Without reading the article, should we assume this kind of technology can be used to help college student cheat on tests?
If you will always have access to something, is it cheating to make use of it?
The philosophy behind no calculators on exams (or similar tools) is you might not have access to the tool later.
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Heh. It wasn't neccessary. When the dogs saw how loudly my.45 barked, they all left. Didn't actually shoot the dog, but came close.
I went to the local Wal-Mart as soon as I saw this story. I tried to buy the PC version and the X-Box version. Both came up as "Sale not allowed." Still on the shelves, but the computers won't let you buy them. When I left, the salespeople started taking the games off the shelves.
Called Gamestop, which was already closed, but they said the game was unavailable for purchase due to the recall as well.
With networked major retail stores, there goes the only good part about living in a rural area. They talk too quickly. I bet I could have purchased the game just a few hours ago.
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Perhaps the editors who think carrying a firearm for personal protection is a bit extreme when one is carrying around mirrors large enough to crush toes?
Of course, I doubt the editors have ever been in the middle of the woods and had several large dogs facing them and growling. Twas a good day to have a pistol.
"What really weirds me out is braille signs in airports and subway stations. How is a blind person supposed to know that there is a sign there, feel the entire wall?"
The blind fellow I know isn't the sort of blind that is approximated by a blank screen, but rather the sort of blind person that is approximated by an extremely blurry screen. He can't function using his sight alone, but he has enough visual acuity to know that, say, there's a sign there if he gets close enough to the wall. I'm guessing that sort of blind fellow is what the braile on signs is designed for.
You know, like caltrops that go on your wall.
I thought this was gonna be some amazing new technology to keep those pesky ninjas and/or Spiderman at bay.
. . . and they use a road on our property to get to it. That's the only access road to the tower, and we've worked out a deal with them to allow them to use our land.
The biggest problem I've noticed is that a cell phone tower is never finished. It's not an uncommon sight to see several trucks go by in front of our house, headed for the tower. Some of these trucks are massive--I'm not sure what they are, but I do know they're massive enough to cause damage to the blacktop they drove over. Imagine the trouble of getting a cell phone company to pay for property damages--that's something you might have to deal with.
And there was the time a worker fell off the tower and there was a swarm of emergency vehicles, but that was an isolated incident.
Basically, if you allow a cell phone tower to be placed on your land, be prepared to deal with the company's employees and contractors who come by.
This is just part of Microsoft's agreement with the RIAA and MPAA to remind the consumer that, no, that music/movie/etc is not yours, and you have no right to believe it is.
After all, files in these folders are becoming less and less accessible to the consumer in reasonable ways.
If they can demonstrate that the predictions of superstring theory hold true, and that it can actually be used to connect Quantum Physics with Relativistic Physics, we might actually be able to stop some of the bickering that goes on among Physicists today.
What does that mean for us? Well, when Newton found physical laws that worked more generally than Aristotle thought, Physics was born and we were launched into a new era of science. Einstein's Special (and then, afterward) General Relativity made what we consider the modern era possible.
Quantum Physics and Relativity have always been at odds, though. After all, what makes gravity operate at a quantum level? Superstring theory is one of several "theories of everything" that would allow us to explain the world in more general terms--and in the past, every time that has happened, society and technology has taken leaps and bounds forward.
What will happen if we find out that Superstring theory really is the theory of everything? It's liable to be as outlandishly unthought of as space travel to the people of the turn of the 20th century.
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Without reading the article, should we assume this kind of technology can be used to help college student cheat on tests?
If you will always have access to something, is it cheating to make use of it? The philosophy behind no calculators on exams (or similar tools) is you might not have access to the tool later.
Heh. It wasn't neccessary. When the dogs saw how loudly my .45 barked, they all left. Didn't actually shoot the dog, but came close.
I went to the local Wal-Mart as soon as I saw this story. I tried to buy the PC version and the X-Box version. Both came up as "Sale not allowed." Still on the shelves, but the computers won't let you buy them. When I left, the salespeople started taking the games off the shelves.
Called Gamestop, which was already closed, but they said the game was unavailable for purchase due to the recall as well.
With networked major retail stores, there goes the only good part about living in a rural area. They talk too quickly. I bet I could have purchased the game just a few hours ago.
Perhaps the editors who think carrying a firearm for personal protection is a bit extreme when one is carrying around mirrors large enough to crush toes?
Of course, I doubt the editors have ever been in the middle of the woods and had several large dogs facing them and growling. Twas a good day to have a pistol.
"What really weirds me out is braille signs in airports and subway stations. How is a blind person supposed to know that there is a sign there, feel the entire wall?"
The blind fellow I know isn't the sort of blind that is approximated by a blank screen, but rather the sort of blind person that is approximated by an extremely blurry screen. He can't function using his sight alone, but he has enough visual acuity to know that, say, there's a sign there if he gets close enough to the wall. I'm guessing that sort of blind fellow is what the braile on signs is designed for.
You know, like caltrops that go on your wall. I thought this was gonna be some amazing new technology to keep those pesky ninjas and/or Spiderman at bay.
. . . and they use a road on our property to get to it. That's the only access road to the tower, and we've worked out a deal with them to allow them to use our land.
The biggest problem I've noticed is that a cell phone tower is never finished. It's not an uncommon sight to see several trucks go by in front of our house, headed for the tower. Some of these trucks are massive--I'm not sure what they are, but I do know they're massive enough to cause damage to the blacktop they drove over. Imagine the trouble of getting a cell phone company to pay for property damages--that's something you might have to deal with.
And there was the time a worker fell off the tower and there was a swarm of emergency vehicles, but that was an isolated incident.
Basically, if you allow a cell phone tower to be placed on your land, be prepared to deal with the company's employees and contractors who come by.
"Looks like I'll be about an hour late getting to Atlanta . . . "
"I hate flying."
"Man, this person sitting next to me is talking on a cell phone! The nerve . . . "
Maybe it's just me, but this is still a tad bit more interesting than listening to static.
Google will buy time warner when they become an old enough company to lose their creative edge and general desirability in the marketplace.
Or, as the punk rock community likes to put it, "When they sell out."
This is just part of Microsoft's agreement with the RIAA and MPAA to remind the consumer that, no, that music/movie/etc is not yours, and you have no right to believe it is. After all, files in these folders are becoming less and less accessible to the consumer in reasonable ways.
If they can demonstrate that the predictions of superstring theory hold true, and that it can actually be used to connect Quantum Physics with Relativistic Physics, we might actually be able to stop some of the bickering that goes on among Physicists today.
What does that mean for us? Well, when Newton found physical laws that worked more generally than Aristotle thought, Physics was born and we were launched into a new era of science. Einstein's Special (and then, afterward) General Relativity made what we consider the modern era possible.
Quantum Physics and Relativity have always been at odds, though. After all, what makes gravity operate at a quantum level? Superstring theory is one of several "theories of everything" that would allow us to explain the world in more general terms--and in the past, every time that has happened, society and technology has taken leaps and bounds forward.
What will happen if we find out that Superstring theory really is the theory of everything? It's liable to be as outlandishly unthought of as space travel to the people of the turn of the 20th century.