"plagiarism detection software tends to be regarded as a bad thing by the best educational institutions" [Citation Needed]
That won't get a citation from me, given how many educational institutions use that fucking awful "Blackboard" interface with with that even crappier "Turnitin" plagiarism detection.
There's nothing wrong with using Wikipedia as a first port of call for a student with no prior knowledge of a particular subject area. But if that's his last port of call, that's another matter altogether, and is easy enough for the most moronic or somnambulant markers to pick up.
Thats why the smart pot smoking college kids, like me, dont
A) Take pictures of myself doing bong hits
There is just one picture of me smoking a 12" spliff while standing on my head, wearing pink dungarees. Fortunately I know it will never appear online, since it is an AGFA 35mm slide, which has never been scanned. Lots to be said for the pre-digital age...
Better still, don't post anything there in the first place. At least, don't post anything you wouldn't want repeated. Same message applies to any social networking site. End of story.
I haven't gotten a virus yet. In the Linux world, the security of the admin account is much more important than it is in Windows
If you so obviously fail to understand what an admin account is for, and why it must be secured, no matter what kind of system you run, I wouldn't be surprised if you had any number of viruses of which you were completely unaware.
That seems a bit rash: there's nothing that says a standard cannot include closed protocols. There are well established precedents that suggest that standards bodies are not immune to blandishments or coercion from big corporations.
Why not just kick H264 over to a media player (VLC/Quicktime/WMP) instead of trying to include codecs in browsers?
I believe that has already happened. I read somewhere that VLC has no problem with H264, and I presume (?) Mplayer is likewise, and both offer plugin capabilities for browsers. I have no information about the proprietary offerings, but you can rest assured Microsoft and Apple won't want to lock you out of that content. Locking you in, however, might be more of a problem, if they can swing it that way.
Also, chicks dig it and will hang out with you more.
That's sometimes true, but it doesn't mean they'll want to have sex with you. Another side to the coin is that gays are often perceived to be promiscuous and carriers of unfortunate social diseases.
An interesting aspect of this thing is that I now find it worthwhile to mention during job interviews that I don't do Facebook. It keeps life a lot simpler...
I think the point of this is that you shouldn't be showing public searchers your friend lists under any circumstances--especially Facebook.
I'd say it would be better to simply avoid Facebook, Twitter et cetera altogether. No matter how careful you are with your privacy settings (assuming Facebook can be trusted), unless you are meticulous about not posting anything that you would not say ANYWHERE else, sooner or later it's likely that you will run into some embarassment or another.
I have several friends who have suffered some form of discombobulation because their allusions to defects in the character of acquaintances have been made manifest through the friends-of-friends network.
Those are widely recognised to be taken from transcriptions that he made, and never published under his own name. This was common practice in the Baroque period as a means of studying a composer's work.
However, your remark about composers borrowing from each other is correct. Vivaldi borrowed extensively from Ruggieri and Corelli.
I haven't used Windows 7 yet, but I hope it's a bit more intuitive than KDE4 was. Until I found out how to make the desktop usable as a place to drop "stuff" in KDE, I found it a pretty frustrating experience.
...If the compiler doesn't crash running on a machine with a mere 12Gb of memory
Well, we managed to do quite a lot with our combination of FORTRAN, COBOL and Assembler. That "mainframe" machine had only about 120K of usable memory, but we really made it sweat. There used to be a utility (since the Burroughs machines of the day were designed to have every CPU millisecond charged out to customers) to audit CPU usage. If it fell much below 80% for any significant period of time, the operators were carpeted.
Nowadays nobody cares much if a machine is idle for a few seconds (especially since operators no longer exist), but when you are drawing enough power to dim the streetlights it really makes a difference.
I wonder how robust those accelerometers are. It occurs to me that it might be possible to permanently screw it up by bribing a construction worker to duct-tape your phone to his jack-hammer for a day...
My code has been compiling for the last two hours.
Back in the day when I first got into programming, it was not uncommon for compiles to run for 10 hours or more. I sometimes used to take a sleeping-bag into the machine-room with me. If the compile bailed, I would be woken up by the clatter of the core dump being output to a 1600 line/min barrel printer.
Next will probably be an application that records audio from the cell phone microphone...
I guess that would be doable pretty easily with current technology. It's called a bug. Supposedly not legal without a warrant and all that.
I have been offered company phones at several jobs, and I always turn them down. I would rather pay for my own phone, and retain control over when (or if) I answer it. I have friends who have been carpeted by the boss for not answering their phones when they were in the loo. I would rather be able to tell them to get fucked if I were put in that position.
Well, maybe I wouldn't be so unprofessional as to tell them to get fucked. They could go get professionally fucked...
"modern" assemblers also have features that make them work nearly as well as a high level language with memory allocation and "function" calling methods that strongly resemble what you might even find when writing in a language like C.
The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.
Of course if you are a competent software developer you should know this stuff anyway even if you use a high level language.
Of course, the determined programmer can write a Assembly program in any language.
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"plagiarism detection software tends to be regarded as a bad thing by the best educational institutions" [Citation Needed]
That won't get a citation from me, given how many educational institutions use that fucking awful "Blackboard" interface with with that even crappier "Turnitin" plagiarism detection.
There's nothing wrong with using Wikipedia as a first port of call for a student with no prior knowledge of a particular subject area. But if that's his last port of call, that's another matter altogether, and is easy enough for the most moronic or somnambulant markers to pick up.
You forget the shear volume of stupid bills put up for adoption in the US compared with the UK.
And you forget the sheer volume of stupid bills put up for adoption in Australia.
Never forget: the two most common elements in this universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Thats why the smart pot smoking college kids, like me, dont
A) Take pictures of myself doing bong hits
There is just one picture of me smoking a 12" spliff while standing on my head, wearing pink dungarees. Fortunately I know it will never appear online, since it is an AGFA 35mm slide, which has never been scanned. Lots to be said for the pre-digital age...
...since myspace does not allow someone to be over 100 years old
Heh, I've had some sites whine at me when I give my factually correct year of birth as 1963. Nice to know I'm officially over the hill.
I use my real name most of the time...
;-)
Your real name is marcansoft? Pleased to meet you. My name is BrokenHalo.
Just change the user info and cancel the account.
Better still, don't post anything there in the first place. At least, don't post anything you wouldn't want repeated. Same message applies to any social networking site. End of story.
Great! now when I go into the bank with my stack of Radeon cards they'll call security.
No, you're only doing them a favour by "recovering" their passwords.
...reading Slashdot on a completely secure text console.
Don't knock it until you've done it.
If Ubuntu recognised everything from the start, and Windows doesn't, why are you still running Windows?
I haven't gotten a virus yet. In the Linux world, the security of the admin account is much more important than it is in Windows
If you so obviously fail to understand what an admin account is for, and why it must be secured, no matter what kind of system you run, I wouldn't be surprised if you had any number of viruses of which you were completely unaware.
That said - I favor HTML5, because it is "open"
That seems a bit rash: there's nothing that says a standard cannot include closed protocols. There are well established precedents that suggest that standards bodies are not immune to blandishments or coercion from big corporations.
Why not just kick H264 over to a media player (VLC/Quicktime/WMP) instead of trying to include codecs in browsers?
I believe that has already happened. I read somewhere that VLC has no problem with H264, and I presume (?) Mplayer is likewise, and both offer plugin capabilities for browsers. I have no information about the proprietary offerings, but you can rest assured Microsoft and Apple won't want to lock you out of that content. Locking you in, however, might be more of a problem, if they can swing it that way.
Someone in their 30s presumably has a more diverse set of friends.
I was last in my 30s quite a few years ago, but my own experience is that one becomes more selective about one's friends as one gets older. (YMMV.)
Also, chicks dig it and will hang out with you more.
That's sometimes true, but it doesn't mean they'll want to have sex with you. Another side to the coin is that gays are often perceived to be promiscuous and carriers of unfortunate social diseases.
An interesting aspect of this thing is that I now find it worthwhile to mention during job interviews that I don't do Facebook. It keeps life a lot simpler...
I think the point of this is that you shouldn't be showing public searchers your friend lists under any circumstances--especially Facebook.
I'd say it would be better to simply avoid Facebook, Twitter et cetera altogether. No matter how careful you are with your privacy settings (assuming Facebook can be trusted), unless you are meticulous about not posting anything that you would not say ANYWHERE else, sooner or later it's likely that you will run into some embarassment or another.
I have several friends who have suffered some form of discombobulation because their allusions to defects in the character of acquaintances have been made manifest through the friends-of-friends network.
Enough for me. I'll just stay off-grid.
Those are widely recognised to be taken from transcriptions that he made, and never published under his own name. This was common practice in the Baroque period as a means of studying a composer's work.
However, your remark about composers borrowing from each other is correct. Vivaldi borrowed extensively from Ruggieri and Corelli.
I haven't used Windows 7 yet, but I hope it's a bit more intuitive than KDE4 was. Until I found out how to make the desktop usable as a place to drop "stuff" in KDE, I found it a pretty frustrating experience.
Without stealing, we wouldn't have many works of Shakespeare or Bach, both of whom copied liberally from their Italian counterparts.
Name one instance where Bach plagiarised. He did use some Italian forms in his music, but that is not plagiarism.
...If the compiler doesn't crash running on a machine with a mere 12Gb of memory
Well, we managed to do quite a lot with our combination of FORTRAN, COBOL and Assembler. That "mainframe" machine had only about 120K of usable memory, but we really made it sweat. There used to be a utility (since the Burroughs machines of the day were designed to have every CPU millisecond charged out to customers) to audit CPU usage. If it fell much below 80% for any significant period of time, the operators were carpeted.
Nowadays nobody cares much if a machine is idle for a few seconds (especially since operators no longer exist), but when you are drawing enough power to dim the streetlights it really makes a difference.
I wonder how robust those accelerometers are. It occurs to me that it might be possible to permanently screw it up by bribing a construction worker to duct-tape your phone to his jack-hammer for a day...
My code has been compiling for the last two hours.
Back in the day when I first got into programming, it was not uncommon for compiles to run for 10 hours or more. I sometimes used to take a sleeping-bag into the machine-room with me. If the compile bailed, I would be woken up by the clatter of the core dump being output to a 1600 line/min barrel printer.
Next will probably be an application that records audio from the cell phone microphone...
I guess that would be doable pretty easily with current technology. It's called a bug. Supposedly not legal without a warrant and all that.
I have been offered company phones at several jobs, and I always turn them down. I would rather pay for my own phone, and retain control over when (or if) I answer it. I have friends who have been carpeted by the boss for not answering their phones when they were in the loo. I would rather be able to tell them to get fucked if I were put in that position.
Well, maybe I wouldn't be so unprofessional as to tell them to get fucked. They could go get professionally fucked...
"modern" assemblers also have features that make them work nearly as well as a high level language with memory allocation and "function" calling methods that strongly resemble what you might even find when writing in a language like C.
;-)
The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.
Of course if you are a competent software developer you should know this stuff anyway even if you use a high level language.
Of course, the determined programmer can write a Assembly program in any language.
Professors should spend more time making their material compelling and less time blaming technology for their own shortcomings.
Some students should stop whining about their professors and blaming them for their own shortcomings.