GRAMPS is my favourite, though I haven't needed to go trying any of the other options as yet.
Yes, I wouldn't look any further. I've seen GRAMPS at work (for lineage tracking of horses) and it has an impressing list of features and data fields. I couldn't find any missing relation that I could think of. I'm not sure about data export, though, but it seems to support a wide range of formats.
The way I handle this is putting a lot of problems on the exam. It makes the average score tend to be low (although there are always a few percent that get them all right). But, it spreads out the remainder. I curve the exam to compensate for that.
Though I've never been in the position where I had to write exams yet, and it's been a long time I've passed any, I recently starting thinking that such an approach would be tho only valid way to assess an exam.
If you make the exam big enough that nobody can solve it entirely, you actually have a full scaling of each student's ability, and you can accurately tell who performed best.
A couple of problem should be solved though, and sanity checks should be introduced for this system to be viable. Bad students will end up literally HATING the best for bringing them down. I suppose a non-linear scale (log?) should be used to convert students' performance back into grades. Also, in a particularly bad class, all student may perform horribly bad, but one of them, being slightly better, would end up getting the highest mark regardless.
That said, I have to counterbalance this point by remembering how pleasing it was to finish a 3-hours exam an hour in advance and leave the room early to go slack off somewhere else. Also, finishing early gives you time to read over and check all your answers again, hunting for obvious mistakes.
Thus, I suppose this technique may be interesting to try out on larger scales, but it has pro and cons (which I just realised).
I was AMAZED. They had a library of homework and test questions and answers. They passed them around casually. They also begged me for graded solutions from my previous courses to add to their collection. They were all cheating their way through and thought it was normal.
Well, I'm not sure doing this is intrinsicly wrong. In some schools I've been at, the student committee organised, with the teacher's approval, a large collection of past exams. We could get them, along with the answers to prepare for our own. We (or at least I) wouldn't blindly learn the answers, but rather try to solve as many as possible until we were reasonably confident that we knew the subject enough to reliably solve an bunch of exam-grade exercises on that topic, regardless of what the actual exercises were. I think I understood half, if not more, of a subject while doing that.
In the end, I wouldn't consider that cheating, but I think it mostly depends on how you use this material, and how careful the teachers are of giving proper exams (i.e. not so simple that it only requires having sat through the first lecture nor containing all the same exercises as the last million years).
I may be completely out of it, and I admit that I haven't done much research on that point, but something still escapes me.
Why does Firefox have to implement the codec themselves? Can't they just rely on the operating system's set of libraries to decode as much content as possible?
I understand the need for an uncluttered standard. It's a very valid and very necessary point.
Is Mozilla making a political statement to push this by *disabling* (i.e. not using even if available) support for H264 (or any other codec) they could get from the system, or are they re-implementing the wheel (if so, why?!) and fear possible legal issues if they re-implement H264?
During my Master's degree, I resolved to taking all my notes in raw LaTeX. Getting the equations right in a timely fashion is hard at first, but it's a great training. By the end of the year, I could almost type them in as fast as the lecturer would write them down.
The problem was more on the diagrams and various graphs. I still don't master real-time Xfig!
Overall, I found that it was a good thing to always have a couple of paper sheets handy in case something needed to be noted down quickly. Going over these offline to complete the lecture notes is a good way to review the material.
It is said the system collects anonymous information and uses it to select which ad to display to the player.
I'm a bit puzzled about what type of said anonymous information can be relevant and expressive enough to actually provide properly chosen (with respect to the ad provider) to the user. Considering the aforementionned NFS: Shift, I can't really see what information apart things like the type and color of the car and the average driving speed can be collected in-game; and I don't see how that can help provide more than very broadly targetted ads ("Discount on fast driving red cars at Bob's Cars this week!").
Or do they collect anonymous information even when the game is not running as well?
The spec says "Music playback file formats:
Being Linux-based, I suppose it would not be too hard to hack it to support Ogg Vorbis. It's however rather annoying that such support is still not provided by default...
MAC addresses do not get sent over HTTP.
Still, the IP address has been attributed by some device (maybe your ISP's routers or modem) that may be keeping logs linking said IP to the MAC.
Worst case scenario, I admit. Anyway, the least amount of my data I give away to Google, the safest it feels.
My gmail account
So now, Google has your data. How do you prove your are the actual author of a Your Great American Book that has been published a week ago by somebody you've never heard of?
(Let alone IP and MAC addresses which were really happy to leave alot of traces in logfile along the way)
Every control structure in C++ is equivalent to either a goto or jnz plus some syntactic sugar.
Yes, but it's this very syntactic sugar which makes the codes structure easier to follow for a human. Once code is compiled, it doesn't matter to the CPU whether it was generated from a spaghetti plate of GOTOs or some nicely ordered conditionnal statements. However, the generated code tends to be better when the source code is put in a way allowing a programmer to more easily follow its logic and correct the potential errors in the execution flow.
I'm with you.. this a'hole has not only the
What about the
We recently had a talk from a forensic expert from Deloitte Forensic Data (an australian company) in a Uni Security Engineering lecture. He made it clear that nothing was better than experience when trying to collect forensic information or retrieve hidden data from seized computers.
Thinking about it, that makes complete sense. There are so many ways to hide anything anywhere in a computer. If they want to be safe from this type of tools, people could just verify what the program checks, and do something else. Even with an ever updated database of âoethings to check,â people with things to hide will always be ahead of a non-thinking entity.
Really? I thought for sure slackware would be it.
Actually, Slackware is a heavily modified version of SLS, touched by Pat's blessing hand (:
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According to what I've read (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/24/nicolas-sarkozy-party-compensates-mgmt amongst others), it seems that UMP _did_ report to the SACEM. To no avail, it seems. This makes me wonder if such a right-collection association is still relevant...
"If you want to know what happens to you when you die, go look at some dead stuff." -- Dave Enyeart
