“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
we held out for a very long time, as a non-profit academic institute that didn't want to pay for certs... The final straw was iPhones and the like, not only NOT talking to our self-signed IMAP-SSL server, but not even complaining why... (in fact, they say everything is fine, but never retrieve the mail...) The mail app doesn't even give you opportunity to accept the cert.
yeah, you can post your cert as a file on a webserver, and point safari to it, and explicitly add it as a profile... but that didn't seem to be a long term viable solution. so, we finally purchased a wildcard cert. I hate paying the money, but it did fix our "problems".
My personal contribution is the small but powerful end of the bellcurve... somewhere there are accounts getting tons of retweets... I help keep that statistic low.
I've had the Brewdog Tokyo (18%+) and it was extremely drinkable... it's a mix of a strong double bock and a brandy, but with none of the 2 week old gym sock funk of an aged beer.
just partner with apple, and create an app that tells you whether a word is valid. why leave it to question when there's money to be made providing the answer?
For those complaining about the price tag: good quality furniture made from solid wood costs real money. I spent over $1000 on black walnut (some highly figured) for a 7 drawer chest on chest I built last summer. Probably spent close to 100 hours on it too. Depending on the wood, $10, $20 or even $50 a board foot ( 1 square foot of wood, 1 inch thick) is not unusual.
That said, if it's cheap wood, or plywood with hardwood veneer, you should not be spending the same amount. (unless the veneer is exceedingly rare).
I wouldn't be surprised if there was well over $1000 of wood and hardware in it. (also wouldn't be surprise if it was crap).
while this is certainly super-sized, this technology has been around for over a decade. z-corp comes to mind (www.zcorp.com)
I saw them print out a rubber ball from elastic particles and flexible glue that actually bounced. They kept the cost down early by using HP Deskjet hardware for the printing (just glue instead of ink).
It's not news, it's news branded entertainment! (or is that entertainment branded news?)...not that we are aren't knee deep already... but, seriously?!
I teach an introduction to robotics internship to some high-schoolers every summer. 6 hours a day, 4 days a week for 5 weeks. We go through: - basic physics e&m (what a charge is, how it flows) - circuits (series and parallel restistors etc.) - DLD (digital logic design) what is a prototyping board, hooking up transistors, LEDs, 555 timers, logic gates - some analog circuits (what an h-bridge is so their boards can actually power a motor, how transistors work so they can use IR phototransistors etc.) - computer architecture (so they can program a PIC)
Once they get to the DLD, it's hard to stop them. By the end of the summer they've built a robot that can autonomously follow a line on the floor. Sounds simple, but there is no lego kit here. They build everything from scratch.
I basically grew up building and breaking things in my dads garage. It had a little bit of everything: woodworking, metalworking, automotive etc.
What I really learned was respect and patience for tools, jigs, and problem solving. Most of all, build something together. Kits are great (especially remote control cars/airplanes), but I still remember my first pocketknife. I was 6, and I loved carving toy solders and ninjas from scrap wood. My brother and I made our own transformers from scrap wood and cheap hinges. We were young to be working with knives and a bandsaw, but my father supervised us on the bandsaw, and made sure we respected the pocketknives. Yeah, I occasionally slipped and cut myself, but never worse than a scraped knee on a playground. He also taught me how to sharpen it so it never got dull (and dangerous). That stuck with me. The idea that a tool needs to be cared for, not just used and tossed away.
A small scroll saw is a great first power tool for a kid to use. It's hard to hurt yourself too bad on those, and you can build almost any small project with it.
Given the details in the story, the guy (and all the contributers) cheated, and they should all be read the riot act. Should they be expelled? I think anyone would have to hear the entire story from him first (IE: what the hearing should provide for him) before that is concluded.
The Professor stipulated that the students must work independently. Is that a reasonable expectation? Maybe/ maybe not. Is it the best possible application of a homework assignment to get the most out of class? Maybe/ maybe not. BUT, just because a student disagrees with the professors methods, it does not give them the green light to cheat.
Why is the definition of cheating so broad, and the punishments vague? Well, technically copying "Hello, World" out of K&R for your first C program "might" constitute plagiarism if you don't reference it... but everyone is expected to just copy it. There is some latitude, and the university doesn't want a policy to tie their hands.
I think the likely nail is: "If you request to join, please use the forms to discuss/post solutions to the chemistry assignments. Please input your solutions if they are not already posted." Regardless of what was ACTUALLY discussed, this shows the intent.
Finally, I think students need to weigh in on the quality of teaching they get from professors. If a professor is truly substandard, the student should complain. Only when a track record of complaints against a tenured professor exists, can something get done. Just cheating your way though a class only makes it worse for the next student that comes along.
it looks like the school needs to register their student list/database etc. with Microsoft. The FAQ seems to imply that this requires Microsoft's software to interact with the student database on campus. This may or may not be a violation of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), but I know that if I were still a student, I would not be comfortable with the school sharing my enrollment information with companies without my knowledge and approval (Microsoft or other).
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“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
actual picture is from a commercial product:
http://www.draganfly.com/images/overview/DF-X6/Draganflyer-X6.jpg
including the actual photo being taken directly from their site:
http://www.draganfly.com/images/overview/DF-X6/Draganflyer-X6.jpg
we held out for a very long time, as a non-profit academic institute that didn't want to pay for certs...
The final straw was iPhones and the like, not only NOT talking to our self-signed IMAP-SSL server, but not even complaining why... (in fact, they say everything is fine, but never retrieve the mail...) The mail app doesn't even give you opportunity to accept the cert.
yeah, you can post your cert as a file on a webserver, and point safari to it, and explicitly add it as a profile... but that didn't seem to be a long term viable solution.
so, we finally purchased a wildcard cert. I hate paying the money, but it did fix our "problems".
My personal contribution is the small but powerful end of the bellcurve...
somewhere there are accounts getting tons of retweets... I help keep that statistic low.
if you translate it into a b/w image 11x3 pixels, then repeat, offset by a few rows each repetition, you get essentially the background of the shield:
http://i51.tinypic.com/30msd3s.jpg
I've had the Brewdog Tokyo (18%+) and it was extremely drinkable... it's a mix of a strong double bock and a brandy, but with none of the 2 week old gym sock funk of an aged beer.
I always loved shadow of the beast by psygnosis, and it's sequel.
awesome graphics, awesome sound.
just partner with apple, and create an app that tells you whether a word is valid.
why leave it to question when there's money to be made providing the answer?
what do you do with a drunken sailor,
what do you do with a drunken sailor,
what do you do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning...
shave his belly with a rusty razor, ...
shave his belly with a rusty razor,
shave his belly with a rusty razor, early in the morning...
For those complaining about the price tag: good quality furniture made from solid wood costs real money.
I spent over $1000 on black walnut (some highly figured) for a 7 drawer chest on chest I built last summer.
Probably spent close to 100 hours on it too.
Depending on the wood, $10, $20 or even $50 a board foot ( 1 square foot of wood, 1 inch thick) is not unusual.
That said, if it's cheap wood, or plywood with hardwood veneer, you should not be spending the same amount. (unless the veneer is exceedingly rare).
I wouldn't be surprised if there was well over $1000 of wood and hardware in it. (also wouldn't be surprise if it was crap).
while this is certainly super-sized, this technology has been around for over a decade.
z-corp comes to mind (www.zcorp.com)
I saw them print out a rubber ball from elastic particles and flexible glue that actually bounced.
They kept the cost down early by using HP Deskjet hardware for the printing (just glue instead of ink).
cool stuff, but not new.
"The biggest problem with Microsoft is badly-written software — the operating system allows you to write software badly unlike Mac or Linux."
agreed. — what?
When I want aggressive and loud white noise I turn to:
Emperor, Immortal, Gorgoroth, Dimmu-Borgir etc.
Good for coding when I'm pissed off and in a hurry...
As a bonus, it also keeps people out of my office.
It's not news, it's news branded entertainment! ...not that we are aren't knee deep already... but, seriously?!
(or is that entertainment branded news?)
I teach an introduction to robotics internship to some high-schoolers every summer. 6 hours a day, 4 days a week for 5 weeks.
We go through:
- basic physics e&m (what a charge is, how it flows)
- circuits (series and parallel restistors etc.)
- DLD (digital logic design) what is a prototyping board, hooking up transistors, LEDs, 555 timers, logic gates
- some analog circuits (what an h-bridge is so their boards can actually power a motor, how transistors work so they can use IR phototransistors etc.)
- computer architecture (so they can program a PIC)
Once they get to the DLD, it's hard to stop them.
By the end of the summer they've built a robot that can autonomously follow a line on the floor.
Sounds simple, but there is no lego kit here. They build everything from scratch.
Rumiko Takahashi should have done the chapter on port binding and security...
I wonder if you could claim identity theft...
sue them for fraud.
IANAL
they let me listen to my music on a train at a dramatically reduced volume.
The animatronic puppet he funded for MITs Media Lab.
The world will miss his genius.
I think somewhere Leonardo is crying.
I basically grew up building and breaking things in my dads garage. It had a little bit of everything: woodworking, metalworking, automotive etc.
What I really learned was respect and patience for tools, jigs, and problem solving. Most of all, build something together. Kits are great (especially remote control cars/airplanes), but I still remember my first pocketknife. I was 6, and I loved carving toy solders and ninjas from scrap wood.
My brother and I made our own transformers from scrap wood and cheap hinges. We were young to be working with knives and a bandsaw, but my father supervised us on the bandsaw, and made sure we respected the pocketknives. Yeah, I occasionally slipped and cut myself, but never worse than a scraped knee on a playground. He also taught me how to sharpen it so it never got dull (and dangerous). That stuck with me. The idea that a tool needs to be cared for, not just used and tossed away.
A small scroll saw is a great first power tool for a kid to use. It's hard to hurt yourself too bad on those, and you can build almost any small project with it.
I was always a big fan of New Yankee Workshop.
But, without the the sword angle, I wouldn't have clicked on the article!
Given the details in the story, the guy (and all the contributers) cheated, and they should all be read the riot act. Should they be expelled? I think anyone would have to hear the entire story from him first (IE: what the hearing should provide for him) before that is concluded.
The Professor stipulated that the students must work independently. Is that a reasonable expectation? Maybe/ maybe not. Is it the best possible application of a homework assignment to get the most out of class? Maybe/ maybe not.
BUT, just because a student disagrees with the professors methods, it does not give them the green light to cheat.
Why is the definition of cheating so broad, and the punishments vague? Well, technically copying "Hello, World" out of K&R for your first C program "might" constitute plagiarism if you don't reference it... but everyone is expected to just copy it. There is some latitude, and the university doesn't want a policy to tie their hands.
I think the likely nail is:
"If you request to join, please use the forms to discuss/post solutions to the chemistry assignments. Please input your solutions if they are not already posted."
Regardless of what was ACTUALLY discussed, this shows the intent.
Finally, I think students need to weigh in on the quality of teaching they get from professors. If a professor is truly substandard, the student should complain. Only when a track record of complaints against a tenured professor exists, can something get done. Just cheating your way though a class only makes it worse for the next student that comes along.
If you read their fine print in the FAQ for administrators:
https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/FAQ/UniversityAdministrators.aspx
it looks like the school needs to register their student list/database etc. with Microsoft.
The FAQ seems to imply that this requires Microsoft's software to interact with the student database on campus.
This may or may not be a violation of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), but I know that if I were still a student, I would not be comfortable with the school sharing my enrollment information with companies without my knowledge and approval (Microsoft or other).