"Many of our students like to collaborate, but at what point are you copying?" Pitt asks. "The course policy needs to be really clear. Some courses will allow you to work in pairs but not in triples. If you don't follow that policy, we would call that cheating."
The industry says:
"In the real world, people write code in teams where they are given pieces of a project to work on," Foote says. "The academic world should be mapping onto the real worldThey shouldn't be handing out assignments where people are coding on their own."
Ladies and Germs:
We see here where academia isn't keeping up with industry. I can't tell you how many times I've seen where jobs descriptions demand "team players" and "the ability to work in teams".
And I'd argue that academia promotes the prima donna. Someone who was a 4.0 CS student is going to have the impression that he's better than everyone else (maybe true) and that everyone else should get out of his way and let him do it all (not good). I worked with the latter. He was a GA Tech grad and he was rather brilliant. Unfortunately, with all his smarts he was a liability to the team. He couldn't possibly do everything himself (2 million+ line project due in 6 months) and he caused a lot of problems to the point where he was slowing the others down even more.
The geniuses need to be off on their own developing - whatever - that's what we had to do with this guy. He was still miserable, though.
And, I'm one of the two Americans that actually hate cars and driving.
I think it's funny that many of my fellow Americans complain about European taxation (which pays for the the mass transportation - it's not perfect but a hell of a lot better than here) and yet they spend thousands of dollars a year on: car payments, insurance, up keep, property taxes on the car, and gas.
I consider an automobile a tax - I must have it in order to live here in the States.
The links talk about China and Japan respectively. But then there is Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Viet Nam, Costa Rica, and I'm sure there are other countries where chip making is occurring. I really don't think the price fixing is that wide spread and even if it is, for the sake of argument, it cannot last. OPEC has tried for decades and always someone cheats - and I do mean always.
We have passenger rail outside the northeast. You just rent a car, drive 90 miles to the depot, arrive near your destination, rent another car to drive 90 miles to your home. What could be easier?;)
You forgot the one hour plus lay overs like in Atlanta and other parts while the freight trains roll past and you wait for a connecting train.
I didn't laugh. I was actually a little envious because you Europeans can get on a train and get home - if home is on the continent.
If we in the US have this problem, it's means renting a car to get home and all the hassles with dealing with that - our passenger rail is a complete joke outside of the North East corridor.
If what you wanted were to happen, all of those smart people - the millions of them - would emigrate to the US and drive wages down so far, that unless you had some sort of protection like the AMA or BAR, you'd be making minimum wage and I'm sure a black market would open up for others to work less.
As it is, having a h1-b or having to physically move overseas or creating some sort of relationship over there, has kept us from sinking that low - but it will happen eventually. I don't see the World's economy growing fast enough to account for all the labor being added as more and more countries start trading with the rest of the World.
What makes you think it can't travel in fresh water and follow the rivers and streams to you?! Or even just pick up and slime it's way up the Rockies devouring every living creature in its path?
I was watching a documentary about FOSS and they talked about Stallman and interviewed him. The dude's a hippy: plane and simple. A lot of the FOSS/Linux guys are from the late 60s early 70s generation.
Colleges are still teaching C, OS, compiler development, etc... but the what the young folks are interested in are the iPhone/iTouch applications, social networking, and other modern problems and ideas. Younger folks are interest in handheld devices because that's what they're using. Desktops are for office drone work. Servers are commodity old hat technology that's been done to death already.
Unix/Linux is an old antiquated idea. Sure, Linux is the metal interface right now but when technology permits it (quantum computing for one), Linux will become irrelevant to future hardware, along with Windows.
Kids are looking to the future. Linux is really the past.
It depends on the company and what you'd put up with regarding compensation and study time. Although, getting a Microsoft Certification does in fact make you eligible for disability - keep that in mind if you get fired. I even think you can get a handicapped license plate in many states.
All of that data had been available to large corporations who track that sort of thing.
All of that data is already publicly available - you just have to drive down to the individual offices.
Will it cause problems? I don't know.
Will it make government more transparent? I think so.
There could also be applications that track less spending on certain neighborhoods. Maybe track gross injustices. Maybe even corruption. "Hey look, why is all that state money going in to that neighborhood way above and beyond that state average? It's the Governor's sister's neighborhood? Well, let's have a closer look, shall we."
And the proposed plan is to grant public access to the data. Have you ever gone down to a government office and tried to get information on anything? A government clerk does the search. Sometimes, when they say they don't find anything, you just have to wonder how hard did they look. Especially some of those old crones that have been there for decades and short of going on a shooting spree, have absolutely no worry of being fired.
Playing a drumset requires both wrists and both feet moving, seemingly, at different times..
It's really all one thing - one movement. In other words, my wrists and feet where acting synchronously to the beat. The position for each body part would be different but the timing was the same. Probably the most impressive drummer I've ever heard was Omar Hakim - drummed for Sting on "Dream of the Blue Turtles". Sometimes I wonder if that guy's hemispheres actually communicate. Which makes me wonder of those folks whose hemispheres were disconnected wouldn't be awesome drummers or piano players.
I agree with what you said but you missed the point.
If IBM stopped all of their FOSS activities, it would have very little effect on their bottom line - if any. It seems to be more of an alternative to Windows - if anything.
As far as RedHat is concerned if they stopped FOSS activities, they'd stay in business from their finance business. Yes, they're making money on FOSS support, but as far as large organizations are concerned, they're the only ones. And why don't they go 100% support instead of their quasi financial institution if FOSS is so profitable?
The point is, FOSS hasn't been proven to be a real and consistent money maker.
IBM sells many different services and hardware which the FOSS operations augment. That wasn't the case with OpenSolaris.
RedHat, is a Linux corporate support company that was the first and so far as I know the only company that's making money doing that. Although, almost half of RedHat's income is from financial activities. In other words, they're not making all their money from FOSS.
So, there hasn't been a business model based upon FOSS that's really been proven - completely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, FUD blah blah blah. But just brushing off criticisms as FUD doesn't cut it to the accountants, I'm afraid.
We have a whistle-blower law to protect the American taxpayer, but if it's deemed classified, all bets are off.
Great, just great! So, if I want to be a crooked government official, I just need to be able to classify it as "Secret" and "National Security" and I'm off to the Bahamas!
The worst I have ever heard happen to a victim of identity theft was lawsuits from collectors. After a while, they, the lawyers, figure out what has happened and go away. And it's a pain to get new credit - which I'm not so sure that's a bad thing.
It does add a lot of stress to your life, though.
Clark Howard, a consumer advocate here in the States, has been railing against them for years.
And the really sucky part of your troubles is that any checks that get bounced because of this, you're responsible for the fees - all of them.
And banks love to tally up all your withdraws before all deposits just so they can hit you up for charges. They're junk!
The best way to protect yourself from debit cards is not to use them.
When Visa and Mastercard say that you have the same protections with a debit card as you do with a credit, they're full of it.
There's only one way I know to protect yourself if you really need to use one of those things ("Piece of trash Visa or Mastercard" as Howard says). I opened a checking account a few years ago and my own bank said that I should open anther account just for debit transaction (totally free of course) just to protect myself an my money. They even admitted that they're crap - WaMu before the Chase takeover.
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The professors say:
"Many of our students like to collaborate, but at what point are you copying?" Pitt asks. "The course policy needs to be really clear. Some courses will allow you to work in pairs but not in triples. If you don't follow that policy, we would call that cheating."
The industry says:
"In the real world, people write code in teams where they are given pieces of a project to work on," Foote says. "The academic world should be mapping onto the real worldThey shouldn't be handing out assignments where people are coding on their own."
Ladies and Germs:
We see here where academia isn't keeping up with industry. I can't tell you how many times I've seen where jobs descriptions demand "team players" and "the ability to work in teams".
And I'd argue that academia promotes the prima donna. Someone who was a 4.0 CS student is going to have the impression that he's better than everyone else (maybe true) and that everyone else should get out of his way and let him do it all (not good). I worked with the latter. He was a GA Tech grad and he was rather brilliant. Unfortunately, with all his smarts he was a liability to the team. He couldn't possibly do everything himself (2 million+ line project due in 6 months) and he caused a lot of problems to the point where he was slowing the others down even more.
The geniuses need to be off on their own developing - whatever - that's what we had to do with this guy. He was still miserable, though.
If someone asked me to (in Java say) print the numbers from 1 to 10, I would probably do something like
for (int i=1;i=10;i++) { System.out.println(i); }
So would most other people. Would this flag me as a cheater?
Or could you get away with it by just by doing a global replace of variables: 'i', 'index', or whatever?
And maybe replacing tabs with spaces and adding returns before '{' that are after 'if's, and so on.
If we go to a better news source, we see that
BBC?! So, you're implying the British took them?
And, I'm one of the two Americans that actually hate cars and driving.
I think it's funny that many of my fellow Americans complain about European taxation (which pays for the the mass transportation - it's not perfect but a hell of a lot better than here) and yet they spend thousands of dollars a year on: car payments, insurance, up keep, property taxes on the car, and gas.
I consider an automobile a tax - I must have it in order to live here in the States.
The links talk about China and Japan respectively. But then there is Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Viet Nam, Costa Rica, and I'm sure there are other countries where chip making is occurring. I really don't think the price fixing is that wide spread and even if it is, for the sake of argument, it cannot last. OPEC has tried for decades and always someone cheats - and I do mean always.
We have passenger rail outside the northeast. You just rent a car, drive 90 miles to the depot, arrive near your destination, rent another car to drive 90 miles to your home. What could be easier? ;)
You forgot the one hour plus lay overs like in Atlanta and other parts while the freight trains roll past and you wait for a connecting train.
I guess it beats walking.
If we in the US have this problem, it's means renting a car to get home and all the hassles with dealing with that - our passenger rail is a complete joke outside of the North East corridor.
On another note: this must be giving the climatologists some awesome data!
As it is, having a h1-b or having to physically move overseas or creating some sort of relationship over there, has kept us from sinking that low - but it will happen eventually. I don't see the World's economy growing fast enough to account for all the labor being added as more and more countries start trading with the rest of the World.
What should I look for, about 500 miles straight-line distance along the path from the runway?
Last time I had this chance, I think I saw a plane cross the sky, but it seemed too slow.
Considering the age of those things I don't think it will be hard. Just look for a ball of flame and chunks falling out of the sky.
What makes you think it can't travel in fresh water and follow the rivers and streams to you?! Or even just pick up and slime it's way up the Rockies devouring every living creature in its path?
No one will be safe!
Now, let's hurry up and get some pudding before they run out and Matlock comes on!
I was watching a documentary about FOSS and they talked about Stallman and interviewed him. The dude's a hippy: plane and simple. A lot of the FOSS/Linux guys are from the late 60s early 70s generation.
Colleges are still teaching C, OS, compiler development, etc... but the what the young folks are interested in are the iPhone/iTouch applications, social networking, and other modern problems and ideas. Younger folks are interest in handheld devices because that's what they're using. Desktops are for office drone work. Servers are commodity old hat technology that's been done to death already.
Unix/Linux is an old antiquated idea. Sure, Linux is the metal interface right now but when technology permits it (quantum computing for one), Linux will become irrelevant to future hardware, along with Windows.
Kids are looking to the future. Linux is really the past.
It depends on the company and what you'd put up with regarding compensation and study time. Although, getting a Microsoft Certification does in fact make you eligible for disability - keep that in mind if you get fired. I even think you can get a handicapped license plate in many states.
All of that data is already publicly available - you just have to drive down to the individual offices.
Will it cause problems? I don't know.
Will it make government more transparent? I think so.
There could also be applications that track less spending on certain neighborhoods. Maybe track gross injustices. Maybe even corruption. "Hey look, why is all that state money going in to that neighborhood way above and beyond that state average? It's the Governor's sister's neighborhood? Well, let's have a closer look, shall we."
We fund so-called 'sustainable energy' projects and other such things that aren't economically viable without government funding.
You do realize that the oil industry has quite a few tax subsidies also, don't you? They've been getting them for years.
And the proposed plan is to grant public access to the data. Have you ever gone down to a government office and tried to get information on anything? A government clerk does the search. Sometimes, when they say they don't find anything, you just have to wonder how hard did they look. Especially some of those old crones that have been there for decades and short of going on a shooting spree, have absolutely no worry of being fired.
It's really all one thing - one movement. In other words, my wrists and feet where acting synchronously to the beat. The position for each body part would be different but the timing was the same. Probably the most impressive drummer I've ever heard was Omar Hakim - drummed for Sting on "Dream of the Blue Turtles". Sometimes I wonder if that guy's hemispheres actually communicate. Which makes me wonder of those folks whose hemispheres were disconnected wouldn't be awesome drummers or piano players.
That's something that's missed a lot here. And I have an ethics issue about profiting off of others work without compensating them.
I couldn't be RedHat's CEO and sleep at night and look at myself in the mirror when I shave.
I guess I don't get FOSS.
If IBM stopped all of their FOSS activities, it would have very little effect on their bottom line - if any. It seems to be more of an alternative to Windows - if anything.
As far as RedHat is concerned if they stopped FOSS activities, they'd stay in business from their finance business. Yes, they're making money on FOSS support, but as far as large organizations are concerned, they're the only ones. And why don't they go 100% support instead of their quasi financial institution if FOSS is so profitable?
The point is, FOSS hasn't been proven to be a real and consistent money maker.
RedHat, is a Linux corporate support company that was the first and so far as I know the only company that's making money doing that. Although, almost half of RedHat's income is from financial activities. In other words, they're not making all their money from FOSS.
So, there hasn't been a business model based upon FOSS that's really been proven - completely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, FUD blah blah blah. But just brushing off criticisms as FUD doesn't cut it to the accountants, I'm afraid.
I'm sure they must've caught some of the kids masturbating.
We have a whistle-blower law to protect the American taxpayer, but if it's deemed classified, all bets are off.
Great, just great! So, if I want to be a crooked government official, I just need to be able to classify it as "Secret" and "National Security" and I'm off to the Bahamas!
Unless you think they abduct actual schoolgirls, and octopuses, to use them as models.
How about the calamari I can buy in the fish shop down the street. Will that do?
I think so - if you're into Italian fish porn.
The worst I have ever heard happen to a victim of identity theft was lawsuits from collectors. After a while, they, the lawyers, figure out what has happened and go away. And it's a pain to get new credit - which I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. It does add a lot of stress to your life, though.
And the really sucky part of your troubles is that any checks that get bounced because of this, you're responsible for the fees - all of them.
And banks love to tally up all your withdraws before all deposits just so they can hit you up for charges. They're junk!
The best way to protect yourself from debit cards is not to use them.
When Visa and Mastercard say that you have the same protections with a debit card as you do with a credit, they're full of it.
There's only one way I know to protect yourself if you really need to use one of those things ("Piece of trash Visa or Mastercard" as Howard says). I opened a checking account a few years ago and my own bank said that I should open anther account just for debit transaction (totally free of course) just to protect myself an my money. They even admitted that they're crap - WaMu before the Chase takeover.