Maybe you should do some looking around before you make a comment. Turnitin.com (and other services) are free for students to submit. The teacher/school pays for the service to detect plagiarism.
Submitting to the website can be considered part of "turning it in" and the burden should be on the student because it is not an unreasonable request. However, for a professor to submit a hundred papers in different formats is probably cruel and unusual punishment.
I was required to do so for one class where the professor regularly caught 4-5 cheaters each semester(even though he announced that he used turnitin.com). For such a class, "probable cause" is enough to require students to prove themselves innocent.
Wow...have extended warranties changed? I remember when they were basically "replacement guarranties" and you could bring something in for any reason and they'd take fix/replace it.
Your cell phone and cordless phone batteries were so cheap because they're made in Chinese plants with non-existent quality assurance. I've heard of stories of such batteries leaking and/or even exploding!
If you want to trust your $400 iPod with a $20 battery, go ahead and be my guest. Just don't be too surprised when you see some liquid oozing out of it someday.
In regards to the user-replaceable battery, my thought is that if they wanted to keep the iPod relatively small, they had to give up putting in an accessible battery compartment.
First of all, the NYTimes article is pretty pointless. The writer did a better job of mangling written word than he could have if using PowerPoint slide.
Main Point
If you don't put "THIS IS A LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION" as your first PowerPoint slide (or a skull and crossbones picture), your report probably would mention the same life-threatening situation in one sentence on page 54 of 130.
You did the research, you're the expert, YOU should be able to tell us what's important. If you simply toss up a bunch of information, it forces the audience to draw their own conclusions; not quite what you want in life-or-death situations.
If you already have a PS2 with a network adapter, you can do the same thing using GameShark Media Player. It's software available at EB Games and Fry's.
The requirements for the computer are pretty basic and it works with Mac, Windows and Linux. They're regularly releasing updates for the newest codecs and the forums are answered by company employees. Check out www.broadq.com
So good ol' Bill probably isn't the best spokesperson for MS, his PR people were probably cringing when he said that.
I'm figuring that this guy is enough of a genius that "perfect code" to him means absofuckinlutely-brilliant 99.9% efficient code. The people at MS are pretty bright but asking them to uphold Gates' standards is a pretty tall order.
In any case, I'll add on to previous posters by saying that users need to take much more responsibility in security. Just because you have airbags in your car doesn't mean you drive without a seatbelt.
This isn't exactly new. Taiwan has been doing this since July 1998.
"The Environmental Protection Administration has decided in principle to require mandatory recycling of computer printers from January next year.
EPA officials said a disposal fee of NT$154 to NT$195 will be imposed on each obsolete printer, depending on model. The move is expected to force up the retail price of printers on the domestic market.
Total sales of printers are estimated to reach 1.29 million in Taiwan each year. The EPA aims to recall 435,000 for recycling each year from 2001.
Meanwhile, the EPA plans to sharply slash the fees for waste desktop and notebook computers because the special fund collected for recycling in Taiwan since June 1988 has now resulted in a surplus of NT$260 million."
*yawn* This is a business case and not even the one that won. Possible reasons: unrealistic bandwidth assumptions, overly techy powerpoint background, setting in an idealistic world.
In any case, this isn't even a very interesting topic. Must be a slow news day.
I'm a little confused... You're saying that Haas is an idealistic and politically/culturally extreme business school?
Considering the MBA program is ranked highly in entrepenuership and that undergrads go into practically any field from non-profit to investment banking, I'm not quite sure where you're coming from.
Sure, the undergrad program is 65% Asian, but that's only about as much as the Econ department has.
These guys have been researching this idea for at least 2 years. I'm pretty sure they've thought of everything the average slashdot reader can come up with.
In any case, authentication is relatively easy. Simply require that a user authenticate through a web page with a ID and password. This should already be done from a security/liability standpoint (ie some student decides to email death threats while on wireless).
That's why grad students have things called "research grants". They're used to fund research. I doubt that grad students and professors will see much of a difference (unless they're sharing movies on the side).
You're forgetting something rather important...KaZaa does not make up 100% of Cornell's traffic. Let's assume it makes up 10% of the traffic(a ridiculous amount). Then you get:
$1,400,000/1,000,000GB =$1.4GB
The data-network probably handles something in the order of billions of gigabytes a year so it's even cheaper. Of course, that's the whole idea of building an internal data-network.
There's no where that says that Cornell is prohibiting these things. Just that the students will pay for the bandwidth that they use. University bandwidth is really an excellent situation of "tragedy of the commons"...
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Maybe you should do some looking around before you make a comment. Turnitin.com (and other services) are free for students to submit. The teacher/school pays for the service to detect plagiarism. Submitting to the website can be considered part of "turning it in" and the burden should be on the student because it is not an unreasonable request. However, for a professor to submit a hundred papers in different formats is probably cruel and unusual punishment. I was required to do so for one class where the professor regularly caught 4-5 cheaters each semester(even though he announced that he used turnitin.com). For such a class, "probable cause" is enough to require students to prove themselves innocent.
Wow...have extended warranties changed? I remember when they were basically "replacement guarranties" and you could bring something in for any reason and they'd take fix/replace it.
Your cell phone and cordless phone batteries were so cheap because they're made in Chinese plants with non-existent quality assurance. I've heard of stories of such batteries leaking and/or even exploding!
If you want to trust your $400 iPod with a $20 battery, go ahead and be my guest. Just don't be too surprised when you see some liquid oozing out of it someday.
In regards to the user-replaceable battery, my thought is that if they wanted to keep the iPod relatively small, they had to give up putting in an accessible battery compartment.
First of all, the NYTimes article is pretty pointless. The writer did a better job of mangling written word than he could have if using PowerPoint slide. Main Point If you don't put "THIS IS A LIFE-THREATENING SITUATION" as your first PowerPoint slide (or a skull and crossbones picture), your report probably would mention the same life-threatening situation in one sentence on page 54 of 130. You did the research, you're the expert, YOU should be able to tell us what's important. If you simply toss up a bunch of information, it forces the audience to draw their own conclusions; not quite what you want in life-or-death situations.
If you already have a PS2 with a network adapter, you can do the same thing using GameShark Media Player. It's software available at EB Games and Fry's. The requirements for the computer are pretty basic and it works with Mac, Windows and Linux. They're regularly releasing updates for the newest codecs and the forums are answered by company employees. Check out www.broadq.com
So good ol' Bill probably isn't the best spokesperson for MS, his PR people were probably cringing when he said that. I'm figuring that this guy is enough of a genius that "perfect code" to him means absofuckinlutely-brilliant 99.9% efficient code. The people at MS are pretty bright but asking them to uphold Gates' standards is a pretty tall order. In any case, I'll add on to previous posters by saying that users need to take much more responsibility in security. Just because you have airbags in your car doesn't mean you drive without a seatbelt.
This isn't exactly new. Taiwan has been doing this since July 1998.
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"The Environmental Protection Administration has decided in principle to require mandatory recycling of computer printers from January next year.
EPA officials said a disposal fee of NT$154 to NT$195 will be imposed on each obsolete printer, depending on model. The move is expected to force up the retail price of printers on the domestic market.
Total sales of printers are estimated to reach 1.29 million in Taiwan each year. The EPA aims to recall 435,000 for recycling each year from 2001.
Meanwhile, the EPA plans to sharply slash the fees for waste desktop and notebook computers because the special fund collected for recycling in Taiwan since June 1988 has now resulted in a surplus of NT$260 million."
http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/20000721/2000
*yawn* This is a business case and not even the one that won. Possible reasons: unrealistic bandwidth assumptions, overly techy powerpoint background, setting in an idealistic world. In any case, this isn't even a very interesting topic. Must be a slow news day.
I'm a little confused... You're saying that Haas is an idealistic and politically/culturally extreme business school?
Considering the MBA program is ranked highly in entrepenuership and that undergrads go into practically any field from non-profit to investment banking, I'm not quite sure where you're coming from.
Sure, the undergrad program is 65% Asian, but that's only about as much as the Econ department has.
These guys have been researching this idea for at least 2 years. I'm pretty sure they've thought of everything the average slashdot reader can come up with. In any case, authentication is relatively easy. Simply require that a user authenticate through a web page with a ID and password. This should already be done from a security/liability standpoint (ie some student decides to email death threats while on wireless).
That's why grad students have things called "research grants". They're used to fund research. I doubt that grad students and professors will see much of a difference (unless they're sharing movies on the side).
You're forgetting something rather important...KaZaa does not make up 100% of Cornell's traffic. Let's assume it makes up 10% of the traffic(a ridiculous amount). Then you get: $1,400,000/1,000,000GB =$1.4GB The data-network probably handles something in the order of billions of gigabytes a year so it's even cheaper. Of course, that's the whole idea of building an internal data-network.
There's no where that says that Cornell is prohibiting these things. Just that the students will pay for the bandwidth that they use. University bandwidth is really an excellent situation of "tragedy of the commons"...