Have the students write in-class essays on whatever topic they're supposedly plagiarizing Wikipedia for. They'll have to either learn the subject, or at least memorize a summary of the main points (which is what a sizable portion of them do anyhow).
I guess I'm being a little nit-picky, but what difference to a blind person does the method of loading device drivers or allocating memory really make? That is, is this even a question that needs to be answered on the OS level? It seems more like an application level issue.
he sounds exactly like a Star Wars fanboy who quite possibly saw something NOT happy/funny/good for the first time.
Maybe he sounds that way to you, but he's actually fairly well-rounded in his viewing tastes. I remember him raving about "A Man for All Seasons," for example, in an NYT interview, expressing surprise that more people haven't seen it -- and that's not exactly a happy/funny/good ending, either. And IIRC, this is the guy who killed off Karen Page in the DD comics.
No, I am (mostly) right and you are (partially) wrong.
If the value of $foo is "bar", then $foo, "$foo", and '$foo' all give the error "bash: bar: command not found"
echo $foo
and
echo "$foo"
both return "bar."
echo '$foo'
returns "$foo."
If $bar has the value "ls", then
grep foo `$bar`
will search for 'foo' in whatever is listed in your directory.
My basic point was, the quoting mechanism is no more complicated than the (US) English sentence:
I said, "He explicitly said to me, 'don't feed them after midnight.'" And the multiple quote styles are necessary for approximately the same reason--you need to talk sometimes about the quotation, and sometimes about the meaning of the quote.
Well, okay, but if I had a few pages of c++ code and I said that no compiler could run it, I'd be blaming my code rather than the compilers, if you know what I mean.
Just out of curiosity...what browser did they use to get the successful reference rendering? I'm presuming there's one that successfully renders, otherwise, how do they know their test code is valid? I've clicked around but don't know what they used to generate that png.
A war in space breaks out between humans and an intelligent insect race. Turns out that space combat ability is a little like chess in that talent can show at a very early age, so the government takes children as young as five and trains them for combat by putting them through simulation games. "Ender" Wiggin is a young child with a talent for combat, so he is one of the recruits.
The games aren't merely training, or, to put it another way, the training isn't simply in strategy and tactics. The games are also used as psychological evaluation and emotional manipulation, with games-within-games and tests that don't appear, on the surface, to be tests. Fairly creepy thing to do to adults, much less children.
There's more, but I don't want to spoil it for a potential reader.
Sounds like the old, iron-clad "buy low, sell high" stock advice to me. While incontrovertably true, it still doesn't tell you how you're supposed to to that.
One thing to remember is that Randal did that in order to alert Intel to the insecurity in their passwords. If I remember the story right, he went to his bosses at the time and said "I think there might be some insecure passwords on our network."
"Don't worry about it," was the alleged gist of the response, but Randal insisted. When they said that there was no problem, that's when he ran Crack and presented them with the list of passwords, to prove that they were insecure. That's when they slapped the criminal charges on him.
My take on it has always been, I'd have fired him (because when your boss tells you specifically not to do something, it becomes his problem not yours, and disobeying a direct order is a firing offense); I wouldn't have pressed charges, though.
Actually, I would have listened to him in the first place, but, for better or for worse, his orders were to steer clear of the password file.
This really seems to be overhyped to me. It is, at most, an incremental improvement over the status quo. Lindberg crossing the Atlantic was significant because nothing like it had ever been done; but we first orbited the Earth back in the '60s, military aircraft circle the globe in flight constantly, and there has never really been a commercial need for a plane that could go more than halfway around the world at one time.
So, yeah, congratulations and all, but this sounds more like a millionaire sailing around the world in his yacht than the next Magellan.
Look at how badly music translates into movies, or how poorly a sculpture translates into a song.
That's a lame-brained analogy. Books and movies have a lot of overlapping areas: they both have stories, they both have characters, they both have settings, themes and tone.
Would you say that drawing badly translates into painting, or that pipe organ music badly translates into orchestral scores? Well, then Michelangelo and J.S. Bach would disagree. And these are closer analogies to books-into-movies than the contrived examples you came up with.
I used to work for a company that required everyone to use the same, default password. I changed mine one day and got a visit from my supervisor a few days later asking why I'd changed it, and an order to change it back. Needless to say, I found another job quick.
That's my question: is this just some throat-clearing, or is it in preparation for making a ruling? (Dismissed with prejudice, one would hope.) Maybe he's giving an indication of his leanings so that he can let SCO back down before he resorts to a method that overarching. Although at this point, I'd think that any slapdown to SCO is well-deserved and long-overdue.
But it sounds like, without issuing a ruling, he's just muttering to himself.
Only problem is, the message gets corrupted really, really fast. Witness the Religious Right in America. Or medieval Europe. Or the tail end of the Roman Empire.
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Have the students write in-class essays on whatever topic they're supposedly plagiarizing Wikipedia for. They'll have to either learn the subject, or at least memorize a summary of the main points (which is what a sizable portion of them do anyhow).
It's PubliK.
You know, if you link to a porn site, you could at least warn us.
Ummm...and painting has very little to do with light, and much more to do with color.
And poetry has very little to do with words, and much more to do with language.
But maybe you could run one by your posts every so often.
For instance:
Simple, clear, no need for comments.
I guess I'm being a little nit-picky, but what difference to a blind person does the method of loading device drivers or allocating memory really make? That is, is this even a question that needs to be answered on the OS level? It seems more like an application level issue.
Yeah, and another thing that annoys me...where's all that damn music coming from?
Seriously, that's what we call dramatic license.
Maybe he sounds that way to you, but he's actually fairly well-rounded in his viewing tastes. I remember him raving about "A Man for All Seasons," for example, in an NYT interview, expressing surprise that more people haven't seen it -- and that's not exactly a happy/funny/good ending, either. And IIRC, this is the guy who killed off Karen Page in the DD comics.
If the value of $foo is "bar", then $foo, "$foo", and '$foo' all give the error "bash: bar: command not found"
and both return "bar." returns "$foo." If $bar has the value "ls", then will search for 'foo' in whatever is listed in your directory.My basic point was, the quoting mechanism is no more complicated than the (US) English sentence: I said, "He explicitly said to me, 'don't feed them after midnight.'" And the multiple quote styles are necessary for approximately the same reason--you need to talk sometimes about the quotation, and sometimes about the meaning of the quote.
These are convenient, and not too hard to remember. Just out of curiosity, how are these things done in fish?
Well, okay, but if I had a few pages of c++ code and I said that no compiler could run it, I'd be blaming my code rather than the compilers, if you know what I mean.
Just out of curiosity...what browser did they use to get the successful reference rendering? I'm presuming there's one that successfully renders, otherwise, how do they know their test code is valid? I've clicked around but don't know what they used to generate that png.
Short summary:
A war in space breaks out between humans and an intelligent insect race. Turns out that space combat ability is a little like chess in that talent can show at a very early age, so the government takes children as young as five and trains them for combat by putting them through simulation games. "Ender" Wiggin is a young child with a talent for combat, so he is one of the recruits.
The games aren't merely training, or, to put it another way, the training isn't simply in strategy and tactics. The games are also used as psychological evaluation and emotional manipulation, with games-within-games and tests that don't appear, on the surface, to be tests. Fairly creepy thing to do to adults, much less children.
There's more, but I don't want to spoil it for a potential reader.
Well, he said he was memoizing in the article. You can check his code here.
Sounds like the old, iron-clad "buy low, sell high" stock advice to me. While incontrovertably true, it still doesn't tell you how you're supposed to to that.
"Don't worry about it," was the alleged gist of the response, but Randal insisted. When they said that there was no problem, that's when he ran Crack and presented them with the list of passwords, to prove that they were insecure. That's when they slapped the criminal charges on him.
My take on it has always been, I'd have fired him (because when your boss tells you specifically not to do something, it becomes his problem not yours, and disobeying a direct order is a firing offense); I wouldn't have pressed charges, though.
Actually, I would have listened to him in the first place, but, for better or for worse, his orders were to steer clear of the password file.
This really seems to be overhyped to me. It is, at most, an incremental improvement over the status quo. Lindberg crossing the Atlantic was significant because nothing like it had ever been done; but we first orbited the Earth back in the '60s, military aircraft circle the globe in flight constantly, and there has never really been a commercial need for a plane that could go more than halfway around the world at one time. So, yeah, congratulations and all, but this sounds more like a millionaire sailing around the world in his yacht than the next Magellan.
I wonder if the lawyers for the IANA ever abbreviate their titles to IANAL. And I wonder if that ever confuses the heck out of people.
This explains everything about KDE development.
That's a lame-brained analogy. Books and movies have a lot of overlapping areas: they both have stories, they both have characters, they both have settings, themes and tone.
Would you say that drawing badly translates into painting, or that pipe organ music badly translates into orchestral scores? Well, then Michelangelo and J.S. Bach would disagree. And these are closer analogies to books-into-movies than the contrived examples you came up with.
I used to work for a company that required everyone to use the same, default password. I changed mine one day and got a visit from my supervisor a few days later asking why I'd changed it, and an order to change it back. Needless to say, I found another job quick.
But it sounds like, without issuing a ruling, he's just muttering to himself.
Only problem is, the message gets corrupted really, really fast. Witness the Religious Right in America. Or medieval Europe. Or the tail end of the Roman Empire.