I'm a university student and many times I knew that most professors had code to detect plagiarism. In fact, I remember one that had a code that didn't consider the filename, the function/methods/etc name nor the variable names. He had implemented (in lisp!) something that detected similar program flows.
This was so absurdly over-zealous that I know people who had just one similar (not equal) function and had 0 due to that.
Either way I think that it is only fair that there's anti-plagiarism methods by the professor. Nevertheless I strongly disagree with these kind of websites (like turnitin) which profit - by ways that might even be unknown to us - with the free work of students.
The teaching staff should do that kind of work and actually read and be knowledgable about the subject the essays are about. If the professor can't do it then maybe he should go back to being a student.
For crying out loud, that plot 1 is so incredibly ridiculous that I must assume that it was written by someone who was joking. It must be that or that he doesn't know anything about file-sharing or even that Toronto Star is a newspaper without any kind of credibility targeted at people who have an IQ lower than 50. They need stuff like Special-Ops Hackers or blowing hard drives to sell papers. Extremely sad...
The other day a friend of mine came over and I showed him a webpage about whatever. He is the biggest windows user of all time imho. But the next day when I went to his computer, he was running mozilla. A new mozilla-fan without any preaching.
It was always a myth that the world would be contaminated with the virus of US thinking.
At the time everyone was thinking about the impact the internet would have in dictatorships also everyone was saying that internet was boasting discussion about every topic possible. Free speech was bad for oppressive regimes.
Interesting it is that noone thought at the time the internet could be a major way to challenge the western regimes. It's not a bad thing (tm) per se, actually it's quite good to the world that discussion about what kind of regime is best for the world. Maybe new ideas might come up... Afterall for all it's failings democracy is the best form of government that we can come up with (quote: Winston Churchill)
It is amazing how people who obviously have no clue about what the world is about try to tell everyone about what "the real world" is.
Interesting it is that this person called us all faggots, lazy and smelly. What is even more interesting is that we are the ones who contribute everyday to the creation of true alternatives to comercial software (and some, hardware!)... OH YEAH WE ARE LAZY!! *sigh* the humanity...
The main problem for me to accept this kind of speed anywhere near impressive is the fact that the design of the P4 is all about being able to deliver high speeds but with a cost: lots and lots of "bubbles".
In fact P4 has a 22-staged (if I'm not mistaken) pipeline which means that if the next instruction requires information from the instruction that just entered the pipeline. The processor will have to spend 22 clock cycles using NOOPs... and this is the common case.
Other thing that happens is that if they were to increase the number of pipeline steps they would be able to achieve faster processors. The problem is that they wouldn't be better. This is clearly the case between AMD and Intel. Intel put their money on increasing speed (long live Marketing) while AMD stayed with a not-excessively pipelined design. What happened? Well... Athlon XP with 1333 Mhz had the same performance as a P4 with 1700Mhz (I have no idea about these numbers but the relation is something similar).
Sorry about the long post... but I had to say something about this.
Why did MS comissioned a small company to port Passport server software?
I'm not an expert in corporate tactics but could it be that they're already forseeing the flop of those ports and rather ask a small company to have the trouble, the (possible) losses, etc... ?
...it won't work. Anyway I think it won't be long until there is one modchip that actually works with xbox. It can't be THAT different as if it was surely there would be compatibility problems.
I'm sure Balmer is incredibly excited about war against Linux and open source. But unfortunately for MS is that - imeho (e for extremely) - there isn't a WinCommunity. Most people use windows just because: they think that windows is the only thing there is.
In Linux there's the open source community needed for any open source project to thrive and this, of course, creates many slashdot-readers-linux-maniacs.
So, how could a non-existant community "stomp" the open source community? Well... it couldn't. But with a company like MS behind it FUD usually works or in this case probably will delay the linux desktop boom.
I'm actually impressed with Epic. I hated UT... the physics, the gameplay, etc. Being a Quake aficionado (and still a qw player) I never could understand how could someone play so "slowly".
Anyway, from what I see from ut2k3 demo the gameplay is faster and very Q3-like, the graphics are quite good (for a company who doesn't have a johnc among them) and now this! Linux out of the box... Kudos to Epic.
I believe this is the way to go. A good game with support for the most proeminent desktop OSs around in one box. The Q3 way of doing it was wrong. Happily they corrected it for Q3 Gold and shipped with hybrid cds.
You missed the point, illegal goes from jaywalking to murder 1... The point here is that it is so ridiculously stupid to call theft chalking on sidewalks... you can call it vandalism (i could even try to agree to the term "cyberpiracy") but never theft!
Considering that the writer is correct and that, let's say, one thousand lusers are sharing corrupted files with the same file size and same file name. Considering that there isn't a way to control that, we still don't know what MD5 is or PARity files are.
Even in this extreme scenario there would always be this other network. Direct Connect for instance is able to create hundreds of different networks with different content. And if you download a file from a guy that has corrupted files, you can simply ignore him next time. In fact most of the users of p2p networks are using high-bandwidth connections and a bad.avi or.mp3 isn't going to spoil their day. The user will just be warned not to leech from that share again.
Regarding massive networks like Gnutella you can work exactly the same way. It won't be because of a bad file that he'll think something like: "Oh my god, this sucks! I have to go out and pay 17 for this record I wanted to check it was good".
It was an interesting analogy but difficult to understand as it may be, fish are dumber than most of the p2p users. Fish don't adapt, p2p users do. P2p users can simply change the rules of the game... it's their game.
And it has been a waste of money, time and brain cells I'm afraid.
If (by a miracle) raw copiers like blindwrite or clonecd can't copy those cds physically, there's always a cracker who will be delighted to crack that system in less than 24 hours! Actually, the dumb-leech that downloads warez with 1-click(tm) out of any p2p network or any common-leech that lurks at message boards and ftp-lists will never have to bother with this encryption as, they will only have to "copy cracked exe to game dir".
copy protection goes a long way... and if it's software enforced it's absolutely pathetic.
oh no no... johnc never heard of punkbuster... considering that id was THE software company that gave permission to punkbuster to improve their own code!
Next point release you'll have an almost cheat-free Q3 - until someone comes up with something.
Bah! back to you! I will only criticize when I look at the final product. Never before!
I'm glad US Congress and the RIAA don't own me and as such I can still hang around in my file sharing. *sings happily*
What makes me think actually is that with all these laws people most likely in the future will look to growing economies such as India and China as a haven for new techonologies and new forms of developing them. This will make this type of countries increasingly more advanced until one day they will probably surpass the all mighty US and the EU.
I for one would place my own company in Singapore or something... would never have to abide by nazi-like rules.
He's absolutely wrong in everything he says. There's not much else to say about it. Let's all try to ignore it as it will never be even discussed seriously.
Either way what I see in some of the comments posted here is plain and simple american nationalism. If you're against a uk guy that is a nationalist and a true us-suck-ass-fan-boy please stop being such eu-suck-ass-fan-boys! After all you're just being what you're criticizing!!
It's amazing what can people say (and by repeating making themselves believe it's true) to protect a business which is bound to be destroyed. Or it should be...
Hopefully in the future there will be laws regarding this. (I would say life for spam!)
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I'm a university student and many times I knew that most professors had code to detect plagiarism. In fact, I remember one that had a code that didn't consider the filename, the function/methods/etc name nor the variable names. He had implemented (in lisp!) something that detected similar program flows.
This was so absurdly over-zealous that I know people who had just one similar (not equal) function and had 0 due to that.
Either way I think that it is only fair that there's anti-plagiarism methods by the professor.
Nevertheless I strongly disagree with these kind of websites (like turnitin) which profit - by ways that might even be unknown to us - with the free work of students.
The teaching staff should do that kind of work and actually read and be knowledgable about the subject the essays are about.
If the professor can't do it then maybe he should go back to being a student.
Extremely sad...
The other day a friend of mine came over and I showed him a webpage about whatever. He is the biggest windows user of all time imho. But the next day when I went to his computer, he was running mozilla. A new mozilla-fan without any preaching.
One example out of many.
a', à and á
The backwards apostrophe key is for the few billion people that have to use it everyday. "But I don't have to use it, nobody uses it! Take it off!"
And that "double-S figure" in macs has a purpose.
Finally! It's getting closer to a great release and a milestone in linux gaming.
;)
Hopefully more companies will follow bioware's example. Give the distributors the windows games, give the community the linux patch
It was always a myth that the world would be contaminated with the virus of US thinking.
At the time everyone was thinking about the impact the internet would have in dictatorships also everyone was saying that internet was boasting discussion about every topic possible. Free speech was bad for oppressive regimes.
Interesting it is that noone thought at the time the internet could be a major way to challenge the western regimes. It's not a bad thing (tm) per se, actually it's quite good to the world that discussion about what kind of regime is best for the world. Maybe new ideas might come up... Afterall for all it's failings democracy is the best form of government that we can come up with (quote: Winston Churchill)
Hurray for the internet.
...is to let developers like the fine folks at ReactOS who would have a terrible time developing it if it weren't for Bochs!
:)
I don't see why everyone is comparing it to wine or vmware because it's simply not the same thing.
By the way... support ReactOS !!
It is amazing how people who obviously have no clue about what the world is about try to tell everyone about what "the real world" is.
Interesting it is that this person called us all faggots, lazy and smelly. What is even more interesting is that we are the ones who contribute everyday to the creation of true alternatives to comercial software (and some, hardware!)... OH YEAH WE ARE LAZY!!
*sigh* the humanity...
The main problem for me to accept this kind of speed anywhere near impressive is the fact that the design of the P4 is all about being able to deliver high speeds but with a cost: lots and lots of "bubbles".
In fact P4 has a 22-staged (if I'm not mistaken) pipeline which means that if the next instruction requires information from the instruction that just entered the pipeline. The processor will have to spend 22 clock cycles using NOOPs... and this is the common case.
Other thing that happens is that if they were to increase the number of pipeline steps they would be able to achieve faster processors. The problem is that they wouldn't be better. This is clearly the case between AMD and Intel. Intel put their money on increasing speed (long live Marketing) while AMD stayed with a not-excessively pipelined design. What happened? Well... Athlon XP with 1333 Mhz had the same performance as a P4 with 1700Mhz (I have no idea about these numbers but the relation is something similar).
Sorry about the long post... but I had to say something about this.
Why did MS comissioned a small company to port Passport server software?
I'm not an expert in corporate tactics but could it be that they're already forseeing the flop of those ports and rather ask a small company to have the trouble, the (possible) losses, etc... ?
...americans won't be able to learn anything rather than "one country under god" or "the axis of evil" theories.
Will you vote for bush again? *sigh*
...it won't work. Anyway I think it won't be long until there is one modchip that actually works with xbox. It can't be THAT different as if it was surely there would be compatibility problems.
I'm sure Balmer is incredibly excited about war against Linux and open source. But unfortunately for MS is that - imeho (e for extremely) - there isn't a WinCommunity. Most people use windows just because: they think that windows is the only thing there is.
In Linux there's the open source community needed for any open source project to thrive and this, of course, creates many slashdot-readers-linux-maniacs.
So, how could a non-existant community "stomp" the open source community? Well... it couldn't. But with a company like MS behind it FUD usually works or in this case probably will delay the linux desktop boom.
I'm actually impressed with Epic. I hated UT... the physics, the gameplay, etc. Being a Quake aficionado (and still a qw player) I never could understand how could someone play so "slowly".
Anyway, from what I see from ut2k3 demo the gameplay is faster and very Q3-like, the graphics are quite good (for a company who doesn't have a johnc among them) and now this! Linux out of the box... Kudos to Epic.
I believe this is the way to go. A good game with support for the most proeminent desktop OSs around in one box. The Q3 way of doing it was wrong. Happily they corrected it for Q3 Gold and shipped with hybrid cds.
You missed the point, illegal goes from jaywalking to murder 1... The point here is that it is so ridiculously stupid to call theft chalking on sidewalks... you can call it vandalism (i could even try to agree to the term "cyberpiracy") but never theft!
Theft? Omg... They must be really joking right? It can be millions of other things but theft of what?
Maybe it's just an attempt to start some talk about it.
Considering that the writer is correct and that, let's say, one thousand lusers are sharing corrupted files with the same file size and same file name. Considering that there isn't a way to control that, we still don't know what MD5 is or PARity files are.
.avi or .mp3 isn't going to spoil their day. The user will just be warned not to leech from that share again.
Even in this extreme scenario there would always be this other network. Direct Connect for instance is able to create hundreds of different networks with different content. And if you download a file from a guy that has corrupted files, you can simply ignore him next time. In fact most of the users of p2p networks are using high-bandwidth connections and a bad
Regarding massive networks like Gnutella you can work exactly the same way. It won't be because of a bad file that he'll think something like: "Oh my god, this sucks! I have to go out and pay 17 for this record I wanted to check it was good".
It was an interesting analogy but difficult to understand as it may be, fish are dumber than most of the p2p users. Fish don't adapt, p2p users do. P2p users can simply change the rules of the game... it's their game.
And it has been a waste of money, time and brain cells I'm afraid.
If (by a miracle) raw copiers like blindwrite or clonecd can't copy those cds physically, there's always a cracker who will be delighted to crack that system in less than 24 hours! Actually, the dumb-leech that downloads warez with 1-click(tm) out of any p2p network or any common-leech that lurks at message boards and ftp-lists will never have to bother with this encryption as, they will only have to "copy cracked exe to game dir".
copy protection goes a long way... and if it's software enforced it's absolutely pathetic.
oh no no... johnc never heard of punkbuster... considering that id was THE software company that gave permission to punkbuster to improve their own code!
:D
Next point release you'll have an almost cheat-free Q3 - until someone comes up with something.
Bah! back to you! I will only criticize when I look at the final product. Never before!
Carmack is god
I'm glad US Congress and the RIAA don't own me and as such I can still hang around in my file sharing. *sings happily*
What makes me think actually is that with all these laws people most likely in the future will look to growing economies such as India and China as a haven for new techonologies and new forms of developing them. This will make this type of countries increasingly more advanced until one day they will probably surpass the all mighty US and the EU.
I for one would place my own company in Singapore or something... would never have to abide by nazi-like rules.
He's absolutely wrong in everything he says. There's not much else to say about it. Let's all try to ignore it as it will never be even discussed seriously.
Either way what I see in some of the comments posted here is plain and simple american nationalism. If you're against a uk guy that is a nationalist and a true us-suck-ass-fan-boy please stop being such eu-suck-ass-fan-boys! After all you're just being what you're criticizing!!
oh the humanity...
...broadcast from outside the US ? Afterall the us is the only government in the world who gives RIAA permission to charge royalties on webradios!
It's amazing what can people say (and by repeating making themselves believe it's true) to protect a business which is bound to be destroyed. Or it should be...
Hopefully in the future there will be laws regarding this. (I would say life for spam!)