Presented within museum-style vitrines are crude copies of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts that look as if they were made by middle-school art students.
The article anticipates a near-future in which criminal roboteers sit in garden sheds watching YouTube videos that teach them how to engineer crude copies of robots already used by the police and the military, and using them for their own nefarious ends.
In 1938, he produced his first crude xerography copy, then spent the next 20 years being turned away by dozens of companies -- I.B.M., General Electric, Bell & Howell -- many whose size and profitability Xerox would outstrip in the 1960's.
It soon came to mean something else: the writer and dance music historian Bill Brewster memorably described the first house records as crude attempts to copy the music Knuckles played, "made by amateurs, on machines as close to toys as they were to musical instruments".
The exam sheets themselves served as evidence of the suspected cheating — crude markups, blatant copying, unexplained bonus points — that proved as clumsy as a botched rhythmic routine.
These were plentiful because Southern "Greybacks" were fairly crude and easy to copy as the Confederacy lacked modern printing equipment.
Though he scoffed at the Bard's take on Richard as crude apprentice-work, Stevenson copied him by barmily depicting the future king as leading armies in battles of the 1450s, when he would have been under 10 years old.
At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato' -- meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better".
We examine the evolution of the ITS2 at three levels: 1) PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) to view crude sequence variation; 2) PCR-copy variant analysis to view the homogenization of potential ITS2 copy variants within the rDNA array; and 3) DNA sequence analysis via cloning and sequencing.
More than 40m gallons of pricey crude oil; or perhaps 45 copies of Picasso's most expensive painting ("Nude, Green Leaves and Bust", 1932); or maybe some 1m heifers through Heifer International, a charity.
