Doing away with the term paper is not the answer to plagiarism. The fact is, someone who will turn in work that is not their own is determined not to learn. Test them another way, and they'll still find a way around it. No one can be educated against their will. They can be indoctrinated, but only at the price of creative thought.
Plagiarism is a symptom, not the problem. Tell me how you'll teach students to care, and it won't matter if it's a paper, a test, or a painting they produce; they're the people who will change things in the real world, someday. They'll do what they are inspired to do because someone taught them to think for themselves, and nobody persuaded them otherwise.
As an American who's been living in London for the last eight weeks, I feel obliged to ask you to repeat this criticism at every restaurant, store and service I've come across here. Even the hot dog vendors are in on it! I'd like to see those guys try to sell their $6 hot dogs on the streets of New York; they'd get clobbered! Yet, somehow, business is brisk at Tottenham Court... It's almost enough to make you think that the cost of living in the UK is proportionally higher because the pound is a stronger currency (it's gained nearly $.30 against the dollar since early April). But then you'd have to conclude that Apple's international pricing structure reflects that, and you couldn't bitch about it... so dammit, let's be more cynical. They hates the Brits.
Punishing a media outlet for publishing freely available non-sensitive information sets a very bad precedent. Imagine if the government could get away with that.
My feeling is that Google got far too used to the press eating up their every action and was shocked - shocked - when someone had a criticism. Perhaps their corporate philosophy needs to be broadened into "Do no evil, and don't pander to your inner brat."
It's good that the folks at ZDNet aren't sucking up to Google. On the other hand, they might be provoking a playground brawl.
1. Post an EBay auction advertising 9 iPods, three tickets to Coldplay, and a 10,000 song gift card for the buy-it-now of $6,000 2. Set up a shopping cart on the iTunes music store with 2,000 songs in it 3. Download iTunes Estimater 4. Wait until it's within 2,000 songs of 500,000,000 5. Purchase the whole cart load (thus being guaranteed the 500,000,000 songs) 6. End up with over $3,000, a front-row ticket to see Coldplay, and an iPod?
The official press release is here.
Apple is also including a technology called "Rosetta" which will run all PowerPC apps on an Intel, and is supposed to be relatively transparent (unlike Classic).
I agree that this is a bad move. However, they appear to have prepared for it very well.
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At some point last year, actually, Apple changed the "Music" tab on their website to "iPod + iTunes", and it was widely assumed it had to do with the impending legal action brought by Apple Corps that just happened to coincide.
See:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030801072141/www.appl e.com/music/
Lots of people talk about how the Windows version of iTunes is a trojan horse idea, i.e., it gives Windows users a taste of the usability and flexibility of software designed by Apple, and so inspires them to switch. Looks like Apple's been using iTunes as more than a switching device, though - they've been training their user base. Everything's going to be smart in the Tiger, and it won't matter where the files are - just what you want to use, when you want to use it. iTunes is already like this - I can say I want all the movie music by John Williams, in addition to including all the classical titles he ripped off, and it will give it to me in a playlist. So, no massive shift for Mac users or Windows users who have iTunes - they already know exactly how to speed through and take advantage of this UI. Smart.
Except - no. I, uh, really didn't like them. But thanks for pretending you know what I think. It is possible to balance plot, effects, and loyalty to the original in a sequel - Spiderman 2 did it winningly, even improving on the first. With the Matrix sequels, I didn't clap my hands soundlessly and gaga over the effects; I felt insulted by the unhidden and unmixed motive. In case you're still looking for it, it's the same shade as the color scheme - green.
I wanted my money back and an apology. If that's "GLAD", then sign me up.
"No, sir, he's really just 18 - distortions in the space-time continuum have made dashing young Kirk look old and chubby and act like a condescending travel spokesman."
Most of us who didn't and don't support the war in Iraq have nothing against a people liberated, and would have in fact enjoyed giving Saddam a good, sharp kick in the bum. But why tell everyone you're spaying a dog so it won't bite your kids if you really want to do the dog a favor? Don't pretend that liberation was anything but a useful and fortunate side effect that the administration fell back on when forced to eat crow.
So as to stay on topic: I would much rather have Linux proliferate in Iraq than hate and fear. FUD anywhere should be corrected and soundly walloped.
I'm not entirely educated about the average computer experience in the Middle East. I know that, comparatively, very few people have up-to-date computers with reliable internet access, but how much more uncommon is it for an Iraqi civilian to have experience in programming? In the previous regime, was coding mostly government-sponsored, or else discouraged or at least difficult to pick up?
Everything grows slowly and somehow, I suppose. Good luck to you.
This is probably flamebait. However:
IBM, working with Apple, did provide Apple with an awfully nice chip. However, there's a lot more to a computer than a chip - your premise is a bit naive (even though you used that nice and pretentious "Apple are" anti-colloquial phrasing), so I'll explain this in proper tone. You see, Jonny, a chip depends on the rest of the computer just like the computer depends on it. Apple's exorbitant R&D department made the chip a computer.
Besides, have you looked inside the thing? It's purty.
The best book, by far, that I read this year (and I read many good books) was "The Student Conductor", by Robert Ford. Here's a review I posted at Amazon:
"If this novel did not have a masterfully intricate plot, intriguingly human characters, and the liquid, powerful feel of absorbing a symphony in bed, I would read it for the language. The language is such that occasionally I was stopped in the middle of an established rhythm to find myself rereading a sentence, struck by how perfectly it expressed itself. My only warning to a potential reader would be to wait until you're willing to spend some time with it. With work piling up on both sides, I sat down for a break with this book and read it in its entirety within the span of an afternoon, evening, and night. Having finished, I wanted to sit down with the author - or any of his characters - over coffee. Well written, Mr. Ford. "
It's not a technical book, in the electronic sense, but it's definitely a worthwhile read.
This is a really old story. Sorry to be redundant, I'm just used to finding newer stuff on the/. front page.
In other news, I have to wait until Friday to see ROTK. The number of critical plaudits for this one is almost unbelievable, in such a usually divided field. Check out rottentomatoes if you don't know what I'm talking about.
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Doing away with the term paper is not the answer to plagiarism. The fact is, someone who will turn in work that is not their own is determined not to learn. Test them another way, and they'll still find a way around it. No one can be educated against their will. They can be indoctrinated, but only at the price of creative thought.
Plagiarism is a symptom, not the problem. Tell me how you'll teach students to care, and it won't matter if it's a paper, a test, or a painting they produce; they're the people who will change things in the real world, someday. They'll do what they are inspired to do because someone taught them to think for themselves, and nobody persuaded them otherwise.
As an American who's been living in London for the last eight weeks, I feel obliged to ask you to repeat this criticism at every restaurant, store and service I've come across here. Even the hot dog vendors are in on it! I'd like to see those guys try to sell their $6 hot dogs on the streets of New York; they'd get clobbered! Yet, somehow, business is brisk at Tottenham Court... It's almost enough to make you think that the cost of living in the UK is proportionally higher because the pound is a stronger currency (it's gained nearly $.30 against the dollar since early April). But then you'd have to conclude that Apple's international pricing structure reflects that, and you couldn't bitch about it... so dammit, let's be more cynical. They hates the Brits.
Punishing a media outlet for publishing freely available non-sensitive information sets a very bad precedent. Imagine if the government could get away with that. My feeling is that Google got far too used to the press eating up their every action and was shocked - shocked - when someone had a criticism. Perhaps their corporate philosophy needs to be broadened into "Do no evil, and don't pander to your inner brat." It's good that the folks at ZDNet aren't sucking up to Google. On the other hand, they might be provoking a playground brawl.
So, couldn't someone:
1. Post an EBay auction advertising 9 iPods, three tickets to Coldplay, and a 10,000 song gift card for the buy-it-now of $6,000
2. Set up a shopping cart on the iTunes music store with 2,000 songs in it
3. Download iTunes Estimater
4. Wait until it's within 2,000 songs of 500,000,000
5. Purchase the whole cart load (thus being guaranteed the 500,000,000 songs)
6. End up with over $3,000, a front-row ticket to see Coldplay, and an iPod?
Hmmmmmmmmm.....
The official press release is here. Apple is also including a technology called "Rosetta" which will run all PowerPC apps on an Intel, and is supposed to be relatively transparent (unlike Classic). I agree that this is a bad move. However, they appear to have prepared for it very well.
Mac OS 10.4 = Win 5.6
At some point last year, actually, Apple changed the "Music" tab on their website to "iPod + iTunes", and it was widely assumed it had to do with the impending legal action brought by Apple Corps that just happened to coincide. See: http://web.archive.org/web/20030801072141/www.appl e.com/music/
Lots of people talk about how the Windows version of iTunes is a trojan horse idea, i.e., it gives Windows users a taste of the usability and flexibility of software designed by Apple, and so inspires them to switch. Looks like Apple's been using iTunes as more than a switching device, though - they've been training their user base. Everything's going to be smart in the Tiger, and it won't matter where the files are - just what you want to use, when you want to use it. iTunes is already like this - I can say I want all the movie music by John Williams, in addition to including all the classical titles he ripped off, and it will give it to me in a playlist. So, no massive shift for Mac users or Windows users who have iTunes - they already know exactly how to speed through and take advantage of this UI. Smart.
Except - no. I, uh, really didn't like them. But thanks for pretending you know what I think. It is possible to balance plot, effects, and loyalty to the original in a sequel - Spiderman 2 did it winningly, even improving on the first. With the Matrix sequels, I didn't clap my hands soundlessly and gaga over the effects; I felt insulted by the unhidden and unmixed motive. In case you're still looking for it, it's the same shade as the color scheme - green.
I wanted my money back and an apology. If that's "GLAD", then sign me up.
"No, sir, he's really just 18 - distortions in the space-time continuum have made dashing young Kirk look old and chubby and act like a condescending travel spokesman."
Most of us who didn't and don't support the war in Iraq have nothing against a people liberated, and would have in fact enjoyed giving Saddam a good, sharp kick in the bum. But why tell everyone you're spaying a dog so it won't bite your kids if you really want to do the dog a favor? Don't pretend that liberation was anything but a useful and fortunate side effect that the administration fell back on when forced to eat crow. So as to stay on topic: I would much rather have Linux proliferate in Iraq than hate and fear. FUD anywhere should be corrected and soundly walloped.
I'm not entirely educated about the average computer experience in the Middle East. I know that, comparatively, very few people have up-to-date computers with reliable internet access, but how much more uncommon is it for an Iraqi civilian to have experience in programming? In the previous regime, was coding mostly government-sponsored, or else discouraged or at least difficult to pick up? Everything grows slowly and somehow, I suppose. Good luck to you.
This is probably flamebait. However: IBM, working with Apple, did provide Apple with an awfully nice chip. However, there's a lot more to a computer than a chip - your premise is a bit naive (even though you used that nice and pretentious "Apple are" anti-colloquial phrasing), so I'll explain this in proper tone. You see, Jonny, a chip depends on the rest of the computer just like the computer depends on it. Apple's exorbitant R&D department made the chip a computer. Besides, have you looked inside the thing? It's purty.
The best book, by far, that I read this year (and I read many good books) was "The Student Conductor", by Robert Ford. Here's a review I posted at Amazon: "If this novel did not have a masterfully intricate plot, intriguingly human characters, and the liquid, powerful feel of absorbing a symphony in bed, I would read it for the language. The language is such that occasionally I was stopped in the middle of an established rhythm to find myself rereading a sentence, struck by how perfectly it expressed itself. My only warning to a potential reader would be to wait until you're willing to spend some time with it. With work piling up on both sides, I sat down for a break with this book and read it in its entirety within the span of an afternoon, evening, and night. Having finished, I wanted to sit down with the author - or any of his characters - over coffee. Well written, Mr. Ford. " It's not a technical book, in the electronic sense, but it's definitely a worthwhile read.
This is a really old story. Sorry to be redundant, I'm just used to finding newer stuff on the /. front page.
In other news, I have to wait until Friday to see ROTK. The number of critical plaudits for this one is almost unbelievable, in such a usually divided field. Check out rottentomatoes if you don't know what I'm talking about.