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French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Computers (general)
French term or phrase:l’idéologie du coupé-collé
L’effet d’échelle (être présent sur le Net pour être visible sur la planète) est la plupart du temps un leurre. Les racines culturelles, les préférences nationales sont en fait très ancrées sur les réseaux. Cependant, la duplication, l’imitation, le mimétisme s’est généralisé, anéantissant toute chance de diversités, confisquant une bonne part de la créativité. Les acteurs se présentent sur le marché, entrent en compétition. Ceux qui survivent se partagent en général 80% du marché. C’est vrai pour les moteurs de recherche, les processeurs informatiques, les routeurs, les systèmes d’exploitation, les suites de traitement de texte, les bases de données, les antivirus. Au lieu d’un monde ouvert sur la connaissance, on assiste en fait à un repli sur soi de ce monde numérique, avec l’idéologie du coupé-collé.
Explanation: Plagiarism
Plagiarism: passing somebody else’s work off as your own.
Universities generally apply quite draconian sanctions against plagiarism.
There is thus a well-defined procedure, appeals, etc.
Avoidance (by careful referencing) is best.
Avoid the ‘cut and paste’ mindset
If you (as a PG, or even UG student) have been given an essay, and you then search & copy information from books/WWW, without proper referencing, it is unlikely the work will ‘pass’.
Degree level work requires scholarship and ‘added value’.
Detecting plagiarism
Detecting plagiarism can involve many techniques.
If you ‘cut and paste’ material from the WWW, your university lecturer is likely to find the original source.
We can also find if two students have shared the writing of an essay (this ‘collusion’ is also a very serious offence). [www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ cs/Staff/Homes/Mdb3/misc/plagh.pdf]
Put Legs on the Dream
The third challenge in revitalizing stalled change efforts involves addressing the assumption that a blue-sky strategy can be implemented immediately or easily. Enter the “cut and paste” mindset. Too often, managers assume that current organization practices can be dropped (cut) and new systems and processes picked up and executed immediately and flawlessly (pasted). The remedy to this thinking is “putting legs on the dream.”
Causes and Symptoms of Cut and Paste Implementation. When implementation stalls due to cut-and-paste assumptions, it’s because senior leaders believe that employee behavior can change immediately, that the process will cost nothing, and that there will be no loss in performance
[http://mdaleadership.com/Leadership_Unburn_Thebridge.asp]
Cryptic configuration files don't improve your skills as a sysadmin,
they just require you to sprinkle comments over them, or lead to a
'cut and paste' mindset which (again in *my* opinion) lead to less
understanding of your mail system.
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The worst is that it's taken all the skill out of joke telling (and remembering).
I should have mentioned that American usage has been requested - so I think mindset has to be first choice. 4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer
Ideology suggests a justificatory theory, whereas mentality is just a state of mind--probably unreflected. It depends what you think this guy is trying to say. Dusty's "philosophy" would cover both possibilities, of course.
(1) Actually, it should be "cut-and-paste ideology". (2) Who cares whether the expression already exists (apparently, it does)? It makes perfectly good sense and is very apt in the context. What more do you want?
My question has anyone ever heard the phrase "cut and paste ideology" being used? Or is there another expression that
19:37 Dec 5, 2004
suggests the same idea?
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l’idéologie du coupé-collé
a cut and paste ideology
Explanation: in other words, the relative ease of using other peole's ideas and sticking them in as one's own
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you can find 21,700 hits on Google for cut and paste mentality, which could be replaced by the word ideology. Perhaps cut and paste mentality is closer to what you want.
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