I suspect that most of the people who plagiarize don't actually read and remember what they copied for very long, and most of the people who don't plagiarize do remember the general knowledge they learned to write their paper. If this is the case, one possible solution would be to assign several small papers over the course of the term, then on the final exam choose one or two questions about which the students wrote already (without telling them ahead of time) and ask those exact same questions as part of the exam. I expect the people who didn't copy will give answers similar to what they wrote about, while those who copied will have to make something up in their own words. Consistency with their previous work would then be the mark of someone who knows what they're talking about.
Add in an organizer that can synchronize with Outlook (yes, I know, I know) and have Nintendo license handwriting recognition software from Palm or some other PDA manufacturer and I'd never have to put my DS down. Have 5 minutes between meetings? Check my Outlook calendar to find out where that meeting is, then when I get there I can play Meteos for a couple of minutes.
I mean you take English writing and other courses during a CS degree. What does English grammar have to do with sorting or searching or ?
English grammar doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sorting or searching or the like. However, when you're working on a specification for a program you're writing, or when you're trying to explain how your program works or will work to someone else (in QA, documentation, technical support, upper management, etc.) being able to write well comes in handy.
The average adult can manage to refill their gas tank without spewing gasoline all over their car, themselves, and their surroundings. I think if that's the type of interface used to refill these fuel cells, "normal people" can manage.
And as for "I doubt people on slashdot would ever spill stuff"... my friends and I joke that one of our friends has an aura about him that causes vertical objects to become horizontal. [Too bad it doesn't work on women.]
These voting machines can be opened by, and the contents tampered with, any voter who happens to have a certain type of minibar key. Other voting experts have also demonstrated a number of instances of weak security with Diebold voting machines. As a voter, that lack of security is completely unacceptable for my vote and the votes of others.
Okay Microsoft, we'll give you all our users' Live search data. *hands Microsoft a blank sheet of paper* That's all of it. Now where are these training credits?
Before we start nudging asteroids into orbit around Earth, we should practice putting them in orbit around Mars. If we mess up and the asteroid impacts Mars, the energy released by impact will thaw any ice that may be trapped below the surface, thus helping a little bit with terraforming the planet, rather than slamming into Earth.
If he can't file lawsuits against Take Two, he'll have his friends... okay, he'll hire some guys off the street and have them file the lawsuits and retain him as their attorney. This assumes, of course, that he's still a member of the bar once the Florida bar finishes debating whether to disbar him.
Screw disabling the system. They'll try to figure out how to take over the system. It took 19 hijackers to take over 4 planes on September 11, 2001. If this system had been in place, n+1 hijackers could take over n planes -- one hijacker on each plane to try to break into the cockpit and cause the pilot to trigger the system (assuming that the system can only be activated from on the plane) and one on the ground to remote control the planes. In addition, the 19 hijackers included 4 with pilot training -- if you can remotely take control of the plane, you don't need anyone with pilot training (except perhaps the person on the ground, who isn't in any danger.)
Of course, assuming that Earth was tracking the ark, once we've invented warp drive we can send a ship to rendezvous with the ark and bring all the inhabitants to the Holiday Inn Resort Planet ahead of schedule, or to retrofit the ark with a warp engine to reach the HIRP faster.
In the original Star Trek episode Space Seed (the first time Kirk & co. met Khan) I believe Spock did some digging in the historical records and confirmed that's what had happened with most of the original "sleeper ships". The Botany Bay (Khan's ship) had not been tracked by Earth and so no one had met them to speed them along the way until the Enterprise found them by accident.
The filer pays a fee to the Patent Office (PO) when they file.
The PO examines the patent. If they reject it, end of story.
If the PO doesn't reject the patent, the basic description is posted publicly for some period of time (6 months?) and the filer can say the patent is pending.
During the time the patent is posted, anyone (the challenger) can object to it and bring prior art to the attention of the PO. If the PO agrees that the prior art invalidates the patent, the filer pays a penalty (based on how obvious the prior art is -- if the prior art is on Wikipedia, they should pay a significant penalty, while if it's in a footnote in a book completely unrelated to the patent, the penalty would be small) to both the PO and to the challenger. If the PO believes the prior art is not applicable, then the challenger pays some sort of penalty to the PO.
If the filer knows about prior art but doesn't show it when they file, some challenger will challenge the patent and the filer will have to pay the original fee plus two penalties. The chance to win a penalty (or bounty) is the incentive for the challenger to look for prior art. If the patent is challenged, the PO will be compensated for dealing with the challenge by the loser.
PJ has been the target of stalkers before. Because of that I suspect that if the process servers do manage to serve her with the subpoena, she'll request that the judge and the court make arrangements for her safety and anonymity while she gives her deposition.
How much bandwidth is used by sending spam with large images to millions of people? If ISPs are really concerned about bandwidth, they should develop ways to detect the beginning of a spamflood from a compromised machine and shut down its connection before it can spew out millions of spam messages.
By the way the electoral votes are distributed (as of the July 2006 census estimation) a candidate could completely ignore 39 states and the District of Columbia, take just over 50% of the votes in the remaining 11 states, and still win. Taking California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Georgis, North Carolina, and New Jersey gives you 271 electoral votes and you need 270 to win.
An apt analogy. Someone with a crappy patent can still "win" if they have a dominating chip advantage over an opponent that doesn't have so many chips and can't afford to go all in.
I envision a system like the one used for propane tanks for gas grills. You take an empty tank back to where you purchased it and replace it with a full tank, which the company who sold you the tank refills for a future customer. Depending on the size of the power cell, you could even keep a spare in the trunk along with the spare tire.
You know, this bill doesn't go far enough to protect children from violence. He should expand the bill; any magazines, books, television programs, and movies that would fall under this bill if they were video games should fall under this bill's restrictions. What do you think, can we convince the representative to amend the bill?
If he did, he might rethink that once he realizes what he added to the bill -- the Bible (plenty of violence, some sex), the nightly news (airing footage of the war in Iraq and covering local murders, assaults, etc.), both hockey and American football games (violence), and just about any movie not rated G.
So when (eventually) the leftists and liberals are voted in as President and Congress, are you willing to give them the same power to investigate whomever they claim as a terrorist (like their political enemies) as you're willing to give to the current administration?
I think VeriSign will turn around and offer those six submittors jobs testing VeriSign products (or testing Windows after making a deal with Microsoft to sell them knowledge of vulnerabilities) or will contact Microsoft HR and ask how much the finder's fee is.
That's why you go through usability testing and paper prototyping early in the development process. Draw out the two GUIs on paper, then put each one in front of the user and ask which matches closer to what they had in mind. Watch their interaction with the GUIs -- if they seem to like interacting with the free text box more than the 3 entry boxes, then ask them why they like the free text box and if they have a reason they don't like the 3 entry box version. Your user may have requirements in mind that they can't or didn't explain but that your design will need to match in order to be accepted.
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Given what Maureen O'Gara did, I think PJ has reason to want her location kept private.
I suspect that most of the people who plagiarize don't actually read and remember what they copied for very long, and most of the people who don't plagiarize do remember the general knowledge they learned to write their paper. If this is the case, one possible solution would be to assign several small papers over the course of the term, then on the final exam choose one or two questions about which the students wrote already (without telling them ahead of time) and ask those exact same questions as part of the exam. I expect the people who didn't copy will give answers similar to what they wrote about, while those who copied will have to make something up in their own words. Consistency with their previous work would then be the mark of someone who knows what they're talking about.
Add in an organizer that can synchronize with Outlook (yes, I know, I know) and have Nintendo license handwriting recognition software from Palm or some other PDA manufacturer and I'd never have to put my DS down. Have 5 minutes between meetings? Check my Outlook calendar to find out where that meeting is, then when I get there I can play Meteos for a couple of minutes.
The latest release, MATLAB R2007a, is supported on Vista. The previous release, MATLAB R2006b, was released before Vista was released.
English grammar doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sorting or searching or the like. However, when you're working on a specification for a program you're writing, or when you're trying to explain how your program works or will work to someone else (in QA, documentation, technical support, upper management, etc.) being able to write well comes in handy.
The average adult can manage to refill their gas tank without spewing gasoline all over their car, themselves, and their surroundings. I think if that's the type of interface used to refill these fuel cells, "normal people" can manage. And as for "I doubt people on slashdot would ever spill stuff" ... my friends and I joke that one of our friends has an aura about him that causes vertical objects to become horizontal. [Too bad it doesn't work on women.]
These voting machines can be opened by, and the contents tampered with, any voter who happens to have a certain type of minibar key. Other voting experts have also demonstrated a number of instances of weak security with Diebold voting machines. As a voter, that lack of security is completely unacceptable for my vote and the votes of others.
$50*(1.019^5) is about $55. 1.2^(1/5) is about 3.7% and $50*(1.0371^5) is about $60.
Okay Microsoft, we'll give you all our users' Live search data. *hands Microsoft a blank sheet of paper* That's all of it. Now where are these training credits?
Before we start nudging asteroids into orbit around Earth, we should practice putting them in orbit around Mars. If we mess up and the asteroid impacts Mars, the energy released by impact will thaw any ice that may be trapped below the surface, thus helping a little bit with terraforming the planet, rather than slamming into Earth.
If he can't file lawsuits against Take Two, he'll have his friends ... okay, he'll hire some guys off the street and have them file the lawsuits and retain him as their attorney. This assumes, of course, that he's still a member of the bar once the Florida bar finishes debating whether to disbar him.
Screw disabling the system. They'll try to figure out how to take over the system. It took 19 hijackers to take over 4 planes on September 11, 2001. If this system had been in place, n+1 hijackers could take over n planes -- one hijacker on each plane to try to break into the cockpit and cause the pilot to trigger the system (assuming that the system can only be activated from on the plane) and one on the ground to remote control the planes. In addition, the 19 hijackers included 4 with pilot training -- if you can remotely take control of the plane, you don't need anyone with pilot training (except perhaps the person on the ground, who isn't in any danger.)
Yes, but think of the defense contractors that contribute heavily to both political parties! Won't someone think of the defense contractors?
Of course, assuming that Earth was tracking the ark, once we've invented warp drive we can send a ship to rendezvous with the ark and bring all the inhabitants to the Holiday Inn Resort Planet ahead of schedule, or to retrofit the ark with a warp engine to reach the HIRP faster.
In the original Star Trek episode Space Seed (the first time Kirk & co. met Khan) I believe Spock did some digging in the historical records and confirmed that's what had happened with most of the original "sleeper ships". The Botany Bay (Khan's ship) had not been tracked by Earth and so no one had met them to speed them along the way until the Enterprise found them by accident.
The filer pays a fee to the Patent Office (PO) when they file.
The PO examines the patent. If they reject it, end of story.
If the PO doesn't reject the patent, the basic description is posted publicly for some period of time (6 months?) and the filer can say the patent is pending.
During the time the patent is posted, anyone (the challenger) can object to it and bring prior art to the attention of the PO. If the PO agrees that the prior art invalidates the patent, the filer pays a penalty (based on how obvious the prior art is -- if the prior art is on Wikipedia, they should pay a significant penalty, while if it's in a footnote in a book completely unrelated to the patent, the penalty would be small) to both the PO and to the challenger. If the PO believes the prior art is not applicable, then the challenger pays some sort of penalty to the PO.
If the filer knows about prior art but doesn't show it when they file, some challenger will challenge the patent and the filer will have to pay the original fee plus two penalties. The chance to win a penalty (or bounty) is the incentive for the challenger to look for prior art. If the patent is challenged, the PO will be compensated for dealing with the challenge by the loser.
PJ has been the target of stalkers before. Because of that I suspect that if the process servers do manage to serve her with the subpoena, she'll request that the judge and the court make arrangements for her safety and anonymity while she gives her deposition.
How much bandwidth is used by sending spam with large images to millions of people? If ISPs are really concerned about bandwidth, they should develop ways to detect the beginning of a spamflood from a compromised machine and shut down its connection before it can spew out millions of spam messages.
By the way the electoral votes are distributed (as of the July 2006 census estimation) a candidate could completely ignore 39 states and the District of Columbia, take just over 50% of the votes in the remaining 11 states, and still win. Taking California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Georgis, North Carolina, and New Jersey gives you 271 electoral votes and you need 270 to win.
An apt analogy. Someone with a crappy patent can still "win" if they have a dominating chip advantage over an opponent that doesn't have so many chips and can't afford to go all in.
I envision a system like the one used for propane tanks for gas grills. You take an empty tank back to where you purchased it and replace it with a full tank, which the company who sold you the tank refills for a future customer. Depending on the size of the power cell, you could even keep a spare in the trunk along with the spare tire.
You know, this bill doesn't go far enough to protect children from violence. He should expand the bill; any magazines, books, television programs, and movies that would fall under this bill if they were video games should fall under this bill's restrictions. What do you think, can we convince the representative to amend the bill?
If he did, he might rethink that once he realizes what he added to the bill -- the Bible (plenty of violence, some sex), the nightly news (airing footage of the war in Iraq and covering local murders, assaults, etc.), both hockey and American football games (violence), and just about any movie not rated G.
So when (eventually) the leftists and liberals are voted in as President and Congress, are you willing to give them the same power to investigate whomever they claim as a terrorist (like their political enemies) as you're willing to give to the current administration?
I think VeriSign will turn around and offer those six submittors jobs testing VeriSign products (or testing Windows after making a deal with Microsoft to sell them knowledge of vulnerabilities) or will contact Microsoft HR and ask how much the finder's fee is.
That's why you go through usability testing and paper prototyping early in the development process. Draw out the two GUIs on paper, then put each one in front of the user and ask which matches closer to what they had in mind. Watch their interaction with the GUIs -- if they seem to like interacting with the free text box more than the 3 entry boxes, then ask them why they like the free text box and if they have a reason they don't like the 3 entry box version. Your user may have requirements in mind that they can't or didn't explain but that your design will need to match in order to be accepted.
So THAT explains the Boston Big Dig!