Your talking about this like this is a 12 year old kid. We are talking about an adult, living on his own. Everquest came out when he bacame an adult.
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Who remembers a few years ago when they had the big end-all-be-all of quake tournaments. Frist prize was John Carmack's Ferrari. I even remember a cheesy press release where he was talking about owning 4 Ferrari's, and it was more than he needed.
Some dude that went by Thresh won it.PC Gamer even gave him a job as a staff writer, with a monthly column on multiplayer gaming. Yeah, because winning a quake tournament makes you qualified to write a magazine column.
PK "Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?"
He had to go to the trouble of finding someone who had taken the course from me before, and convincing them to let him have their copy of my solutions.
It is very likely this was no problem at all for him.
I am not sure if you are aware of a students life at university, but we have access to many archives. I alone have a few different sources (My Department club, Online ones run by our AMS, By Frat archives,... other that I don't use). These include in different cases tests, assignments, and notes. Looking through these is not cheating. They are getting a different perspective on things that the teacher may not of had.
For example, I find the best way to study for tests is to do old problems. So I get my hand on aas many old tests and quizzes (most useful) and problem sets (not quite as good) that I can, and do the problems as many times as time permits.
My syllabus makes it very cleat that this is not allowed.
This seems odd. one can't look at another students notes... I would very likely ignore such a thing. Granted the indenting is pretty suspicious, but beyond that, I would say you have nothing. We live in a big world, a lot of the time coincidences are just that, coincidences. They are bound to happen now and then.
PK Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?
"Videogames do not affect children. If Pacman affected us as kids, we would be running around in dark rooms, munching on pills and listening to repetitive music."
Me's wondering how many/.ers don't get this one...
PK Where are we going... and why are we in this handbasket?
UBC Engineers have been responsible for many STUdeNT ProjectS themselves over the years, the most memorable is quite possible the recent Golden Gate Bridge Bug. Heck, it even made it into the/..
There are of course many more out there, VW bugs hung off every conceivable place in Vancouver, the infamous Rose Bowl Heist, etc...
PK Where are we going... and why are we in this handbasket?
Well, I always new that UBC was cool, but I kind of wondered what the hell they did with that big 'ol atom smasher at the corner of the Campus. (Yeah, I know it has a real name, but come on, I go to the school, I can call it what I want)
PK
"Where are we going... and why are we in this handbasket?"
They use Carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of C, for Carbon dating. It has a halflife of 5568 years. You can find a lot more information about it here.
However, it should be noted that time and again Carbon Dating has been proven wildely innacurate for recent dates (of which 6000 is). I certainly think that a salt water environment could effect these small time frame innacuracies.
PK Where are we going.... and why are we in this handbasket?
Hmmm... You are looking for an interesting combination here... a remote starter combined with security for your car. I had no problem putting a remote starter in my car ('85 van), spend $80 at Canadian Tire, and less than an hour of work, but security wasn't a big concern for me.
What I think is if you want one of these devices, you are taking a security risk from the start. Me and a friend quite easily designed a garage door openor once that would scroll through the 1024 possible signals of a popular brand. I wonder if it would be very hard to design a starter remote to do a similar thing. Me-thinks no.
I guess a final question, is if your car is that new, what do you need a remote starter for? Any new car I've been in warms up very fast, and the windows defog right away. It is only us in old cars that really need one. And we arn't as worried about security.
PK "Where are we going... and why are we in this handbasket"
As A matter of fact, they are not the same. We took an N64 apart once (it wasn't working anyway), and the screws for didn't look at all like the ones for the game cube. They were sort of a "Reverse Slot" With slots on the sides and a raised middle.
We were however able to make a driver for this by taking a dremmel to a regular slot screwdriver and taking out the middle. I think we still have it at home.
For the record. contrary to what was posted below, I think Nintendo is conciously trying to keep the average person from getting into their machines. There are plenty of screw designs out their that they could use and would work just as good as their wierd game cube screws. For the same note, they wouldn't change screws between modles if they wern't trying to keep people out.
PK Where are we going... and why are we in this handbasket?
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Read the damn article. The guy lived by himself, we are not talking about a 12 year old at his mom's place. We are talking about an adult. PK
Your talking about this like this is a 12 year old kid. We are talking about an adult, living on his own. Everquest came out when he bacame an adult. PK
Some dude that went by Thresh won it. PC Gamer even gave him a job as a staff writer, with a monthly column on multiplayer gaming. Yeah, because winning a quake tournament makes you qualified to write a magazine column.
PK
"Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?"
It is very likely this was no problem at all for him.
I am not sure if you are aware of a students life at university, but we have access to many archives. I alone have a few different sources (My Department club, Online ones run by our AMS, By Frat archives,... other that I don't use). These include in different cases tests, assignments, and notes. Looking through these is not cheating. They are getting a different perspective on things that the teacher may not of had.
For example, I find the best way to study for tests is to do old problems. So I get my hand on aas many old tests and quizzes (most useful) and problem sets (not quite as good) that I can, and do the problems as many times as time permits.
My syllabus makes it very cleat that this is not allowed.
This seems odd. one can't look at another students notes... I would very likely ignore such a thing. Granted the indenting is pretty suspicious, but beyond that, I would say you have nothing. We live in a big world, a lot of the time coincidences are just that, coincidences. They are bound to happen now and then.
PK
Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?
"Videogames do not affect children. If Pacman affected us as kids, we would be running around in dark rooms, munching on pills and listening to repetitive music."
Me's wondering how many /.ers don't get this one...
PK
Where are we going... and why are we in this handbasket?
There are of course many more out there, VW bugs hung off every conceivable place in Vancouver, the infamous Rose Bowl Heist, etc...
PK
Where are we going... and why are we in this handbasket?
PK
"Where are we going... and why are we in this handbasket?"
However, it should be noted that time and again Carbon Dating has been proven wildely innacurate for recent dates (of which 6000 is). I certainly think that a salt water environment could effect these small time frame innacuracies.
PK
Where are we going.... and why are we in this handbasket?
Hmmm... You are looking for an interesting combination here... a remote starter combined with security for your car. I had no problem putting a remote starter in my car ('85 van), spend $80 at Canadian Tire, and less than an hour of work, but security wasn't a big concern for me.
What I think is if you want one of these devices, you are taking a security risk from the start. Me and a friend quite easily designed a garage door openor once that would scroll through the 1024 possible signals of a popular brand. I wonder if it would be very hard to design a starter remote to do a similar thing. Me-thinks no.
I guess a final question, is if your car is that new, what do you need a remote starter for? Any new car I've been in warms up very fast, and the windows defog right away. It is only us in old cars that really need one. And we arn't as worried about security.
PK
"Where are we going... and why are we in this handbasket"
We were however able to make a driver for this by taking a dremmel to a regular slot screwdriver and taking out the middle. I think we still have it at home.
For the record. contrary to what was posted below, I think Nintendo is conciously trying to keep the average person from getting into their machines. There are plenty of screw designs out their that they could use and would work just as good as their wierd game cube screws. For the same note, they wouldn't change screws between modles if they wern't trying to keep people out.
PK
Where are we going... and why are we in this handbasket?