SIR SORRY WE ARE DOING BEST WE CAN BUT WE HAVE RUN INTO LEGAL FEE PROBLEMS AND ARE MOVING ALONG QUICKLY POSSIBLE.
WITH GRACE GOD WE WILL COMPLETE SHORTLY THE TRANSFER PLEASE REMEMBER YOU CAN HELP MY COUNTRY IF YOU COULD PLEASE SEND $500 FOR LEGAL DOCUMENTS TO ENCLOSED ADDRESS.
Sincerely RBORT MUGBE
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Torrents fucking rule. Slashdot shouldn't have an automatic mirror system for pages, but an automatic mirror/torrent system for big enough movies would be a big help.
In "Professional" science, "Published" means that a paper was included in a peer-reviewed journal. If you've previously written something for a class and passed in it, and later in the same class, you realize that something you said in that first paper was very useful and relevant here, it's very difficult to cite because there's no official standard for citing previous unpublished work.
I was just saying that "Unpublished Manuscript", which would technically be the correct way to cite it, is a really over-the-top thing for a student to do. I always chuckle to myself when students cite themselves as coming up with specific "Effect" names in powerpoint presentations and stuff.
Not to feed the trolls, but in some parts of the world, people become University Lecturers because of their talents in either explaining difficult concepts or scientific research, not because they pass a fucking spelling test.
I'm in Psychology, and researchers quote themselves *all the time*, in fact, it's very standard practice.
That being said, students are usually discouraged from doing this, as there's no official way to quote an unpublished paper you wrote last semester in APA format. "Unpublished manuscript" just sounds fucking pompus. =)
The reason why it continues is because most of the kids who get caught face no disciplinary measures.
I'm a University student and know kids who have plagiarized, and they don't get anything but a slap on the wrist. Why? They're good students otherwise, and teachers feel bad ruining a career over it. They always think that they can "teach them better" by making them do an extra essay instead.
But it's hard to argue that it should be okay. Maybe an F would do people some good.
As a student, some advice: - Make kids write outlines before they write essays, or assign questions in the form of outlines. Things like: Write the following in this order: "X, Y, Z". - Never assign a group essay. They encourage one student to freeload off another. - Assign essays with extremely specific topics, such as, "Write an essay describing the patterns of light and dark in Ovid's Elegies, specifically focusing on Amores 1.3 and Amores 1.13."
And, well, my favorite: - Assign a short (3-5) essay. Tell people when it's due. When they go to hand in their papers that day, instead, ask them to take out a piece of paper and, in 5 minutes, summarize three of their arguments on said topic with extra points for references. I can almost guarrentee that anyone who plagiarizes will never pass.
I've got a PC built into a shiny metal briefcase that sits on my desktop and works just fine. But I could never take it anywhere, as being strip-searched over PC components is NOT my idea of a good time.:-\
Well, a better analogy might be, watching the burgler tip-toe up the steps, check to see if anyone is home, whisper to his partner, "Okay, if we see anyone, we scram!", open the front door, tip-toe up to your vase, and then... plug him with a shotgun in the back, when you know full well that the situation could have been averted by just yelling, "Hey, get out of my house!"
But, I think this is supersupersuper far fetched. Come on. The administration of schools aren't interested in hurting their students.
Because he had never submitted the original for grading?
I'm not sure if this is the case (I'm not the above AC), but I don't really see a problem with submitting work done outside of class for later class credit. It's a bit on the edge to submit the same assignment for multiple classes, but fairly unlikely to happen in a University setting (and usually out-ruled anyway).
Sometimes the sentence you wrote 6 months ago is just the best way to say what you want to say. That being said, I've never done anything like this. But it's an interesting case.
The basis for the suit is: "I've been plagarizing for 3.9 years, and right as I was about to graduate, you told me I couldn't. You shouldn't be allowed to kick someone out for plagarism after they pay you for 4 years of education."
This is a very silly argument, but if the student can find some evidence that the administration had knowledge of the plagarism scheme, led him to believe he would graduate, he paid all his fees, and *then* they pulled the plug, that would probably be just as immoral as the plagarism itself.
Lets be honest with ourselves. Who plagarizes anymore and thinks its okay?
What's really strange is that it takes about 8 minutes to broil chicken or fish, a cut of which probably costs less than most of his frozen meals, about 3 minutes to cook rice or thin pasta, which you can do at the same time, and it's (instant!) to take the salad out of the little pre-package baggie it comes in and toss it in a bowl.
If you're taking a few minutes to cook yourself dinner, why not cook yourself a decent one?
These are going to sound like newbie questions, coz they are. =)
Don't you have data on that drive that you can't afford to just format and reinstall? Or is there a way to switch distros without doing all that damage? Or do you keep your drives partitioned for just this reason?
Sorry to bug. Just curious. Interested in sampling some distros m'self.
Not to argue with extremes, but I could sell crack and make quite a profit. The government says I can't do so. There *are* limits to what everyone will accept.
Just a point. Though I have a gmail account, and love it, and think it's ridiculous that CA would pass a law against it.
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Instead of removing spyware, ensuring my OS is up to date, grabbing the latest virus definitions, dealing with system file conflicts, etc etc, I can actually BE productive. [my emphasis]
Totally. You have far more slashdot posts an hour now.
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Sorry to reply to your comment twice. Also of note, from the book's official website:
"The book is written for advanced Mac users (not newbies) and aimed at creative studio and production environments and for anyone that is looking after 5-50 macs (less than 5 and greater than 50 is fine too;-)"
5-50 macs is quite a few. If you fry them all at once, you've got a fucking talent for it. =)
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I already had.
And I read that part.
But I didn't think the reviewer did a very good job addressing the issue: "Why should I pay for lots of information that I'm fairly sure I'm never going to need to pay for?"
I think that in the 'net connected world, if you've got a pricey new Mac, you're likely to have other resources that are faster and more efficent at your fingertips.
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This comment might be slightly off topic, as I don't usually work with Macs and I've never read this book. However, I spend the majority of my days in front of a windows or linux machine, of various flavors (come on, as much as we like to joke, different versions of windows have different functionality).
The problem with writing tech support books, to be honest, is that google is faster. We have tech support books in the lab (research lab), but they're just not as quick as google. Google-ing error messages almost always pops up with exactly what you need to do to fix it or a related "problem" page. Googling specific keywords for problems without error messages almost always comes up with solutions. I've almost never found a computer problem that google couldn't fix.
Does this make me less of a "techie"? Not really. I mean, I know how to fix an awful lot of silly computer problems. But we all know that "Error 1278754874928375: No useful error message." comes up every once in a while, and we've got to find out how to fix it. Google seems to be the thing to use.
For those who don't find google useful, some tips: Use quotes. Quote phrases that should be together. Use "-" signs to negate words you don't need, or common words that are associated with terms in your query but aren't related to your problem (drive -car). Just seems like tech support books have been outdated by the web.
Although, it'll be much more difficult to prove damages in a Civil Suit, since it's nearly impossible to link a single individual copying mp3s to any financial loss incurred by the company.
Well, that's the point. How are they going to get paid?
I'm not saying it's ever going to come to this, but the point of Television is to sell commercials. Selling commercials means money.
Suppose there were two families, and one watched show A, and the other show B, and then the next day, they traded tapes. Or maybe it's two good friends. Or a brother and sister.
The next day, the person gets to skip through all the commercials. This isn't so bad, really, because the networks know that not everyone is going to be watching their show. But there are 200 different channels, and each of these networks has to convince sponsors that at 8PM each day, people will be tuning into their commercials, and not skipping them tomorrow.
The sponsors say, "Hey, that's crap! You want tons of money for an event no one is actually watching!" Suddenly, the Networks have to figure out what to do. They have three options: Option 1) Figure out a way to stop people from copying the shows. Option 2) cut pay to the crew and cast in order to recoup for lost advertising costs. Option 3) Offer a better program as alternative viewing.
Options 2 and 3, by far the most common, hurt actors, because they result in loss of wages or firing. That's the point. The point is, actors aren't going to *have jobs*. So the actors, realizing that 2 and 3 are shitty alternatives, have to do something about it. That's to say, all the actors have to get together and say, "Hey, assholes! Option 1! Pronto!"
This is a crazy scenario in many ways. I don't think it'll ever happen. But that's the point. I just thought your criticism of the author's point was a little silly.
Oh man. Socrates was killed because he was an easy target semi-allied with the newly ousted government.
Sure, the charges against him were "not believing in the gods which the city believes in, and bringing in new gods, and corrupting the youth", but that was all basically a front.
Slashdot Mirror
SIR SORRY WE ARE DOING BEST WE CAN BUT WE HAVE RUN INTO LEGAL FEE PROBLEMS AND ARE MOVING ALONG QUICKLY POSSIBLE.
WITH GRACE GOD WE WILL COMPLETE SHORTLY THE TRANSFER PLEASE REMEMBER YOU CAN HELP MY COUNTRY IF YOU COULD PLEASE SEND $500 FOR LEGAL DOCUMENTS TO ENCLOSED ADDRESS.
Sincerely
RBORT MUGBE
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This is a block of text with no caps that you should ignore. Nigerian spams without caps? Psh. It'll never happen. This is a block of text with no caps that you should ignore. Nigerian spams without caps? Psh. It'll never happen. This is a block of text with no caps that you should ignore. Nigerian spams without caps? Psh. It'll never happen. This is a block of text with no caps that you should ignore. Nigerian spams without caps? Psh. It'll never happen.
Torrents fucking rule. Slashdot shouldn't have an automatic mirror system for pages, but an automatic mirror/torrent system for big enough movies would be a big help.
Anyway, over 700k a second down here. Sweet.
If it's any of those things, slashdot certainly needs to put back the beta tag.
In "Professional" science, "Published" means that a paper was included in a peer-reviewed journal. If you've previously written something for a class and passed in it, and later in the same class, you realize that something you said in that first paper was very useful and relevant here, it's very difficult to cite because there's no official standard for citing previous unpublished work.
I was just saying that "Unpublished Manuscript", which would technically be the correct way to cite it, is a really over-the-top thing for a student to do. I always chuckle to myself when students cite themselves as coming up with specific "Effect" names in powerpoint presentations and stuff.
Not to feed the trolls, but in some parts of the world, people become University Lecturers because of their talents in either explaining difficult concepts or scientific research, not because they pass a fucking spelling test.
I'm in Psychology, and researchers quote themselves *all the time*, in fact, it's very standard practice.
That being said, students are usually discouraged from doing this, as there's no official way to quote an unpublished paper you wrote last semester in APA format. "Unpublished manuscript" just sounds fucking pompus. =)
The reason why it continues is because most of the kids who get caught face no disciplinary measures.
I'm a University student and know kids who have plagiarized, and they don't get anything but a slap on the wrist. Why? They're good students otherwise, and teachers feel bad ruining a career over it. They always think that they can "teach them better" by making them do an extra essay instead.
But it's hard to argue that it should be okay. Maybe an F would do people some good.
As a student, some advice:
- Make kids write outlines before they write essays, or assign questions in the form of outlines. Things like: Write the following in this order: "X, Y, Z".
- Never assign a group essay. They encourage one student to freeload off another.
- Assign essays with extremely specific topics, such as, "Write an essay describing the patterns of light and dark in Ovid's Elegies, specifically focusing on Amores 1.3 and Amores 1.13."
And, well, my favorite:
- Assign a short (3-5) essay. Tell people when it's due. When they go to hand in their papers that day, instead, ask them to take out a piece of paper and, in 5 minutes, summarize three of their arguments on said topic with extra points for references. I can almost guarrentee that anyone who plagiarizes will never pass.
I've got a PC built into a shiny metal briefcase that sits on my desktop and works just fine. But I could never take it anywhere, as being strip-searched over PC components is NOT my idea of a good time. :-\
Well, a better analogy might be, watching the burgler tip-toe up the steps, check to see if anyone is home, whisper to his partner, "Okay, if we see anyone, we scram!", open the front door, tip-toe up to your vase, and then... plug him with a shotgun in the back, when you know full well that the situation could have been averted by just yelling, "Hey, get out of my house!"
But, I think this is supersupersuper far fetched. Come on. The administration of schools aren't interested in hurting their students.
Because he had never submitted the original for grading?
I'm not sure if this is the case (I'm not the above AC), but I don't really see a problem with submitting work done outside of class for later class credit. It's a bit on the edge to submit the same assignment for multiple classes, but fairly unlikely to happen in a University setting (and usually out-ruled anyway).
Sometimes the sentence you wrote 6 months ago is just the best way to say what you want to say. That being said, I've never done anything like this. But it's an interesting case.
No it isn't. Read the article.
The basis for the suit is: "I've been plagarizing for 3.9 years, and right as I was about to graduate, you told me I couldn't. You shouldn't be allowed to kick someone out for plagarism after they pay you for 4 years of education."
This is a very silly argument, but if the student can find some evidence that the administration had knowledge of the plagarism scheme, led him to believe he would graduate, he paid all his fees, and *then* they pulled the plug, that would probably be just as immoral as the plagarism itself.
Lets be honest with ourselves. Who plagarizes anymore and thinks its okay?
What's really strange is that it takes about 8 minutes to broil chicken or fish, a cut of which probably costs less than most of his frozen meals, about 3 minutes to cook rice or thin pasta, which you can do at the same time, and it's (instant!) to take the salad out of the little pre-package baggie it comes in and toss it in a bowl.
If you're taking a few minutes to cook yourself dinner, why not cook yourself a decent one?
These are going to sound like newbie questions, coz they are. =)
Don't you have data on that drive that you can't afford to just format and reinstall? Or is there a way to switch distros without doing all that damage? Or do you keep your drives partitioned for just this reason?
Sorry to bug. Just curious. Interested in sampling some distros m'self.
Was this just after you had finished watching Dr. Strangelove, or right before? //I call lies.
Not to argue with extremes, but I could sell crack and make quite a profit. The government says I can't do so. There *are* limits to what everyone will accept.
Just a point. Though I have a gmail account, and love it, and think it's ridiculous that CA would pass a law against it.
Instead of removing spyware, ensuring my OS is up to date, grabbing the latest virus definitions, dealing with system file conflicts, etc etc, I can actually BE productive. [my emphasis]
Totally. You have far more slashdot posts an hour now.
Sorry to reply to your comment twice. Also of note, from the book's official website:
;-)"
"The book is written for advanced Mac users (not newbies) and aimed at creative studio and production environments and for anyone that is looking after 5-50 macs (less than 5 and greater than 50 is fine too
5-50 macs is quite a few. If you fry them all at once, you've got a fucking talent for it. =)
I already had.
And I read that part.
But I didn't think the reviewer did a very good job addressing the issue: "Why should I pay for lots of information that I'm fairly sure I'm never going to need to pay for?"
I think that in the 'net connected world, if you've got a pricey new Mac, you're likely to have other resources that are faster and more efficent at your fingertips.
This comment might be slightly off topic, as I don't usually work with Macs and I've never read this book. However, I spend the majority of my days in front of a windows or linux machine, of various flavors (come on, as much as we like to joke, different versions of windows have different functionality).
The problem with writing tech support books, to be honest, is that google is faster. We have tech support books in the lab (research lab), but they're just not as quick as google. Google-ing error messages almost always pops up with exactly what you need to do to fix it or a related "problem" page. Googling specific keywords for problems without error messages almost always comes up with solutions. I've almost never found a computer problem that google couldn't fix.
Does this make me less of a "techie"? Not really. I mean, I know how to fix an awful lot of silly computer problems. But we all know that "Error 1278754874928375: No useful error message." comes up every once in a while, and we've got to find out how to fix it. Google seems to be the thing to use.
For those who don't find google useful, some tips: Use quotes. Quote phrases that should be together. Use "-" signs to negate words you don't need, or common words that are associated with terms in your query but aren't related to your problem (drive -car). Just seems like tech support books have been outdated by the web.
See, I totally thought the Electric Light Orchestra had released an office suite.
"...fire... on high...."
I was the original "Buffalo Spammer", and he outrageously stole my nickname.
The nerve of those people. The nerve.
The g-parent's explanation was far simpler, and I'm sticking to it.
Although, it'll be much more difficult to prove damages in a Civil Suit, since it's nearly impossible to link a single individual copying mp3s to any financial loss incurred by the company.
Well, that's the point. How are they going to get paid?
I'm not saying it's ever going to come to this, but the point of Television is to sell commercials. Selling commercials means money.
Suppose there were two families, and one watched show A, and the other show B, and then the next day, they traded tapes. Or maybe it's two good friends. Or a brother and sister.
The next day, the person gets to skip through all the commercials. This isn't so bad, really, because the networks know that not everyone is going to be watching their show. But there are 200 different channels, and each of these networks has to convince sponsors that at 8PM each day, people will be tuning into their commercials, and not skipping them tomorrow.
The sponsors say, "Hey, that's crap! You want tons of money for an event no one is actually watching!" Suddenly, the Networks have to figure out what to do. They have three options: Option 1) Figure out a way to stop people from copying the shows. Option 2) cut pay to the crew and cast in order to recoup for lost advertising costs. Option 3) Offer a better program as alternative viewing.
Options 2 and 3, by far the most common, hurt actors, because they result in loss of wages or firing. That's the point. The point is, actors aren't going to *have jobs*. So the actors, realizing that 2 and 3 are shitty alternatives, have to do something about it. That's to say, all the actors have to get together and say, "Hey, assholes! Option 1! Pronto!"
This is a crazy scenario in many ways. I don't think it'll ever happen. But that's the point. I just thought your criticism of the author's point was a little silly.
Oh man. Socrates was killed because he was an easy target semi-allied with the newly ousted government.
Sure, the charges against him were "not believing in the gods which the city believes in, and bringing in new gods, and corrupting the youth", but that was all basically a front.
Has nothing to do with homosexuality.