Indeed, it is extremely easy to tell when someone is nervously forgetting from someone who has no clue. I've assessed presentations where the student who has quite obviously worked hard has lost their nerve and started blathering, and others where a pseudo confident fool talks a load of crap that reveals they didn't do the work.
As for exactly how you can tell. In my experience you can usually tell because the student who is genuine but too nervous tends to know their system so well they get themselves completely mixed up over their presentation, explaining things out of order and getting confused.
The lying student tends to be far too shallow in descriptions, and avoids low level detail. I even had one who's presentation was only linked to his slides in that they were both in the same room. It was hilarious.
After all, if they think that all they need is the degree certificate in order to get a decent career in IT, then their stupidity leaves the field clear for those of us who slaved over a hot dissertation for months on end.
I have met such morons before, usually they end up in the lowest wage positions, or drifting from one shit job to the next.
When I was an undergrad in CS four years back, there were girls on my course offering sex in return for completing their programming assignments. I never took one of them up on this offer. To this day I have no idea why....
Perhaps he's not written the greatest science books, but if your criteria is ease of reading, entertainment value and short enough that your average reader is likely to stay the course, then his work must be taken into account.
The shortest book of his that I have 'The Riddle of the Compass, is light and entertaining, yet also manages to include a lot of hard fact.
Also 'Entanglement' counts as being rather good, a very easy introduction to the subject of quantum entanglement.
My favourite has to be 'The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity'. The title is long winded, but I have yet to find a better introduction to the history of Set Theory.
I can take all the RSA keys I want into America. If the data they provide access to is not held on the machine I have with me, there is no problem.
I also have no need to keep the address of my ssh server on the machine I was taking through customs, it's not something I'd forget. Besides, once the key is taken I can regenerate a new one in a matter of seconds anyway.
so long as the plus something is something that makes Vista actually nice to use, and fast, I'm cool.
Our Vista machine paused and greys out the screen for a minute or two whenever we try to access a windows share, or a usb drive, or even sometimes its own file system.
I'm going to have to re-install it soon in an attempt to fix this. I'm not allowed to replace it with XP either, which pisses me off somewhat.
I like XP, I've always liked windows (note, never used ME), and I hope to resume liking windows again once they've moved past Vista.
True, but when you're faced with co-operating with an invasive search of your data or being sent back home and barred from the US, most people would do what they were told.
I can see this having a dire effect on the selection of the US as a conference location for global organisations.Not least of which are academic ones. Can you see any organisation with Chinese members selecting San Diago now?
If I ever visit the US again (got me a hankering to walk the Appellation trail), I will be availing myself of an ssh connection to retrieve my data after going through US customs.
That's kind of the point. The Nazi's weren't either, from their point of view.
If you read Feynmans biographical material, he was quite aware of the destructive potential of the device. Whether killing an army or civilians, the result is no less horrific,
What utter, utter politically correct (pc) bullshit. No really.
Anyone who tries to adhere to an oath of this type will find themselves immediately at risk of following the pc trendies to mediocrity.
Want to know how many of our most important scientists were unethical dicks at one time or another? Quite a few. Its just like in business, it's a rare mind that manages to reach the top of their field and leave no nastiness in their history.
Even my hero, Feynman, worked on the atomic bomb. You can't get away from the fact that he helped kill two cities, and yet he was such a great bloke.
Going back in history a bit, Newton was known for being a nasty piece of work at times.
I know that lots of people will be thinking about the Nazi scientists, but if you believe for one second that an oath would have stopped them, I have one piece of information for you. Most of those scientists were medical doctors who'd taken the Hippocratic oath...
Look, if your going to be a barstard, all an oath will do is make the pc crowd more easy to fool.
I can see why they would think this was easy to get away with.
Even sourceforge have allowed projects to use their services which state they are open source, under the GPL, and yet do not make source code available.
Here's one example. http://audiobookcutter.sourceforge.net/ The company concerned used sourceforge until their product was ready, then moved it onto their own site, changing the product to a free, but feature reduced version, and a paid for full feature version. The source code has never been made available.
In their forum I found this little nugget In my understanding there's no difference whether you call it GPL or Free Version. Most people don't care about the license as long as they don't have to pay for it.
You'd still end up potentially whoring your bandwidth, and I rather suspect that an ISP looking at your traffic logs might ponder how normal usage means you upload and download so many more gigabytes a month then an average user.
Trust me, they'll kick you off just for that, and they wouldn't need to bother with three warnings, I've seen it happen.
It doesn't have to be a crime. All it has to be is a breach of the terms of service.
People need to wise up to the fact that ISPs view massive amounts of p2p traffic on their networks as a bad thing. This is mostly because its costing them money and not making it.
They are in this for the money, not from some altruistic need to provide net access for all.
At risk of being modded down with a baseball bat, this sounds fair.
Three warnings should be more than enough. If you are unaware of the infringing use when you get your first warning, you should try to find out who's doing it. If you don't bother, then well that's your own fault.
It's a whole lot better then being sued for thousands of dollars, at least you get a chance to find out what's happening, or if you are the downloader, to stop with no consequences.
The main point is that they used the material and lied, saying they'd created it themselves, that's a whole different issue from fair use.
It may be illegal anyway, since they used the images to make a product for resale without permission. If you plan to use an image from a game for commercial product you must, at the very least, cite your sources.
I have a number of game development books that rely heavily in in game shots from many current titles, and they are *all* cited correctly.
Even when you aren't selling the end product it's impolite not to do so.
the only thing I worry about is whether I'll be able to fire up my old games and go for a trip down nostalgia lane 20 years from now when the good folks at Valve have gone on to other things.
I shouldn't think this will be an issue, since operating systems in 20 years are likely to be as different from those we have now as the on chip OS of the 80's is from today.
Either some people will produce VMs capable of emulating present operating systems, or your dream will never occur.
1: A bottle of your favorite alcoholic beverage. 2: Three seasons of Southpark. 3: Make that two bottles, and some snacks 4: An internet connection. 5:...
Um, I forget where I was going with this, which pretty much sums up my first year. Ah, I have such fond memories of trying to find papers when I was starting. Now I'm writing up I can look down upon you first year phd noobs and laugh, oh yes, perhaps even 'heartily'.
Well anyway, there's always google scholar. Worked for me, its an extremely useful tool.
better still, post your question to slashdot with enough information that anyone with half a brain could know you were talking about them, and get fired.
Indeed, I originally intended to work in the gaming industry when I graduated from uni, but was warned off from it by a lecturer who'd spent some time in the real world before taking up his lectureship. His reasoning was that I'd end up in cubicle land writing small bits of games over which I had no say, and from what I have since learned, he was spot on.
It seems the industry is getting worse in recent years, but its not uniform. There are some companies where the staff seem to be well paid and have fun, but those tend to be smaller companies, and companies that have avoided the corporate mire.
Even then I wonder if there isn't a hierarchy where the visible coders have a great time and good pay, and beneath them lie unknown coders with the aforementioned lack of say and low pay.
I've found something quite fishy going on in the UK.
We currently have an 8Mb line, and I do mean 8, it gets to that speed quite often, especially in transfers from my university machines, other Janet sites, and other good download locations.
Otherwise we get around 4Mb.
Ok, all fine, but now UK ISP have started talking about max 2Mb lines in my area, and several have 'tested' my line and found it cannot go above 2mb, even when I clearly can get much greater speeds then this, and have before and after their 'test'.
Since this is usually accompanied by 'great deals' on 2mb packages, I smell several day old former fishies.
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Indeed, it is extremely easy to tell when someone is nervously forgetting from someone who has no clue. I've assessed presentations where the student who has quite obviously worked hard has lost their nerve and started blathering, and others where a pseudo confident fool talks a load of crap that reveals they didn't do the work.
As for exactly how you can tell. In my experience you can usually tell because the student who is genuine but too nervous tends to know their system so well they get themselves completely mixed up over their presentation, explaining things out of order and getting confused.
The lying student tends to be far too shallow in descriptions, and avoids low level detail. I even had one who's presentation was only linked to his slides in that they were both in the same room. It was hilarious.
After all, if they think that all they need is the degree certificate in order to get a decent career in IT, then their stupidity leaves the field clear for those of us who slaved over a hot dissertation for months on end.
I have met such morons before, usually they end up in the lowest wage positions, or drifting from one shit job to the next.
When I was an undergrad in CS four years back, there were girls on my course offering sex in return for completing their programming assignments. I never took one of them up on this offer. To this day I have no idea why....
Perhaps he's not written the greatest science books, but if your criteria is ease of reading, entertainment value and short enough that your average reader is likely to stay the course, then his work must be taken into account.
The shortest book of his that I have 'The Riddle of the Compass, is light and entertaining, yet also manages to include a lot of hard fact.
Also 'Entanglement' counts as being rather good, a very easy introduction to the subject of quantum entanglement.
My favourite has to be 'The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity'. The title is long winded, but I have yet to find a better introduction to the history of Set Theory.
I can take all the RSA keys I want into America. If the data they provide access to is not held on the machine I have with me, there is no problem.
I also have no need to keep the address of my ssh server on the machine I was taking through customs, it's not something I'd forget. Besides, once the key is taken I can regenerate a new one in a matter of seconds anyway.
so long as the plus something is something that makes Vista actually nice to use, and fast, I'm cool.
Our Vista machine paused and greys out the screen for a minute or two whenever we try to access a windows share, or a usb drive, or even sometimes its own file system.
I'm going to have to re-install it soon in an attempt to fix this. I'm not allowed to replace it with XP either, which pisses me off somewhat.
I like XP, I've always liked windows (note, never used ME), and I hope to resume liking windows again once they've moved past Vista.
True, but when you're faced with co-operating with an invasive search of your data or being sent back home and barred from the US, most people would do what they were told.
I can see this having a dire effect on the selection of the US as a conference location for global organisations.Not least of which are academic ones. Can you see any organisation with Chinese members selecting San Diago now?
If I ever visit the US again (got me a hankering to walk the Appellation trail), I will be availing myself of an ssh connection to retrieve my data after going through US customs.
From his POV, he wasn't doing anything wrong
That's kind of the point. The Nazi's weren't either, from their point of view.
If you read Feynmans biographical material, he was quite aware of the destructive potential of the device. Whether killing an army or civilians, the result is no less horrific,
What utter, utter politically correct (pc) bullshit. No really.
Anyone who tries to adhere to an oath of this type will find themselves immediately at risk of following the pc trendies to mediocrity.
Want to know how many of our most important scientists were unethical dicks at one time or another? Quite a few. Its just like in business, it's a rare mind that manages to reach the top of their field and leave no nastiness in their history.
Even my hero, Feynman, worked on the atomic bomb. You can't get away from the fact that he helped kill two cities, and yet he was such a great bloke.
Going back in history a bit, Newton was known for being a nasty piece of work at times.
I know that lots of people will be thinking about the Nazi scientists, but if you believe for one second that an oath would have stopped them, I have one piece of information for you. Most of those scientists were medical doctors who'd taken the Hippocratic oath...
Look, if your going to be a barstard, all an oath will do is make the pc crowd more easy to fool.
You're absolutelly right, all we need now is some Martian Whisky and the social lives of any future human expedition is well and truly sorted out.
No. If they were, then any shopping, banking or other website that used encryption to protect its customers would be too.
Um, no, this change has nothing to do with torrent swarms, so downloading of the files referenced inside a torrent would be unaffected.
The point is they never did release the source code, they just used the GPL to gain access to sourceforge as a hosting service.
I can see why they would think this was easy to get away with.
Even sourceforge have allowed projects to use their services which state they are open source, under the GPL, and yet do not make source code available.
Here's one example.
http://audiobookcutter.sourceforge.net/
The company concerned used sourceforge until their product was ready, then moved it onto their own site, changing the product to a free, but feature reduced version, and a paid for full feature version. The source code has never been made available.
In their forum I found this little nugget
In my understanding there's no difference whether you call it GPL or Free Version. Most people don't care about the license as long as they don't have to pay for it.
How would moving to Tor help?
You'd still end up potentially whoring your bandwidth, and I rather suspect that an ISP looking at your traffic logs might ponder how normal usage means you upload and download so many more gigabytes a month then an average user.
Trust me, they'll kick you off just for that, and they wouldn't need to bother with three warnings, I've seen it happen.
It doesn't have to be a crime. All it has to be is a breach of the terms of service.
People need to wise up to the fact that ISPs view massive amounts of p2p traffic on their networks as a bad thing. This is mostly because its costing them money and not making it.
They are in this for the money, not from some altruistic need to provide net access for all.
At risk of being modded down with a baseball bat, this sounds fair.
Three warnings should be more than enough. If you are unaware of the infringing use when you get your first warning, you should try to find out who's doing it. If you don't bother, then well that's your own fault.
It's a whole lot better then being sued for thousands of dollars, at least you get a chance to find out what's happening, or if you are the downloader, to stop with no consequences.
The main point is that they used the material and lied, saying they'd created it themselves, that's a whole different issue from fair use.
It may be illegal anyway, since they used the images to make a product for resale without permission. If you plan to use an image from a game for commercial product you must, at the very least, cite your sources.
I have a number of game development books that rely heavily in in game shots from many current titles, and they are *all* cited correctly.
Even when you aren't selling the end product it's impolite not to do so.
the only thing I worry about is whether I'll be able to fire up my old games and go for a trip down nostalgia lane 20 years from now when the good folks at Valve have gone on to other things.
I shouldn't think this will be an issue, since operating systems in 20 years are likely to be as different from those we have now as the on chip OS of the 80's is from today.
Either some people will produce VMs capable of emulating present operating systems, or your dream will never occur.
1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
Which is interesting, because its primary literary inspiration, Plato's Politeia, was meant to be just that.
You need three things
...
1: A bottle of your favorite alcoholic beverage.
2: Three seasons of Southpark.
3: Make that two bottles, and some snacks
4: An internet connection.
5:
Um, I forget where I was going with this, which pretty much sums up my first year. Ah, I have such fond memories of trying to find papers when I was starting. Now I'm writing up I can look down upon you first year phd noobs and laugh, oh yes, perhaps even 'heartily'.
Well anyway, there's always google scholar. Worked for me, its an extremely useful tool.
In the rare event of success the result is more likely to be ... a less than satisfactory arrangement (e.g. ugly woman, one night stand, STDs, etc.)
So you're saying there's a chance it might work?
Hmmm..
better still, post your question to slashdot with enough information that anyone with half a brain could know you were talking about them, and get fired.
Problem solved....
Indeed, I originally intended to work in the gaming industry when I graduated from uni, but was warned off from it by a lecturer who'd spent some time in the real world before taking up his lectureship. His reasoning was that I'd end up in cubicle land writing small bits of games over which I had no say, and from what I have since learned, he was spot on.
It seems the industry is getting worse in recent years, but its not uniform. There are some companies where the staff seem to be well paid and have fun, but those tend to be smaller companies, and companies that have avoided the corporate mire.
Even then I wonder if there isn't a hierarchy where the visible coders have a great time and good pay, and beneath them lie unknown coders with the aforementioned lack of say and low pay.
Now you've done it, giving the Spectrum two mentions in one post.
I can feel the urge to re-awaken the old 'spectrum vs Commodore 64' argument rising.
Must....resist...
I've found something quite fishy going on in the UK.
We currently have an 8Mb line, and I do mean 8, it gets to that speed quite often, especially in transfers from my university machines, other Janet sites, and other good download locations.
Otherwise we get around 4Mb.
Ok, all fine, but now UK ISP have started talking about max 2Mb lines in my area, and several have 'tested' my line and found it cannot go above 2mb, even when I clearly can get much greater speeds then this, and have before and after their 'test'.
Since this is usually accompanied by 'great deals' on 2mb packages, I smell several day old former fishies.