At the small private university I go to our CS department has a senior project we must complete before we graduate. Typically, the senior project has 2 classes for this. During your fall semester, the first class establishes your project, group, and introduces the planning process of the project as well talks about the moral parts of intellectual property. It mostly tries to create the role of a project manager for group members.
The second class, taken in the spring, takes all your project management artifacts you created (e.g. work breakdown schedule) and then implements them into creating the actual thing you've planned out. In the end you present your project to our CS faculty and your stakeholders. The projects we get are real world projects that we get from businesses which a lot of the times gets used in their organizations.
The thing that intrigues me is the RIAA has the nerve to support this action when Sony clearly suggested (not in a press release but in recalls) they made a mistake. This shows the RIAA does not care about their PR. It seems to me the RIAA views us as consumers who will buy their product at any cost, regardless of how they treat us. Like suggested before, they have a monopoly at hand. I'm hoping in the future that some of the consumers can conform to suggest reasonable methods of distribution and rights to combat the RIAA's evil actions. If not I think the RIAA will keep on pushing for complete control over digital distribution and rights.
Just recently a new piece of software was released called Activshopper: www.activshopper.com. It's a toolbar that comes up only when your web browser is on a webpage with a product. It automatically searches for the cheapest price then comes up with the results in the toolbar.
I propose that they should come up with a system that logs all the files you downloaded so you have the ability to retrieve the files you lost. At least for me I feel there is a greater risk of your hard drive going bad over you losing your whole CD collection.
One thing that I think people are overlooking is the problem with data storage with MP3s/whatever format. Say someone downloads $500 worth of MP3s, and their hard drive goes bad. Will they be able to re-download these files they PAID for with the new services coming out? Or will they be out of $500 and no music?
Here in the Pittsburgh area our ATT cable internet went down, around 11am, like many other cable subscribers. ATT claims it should be back for our area within 7 days. Luckily there was a LAN party tonight so I could get net access or else I would be a sad puppy. It's truly sad that this had to happen.
In the summer I tore my ACL playing football on turf. After surgery, I got the brace with the DonJoy Vista Rehab Management System. It comes with a little handheld computer that instructs your rehab activity. The brace really helped me out in recovering. My therapist would program specific actives, which she set goals for each, so I could do them when I wasn't at their complex. The brace measured the degree you would bend your leg, and you would have to reach a certain goal, in degrees, given by your therapist. The handheld computer records your information and then makes it so your therapist can read what you have accomplished; making it so you can't lie about doing exercises, and also helping the therapist know where you are in their program. The only thing I didn't like about the brace was I thought it was a bit bulky compared to the other braces I could have got, but I still thought it was worth it.
I am a current resident of Pittsburgh, PA. I'd like to say it sucks alot. The only good thing I can see about it is that alot of areas do have high speed internet access, one of which is my area:) As for anything else going on in the city, it plainly sucks.
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At the small private university I go to our CS department has a senior project we must complete before we graduate. Typically, the senior project has 2 classes for this. During your fall semester, the first class establishes your project, group, and introduces the planning process of the project as well talks about the moral parts of intellectual property. It mostly tries to create the role of a project manager for group members.
The second class, taken in the spring, takes all your project management artifacts you created (e.g. work breakdown schedule) and then implements them into creating the actual thing you've planned out. In the end you present your project to our CS faculty and your stakeholders. The projects we get are real world projects that we get from businesses which a lot of the times gets used in their organizations.
The thing that intrigues me is the RIAA has the nerve to support this action when Sony clearly suggested (not in a press release but in recalls) they made a mistake. This shows the RIAA does not care about their PR. It seems to me the RIAA views us as consumers who will buy their product at any cost, regardless of how they treat us. Like suggested before, they have a monopoly at hand. I'm hoping in the future that some of the consumers can conform to suggest reasonable methods of distribution and rights to combat the RIAA's evil actions. If not I think the RIAA will keep on pushing for complete control over digital distribution and rights.
Just recently a new piece of software was released called Activshopper: www.activshopper.com. It's a toolbar that comes up only when your web browser is on a webpage with a product. It automatically searches for the cheapest price then comes up with the results in the toolbar.
I propose that they should come up with a system that logs all the files you downloaded so you have the ability to retrieve the files you lost. At least for me I feel there is a greater risk of your hard drive going bad over you losing your whole CD collection.
One thing that I think people are overlooking is the problem with data storage with MP3s/whatever format. Say someone downloads $500 worth of MP3s, and their hard drive goes bad. Will they be able to re-download these files they PAID for with the new services coming out? Or will they be out of $500 and no music?
Here in the Pittsburgh area our ATT cable internet went down, around 11am, like many other cable subscribers. ATT claims it should be back for our area within 7 days. Luckily there was a LAN party tonight so I could get net access or else I would be a sad puppy. It's truly sad that this had to happen.
My insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) paid for my computerized knee brace.
In the summer I tore my ACL playing football on turf. After surgery, I got the brace with the DonJoy Vista Rehab Management System. It comes with a little handheld computer that instructs your rehab activity. The brace really helped me out in recovering. My therapist would program specific actives, which she set goals for each, so I could do them when I wasn't at their complex. The brace measured the degree you would bend your leg, and you would have to reach a certain goal, in degrees, given by your therapist. The handheld computer records your information and then makes it so your therapist can read what you have accomplished; making it so you can't lie about doing exercises, and also helping the therapist know where you are in their program. The only thing I didn't like about the brace was I thought it was a bit bulky compared to the other braces I could have got, but I still thought it was worth it.
I am a current resident of Pittsburgh, PA. I'd like to say it sucks alot. The only good thing I can see about it is that alot of areas do have high speed internet access, one of which is my area :) As for anything else going on in the city, it plainly sucks.