Coming up with a reliable way to prevent such cheating is a great career move for anyone interested in an IT position with the school.
Its really not that hard. Don't give out the same test year after year. And then don't give the same test out to differant periods. The best solution is to have testing at night for classes with multiple lecture times.
It basically comes down to teachers doing their jobs. If you're too busy with your research to handle the work required, its time to consider why you're with an educational institution. There are plenty of thinktanks that don't teach classes.
Outside the university, however, I'd assume the best way to counter transmissions is a gaussian cage test room. That would stop most of your wireless cheating using wires!
Nono, the first amendment does indeed apply to ALL government branches. Only all FEDERAL branches. State and Local governments are not explictly bound by the constitution, though I would think that there are states with similar statues. So how does this apply to schools? Since most schools get Federal funding, they have to adhere to all the rules within the appropriation bill itself, as well as things like the Bill of Rights, or they will lose said funding.
There's an interesting point to be made here on the behalf of vouchers. As much as I am an advocate of the public school system I went to (in Kansas, and nearly everyone thought the evolution fiasco was a large PR blunder), Vouchers would be very useful in keeping private schools(the people who wanted to throw out evolution) in check. Of course, vouchers are a state to state deal, so the degree and nature of the control varies with milage.
If you want a job in the growing industry, you're not gonna get anywhere without submitting an application. Many, many, even SEVERAL development groups are hiring, looking for people with C,C++, or 3d skills.
But how do you get them to hire you? Well, hopefully you went through an undergraduate program. Hopefully you knew you wanted in the industry and looked for classes that could be related (polygonal graphics, Artificial Intelligence, etc). And maybe even during the course of your Computer Science cirriculum you wrote a program featuring some of these concepts. All of this will be valuable to you, and to potential employers.
What should you keep in mind when looking for a job? Don't focus on development for a single platform. If you want to work with company A, and every game thats been made by A has only been on Dreamcast, thats no reason to assume that your PC programming skills are useless. Consoles are in the realm of NDA's, so nobody has experience off the bat. Plus, you never know where company A is looking to expand.
Bottom line is learn all you can and apply it in a presentable manner. Read stuff. Ask questions. Attend conferences. Make connections. Submit applications.
Oni's GUI is designed to keep the user from getting lost. You always know in what general direction and altitude to head next. And its fairly easy to know what to do when you get there, assuming you have to do anything at all. Because EVERYTHING is done by using a computer console. Its basically just a door and key design. It feels like the designers thought Oni was too unidimensional, so they added some 'puzzles' to vary it from straight action. The problem with that is that the puzzles fail to rival the action.
On a side note, Bungie bragged about the usage of real architects to build the levels. Personally, I thought the levels were pretty sucky and uninspired. Yes, theres no crates. After reading this though, it seems that maybe the architects' designs had to be simplified to meet the lowest common denominator.
What it comes down to is that if every game had to be accessible to every person, then we'd have run out of tic tac toe software along time ago. Part of playing a game is exploring the new environment you're in. Oni does a poor job of rewarding this, and yet makes it required on occasion. Either make it rewardful, or drop it...
They also have in house developers. Look at Electronic Arts. IIRC, Konami doesn't have any inhouse developers, but rather they own KCEO, stands for something that starts with "Konami." But how many people know that GameFreak really made Pokemon, and not Nintendo? And how many people know that Intelligent Systems made the famous japanese RPG Firebrand, rather than Nintendo's inhouse EAD?
What business interest, exactly, is Nintendo trying to protect here?
Easy, the magazine and strategy guide market. Nintendo publishes their own propaga--err, magazine, and they also liscence out the right to make Official Strategy Guides. Any competition means less money, but I think the more important issue is that Nintendo doesn't make Pokemon, GameFreak does, a japanese Nintendo Liscencee.
Its kind of sad how little credit asian developers get, ever. How many people know about the companies that make Konami's games, or Capcoms?
Actually, its not Nintendo's guide thats being ripped off of. Its the Instruction manual. Maybe its close enough, maybe its not, since nintendo liscences out the official GUIDE, in addition to making a manual...
The summary is a little misleading in that its not Daily Radar being sued. Daily Radar's parent company is being sued for a different enterprise completely unrelated to Daily Radar. Radar just broke the news first, and explains how they are affected, to the extent they can explain things.
On a side note, I found the complaint Nintendo filed publicly with the court, scanned and archived by daily radar themselves. Apparently the bulk of the charges rest on Imagine using artwork from manuals, and deliberate copying of the Pokemon Gold's manual cover style.
Personally, its a toss up for me. Its a bad prescedent, but maybe its worth it to kill a trendy, no-gameplay scourage like Pokemon...
Treeloot. They make all their money flooding their users with ads, and then giving out "coupons" as prizes. People claim that violent computer games desensitize people, but why has no one attacked sites like Treeloot for a proveable desenstitization to ads? I'm sure that people who "play" Treeloot have the worst click through and purchase rates, but that doesnt matter to Treeloot.com, as long as they keep clicking and advertisers keep giving them a little bit of cash, they never will.
Plus, when they whore all the ads like that, the market for them falls into a downward spiral, from 15CPM down to 1CPM. What does this mean? It means that sites who have real content that can't eck out a high enough ads-served to bandwidth site will die out, as well as ones who don't have a high enough ads-served to disk space ratio.
Where will the pieces fall? I find it interesting that Geocities hasn't died yet considering how its viewer base is undefined, most "homepages" are on the bottom end of both ratios. Maybe Geocities's aggregate viewerbase is what saves it, differing from the white-single-male-geek gaming "affiliate networks."
Nana, you got it confused. First it was a short story. Then he was writing Speaker for the Dead and he decided it would be cool if Ender was the Speaker. That meant he had to rewrite Ender's Game to make it fit together. Like he says, theres a thousand right ways to tell a story and ten thousand wrong ones.
You can now emulate your computer using your computer(or 'virtualize,' whatever). The important part here is that you can run the emulater in multiple instances. Oh, and running Windows is pretty important for the mainstream too, I suppose.
The branch that passed the bill in the first place, which is the same branch as the branch that can ovverride vetos with a 2/3s vote. However, winning the Presidency is important for other factors besides checks and balances. Should a third party candidate ever actually win office, then you can be sure that a good amount of people will start seriously considering 3rd party candidates for the LEGISLATURE, where appropriations(sp?) are created and passed.
I saw an investigative report about this that claimed it wasn't doing children much better. The D.A.R.E. program they showed looked much differant than the one I went through, with an advertising-esque lion and such. The main point was that all it was doing was introducing children to the concept of drugs, drug abuse and gangs. I'm inclined to agree: most of us out in suburbia didn't know about drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes in the fourth grade, but afterwards children were more informed about the terminology of drugs than their negative consequences.
Another point the report claimed was that the program never tells students that, to paraphrase, "drugs are bad, mkay?" D.A.R.E. expects that 12 year old children will consider the consequences of smoking that joint. The real problem is that its still preaching to the choir. The children who listen weren't going to drink, smoke or do drugs anyways.
The program I went through also made a point of telling us that not everyone was doing drugs, etc, but the amount of people doing these things did still rose anyways. At K-State theres a local area just outside called "Aggieville" which is basically a ton of alcohol serving businesses, and its the only source of entertainment on the weekends. However, theres also a "Project Wellness" campaign that says that most students "drink moderately if at all," meaning they have between 0-5 drinks at a party, party one or fewer nights per week, and have one drink an hour. Now, that would look to support the educating students how little students drinks, but theres also another factor: the statistics may reflect the distrubution of GPAs, class, department and gender, but it was taken outside the library on a friday evening. So in this case, its actually lying to the students, and fortunately, no one believes it. The head of the project is told by his subordinates that they don't think its accurate/effective/ethical but I guess he read the same article as above.
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Yes, this is true, but first off, cell phones are only slightly higher in cost per minute than local phone calls from home, in Japan. Which is why Nintendo made its GameBoy Color Cell phone add-on. The GameBoy Advanced is supposed to have cell phone capabilities built in, if I recall correctly. And whats it for? Pokemon online(ugh) and a new "communication RPG,...which will survive even after the pokemon phonomenon fades"(quotes from nintendo representatives." In essence, Nintendo is capitalizing on the widespread use of cell phones.
This won't happen in America. Why? Kids dont use cell phones. Plus, the cell phone adapter only worlks with the most popular brand in japan - the J-Phone.
BTW, most japanese students dont pay for their cell phone bills, because they dont have time to earn money really.
Doesn't this belong in the Book Review department?
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I feel I need to start this post with a disclaimer: Jon Katz is not a poor writer, nor a dumb one.
I just get the feeling that everytime he reads a new book, he gets the idea to write a new "essay." Now, this wouldnt be so bad, except, he never seems to bother investigating another viewpoint in these essays. He was reviled by many for his Letters from Hellmouth or whatever, but even that was mostly other people's writing. Obviously Katz has control over semantics and mechanics. Please Jon, one as capable as you can come up with more than a book review, I'm sure.
We all know that Mir is falling apart, and has some nasty fungus that could probably challenge human survival. How can we put to use such a deserted and dangerous setting? Survivor 3! Instead of eating rice you get MOLD! Instead of holding your breath underwater you hold your breath in space! And for the final immunity challenge (sort of a double meaining there with the mold and all) you have to survive re-entry.
PS I'm aware that you can't survive in outerspace due to pressure concerns, but we have this thing called humor. Learn to like it, its great.
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It basically comes down to teachers doing their jobs. If you're too busy with your research to handle the work required, its time to consider why you're with an educational institution. There are plenty of thinktanks that don't teach classes.
Outside the university, however, I'd assume the best way to counter transmissions is a gaussian cage test room. That would stop most of your wireless cheating using wires!
There's an interesting point to be made here on the behalf of vouchers. As much as I am an advocate of the public school system I went to (in Kansas, and nearly everyone thought the evolution fiasco was a large PR blunder), Vouchers would be very useful in keeping private schools(the people who wanted to throw out evolution) in check. Of course, vouchers are a state to state deal, so the degree and nature of the control varies with milage.
But how do you get them to hire you? Well, hopefully you went through an undergraduate program. Hopefully you knew you wanted in the industry and looked for classes that could be related (polygonal graphics, Artificial Intelligence, etc). And maybe even during the course of your Computer Science cirriculum you wrote a program featuring some of these concepts. All of this will be valuable to you, and to potential employers.
What should you keep in mind when looking for a job? Don't focus on development for a single platform. If you want to work with company A, and every game thats been made by A has only been on Dreamcast, thats no reason to assume that your PC programming skills are useless. Consoles are in the realm of NDA's, so nobody has experience off the bat. Plus, you never know where company A is looking to expand.
Bottom line is learn all you can and apply it in a presentable manner. Read stuff. Ask questions. Attend conferences. Make connections. Submit applications.
Oni's GUI is designed to keep the user from getting lost. You always know in what general direction and altitude to head next. And its fairly easy to know what to do when you get there, assuming you have to do anything at all. Because EVERYTHING is done by using a computer console. Its basically just a door and key design. It feels like the designers thought Oni was too unidimensional, so they added some 'puzzles' to vary it from straight action. The problem with that is that the puzzles fail to rival the action. On a side note, Bungie bragged about the usage of real architects to build the levels. Personally, I thought the levels were pretty sucky and uninspired. Yes, theres no crates. After reading this though, it seems that maybe the architects' designs had to be simplified to meet the lowest common denominator. What it comes down to is that if every game had to be accessible to every person, then we'd have run out of tic tac toe software along time ago. Part of playing a game is exploring the new environment you're in. Oni does a poor job of rewarding this, and yet makes it required on occasion. Either make it rewardful, or drop it...
Are you familiar with the "tyranny of the majority?" Perhaps a reading of a few Federalist Papers or "On Liberty" by Mill.
They also have in house developers. Look at Electronic Arts. IIRC, Konami doesn't have any inhouse developers, but rather they own KCEO, stands for something that starts with "Konami." But how many people know that GameFreak really made Pokemon, and not Nintendo? And how many people know that Intelligent Systems made the famous japanese RPG Firebrand, rather than Nintendo's inhouse EAD?
Easy, the magazine and strategy guide market. Nintendo publishes their own propaga--err, magazine, and they also liscence out the right to make Official Strategy Guides. Any competition means less money, but I think the more important issue is that Nintendo doesn't make Pokemon, GameFreak does, a japanese Nintendo Liscencee.
Its kind of sad how little credit asian developers get, ever. How many people know about the companies that make Konami's games, or Capcoms?
Exactly.
Actually, its not Nintendo's guide thats being ripped off of. Its the Instruction manual. Maybe its close enough, maybe its not, since nintendo liscences out the official GUIDE, in addition to making a manual...
On a side note, I found the complaint Nintendo filed publicly with the court, scanned and archived by daily radar themselves. Apparently the bulk of the charges rest on Imagine using artwork from manuals, and deliberate copying of the Pokemon Gold's manual cover style.
Personally, its a toss up for me. Its a bad prescedent, but maybe its worth it to kill a trendy, no-gameplay scourage like Pokemon...
Plus, when they whore all the ads like that, the market for them falls into a downward spiral, from 15CPM down to 1CPM. What does this mean? It means that sites who have real content that can't eck out a high enough ads-served to bandwidth site will die out, as well as ones who don't have a high enough ads-served to disk space ratio.
Where will the pieces fall? I find it interesting that Geocities hasn't died yet considering how its viewer base is undefined, most "homepages" are on the bottom end of both ratios. Maybe Geocities's aggregate viewerbase is what saves it, differing from the white-single-male-geek gaming "affiliate networks."
Nana, you got it confused. First it was a short story. Then he was writing Speaker for the Dead and he decided it would be cool if Ender was the Speaker. That meant he had to rewrite Ender's Game to make it fit together. Like he says, theres a thousand right ways to tell a story and ten thousand wrong ones.
You can now emulate your computer using your computer(or 'virtualize,' whatever). The important part here is that you can run the emulater in multiple instances. Oh, and running Windows is pretty important for the mainstream too, I suppose.
The branch that passed the bill in the first place, which is the same branch as the branch that can ovverride vetos with a 2/3s vote. However, winning the Presidency is important for other factors besides checks and balances. Should a third party candidate ever actually win office, then you can be sure that a good amount of people will start seriously considering 3rd party candidates for the LEGISLATURE, where appropriations(sp?) are created and passed.
I saw an investigative report about this that claimed it wasn't doing children much better. The D.A.R.E. program they showed looked much differant than the one I went through, with an advertising-esque lion and such. The main point was that all it was doing was introducing children to the concept of drugs, drug abuse and gangs. I'm inclined to agree: most of us out in suburbia didn't know about drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes in the fourth grade, but afterwards children were more informed about the terminology of drugs than their negative consequences. Another point the report claimed was that the program never tells students that, to paraphrase, "drugs are bad, mkay?" D.A.R.E. expects that 12 year old children will consider the consequences of smoking that joint. The real problem is that its still preaching to the choir. The children who listen weren't going to drink, smoke or do drugs anyways. The program I went through also made a point of telling us that not everyone was doing drugs, etc, but the amount of people doing these things did still rose anyways. At K-State theres a local area just outside called "Aggieville" which is basically a ton of alcohol serving businesses, and its the only source of entertainment on the weekends. However, theres also a "Project Wellness" campaign that says that most students "drink moderately if at all," meaning they have between 0-5 drinks at a party, party one or fewer nights per week, and have one drink an hour. Now, that would look to support the educating students how little students drinks, but theres also another factor: the statistics may reflect the distrubution of GPAs, class, department and gender, but it was taken outside the library on a friday evening. So in this case, its actually lying to the students, and fortunately, no one believes it. The head of the project is told by his subordinates that they don't think its accurate/effective/ethical but I guess he read the same article as above.
Yes, this is true, but first off, cell phones are only slightly higher in cost per minute than local phone calls from home, in Japan. Which is why Nintendo made its GameBoy Color Cell phone add-on. The GameBoy Advanced is supposed to have cell phone capabilities built in, if I recall correctly. And whats it for? Pokemon online(ugh) and a new "communication RPG,...which will survive even after the pokemon phonomenon fades"(quotes from nintendo representatives." In essence, Nintendo is capitalizing on the widespread use of cell phones. This won't happen in America. Why? Kids dont use cell phones. Plus, the cell phone adapter only worlks with the most popular brand in japan - the J-Phone. BTW, most japanese students dont pay for their cell phone bills, because they dont have time to earn money really.
I feel I need to start this post with a disclaimer: Jon Katz is not a poor writer, nor a dumb one. I just get the feeling that everytime he reads a new book, he gets the idea to write a new "essay." Now, this wouldnt be so bad, except, he never seems to bother investigating another viewpoint in these essays. He was reviled by many for his Letters from Hellmouth or whatever, but even that was mostly other people's writing. Obviously Katz has control over semantics and mechanics. Please Jon, one as capable as you can come up with more than a book review, I'm sure.
We all know that Mir is falling apart, and has some nasty fungus that could probably challenge human survival. How can we put to use such a deserted and dangerous setting? Survivor 3! Instead of eating rice you get MOLD! Instead of holding your breath underwater you hold your breath in space! And for the final immunity challenge (sort of a double meaining there with the mold and all) you have to survive re-entry. PS I'm aware that you can't survive in outerspace due to pressure concerns, but we have this thing called humor. Learn to like it, its great.