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  • Plagiarism is when you're pretending the work is your own and not giving proper credit.

    Copyright infringement is when you're reprinting the work without permission.

    It is possible to do both at the same time, but plagiarism is the more serious charge.

    © Paul White 2011

  • SQLkiwi (3/4/2011)


    Plagiarism is when you're pretending the work is your own and not giving proper credit.

    Copyright infringement is when you're reprinting the work without permission.

    It is possible to do both at the same time, but plagiarism is the more serious charge.

    © Paul White 2011

    :-D:-D

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  • Dave Ballantyne (3/4/2011)


    SQLkiwi (3/4/2011)


    Plagiarism is when you're pretending the work is your own and not giving proper credit.

    Copyright infringement is when you're reprinting the work without permission.

    It is possible to do both at the same time, but plagiarism is the more serious charge.

    © Paul White 2011

    :-D:-D

    Careful . Get much sharper, and you'll cut yourself

    Erm, Dave, did you ask before quoting this?

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  • Chris Morris-439714 (3/4/2011)


    Dave Ballantyne (3/4/2011)


    SQLkiwi (3/4/2011)


    Plagiarism is when you're pretending the work is your own and not giving proper credit.

    Copyright infringement is when you're reprinting the work without permission.

    It is possible to do both at the same time, but plagiarism is the more serious charge.

    © Paul White 2011

    :-D:-D

    Careful . Get much sharper, and you'll cut yourself

    Erm, Dave, did you ask before quoting this?

    My lawyers already have their instructions. :laugh:

  • SQLkiwi (3/4/2011)


    Chris Morris-439714 (3/4/2011)

    Erm, Dave, did you ask before quoting this?

    My lawyers already have their instructions. :laugh:

    Let them try , fair use applies here 😀



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  • Brandie Tarvin (3/4/2011)


    Koen Verbeeck (3/4/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (3/4/2011)


    Koen Verbeeck (3/3/2011)


    Another sad case of copyright infringement (or plagiarism, I can't tell them apart):

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1072353-2912-1.aspx#bm1072920

    Plagiarism is when you're pretending the work is your own and not giving proper credit.

    Copyright infringement is when you're reprinting the work without permission.

    It is possible to do both at the same time, but plagiarism is the more serious charge.

    Well, than it is obvious plagiarism in this case.

    (small grammar question, in the sentence above, should it be than or then?)

    "than" is a comparison word. "then" means "after" or "in addition to" or something that occurs second, third, etc.

    Because you are implicitly comparing plagiarism to copyright infringment, you are using the correct word.

    Your explanation is correct, but the conclusion is incorrect. You could rephrase Koen's sentence as "Well, therefore it is obvious plagiarism in this case". Hence it should be "then", not "than".

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  • SQLkiwi (3/4/2011)


    Plagiarism is when you're pretending the work is your own and not giving proper credit.

    Copyright infringement is when you're reprinting the work without permission.

    It is possible to do both at the same time, but plagiarism is the more serious charge.

    © Paul White 2011

    *applause*

    To quote the guys from the Guinness commercial: "Brilliant!"

    No, I am not going to do a full APA-style citation for the above referenced Guinness commercial. 😉

    -Ki

    -Ki

  • Jan Van der Eecken (3/4/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (3/4/2011)


    Koen Verbeeck (3/4/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (3/4/2011)


    Plagiarism is when you're pretending the work is your own and not giving proper credit.

    Copyright infringement is when you're reprinting the work without permission.

    It is possible to do both at the same time, but plagiarism is the more serious charge.

    Well, than it is obvious plagiarism in this case.

    (small grammar question, in the sentence above, should it be than or then?)

    "than" is a comparison word. "then" means "after" or "in addition to" or something that occurs second, third, etc.

    Because you are implicitly comparing plagiarism to copyright infringment, you are using the correct word.

    Your explanation is correct, but the conclusion is incorrect. You could rephrase Koen's sentence as "Well, therefore it is obvious plagiarism in this case". Hence it should be "then", not "than".

    I think I get it now. "Then" and "Than" are translated into the same word in Dutch: "Dan", so it's easy to get confused 😀

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  • Jan Van der Eecken (3/4/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (3/4/2011)


    Koen Verbeeck (3/4/2011)


    Brandie Tarvin (3/4/2011)


    Koen Verbeeck (3/3/2011)


    Another sad case of copyright infringement (or plagiarism, I can't tell them apart):

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1072353-2912-1.aspx#bm1072920

    Plagiarism is when you're pretending the work is your own and not giving proper credit.

    Copyright infringement is when you're reprinting the work without permission.

    It is possible to do both at the same time, but plagiarism is the more serious charge.

    Well, than it is obvious plagiarism in this case.

    (small grammar question, in the sentence above, should it be than or then?)

    "than" is a comparison word. "then" means "after" or "in addition to" or something that occurs second, third, etc.

    Because you are implicitly comparing plagiarism to copyright infringment, you are using the correct word.

    Your explanation is correct, but the conclusion is incorrect. You could rephrase Koen's sentence as "Well, therefore it is obvious plagiarism in this case". Hence it should be "then", not "than".

    Sounds like the Logic Class my daughter is taking in college right now.

    Tough course to take online, when the only feedback you get is correct or incorrect.

    The Why would be very helpful to know.

    Greg E

  • Greg Edwards-268690 (3/4/2011)


    Sounds like the Logic Class my daughter is taking in college right now.

    Tough course to take online, when the only feedback you get is correct or incorrect.

    The Why would be very helpful to know.

    Greg E

    ...is it a Boolean logic course?

    (sorry, sorry, I know)

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  • jcrawf02 (3/4/2011)


    Greg Edwards-268690 (3/4/2011)


    Sounds like the Logic Class my daughter is taking in college right now.

    Tough course to take online, when the only feedback you get is correct or incorrect.

    The Why would be very helpful to know.

    Greg E

    ...is it a Boolean logic course?

    (sorry, sorry, I know)

    😀 :hehe:

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  • jcrawf02 (3/4/2011)


    Greg Edwards-268690 (3/4/2011)


    Sounds like the Logic Class my daughter is taking in college right now.

    Tough course to take online, when the only feedback you get is correct or incorrect.

    The Why would be very helpful to know.

    Greg E

    ...is it a Boolean logic course?

    (sorry, sorry, I know)

    Good job it isn't based on SQL, otherwise she could get Correct, Incorrect or Unknown :w00t:

  • Tom.Thomson (3/3/2011)


    GSquared (3/3/2011)


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    GSquared (3/3/2011)


    If anyone's interested in what I've been working on the last six months or so, last night (late) we launched http://www.VisitOrlando.com.

    While you won't see my ETL and database work on the site directly, I am curious about reactions to it.

    Edit: Link changed to bypass odd link handling by forum.

    Looks as if it's currently down - browsing to http://www.VisitOrlando.com ends up with some sort of 500 error from the Bluefrog Interactive site (so I guess VisitOrlando.com is intended to fit onto a very small screen - eg a mobile phone - as that's what Bluefrog was set up to do). But using DNS and ARIN Whois suggests that http://www.VisitOrlando.com belongs to an outfit called Por Motivos de Viaje in Caracas, Venezuela (which sounds like a second hands sales advertising company) but that seems improbable.

    Interesting.

    There is a mobile version of it, but the main site isn't designed for a small screen. Nor is it owned by a company in Venezuela. I guess it's possible some DNS propagation issue is in the way of you getting to it currently, since the site didn't exist till late last night. But that's outside my field of expertise, and I'm more than slightly just guessing.

    I edited my last post before seeing your reponse, there are some comments about each version of the site there now.

    The reason the mobile site was broken is that it redirects to the Bluefrog site, which was down (and is now back up).

    It's pretty weird, I think someone has some bad code deciding whether a visitor is on a mobile or not - if I go to the site with Mozilla by specifying the URL (http://www.VisitOrlando.com) I get the mobile site, if instead I specify the server IP address (http://64.39.29.98) I get the big screen site. If I use IE8 I get the big screen site either way.

    I did some additional digging on the ARIN information (because I like solving puzzles like that). The Venezuelan company was apparently being hosted by one of Cymitar, Rackspace, or Serverbeach (the IP adress originally assigned to Cymitar when it was an ISP; Rackspace was spun off from Cymitar to handle its hosting business; Serverbeach was spun off from Rackspace in 2003 to handle its low end hosting, but is now independent) - probably Rackspace given that http://www.Cymitar.net, http://www.Cymitar.com, and ns.cymitar.net all map to rackspace servers; the ARIN information on the IP address was last updated (by Cymitar) in 2003, except for a note added by ARIN to the contact point record for the IP to say it has been trying unsuccessfully to contact Cymitar since August 2010; so the ARIN information on the IP is out of date (and VisitOrlando maybe ought to be chasing whoever is hosting the bigscreen site to update the ARIN information).

    It is hosted at Rackspace, so that makes sense.

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  • Takedown submitted to WordPress and the person's company.

  • I wonder how much time Word press takes to take down these kind of Copy infringement. It is still up.

    -Roy

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