I must admit I have been guilty of quite blatant plagarism for my GCSE in Computer Studies - as was everyone else in the class.
I think for our coursework we had to write a short game in some kind of BASIC languauge on the RM Nimbus machines. In my defence the teacher we had was a great person but an utterly useless teacher, he had a doctorate and had escaped from Iraq in the fuel tank of a truck and was a very intelligent man but unfortunatley he just wasn't cut out for teaching or indeed any role where he was required to explain anything in terms simple enough for a class of secondary school students to understand.
We spent most of the lessons playing the games which came on demo disk with the RM Nimbus. Because they were written in BASIC all the source code was right there to "learn" from so when I realised we had to do some kind of coursework I just modified the source code for all the games to play different sounds, be in different colours and added some new things to some of them although any idiot could see instantly they were more or less identical. I handed this in as my coursework but before I did I gave individual games from my set ( I had about 8 games ) to everyone else in the class for their coursework. Amazingly this apparently went unnoticed because I ended up getting an A grade GCSE for it.
I had this same teacher as the invigilator for my A Level Physics practical exam, he came round and asked everyone about the experiments they were setting up and then if he didn't think they were doing it right he would explain how to do it better and in some cases set up all the equipment for people and tell them what to write. This is definitely not allowed but was very nice of him.
Basically they have a big winch on top of the building which allows the magnetic field generator to move up and down the shaft, the elevator moves with the generator. Simple really.
I'm sorry but I find the fact you are coldy discussing how to loot corpses far more disturbing than your whinges that people occasionally beat you to it ! Do you realise how sick and warped you are ? You should seek help now.
Bang on, you looked at the problem decided that AJAX could help towards your solution and then designed a workable system to meet your goals. Which I think is a far more effective strategy than that proposed by the Grandparent.
In my opinion you shouldn't be using any technology or tool unless you have decided to use it for similar reasons. For example you wouldn't use a chainsaw to tile your bathroom no matter how cool and modern the chainsaw happened to be.
"It would probably be even better to split this into two or more distinct sentences."
Yes, it probably would have been, but where's the fun in that ? By choosing to use the longest possible sentence I could I have provided the opportunity for three different people to compose replies demonstrating their superior grasp of the English language and its grammatical conventions. Their participation and posted replies imply that they have enjoyed the experience which can be taken in addition to the benefit they may have gained from the research which some have implied was involved in their reply.
Yes I can see that the when faced with the precision, needle like, payload of ICBMs aimed at the constantly moving American cities and military establishments you'd want to deny cm accurate guidance systems to the aforementioned ICMBs.
Thank goodness we don't live in a world where nuclear missiles can cause damage over many square miles and cities are anchored in one place and even, god forbid, have their locations marked on maps which are widely available throughout the world, oh the horror.
I'm actually surprised that the EU isn't planning on using all those thousands of cheaply available Iranian and North Korean intercontinental missiles to help launch their satellites in the first place.
It doesn't matter how the colonists got there, the fact is that it was the European powers who were responsible for colonising the USA and allowing it to develop the way it has. Therefore within the parameters of this ridiculous argument: you lose. Loser.
Why does he keep mistaking the word "use" for the word "leverage" ? The only possible advantage I can see in substituting the word "leverage" is that it sort of implies they are making the best use of these tools that they can in which case you would think that most people would have already assumed they are not making the worst possible use they could of the tools and it's interesting that the author feels it necessary to make that distinction.
"... getting your drivers license in Europe isn't as easy as in the US"
I'd question that, from what I have heard the UK driving test is probably as hard or harder than the US one - we generally don't take the test in Automatics for a start ! I'm fairly sure a lot of other European countries; Germany, Holland etc have proper tests as well. Spaniards do drive like maniacs so I don't know what kind of test they take.
I doubt it, I think in the olden days a driving test used to consist of driving up and down the street and was not the hour long ordeal it is nowadays.
It doesn't matter how the files got on to her computer, for all the RIAA or anyone else knows she may have backed them up there from CD's in her music connection. The question is how has she come to he sharing them on P2P networks and how have the RIAA been able to download these files from her IP address.
I agree that this could happen in any number of ways through the machinations of evil hackers without her knowledge but it could also happen because she has been running P2P sharing applications herself. I think it's fair to say unless she has some good reasons and evidence of why or how these hackers have been illegally setting her computer up to fileshare the RIAA have a good case that they could download files from her because she was illegally sharing them.
I think the points in her favour are that the RIAA are less than meticulous about how they gather evidence as to where they downloaded the files from and would find it hard to prove that it was her computer using the IP address at the time.
There is nothing wrong with downloading music. The RIAA has a list of music which they say they downloaded from her, it is sharing music by allowing people to download it which is illegal.
The music industry does it's best to make out that it's downloading which is the crime but in fact it's not.
Amusingly ( or not ) in the UK now the equivalent of the PRO have determined that music shops must pay them fees or stop people coming into the shop and testing instruments by playing copyrighted songs on them since this is, in their opinion, a public performance of the work. They sure know how to win friends and gain public support...
Well virtually everyone has the capabilty to download movies for free and also the knowledge that this is an option for them yet DVD sales remain strong and people still go to the cinema.
Clearly I'd like to avoid stretching this metaphor too far but perhaps a better comparison would be that the car salesman has sold you a car with a giant caravan made out of ads which is glued to the back bumper and connected to your cars workings through a giant but badly maintained skein of cables. At speeds of over 30 miles an hour various lights and systems in the caravan are activated making it sway and jump from side to side whilst shining bright lights into your mirrors and making annoying, loud, distracting noises. If you choose to disconnect the caravan and incorrectly disconnect the impossible maze of wiring other bits of your car will randomly stop working or reconfigure themselves as toasters or electric hair curlers. Any mechanics you approach to fix the problem can only get the car to work again by completely reconnecting the giant annoying caravan to your back bumper again.
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I must admit I have been guilty of quite blatant plagarism for my GCSE in Computer Studies - as was everyone else in the class.
I think for our coursework we had to write a short game in some kind of BASIC languauge on the RM Nimbus machines. In my defence the teacher we had was a great person but an utterly useless teacher, he had a doctorate and had escaped from Iraq in the fuel tank of a truck and was a very intelligent man but unfortunatley he just wasn't cut out for teaching or indeed any role where he was required to explain anything in terms simple enough for a class of secondary school students to understand.
We spent most of the lessons playing the games which came on demo disk with the RM Nimbus. Because they were written in BASIC all the source code was right there to "learn" from so when I realised we had to do some kind of coursework I just modified the source code for all the games to play different sounds, be in different colours and added some new things to some of them although any idiot could see instantly they were more or less identical. I handed this in as my coursework but before I did I gave individual games from my set ( I had about 8 games ) to everyone else in the class for their coursework. Amazingly this apparently went unnoticed because I ended up getting an A grade GCSE for it.
I had this same teacher as the invigilator for my A Level Physics practical exam, he came round and asked everyone about the experiments they were setting up and then if he didn't think they were doing it right he would explain how to do it better and in some cases set up all the equipment for people and tell them what to write. This is definitely not allowed but was very nice of him.
Personally, no. I agree God probably is a tool.
Basically they have a big winch on top of the building which allows the magnetic field generator to move up and down the shaft, the elevator moves with the generator. Simple really.
I suspect the magnets normally hold the door open rather than closed.
I'm sorry but I find the fact you are coldy discussing how to loot corpses far more disturbing than your whinges that people occasionally beat you to it ! Do you realise how sick and warped you are ? You should seek help now.
Bang on, you looked at the problem decided that AJAX could help towards your solution and then designed a workable system to meet your goals. Which I think is a far more effective strategy than that proposed by the Grandparent.
In my opinion you shouldn't be using any technology or tool unless you have decided to use it for similar reasons. For example you wouldn't use a chainsaw to tile your bathroom no matter how cool and modern the chainsaw happened to be.
How about Cricket ?
"It would probably be even better to split this into two or more distinct sentences."
Yes, it probably would have been, but where's the fun in that ? By choosing to use the longest possible sentence I could I have provided the opportunity for three different people to compose replies demonstrating their superior grasp of the English language and its grammatical conventions. Their participation and posted replies imply that they have enjoyed the experience which can be taken in addition to the benefit they may have gained from the research which some have implied was involved in their reply.
Yes I can see that the when faced with the precision, needle like, payload of ICBMs aimed at the constantly moving American cities and military establishments you'd want to deny cm accurate guidance systems to the aforementioned ICMBs.
Thank goodness we don't live in a world where nuclear missiles can cause damage over many square miles and cities are anchored in one place and even, god forbid, have their locations marked on maps which are widely available throughout the world, oh the horror.
I'm actually surprised that the EU isn't planning on using all those thousands of cheaply available Iranian and North Korean intercontinental missiles to help launch their satellites in the first place.
It doesn't matter how the colonists got there, the fact is that it was the European powers who were responsible for colonising the USA and allowing it to develop the way it has. Therefore within the parameters of this ridiculous argument: you lose. Loser.
Why does he keep mistaking the word "use" for the word "leverage" ? The only possible advantage I can see in substituting the word "leverage" is that it sort of implies they are making the best use of these tools that they can in which case you would think that most people would have already assumed they are not making the worst possible use they could of the tools and it's interesting that the author feels it necessary to make that distinction.
Ah yes indeed I did misread your original statement - it's late and I'm tired !
"... getting your drivers license in Europe isn't as easy as in the US"
I'd question that, from what I have heard the UK driving test is probably as hard or harder than the US one - we generally don't take the test in Automatics for a start ! I'm fairly sure a lot of other European countries; Germany, Holland etc have proper tests as well. Spaniards do drive like maniacs so I don't know what kind of test they take.
I doubt it, I think in the olden days a driving test used to consist of driving up and down the street and was not the hour long ordeal it is nowadays.
I don't think you're going to get anywhere taking a Eukerist, maybe you ought to try taking the Eucharist instead ?
Damn right, I live near Bournville - the throbbing industrial heart of the Cadbury Schweppes empire.
Nae laddie, ah canna gie ye abuin whap 9 !
It doesn't matter how the files got on to her computer, for all the RIAA or anyone else knows she may have backed them up there from CD's in her music connection. The question is how has she come to he sharing them on P2P networks and how have the RIAA been able to download these files from her IP address.
I agree that this could happen in any number of ways through the machinations of evil hackers without her knowledge but it could also happen because she has been running P2P sharing applications herself. I think it's fair to say unless she has some good reasons and evidence of why or how these hackers have been illegally setting her computer up to fileshare the RIAA have a good case that they could download files from her because she was illegally sharing them.
I think the points in her favour are that the RIAA are less than meticulous about how they gather evidence as to where they downloaded the files from and would find it hard to prove that it was her computer using the IP address at the time.
There is nothing wrong with downloading music. The RIAA has a list of music which they say they downloaded from her, it is sharing music by allowing people to download it which is illegal.
The music industry does it's best to make out that it's downloading which is the crime but in fact it's not.
Amusingly ( or not ) in the UK now the equivalent of the PRO have determined that music shops must pay them fees or stop people coming into the shop and testing instruments by playing copyrighted songs on them since this is, in their opinion, a public performance of the work. They sure know how to win friends and gain public support...
In fundamentalist America mammoths denounce cloning as the devils work.
The only difference is time, besides which I'm fairly sure that we have observed animals diverging into seperate species.
Well virtually everyone has the capabilty to download movies for free and also the knowledge that this is an option for them yet DVD sales remain strong and people still go to the cinema.
Clearly I'd like to avoid stretching this metaphor too far but perhaps a better comparison would be that the car salesman has sold you a car with a giant caravan made out of ads which is glued to the back bumper and connected to your cars workings through a giant but badly maintained skein of cables. At speeds of over 30 miles an hour various lights and systems in the caravan are activated making it sway and jump from side to side whilst shining bright lights into your mirrors and making annoying, loud, distracting noises. If you choose to disconnect the caravan and incorrectly disconnect the impossible maze of wiring other bits of your car will randomly stop working or reconfigure themselves as toasters or electric hair curlers. Any mechanics you approach to fix the problem can only get the car to work again by completely reconnecting the giant annoying caravan to your back bumper again.
I think the later levels were reverse gravity and the spaceship would be invisible, it took me months I think to get to those !