So, when we were working at the Atomic Dinosaur Laboratory (Chicago, IL), we would talk about the book Dinotopia and The World Beneath... where they had Robotic Exo-Dinosaurs!!!
Perhaps not everything with an exoskeleton is a Bug? (i.e. Ankylosaurus)
I think that an atomic powered robotic dinosaur would be pretty cool to have and haul stuff around. It would definately beat having a pick up truck.
Agreed. In the real world, programming is just that: Programming. It's not just 'Computer Programming,' and its not just 'Social Programming.' Its Programming with a capital 'P' like the Deaf community writes 'Deaf' and not 'deaf.'
In the real world, you have deadlines, your job is on the line, and you have to give substantial evidence that the time spent with your ass on some chair, in front of some computer monitor, with some rediculous salary of $UMPTEEN thousand a year, is worth more than $UMPTEEN/$NATIONAL_AVERAGE_WAGE workers hauling brinks from node A to node B. I think that the issue can be boiled down to one of getting caught up with the technology, and forgetting that some people lead perfectly happy lives without ever looking at any type of monitor. Thoreau, Emerson, Plato, Euclid, Newton, Archemides, etc. etc. just to name a few... Those people who happen to be able to make a living as Computing Engineers and Programmers, actually have it made pretty easy. Thank Huxley for our Brave New World, and all...
If you want to know what collaboration really is, it's this: Five people are given a half million dollar budget allowance, in the form of nearly 100 PCs, networking equipment, and multimedia equipment. The project manager comes in and says: 'Joe - you take all the Apple computers and install the operating systems on all of them. Jane - you take all the WinNT machines, and do the same. Jerry - you get the scanners, printers, and video equipment. Jim - you got enterprise servers & data networking, and Jill - you got network interoperativity and Solaris workstations. We have 6 months to do this. Start working.'
THAT is collaboration. In the real world, there is hardly ever a NEED to cheat or plagerize, in the sense of taking something someone else did and claiming it to be your own. Typically, one is far to busy programming scripts, hanging light fixtures, developing websites, plugging computers in, checking security, etc. etc.. to even worry about 'copying code.' My suspicion is that in the midst of a project roll-out, the real problems in 'collaboration,' 'group-projects,' and 'cheating' comes from poor documentation and lax division of work responsibilities. Then, when the project is finished, and everybody is reviewing what was turned in and is being graded/analyzed/reviewed, some people have overlapping work results...
It's all about installing journaling filesystems, so you have exact records of who did what, and making sure that people have access to the records...
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So, when we were working at the Atomic Dinosaur Laboratory (Chicago, IL), we would talk about the book Dinotopia and The World Beneath... where they had Robotic Exo-Dinosaurs!!!
Perhaps not everything with an exoskeleton is a Bug? (i.e. Ankylosaurus)
I think that an atomic powered robotic dinosaur would be pretty cool to have and haul stuff around. It would definately beat having a pick up truck.
Agreed. In the real world, programming is just that: Programming. It's not just 'Computer Programming,' and its not just 'Social Programming.' Its Programming with a capital 'P' like the Deaf community writes 'Deaf' and not 'deaf.'
In the real world, you have deadlines, your job is on the line, and you have to give substantial evidence that the time spent with your ass on some chair, in front of some computer monitor, with some rediculous salary of $UMPTEEN thousand a year, is worth more than $UMPTEEN/$NATIONAL_AVERAGE_WAGE workers hauling brinks from node A to node B. I think that the issue can be boiled down to one of getting caught up with the technology, and forgetting that some people lead perfectly happy lives without ever looking at any type of monitor. Thoreau, Emerson, Plato, Euclid, Newton, Archemides, etc. etc. just to name a few... Those people who happen to be able to make a living as Computing Engineers and Programmers, actually have it made pretty easy. Thank Huxley for our Brave New World, and all...
If you want to know what collaboration really is, it's this: Five people are given a half million dollar budget allowance, in the form of nearly 100 PCs, networking equipment, and multimedia equipment. The project manager comes in and says: 'Joe - you take all the Apple computers and install the operating systems on all of them. Jane - you take all the WinNT machines, and do the same. Jerry - you get the scanners, printers, and video equipment. Jim - you got enterprise servers & data networking, and Jill - you got network interoperativity and Solaris workstations. We have 6 months to do this. Start working.'
THAT is collaboration. In the real world, there is hardly ever a NEED to cheat or plagerize, in the sense of taking something someone else did and claiming it to be your own. Typically, one is far to busy programming scripts, hanging light fixtures, developing websites, plugging computers in, checking security, etc. etc.. to even worry about 'copying code.' My suspicion is that in the midst of a project roll-out, the real problems in 'collaboration,' 'group-projects,' and 'cheating' comes from poor documentation and lax division of work responsibilities. Then, when the project is finished, and everybody is reviewing what was turned in and is being graded/analyzed/reviewed, some people have overlapping work results...
It's all about installing journaling filesystems, so you have exact records of who did what, and making sure that people have access to the records...