The simple act of reading any book doesn't make you a better person. However the subsequent incorporation of the ideas held in the book to your own life may well have an effect (just ask any Christian about the bible, a devout muslim about the Koran, any 16 year old who has just read Atlas Shrugged, Myra Hindley about the Marquis de Sade). Whether the changes result in a human who is better or not may end up being a subjective judgement, but you can definitely say the human is acting differently as a result of those ideas. They may act differently such that you appraise them as a 'better person' or a 'worse person'. Without the means of transferring ideas and knowledge to the next generation through books, I think it's fair to say that the human race would have advanced much slower. In fact picking up the right book can inform us about the effect the Gutenberg press had on our culture.
Much like a European way of looking at the world doesn't adequately appreciate how the modern USA came into existence and operates now, your way of looking at Europe is coloured by where you come from and as a result isn't as valid as it could be. Europeans do not concentrate on 'freedom' as much which will be so contrary to your beliefs that you won't understand the ramifications, and you'll dismiss that way of thinking without giving it further thought.
why can't people just make things on their own from scratch (like I do, see my site), and try to make somthing unique and stand out from everyone else.
It's because people are more interested in using what they see as a new medium to express ideas. They are not interested in the implementation. Why would they write their own when something perfectly good exists that they can use now?
In going for a job, I asked jokingly whether I could be given llamas as a bonus. They said they would be perfectly happy to do this as it could potentially work out quite well for them. In the end I figured money would be better. =)
It's just one experience but I found an essay that was plagiarized and submitted to my father in one hit. I asked him to find the most peculiar sentence. I typed it into google. Bingo, identified.
Correct, if you entered something like
'on the other hand'
into google, I agree you'd get many many hits.
If I was going to create a product such as this to detect plagiarism, I would have thought of this problem.
My father works as a professor in a large university, and has often had problems with students turning in plagiarised work.
One day he had to bring someone into his room to tell them that in future, it wasn't advisable to plagiarise from his own book and hand it right back into him, because he could recognise his own style!
With essays that can be purchased over the internet, why shouldn't McGill safeguard against having crap, plagiarized work handed into them? The students who do this are trying to decieve the university. The article seemed to be saying that the professors were trying to just get out of doing work, and it wasn't to catch cheaters. I don't see why it is wrong to know within a reasonable margin of error that the work you are marking is not plagiarized.
I can't tell you how many people in India listed C# and Java as their primary languages...C'mon now, we all know that those are good for small things and prototyping, but they aren't languages you write OSs or such in
I'd venture that there's not a lot of demand for OS's (we've got quite a few of these already!) but bespoke business applications written in these languages you say are good for 'small things and prototyping'. Companies are making millions upon millions of dollars selling systems so large I wouldn't know where to start programmed in Java. I'm sure we'll start to see these in C#.
In Munich they offered discounts (although still failed), now this... If it isn't anti-competition I don't know what is.
MS offering a discount in response to not being chosen is, in fact, a prime exame of competition. It is competition at work. Whether it is 'secret' or not is immaterial.
So this is an OODBMS that doesn't allow me to query, that holds all objects in in memory.
Right.
And how is this different to just storing my objects in memory? In some kind of data structure, like I usually do? Ok, then it serializes them. This functionality is pointless.
If I need lots of data to be persistent I want to use Oracle, SQL Server, SapDB, and maybe even MySQL so that other applications can see the data.
Otherwise, then I can just hold it in memory. If I'm just holding it in memory, I don't need another product to do it.
Damn right. The whole system of politicians getting these contributions is completely corrupt. I'm just absolutely amazed that a lot of people don't think 'hmm, OK, the political system is corrupt'. The whole point of politicians is that they represent the people, and that they do so without conflicts of interest. Politicians getting money from various industries and then voting on related issues is a conflict of interest. The whole system is up the creek.
I think the point is that with a set of companies such as this, you could boil down their requirements to something fairly consistent, maybe along the lines of:
shopping cart
meaningful, useful web stats linked to customer info
email
simple content management
mix and match templates and colours
It's fairly obvious that a small business will want to say what domain name they want, and get up and running with a whole system as quickly as possible with zero fuss and high reliability.
Yes, as we de-skill various areas we provide less work for ourselves. However, it is disingenious to not simplify this on purpose if it would enable other businesses to work more profitably, just so that we retain a paycheck don't you think?
83594834 winamp visualisations... 4570569 more empty projects on sourceforge than there are currently... 4504595 *really* nasty perl scripts that no-one will ever change for fear of breaking...
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Apple IOS has more games than all other game systems combined
http://www.intomobile.com/2010/11/17/apple-ios-iphone-ipa/
The simple act of reading any book doesn't make you a better person. However the subsequent incorporation of the ideas held in the book to your own life may well have an effect (just ask any Christian about the bible, a devout muslim about the Koran, any 16 year old who has just read Atlas Shrugged, Myra Hindley about the Marquis de Sade). Whether the changes result in a human who is better or not may end up being a subjective judgement, but you can definitely say the human is acting differently as a result of those ideas. They may act differently such that you appraise them as a 'better person' or a 'worse person'. Without the means of transferring ideas and knowledge to the next generation through books, I think it's fair to say that the human race would have advanced much slower. In fact picking up the right book can inform us about the effect the Gutenberg press had on our culture.
Wasn't Sim Ant created after Sim City?
Baaah, Yorkshire, Scotland, Cornwall, Wales... honestly! London will be a lot better off without the lot of you!
Much like a European way of looking at the world doesn't adequately appreciate how the modern USA came into existence and operates now, your way of looking at Europe is coloured by where you come from and as a result isn't as valid as it could be. Europeans do not concentrate on 'freedom' as much which will be so contrary to your beliefs that you won't understand the ramifications, and you'll dismiss that way of thinking without giving it further thought.
So preswumably:
1. if google are making money off of child porn,
2. and this law firm is making money off of a lawsuit with google
then
the law firm is making money off of child porn?
So who is going to sae the law firm!?
I'm building Kelly LeBrock right now!!
But my digital camera can't store 60Gb, so I can't store all my old photos on it.
What it often does is divide the opposition against incumbents that everyone wants out.
It would be pretty slow, why not just use mobile phones to either send text messages or connect to the internet?
why can't people just make things on their own from scratch (like I do, see my site), and try to make somthing unique and stand out from everyone else.
It's because people are more interested in using what they see as a new medium to express ideas. They are not interested in the implementation. Why would they write their own when something perfectly good exists that they can use now?
+5 Insightful :0
In going for a job, I asked jokingly whether I could be given llamas as a bonus. They said they would be perfectly happy to do this as it could potentially work out quite well for them. In the end I figured money would be better. =)
It's just one experience but I found an essay that was plagiarized and submitted to my father in one hit. I asked him to find the most peculiar sentence. I typed it into google. Bingo, identified.
Correct, if you entered something like
'on the other hand'
into google, I agree you'd get many many hits.
If I was going to create a product such as this to detect plagiarism, I would have thought of this problem.
My father works as a professor in a large university, and has often had problems with students turning in plagiarised work.
One day he had to bring someone into his room to tell them that in future, it wasn't advisable to plagiarise from his own book and hand it right back into him, because he could recognise his own style!
With essays that can be purchased over the internet, why shouldn't McGill safeguard against having crap, plagiarized work handed into them? The students who do this are trying to decieve the university. The article seemed to be saying that the professors were trying to just get out of doing work, and it wasn't to catch cheaters. I don't see why it is wrong to know within a reasonable margin of error that the work you are marking is not plagiarized.
I can't tell you how many people in India listed C# and Java as their primary languages...C'mon now, we all know that those are good for small things and prototyping, but they aren't languages you write OSs or such in
I'd venture that there's not a lot of demand for OS's (we've got quite a few of these already!) but bespoke business applications written in these languages you say are good for 'small things and prototyping'. Companies are making millions upon millions of dollars selling systems so large I wouldn't know where to start programmed in Java. I'm sure we'll start to see these in C#.
In Munich they offered discounts (although still failed), now this... If it isn't anti-competition I don't know what is.
MS offering a discount in response to not being chosen is, in fact, a prime exame of competition. It is competition at work. Whether it is 'secret' or not is immaterial.
Prevayler does anything you want!
(You've just got to code it)
So this is an OODBMS that doesn't allow me to query, that holds all objects in in memory.
Right.
And how is this different to just storing my objects in memory? In some kind of data structure, like I usually do? Ok, then it serializes them. This functionality is pointless.
If I need lots of data to be persistent I want to use Oracle, SQL Server, SapDB, and maybe even MySQL so that other applications can see the data.
Otherwise, then I can just hold it in memory. If I'm just holding it in memory, I don't need another product to do it.
There surely wouldn't be a hell of a lot to trade on P2P networks if no producers of programs, movies, music etc profited from doing so.
Damn right. The whole system of politicians getting these contributions is completely corrupt. I'm just absolutely amazed that a lot of people don't think 'hmm, OK, the political system is corrupt'. The whole point of politicians is that they represent the people, and that they do so without conflicts of interest. Politicians getting money from various industries and then voting on related issues is a conflict of interest. The whole system is up the creek.
shopping cart
meaningful, useful web stats linked to customer info
email
simple content management
mix and match templates and colours
It's fairly obvious that a small business will want to say what domain name they want, and get up and running with a whole system as quickly as possible with zero fuss and high reliability.
Yes, as we de-skill various areas we provide less work for ourselves. However, it is disingenious to not simplify this on purpose if it would enable other businesses to work more profitably, just so that we retain a paycheck don't you think?
And even better, if she had no gun at all, there would be no risk from that gun!
Guns don't defend people, people defend people...
Teachers are hired evil word pedants who enslave childish minds to a lifetime stupidity.
Don't word murder your children - don't take away their vocabulary to describe Nature's Harmonic Time Cube...
I can imagine that world...
83594834 winamp visualisations...
4570569 more empty projects on sourceforge than there are currently...
4504595 *really* nasty perl scripts that no-one will ever change for fear of breaking...
(shiver)