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Is trying to take a chewtoy away from a pack of rabid dogs really a good idea?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Trouble is, it's one of those "win-win" ideas for the tutor: He gets to sit on his backside doing diddly-squat while his students get educated by us. His wages are the same, but he puts in less effort. Next year, he does it again - and so does all his mates. Pretty soon, you end up with this place being flooded with rubbish posted just to get rep points to pass a course, and you can't see the wood for the trees anymore. It's already difficult to use the moderation queue when there is a competition on - it only displays five articles at a time and it tends to get so full of "waiting" entries that real articles stand no chance of being seen let alone voted on.
It's a bit like the "outsource manufacturing" idea: an accountant saw he could save $1 per unit by laying off all his production workers and getting it built in China. Another accountant saw that, and before you know it nobody can afford to make anything locally, unemployment is high, and company profits falling because nobody has the money to buy what was made offshore because they haven't got a job!
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No. IfWhen all of his students fail because their rep was reduced to a smoking crater during the same larting that obliterated their worthless crap articles, he'll be in deep sh*t and hopefully will be spending the next semester asking the local equivalent of "do you want fries with that?"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Trouble is, we have to find them all and squash them all - or he just blames the ones who did get found for being rubbish. If one gets through...
It's sounding like a disaster movie (a very low budget disaster movie): I keep expecting a post "There's only one place that can save the world now: 'Laboratoires Garnier'..." 
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If they're all rubbish they'll get squished with the rest of the daily trash. If one or two actually manage to write something worth keeping it'll just make it harder for him to try and curve his failure with the rest of the class away. The only way he can win is if most of his students manage to produce good content; and if that happens we all win too.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Wish I had it. Dave has found the college: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4711951/Re-Oh-oh-Bad-news-chaps.aspx[^] (clever chap!) if that helps, and I'm guessing the tutor is a member or he wouldn't send 'em here.
If you are thinking of invoicing him, I'd be happy to throw a couple of hours of my time into the bill...and would donate them to CP if it helps kill this.
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Do you know what the worst part is? It is a freakin' brilliant idea! 
I am not condoning the way he is doing it, but It eases the tutor's work and it exposes the students to a much bigger world beyond the class room. I think the guy actually thought outside the box on this one, but I hope we don't have to deal with a bunch of low-quality submissions.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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That is ridiculous. Your CP reputation is built on a whole lot more than one article. You may have written several more articles than I, but being a new member, have much lower rep. Now if he used the article's score after a certain time, it would be about one tenth better.
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OriginalGriff wrote: expect some real rubbish incoming
well, that's not the attitude, is it young man? We should surely be applauding this initiative and encouraging people to post good articles?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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cool - tell them that my vote is for sale and I can mobilise a number of CPians for the right amount of bribery! 
Bryce
this reminds me when I used to run (assessed) physics labs at university..I'd tell them (the students) I was totally able to be bribed if they wanted extra marks...but no one ever took me up on the offer *sigh*...much to the amusement of the head Of Dept.
MCAD
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Hello all,
Our Brother multi-function printer has died and we've just replaced for a brand new Toshiba professional multi-function printer, which in theory is better in all the aspects.
In terms of printing there is no doubt that it is much better, and in terms of scanning it also seems better but, we have a problem with the scanner TWAIN driver.
The problem:
The Windows XP/7 scanner utility (scanners and cameras (or something like that)) can't detect the TWAIN driver and therefore is not capable to use the scanner.
The seller of the equipment is looking at it though it recommends us to use the possibility to scan into the HDD the printer has.
Our users are not used to this solution and it will be a complete PITA to try to show them the new way to do it, therefore I'm interested on finding some small free program that could be used as the Windows scan utility and that could detect the TWAIN scanner.
The guy who installed the printer installed Nuance Paperport and it worked, but there are two big issues here:
1. It is not legal to install it in multiple computers, therefore we know the printer can work but we have uninstalled it.
2. It is too bloated and complicate to get a simple scan.
We would like to be able to select the destination file type (PDF, JPG...) and being able to select to create one file or multiple files given a name pattern.
I don't need the program to store/keep a repository of the scanned files.
Any idea?
As always thank you in advance! 
modified 29-Nov-13 13:13pm.
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Does Toshiba provide a twain driver for WIndows 7 on his homepage?
A gentleman is someone who can play the bag-pipe, and who does not.
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It seems it is not working as it should. Anyway paperport makes it  .
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I don't really have any answers for you, but I would suggest staying away from Nuance.
My dad recently bought a Brother printer that included Paperport in the full driver installation, as well as other bloated/not too useful Nuance programs. Along with those programs were multiple (at least 4 IIRC) background services that automatically started on win startup . I briefly looked through each program and while it does provide some good features, it's not worth the extra background services that will definitely make your PCs slower.
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Silvabolt wrote: staying away from Nuance
Apart of Dragon Naturally speaking I agree with you, paperport is a POS and ultrabloated software. 
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Never heard of Dragon Naturally Speaking, seems pretty cool, but in my mind, Nuance is still a nuisance.
Btw, by Win XP/7 Scan utility, you mean Windows Fax and Scan?
Check out this thread[^] this thread (even though it's for a different scanner).
Apparently "PhillJones" got it to work with Irfanview[^] (which is a 3rd party lightweight image tool), I personally use Irfanview myself for editing/viewing photos all the time and apparently there is a scanner function too.
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No luck with WIA neither with TWAIN.
IrfanView (is it really still there????  ) is a great software I did not thought about, but it still fails where PaperPort succeeds... stupid multifunction printer...
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the first place to always look is device manager. Look for the trouble icons.
It may even be listed in the Non plug and play list.(show hidden devices)
Is this attached to 1 computer or 1 computer shared with others or as a stand alone network printer ?
It is also possible the driver install had a problem with UAC during the install.
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Standalone network printer... and it happens in XP and in 7, therefore nothing regarding the UAC (at least not in the XP machines).
Thank you for your post!
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What is the model number of it ? So I can look it up I may give me a better idea.
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It is a Toshiba e-studio 287cs.
And they have no drivers on the web page...
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Not for me...
When I try to go to your link it fails...
I've tried to investigate in the USA Toshiba web site and I've seen a new bunch of drivers for that printer that could work... Nothing in the EU web site...
Downloading now. Lets see... :crossfingers:
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great they make you click all of the way thu the site to get there each time.
Sorry about the bad link.
Edit:
http://business.toshiba.com/support/index.jsp[^]
This one will start you closer.
It only wants the name to start or it fails to find anything.
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Another thing I thought of was possible firewall or network problems where it cannot find the scanner.
I tested using Office 2007 and just navigating to find a network scanner and with netwrk discovery turned off it didn't see my scanner.
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