Based on the results, one should not blindly take action, but if these results are used as a guideline for further inquiry, it might be a help. I know that this sort of cheating can get rampant, at least where I went to school. And even if you are working with other students to figure out a program, it's pretty unlikely that all the positioning of characters in chunks of code would be identical.
It might seem like the face recognition stuff that's controversial right now. But the important differences between these two things are:
- it can be done much more precisely with code.
- this is for school assignments, not unknown checks in public places.
Seems like this wouldn't be too hard to trick, if someone could run a script that would randomly insert spaces, tabs, comments etc. throughout the code.
His comments about the market share of BMW's as compared to Apple computers is actually quite revealing. Jobs is not just content with that market share, but actually actively working towards innovation and therefore expects to have a smaller market share. That's the positioning that Apple has taken.
Evidence? What about Apple's "5 down, 95 to go" slogan from this summer? What about opening retail stores around the country to expose more people to the Macintosh?
Your comment is the opposite of what is really going on. The thing that sets Jobs apart from the other PC makers is that he wants to gain market share by innovating and making a total user experience, instead of being the cheapest middle-of-the-road player. He definitely is hoping the market share will increase.
It is not understanding PC users that brings Gates to the top. It is the fact that he uses monopolistic powers and bully tactics to force people and competitors to use his sytems. Maybe Steve Jobs just isn't that mean.
IMO, Steve Jobs just has too much pride to marginalize Apple like that (which I think is a good thing).
Macs are not merely a case of style and form over function. Yes, Macs look ten times better than the other PCs out there. But they are also functional. I got an HP digital camera for my birthday. I took some pictures, and upon plugging the camera into my computer, my pictures instantly popped onto the screen for download. I plugged in my printer and again, instant recognition. Things DO just plain work reliably. (I'm not making claims about what Windows boxen can do.)
Maybe people are scared by how "cool" Macs are, and don't trust them because they are too extreme, or something. I can see people looking at a beige box because "most of the computers look that way". But Macs aren't just "cool", they work.
The only thing Apple has going for it is that they are the underdogs and people like underdogs.
No, it's that people don't like monopolies, which is why MS has to play by stricter rules. If Apple eventually came into a monopoly position, they'd need to do things differently.
Apple would probably be out of business now if the clones hadn't been cut off.
I *definitely* know what you mean about most students just playing tetris on their calculators instead of paying attention.
However, if not for my TI-85 I got in my freshman year of high school, I might not have become obsessed with programming it and then moved on to bigger and better things, leading to a career in programming. There was something about the simplicity of the calculator that opened the door for me.
So what I wish is that, if students are supposed to have calculators with these programming capabilities, why not teach students how to use it and expose them to programming?
MacFixit is a pro-Macintosh site that wants to see Apple succeed.
When Apple sent the cease-and-desist letter, it indicated they really didn't like the forum posting.
MacFixit, seeing an understandable reason for Apple to be upset (it makes the free upgrade into a full version), removed the information from their site.
I don't think the MacFixit people were scared into doing this, they just don't want to screw over their favorite company.
The upgrade CDs aren't $19.95. That amount is for "shipping and handling" if you order it from Apple. Yes, it's high for shipping and handling, but anybody that got the CD directly from a store got it for free, so it's not like they were doing anything strange when you got the CD.
Beyond that... I got my 10.1 update CD for free. It was handed to me and I left the Apple Store. I didn't buy anything along with it. So there was no purchase *at all*.
(Nonetheless, I fully understand Apple not wanting this information to spread to the general user.)
Instead of asking ``who the fuck is Ernest P. Worrel'', I'm sparing everyone else the trouble. He's that damned annoying ``Ernest Goes to Camp''/``Ernest Goes to Africa''/``Ernest Goes to Eroticon Six'' guy, played my Jim Varley.
Jim Varney actually, and he was the star of those movies (past tense). He died of cancer in 2000 at age 50.
Compared to what-- the Mac OS? I can understand nowadays when people say there's no clear winner among operating systems, but back before Windows 95 Microsoft was WAY behind Mac System 7.
Recently a friend of mine who is chief engineer at a medium size recording studio/radio station has become increasingly unhappy with Windows (and would like to stay away from Macs) and has asked me if there is any sort of professional audio solution for Linux.
I'm curious as to why this person wants to "stay away from Macs". It may be the best tool for the job for audio, and unless he or she has tried it, I'm not sure why it would be something to avoid.
It's frustrating whether you are asking people to stop or not. I never said "it's frustrating to passively allow this to happen". My idea of learning is not babysitting those around me.
Just like having a personal conversation or listening to music is understood to be just plain rude in a classroom (unless you're SUPPOSED to for the particular class), I hope that chatting on AIM and reading your email in class is also looked down upon.
"It's short-sighted to think that once the net access is cut that students will pay attention. The net use is a symptom, not a disease. People will always find a way to goof off if they want. No net? Just doodle."
Who cares if they pay attention or not. If they can't use the computer and resort to doodling, at least it doesn't make any noise, and I can't see what they are doodling (like I would on a monitor). I've been in a class like this, and it is very frustrating.
People don't want to pay attention? That's their choice, and I don't think anybody's trying to "end goofing off". Those who actually show up to class to learn don't want those people messing it up for them.
While I think that some elementary school teachers could be hostile towards science, I think most of them ranged from not-so-enthusiastic to very enthusiastic, in my experience. It seems to me that much of the fear and hostility comes from parents who have this fear, likewise from movies and the media.
If a parent is downright scared to even think about the science you are studying, you start to think there must be something overwhelming about it.
There aren't enough fun shows that talk about science either-- like Bill Nye, Mr. Wizard, Square One (that was more math, but often science has math, and math fear therefore carries over heavily). Kids find themselves liking those shows, and often they don't yet have their math/science alert sirens implanted in their brains.
This isn't just suing the gun company-- that's what suing Napster is. This is more absurd. This is suing the company that provides the raw material that the gun company uses to make the guns.
That is because you are going to said country, and while in that country you are to respect the laws/customs of the land. I doubt they told you "we're going to Morocco, so make sure to respect Korean customs."
While it is true that there is a variation in inflection depending on the context and placement of each word, overcoming this issue does not necessarily require human intervention or AI.
With a large enough corpus of data (from analysing millions of "sample" sentences), and the use of N-grams and Hidden Markov Models, etc., a TTS application could essentially use probability to determine the appropriate inflection for each sentence. And with smart enough algorithms and a good corpus to go on, this can prove remarkably accurate. Could it be 100% accurate? Of course not, but people make inflection mistakes when reading out loud too. I think it would be accurate enough to be "useful" though.
This is how it works with Speech-to-Text, but I don't know how much of this is currently done with Text-to-Speech.
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Based on the results, one should not blindly take action, but if these results are used as a guideline for further inquiry, it might be a help. I know that this sort of cheating can get rampant, at least where I went to school. And even if you are working with other students to figure out a program, it's pretty unlikely that all the positioning of characters in chunks of code would be identical.
It might seem like the face recognition stuff that's controversial right now. But the important differences between these two things are:
- it can be done much more precisely with code.
- this is for school assignments, not unknown checks in public places.
Seems like this wouldn't be too hard to trick, if someone could run a script that would randomly insert spaces, tabs, comments etc. throughout the code.
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I made a disclaimer that I am not saying anything about Windows XP boxen.
My point is that Macs are functional and easy to use. Windows XP may be the same.
Katz was claiming that Macs were losing out because they weren't paying attention to ease of use like other PCs. They are at *least* equal, I say.
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Evidence? What about Apple's "5 down, 95 to go" slogan from this summer? What about opening retail stores around the country to expose more people to the Macintosh?
Your comment is the opposite of what is really going on. The thing that sets Jobs apart from the other PC makers is that he wants to gain market share by innovating and making a total user experience, instead of being the cheapest middle-of-the-road player. He definitely is hoping the market share will increase.
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IMO, Steve Jobs just has too much pride to marginalize Apple like that (which I think is a good thing).
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Macs are not merely a case of style and form over function. Yes, Macs look ten times better than the other PCs out there. But they are also functional. I got an HP digital camera for my birthday. I took some pictures, and upon plugging the camera into my computer, my pictures instantly popped onto the screen for download. I plugged in my printer and again, instant recognition. Things DO just plain work reliably. (I'm not making claims about what Windows boxen can do.)
Maybe people are scared by how "cool" Macs are, and don't trust them because they are too extreme, or something. I can see people looking at a beige box because "most of the computers look that way". But Macs aren't just "cool", they work.
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No, it's that people don't like monopolies, which is why MS has to play by stricter rules. If Apple eventually came into a monopoly position, they'd need to do things differently.
Apple would probably be out of business now if the clones hadn't been cut off.
Would they really accept a birth certificate which has no photo on it (obviously)?
You could use a passport though.
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I *definitely* know what you mean about most students just playing tetris on their calculators instead of paying attention.
However, if not for my TI-85 I got in my freshman year of high school, I might not have become obsessed with programming it and then moved on to bigger and better things, leading to a career in programming. There was something about the simplicity of the calculator that opened the door for me.
So what I wish is that, if students are supposed to have calculators with these programming capabilities, why not teach students how to use it and expose them to programming?
MacFixit is a pro-Macintosh site that wants to see Apple succeed.
When Apple sent the cease-and-desist letter, it indicated they really didn't like the forum posting.
MacFixit, seeing an understandable reason for Apple to be upset (it makes the free upgrade into a full version), removed the information from their site.
I don't think the MacFixit people were scared into doing this, they just don't want to screw over their favorite company.
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The upgrade CDs aren't $19.95. That amount is for "shipping and handling" if you order it from Apple. Yes, it's high for shipping and handling, but anybody that got the CD directly from a store got it for free, so it's not like they were doing anything strange when you got the CD.
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Beyond that... I got my 10.1 update CD for free. It was handed to me and I left the Apple Store. I didn't buy anything along with it. So there was no purchase *at all*.
(Nonetheless, I fully understand Apple not wanting this information to spread to the general user.)
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They actually would watch each movie about EIGHT times beforehand on the average.
Also, they've said that there were parts cut out of Manos (like where we see that Torgo's stupid legs are supposed to be hooved animal legs).
Imagine watching the FULL version 8 times!
Jim Varney actually, and he was the star of those movies (past tense). He died of cancer in 2000 at age 50.
If they decided to parody it in that way, then yes.
By that logic, since Tick is a parody of superheroes, shouldn't he have no powers, not wear a costume, and not save people?
We want to go back, but we never get around to canceling the broadband because we're spending all our time using it!
Compared to what-- the Mac OS? I can understand nowadays when people say there's no clear winner among operating systems, but back before Windows 95 Microsoft was WAY behind Mac System 7.
It's frustrating whether you are asking people to stop or not. I never said "it's frustrating to passively allow this to happen". My idea of learning is not babysitting those around me.
Just like having a personal conversation or listening to music is understood to be just plain rude in a classroom (unless you're SUPPOSED to for the particular class), I hope that chatting on AIM and reading your email in class is also looked down upon.
"Should the teaching of accounting concentrate more on 'Tips and Tricks for Excel' or in 'Tips and Tricks to manually add more than 100 figures'?"
It should concentrate on theories of accounting. I would go to college to become an expert at accouting, not to become an expert at Excel.
Learn how accouting works, apply it to Excel or anywhere else. Why limit yourself?
"It's short-sighted to think that once the net access is cut that students will pay attention. The net use is a symptom, not a disease. People will always find a way to goof off if they want. No net? Just doodle."
Who cares if they pay attention or not. If they can't use the computer and resort to doodling, at least it doesn't make any noise, and I can't see what they are doodling (like I would on a monitor). I've been in a class like this, and it is very frustrating.
People don't want to pay attention? That's their choice, and I don't think anybody's trying to "end goofing off". Those who actually show up to class to learn don't want those people messing it up for them.
While I think that some elementary school teachers could be hostile towards science, I think most of them ranged from not-so-enthusiastic to very enthusiastic, in my experience. It seems to me that much of the fear and hostility comes from parents who have this fear, likewise from movies and the media.
If a parent is downright scared to even think about the science you are studying, you start to think there must be something overwhelming about it.
There aren't enough fun shows that talk about science either-- like Bill Nye, Mr. Wizard, Square One (that was more math, but often science has math, and math fear therefore carries over heavily). Kids find themselves liking those shows, and often they don't yet have their math/science alert sirens implanted in their brains.
This isn't just suing the gun company-- that's what suing Napster is. This is more absurd. This is suing the company that provides the raw material that the gun company uses to make the guns.
That is because you are going to said country, and while in that country you are to respect the laws/customs of the land. I doubt they told you "we're going to Morocco, so make sure to respect Korean customs."
Actually, this isn't so impossible.
While it is true that there is a variation in inflection depending on the context and placement of each word, overcoming this issue does not necessarily require human intervention or AI.
With a large enough corpus of data (from analysing millions of "sample" sentences), and the use of N-grams and Hidden Markov Models, etc., a TTS application could essentially use probability to determine the appropriate inflection for each sentence. And with smart enough algorithms and a good corpus to go on, this can prove remarkably accurate. Could it be 100% accurate? Of course not, but people make inflection mistakes when reading out loud too. I think it would be accurate enough to be "useful" though.
This is how it works with Speech-to-Text, but I don't know how much of this is currently done with Text-to-Speech.