So flunk the students who are just wasting your/their time.
Giving the whole class an assignment that doesn't even ask – or allow – them do anything worthwhile or interesting is only going to turn the students who would do the assignment into students who won't.
Let them use their own base images! And then let them do something creative with them!
One of the least interesting and least creative classes I took in art school was one that was about producing photorealistic oil paintings based on photographs. The class was 99% about mechanical technique, and to hell with creativity... which seems to be the theme of the class being taught here. So be it. But at least the instructor let us pick our own photographs to replicate! So we'd have an interest in what we were doing. And even if he had never checked on our progress along he way (like would happen in any worthwhile "learn how to ____" class), he would know whether we had done the work, because each of our paintings was a) unique, and b) matched the photograph we'd had approved at the start of the assignment. Plagiarism wasn't even a question, and not just because we were working in traditional physical media.
All of these suggestions for how to identify plagiarism through technological measures are missing the point. The problem isn't "how to catch a cheat", but "how to give students an assignment that they will have a reason to bother doing in the first place".
"I am a writing teacher and I am having a problem catching my students cheating. The assignment is to write Romeo and Juliet. The problem is that some of them just take a copy of the text off the internet and hand that in! The clever ones insert a few typos, which means I can't just do a byte-by-byte comparison. What can I do to determine if that's what they did, instead of sitting down and rewriting the story themselves from memory, or (for the less gifted ones) typing it while looking at a paperback copy of the play?"
Having students parrot an existing work has got to be dreadfully dull for both the students and teacher. Instead have them do something creative! Tell them to find their own images to start from, and instead of doing the exact same thing the teacher did, encourage them to do the same kind of thing the teacher did. I was the kind of student who always did his own work, for the sheer fun of doing it... but if I was given an assignment to replicate someone else's work, damn right I'd cheat and just hand in someone else's work! BORING!
It's because fans with limited creative imaginations assume that writers are capable of writing only one kind of story.
Arndt has written a quirky ensemble dramedy (Little Miss Sunshine), a cute sentimental all-ages story (Toy Story 3), a near-future sci-fi character/action film (Hunger Games 2), and a distant future sci-fi Tom Cruise-vehicle thriller (Oblivion). I'm sure that someone at Disney can get their hands on the two scripts that haven't been released yet, and from what they've seen in them, they figure he can write a good Episode VII. I see no reason to doubt it.
Keep in mind that Apple "considers" a lot of things that it doesn't ultimately do. A quick look through their patent portfolio will show you all sorts of technology that they've developed, but which has never made its way into a product. The OSX86 project would've remained a footnote in Apple history if the PowerPC architecture had worked out better. See also: Pink, Copland.
In my experience, most "cable management" systems end up making it harder (not easier) to identify both ends of a cable, or to pull and replace one cable out of what was previously a tangle. That's because they're focused on making everything look tidy, not on managing the simple reality that Things Change. There's nothing wrong with a few loops of velcro here and there to keep cables out of the way, but the more you tie them down... the more you tie yourself down later.
Although I am not a political supporter of Senator Mark Kirk, I think it's also worth noting that he successfully climbed 37 floors as pat of this same challenge, following rehab from a stroke in January. Congratulations to the senator as well.
The Blaze is not a non-credible source because AC says so. It is a non-credible source because it is owned by and run by a non-credible huckster with an obvious political agenda and a history of Making Shit Up. Citing The Blaze as a news source is literally equivalent to "I read on the internet that...."
I'll let you know next time I want to do a three-way code merge. Don't hold your breath.
Call me old-fashioned, but I still use a laptop for word processing. I've already moved my task bar/dock (depending on OS) to the left side, and I've been trying to get used to putting my button bars and such over there too, but these cinemascope-shaped displays still leave big white margins on either side, and just a couple paragraphs of text letterboxed in the middle. Web browsing produces the same wasted space on most sites. And don't get me started about trying to use a tablet for drawing... it's like working on miniature legal-format paper. This has nothing to do with being "hipsterish" (I'm old enough that I can't even do hipster fashion ironically), but simple practicality for lots of standard computer uses. I just thank the legacy of Jobs that at least the iPad is still 4:3.
I'd be quite happy with 1920x1440 in a small laptop, or 2560x2048 on a larger one, instead of this silly 1440x900.
On the other hand, this means that ILM is no longer a free agent, equally willing to work with any other movie studio. Disney now controls one of the industry's premiere FX houses.
Now watch Dark Horse Comics, which has had the Star Wars comics license for ages, producing some of the best "extended universe" material in the franchise, helping to maintain the fanbase during the dark time between RotJ and TPM... get screwed out of it, because Disney has its own comics publisher (Marvel). That's what happened with Boom Comics, which was developing a rather good line of comics featuring Disney-owned characters, but lost it when Disney bought Marvel. In both cases, good small independent publishers got screwed by The Mouse.
It isn't so much a religious omen as a lesson in scientific cause and effect. Neither of the top two presidential candidates has been talking much lately about what's causing this sort of thing, but one of them (Romney) is promising not to do anything about it. If you can make it to the polls, keep that in mind.
"Apple says all Mac and iOS devices running new enough software will be able to live stream the event, including computers, laptops, iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs."
It's ironic that the guy who was telling us a decade ago that tablets (with styluses) were the future of personal computing, is now such a big fan of the mouse and keyboard.
Each input method (touch, stylus, mouse, keyboard) has its uses. Different devices need different methods.
I see no reason to think from this that the beluga had any comprehension of human speech; the sounds he produced don't seem to have any real meaning, and I'm skeptical that he could have discerned any meaning in the sounds of humans talking to each other from the limited context of them.
However... given the brain capacity of the animal (greater than a simple mimic like a parrot), I do wonder whether he was actually making a crude, conscious attempt to communicate. He may have been adjusting his pitch and sounds to match what he was hearing, in much the same way that stupid humans will speak their own language with a foreign accent when trying to communicate with someone who speaks another language, or in the same way that humans will bark or meow at pets, in a playful attempt at communicating with them in their own language. That is, he may have figured out that these sounds humans make are a form of (possibly intelligent) communication – much like we figured out the same regarding whale songs – and he was trying to show that he understood that fact by making similar sounds.
Back in 2008 I worked part-time at the Apple Store (between full-time gigs), where I met an elderly guy who had recently bought an iPhone, despite having profoundly diminished eyesight (some kind of macular degeneration, I think). He carried a handheld device which magnified and boosted the contrast of anything held under it into black/white, which allowed him to use the device. He came in a couple times for help with it while I was on duty, not so much for "accommodation" needs, but just because he had questions and wanted to better understand how the device worked. They were mostly "old guy" questions, not "nearly blind guy" questions, and I was more than happy to help him. While I can certainly see how the original iPhone and its OS were "essentially useless" for someone with no vision at all (obviously Siri changes that dramatically), you should never assume that someone with a disability will be unable to make use of something if given a little assistance. They may surprise you.
My first-ever job was delivering Newsweek (and Time and a bunch of monthlies), as a kind of glorified paperboy. When I used the money from that job to buy my first-ever computer, I had little idea that this would be happening 30 years later.
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So flunk the students who are just wasting your/their time.
Giving the whole class an assignment that doesn't even ask – or allow – them do anything worthwhile or interesting is only going to turn the students who would do the assignment into students who won't.
Let them use their own base images! And then let them do something creative with them!
One of the least interesting and least creative classes I took in art school was one that was about producing photorealistic oil paintings based on photographs. The class was 99% about mechanical technique, and to hell with creativity... which seems to be the theme of the class being taught here. So be it. But at least the instructor let us pick our own photographs to replicate! So we'd have an interest in what we were doing. And even if he had never checked on our progress along he way (like would happen in any worthwhile "learn how to ____" class), he would know whether we had done the work, because each of our paintings was a) unique, and b) matched the photograph we'd had approved at the start of the assignment. Plagiarism wasn't even a question, and not just because we were working in traditional physical media.
All of these suggestions for how to identify plagiarism through technological measures are missing the point. The problem isn't "how to catch a cheat", but "how to give students an assignment that they will have a reason to bother doing in the first place".
"I am a writing teacher and I am having a problem catching my students cheating. The assignment is to write Romeo and Juliet. The problem is that some of them just take a copy of the text off the internet and hand that in! The clever ones insert a few typos, which means I can't just do a byte-by-byte comparison. What can I do to determine if that's what they did, instead of sitting down and rewriting the story themselves from memory, or (for the less gifted ones) typing it while looking at a paperback copy of the play?"
Having students parrot an existing work has got to be dreadfully dull for both the students and teacher. Instead have them do something creative! Tell them to find their own images to start from, and instead of doing the exact same thing the teacher did, encourage them to do the same kind of thing the teacher did. I was the kind of student who always did his own work, for the sheer fun of doing it... but if I was given an assignment to replicate someone else's work, damn right I'd cheat and just hand in someone else's work! BORING!
It's because fans with limited creative imaginations assume that writers are capable of writing only one kind of story.
Arndt has written a quirky ensemble dramedy (Little Miss Sunshine), a cute sentimental all-ages story (Toy Story 3), a near-future sci-fi character/action film (Hunger Games 2), and a distant future sci-fi Tom Cruise-vehicle thriller (Oblivion). I'm sure that someone at Disney can get their hands on the two scripts that haven't been released yet, and from what they've seen in them, they figure he can write a good Episode VII. I see no reason to doubt it.
Windows 8 Incompatible with 85% of the Most Widely Installed Software
Keep in mind that Apple "considers" a lot of things that it doesn't ultimately do. A quick look through their patent portfolio will show you all sorts of technology that they've developed, but which has never made its way into a product. The OSX86 project would've remained a footnote in Apple history if the PowerPC architecture had worked out better. See also: Pink, Copland.
In my experience, most "cable management" systems end up making it harder (not easier) to identify both ends of a cable, or to pull and replace one cable out of what was previously a tangle. That's because they're focused on making everything look tidy, not on managing the simple reality that Things Change. There's nothing wrong with a few loops of velcro here and there to keep cables out of the way, but the more you tie them down... the more you tie yourself down later.
Although I am not a political supporter of Senator Mark Kirk, I think it's also worth noting that he successfully climbed 37 floors as pat of this same challenge, following rehab from a stroke in January. Congratulations to the senator as well.
The Blaze is not a non-credible source because AC says so. It is a non-credible source because it is owned by and run by a non-credible huckster with an obvious political agenda and a history of Making Shit Up. Citing The Blaze as a news source is literally equivalent to "I read on the internet that...."
I'll let you know next time I want to do a three-way code merge. Don't hold your breath.
Call me old-fashioned, but I still use a laptop for word processing. I've already moved my task bar/dock (depending on OS) to the left side, and I've been trying to get used to putting my button bars and such over there too, but these cinemascope-shaped displays still leave big white margins on either side, and just a couple paragraphs of text letterboxed in the middle. Web browsing produces the same wasted space on most sites. And don't get me started about trying to use a tablet for drawing... it's like working on miniature legal-format paper. This has nothing to do with being "hipsterish" (I'm old enough that I can't even do hipster fashion ironically), but simple practicality for lots of standard computer uses. I just thank the legacy of Jobs that at least the iPad is still 4:3.
I'd be quite happy with 1920x1440 in a small laptop, or 2560x2048 on a larger one, instead of this silly 1440x900.
On the other hand, this means that ILM is no longer a free agent, equally willing to work with any other movie studio. Disney now controls one of the industry's premiere FX houses.
Now watch Dark Horse Comics, which has had the Star Wars comics license for ages, producing some of the best "extended universe" material in the franchise, helping to maintain the fanbase during the dark time between RotJ and TPM... get screwed out of it, because Disney has its own comics publisher (Marvel). That's what happened with Boom Comics, which was developing a rather good line of comics featuring Disney-owned characters, but lost it when Disney bought Marvel. In both cases, good small independent publishers got screwed by The Mouse.
It isn't so much a religious omen as a lesson in scientific cause and effect. Neither of the top two presidential candidates has been talking much lately about what's causing this sort of thing, but one of them (Romney) is promising not to do anything about it. If you can make it to the polls, keep that in mind.
"People tend to overlook the bizarre things at home and harp on the bizarre things you see elsewhere. "
I'm from the US, idiot.
So (once again) here's the message: sex = bad, violence = OK.
The unveiling of this "mock-up" is obviously NASA trying to cover their tracks after their secret plan to fake a deep space mission was discovered.
It may surprise you to learn that "captain" is also a rank, not just a job description.
"Apple says all Mac and iOS devices running new enough software will be able to live stream the event, including computers, laptops, iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs."
FTFY.
It's ironic that the guy who was telling us a decade ago that tablets (with styluses) were the future of personal computing, is now such a big fan of the mouse and keyboard.
Each input method (touch, stylus, mouse, keyboard) has its uses. Different devices need different methods.
I see no reason to think from this that the beluga had any comprehension of human speech; the sounds he produced don't seem to have any real meaning, and I'm skeptical that he could have discerned any meaning in the sounds of humans talking to each other from the limited context of them.
However... given the brain capacity of the animal (greater than a simple mimic like a parrot), I do wonder whether he was actually making a crude, conscious attempt to communicate. He may have been adjusting his pitch and sounds to match what he was hearing, in much the same way that stupid humans will speak their own language with a foreign accent when trying to communicate with someone who speaks another language, or in the same way that humans will bark or meow at pets, in a playful attempt at communicating with them in their own language. That is, he may have figured out that these sounds humans make are a form of (possibly intelligent) communication – much like we figured out the same regarding whale songs – and he was trying to show that he understood that fact by making similar sounds.
Back in 2008 I worked part-time at the Apple Store (between full-time gigs), where I met an elderly guy who had recently bought an iPhone, despite having profoundly diminished eyesight (some kind of macular degeneration, I think). He carried a handheld device which magnified and boosted the contrast of anything held under it into black/white, which allowed him to use the device. He came in a couple times for help with it while I was on duty, not so much for "accommodation" needs, but just because he had questions and wanted to better understand how the device worked. They were mostly "old guy" questions, not "nearly blind guy" questions, and I was more than happy to help him. While I can certainly see how the original iPhone and its OS were "essentially useless" for someone with no vision at all (obviously Siri changes that dramatically), you should never assume that someone with a disability will be unable to make use of something if given a little assistance. They may surprise you.
My first-ever job was delivering Newsweek (and Time and a bunch of monthlies), as a kind of glorified paperboy. When I used the money from that job to buy my first-ever computer, I had little idea that this would be happening 30 years later.
"...there was unbiased info if you chose to look for it."
Translation: "...he included facts in his comparison."
I look forward to a comparison of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, as presented by Karl Rove.