[Robotgroup] [Fwd: Manchaca Optimist Festival, May 3rd]

[Andre Lamothe]

That's just it, a halfhearted joke, a reference to PARC, but everyone always 
thinks Microsoft is so evil, but Apple has done its share of appropriation 
of technology, not the Apple 1/2 that was 100% woz's work but mac of course, 
and many other things. But, I have no alligiance to any of them, I have a PC 
running windows, another running linux and another Mac. And I am happy to 
say when you actually develop code on mac they are just as bug ridden, lock 
up and don't work just like windows, in fact my new mac is stuck in upgrade 
hell right now as the tiger installer has crashed it :) I have been an apple 
proponent since the start, own a Apple 2, etc.

Andre'



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Filip" <lfilip at mac.com>
To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] [Fwd: Manchaca Optimist Festival, May 3rd]


Andre'

Why the comment about Apple when posting about teaching? Smiley or
not, it is a mischaracterization of Apple that should not be spread
unless you are trolling. They are no worse than any other company
when it comes to licensing or otherwise appropriating technology.

Respectfully,
Les


On 17 Apr 2008, at 5:23 PM, Andre Lamothe wrote:

> Ahh, which classes? Teaching is too draining for me anymore. But, the
> funniest class I ever taught was at UC Santa Cruz, graphics and
> game dev. So
> we have a project, where the students have to make a complete game
> for the
> final -- ok, simple enough. So, I am walking from student to student,
> looking at their final work, they tell me about it, then I get to
> this girl
> (one of 2 in the class, so I will give her an A for effort), but
> she shows
> me her game, and it looks VERY familiar. Of course, she COPIED it
> line for
> line from MY book, but the sad part is she didn't realize the class
> USES my
> book, my name is on it, so not only plagiarized, but so lame she
> didn't read
> the authors name in huge letters on the cover "Andre' LaMothe",
> needless to
> say, it was too sweet a moment, to even let her know, so I asked
> her some
> questions about MY code, which she couldn't answer -- however, I
> gave her a
> D rather than an F, at least she tried to solve the problem by
> stealing
> other people's work, works for Apple :)
>
> Andre'
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Def Egge" <robodigest at innervate.com>
> To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 5:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] [Fwd: Manchaca Optimist Festival, May 3rd]
>
>
> No, Andre' ... I am at St. Edward's University ... a little further
> south.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> At 14:38  2008-04-17, you wrote:
> -=-=-=-=-= begin quoted message =-=-=-=-=-
>> Mike,
>>
>> You're teaching at UT right? What courses are your teaching this
>> quarter/semester?
>>
>> Andre'
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Def Egge" <robodigest at innervate.com>
>> To: <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] [Fwd: Manchaca Optimist Festival, May
> 3rd]
>>
>>
>> Quoting Richard Abbott <dlluwh at sbcglobal.net>:
>>
>>> Shelly and I can come.
>>>   Rick
>>>
>>> Vern Graner <vern at txis.com> wrote:
>>>   What say you, roboteers? :)
>>
>>
>> I will probably need a break after administering and grading finals
>> all week ... probably some antidepressants, too.
>>
>> Pencil me in.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> All the best....
>>
>>
>> Mike
>>
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>
> Mike
>
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