...The average Athenian lived a life of drudgery and was illiterate...
Those illiterate drudges didn't leave any writings behind.
This guy seems to have studied the people who did write, and the people they wrote about, and came to the astonishing conclusion that the interesting people 2000 years ago were very bright and intellectual. Bah.
Also make it clear early-on that this class is designed to teach them a useful, marketable skill and that if they cheat, they won't have learned the skill and if enough of them cheat and don't get caught, YOU won't know to slow down the pace of instruction. As a result, the whole class may "pass" knowing a lot less than they would if nobody cheated.
Some artists/journalists would argue that *any* use of photoshop is cheating. Albeit, it's not copying, but you are bending reality. (Not that photo manipulation is new to photoshop. Trick photography started just a few years after photograpy itself was invented, and even realist painters didn't paint the "real", reality)
for one assignment students turn in their own pictures with themselves in it near some assigned object. Later, another assignment has them work with their picture toward some given result on the object, with them still in the picture.
It's a good chance that the more photogenic students will get the highest grades. There are several studies about grad student grant proposals that back this up.
I think the problem is that while the assignment might be new, everyone in the same class gets the same original file, and has to make changes to the same specifications. I'd be supprise if some students didn't legitamately have the same end result.
One poster suggested that each student gets a slightly different original file. Something like different house numbers, but in the same font and color. If two students submit the same house number, you know they copied.
There are other algorithms that work on the final result to tell you how much of the photo was changed.
Since she has the originals, something like this would work: Auto compare every final picture with its original and produce a number, percent changed. Then use ComparePSD to compare the submission that are the same % changed.
The problem is that if she is too specific in her instructions for the assignment, then everyone in the class that tries will have the same changes. If she's too inspecific, then someone can claim they deserve an 'A' for work that's not what was intended.
Of course, once the students wise up to this, they will start using ComparePSD to compare theirs friend's work to the modified copy, just to make sure that there are enough changes.
I'll have egg on my face when the robot army builds massive floating cities.
More like space habitats, which can easily provide many times as much land area as every planet in the solar system. Land on Earth won't have much value in a century or two.
Ok, that's the start of several science fiction stories. The rich leave for the space cities, leaving the poor behind on land and ocean going super-vessels. If anyone from the proletariat demonstrates talent, they get to emigrate to the stars after paying their dues. That was sort of the back-story in "Blade Runner", but it works for any rags-to-riches yarn.
When all of the low-skill repetitive jobs are replaced by robots, and there is no work for the millions of displaced workers they are going to find unexpected ways to spend their forced leisure time, such as developing a newfound love of pitchforks, machetes, rope and guillotines.. and an unhealthy obsession with the "Job Creators" who created a new life of misery for them.
You're talking about a revolution in China. That's never happened before, has it? ***
Here's what I was thinking of: http://www.eboostr.com/feature
It was originally designed to give WinXP readyboost like capabilities. The latest version allows you to cache to what would be unused memory when running XP on a large machine. I don't know if it's any better than runnning an XP image on a giant Linux machine.
There's a commercial product, I can't remember the name, that allows you to run Windows XP on a machine with >4GB of memory. Processes still have their usual memory limit, but the extra memory is used for disk cache and page space cache. Your processes will essentially be paging to RAM disk, which seems silly, it but works.
Sinofsky had only good things to say about his former employer
When I was laid off years ago, in order to get my severance package, I had to sign an agreement to *not* say bad things about the company in the press. I imagine this guy had $Millions on the line if he does say anything disparaging. Hell, if the MS lawyers are any good, they made sure that any companies that he forms within N years have to use MS products exclusively. (or at least for the public facing computers)
I'm sure EMC, NetApp, and the other major players like the guys who build the disk drives themselves have stuff in their lab that's 10x the capacity of what they sell. In the lab it's still proving itself, and some of that lab stuff isn't going to work out. They'll only take the stuff out of their lab when competitive pressure forces them to.
I read that Google is the world's 7th largest computer server manufacturer, but they don't' sell *any* servers, they use all they make themselves. Google got where it is by cramming lots of COTS stuff together, customizing only when it makes sense.
The general slashdot advice seems to be good. Take the first large, real, offer that you get from Facebook or anyone, because there may not be a second.
Can you roll the clock back on your machine and use an old password, then reset the clock? (Use truss to see if the process is stat()'ing a file to use as a time check.)
Perhaps you could set the hardware clock, then boot an image that was created while the old password was valid.
Current Ultra capacitors at body temperature have lifespans consistent with human lifespan. I've used several in projects and have yet to see one fail completely, although there may be reduced capacity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_double-layer_capacitor
As far as I recall, during the 1st Gulf war against Iraq, the French maker of the Exocet missile said in an interview that in the future the it would be a good idea to design missiles so they couldn't be used against freindly forces. It sounded like what he had in mind was an encoded message that would disable the missle if fired against a ship or aircraft.
That's ok for warships and warplanes, but if the missle was stolen during a conflict, it could be used against a civlian target that didn't have the electronic countermeasure.
All the suggested countermeasures would be somewhat effective, but not 100%.
I had a friend who, years ago, was running an old Altos 8086 based Unix machine. Altos was already out of business, but the disk format command required a password. My friend ran strings -a on the format binary, and happend to notice the string "sotlA" in the binary, which was the password.
Pop the ROMs and see if you can find the password in them. (You may need a heat gun to do that though...)
... No point buying 1 pound of white rice for $5 when I can buy 25 pounds for like $10 and being white rice it lasts forever.
B.t.w. Dry goods, well sealed against moisture, also last in the freezer, so if you like whole wheat, or whole brown rice, you can keep it for years below zero, vs. 6 months or so on the shelf. If you temporarily need the freezer space, your well sealed dry goods can be taken out and re-frozen a few days later w/o effecting them too much.
411, they have all the numbers. (If that still works)
Alternately, 1-(area code) 555-1212 used to connect you to information in that area code. I haven't actually used either of those in years, so they might also have gone the way of the pay phone.
... If you don't want to maintain them, then let's talk about what the market price is for access rights for all your wiring...".
The problem is that the market price for access to the congresspeople is typically 10% of the market price of a resource that MegaCorp wants. In an ideal world, yes, MegaCorp would pay market rate for right-of-way or airwaves, then the government would use that payment to build infrastructure and services. Then they would allocate the money appropriately, according to need and value returned. (doesn't work that way in the real world, but we can dream)
A military hummer can cross some really rough ground, but yes, clearing the roads is an important part of cleaning up after a disaster. For port cities, a ship based version of the same thing would be useful.
Yes, although satellites are slow and expensive. Portable cells towers built into trucks with their own generators and a high speed mesh network would be better. They would expand out from the nearest working high speed internet connection and expand into the disaster zone.
C'mon people, get rid of the regulated payphones now, and during the next disaster, Free Market PayPhones (tm) will just pop up everywhere like daisies. (Of course it'll be $100 per minute call, but hey, that's what the Free Market is for)
Seriously, the National Guard should have a bunch of communications trucks that can form a mesh network after an event like this. They should be able to connect to regular cell phones, prioritizing 911 calls, then allowing some WiFi traffic to move out of a disaster zone.
Even so, a pay phone is still useful if your cellphone is lost or stolen. Perhaps we should bring back big blue police call boxes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardis
is even popular is because every one can now become a celebrity in their own little delusional world. Lucky for me I don't get social media, I'd rather stay obscure as BeOS.
If this keeps future politicians locked up, I'm all for it. Let them live in their own little delusional worlds and leave us alone. Who knows, in the future, we might even be able to visit various fictional worlds and settle in the one that works best for us.
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...The average Athenian lived a life of drudgery and was illiterate...
Those illiterate drudges didn't leave any writings behind.
This guy seems to have studied the people who did write, and the people they wrote about, and came to the astonishing conclusion that the interesting people 2000 years ago were very bright and intellectual. Bah.
Also make it clear early-on that this class is designed to teach them a useful, marketable skill and that if they cheat, they won't have learned the skill and if enough of them cheat and don't get caught, YOU won't know to slow down the pace of instruction. As a result, the whole class may "pass" knowing a lot less than they would if nobody cheated.
Some artists/journalists would argue that *any* use of photoshop is cheating. Albeit, it's not copying, but you are bending reality. (Not that photo manipulation is new to photoshop. Trick photography started just a few years after photograpy itself was invented, and even realist painters didn't paint the "real", reality)
for one assignment students turn in their own pictures with themselves in it near some assigned object. Later, another assignment has them work with their picture toward some given result on the object, with them still in the picture.
It's a good chance that the more photogenic students will get the highest grades. There are several studies about grad student grant proposals that back this up.
I think the problem is that while the assignment might be new, everyone in the same class gets the same original file, and has to make changes to the same specifications. I'd be supprise if some students didn't legitamately have the same end result.
One poster suggested that each student gets a slightly different original file. Something like different house numbers, but in the same font and color. If two students submit the same house number, you know they copied.
This is good but still time consuming.
There are other algorithms that work on the final result to tell you how much of the photo was changed.
Since she has the originals, something like this would work: Auto compare every final picture with its original and produce a number, percent changed. Then use ComparePSD to compare the submission that are the same % changed.
The problem is that if she is too specific in her instructions for the assignment, then everyone in the class that tries will have the same changes. If she's too inspecific, then someone can claim they deserve an 'A' for work that's not what was intended.
Of course, once the students wise up to this, they will start using ComparePSD to compare theirs friend's work to the modified copy, just to make sure that there are enough changes.
I'll have egg on my face when the robot army builds massive floating cities.
More like space habitats, which can easily provide many times as much land area as every planet in the solar system. Land on Earth won't have much value in a century or two.
Ok, that's the start of several science fiction stories. The rich leave for the space cities, leaving the poor behind on land and ocean going super-vessels. If anyone from the proletariat demonstrates talent, they get to emigrate to the stars after paying their dues. That was sort of the back-story in "Blade Runner", but it works for any rags-to-riches yarn.
If you don't own land now, go out and buy some. In the end, that's the one thing that robots can't build.*
* I'll have egg on my face when the robot army builds massive floating cities.
When all of the low-skill repetitive jobs are replaced by robots, and there is no work for the millions of displaced workers they are going to find unexpected ways to spend their forced leisure time, such as developing a newfound love of pitchforks, machetes, rope and guillotines.. and an unhealthy obsession with the "Job Creators" who created a new life of misery for them.
You're talking about a revolution in China. That's never happened before, has it? ***
*** (:-) for the humor impared
Here's what I was thinking of: http://www.eboostr.com/feature
It was originally designed to give WinXP readyboost like capabilities. The latest version allows you to cache to what would be unused memory when running XP on a large machine. I don't know if it's any better than runnning an XP image on a giant Linux machine.
There's a commercial product, I can't remember the name, that allows you to run Windows XP on a machine with >4GB of memory. Processes still have their usual memory limit, but the extra memory is used for disk cache and page space cache. Your processes will essentially be paging to RAM disk, which seems silly, it but works.
Sinofsky had only good things to say about his former employer
When I was laid off years ago, in order to get my severance package, I had to sign an agreement to *not* say bad things about the company in the press. I imagine this guy had $Millions on the line if he does say anything disparaging. Hell, if the MS lawyers are any good, they made sure that any companies that he forms within N years have to use MS products exclusively. (or at least for the public facing computers)
Exactly.
I'm sure EMC, NetApp, and the other major players like the guys who build the disk drives themselves have stuff in their lab that's 10x the capacity of what they sell. In the lab it's still proving itself, and some of that lab stuff isn't going to work out. They'll only take the stuff out of their lab when competitive pressure forces them to.
I read that Google is the world's 7th largest computer server manufacturer, but they don't' sell *any* servers, they use all they make themselves. Google got where it is by cramming lots of COTS stuff together, customizing only when it makes sense.
The general slashdot advice seems to be good. Take the first large, real, offer that you get from Facebook or anyone, because there may not be a second.
Can you roll the clock back on your machine and use an old password, then reset the clock? (Use truss to see if the process is stat()'ing a file to use as a time check.)
Perhaps you could set the hardware clock, then boot an image that was created while the old password was valid.
Current Ultra capacitors at body temperature have lifespans consistent with human lifespan. I've used several in projects and have yet to see one fail completely, although there may be reduced capacity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_double-layer_capacitor
As far as I recall, during the 1st Gulf war against Iraq, the French maker of the Exocet missile said in an interview that in the future the it would be a good idea to design missiles so they couldn't be used against freindly forces. It sounded like what he had in mind was an encoded message that would disable the missle if fired against a ship or aircraft.
That's ok for warships and warplanes, but if the missle was stolen during a conflict, it could be used against a civlian target that didn't have the electronic countermeasure.
All the suggested countermeasures would be somewhat effective, but not 100%.
I had a friend who, years ago, was running an old Altos 8086 based Unix machine. Altos was already out of business, but the disk format command required a password. My friend ran strings -a on the format binary, and happend to notice the string "sotlA" in the binary, which was the password.
Pop the ROMs and see if you can find the password in them. (You may need a heat gun to do that though...)
... No point buying 1 pound of white rice for $5 when I can buy 25 pounds for like $10 and being white rice it lasts forever.
B.t.w. Dry goods, well sealed against moisture, also last in the freezer, so if you like whole wheat, or whole brown rice, you can keep it for years below zero, vs. 6 months or so on the shelf. If you temporarily need the freezer space, your well sealed dry goods can be taken out and re-frozen a few days later w/o effecting them too much.
411, they have all the numbers. (If that still works)
Alternately, 1-(area code) 555-1212 used to connect you to information in that area code. I haven't actually used either of those in years, so they might also have gone the way of the pay phone.
... If you don't want to maintain them, then let's talk about what the market price is for access rights for all your wiring...".
The problem is that the market price for access to the congresspeople is typically 10% of the market price of a resource that MegaCorp wants. In an ideal world, yes, MegaCorp would pay market rate for right-of-way or airwaves, then the government would use that payment to build infrastructure and services. Then they would allocate the money appropriately, according to need and value returned. (doesn't work that way in the real world, but we can dream)
A military hummer can cross some really rough ground, but yes, clearing the roads is an important part of cleaning up after a disaster. For port cities, a ship based version of the same thing would be useful.
Yes, although satellites are slow and expensive. Portable cells towers built into trucks with their own generators and a high speed mesh network would be better. They would expand out from the nearest working high speed internet connection and expand into the disaster zone.
Physical pay phones handle the problem of lost or stolen cell phones. Pico-cells don't.
This.
After twice, I'd have a WiFi external disk drive in the bail-out bag, that always held a backup of financial information and family photos.
C'mon people, get rid of the regulated payphones now, and during the next disaster, Free Market PayPhones (tm) will just pop up everywhere like daisies. (Of course it'll be $100 per minute call, but hey, that's what the Free Market is for)
Seriously, the National Guard should have a bunch of communications trucks that can form a mesh network after an event like this. They should be able to connect to regular cell phones, prioritizing 911 calls, then allowing some WiFi traffic to move out of a disaster zone.
Even so, a pay phone is still useful if your cellphone is lost or stolen. Perhaps we should bring back big blue police call boxes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardis
is even popular is because every one can now become a celebrity in their own little delusional world. Lucky for me I don't get social media, I'd rather stay obscure as BeOS.
If this keeps future politicians locked up, I'm all for it. Let them live in their own little delusional worlds and leave us alone. Who knows, in the future, we might even be able to visit various fictional worlds and settle in the one that works best for us.