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iPods Valuable in the College Classroom?
Infonaut writes "The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting article called When iPod goes collegiate, examining the iPods for students program at Duke University. It seems that while many students and professors find them valuable for classwork, this is America, so questions about intellectual property rear their ugly head: "Do they have permission from the person who wrote the lectures to share it?" asks one IP attorney, referring to lectures recorded on iPods."
Yay...my first frist post!
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duuuude-- you so fail it. you are not fp and i made you redundant!!!!!! Sucka
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Although laws do good things for society, could someone please tell this attorney to STFU? This bloated DRM crap is getting to me.
Until the P2P-sharing of the lecture recordings begin to hurt the education industry and the NEA begins to sue us and have us arrested.
omle du fromage... Omle Du Fromage... OMLE DU FROMAGE (Kabooom!) :(
appologies for the abysmal spelling of omlette in french, but I failzor at french
Programming is an Art. I am an Artist. Does that mean I get to wear a daft hat?
My 2gig Taiwan made knockoff at $59.95(Fry's) does just as good a job of recording 'characters' I meet on the street as the $110 more expensive IPOD 'mini'. Now something a bit different is the IPOD shuffle. There's really nothing quite like it, although some hald $US sized goodies with the same interface are starting to show up on overseas markets. My daughter uses half the 1gig for music and the other half for toting her diff files between home and school. It's a hell of a handy device and when considered as a 512k flash PLUS a music player is good value for the $. The real tif is going to come when people start recording lectures, complete with video, and putting them up on the net. Backwhen I was in school one of my Chemistry professors was a buddy of Neils Bohr. You know the Bohr model of the atom as a tiny solar system that led to countless Sci-Fi musings on the possibility that we migh exist in what appears to be 'atomic' to some much larger, que the ribigulator, beings. This idea has come full circle with the idea the the event horizon of black holes might be the edge of another universe, but I digress. That Chem professor, one A.C. Topp was so old, back in '71 when, as college freshmen in a more permissive era, we would smole reefer during lectures and make our own acid in the chem lab after hours, that one had to sit in the front row in order to hear the lecture. He was also so badly palsied that every attempt at chalk to slate would result in a barrage of chalk flak as his uncontrollable hand pounded the stick against the stone. Yep, we had real slate back then and wore an onion on our belts. Well maybe not a onion, but at least a small leather stash bag of weak as day old homebrew kentucky roadside reefer. So, kidz. Ponder the wrath of the man as you surreptitiously encode your professors lectures on progressive living on your might IPODZ and rest secure in the knowledge that it will never be as it was, your lives are fruitless quests for the latest gadjetz, and STD's will forever deny you the free love and other silliness of my generation. Feeling worthless in this material world of absolutes and zero tolerance. Want a new perspective. Perhaps two years with the Peace Corps will set you right. The maturity you gain will be the better side of the bargain of puttinh your warm body in lesser harms way than riding a bicycle in any major metro and you'll never regret it. Yep, like everyone else, I'm selling something. But unlike those who might offer salvation through money, religion, or drugs, I;ve nothing to gain form the DEAL. Slack off with Rev Stang, smoke your refined weed, save you $ for that new Elise and house in the suburbs while fighting for animal rights at the expense of ancient human cultures. Or, get your ass to Mars and learn a bit about humanity on the rest of the planet... Eat a pussy cat for Jesus!