I don't even know what the OSX install process looks like, or if there even is one. And I own more Macs than anything else.
Well, one thing they do to avoid being complete pricks is roll all the security updates and bug fixes into the latest point upgrade so you only download that instead of every single update since 2001. If you connect Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.0 to Software Update, you're going to get a Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.9 update, probably an AirPort and Quicktime update, an iTunes update, and updates for whatever Apple apps you have installed.
On the other hand, I had to make a bunch of really, really bad style decisions in order to make it unique. Being constrained by trying to write well is also a limiting factor.
All you're doing is trying to shove all the hard work of figuring out which freedoms are more important than others into your definition of the word "harm". This is just semantic trickery and accomplishes nothing meaningful.
You realize that "liberty" is synonymous with "freedom" (making it just as vague) and being annoyed hinders me from pursuing happiness, right? And fundamentally, "freedom to do as you wish" is usually subservient to freedom from the consequences of other people's actions. For instance, not being killed, physically harmed, or physically endangered is an important freedom, moreso than the freedom of other people to throw knives in public or drive drunk. Is there such a thing as freedom from harassment? Anti-harassment statutes and restraining orders suggest so. What's the dividing line between harassment and annoyance? These are more nuanced questions than you're really giving them credit for, even though I agree with you that cell phones are awesome and we should be free to use them in public, at least in most circumstances.
I used to see things the same way you did. It's a conveniently simplified view of life, and just like all convenient simplifications, it's not entirely accurate. In any case, my point was made as soon as we agreed that only some freedoms are important.
They're usually flying over a state. Political geographic divisions, like states and countries, have "airspace" which extends above their terrestrial territory. It does not, however, extend into outer space.
Thirty years ago we didn't have cell phones at all and nobody died because of that
Except for people caught in building collapses, auto crashes, and other situations with no other means of contacting the outside world. They probably died because of the lack of cell phones.
You could have taken an AP exam in high school to get you credit or advanced placement in college economics. Some colleges also let you challenge a course by basically taking a comprehensive exam and using the exam grade as the class grade without having to actually take the class.
Back when my wife was teaching HS English I used to help her grade term papers
Doing your wife's work for her? I mean, if you really wanted to help grade english papers that's cool, but if someone's getting paid to do a job, doing it for them isn't really a marital duty, is it?:)
Often times if I'm visiting, I'll help her grade her English Papers, like any good son should.
Doing your mom's work for her? I mean, if you really wanted to help grade english papers that's cool, but if someone's getting paid to do a job, doing it for them isn't really being "a good son", is it?:)
There are a limited number of ways to express the same thought in a given sentence or paragraph. While increasing the sources would increase the number of possible phrasings the student reads, these phrasings can't be all that different so long as they convey the same information.
Suppose, for instance, we assign a term paper on the American Civil War to a high school class. Given 30 students per class, two classes per school, 2-5 high schools per city, how many years would it take until, due to lack of material, students end up independently rewriting the same paper? And if we escalate this to the state level? So if we have a database shared between several states, inevitably it will seem like one paper plagiarized another despite the two being written independent of each other.
The solution might not be to check for plagiarism per se, but rather to judge the student's ability against the paper. A skilled teacher should have some idea from past work of what a student is capable of, and if there are sudden discontinuities in the quality of their coursework, they're likely to be cheating. Similarly, if a poor student suddenly submits a great paper, follow-up questions can test the student's knowledge of what's in the paper, allowing us to infer whether it was plagiarized. Just a little bit of extra work on the teacher's part can solve this problem without laborious amounts of textual analysis and comparison.
If they are tripping over spelling and pronunciation -- and indeed, don't actually know what half of the words are -- then it's probably not their work.
There was a fairly long period in my life where I read and wrote words that I never spoke, so I never learned the pronunciations. Of course, students like that will probably have consistently literate papers.
Well, suppose you want to be a physicist but have to take a class in art history or something to satisfy university requirements. You probably don't care about actually learning any art history, so you cheat and focus on your physics instead.
Yes, students have ways to cheat on term papers. Professors have ways to catch cheaters though. If you assign lots of small writing assignments along with a term paper, for instance, you can pick up on your students' writing styles enough to catch a term paper that was clearly not written by them. This of course assumes your TAs can spare the time to analyze writing styles, or are capable of easily recognizing a writing style...
By the way, are the bottom-of-page MOTD's getting most and more surreal or what? Right now I'm getting "Did YOU find a DIGITAL WATCH in YOUR box of VELVEETA?". Didn't Slashdot use to have Knuth quotes and shit down there?
That requires wiring, which is difficult in, for instance, a rental place. It also prevents you from using your laptop in bed/on the back porch/in the kitchen/on the floor next to your seemingly malfunctioning cable modem/on the balcony/on the toilet.
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Maybe in YOUR culture. In my culture, government reflects its people's fears.
Well, one thing they do to avoid being complete pricks is roll all the security updates and bug fixes into the latest point upgrade so you only download that instead of every single update since 2001. If you connect Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.0 to Software Update, you're going to get a Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.9 update, probably an AirPort and Quicktime update, an iTunes update, and updates for whatever Apple apps you have installed.
Betamax also didn't have as much capacity (in terms of time), so you couldn't fit a whole movie on a single Betamax cassette.
On the other hand, I had to make a bunch of really, really bad style decisions in order to make it unique. Being constrained by trying to write well is also a limiting factor.
All you're doing is trying to shove all the hard work of figuring out which freedoms are more important than others into your definition of the word "harm". This is just semantic trickery and accomplishes nothing meaningful.
You realize that "liberty" is synonymous with "freedom" (making it just as vague) and being annoyed hinders me from pursuing happiness, right? And fundamentally, "freedom to do as you wish" is usually subservient to freedom from the consequences of other people's actions. For instance, not being killed, physically harmed, or physically endangered is an important freedom, moreso than the freedom of other people to throw knives in public or drive drunk. Is there such a thing as freedom from harassment? Anti-harassment statutes and restraining orders suggest so. What's the dividing line between harassment and annoyance? These are more nuanced questions than you're really giving them credit for, even though I agree with you that cell phones are awesome and we should be free to use them in public, at least in most circumstances.
I didn't say it was a good reason to cheat, just that it is the reason some people do cheat.
You're being absurd.
I used to see things the same way you did. It's a conveniently simplified view of life, and just like all convenient simplifications, it's not entirely accurate. In any case, my point was made as soon as we agreed that only some freedoms are important.
So only some freedoms are important.
They're usually flying over a state. Political geographic divisions, like states and countries, have "airspace" which extends above their terrestrial territory. It does not, however, extend into outer space.
Except for people caught in building collapses, auto crashes, and other situations with no other means of contacting the outside world. They probably died because of the lack of cell phones.
What about the freedom not to hear idiots yammering on their cell phones about banal shit? Isn't that important?
You could have taken an AP exam in high school to get you credit or advanced placement in college economics. Some colleges also let you challenge a course by basically taking a comprehensive exam and using the exam grade as the class grade without having to actually take the class.
Doing your wife's work for her? I mean, if you really wanted to help grade english papers that's cool, but if someone's getting paid to do a job, doing it for them isn't really a marital duty, is it? :)
Doing your mom's work for her? I mean, if you really wanted to help grade english papers that's cool, but if someone's getting paid to do a job, doing it for them isn't really being "a good son", is it? :)
Speaking of which...
There are a limited number of ways to express the same thought in a given sentence or paragraph. While increasing the sources would increase the number of possible phrasings the student reads, these phrasings can't be all that different so long as they convey the same information.
Suppose, for instance, we assign a term paper on the American Civil War to a high school class. Given 30 students per class, two classes per school, 2-5 high schools per city, how many years would it take until, due to lack of material, students end up independently rewriting the same paper? And if we escalate this to the state level? So if we have a database shared between several states, inevitably it will seem like one paper plagiarized another despite the two being written independent of each other.
The solution might not be to check for plagiarism per se, but rather to judge the student's ability against the paper. A skilled teacher should have some idea from past work of what a student is capable of, and if there are sudden discontinuities in the quality of their coursework, they're likely to be cheating. Similarly, if a poor student suddenly submits a great paper, follow-up questions can test the student's knowledge of what's in the paper, allowing us to infer whether it was plagiarized. Just a little bit of extra work on the teacher's part can solve this problem without laborious amounts of textual analysis and comparison.
There was a fairly long period in my life where I read and wrote words that I never spoke, so I never learned the pronunciations. Of course, students like that will probably have consistently literate papers.
I didn't say cheating was a GOOD idea, I was just explaining the reasoning someone could use to cheat on a particular course.
Well, suppose you want to be a physicist but have to take a class in art history or something to satisfy university requirements. You probably don't care about actually learning any art history, so you cheat and focus on your physics instead.
Yes, students have ways to cheat on term papers. Professors have ways to catch cheaters though. If you assign lots of small writing assignments along with a term paper, for instance, you can pick up on your students' writing styles enough to catch a term paper that was clearly not written by them. This of course assumes your TAs can spare the time to analyze writing styles, or are capable of easily recognizing a writing style...
By the way, are the bottom-of-page MOTD's getting most and more surreal or what? Right now I'm getting "Did YOU find a DIGITAL WATCH in YOUR box of VELVEETA?". Didn't Slashdot use to have Knuth quotes and shit down there?
People in the ghetto don't have wireless networks, and if they do, they're not smart enough to secure them?
That requires wiring, which is difficult in, for instance, a rental place. It also prevents you from using your laptop in bed/on the back porch/in the kitchen/on the floor next to your seemingly malfunctioning cable modem/on the balcony/on the toilet.
No, no it isn't. There was an elaborate practical joke to record your religion as "Jedi" on the census years back but no organized religion.
And why does her document have gratuitous monochrome bitmaps of the space shuttle?