Good question! What are they planning to do with the money? Something that the shareholders of Google wouldn't approve of I think, since otherwise they would do it with Google money and not be forced to pay taxes.
Because their salary is $1 and they want to spend some money?
If my salary was $1 and I had over a billion in stocks you best believe I'd be cashing some of it out....
Why don't we get real for a minute? If these guys were forced to live like they only earned $1 I would agree with you completely. They own the company you moron! They can pay themselves whatever they want without selling the stock. They can also buy anything they want in the name of Google and not pay any taxes on it.
Except they will be selling the shares over the coarse of 5 years...
And?... If they thought Google stock would be worth more in 5 years, why would they be making the decision and telling us about their plans to sell it now? 5 years is way longer than any insider transaction reporting requirements.
You know, unless they actually believe Google is about to fall apart, they wouldn't be selling. They are in a position to know whether or not Google really is the awesome and profitable machine everyone thinks it is. 6.4 billion in ad revenue in the latest reported quarter, almost 66% of it from Adwords on Google sites. Do you really think that many people use pay-per-click every three months?
The Google story has "too good to be true" written all over it. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some serious money laundering going on.
Thanks for the clarification, you must be a genius. Why is.pdf support "experimental" and shitty even on Kindle2? Why do you need wireless to send a file to Amazon to convert a file and send it to your device? Lets get real. If a decent reader device existed, every grad student in the country would want one.
Seriously, E-book is about the stupidest invention I can think of. How about a device that I can use to read the thousands of.pdf files I have. There is no use waiting for all of the academic papers in the world to be re-done in some e-book format. How about all the pdf versions of books available through torrent that I shouldn't have to fire up my laptop to read? I know there are technical problems involved with pdf, but it can't be that hard. I would guess that the first effective.pdf document display device would catch on like a new ipod. DRM? Fuck 'em, everybody can afford a scanner.
Your experience is quite common. The last thing an instructor should do when an automated system finds similarity is to accuse a student of misconduct. It is far more informative to have someone do similar work in a more controlled environment. The best way I've found to weed out wrongdoers is to give a far worse grade for one of the similar submissions. The student with the bad grade (if they cheated) almost always slips up and complains that the person they copied from got a better score.
I think you need to have a serious look at the probabilities involved with your monkeys on a typewriter idea. It shows a complete ignorance of modern statistics and datamining to even suggest that "someday" it will be hard to write original work because it will be compared with many others.
Cheating is pretty easy to detect. I have written cheating detection programs and used them successfully. It is actually surprising how well any sort of longest common subsequence comparison will do in spite of any changes students make. It is always up to a human instructor to verify anything if an accusation is to be made.
That being said, cheaters usually produce crappy work anyway. I would have to say that at least in computer science courses you need to be quite talented to get past any of the methods I have designed. Usually more talent is required than simply doing the assignment well.
I think cheating is just something humans need to give up on. Like chess, checkers, and properly enforced financial fraud; computers have us beat.
Working in a cubicle should scare you. That's why you in particular need to go to graduate school. Since you are looking for advice, I have some for you. Go to graduate school somewhere else. Not only will it be more impressive, it makes practical sense. It shows that people who didn't know you want you to work with them, which is more than any line on a resume could say. Second, you can get a lot more work done when you aren't distracted by familiar things. Watch the movie Real Genius, and remember that people need you, but don't get taken advantage of.
What exactly is the point of the implant in this system? Isn't the GPS device doing all the work? Sounds like just another excuse to put chips in people. Why don't we wait for a success story, like maybe 1 single victim located by the device.
What kind of economic reasons would matter? What difference is there between the time changing when crossing the border and the time changing when you move to a different time zone? Being further north, Canada's concern over seasonal changes in daylight should outway any of our moronic attempts to save electricity.
I think all of us can agree that in a perfect world, the rest of the goofballs out there would pay as much attention to this as we Slashdot readers have. I turn my lights on when I need to see in the dark. I go to my appointments on time, no matter what numbers the government or anyone else tells me that time is called. Also, what is the deal with time zones? I think this is the same issue. I feel the same when I wake up at 8am eastern time as when I wake up at 5am pacific time. Seriously, this is all stupid and old fashioned.
I suggest that anyone who cares about this start using GMT exclusively in their dealings, especially if those dealings are as meaningless as mine.
because it's easier to cheat than study,
because buying crappy merchandise is cheaper than buying quality goods,
because stupid people NEED to be watched,
because you already know who the stupid people are, but do nothing,
because you blame your problems on a race, or ethnicity,
and because the list goes on forever...
YOU are to blame.
Enough with the Orwell jokes and crybaby liberty stuff.
Stop protesting, whining, talking, and "voting".
Go out and make changes.
If you don't like terrorists, kill some.
If you don't like taxes, don't pay.
If you don't want cameras everywhere, do your part to make sure there is nothing to see.
You can't have it both ways.
I don't know what your qualifications are to be a TA for this course. I was a TA for an intro to object oriented programming course using Java during my junior year. I also don't know what the difficulty level of your course is, but that should not change my opinion.
1. The students in this course will most likely put alot of time and effort into these assignments.
2. I would hope that YOU could implement a system like the one you described with an equivalent amount of effort.
3. I would hope that your STUDENTS, after taking this course, given adequate guidance and framework, could implement a system like the one you described.
If you are suggesting this system as anything other than a progress indicator for students to test early drafts of their work, I would seriously reconsider your role as a mentor/teacher/guide. At this point in a student's education, it is most important to reinforce good habits.
As far as some of the other comments posted here are concerned, I am worried about the level of education others are receiving. Get your acts together folks! Students will live up to, or down to your expectations of them.
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Good question! What are they planning to do with the money? Something that the shareholders of Google wouldn't approve of I think, since otherwise they would do it with Google money and not be forced to pay taxes.
Because their salary is $1 and they want to spend some money? If my salary was $1 and I had over a billion in stocks you best believe I'd be cashing some of it out....
Why don't we get real for a minute? If these guys were forced to live like they only earned $1 I would agree with you completely. They own the company you moron! They can pay themselves whatever they want without selling the stock. They can also buy anything they want in the name of Google and not pay any taxes on it.
Except they will be selling the shares over the coarse of 5 years...
And?... If they thought Google stock would be worth more in 5 years, why would they be making the decision and telling us about their plans to sell it now? 5 years is way longer than any insider transaction reporting requirements.
You know, unless they actually believe Google is about to fall apart, they wouldn't be selling. They are in a position to know whether or not Google really is the awesome and profitable machine everyone thinks it is. 6.4 billion in ad revenue in the latest reported quarter, almost 66% of it from Adwords on Google sites. Do you really think that many people use pay-per-click every three months? The Google story has "too good to be true" written all over it. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some serious money laundering going on.
Thanks for the clarification, you must be a genius. Why is .pdf support "experimental" and shitty even on Kindle2? Why do you need wireless to send a file to Amazon to convert a file and send it to your device? Lets get real. If a decent reader device existed, every grad student in the country would want one.
Seriously, E-book is about the stupidest invention I can think of. How about a device that I can use to read the thousands of .pdf files I have. There is no use waiting for all of the academic papers in the world to be re-done in some e-book format. How about all the pdf versions of books available through torrent that I shouldn't have to fire up my laptop to read? I know there are technical problems involved with pdf, but it can't be that hard. I would guess that the first effective .pdf document display device would catch on like a new ipod. DRM? Fuck 'em, everybody can afford a scanner.
Your experience is quite common. The last thing an instructor should do when an automated system finds similarity is to accuse a student of misconduct. It is far more informative to have someone do similar work in a more controlled environment. The best way I've found to weed out wrongdoers is to give a far worse grade for one of the similar submissions. The student with the bad grade (if they cheated) almost always slips up and complains that the person they copied from got a better score.
I think you need to have a serious look at the probabilities involved with your monkeys on a typewriter idea. It shows a complete ignorance of modern statistics and datamining to even suggest that "someday" it will be hard to write original work because it will be compared with many others.
Cheating is pretty easy to detect. I have written cheating detection programs and used them successfully. It is actually surprising how well any sort of longest common subsequence comparison will do in spite of any changes students make. It is always up to a human instructor to verify anything if an accusation is to be made. That being said, cheaters usually produce crappy work anyway. I would have to say that at least in computer science courses you need to be quite talented to get past any of the methods I have designed. Usually more talent is required than simply doing the assignment well. I think cheating is just something humans need to give up on. Like chess, checkers, and properly enforced financial fraud; computers have us beat.
Working in a cubicle should scare you. That's why you in particular need to go to graduate school. Since you are looking for advice, I have some for you. Go to graduate school somewhere else. Not only will it be more impressive, it makes practical sense. It shows that people who didn't know you want you to work with them, which is more than any line on a resume could say. Second, you can get a lot more work done when you aren't distracted by familiar things. Watch the movie Real Genius, and remember that people need you, but don't get taken advantage of.
13% sales growth, with 2000 customers so far! At that rate, everyone in Mexico will have one in about 100 years.
What exactly is the point of the implant in this system? Isn't the GPS device doing all the work? Sounds like just another excuse to put chips in people. Why don't we wait for a success story, like maybe 1 single victim located by the device.
In Europe people are smarter and do things better. Deal with it.
What kind of economic reasons would matter? What difference is there between the time changing when crossing the border and the time changing when you move to a different time zone? Being further north, Canada's concern over seasonal changes in daylight should outway any of our moronic attempts to save electricity.
I think all of us can agree that in a perfect world, the rest of the goofballs out there would pay as much attention to this as we Slashdot readers have. I turn my lights on when I need to see in the dark. I go to my appointments on time, no matter what numbers the government or anyone else tells me that time is called. Also, what is the deal with time zones? I think this is the same issue. I feel the same when I wake up at 8am eastern time as when I wake up at 5am pacific time. Seriously, this is all stupid and old fashioned. I suggest that anyone who cares about this start using GMT exclusively in their dealings, especially if those dealings are as meaningless as mine.
because it's easier to cheat than study, because buying crappy merchandise is cheaper than buying quality goods, because stupid people NEED to be watched, because you already know who the stupid people are, but do nothing, because you blame your problems on a race, or ethnicity, and because the list goes on forever... YOU are to blame. Enough with the Orwell jokes and crybaby liberty stuff. Stop protesting, whining, talking, and "voting". Go out and make changes. If you don't like terrorists, kill some. If you don't like taxes, don't pay. If you don't want cameras everywhere, do your part to make sure there is nothing to see. You can't have it both ways.
I don't know what your qualifications are to be a TA for this course. I was a TA for an intro to object oriented programming course using Java during my junior year. I also don't know what the difficulty level of your course is, but that should not change my opinion. 1. The students in this course will most likely put alot of time and effort into these assignments. 2. I would hope that YOU could implement a system like the one you described with an equivalent amount of effort. 3. I would hope that your STUDENTS, after taking this course, given adequate guidance and framework, could implement a system like the one you described. If you are suggesting this system as anything other than a progress indicator for students to test early drafts of their work, I would seriously reconsider your role as a mentor/teacher/guide. At this point in a student's education, it is most important to reinforce good habits. As far as some of the other comments posted here are concerned, I am worried about the level of education others are receiving. Get your acts together folks! Students will live up to, or down to your expectations of them.