This is completely ridiculous. Do you realize how hard it is for a woman to try to prosecute rape? Even the medical exam they have to go through is horribly degrading, but they have to do it to prove that sex happened.
Maybe, *maybe* one in a hundred cases are falsified. The fact that your fraternity had 62 cases against it means that you are either incredibly unlucky, or you're a bunch of scumbags who got away with rape. I don't know which, but I've got a guess.
Yes, I'm in a fraternity too (Alpha Kappa Lambda) and I enjoy sex. But only consensual sex. Rape is a horrible thing that scars the victim for the rest of their life. I'm pretty sure that when your fraternity brothers had sex with those women, they didn't care that they were ruining their lives, either.
You get 3 hours of credit for 225, but I couldn't tell you how often it actually met, because I never went. All the lectures are online, so most people either just watch those or read the notes. Some of the MPs were moderately difficult, but I got an A without too much trouble.
They still have the language course, but CS majors aren't allowed to take it for credit, because we're expected to be able to pick up a new language without much difficulty. Eh, they don't give us enough free credit hours to take it anyway.
Eh, I never had him as a professor. Zych teaches CS125 and CS225 now, in Java and C++, respectively. And definitely do stop by the engineering quad, it looks fantastic. They did a ton of relandscaping and whatnot, and I think it looks quite good.
Good enough that I love to make fun of my Poly Sci friends, since Greg and Lincoln halls are falling apart.
As the sibling poster said, Engineering Hall is in very good shape now. They finished remodeling it four years ago (just before I started my freshman year).
Secondly, Prof. Kamin is not a dean, he's the head of the undergraduate part of the Department of Computer Science. And in my experience Prof. Kamin is a very nice man. I have had to interact with him on a number of occasions and never had any problems.
In some countries, the government actually provides internet access. Imagine that... what will the think of next, health care?
Yeah, and clearly they're doing such a great job of it. I sure wish the same people that are causing so much trouble and damage online were responsible for my health care, so they could do the same top-quality job where it's even more important!
Add in a few dollars for the mod chip and you are set.
I know for a fact that all it takes is two solders to mod an XBox now. I don't know the exact process but I've seen one of my frat brothers do it on pretty much all the XBoxes in our house. It works great, the only disadvantage is that you can't switch between Dashboards like you can with some of the mod chips, but unless you're playing XBox Live that's probably not much of a problem for you.
Anyway, I would google for that before buying a mod chip at this point. If you can't find anything, post here and I'll ask my frat brother for a URL. Hope that helps.
Or would bill and steve finally get the fact that windows is JUST AN OS and MS just another company! and that he's got more money than GOD so it's time to let go of world monopoly and instead try to spend 100B before he dies...a much more noble cause!
If they "let go" of their "world monopoly," Microsoft's stock price would plummet. Nevermind that they have a legal responsibility to maximize shareholder value! So doing that would take away the vast majority of their assets and burden them with a large legal liability. Not a smart thing to do in either case.
I disagree. I find that it takes a much deeper understanding of the language to create good code than it does to understand it. It's the same with art - it takes considerably more skill to be a painter than an art critic.
Weather is weird, though. Last summer some of the neighboring farms had some extreme wind damage due to a strong storm. (Actually a tornado touched down about a half-mile from my house. I didn't know anything about it until the next morning when I was driving to work, and saw the damage in the cornfield.) Anyway, our farms were hardly damaged at all.
It wasn't just us, either. This same type of this happened all over the area - one field would be heavily damaged while the neighbor's field across the road would be mostly fine.
So while I'm not doubting that your fields are fine and the neighbor's are torn to shreds, there is still no proof that it is due to the anti-hail machine.
Yeah, like I said, "the coolest ones" are on XBox...;)
It's probably just the games I play, but to be honest, the only game on your list that I might spend money on is Jak 2, and probably only if it ends up as a greatest hit (ie, I can pick it up for $20)
Square-Enix being on PS2 is a good point, but I don't think that the latest games they've put out have been as good as they used to be. I enjoyed FFX, but the newer PS2 FF games haven't been as good in my opinion. I dunno. (I can just imagine my PS2-owning friends getting ready to kill me if they ever read this... LOL)
You should look into Morrowind, though. I guess it's not exclusive to XBox (it's on PC, also) but that's the only console that has enough power to run the game world. I've not played it for a great deal of time, but my brother and one of my best friends have played it a lot and from what I've seen and heard, it really kicks ass.
Also, I think you're underestimating just how awesome Halo really is (I don't think I've had a better gaming experience than playing with one of my best friends and my little brother in the co-op mode on the toughest difficulty. Of course before Halo came out it was playing multi-player Doom, so that might tell you something)
Finally, some of the intangibles also come into play. The fact that Microsoft was bright enough to use standard ethernet cables as the built-in way to hook up multiple boxes is sooo much better than Sony's ridiculous iLink or the network adapter, both of which are ridiculously overpriced. And yeah, you don't get the DVD player by default, but that doesn't bother me personally because I have three other DVD players I can use. The smaller controllers are pretty good as well (although this is probably just a matter of taste, because I like the PS2 controllers too.) Add in the built-in hard drive and all the awesome stuff you can do if you mod the system (emulated games, media center, etc) and the XBox really shines in my opinion.
(Just a note - is there any real reason that controllers shouldn't be interchangeable between systems? The PS2 and XBox controllers have the same number of buttons, D-pads, and analog sticks. This makes me think it would be really cool if someone made an adapter so that people who like one particular controller form could use it on any system they want.)
That the XBox has such low market penetration really surprises me. I have a PS2, myself, but most of the people I know who own consoles own XBoxes, with PS2 coming in second and Gamecube a distant third. (I'm only considering modern consoles.) I think that when I bought my PS2 (about 2 years ago now) it was definitely the right decision, but if I were to buy a console now (as my brother just did) I would pick up an XBox for sure (as my brother just did!) There are not that many games that come out only for one platform any more, and of the ones that do, it seems like XBox is getting the coolest ones (Halo (1 & 2), Morrowind, etc)
I know, I know, anecdotal evidence is worthless, but after overcoming a long-time dislike of the XBox just because it was from Microsoft, I've started to realize that it really does kick ass. Especially if you mod the beast, which is really easy to do. <shrugs>
Oh, and the GameSphere was from a South Park episode. Hilariously ironic one, at that.
Those seem like stupid rules, to tell you my opinion. But maybe because he was nominated for best Supporting actor for the first one and simply best actor for the second (that is, two different awards) he was eligible? But if he had been in a supporting role in the second, he wouldn't have been eligible for that since he didn't win for the first?
Just after Shelob's lair, Frodo and Gollum get into that tussle and Gollum ends up getting knocked off the cliff. I assumed that he had died then, since I haven't read the books.
The Anonymous Coward says: And, if the person who wrote it remains anonymous, then they are most likely one of the best in their field of work.</sarcasm>
Believe me, I know exactly what you're talking about. My freshman year I was assigned a group in a journalism class, and the other three people were basically retarded. I did entirely too much work, and still got screwed over (because the prof told us that if it was evident that only one person did the work, we would fail. So I couldn't do the work myself, and they wouldn't do it.)
But more recently I have taken a couple of computer science courses where we did a number of programming assignments. The lecturer allowed us to work in small groups, but didn't require it. So instead of getting stuck with a bunch of dicks that didn't do shit, I was able to work with three guys whom I knew already. The discussions on how to do the programs helped tremendously because we were able to figure out the assignments in much less time than it would have taken us individually, and the coding could be split up among the various people.
The fact is that you learn better if you have to teach something to another person. You don't really know if you fully understand something until you try to get someone else to understand it as well!
It's my opinion that this optional group system works really well. I know some other people that didn't do the programming assignments, but just tagged along on another group, and they failed the course because they couldn't pass any of the in-class exams. All the people in my group did pretty well, though, and probably better than if we had tried to do it on our own.
The main point of going to a University is to obtain training that prevents you from falling flat on your face later on. To me, this is considerably more important than the concern that the fragile egos of some students might be harmed by their university's "lack of trust." I am not prepared to dismiss a student who fails to absorb a particular lesson as "stupid." Sometimes, it simply means that that student needs to be taught in a different way.
But if they cheated their way through college, then they have not learned what they needed to learn to avoid falling on their face. I'm saying people should be smart enough to realize that the important thing is the knowledge they take away from college, not any benefits from cheating. If they were too dumb to figure that out, well, why should I worry about them? Good lord... why in the world would you pay thousands of dollars a year for an education and then blow it all off and not learn anything?
I'm in college now and I certainly don't cut and paste from the internet to write my papers. That doesn't mean I don't use online sources (I can access a ridiculous number of journals and things like that through my university's library online) at all. People should still know how to research sources and then put the things they've learned into their own words. It's not that hard.
The only time I cut and paste for a paper is when I am making a direct quote, which will be formatted differently (either by actual quotation marks or by block-quoting). It's obvious when something like that is accidentally not attributed, so it's not as big of a deal.
First, that sounds like an urban legend-I'm almost sure I've heard that story before. Second, a male could write a "sensitive first-person essay" about having an abortion. Obviously the first person referenced would not be his male self, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. There are tons of fiction stories written in the first person; I don't think it's that far of a stretch to assume someone could write a non-fiction essay containing someone else's story in the first person. Heck, isn't that was ghostwriters who work on auto-biographies do?
(Please note that reading such a submission would definitely raise red flags... I'm just asserting that it doesn't *necessarily* mean anything is afoot.)
Yeah, so in ten years one goes from being an idealistic young person who believes that his or her reputation is important to a cynic who is only out for personal gain? Great. I can't wait.
Unfortunately, students often get away with petty plagiarism all through college, and then move on to graduate school or professional careers where sources are more easily identified, and the penalty for plagiarism tends to be much heavier.
I don't see the problem with letting people fall on their face. If they're stupid enough to cheat their way through college, not learning anything, and then go into a situation which requires legitimate knowledge of the material they did not learn, that's really their own damn fault. I don't feel sorry for them.
Teaching students what constitutes original scholarship is part of the legitimate mission of the university, so outlawing tools that enable professors to catch cheaters ultimately is harmful to the student.
These tools, which assume everyone cheats and then proceeds to exonerate the honest ones, are not "teaching students what constitutes original scholarship," nor is that their purpose. Schools and universities already teach what is legitimate scholarship, or EVERYONE would be cheating (because they didn't know any better!)
This is all about cheaters whining because they'll be caught more easily. I agree that it's exactly like drug-testing in athletics and as someone that's been involved in both academia and athletics and hasn't cheated I welcome the introduction of these tests.
That simply is not true. As someone who as been involved with both academia and athletics, I am insulted that you would insinuate that I would try to gain an unfair advantage by cheating or using performance-enhancing drugs.
Obviously the solution is to put the burden of proof on the accuser. That teacher should have been required to find the source that your friend allegedly plagerized. If he couldn't find it, then there should have been no accusation.
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This is completely ridiculous. Do you realize how hard it is for a woman to try to prosecute rape? Even the medical exam they have to go through is horribly degrading, but they have to do it to prove that sex happened.
Maybe, *maybe* one in a hundred cases are falsified. The fact that your fraternity had 62 cases against it means that you are either incredibly unlucky, or you're a bunch of scumbags who got away with rape. I don't know which, but I've got a guess.
Yes, I'm in a fraternity too (Alpha Kappa Lambda) and I enjoy sex. But only consensual sex. Rape is a horrible thing that scars the victim for the rest of their life. I'm pretty sure that when your fraternity brothers had sex with those women, they didn't care that they were ruining their lives, either.
You get 3 hours of credit for 225, but I couldn't tell you how often it actually met, because I never went. All the lectures are online, so most people either just watch those or read the notes. Some of the MPs were moderately difficult, but I got an A without too much trouble.
They still have the language course, but CS majors aren't allowed to take it for credit, because we're expected to be able to pick up a new language without much difficulty. Eh, they don't give us enough free credit hours to take it anyway.
Eh, I never had him as a professor. Zych teaches CS125 and CS225 now, in Java and C++, respectively. And definitely do stop by the engineering quad, it looks fantastic. They did a ton of relandscaping and whatnot, and I think it looks quite good.
Good enough that I love to make fun of my Poly Sci friends, since Greg and Lincoln halls are falling apart.
As the sibling poster said, Engineering Hall is in very good shape now. They finished remodeling it four years ago (just before I started my freshman year).
Secondly, Prof. Kamin is not a dean, he's the head of the undergraduate part of the Department of Computer Science. And in my experience Prof. Kamin is a very nice man. I have had to interact with him on a number of occasions and never had any problems.
Yeah, and clearly they're doing such a great job of it. I sure wish the same people that are causing so much trouble and damage online were responsible for my health care, so they could do the same top-quality job where it's even more important!
I know for a fact that all it takes is two solders to mod an XBox now. I don't know the exact process but I've seen one of my frat brothers do it on pretty much all the XBoxes in our house. It works great, the only disadvantage is that you can't switch between Dashboards like you can with some of the mod chips, but unless you're playing XBox Live that's probably not much of a problem for you.
Anyway, I would google for that before buying a mod chip at this point. If you can't find anything, post here and I'll ask my frat brother for a URL. Hope that helps.
If they "let go" of their "world monopoly," Microsoft's stock price would plummet. Nevermind that they have a legal responsibility to maximize shareholder value! So doing that would take away the vast majority of their assets and burden them with a large legal liability. Not a smart thing to do in either case.
I disagree. I find that it takes a much deeper understanding of the language to create good code than it does to understand it. It's the same with art - it takes considerably more skill to be a painter than an art critic.
Weather is weird, though. Last summer some of the neighboring farms had some extreme wind damage due to a strong storm. (Actually a tornado touched down about a half-mile from my house. I didn't know anything about it until the next morning when I was driving to work, and saw the damage in the cornfield.) Anyway, our farms were hardly damaged at all.
It wasn't just us, either. This same type of this happened all over the area - one field would be heavily damaged while the neighbor's field across the road would be mostly fine.
So while I'm not doubting that your fields are fine and the neighbor's are torn to shreds, there is still no proof that it is due to the anti-hail machine.
That isn't true, because many of my friends using Trillian show up perfectly well in my iChat AV buddy list.
Yeah, like I said, "the coolest ones" are on XBox... ;)
It's probably just the games I play, but to be honest, the only game on your list that I might spend money on is Jak 2, and probably only if it ends up as a greatest hit (ie, I can pick it up for $20)
Square-Enix being on PS2 is a good point, but I don't think that the latest games they've put out have been as good as they used to be. I enjoyed FFX, but the newer PS2 FF games haven't been as good in my opinion. I dunno. (I can just imagine my PS2-owning friends getting ready to kill me if they ever read this... LOL)
You should look into Morrowind, though. I guess it's not exclusive to XBox (it's on PC, also) but that's the only console that has enough power to run the game world. I've not played it for a great deal of time, but my brother and one of my best friends have played it a lot and from what I've seen and heard, it really kicks ass.
Also, I think you're underestimating just how awesome Halo really is (I don't think I've had a better gaming experience than playing with one of my best friends and my little brother in the co-op mode on the toughest difficulty. Of course before Halo came out it was playing multi-player Doom, so that might tell you something)
Finally, some of the intangibles also come into play. The fact that Microsoft was bright enough to use standard ethernet cables as the built-in way to hook up multiple boxes is sooo much better than Sony's ridiculous iLink or the network adapter, both of which are ridiculously overpriced. And yeah, you don't get the DVD player by default, but that doesn't bother me personally because I have three other DVD players I can use. The smaller controllers are pretty good as well (although this is probably just a matter of taste, because I like the PS2 controllers too.) Add in the built-in hard drive and all the awesome stuff you can do if you mod the system (emulated games, media center, etc) and the XBox really shines in my opinion.
(Just a note - is there any real reason that controllers shouldn't be interchangeable between systems? The PS2 and XBox controllers have the same number of buttons, D-pads, and analog sticks. This makes me think it would be really cool if someone made an adapter so that people who like one particular controller form could use it on any system they want.)
That the XBox has such low market penetration really surprises me. I have a PS2, myself, but most of the people I know who own consoles own XBoxes, with PS2 coming in second and Gamecube a distant third. (I'm only considering modern consoles.) I think that when I bought my PS2 (about 2 years ago now) it was definitely the right decision, but if I were to buy a console now (as my brother just did) I would pick up an XBox for sure (as my brother just did!) There are not that many games that come out only for one platform any more, and of the ones that do, it seems like XBox is getting the coolest ones (Halo (1 & 2), Morrowind, etc)
I know, I know, anecdotal evidence is worthless, but after overcoming a long-time dislike of the XBox just because it was from Microsoft, I've started to realize that it really does kick ass. Especially if you mod the beast, which is really easy to do. <shrugs>
Oh, and the GameSphere was from a South Park episode. Hilariously ironic one, at that.
Those seem like stupid rules, to tell you my opinion. But maybe because he was nominated for best Supporting actor for the first one and simply best actor for the second (that is, two different awards) he was eligible? But if he had been in a supporting role in the second, he wouldn't have been eligible for that since he didn't win for the first?
Just after Shelob's lair, Frodo and Gollum get into that tussle and Gollum ends up getting knocked off the cliff. I assumed that he had died then, since I haven't read the books.
Oh, if only I had mod points. That was hilarious. Thanks.
The Anonymous Coward says: And, if the person who wrote it remains anonymous, then they are most likely one of the best in their field of work.</sarcasm>
Ironic, isn't it?
Believe me, I know exactly what you're talking about. My freshman year I was assigned a group in a journalism class, and the other three people were basically retarded. I did entirely too much work, and still got screwed over (because the prof told us that if it was evident that only one person did the work, we would fail. So I couldn't do the work myself, and they wouldn't do it.)
But more recently I have taken a couple of computer science courses where we did a number of programming assignments. The lecturer allowed us to work in small groups, but didn't require it. So instead of getting stuck with a bunch of dicks that didn't do shit, I was able to work with three guys whom I knew already. The discussions on how to do the programs helped tremendously because we were able to figure out the assignments in much less time than it would have taken us individually, and the coding could be split up among the various people.
The fact is that you learn better if you have to teach something to another person. You don't really know if you fully understand something until you try to get someone else to understand it as well!
It's my opinion that this optional group system works really well. I know some other people that didn't do the programming assignments, but just tagged along on another group, and they failed the course because they couldn't pass any of the in-class exams. All the people in my group did pretty well, though, and probably better than if we had tried to do it on our own.
But if they cheated their way through college, then they have not learned what they needed to learn to avoid falling on their face. I'm saying people should be smart enough to realize that the important thing is the knowledge they take away from college, not any benefits from cheating. If they were too dumb to figure that out, well, why should I worry about them? Good lord... why in the world would you pay thousands of dollars a year for an education and then blow it all off and not learn anything?
I'm in college now and I certainly don't cut and paste from the internet to write my papers. That doesn't mean I don't use online sources (I can access a ridiculous number of journals and things like that through my university's library online) at all. People should still know how to research sources and then put the things they've learned into their own words. It's not that hard.
The only time I cut and paste for a paper is when I am making a direct quote, which will be formatted differently (either by actual quotation marks or by block-quoting). It's obvious when something like that is accidentally not attributed, so it's not as big of a deal.
I hope you did actually fail this student, and not let them off the hook for being entirely retarded.
First, that sounds like an urban legend-I'm almost sure I've heard that story before. Second, a male could write a "sensitive first-person essay" about having an abortion. Obviously the first person referenced would not be his male self, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. There are tons of fiction stories written in the first person; I don't think it's that far of a stretch to assume someone could write a non-fiction essay containing someone else's story in the first person. Heck, isn't that was ghostwriters who work on auto-biographies do?
(Please note that reading such a submission would definitely raise red flags... I'm just asserting that it doesn't *necessarily* mean anything is afoot.)
Yeah, so in ten years one goes from being an idealistic young person who believes that his or her reputation is important to a cynic who is only out for personal gain? Great. I can't wait.
I don't see the problem with letting people fall on their face. If they're stupid enough to cheat their way through college, not learning anything, and then go into a situation which requires legitimate knowledge of the material they did not learn, that's really their own damn fault. I don't feel sorry for them.
These tools, which assume everyone cheats and then proceeds to exonerate the honest ones, are not "teaching students what constitutes original scholarship," nor is that their purpose. Schools and universities already teach what is legitimate scholarship, or EVERYONE would be cheating (because they didn't know any better!)
That simply is not true. As someone who as been involved with both academia and athletics, I am insulted that you would insinuate that I would try to gain an unfair advantage by cheating or using performance-enhancing drugs.
Obviously the solution is to put the burden of proof on the accuser. That teacher should have been required to find the source that your friend allegedly plagerized. If he couldn't find it, then there should have been no accusation.