People develop 'relationships' with their radio personalities. Listeners get a lot of information from the radio, sure it may just be weather or traffic, but what happens when more important stories are covered? I know listeners have to be more sceptical of what they hear on the radio, but the media should strive to uphold an honest relationship with their listeners.
- "It's really cold out here" yeah right, how's the line for Space Mountain?
wil put "suspicious" phrases through google, and will keep an eye out for similarities between your paper and that of other students. Does this make you feel like a criminal, too?
No, comparing my work to other people's works is fine, a good instructor will notice similarities between 2 students papers when actually reading them. I believe this is normal human behaviour.
That's something you should do anyway.
This is something that I obviously do well, since the disrespectful (if not illegal) actions of my instructor did not prove a positive result for plagiarizing. And yes, I am agreeing with you that all students should ensure every source is cited. If students give respect to authors by citing their work... instructors should respect students by informing them what will be done with their work.
I have never actually had to use Turn-It-In at my university, the University of Western Ontario, even tough it is used there. However, many instructors still requested electronic copies be sent to them.
Last term the instructor wanted a electronic copy of everyone's essays since it allowed him to read the papers on his laptop during trips (he was a part time instructor, who travelled a lot)
Anyway, one day I determined he submitted the papers to Turn-It-In, simply by reviewing my usage on my web site, and noticed many hits from Turn-It-In's crawler. I figured it was picking up on my name, which was included in the header of every page on my essay and which is heavily plastered on my web site.
This made me feel like a criminal!! Mainly since I was not told about submitting the paper to Turn-It-In. I never would use someone else's work with out citing it and didn't have much to fear, but just the idea of missing one or two footnotes, was enough to get the nerves going. If I personally had to submit the papers and I was fully aware of the process, I would have ensured every source was cited.
These kids at McGill should have nothing to fear and should not be concerned about the originality of their work, especially if they ARE informed about the process before hand.
The best feature about the dock, is the ability to drag a file to an application that sits in the dock. Even if the app is not currently running, the drag and drop action will load the app and the file that was dropped on top of it.
I found my self doing this in Windows with apps on the quick launch... but... it doesn't work...:)
Long live the Dock!!!
PS. It's also fun to run the mouse quickly back and forth on it when you are extremely bored, but not as fun as shift+F9 (by default).
Are they hoping that they can scare me into buying music again. I used to buy cd's all the time, and i currently own over 330. But, buying cd's is simply a pain, since i lose them, they get punked and of course they collect dust on my cd rack...
MP3's on my iPod always stay nice and shiny, and follow me everywhere i go!!
Canada needs iTMS soon, because i still have a bit of cash in my budget for my favourite tunes!
I feel that a tax on only MP3 player's would be the closest to a 'solution'. MP3 players are probably much more prone to 'motivating' music piracy and have fewer legitimate purposes than blank media. Yes, sure I have ripped most of my CDs to my iPod, and it could be viewed as unfair to tax my iPod (since i have already purchased the music), but I would be willing to pay a few dollars to shut the music industry up.
Taxing blank media, (as it currently is) is not such a good idea because why should I pay a tax on a coaster I make or a backup of my personal files?
Also, taxing ISP's is a bad idea, since the www has so many legal purposes and increasing the fees will only decrease accessibility for some.
All in all, I would prefer not to pay any tax, but if i had to choose one, it would be a one time fee on digital media players.
But then again... would this mean I would have the right to all the copyrighted music that i put on my iPod, regardless of how i acquired it?? hmmmm....
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so does anyone know if Telus (out here in BC) offers naked dsl?
my win xp machine reboots automatically... :)
viruses rule!!!
i'll stick with my OS X thanks!
"...P2P networks as dens of terrorists, child pornographers and criminals..."
Damn, using the treat of terror, kiddie porn and criminal activity as a guise of pursuing the interests of the RIAA and MPAA.
All I can say is 'how typical', while shaking my head, and thinking 'wtf'....
Why doesn't Apple get any heat for including iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, QuickTime, Safari, etc?
:)
(Just wondering other ppl thoughts, plz don't flame me...
i like to receive calls too!! :)
it makes me feel important
it's a matter of credibility
People develop 'relationships' with their radio personalities. Listeners get a lot of information from the radio, sure it may just be weather or traffic, but what happens when more important stories are covered? I know listeners have to be more sceptical of what they hear on the radio, but the media should strive to uphold an honest relationship with their listeners.
- "It's really cold out here" yeah right, how's the line for Space Mountain?
wil put "suspicious" phrases through google, and will keep an eye out for similarities between your paper and that of other students. Does this make you feel like a criminal, too?
No, comparing my work to other people's works is fine, a good instructor will notice similarities between 2 students papers when actually reading them. I believe this is normal human behaviour.
That's something you should do anyway.
This is something that I obviously do well, since the disrespectful (if not illegal) actions of my instructor did not prove a positive result for plagiarizing. And yes, I am agreeing with you that all students should ensure every source is cited. If students give respect to authors by citing their work... instructors should respect students by informing them what will be done with their work.
Last term the instructor wanted a electronic copy of everyone's essays since it allowed him to read the papers on his laptop during trips (he was a part time instructor, who travelled a lot)
Anyway, one day I determined he submitted the papers to Turn-It-In, simply by reviewing my usage on my web site, and noticed many hits from Turn-It-In's crawler. I figured it was picking up on my name, which was included in the header of every page on my essay and which is heavily plastered on my web site.
This made me feel like a criminal!! Mainly since I was not told about submitting the paper to Turn-It-In. I never would use someone else's work with out citing it and didn't have much to fear, but just the idea of missing one or two footnotes, was enough to get the nerves going. If I personally had to submit the papers and I was fully aware of the process, I would have ensured every source was cited.
These kids at McGill should have nothing to fear and should not be concerned about the originality of their work, especially if they ARE informed about the process before hand.
Moral of the story.
The best feature about the dock, is the ability to drag a file to an application that sits in the dock. Even if the app is not currently running, the drag and drop action will load the app and the file that was dropped on top of it. I found my self doing this in Windows with apps on the quick launch... but... it doesn't work... :)
Long live the Dock!!!
PS. It's also fun to run the mouse quickly back and forth on it when you are extremely bored, but not as fun as shift+F9 (by default).
that's a good idea... sounds legal to me.. since everyone would be making their own personal copy from the original medium....
Are they hoping that they can scare me into buying music again. I used to buy cd's all the time, and i currently own over 330. But, buying cd's is simply a pain, since i lose them, they get punked and of course they collect dust on my cd rack...
MP3's on my iPod always stay nice and shiny, and follow me everywhere i go!!
Canada needs iTMS soon, because i still have a bit of cash in my budget for my favourite tunes!
there is just something about iTMS, that i like.
it's seems very integrated, easy and hassle-free!
sure, i haven't actually purchased a song through it, since it is currently not available in canada.
but, i have browsed though it and taken advantage of the preview feature a few times.
i hope the doors open in canada for iTMS soon... before i have to pay a levy on my digital media too!! see
I feel that a tax on only MP3 player's would be the closest to a 'solution'. MP3 players are probably much more prone to 'motivating' music piracy and have fewer legitimate purposes than blank media. Yes, sure I have ripped most of my CDs to my iPod, and it could be viewed as unfair to tax my iPod (since i have already purchased the music), but I would be willing to pay a few dollars to shut the music industry up.
Taxing blank media, (as it currently is) is not such a good idea because why should I pay a tax on a coaster I make or a backup of my personal files?
Also, taxing ISP's is a bad idea, since the www has so many legal purposes and increasing the fees will only decrease accessibility for some.
All in all, I would prefer not to pay any tax, but if i had to choose one, it would be a one time fee on digital media players.
But then again... would this mean I would have the right to all the copyrighted music that i put on my iPod, regardless of how i acquired it?? hmmmm....
Doesn't make more sense simple to extend the blank media tax to MP3 players and even hard drives?
A tax on your MP3 player, seems more fair than a tax on your internet connection.....
I see no option for 'up', there is an option for 'path' but no 'up'.... 'path' is kool and all but 'up' is simply way faster and of course way kooler.