I was interested in a Tablet PC about a year ago. At my campus computer store they had one on display and it seemed decent. When I was looking into actually purchasing one, the processor speeds were way too slow and cost way too much. You'd be better off buying a regular notebook and getting a Wacom tablet. I got a Dell for Christmas and never looked back.
I was going to moderate this message, but I wanted to respond.
At greeting card stores, they have blank greeting cards. For instance, if it's a happy birthday card, on the front might be an 8 year old girl blowing out birthday candles and nothing else is on the front or inside of the card. Just get that and copy the greeting from the e-card site, it shows the receiver that you're giving personal attention to them with an "original" greeting, as opposed to a pre-printed greeting.
Email invitations, greeting cards and such are so tactless anyway. You and your wife can expel the $.99, if that, to get a nice card, or like I said above, make your own. Trust me, your friends you send cards to will appreciate the effort.
that's what I'm saying, but still, giving clarification or qualification for a piece of literature is much different than pretending to give an unbiased critique.
Well, my point was that it's unethical to do it anonymously, at least if it was non-anonymous, I had a chance of knowing if they were biased. If they didn't declare they authored the work, at least I can find out.
About explanation, I believe it's the literary norm to let a piece of literature stand on it's own merit. You shouldn't explain why certain passages say things. But that's another ball of wax.
Ideally, the only people allowed to review a book are those that won't receive financial compensation for the sale of the book.
I think it's unethical for authors to promote their own book in comments on amazon.com or some similar medium. Generally, I think reviews on amazon.com, Yahoo Movies, et al is unbiased. That the reviewer does not financially gain from the sale. When someone with bias tells me "this book is best book I've ever read" and I think they are unbiased, that's where the line of ethics is crossed.
In the same vein, it's why the media, if they report on something newsworthy happening that they might be tied to, they explain the tie to the company. For instance, if some news happens on say Sourceforge.net, Slashdot is ethically bound to say "Slashdot shares a parent company with Newsforge" so that we are told some biases might exist.
Flame on because I know I've probably missed some nuance...
Ever since ODB-II, there have been onboard computers to change various systems in cars. The Volkswagen-Audi Group (VAG) has their VAG-COM tool for Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda to read a plethora of information and can change lots of settings. No "hacking" is needed, it is somewhat pricey ($229) but it won't void your warranty and you're not trying to re-invent the wheel. I know of individuals that own this tool that would be interested in loaning their VAG-COM out (by shipping or other means) to people.
In my car (an Audi), you can use the climate control display and have it output lots of speeds, voltages, temperatures and other paramters of many different parts of the car. It has a Diagnostic Trouble Code readout where it tells you what part of the car may be wrong. It also has 2 "graphic" modes where it uses each segment of the climate control display to display the status of different factors affecting the A/C Compressor and Alternator. So if the battery keeps dying, you can go to the diagnostic channel that displays the switches relevant to the Alternator and see if some switch is on when it shouldn't, or vice versa. This onboard tool can give some insight, but with the VAG-COM tool, you can get more specific answers.
I've seen some people that had the files archived as "ring0.tar.gz" or something to that effect, and other people saying that the code is "ring 0". If that's wrong, talk to them.
I think the files are called "ring 0" and therefore can't run by itself, you need much more of the code. You're not going to see any rogue Windows distributions, but some seedier programs might get a leg up on finding out some secrets in the source code. I won't be surprised if more powerful worms came out of this.
Matt Groening signed his contract that includes 2 movies, this one and another one. Also, Groening has a 15 year contract, which ends at the end of the current The Simpsons season. I'm willing to see of Fox will renew or if Matt Groening will refuse, everyone knows The Simpsons has been hinting at the fact they've overstayed the welcome. However, don't get me wrong, I am still a fan and enjoy every episode, but I'd rather they go out with a bang instead of a whimper.
I don't know what school you're thinking of, but EE's do not take Operating Systems, that's purely a computer science/engineering course, so is networking. EE's deal more in the analog signals, load balancing, filters, lasers, optics and much more. EE's do take different control systems classes, depending on their flavor. Their work is more theoretical, the practical control systems is done with CE's because it's not unique to either side. For embedded systems in my school, it's optional for EE's, some do, but most take more EE-related classes; it's required of course for CE.
Whatever school you're in seems to have a radically different idea of what an EE and CE should be responsible for. Once again, your point fails and you rely on profanity.
Well, to me, all of the pre-senior level classes merely test someone's ability to comprehend the concepts or perhaps gives the students the tools to understand later concepts and the senior-level classes try to bring people up to speed about the current level of technology.
wow, you invalidated your entire stance based on your first line, Coward, but I'll take the high road and give you a reply without the derogatory comments.
CE does have a defined purpose. Given a communication system, EE's work in purely hardware by maintaining the communication line, CE's program the ends by tieing the hardware into the software, the CS students then interface the user with the software.
I have respect for EE and it is just as hard in my opinion. Note I did say that CE is "one of the most difficult" in my grandparent comment.
Next time, try talking without the profanity and derogatory comments, they don't enhance your point.
I know they aren't unique, about 90% of my curriculum is shared with electrical engineering. My head isn't too big, but if you knew my scholastic history and how far I've come, for me to be in computer engineering and succeeding, it's justified.
and I say that it's one of the most difficult engineering curriculums out there. I've had to take a lot of math (multi-variable calculus and differential calculus), a good bunch of science (physics, chemistry; 2 semesters worth), and a nice broad range of engineering courses like Linear Systems and Microcontrollers and many more. If a job expects you to use all of this in the workplace, $53k is well-deserved.
I've seen countless people that started out next to me change majors to another engineering discipline, Computer Science, IT and even Education. I wouldn't be a senior in Computer Engineering if I didn't really enjoy the field, and I think that people that dropped out just didn't have the CE mojo.
Also, a little off-topic, I heard today that in 5 years, the baby boomers are going to start retiring, leaving those entering the workplace a lot of jobs. Also, for every 2 jobs opened up by the baby boomers, there will only be 1 person to fill it.
I got a Dell Inspiron 8600 with Centrino technology and am typing on it now. It has a 1.4GHz Pentium-M processor. I got it for the battery life, I can do average (not idle) tasks for over 4 hours straight on the single 72 watt-hour battery (a second is available). I tried and successfully put a Knoppix CD in the drive and it booted up fine. It works but I probably can't get the same longer battery life. I'm pretty happy with this laptop, and squeezing another hour out of a battery on an operating system I don't primarily use isn't going to make me regret my decision.
I am in Computer Engineering and I did just get a Dell Laptop. I can honestly say that I don't like the clean Aqua theme of Mac's as of late. I like how Windows is laid out and it's more intuitive for me. I tried using Mac's and my behavior just clashes with the system. I somewhat agree with you because there are more end user engineering applications for x86 than Apple.
However, I might get this job with an international company that among other things produces communication equipment (television, multimedia signals) that use PowerPC processors for development because the equipment has them. Also, in my first real computer engineering class, Microcontrollers, we were asked to write assignments for our Motorola 68HC11 development boards, which is I think a stripped down version of what Mac Quadro's and other machines ran I believe (the 68k's I believe they are referred to).
Who is Brian Wellington and Matias Duarte you say? Well, they are the creators of XBill and let me get out so much aggression. Go pick up the latest copy for your favorite platform.
If a paper has plagiarism, shouldn't it be checked for plagiarism first so it can be given a zero and flagged so a teacher doesn't have to grade a paper that will result in a zero anyway? Teachers have more things to do than to spend time grading plagiarized work.
How? By examining it? Where does the assumption of guilt come in? If I'm looking for plagiarism in a group of papers, I think assume every paper is teeming with violations?
I said that this case isn't "guilty until proven innocent" because of the algorithm. All things being equal, it would be much easier to assume all papers are original and then search for the offending passages if there are any as opposed to the other way around.
As far as papers kept by the website, I am against that though. No one except me should profit from my writing. If they wanted to pay me royalties every time my paper was searched against, that's fine with me. I didn't include that in my original discussion because I was writing about things I didn't agree to. That point seemed to be buried in the rest of the story.
I am a student and this guy is totally wrong about guilty-until-innocent. If I were building an algorithm to detect plagiarism, wouldn't I assume that the paper is 100% original and then match passages accordingly to lower the score? Sounds like innocent until proven guilty to me... If you were doing it the other way, it would be much more difficult to match every passage to make sure it's not in the database yet?
I also don't believe the "Canadian Federation of Students" when they say it grades papers, how can a website that detects plagiarism grade a paper on it's merits when it can only give a report on how original or unoriginal a paper is.
Plus, I'm sure that when a paper may be flagged that the teacher takes a closer look at it and see if it's valid or not and doesn't immediately assume the website is correct. If for example someone properly quoted a line. The teacher would see that a paper has some evidence of plagiarism, and upon closer inspection that the author quoted the passage correctly and gave credit in the proper place, or if the plagiarism is genuine, handle it accordingly
I think this guy is just looking to pick a fight or something, if he had a paper that was original and the site said it was plagiarized and he was contesting it, yeah, I'd like to hear more, but no.
Some teachers, especially at the freshman or sophomore level, teaching classes like English or Chemistry et al, don't have enough time to grade 300 papers evenly and check for plagiarism in them too. This website looks like to me a helpful little guide to teachers to let them breathe a little easier.
Don't try and read between the lines and comment on that because I hate that. If you have something against something I explicitly wrote, then call me out on that and we can talk about it here. Thanks.
I used Mindspring (before Earthlink ruined the name) for 5 years. I signed up for their unlimited $20 dealie. I setup Red Hat 6.2 (yeah, 6.2) to connect constantly, and when disconnected, pppd would respawn and redial automatically. After a few years, I got regular emails from Mindspring saying each month for over a year, I'm connected for an average of like 23.9 hours each day (.1 for redialing because the kicked me off every 24 hours out of policy), and that it's against their policy to run a server over the connection which I wasn't.... much. That was 28.8k dialup too, it was humorous and tragic at the same time.
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I was interested in a Tablet PC about a year ago. At my campus computer store they had one on display and it seemed decent. When I was looking into actually purchasing one, the processor speeds were way too slow and cost way too much. You'd be better off buying a regular notebook and getting a Wacom tablet. I got a Dell for Christmas and never looked back.
I was going to moderate this message, but I wanted to respond.
At greeting card stores, they have blank greeting cards. For instance, if it's a happy birthday card, on the front might be an 8 year old girl blowing out birthday candles and nothing else is on the front or inside of the card. Just get that and copy the greeting from the e-card site, it shows the receiver that you're giving personal attention to them with an "original" greeting, as opposed to a pre-printed greeting.
Email invitations, greeting cards and such are so tactless anyway. You and your wife can expel the $.99, if that, to get a nice card, or like I said above, make your own. Trust me, your friends you send cards to will appreciate the effort.
that's what I'm saying, but still, giving clarification or qualification for a piece of literature is much different than pretending to give an unbiased critique.
Well, my point was that it's unethical to do it anonymously, at least if it was non-anonymous, I had a chance of knowing if they were biased. If they didn't declare they authored the work, at least I can find out.
About explanation, I believe it's the literary norm to let a piece of literature stand on it's own merit. You shouldn't explain why certain passages say things. But that's another ball of wax.
Ideally, the only people allowed to review a book are those that won't receive financial compensation for the sale of the book.
I think it's unethical for authors to promote their own book in comments on amazon.com or some similar medium. Generally, I think reviews on amazon.com, Yahoo Movies, et al is unbiased. That the reviewer does not financially gain from the sale. When someone with bias tells me "this book is best book I've ever read" and I think they are unbiased, that's where the line of ethics is crossed.
In the same vein, it's why the media, if they report on something newsworthy happening that they might be tied to, they explain the tie to the company. For instance, if some news happens on say Sourceforge.net, Slashdot is ethically bound to say "Slashdot shares a parent company with Newsforge" so that we are told some biases might exist.
Flame on because I know I've probably missed some nuance...
Ever since ODB-II, there have been onboard computers to change various systems in cars. The Volkswagen-Audi Group (VAG) has their VAG-COM tool for Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda to read a plethora of information and can change lots of settings. No "hacking" is needed, it is somewhat pricey ($229) but it won't void your warranty and you're not trying to re-invent the wheel. I know of individuals that own this tool that would be interested in loaning their VAG-COM out (by shipping or other means) to people.
In my car (an Audi), you can use the climate control display and have it output lots of speeds, voltages, temperatures and other paramters of many different parts of the car. It has a Diagnostic Trouble Code readout where it tells you what part of the car may be wrong. It also has 2 "graphic" modes where it uses each segment of the climate control display to display the status of different factors affecting the A/C Compressor and Alternator. So if the battery keeps dying, you can go to the diagnostic channel that displays the switches relevant to the Alternator and see if some switch is on when it shouldn't, or vice versa. This onboard tool can give some insight, but with the VAG-COM tool, you can get more specific answers.
I've seen some people that had the files archived as "ring0.tar.gz" or something to that effect, and other people saying that the code is "ring 0". If that's wrong, talk to them.
I think the files are called "ring 0" and therefore can't run by itself, you need much more of the code. You're not going to see any rogue Windows distributions, but some seedier programs might get a leg up on finding out some secrets in the source code. I won't be surprised if more powerful worms came out of this.
Matt Groening signed his contract that includes 2 movies, this one and another one. Also, Groening has a 15 year contract, which ends at the end of the current The Simpsons season. I'm willing to see of Fox will renew or if Matt Groening will refuse, everyone knows The Simpsons has been hinting at the fact they've overstayed the welcome. However, don't get me wrong, I am still a fan and enjoy every episode, but I'd rather they go out with a bang instead of a whimper.
I don't know what school you're thinking of, but EE's do not take Operating Systems, that's purely a computer science/engineering course, so is networking. EE's deal more in the analog signals, load balancing, filters, lasers, optics and much more. EE's do take different control systems classes, depending on their flavor. Their work is more theoretical, the practical control systems is done with CE's because it's not unique to either side. For embedded systems in my school, it's optional for EE's, some do, but most take more EE-related classes; it's required of course for CE.
Whatever school you're in seems to have a radically different idea of what an EE and CE should be responsible for. Once again, your point fails and you rely on profanity.
Well, to me, all of the pre-senior level classes merely test someone's ability to comprehend the concepts or perhaps gives the students the tools to understand later concepts and the senior-level classes try to bring people up to speed about the current level of technology.
wow, you invalidated your entire stance based on your first line, Coward, but I'll take the high road and give you a reply without the derogatory comments.
CE does have a defined purpose. Given a communication system, EE's work in purely hardware by maintaining the communication line, CE's program the ends by tieing the hardware into the software, the CS students then interface the user with the software.
I have respect for EE and it is just as hard in my opinion. Note I did say that CE is "one of the most difficult" in my grandparent comment.
Next time, try talking without the profanity and derogatory comments, they don't enhance your point.
I know they aren't unique, about 90% of my curriculum is shared with electrical engineering. My head isn't too big, but if you knew my scholastic history and how far I've come, for me to be in computer engineering and succeeding, it's justified.
and I say that it's one of the most difficult engineering curriculums out there. I've had to take a lot of math (multi-variable calculus and differential calculus), a good bunch of science (physics, chemistry; 2 semesters worth), and a nice broad range of engineering courses like Linear Systems and Microcontrollers and many more. If a job expects you to use all of this in the workplace, $53k is well-deserved.
I've seen countless people that started out next to me change majors to another engineering discipline, Computer Science, IT and even Education. I wouldn't be a senior in Computer Engineering if I didn't really enjoy the field, and I think that people that dropped out just didn't have the CE mojo.
Also, a little off-topic, I heard today that in 5 years, the baby boomers are going to start retiring, leaving those entering the workplace a lot of jobs. Also, for every 2 jobs opened up by the baby boomers, there will only be 1 person to fill it.
There is SSL available, I use it when I'm using public computers on Jabber.
I got a Dell Inspiron 8600 with Centrino technology and am typing on it now. It has a 1.4GHz Pentium-M processor. I got it for the battery life, I can do average (not idle) tasks for over 4 hours straight on the single 72 watt-hour battery (a second is available). I tried and successfully put a Knoppix CD in the drive and it booted up fine. It works but I probably can't get the same longer battery life. I'm pretty happy with this laptop, and squeezing another hour out of a battery on an operating system I don't primarily use isn't going to make me regret my decision.
I am in Computer Engineering and I did just get a Dell Laptop. I can honestly say that I don't like the clean Aqua theme of Mac's as of late. I like how Windows is laid out and it's more intuitive for me. I tried using Mac's and my behavior just clashes with the system. I somewhat agree with you because there are more end user engineering applications for x86 than Apple.
However, I might get this job with an international company that among other things produces communication equipment (television, multimedia signals) that use PowerPC processors for development because the equipment has them. Also, in my first real computer engineering class, Microcontrollers, we were asked to write assignments for our Motorola 68HC11 development boards, which is I think a stripped down version of what Mac Quadro's and other machines ran I believe (the 68k's I believe they are referred to).
I don't think it's a matter of being guilty until proven innocent, it's merely a matter of logic. Why spend the time when you don't have to?
On the site, he has a link to WinBill and to save you even more work, here's a link to WinBill 2.0
Brian Wellington and Matias Duarte.
Who is Brian Wellington and Matias Duarte you say? Well, they are the creators of XBill and let me get out so much aggression. Go pick up the latest copy for your favorite platform.
If a paper has plagiarism, shouldn't it be checked for plagiarism first so it can be given a zero and flagged so a teacher doesn't have to grade a paper that will result in a zero anyway? Teachers have more things to do than to spend time grading plagiarized work.
How? By examining it? Where does the assumption of guilt come in? If I'm looking for plagiarism in a group of papers, I think assume every paper is teeming with violations?
I said that this case isn't "guilty until proven innocent" because of the algorithm. All things being equal, it would be much easier to assume all papers are original and then search for the offending passages if there are any as opposed to the other way around.
As far as papers kept by the website, I am against that though. No one except me should profit from my writing. If they wanted to pay me royalties every time my paper was searched against, that's fine with me. I didn't include that in my original discussion because I was writing about things I didn't agree to. That point seemed to be buried in the rest of the story.
I am a student and this guy is totally wrong about guilty-until-innocent. If I were building an algorithm to detect plagiarism, wouldn't I assume that the paper is 100% original and then match passages accordingly to lower the score? Sounds like innocent until proven guilty to me... If you were doing it the other way, it would be much more difficult to match every passage to make sure it's not in the database yet?
I also don't believe the "Canadian Federation of Students" when they say it grades papers, how can a website that detects plagiarism grade a paper on it's merits when it can only give a report on how original or unoriginal a paper is.
Plus, I'm sure that when a paper may be flagged that the teacher takes a closer look at it and see if it's valid or not and doesn't immediately assume the website is correct. If for example someone properly quoted a line. The teacher would see that a paper has some evidence of plagiarism, and upon closer inspection that the author quoted the passage correctly and gave credit in the proper place, or if the plagiarism is genuine, handle it accordingly
I think this guy is just looking to pick a fight or something, if he had a paper that was original and the site said it was plagiarized and he was contesting it, yeah, I'd like to hear more, but no.
Some teachers, especially at the freshman or sophomore level, teaching classes like English or Chemistry et al, don't have enough time to grade 300 papers evenly and check for plagiarism in them too. This website looks like to me a helpful little guide to teachers to let them breathe a little easier.
Don't try and read between the lines and comment on that because I hate that. If you have something against something I explicitly wrote, then call me out on that and we can talk about it here. Thanks.
I used Mindspring (before Earthlink ruined the name) for 5 years. I signed up for their unlimited $20 dealie. I setup Red Hat 6.2 (yeah, 6.2) to connect constantly, and when disconnected, pppd would respawn and redial automatically. After a few years, I got regular emails from Mindspring saying each month for over a year, I'm connected for an average of like 23.9 hours each day (.1 for redialing because the kicked me off every 24 hours out of policy), and that it's against their policy to run a server over the connection which I wasn't .... much. That was 28.8k dialup too, it was humorous and tragic at the same time.