Grades are there to make one look good. Nobody wants their grades to be accurate (unless "accurate" already means "perfect"), so everyone shares the same basic incentive to cheat.
I was in Honors classes during my college days. Letter grades were awarded based upon how you defended your work during the term, not the actual work itself. A shame more professors don't have the time it takes to interview each of their students upon Final day.
On professor in particular shared with me his view on students who expected highest marks. Those students had always had high marks and believed they continued to deserve them, even if their work was average.
Still, the grades won't guarantee they'll pass a job interview, if you ask questions which require them to think, rather than spew rote memory.
Some pretty jingoistic racist shit, about foreigners seeing nothing wrong with cheating.
Citation needed.
While I won't cite anything, there is plenty of evidence of Bribes required in many cultures - these aren't new practices, but harken to the days when they may have been viewed as Tribute. What are you to make of such a culture, where a little dishonesty is the norm?
"They often come from a very different academic culture, where cheating is seen as perfectly acceptable."
Yep, it's the ungodly heathens. Americans don't cheat as much, because they are too dumb to go to college.
The best exams are the Open Book ones - yes, you can see answers in front of you, but your grade is based upon your understanding - if you don't already get it, you don't have enough time during the exam to read the entire book over.
The brighter the student, the more devious the means of cheating.
Also, I've seen (and caught) students cheating to get into a prestige university school with a highly competetive enrollment. The greater the reward, the greater the desperate measures sought to achieve that award. One student in particular was found guilty of Academic Fraud and expelled from the university - criminal charges may or may not have been pressed as a follow up.
One can well imagine the anger and frustration of those students who didn't make it, when they find someone did and did so through cheating.
The point is: why would they even try to invite them? It isn't like three months ago the public opinion of something named "PIRATE PARTY" would be any diferent.
The scuttlebutt is that they thought the Ninja Party would be there, too, but declined. All fell apart after that.
I'm in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, and didn't see any problem. Nor did I see anything reported in local media.
Keep in mind, a DNS attack could be re-routing all your traffic through a server where it's being screened for goodies - best to be paranoid in these instances than assume it's not happening to you.
It's sad when Microsoft is more forward thinking than Apple isn't it.
Pfft. Microsoft is desperate to get into the "Smart Phone" market. They're so far out of the running I'm surprised they aren't having a "2-for-1" sale.
It could also lead to people deveoping unapproved apps and selling them to people on the black market - and thus, with the wall breached, the Apple hegemony fell and there was much rejoicing!
"Yea!"
Did you reall mean to find "Bob Smith, Corp" or "Bobsmith Co." or "Smith LLP"
I worry how this will play out.
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In my experience, *MOST* of the government inefficiency we find, comes from private organizations abusing the government funds (thinking of them as unlimited), and the decisions by the legislators in those peoples pockets...
And that abuse is hard fought for by the very people who claim to be trimming the budget.
It's called Bringing Home The Bacon and a time honored tradition among Representatives. B1 Bomber and Sergeant York vehicle come to mind.
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Figher aircraft have traditionally run over budget. It has paid off, anyway - expensive aircraft have turned out to be very capable in a 'you get what you pay for' way. The F-35 is no different. Is there pork or inefficiency in some of what happened? Probably, and it would be nice to recover it - but in general a new fighter aircraft running over budget and late on milestones should not be a surprise.
I think there are those who see these programs coming along and do everything in their power to create an environment where the development will go into overruns. Further, there's the build in expectation that it must cost an absolutely sick amount of money.
The reality is, most of these fighters will encounter aircraft and weapons a couple of generations behind them, held together by cannibalised parts and flown by pilots who have more guts than training.
If the Pentagon said, "We want a new jet, designed and tested and ready to go into mass production, with the initial program less than $10 billion dollars", you can bet someone will overturn that and want the intial program to have a budget two or three times that. Those people are determined to have as much ot the program costs expended in their congressional districts.
AT&T, which claims 'the stars have aligned' for this technology
That's... some really weird lingo. Any stars in particular or just those well disposed to aspiring phone monopolists?
Yes, could be quite useful..
"Little Joey is late getting home from school, could you check in on his clothing sensors, dear?"
"Right. Looks like he's getting a proper kicking by the neighborhood lads again. Probably shouldn't have gone with the clothes with that AT&T logo on 'em"
Unless the project had copyright assignment in place, in which the contributors wouldn't have a leg to stand on; the entire codebase would belong to the primary developers.
In which case, "Mmmm fork fork fork" would be the Swedish I mean only way forward.
How about if the contributions were borrowed from other sortware released under the GPL? Huh, think of that? Huh? Huh?
Yeah, we could go on second guessing, third guessing and forth guessing, but I suppose the fork is the only possiblity left - just make it rock 8)
Do they just spontaneously combust, or are people abusing a piece of electronics until they break? My G1 is still working and it's taken a beating, but I upgraded long ago.
While on the flip side, I dropped my first gen iPhone into a puddle of water and it broke immediately.
iPhone saves time... generally if it's rubbish it's rubbish out of the box - e.g. the 4S battery issue.
Apple is going th have some pretty high QC on their kit as they have a reputation to keep.
A lot of the Android hardware is coming from sources who are here today and gone tomorrow - what do they care? HTC's fault for buying parts from them, sorta thing.
This underscores the importance of not being an early adopter, but hey, it's cool to be on the bleeding edge, isn't it?
It's unclear to me if that's kosher, as the closed variant must contain code that had been GPLed at one point.
My interpretation of copyright law and licensing is that you can distribute source code you wrote under any license you choose. Where it becomes in issue is when other people have contributed to the project, muddying the ownership of parts of the software.
It's the same as having different licensing terms for different customers -- even if the licenses conflict, the restrictions apply to that copy of the software and don't affect other copies that are distributed, even if the code is the same.
The trick, of course, is determining if the closed source does include andy GPLed contributions. Compile the last GPL copy and compare binaries, I suppose that would work. I believe it's been done before.
And to think he figured this stuff out around 100 years ago...
About 8 years ago I was using the Deep Field View for my desktop wallpaper - there's a lot of gravitational lensing going on in there, if you look carefully. Ol' Albert was a pretty sharp one, a little sad he didn't live to see these sorts of images - I'm certain he'd be so stoked that he'd pump his fist and shout, "Yesssss!"
In the spirit of science I'll toast to his memory with a pint when I gets home tonight.
Using stars between us and the black hole as a lens to magnify the viewing target? That seems like the astronomer's equivalent of a ninja move. Brilliant.
We're sure getting a lot of use out of Hubble. Weren't we planning on decommissioning it at some point in time? I'm glad we didn't.
This is why studying Math is such a great idea. It can lead to a Phascination with Physics (because Physics is Phun! =)
is included in the intelligence monitoring system. For those who sitting in front of a computer, the government can know what you are doing immediately.
As to the Iranian State, it's really a fake puppet democracy, power is in the Revolutionary Guards, who have ursurped pretty much everything in the country. The sham election as all the evidence anyone could need. There's no civil rights, not there ever were. Keep your head down, don't speak out and you might be able to get by. Speak out and it's curtains for you.
America makes some fine weapons systems in the cruise missle/air superiority fighter category. Conflicts in the third world usually swing more on lower-level weapons such as rifles and grenades and the like, which the Russians and Chinese do very well (some would argue better than the Americans).
About a year ago I was noodling around in the desert in Nevada and found dozens of expended cartridge shells. I picked them up and brought them home. The marking was "bxn 85", which I found to be a style of rifle popular in Russia from the time of the Tsars to the present, the 7.62mm54R. Oddly enough you can go into a Big 5 sporting goods and find a rifle which uses these shells (still commonly produced in Poland and Czech Republic) for $90 to $120, depending upon when they are on Sale. Comparable to any 30-06, which was a military rifle before becoming popular with hunters/sport shooters.
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It has nothing to do with the students, and everything to do with the environment.
You mean their upbringing - as the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
I wonder how many politicians cheated in school vs. their classmates.
Grades are there to make one look good. Nobody wants their grades to be accurate (unless "accurate" already means "perfect"), so everyone shares the same basic incentive to cheat.
I was in Honors classes during my college days. Letter grades were awarded based upon how you defended your work during the term, not the actual work itself. A shame more professors don't have the time it takes to interview each of their students upon Final day.
On professor in particular shared with me his view on students who expected highest marks. Those students had always had high marks and believed they continued to deserve them, even if their work was average.
Still, the grades won't guarantee they'll pass a job interview, if you ask questions which require them to think, rather than spew rote memory.
Some pretty jingoistic racist shit, about foreigners seeing nothing wrong with cheating.
Citation needed.
While I won't cite anything, there is plenty of evidence of Bribes required in many cultures - these aren't new practices, but harken to the days when they may have been viewed as Tribute. What are you to make of such a culture, where a little dishonesty is the norm?
"They often come from a very different academic culture, where cheating is seen as perfectly acceptable."
Yep, it's the ungodly heathens. Americans don't cheat as much, because they are too dumb to go to college.
The best exams are the Open Book ones - yes, you can see answers in front of you, but your grade is based upon your understanding - if you don't already get it, you don't have enough time during the exam to read the entire book over.
The brighter the student, the more devious the means of cheating.
Also, I've seen (and caught) students cheating to get into a prestige university school with a highly competetive enrollment. The greater the reward, the greater the desperate measures sought to achieve that award. One student in particular was found guilty of Academic Fraud and expelled from the university - criminal charges may or may not have been pressed as a follow up.
One can well imagine the anger and frustration of those students who didn't make it, when they find someone did and did so through cheating.
The point is: why would they even try to invite them? It isn't like three months ago the public opinion of something named "PIRATE PARTY" would be any diferent.
The scuttlebutt is that they thought the Ninja Party would be there, too, but declined. All fell apart after that.
Before banks?
Before governments?
I'm in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, and didn't see any problem. Nor did I see anything reported in local media.
Keep in mind, a DNS attack could be re-routing all your traffic through a server where it's being screened for goodies - best to be paranoid in these instances than assume it's not happening to you.
Sounds like someone is creating a massive botnet for something much bigger or just putting out a warning message. They question is what?
Perhaps they want to try to create bots to replace the large number they have been losing of late. e.g.
Not so much forward thinking as trying to do whatever it takes to catch up in the market.
I doubt Microsoft would take such an action if their phone and apps store commanded the same market share as Apple's.
Yeah, next thing you know, they'll put a giant Windows Phone in Times Square, or something else nearly as tacky.
It's sad when Microsoft is more forward thinking than Apple isn't it.
Pfft. Microsoft is desperate to get into the "Smart Phone" market. They're so far out of the running I'm surprised they aren't having a "2-for-1" sale.
It could also lead to people deveoping unapproved apps and selling them to people on the black market - and thus, with the wall breached, the Apple hegemony fell and there was much rejoicing!
"Yea!"
Did you reall mean to find "Bob Smith, Corp" or "Bobsmith Co." or "Smith LLP"
I worry how this will play out.
In my experience, *MOST* of the government inefficiency we find, comes from private organizations abusing the government funds (thinking of them as unlimited), and the decisions by the legislators in those peoples pockets...
And that abuse is hard fought for by the very people who claim to be trimming the budget.
It's called Bringing Home The Bacon and a time honored tradition among Representatives. B1 Bomber and Sergeant York vehicle come to mind.
Figher aircraft have traditionally run over budget. It has paid off, anyway - expensive aircraft have turned out to be very capable in a 'you get what you pay for' way. The F-35 is no different. Is there pork or inefficiency in some of what happened? Probably, and it would be nice to recover it - but in general a new fighter aircraft running over budget and late on milestones should not be a surprise.
I think there are those who see these programs coming along and do everything in their power to create an environment where the development will go into overruns. Further, there's the build in expectation that it must cost an absolutely sick amount of money.
The reality is, most of these fighters will encounter aircraft and weapons a couple of generations behind them, held together by cannibalised parts and flown by pilots who have more guts than training.
If the Pentagon said, "We want a new jet, designed and tested and ready to go into mass production, with the initial program less than $10 billion dollars", you can bet someone will overturn that and want the intial program to have a budget two or three times that. Those people are determined to have as much ot the program costs expended in their congressional districts.
Honestly they haven't been performing and it's understandable they got the axe. Maybe now AMD can focus on product rather than image.
In my experience image sells more often than brand. Particularly image establishes brand, for what it's worth.
These look like the sort of cuts of a company which may be in particular stress. Not encouraging.
AT&T, which claims 'the stars have aligned' for this technology
That's ... some really weird lingo. Any stars in particular or just those well disposed to aspiring phone monopolists?
Yes, could be quite useful ..
"Little Joey is late getting home from school, could you check in on his clothing sensors, dear?"
"Right. Looks like he's getting a proper kicking by the neighborhood lads again. Probably shouldn't have gone with the clothes with that AT&T logo on 'em"
Unless the project had copyright assignment in place, in which the contributors wouldn't have a leg to stand on; the entire codebase would belong to the primary developers.
In which case, "Mmmm fork fork fork" would be the Swedish I mean only way forward.
How about if the contributions were borrowed from other sortware released under the GPL? Huh, think of that? Huh? Huh?
Yeah, we could go on second guessing, third guessing and forth guessing, but I suppose the fork is the only possiblity left - just make it rock 8)
Do they just spontaneously combust, or are people abusing a piece of electronics until they break? My G1 is still working and it's taken a beating, but I upgraded long ago.
While on the flip side, I dropped my first gen iPhone into a puddle of water and it broke immediately.
iPhone saves time... generally if it's rubbish it's rubbish out of the box - e.g. the 4S battery issue.
Apple is going th have some pretty high QC on their kit as they have a reputation to keep.
A lot of the Android hardware is coming from sources who are here today and gone tomorrow - what do they care? HTC's fault for buying parts from them, sorta thing.
This underscores the importance of not being an early adopter, but hey, it's cool to be on the bleeding edge, isn't it?
My interpretation of copyright law and licensing is that you can distribute source code you wrote under any license you choose. Where it becomes in issue is when other people have contributed to the project, muddying the ownership of parts of the software.
It's the same as having different licensing terms for different customers -- even if the licenses conflict, the restrictions apply to that copy of the software and don't affect other copies that are distributed, even if the code is the same.
The trick, of course, is determining if the closed source does include andy GPLed contributions. Compile the last GPL copy and compare binaries, I suppose that would work. I believe it's been done before.
And to think he figured this stuff out around 100 years ago...
About 8 years ago I was using the Deep Field View for my desktop wallpaper - there's a lot of gravitational lensing going on in there, if you look carefully. Ol' Albert was a pretty sharp one, a little sad he didn't live to see these sorts of images - I'm certain he'd be so stoked that he'd pump his fist and shout, "Yesssss!"
In the spirit of science I'll toast to his memory with a pint when I gets home tonight.
Using stars between us and the black hole as a lens to magnify the viewing target? That seems like the astronomer's equivalent of a ninja move. Brilliant.
We're sure getting a lot of use out of Hubble. Weren't we planning on decommissioning it at some point in time? I'm glad we didn't.
This is why studying Math is such a great idea. It can lead to a Phascination with Physics (because Physics is Phun! =)
Blowing your mind since 1990
Best damn use of NASA funds, since the Moon landing.
Probably the
web camera
is included in the intelligence monitoring system. For those who sitting in front of a computer, the government can know what you are doing immediately.
Nuts to that. Get a bunch of these
As to the Iranian State, it's really a fake puppet democracy, power is in the Revolutionary Guards, who have ursurped pretty much everything in the country. The sham election as all the evidence anyone could need. There's no civil rights, not there ever were. Keep your head down, don't speak out and you might be able to get by. Speak out and it's curtains for you.
America makes some fine weapons systems in the cruise missle/air superiority fighter category. Conflicts in the third world usually swing more on lower-level weapons such as rifles and grenades and the like, which the Russians and Chinese do very well (some would argue better than the Americans).
About a year ago I was noodling around in the desert in Nevada and found dozens of expended cartridge shells. I picked them up and brought them home. The marking was "bxn 85", which I found to be a style of rifle popular in Russia from the time of the Tsars to the present, the 7.62mm54R. Oddly enough you can go into a Big 5 sporting goods and find a rifle which uses these shells (still commonly produced in Poland and Czech Republic) for $90 to $120, depending upon when they are on Sale. Comparable to any 30-06, which was a military rifle before becoming popular with hunters/sport shooters.