... your knowledge of the subject.
I got to disagree, your view on this is absurd. The better grade you would get is deserved. Grades you get are based on what you know of a subject, penalizing someone for having a special interest in something is silly. Following your train of thought, what would you do with people who work out on their sparetime when it coems to gym classes? I didn't work out and I would never say that the ones who did cheated, even though they had clearly worked on "assignments" much longer. Similarly anyone who has programmed BEFORE starting a CS course are clearly not on equal footing with someone who hasn't. Whether you had it in writing before you got the assignment is irrelevant.
Basically, you got "lucky", and this happens all the time, like when you have an exam and you get questions on the things you know best. You also claim that you don't learn anything, hell i didn't learn much new stuff in most of the programming classes. For the majority I never even showed up for class. Should one punish student for already knowing the curriculum?
I think it stands to reason that grades should reflect YOUR knowledge of a subject, regardless of how you got it, as long as you wrote/made/did it.
Another thing that has come up in this thread several times is reusing things from previous assignments, if you've ever taken an OO programming course, you'd know that reusing code is the holy grail of OO programming. Not doing so would violate the prinicples you are taught in class.
Yo be honest, I think religion gives us humans a bad rep. As an atheist living in Norway, where religious freedom doesn't really exists, it's sickedning to see how much religion controls today's society.
To name an example, there are regulations that stupulate than 2/3 of the "parliament" must be christian and so on.
Not quite. Radio stations pay for the music they send. I run a radio station, and we got about 20.000 potential listeners. For sending music we pay roughly a $2 per hour of music. If everyone who listened to p2p aquired music would pay something like this, i have no doubt they'd run napster themselves... 2 dollar might not sound much, but this is a small town, and if we were to send 24/7, we'd pay roughly $17.600 in royalties. Think about how many radio stations there are, and you will see how much money they earn on us:-)
For that reason, we've been toying with the idea of sending non-riaa'ed music on air. Letting "indie" musicians have their music braodcast for free, and we don't pay them either. Mutually beneficient. The local norwegian "riaa" was extremely sceptical when i asked them about this, and they didn't really beleive me that there are in fact musicians out there that don't register their music to RIAA etc for royalties. I've had a couple of dealings with these people as it's part of my job, and to be honest, they scare me a bit when it comes to their views on copyright.
Ok, I am at TG, and this my 6th or so, and there seems to be a lot of misconceptions about what it is.
It is a scene-event, with some gaming compos thrown in for good fun. This means people program demos, intros, track music or make gfx and enter compos. This is nothing like a LAN-party or QuakeCon or DEFcon. And as for size, take in mind that the first 3500 or so tickets they put iut for sale were sold in 2 days. TG could have been a lot bigger, if there was a suitable place, and if there was a point. It is also 100% BYOC, and is regarded as one of the biggest parties in the world, along with Assembly, Dreamhack and Breakpoint. Websites for those are easy to find.
As for the scene-culture itself and downlading the stuff I mentioned earlier, try a site like:
www.scene.org
Every time something like this is published, makes me wonder when we'll discover extra-terrestrial life. I honestly don't think it's a question of if, it's more about what, and whether they still are around. Seti@home might not be the solution, but as with all science, one has to start somewhere:-)
I explained this the last time there was a post on DVD-Jon, but this is how it works in Norway:
There are 3 levels of courts in Norway, plus the human-rights thingy in Haag, NL. Both sides may appeal a court's decision. When this is done, it is moved one level up in the "ladder" The courts then decided whether to take the case, or dismiss it, letting the old verdict stand. The supreme court very rarely takes on cases, so in effect you got max two trials. This is probably a much more fair system than the US one, since you can appeal an "obviously" bad decision, and there are no loopholes for people who are later found to be guilty.
Additionally, each level of courts are more "thorough"/experienced have a better jury system. etc. This allows for small things to get done swiftly, but if needed, any side can appeal, and get a new verdict by a different court.
The courts are these (roughly):
1. Byretten (city court)
2. Lagmannsretten (lay-man-court)
3. Høyesterett (supreme court)
The 2nd one is a bit hard to translate, it involves lay-men as judges i think, as part of the process to determine the verdict. A good page, in Norwegian, unfortunatly that explains a lot of expressions can be found on: http://www.nored.no/offentlighet/ord.html I guess you can search on terms there as there are prolly some good explanations of those on the web, although my googles didn't return much useful.
If you're interested in more details, just reply and I will do my best to explain.
Quake 1 was released August 96 if I am not mistaken. And it did very well. Doom and Quake still do well to be honest. Check out a site like www.doomworld.com, or the recently./ posted "lotr - tt - battle for helms deep" modification for doom.
The reason software isn't called shareware any more is mostly cos the term is a bit vague to a computer newbie, and that there is so much bad shareware out there. The term shareware is just tainted. Shareware was always touted as a low budget way to promote software. And in many cases the software itself was also low-budget. There are some game reviews on www.somethingawful.com that springs to mind why shareware ain't used by the big firms for good games any more
There has never been a monopoly on dial-up access in Norway. Check out the following page: http://www.isoc-no.no/isoc-no/social/timeline-no.h tml
Do notice the following line:
"1991 Oslonett og Telepost Communication stiftet. Oslonett tilbyr epost og informasjonstjenester, TelePost selger X.400 epost tjenetser."
That translates into: 91, oslonett and TPC founded. ON offers email and information services, Telepost sell x.400 email services.
Any monopoly they might have had was because they started up first, which the page really doesn't mention. But further down in 93 they mention several dial-up providers. Please don't use slashdot to spread disinformation and lies. Telenor may not be a good isp, but it never had a monopoly on dial-up. I didn't start with telenor when I got my first connection over 7 years ago.
TG ain't a pure ga(y)mer lan, there are a lot of scene events, these are more spectator friendly events than watching CS....
Scene events like demos often draw a huge crowd. There's something special about sittin/standing together with hundreds of other enthusiasts watching wicked demos. Check out scene.org for more info.
That's the beauty of a large LAN, there's enough sceners to feel at home, there's enough gamers yelling for those who like that. On a 500 person LAN you would never get 250 people competing in non-game competitions like 4k, 64k, demo, music, tracking etc.
Reminds me, I've been to TG and a host of other lans, and last weekend I was in the crew organizing a 200 person lan in. What I just don't get is all the bloody CS players screaming when they lose or win. Picture this: You're walking quietly down an aisle making sure noone sleeps "on" their place, cos that is a fire hazard, and without warning some 14 year old in a hooded gangsta sweater stands up and yell "GULL" (gold). Last TG there was a lot of people yelling "Arne" out at random. Arne is pretty common name, the equivalent of Michael in the US.
Is this kind of behaviour a local phenomenon in Norway, or does that happen all over the world?
Fair use in Norway:
Basically, you can make private copies of anything as long as you do not distribute them in any way. One might call it backups.
Appeal system:
You can appeal a sentence, but each time this is done the next trial is by a higher instance in the justice system. If a higher instance refuses to take on the case, the old verdict is the one that counts. There are 3 levels + the Human Rights tribunal in Haag or so.
1. Herreds/Byrett (county/city court)
2. Lagmannsretten (laymen's court)
3. Høyesterett (Supreme court)
The supreme court, (translated from http://www.mossbyrett.of.no/info/i_straff.html) cannot retry whether the accused is guilty or not. It is only there for matters og priniciples, and has more or less been abolished as an instance for appeals. So basically, you can be retried for the same crime, but only a very limited amount of times, and by significantly different courts.
Instead of changing the orbit of the asteroid, why not simply change the orbit of the earth. All that is needed is the entire Chinese population jumping. Once we have safely avoided the asteroid, someone on the other side of the earth can nudge it back in place with some additional jumping, we might even improve the orbit a tad while we're at it.
Obviously this is cheaper, more enviroment friendly and whole lot more "down to earth" than the proposed ICBM plans.
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... your knowledge of the subject.
I got to disagree, your view on this is absurd. The better grade you would get is deserved. Grades you get are based on what you know of a subject, penalizing someone for having a special interest in something is silly. Following your train of thought, what would you do with people who work out on their sparetime when it coems to gym classes? I didn't work out and I would never say that the ones who did cheated, even though they had clearly worked on "assignments" much longer. Similarly anyone who has programmed BEFORE starting a CS course are clearly not on equal footing with someone who hasn't. Whether you had it in writing before you got the assignment is irrelevant.
Basically, you got "lucky", and this happens all the time, like when you have an exam and you get questions on the things you know best. You also claim that you don't learn anything, hell i didn't learn much new stuff in most of the programming classes. For the majority I never even showed up for class. Should one punish student for already knowing the curriculum?
I think it stands to reason that grades should reflect YOUR knowledge of a subject, regardless of how you got it, as long as you wrote/made/did it.
Another thing that has come up in this thread several times is reusing things from previous assignments, if you've ever taken an OO programming course, you'd know that reusing code is the holy grail of OO programming. Not doing so would violate the prinicples you are taught in class.
Yo be honest, I think religion gives us humans a bad rep. As an atheist living in Norway, where religious freedom doesn't really exists, it's sickedning to see how much religion controls today's society.
To name an example, there are regulations that stupulate than 2/3 of the "parliament" must be christian and so on.
Not quite. Radio stations pay for the music they send. I run a radio station, and we got about 20.000 potential listeners. For sending music we pay roughly a $2 per hour of music. If everyone who listened to p2p aquired music would pay something like this, i have no doubt they'd run napster themselves... 2 dollar might not sound much, but this is a small town, and if we were to send 24/7, we'd pay roughly $17.600 in royalties. Think about how many radio stations there are, and you will see how much money they earn on us :-)
For that reason, we've been toying with the idea of sending non-riaa'ed music on air. Letting "indie" musicians have their music braodcast for free, and we don't pay them either. Mutually beneficient. The local norwegian "riaa" was extremely sceptical when i asked them about this, and they didn't really beleive me that there are in fact musicians out there that don't register their music to RIAA etc for royalties. I've had a couple of dealings with these people as it's part of my job, and to be honest, they scare me a bit when it comes to their views on copyright.
So, does anyone know when all this fancy AI will be backported into Battle Chess?
Ok, I am at TG, and this my 6th or so, and there seems to be a lot of misconceptions about what it is.
It is a scene-event, with some gaming compos thrown in for good fun. This means people program demos, intros, track music or make gfx and enter compos. This is nothing like a LAN-party or QuakeCon or DEFcon. And as for size, take in mind that the first 3500 or so tickets they put iut for sale were sold in 2 days. TG could have been a lot bigger, if there was a suitable place, and if there was a point. It is also 100% BYOC, and is regarded as one of the biggest parties in the world, along with Assembly, Dreamhack and Breakpoint. Websites for those are easy to find.
As for the scene-culture itself and downlading the stuff I mentioned earlier, try a site like: www.scene.org
Just wondering, is a giganova 1024 or 1000 times stronger than a meganova :-)
I'd say it would be a lot more interesting to see which scifi books that did get it right, and how the hell they accomplished just that.......
Every time something like this is published, makes me wonder when we'll discover extra-terrestrial life. I honestly don't think it's a question of if, it's more about what, and whether they still are around. Seti@home might not be the solution, but as with all science, one has to start somewhere :-)
I explained this the last time there was a post on DVD-Jon, but this is how it works in Norway:
There are 3 levels of courts in Norway, plus the human-rights thingy in Haag, NL. Both sides may appeal a court's decision. When this is done, it is moved one level up in the "ladder" The courts then decided whether to take the case, or dismiss it, letting the old verdict stand. The supreme court very rarely takes on cases, so in effect you got max two trials. This is probably a much more fair system than the US one, since you can appeal an "obviously" bad decision, and there are no loopholes for people who are later found to be guilty.
Additionally, each level of courts are more "thorough"/experienced have a better jury system. etc. This allows for small things to get done swiftly, but if needed, any side can appeal, and get a new verdict by a different court.
The courts are these (roughly):
1. Byretten (city court)
2. Lagmannsretten (lay-man-court)
3. Høyesterett (supreme court)
The 2nd one is a bit hard to translate, it involves lay-men as judges i think, as part of the process to determine the verdict. A good page, in Norwegian, unfortunatly that explains a lot of expressions can be found on: http://www.nored.no/offentlighet/ord.html I guess you can search on terms there as there are prolly some good explanations of those on the web, although my googles didn't return much useful.
If you're interested in more details, just reply and I will do my best to explain.
The reason software isn't called shareware any more is mostly cos the term is a bit vague to a computer newbie, and that there is so much bad shareware out there. The term shareware is just tainted. Shareware was always touted as a low budget way to promote software. And in many cases the software itself was also low-budget. There are some game reviews on www.somethingawful.com that springs to mind why shareware ain't used by the big firms for good games any more
http://www.somethingawful.com/games/
There has never been a monopoly on dial-up access in Norway. Check out the following page: http://www.isoc-no.no/isoc-no/social/timeline-no.h tml
Do notice the following line:
"1991 Oslonett og Telepost Communication stiftet. Oslonett tilbyr epost og informasjonstjenester, TelePost selger X.400 epost tjenetser."
That translates into: 91, oslonett and TPC founded. ON offers email and information services, Telepost sell x.400 email services.
Any monopoly they might have had was because they started up first, which the page really doesn't mention. But further down in 93 they mention several dial-up providers. Please don't use slashdot to spread disinformation and lies.
Telenor may not be a good isp, but it never had a monopoly on dial-up. I didn't start with telenor when I got my first connection over 7 years ago.
TG ain't a pure ga(y)mer lan, there are a lot of scene events, these are more spectator friendly events than watching CS....
Scene events like demos often draw a huge crowd. There's something special about sittin/standing together with hundreds of other enthusiasts watching wicked demos. Check out scene.org for more info.
That's the beauty of a large LAN, there's enough sceners to feel at home, there's enough gamers yelling for those who like that. On a 500 person LAN you would never get 250 people competing in non-game competitions like 4k, 64k, demo, music, tracking etc. Reminds me, I've been to TG and a host of other lans, and last weekend I was in the crew organizing a 200 person lan in. What I just don't get is all the bloody CS players screaming when they lose or win.
Picture this: You're walking quietly down an aisle making sure noone sleeps "on" their place, cos that is a fire hazard, and without warning some 14 year old in a hooded gangsta sweater stands up and yell "GULL" (gold). Last TG there was a lot of people yelling "Arne" out at random. Arne is pretty common name, the equivalent of Michael in the US.
Is this kind of behaviour a local phenomenon in Norway, or does that happen all over the world?
Fair use in Norway:
Basically, you can make private copies of anything as long as you do not distribute them in any way. One might call it backups.
Appeal system:
You can appeal a sentence, but each time this is done the next trial is by a higher instance in the justice system. If a higher instance refuses to take on the case, the old verdict is the one that counts. There are 3 levels + the Human Rights tribunal in Haag or so.
1. Herreds/Byrett (county/city court)
2. Lagmannsretten (laymen's court)
3. Høyesterett (Supreme court)
The supreme court, (translated from http://www.mossbyrett.of.no/info/i_straff.html) cannot retry whether the accused is guilty or not. It is only there for matters og priniciples, and has more or less been abolished as an instance for appeals. So basically, you can be retried for the same crime, but only a very limited amount of times, and by significantly different courts.
Instead of changing the orbit of the asteroid, why not simply change the orbit of the earth. All that is needed is the entire Chinese population jumping. Once we have safely avoided the asteroid, someone on the other side of the earth can nudge it back in place with some additional jumping, we might even improve the orbit a tad while we're at it. Obviously this is cheaper, more enviroment friendly and whole lot more "down to earth" than the proposed ICBM plans.