I simply have a question, just from a standpoint of a university student.
On occasion, I have been known to recycle my own papers into 'new', or at least 'improved' versions to turn in in a different class than they were originally intended. (I recently did this when I was asked to write my third paper in 2 years on Kurt Vonnegut.) If you ran this paper through the cheat-detect-i-tizer, and my previous paper had also been put through, then it would definitely have been flagged. Upon your questioning me I would openly admit to what I had done, but my question remains, did I plagerize, even though it was my own work?
Does copying from yourself constitute plagerism, or is it simply laziness?
I agree with the grandparent poster here, and I think most other posters are missing a valid point (one that I hear one the first day of nearly every class I have ever been in.)
It goes something like this:
"I will know if you cheat. I will catch you. I may miss it the first time, I may miss it the second time, but I will catch you. If you turn in one paper, and then in your second paper, the setence structure and word usage are completely different, I will know something is up. I keep all copies of all of your in class and out of class writing assignments, so it's easy to compare. I've been teaching here for X years, and I was once a student too, don't think I don't know all of the tricks."
Professors aren't idiots (and they have also been able to throw words and phrases into search engines for just as long as students have been able to find papers the same way.)
Even if you have one professor that doesn't catch you, the next one probably will.
I always harass people who charge outrageous shipping asking them to justify their costs.
It's rather easy, as anyone can go to UPS.com and punch in a to and from address and get a price.
While I recognize the need for privacy rights (my tin foil hat is firmly planted on my head as we speak), I think that the government is probably correct here. Remember when everyone rushed to defend that guy that worked at Intel who was carted off? As it turned out, he had fooled his friends, family, and everyone else, as he was conspiring with and sending money to terrorists.
(However, I still don't agree with how his case was handled... I don't like these secret courts and such at all.)
I can't imagine Lego completely discontinuing the Mindstorms. Dean Kamen, of Segway fame (among many many other things), runs a yearly competition for middle school students across the country that uses the Mindstorms bricks.
Perhaps they will be removed from stores, but I can't see them going away completely.
Lego needed to update the things anyway to help them stay relevant.
Apparently I was wrong. I need to stop listening to my idiot friends. Logitech is a swiss company, incorporated and listed on the swiss stock exchange is LOGN. On this side of the pond they are LOGI on the Nasdaq.
I feel like this has been occuring, but I don't know enough about the technical specs of how cd's are made to prove it.
However, in the past 6 months, I have purchased several CDs, and have had to reburn (checks disc box) 4 of them. I've also reburned several of my recent CD-R mix cd's. I don't know why, but after only a few weeks of use, these CD's have begun to skip. I have many CD's that are pushing 10 years old and are still going strong (which is amazing, considering some of them look like I scraped them across pavement.)
For some reason CD's I've purchased recently aren't holding up as well. If anything, I'm treating my CD's better than I used to, I just don't get it.
Are they making the actual data layers out of thinner/cheaper metals? Whats going on? I can't be the only person that's noticed this.
Thankfully, she didn't. I was opening OpenOffice Writer to send her a note saying I was going to be boycotting their products, but then I read the article. The last paragraph says:
"The problem is not a lack of highly educated workers," said Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America. "The problem is a lack of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are driving outsourcing, not the quality of American schools."
So Scott Kirwin is the dope that said it. He runs what looks to be a trade group of IT guys.
I'm glad Carly didn't say it, because I'd hate to boycott their company... I really like their printers and keyboards (HP owns Logitech.)
iTunes load several dameons that run in the background at all times. I'm not in windows, so I can't check, but I know there is a default 'helper' service as well as an 'ipod' service.
On my computer iTunes typically eats up a good 30 megs of ram even when not running.
It's always been obvious to me. Who hasn't always wanted a way to watch the beginning of that sitcom that you tuned to in the middle? Who hasn't wanted to see that 'instant' replay just one more time.
The idea for tivo was probably created by the designers 4 year old son who missed the beginning of Barney.
It seemed to me that using nuclear propulsion was a good idea, but then Columbia exploded. Also, 2/3's of the probes sent to Mars have failed. The last thing we need is a probe to burn up and cause a nuclear explosion in the Martian atmosphere because someone forgot that they were supposed to use metric.
I haven't noticed particularly bad mixes (aside from the increasing use of dynamic range compression, which is just as bad), on new cds, but remastering is typically not done to 'remix' the songs, so to speak.
It's done to correct errors in the original recordings, and to eliminate the tape hiss that exists in all magnetic reel recordings.
I will admit, sometimes it's frightening to listen to re-mastered music with a good pair of headphones. I hear things that I would swear weren't even in the original recording; but they were there, just hidden below the defects in the equipment that recorded them.
Now, if you happen to be talking about De-Spectorizing albums, well... nevermind.
Honestly, my friends X-Box crashes quite frequently, and I've heard that this quite common. For a console, this is completely unacceptable, but for some reason, people keep buying X-Boxes.
Clearly we all recognize the hassles that result from having to clear software with a 'legal' department, however, I think we've seen enough BSA attacks on businesses to know that it's necessary.
I am a Mac switcher. A little bit after I switched to Mac I noticed that, once the euphoria of the new computer wore off a little bit, and OS X stopped being a novelty to me, I was running out of things to do in the computer. I thought I was hallucinating, because as far as I could tell, and this includes many years messing with every flavor of Windows plus SuSe and freeBSD, I seemed to be spending at least one hour less per day in front of the computer. Then I figured it out: I was too used to spend about one hour a day just doing things to keep the PC running.
I too have noticed this happening to me. I am not a Mac switcher, but I dual boot SuSE 9 and XP, and have noticed that at least once per day, I get the distinct feeling that there should be something to do on the computer, but there isn't.
It took me a few weeks, but when I went looking for a defragment utility in linux (This despite knowing that defragmenting is not done in linux), I knew what it was.
It amazes me that I must have (and still do on the occasion of loading windows) spent so much time fixing windows that it became a regular task, and now that I don't have to anymore, I feel like I still should.
So, to make up for it, I run WINE a lot and occasionally compile programs with unsolved dependencies.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who was mstified as to where all this extra time came from.
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I'm good friends with a team in the Raleigh/Durham area (Team Insight), and they have been accepted into the grand challenge.
Both myself, along with every member of their team were shocked that DARPA accepted them. They are not on good financial footing at all. For their budget, they need approximately $250,000 (With 4 zeros); however, they know that there are many teams with budgets in excess of 3 and 4 million dollars.
They are looking actively for donations, but have not seen much come to them. They do not expect to be able to compete at all.
However, they were accepted into the challenge. DARPA didn't even require a site inspection of them. They are not affiliated with a major company, university, or anyone in particular, yet they have been accepted. Speaking with one of the members, he was just as confused that they got through as I, and his only explanation was, "We wrote a really good paper."
I'm very impressed that they got this far, but it shows that DARPA is obviously not being very even handed in their acceptance.
DARPA really screwed up this competition, and it's a shame.
That said, if you're rich and want to donate to them, there is a contact form on their website. I'd love to see them go all the way.
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I simply have a question, just from a standpoint of a university student.
On occasion, I have been known to recycle my own papers into 'new', or at least 'improved' versions to turn in in a different class than they were originally intended. (I recently did this when I was asked to write my third paper in 2 years on Kurt Vonnegut.) If you ran this paper through the cheat-detect-i-tizer, and my previous paper had also been put through, then it would definitely have been flagged. Upon your questioning me I would openly admit to what I had done, but my question remains, did I plagerize, even though it was my own work?
Does copying from yourself constitute plagerism, or is it simply laziness?
I agree with the grandparent poster here, and I think most other posters are missing a valid point (one that I hear one the first day of nearly every class I have ever been in.)
It goes something like this:
"I will know if you cheat. I will catch you. I may miss it the first time, I may miss it the second time, but I will catch you. If you turn in one paper, and then in your second paper, the setence structure and word usage are completely different, I will know something is up. I keep all copies of all of your in class and out of class writing assignments, so it's easy to compare. I've been teaching here for X years, and I was once a student too, don't think I don't know all of the tricks."
Professors aren't idiots (and they have also been able to throw words and phrases into search engines for just as long as students have been able to find papers the same way.)
Even if you have one professor that doesn't catch you, the next one probably will.
I always harass people who charge outrageous shipping asking them to justify their costs. It's rather easy, as anyone can go to UPS.com and punch in a to and from address and get a price.
Above poster is a lying troll. Check out his previous posts. Please mod down accordingly!!!
Looks like SCO got their wish.... wonder what their FUD tomorrow will be.
While I recognize the need for privacy rights (my tin foil hat is firmly planted on my head as we speak), I think that the government is probably correct here. Remember when everyone rushed to defend that guy that worked at Intel who was carted off? As it turned out, he had fooled his friends, family, and everyone else, as he was conspiring with and sending money to terrorists.
(However, I still don't agree with how his case was handled... I don't like these secret courts and such at all.)
I can't imagine Lego completely discontinuing the Mindstorms. Dean Kamen, of Segway fame (among many many other things), runs a yearly competition for middle school students across the country that uses the Mindstorms bricks.
Perhaps they will be removed from stores, but I can't see them going away completely.
Lego needed to update the things anyway to help them stay relevant.
Apparently I was wrong. I need to stop listening to my idiot friends. Logitech is a swiss company, incorporated and listed on the swiss stock exchange is LOGN. On this side of the pond they are LOGI on the Nasdaq.
I feel like this has been occuring, but I don't know enough about the technical specs of how cd's are made to prove it.
However, in the past 6 months, I have purchased several CDs, and have had to reburn (checks disc box) 4 of them. I've also reburned several of my recent CD-R mix cd's. I don't know why, but after only a few weeks of use, these CD's have begun to skip. I have many CD's that are pushing 10 years old and are still going strong (which is amazing, considering some of them look like I scraped them across pavement.)
For some reason CD's I've purchased recently aren't holding up as well. If anything, I'm treating my CD's better than I used to, I just don't get it.
Are they making the actual data layers out of thinner/cheaper metals? Whats going on? I can't be the only person that's noticed this.
Thankfully, she didn't. I was opening OpenOffice Writer to send her a note saying I was going to be boycotting their products, but then I read the article. The last paragraph says:
"The problem is not a lack of highly educated workers," said Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America. "The problem is a lack of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are driving outsourcing, not the quality of American schools."
So Scott Kirwin is the dope that said it. He runs what looks to be a trade group of IT guys.
I'm glad Carly didn't say it, because I'd hate to boycott their company... I really like their printers and keyboards (HP owns Logitech.)
Does anyone have any screenshots?
iTunes load several dameons that run in the background at all times. I'm not in windows, so I can't check, but I know there is a default 'helper' service as well as an 'ipod' service. On my computer iTunes typically eats up a good 30 megs of ram even when not running.
Somewhat amazingly, this page has been updated today... to remove the picture of Yosemite Sam. Google Cache here: Cache
Here is the list of House members that voted against this bill. The Senate took a voice vote, so no record is available. Vote Tally
What is the address of that site that lists who voted for what in bills?
It's always been obvious to me. Who hasn't always wanted a way to watch the beginning of that sitcom that you tuned to in the middle? Who hasn't wanted to see that 'instant' replay just one more time.
The idea for tivo was probably created by the designers 4 year old son who missed the beginning of Barney.
Nuclear Activists?
It seemed to me that using nuclear propulsion was a good idea, but then Columbia exploded. Also, 2/3's of the probes sent to Mars have failed. The last thing we need is a probe to burn up and cause a nuclear explosion in the Martian atmosphere because someone forgot that they were supposed to use metric.
I haven't noticed particularly bad mixes (aside from the increasing use of dynamic range compression, which is just as bad), on new cds, but remastering is typically not done to 'remix' the songs, so to speak.
It's done to correct errors in the original recordings, and to eliminate the tape hiss that exists in all magnetic reel recordings.
I will admit, sometimes it's frightening to listen to re-mastered music with a good pair of headphones. I hear things that I would swear weren't even in the original recording; but they were there, just hidden below the defects in the equipment that recorded them.
Now, if you happen to be talking about De-Spectorizing albums, well... nevermind.
Honestly, my friends X-Box crashes quite frequently, and I've heard that this quite common. For a console, this is completely unacceptable, but for some reason, people keep buying X-Boxes.
This can't be good for the WINE developers.
Warning:
This article has nothing to do with current technology sans a single 1 sentence reference to the DMCA.
Clearly we all recognize the hassles that result from having to clear software with a 'legal' department, however, I think we've seen enough BSA attacks on businesses to know that it's necessary.
I am a Mac switcher. A little bit after I switched to Mac I noticed that, once the euphoria of the new computer wore off a little bit, and OS X stopped being a novelty to me, I was running out of things to do in the computer. I thought I was hallucinating, because as far as I could tell, and this includes many years messing with every flavor of Windows plus SuSe and freeBSD, I seemed to be spending at least one hour less per day in front of the computer. Then I figured it out: I was too used to spend about one hour a day just doing things to keep the PC running.
I too have noticed this happening to me. I am not a Mac switcher, but I dual boot SuSE 9 and XP, and have noticed that at least once per day, I get the distinct feeling that there should be something to do on the computer, but there isn't.
It took me a few weeks, but when I went looking for a defragment utility in linux (This despite knowing that defragmenting is not done in linux), I knew what it was.
It amazes me that I must have (and still do on the occasion of loading windows) spent so much time fixing windows that it became a regular task, and now that I don't have to anymore, I feel like I still should.
So, to make up for it, I run WINE a lot and occasionally compile programs with unsolved dependencies.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who was mstified as to where all this extra time came from.
I'm good friends with a team in the Raleigh/Durham area (Team Insight), and they have been accepted into the grand challenge.
Both myself, along with every member of their team were shocked that DARPA accepted them. They are not on good financial footing at all. For their budget, they need approximately $250,000 (With 4 zeros); however, they know that there are many teams with budgets in excess of 3 and 4 million dollars.
They are looking actively for donations, but have not seen much come to them. They do not expect to be able to compete at all.
However, they were accepted into the challenge. DARPA didn't even require a site inspection of them. They are not affiliated with a major company, university, or anyone in particular, yet they have been accepted. Speaking with one of the members, he was just as confused that they got through as I, and his only explanation was, "We wrote a really good paper."
I'm very impressed that they got this far, but it shows that DARPA is obviously not being very even handed in their acceptance.
DARPA really screwed up this competition, and it's a shame.
That said, if you're rich and want to donate to them, there is a contact form on their website. I'd love to see them go all the way.
But TiVO has teamed up with DirecTV, so I don't know how true that really is.