrong every time?") isn't even completely statistically defensible if it can be argued that the professor was particularly bad at lecturing on a particular topic.
Then, quite simply, the professor better not write the exam that way! It's usually possible to avoid overwhelming students with minutiae when putting together an exam, even if it does take a little bit of extra effort. I've heard a few PhD candidates complaining about the challenges of doing so, but nevertheless the students will come away feeling they've been graded more fairly.
I would argue that courses already have a component to them that is geared toward building research skills: essays. If a professor indeed wants to encorporate an "Advanced Google" portion to the course, simply weight the papers more, or do away with the exams entirely in favour of assignments.
Perhaps the professor's goal is to avoid creating—please excuse the harsh wording—parasites? I've heard a lot of horror stories about students who were able to ride on the success of others. At a certain point, you might as well expect everyone to just use the Internet and their social networks to answer everything for them, and never bother instructing them in the first place.
I think that falls under the "no harder than usual" clause. Personally, when I get my PhD I'm going to demand that all of my students write their exams in panspectral Faraday cages.
They don't need the whole internet; only a handful of sites. Set up a proxy that permits only GET requests to a few domains like Wikipedia, disable Javascript for good measure, and you're done.
Interestingly, when Engelbart first demoed NLS, he had the keyboard built into a tray with spots for the mouse and chording keyboard. He even pointed out that you could put it up in your lap for comfort. (Remember, kids: Engelbart invented everything. Except for all the other stuff that was invented at PLATO.)
I deeply desire to have a Symbolics machine of my own some day—or at least a version of OpenGenera that boots properly. I am greatly fascinated by the AI period of computing history in particular... and I have a Razer Naga (12 shoulder buttons) even though I don't play Warcraft.
I used to have a weird Compaq media keyboard that had a few extra media buttons, but I never installed the software that was supposed to go with it—hence, its six or seven extra buttons used the Natural Keyboard bindings you just described. "Oh, you want to go shopping online? No problem, let me just fire Calculator..."
When you think about it, it's not that much worse. After all; if the hand can get used to QWERTY, it can get used to anything. Think of it as a step up from Emacs's actual navigation keys: C-n = down, C-p = up, C-f = right, C-b = left.
Actually, at the time chorded keyboards were popular, the first Emacs users were already around, and took a much different approach. Gentlemen, behold: the Space Cadet Keyboard. Seven modifier keys. Seven.
Stalk them and then throw money at them. It usually works pretty well. Note, though, that you may inadvertently be screwing over the sound engineers, who also did real work in producing the music.
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(Substitute appropriate feminine articles and throw in accents as appropriate. Curses!)
Of course, this ruling is of no consequence should our absolutely despicable, elected-just-for-a-lark styrofoam-Conservative government feel the least bit gutsy. Le neutralite de reseau est mort; vive le neutralite de reseau.
For viewing things. VGA is somewhat nicer than the composite video out that most machines of the age shipped with.
Nah, this isn't about compiler or environment, but the employment of a community-centric development model. Even bounties, it looks like.
It can be linguistic fascism time now, please?
Completely agree. The (relative) absence of bioterror attacks confirms that their concerns are fabulously unwarranted.
I haven't decided yet—so far I'm thinking it will be all verbal. Students will be graded on how long they hesitate between words.
It's funny how "honour code" and "honour system" mean the exact opposite...
That being said, I sincerely doubt your school was able to catch all of the cheaters with such a mild approach, especially in mathematics and the sciences. There are a lot of problems where even 'show your work' isn't a guarantee you'll get more than a little bit of variation in how students answer each question. High-level analytics on multiple-choice questions (e.g. "did these students get the same ones wrong every time?") isn't even completely statistically defensible if it can be argued that the professor was particularly bad at lecturing on a particular topic.
Then, quite simply, the professor better not write the exam that way! It's usually possible to avoid overwhelming students with minutiae when putting together an exam, even if it does take a little bit of extra effort. I've heard a few PhD candidates complaining about the challenges of doing so, but nevertheless the students will come away feeling they've been graded more fairly.
I would argue that courses already have a component to them that is geared toward building research skills: essays. If a professor indeed wants to encorporate an "Advanced Google" portion to the course, simply weight the papers more, or do away with the exams entirely in favour of assignments.
Perhaps the professor's goal is to avoid creating—please excuse the harsh wording—parasites? I've heard a lot of horror stories about students who were able to ride on the success of others. At a certain point, you might as well expect everyone to just use the Internet and their social networks to answer everything for them, and never bother instructing them in the first place.
I think that falls under the "no harder than usual" clause. Personally, when I get my PhD I'm going to demand that all of my students write their exams in panspectral Faraday cages.
They don't need the whole internet; only a handful of sites. Set up a proxy that permits only GET requests to a few domains like Wikipedia, disable Javascript for good measure, and you're done.
I actually already had the big package—just not the emulator. Now, to go see a VMware installation about a dog...
Interestingly, when Engelbart first demoed NLS, he had the keyboard built into a tray with spots for the mouse and chording keyboard. He even pointed out that you could put it up in your lap for comfort. (Remember, kids: Engelbart invented everything. Except for all the other stuff that was invented at PLATO.)
That would be backspace. It's supposed to evoke images of someone with a blackboard eraser.
I deeply desire to have a Symbolics machine of my own some day—or at least a version of OpenGenera that boots properly. I am greatly fascinated by the AI period of computing history in particular... and I have a Razer Naga (12 shoulder buttons) even though I don't play Warcraft.
I used to have a weird Compaq media keyboard that had a few extra media buttons, but I never installed the software that was supposed to go with it—hence, its six or seven extra buttons used the Natural Keyboard bindings you just described. "Oh, you want to go shopping online? No problem, let me just fire Calculator..."
When you think about it, it's not that much worse. After all; if the hand can get used to QWERTY, it can get used to anything. Think of it as a step up from Emacs's actual navigation keys: C-n = down, C-p = up, C-f = right, C-b = left.
Good catch—slightly less jokingly, the 'up' and 'down' arrows actually did double as 'yes' and 'no'.
Actually, at the time chorded keyboards were popular, the first Emacs users were already around, and took a much different approach. Gentlemen, behold: the Space Cadet Keyboard. Seven modifier keys. Seven.
Please, we're all waiting: explain to us how this is, in any way, attempting to pose as an article. What a trainwreck. Over a laser-bearing shark.
True. I was hoping that the next post would somehow try to tie it all together by drawing on stereotypes about feminists or something.
Man made of straw should not bait flame.
That's much better.
Stalk them and then throw money at them. It usually works pretty well. Note, though, that you may inadvertently be screwing over the sound engineers, who also did real work in producing the music.