In my university, this is the method most teachers will use when they suspect something. Ask each student something about the implementation, how it should be changed to achieve something slightly different. In some cases, when they allow you to form groups to solve the assignment, they will ask each student in the group about the implementation.
Sounds to me the best way to catch copiers and leechers.
While I've never been to southern Europe, I live in Germany now and every single cinema I've seen was dubbed, and out of 30 TV channels I have access to, only in MTV and CNN you will hear English.
Believe me, problem in developing countries is education. Not a single English class (or any other discipline, actually) I had in school in Brazil was taken seriously, which is not the case in Germany (or Sweden, or Netherlands). If you want to learn in Brazil, you'll have to pay for private specific courses which, needless to say, is only possible for people of the so-called (by our dearest President Lula) "bourgeoisie".
Right-on. Translations always fuck up linguistic jokes. I really prefer watching comedy movies in original language.
As for dubbed movies being the cause of poor English skills, sorry, your argument is a fallacy. In Europe, most movies in cinema and television are dubbed (badly), yet most people speak proper English. In Latin America (at least in my homeland Brazil), only open-air channel will dub foreign movies, but their programming is mostly Brazilian shows and soap operas. Cable television and cinemas, in the other hand, 99% of the time, will present original sound content. Yet, our population English-speaking skills (or any other language, for that matter) sucks badly.
Y'know, maybe it's an educational problem. Or something related to these countries' population feeling that Americans are the root for all their problems.
Someone above suggested something like an "working zone". It could work... some german trains have a "Ruhezone" (silent zone), where talking, listening to music, cellphones and any noisy or disturbing activity is forbidden.
Granted, a train usually has more room than an airplane, but it could work.
Let's not forget Pres. Roslin sharing a bad dream regarding Hera with Athena and Caprica 6 on 3rd season. For me, this is a clear sign that Roslin has wireless capabilities.
That was by far and large, the best heroes episode so far. The finale sucked balls hard, I was expecting something more Battlestar-3rd-season-finale-ish but got total crap instead.
But on-topic: if Bill brings Ballmer along, Jobs is history.
See, as a matter of fact, I WAS charged immediately on my credit card, but after I canceled the order they added a "negative" charge of the same value on my bill (effectively zeroing the transaction). If there was a confirmation screen, I did not see it (as I said above, German is not my native language) and I received no e-mail when I purchased the product, only when it was about to be shipped by the merchant.
And yes, after looking around their documentation, I turned the 1-click feature off for good. As for credit card information, they save it for next purchases BY DEFAULT. I could not foresee this situation in my first purchase, so don't blame me.
It is not short-sightedness: I'd rather call it "no hand-holding policy" or "this should be on parents'". If you text a lot, your phone bill will grow madly and your parents will notice and act accordingly - cut phone usage or enforce responsibility with prepaid alternatives. If you don't pay attention on class, your grades are likely to drop, which should get the parents to act too.
Also, is this sending-sms-to-same-room-classmates thing so common in US? What's the point of sending a full-fledged SMS message for a person sitting 5 meters away from you? In my country, we do use SMS a lot (despite its costs), but during classes, paper-and-pen short messages are more sensible (and cheaper). It is even easy to multi-cast! And for the log-freaks like me, using a notebook (the stationery, not the portable computer) kinda solves the "keeping a memento" problem someone mentioned elsewhere.
Let's suppose for a moment that the kid had a stash of heroin in his locker. Sure, he paid for it, so it could be considered his private property. But it's still a very good idea for the police to confiscate it, and destroy it. It's for the kid's own benefit. The same goes for the use of a cell phone in class. It's harmful to have such a device in class, and thus is should be eliminated.
Except that it is illegal to own such thing, right?
And please, don't forget that my tax dollars, and possibly yours, are going towards paying for the schools that these kids attend. I don't want my hard-earned money going towards providing an educational environment where these kids can sit around sending text messages to each other all day, ignoring what is being taught. This is especially so for those shitty inner-city schools. We're giving those kids a damn good chance to make something useful of themselves, but instead they choose to be dumbasses and piss it away so they can send moronic text messages.
For I'm not American, my tax-money is not going this way, BUT I wouldn't mind having my tax-money spent on a learning environment where kids learn the way it's best for them. Seriously, if I the teacher is crappy, I'd rather not pay attention AT ALL - I will doodle that cool idea I had, sleep, text or else (or just leave, when in University environment with no attendance requirements). Maturity should be a side-effect gained by those who are responsible enough to pay attention on class and score good grades. Those who aren't (and whose parents don't give a shit about), let Darwin sort out.
If this sounds too "everyone on his own"-ish for you, have the teachers or educational supervisors take deficient grades students case-by-case to see what is going wrong. If the kid doesn't want to be helped, well, they can always flip burgers for life.
On the one-click thing: I had a almost-bad experience with amazon.de(1) last month. I had an account there (from a previous purchase) and accidentally clicked the "1-click to buy" button (which is next to the "add to cart" button) for a product I didn't want at all. The thing is, the site said nothing like "you successfully bought x" in the next screen and did not send me an email confirming the transaction. I only realized my mistake three days later, when they sent me a mail saying the merchant would send the product shortly!
Fortunately, I mailed the merchant asking for cancellation, which he did without further ado.
Bottom-line: no money-involving transaction should be done without confirmation or means to undo. Something like "you got 30 minutes to press undo before we bill your credit card" would be already enough.
(1) "Mein deutsch ist kaputt". I'm not native German speaker.
I don't see why teachers should smash kids texting. They are not disrupting anyone else's attention beside their own. Now, while cell-phone-babbling during class (or movies, or theaters) is wrong and should be punished, it doesn't justify destroying private property.
My ex-girlfriend's(1) family had a similar problem with their teenage (15ish) kid. Way too much phone-calls, SMS(2) and even collect-calls (from pre-paid-cellphone owning friends). The solution for them was moving the entire family to the same operator with a family-plan. Calls between the family's number were flat-rate, paid by the "master" account. Each daughter had a monthly allowance of something like $20, beyond which they would need to reload with pre-paid cards (but could still call family under the flat-rate). Yes, it worked perfectly ever since, and everyone is happy (which is sorta rare in telecom business, eh?).
(1) she dumped me when I stared reading slashdot
(2) even thou, in my country, we NEVER pay for incoming SMS, unlike US.
When you sign a contract saying 1 = $0.15, you are making the option of not spending $15 for a flat-rate you don't find necessary. If you think you're gonna be using lots and lots of SMSs that month, you should upgrade to the flat-rate plan.
Also, your analogy is flawed: is more like, suppose 1/3 liter Coca-Cola cans were $1 each and 3-liter bottles $2. At the beginning of the month, family A buys 10 such bottles. Family B, however, buys 3 cans each and every day. They will get the same amount of Coca-Cola, but family A saved 10 bucks.
Everyone knows larger packages are cheaper in terms of cost-to-benefit ratio. If you feel you're likely to reach the flat-rate pay-off limit, sign for a flat-rate. If your kids are not manageable enough, use pre-paid plans or punish them cutting other amenities to teach them to value their parents' hard-earned money.
Of course, there is still the wild WTF of having TO PAY to RECEIVE SMS in US, which simply doesn't make any sense to me
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wget is not the proper tool. curl is:
$ curl protocol://pornsite.com/movies/set[001-100]/[01-10].mpg -o "#1_#2.mpg"
highly insulating structure? what about vacuum? the engine section does all the work and pushes the living section forward using magnetic repulsion.
It is a interative screen-whiteboard with real-world physics. It's kinda hard to describe without a movie.
I'm XHTML-compliant, you insensitive clod.
It's either <p>...</p> or <br />. Preferably the former
I am not a network engineer, but isn't this problem solvable with multicast? If so, why is it so hard to implement?
In my university, this is the method most teachers will use when they suspect something. Ask each student something about the implementation, how it should be changed to achieve something slightly different. In some cases, when they allow you to form groups to solve the assignment, they will ask each student in the group about the implementation.
Sounds to me the best way to catch copiers and leechers.
You ignore that average users have no idea of the difference between http and https. Any webmail worth their salt should default to SSL, period.
While I've never been to southern Europe, I live in Germany now and every single cinema I've seen was dubbed, and out of 30 TV channels I have access to, only in MTV and CNN you will hear English.
Believe me, problem in developing countries is education. Not a single English class (or any other discipline, actually) I had in school in Brazil was taken seriously, which is not the case in Germany (or Sweden, or Netherlands). If you want to learn in Brazil, you'll have to pay for private specific courses which, needless to say, is only possible for people of the so-called (by our dearest President Lula) "bourgeoisie".
Right-on. Translations always fuck up linguistic jokes. I really prefer watching comedy movies in original language.
As for dubbed movies being the cause of poor English skills, sorry, your argument is a fallacy. In Europe, most movies in cinema and television are dubbed (badly), yet most people speak proper English. In Latin America (at least in my homeland Brazil), only open-air channel will dub foreign movies, but their programming is mostly Brazilian shows and soap operas. Cable television and cinemas, in the other hand, 99% of the time, will present original sound content. Yet, our population English-speaking skills (or any other language, for that matter) sucks badly.
Y'know, maybe it's an educational problem. Or something related to these countries' population feeling that Americans are the root for all their problems.
Someone above suggested something like an "working zone". It could work... some german trains have a "Ruhezone" (silent zone), where talking, listening to music, cellphones and any noisy or disturbing activity is forbidden.
Granted, a train usually has more room than an airplane, but it could work.
Qantas was founded in 1920. Their last fatal accident was in 1951.
Ryanair was founded in 1985.
or MPAA may find out our piracy source and ban this number!
Why, just put a protective glass above it. Oh, wait
I've seen these cars in Europe a long time ago already... Nice to see the US catching up.
I have a perfect solution for you: http://youtube.com/watch?v=k55TMkZaoqs
Let's not forget Pres. Roslin sharing a bad dream regarding Hera with Athena and Caprica 6 on 3rd season. For me, this is a clear sign that Roslin has wireless capabilities.
if only we got such intelligent humour more often around here
dang, I'm outta mod points.
That was by far and large, the best heroes episode so far. The finale sucked balls hard, I was expecting something more Battlestar-3rd-season-finale-ish but got total crap instead.
But on-topic: if Bill brings Ballmer along, Jobs is history.
See, as a matter of fact, I WAS charged immediately on my credit card, but after I canceled the order they added a "negative" charge of the same value on my bill (effectively zeroing the transaction). If there was a confirmation screen, I did not see it (as I said above, German is not my native language) and I received no e-mail when I purchased the product, only when it was about to be shipped by the merchant.
And yes, after looking around their documentation, I turned the 1-click feature off for good. As for credit card information, they save it for next purchases BY DEFAULT. I could not foresee this situation in my first purchase, so don't blame me.
It is not short-sightedness: I'd rather call it "no hand-holding policy" or "this should be on parents'". If you text a lot, your phone bill will grow madly and your parents will notice and act accordingly - cut phone usage or enforce responsibility with prepaid alternatives. If you don't pay attention on class, your grades are likely to drop, which should get the parents to act too.
Also, is this sending-sms-to-same-room-classmates thing so common in US? What's the point of sending a full-fledged SMS message for a person sitting 5 meters away from you? In my country, we do use SMS a lot (despite its costs), but during classes, paper-and-pen short messages are more sensible (and cheaper). It is even easy to multi-cast! And for the log-freaks like me, using a notebook (the stationery, not the portable computer) kinda solves the "keeping a memento" problem someone mentioned elsewhere.
Let's suppose for a moment that the kid had a stash of heroin in his locker. Sure, he paid for it, so it could be considered his private property. But it's still a very good idea for the police to confiscate it, and destroy it. It's for the kid's own benefit. The same goes for the use of a cell phone in class. It's harmful to have such a device in class, and thus is should be eliminated.Except that it is illegal to own such thing, right?
And please, don't forget that my tax dollars, and possibly yours, are going towards paying for the schools that these kids attend. I don't want my hard-earned money going towards providing an educational environment where these kids can sit around sending text messages to each other all day, ignoring what is being taught. This is especially so for those shitty inner-city schools. We're giving those kids a damn good chance to make something useful of themselves, but instead they choose to be dumbasses and piss it away so they can send moronic text messages.For I'm not American, my tax-money is not going this way, BUT I wouldn't mind having my tax-money spent on a learning environment where kids learn the way it's best for them. Seriously, if I the teacher is crappy, I'd rather not pay attention AT ALL - I will doodle that cool idea I had, sleep, text or else (or just leave, when in University environment with no attendance requirements). Maturity should be a side-effect gained by those who are responsible enough to pay attention on class and score good grades. Those who aren't (and whose parents don't give a shit about), let Darwin sort out.
If this sounds too "everyone on his own"-ish for you, have the teachers or educational supervisors take deficient grades students case-by-case to see what is going wrong. If the kid doesn't want to be helped, well, they can always flip burgers for life.
I know you're talking about condoms, but for me, durex is synonym for adhesive-tape.
But it could solve it too: just bury the phone keypad in 5 layers of tape.
On the one-click thing: I had a almost-bad experience with amazon.de(1) last month. I had an account there (from a previous purchase) and accidentally clicked the "1-click to buy" button (which is next to the "add to cart" button) for a product I didn't want at all. The thing is, the site said nothing like "you successfully bought x" in the next screen and did not send me an email confirming the transaction. I only realized my mistake three days later, when they sent me a mail saying the merchant would send the product shortly!
Fortunately, I mailed the merchant asking for cancellation, which he did without further ado.
Bottom-line: no money-involving transaction should be done without confirmation or means to undo. Something like "you got 30 minutes to press undo before we bill your credit card" would be already enough.
(1) "Mein deutsch ist kaputt". I'm not native German speaker.
I don't see why teachers should smash kids texting. They are not disrupting anyone else's attention beside their own. Now, while cell-phone-babbling during class (or movies, or theaters) is wrong and should be punished, it doesn't justify destroying private property.
My ex-girlfriend's(1) family had a similar problem with their teenage (15ish) kid. Way too much phone-calls, SMS(2) and even collect-calls (from pre-paid-cellphone owning friends). The solution for them was moving the entire family to the same operator with a family-plan. Calls between the family's number were flat-rate, paid by the "master" account. Each daughter had a monthly allowance of something like $20, beyond which they would need to reload with pre-paid cards (but could still call family under the flat-rate). Yes, it worked perfectly ever since, and everyone is happy (which is sorta rare in telecom business, eh?).
(1) she dumped me when I stared reading slashdot
(2) even thou, in my country, we NEVER pay for incoming SMS, unlike US.
When you sign a contract saying 1 = $0.15, you are making the option of not spending $15 for a flat-rate you don't find necessary. If you think you're gonna be using lots and lots of SMSs that month, you should upgrade to the flat-rate plan.
Also, your analogy is flawed: is more like, suppose 1/3 liter Coca-Cola cans were $1 each and 3-liter bottles $2. At the beginning of the month, family A buys 10 such bottles. Family B, however, buys 3 cans each and every day. They will get the same amount of Coca-Cola, but family A saved 10 bucks.
Everyone knows larger packages are cheaper in terms of cost-to-benefit ratio. If you feel you're likely to reach the flat-rate pay-off limit, sign for a flat-rate. If your kids are not manageable enough, use pre-paid plans or punish them cutting other amenities to teach them to value their parents' hard-earned money.
Of course, there is still the wild WTF of having TO PAY to RECEIVE SMS in US, which simply doesn't make any sense to me