Which quite nicely illustrates my point about how unsuited I believe MySpace is for the display of art.
Ironically, one of sheezyArt's original admins/coders has to be at least half decent, because a respectable community has since picked him up - a (not art-oriented) community started by former dA admins (some of whom were admins at the time of the first exodus of sheezyArt users, if I remember correctly).
- they had updates by Instant Messenger as official feature for a while but couldn't make it work (why?! at least it should be practically free for them unlike SMS)
- there are some 3rd party solutions to update by IM but none work (plus you have to trust the 3rd party)
One of my friends uses Digsby to update his Twitter.
If you are an artist of some sort, MySpace is a great tool for networking and showcasing your work.
MySpace? Good for showcasing your (art)work? How about a site that's actually meant for that, like, oh... Storm-Artists, sheezyArt, ConceptArt, deviantART, etc?
MySpace might have better networking, but I think even sheezyArt can do better at showcasing artwork. Though, if you can show me a MySpace profile that can showcase work decently, I'll revise my opinion to exclude that profile.
As said here, the sealing/wiping of records is all "theory"; the records can still be viewed by some government agencies and can prevent you from getting some government jobs (or security clearances).
Posting pictures of socializing doesn't automatically mean those pictures are going to be incriminating, but I should hope that I'm stating the obvious here.
Competence in IT staff would be nice. Then they might also realize that a mail system running on the Linux servers they already have is cheaper than running Exchange.
My school's IT staff also has problems with secure email access. When we were on Lotus, we had to use the Lotus Notes client or the web-based deal to get a secure connection (if we used something like Thunderbird, our password was sent in a plain text file). They haven't fixed that with Exchange, either; the only secure email access is through Outlook or Outlook Web Access. At least the web-based Lotus Notes wasn't crippled in Firefox/non-IE browser.:\
coding in VHDL or Verilog, so my job's not really much different from a programmer.
My digital design prof constantly berates us (mostly computer engineering students, with an EE tossed in here and there) to stop thinking like programmers/to stop thinking in C, when we work with VHDL. In the intro class, my prof has found that the students with less programming knowledge (the EEs and the "Integrated Engineering and Management" students) tended to have an easier time working with VHDL as well.
And, at this point, I wouldn't know what Verilog looked like if it hit me in the face.
A poorly designed mouse is still going to be a problem, no matter how much a person knows about ergonomics.
I've been looking at some highly ergonomic keyboards (Dvorak layout, contoured), which have a list price of $289 (PS/2) or $299 (USB). I really out to put out the money for one, but I still haven't managed to learn Dvorak and don't want to buy a keyboard I can't type on (well, I can touch-type Qwerty so it wouldn't be entirely useless).
Agreed. I was hoping for an 'ergonomic' category for the keyboard, which a 'programming' category would fit neatly into. The best was that a few of the 'generic' category keyboards were listed as being ergonomic.
This sounds like a job for a computer game! If you make it fun, kids might actually want to do their homework!
That sounds way too much like all of the computer/video games that are being marketed at toddlers and young children, which I am beginning to doubt is going to have a good overall outcome (obesity rate?).
I feel that conception is a good point because it is the single most defining instant of a human's development.
I wouldn't say that conception ss the "single most defining" instant. My mother had two or three miscarriages before I was born, so I would say that first making it past the point the miscarriages did and then coming out alive were far more "defining", for me, than conception was.
That neither completely goes against what I said, nor does it completely agree with what I said. After Tinker V Des Moines, other cases reduced the amount of free speech that students in public k12 schools have, leaving the only place with complete freedom speech being within classroom discussions. The school can still censor anything they want in any student-run/school-sponsored publications and, presumably, whatever students want to post on boards outside of their classrooms.
If we go with the fact that events/publications that are school-sponsored can be censored by the school, then there is a good case that these laptops in question can be restricted and censored as much as the school district wants. However, this begs the question, can the First Amendment even be applied to the laptops in the first place? How does restricting what a student can do on a (school-sponsored) laptop abridge their rights to freedom of speech?
Aww, our ECE lab doesn't have a color printer (not that I've ever actually needed to print in color). Our B&W printer does duplex, though. I rarely use it 'cause, I dunno, I don't like how it looks (I can get kinda obsessive about presentation sometimes...).
Pretty sure my school comes out ahead on our printer balance, too. I have $18 or $19 left and classes ended last Friday.
You got 200 pages per week? Nice. My tuition covers $30/semester (at $0.08/B&W page and I hear color is ridiculously expensive, like $0.75/page).
But I just print in the ECE Undergrad Lab, which is not maintained by my school's IT (maintained by the department), so we have access to a generic student account and the lab's (B&W) printer. It's pretty nice, especially because the lab is closer to my dorm than most campus printers.
I don't know if my school would care what I did with it. Clubs aren't allowed to do most mass (e)mailings anymore (students complained about emails and the post office complained about students shoving paper back into the post office). There was one kid two years ago who shoved papers under all of the doors in my dorm. I was kind of surprised that Campus Safety didn't try to track him down, as the papers were about how he was a pothead.
In the case of the MSU student, their email system handles more than 37,000 student accounts. Other than a slight annoyance to the professors, it's not like it would have damaged their email system (and I would think that someone on the student government would have access to contact all professors, regardless of the issue and regardless of whether the school agrees with it).
Another thing I'm kind of interested about with this MSU thing, is someone quoted the email policy and it said that something like up to 20 to 30 people could be emailed at a time. Would she have broken policy if she'd emailed, say, 15 professors at a time?
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Which quite nicely illustrates my point about how unsuited I believe MySpace is for the display of art.
Ironically, one of sheezyArt's original admins/coders has to be at least half decent, because a respectable community has since picked him up - a (not art-oriented) community started by former dA admins (some of whom were admins at the time of the first exodus of sheezyArt users, if I remember correctly).
- they had updates by Instant Messenger as official feature for a while but couldn't make it work (why?! at least it should be practically free for them unlike SMS)
- there are some 3rd party solutions to update by IM but none work (plus you have to trust the 3rd party)
One of my friends uses Digsby to update his Twitter.
If you are an artist of some sort, MySpace is a great tool for networking and showcasing your work.
MySpace? Good for showcasing your (art)work? How about a site that's actually meant for that, like, oh... Storm-Artists, sheezyArt, ConceptArt, deviantART, etc?
MySpace might have better networking, but I think even sheezyArt can do better at showcasing artwork. Though, if you can show me a MySpace profile that can showcase work decently, I'll revise my opinion to exclude that profile.
As said here, the sealing/wiping of records is all "theory"; the records can still be viewed by some government agencies and can prevent you from getting some government jobs (or security clearances).
Posting pictures of socializing doesn't automatically mean those pictures are going to be incriminating, but I should hope that I'm stating the obvious here.
Competence in IT staff would be nice. Then they might also realize that a mail system running on the Linux servers they already have is cheaper than running Exchange.
My school's IT staff also has problems with secure email access. When we were on Lotus, we had to use the Lotus Notes client or the web-based deal to get a secure connection (if we used something like Thunderbird, our password was sent in a plain text file). They haven't fixed that with Exchange, either; the only secure email access is through Outlook or Outlook Web Access. At least the web-based Lotus Notes wasn't crippled in Firefox/non-IE browser. :\
So far as I can tell, gmail is more reliable than my university's email.
Then again, these are the same guys who destroyed one of my professor's laptops when trying to install Visual Studio Pro.
coding in VHDL or Verilog, so my job's not really much different from a programmer.
My digital design prof constantly berates us (mostly computer engineering students, with an EE tossed in here and there) to stop thinking like programmers/to stop thinking in C, when we work with VHDL. In the intro class, my prof has found that the students with less programming knowledge (the EEs and the "Integrated Engineering and Management" students) tended to have an easier time working with VHDL as well.
And, at this point, I wouldn't know what Verilog looked like if it hit me in the face.
A poorly designed mouse is still going to be a problem, no matter how much a person knows about ergonomics.
I've been looking at some highly ergonomic keyboards (Dvorak layout, contoured), which have a list price of $289 (PS/2) or $299 (USB). I really out to put out the money for one, but I still haven't managed to learn Dvorak and don't want to buy a keyboard I can't type on (well, I can touch-type Qwerty so it wouldn't be entirely useless).
When $80 gets me a mouse that doesn't hurt my hand, then I'm going to shell out that money.
Ergonomics is expensive.
Agreed. I was hoping for an 'ergonomic' category for the keyboard, which a 'programming' category would fit neatly into. The best was that a few of the 'generic' category keyboards were listed as being ergonomic.
This sounds like a job for a computer game! If you make it fun, kids might actually want to do their homework!
That sounds way too much like all of the computer/video games that are being marketed at toddlers and young children, which I am beginning to doubt is going to have a good overall outcome (obesity rate?).
My point was more along the lines that the most defining moment is different for different people, even different depending on how you look at it.
I feel that conception is a good point because it is the single most defining instant of a human's development.
I wouldn't say that conception ss the "single most defining" instant. My mother had two or three miscarriages before I was born, so I would say that first making it past the point the miscarriages did and then coming out alive were far more "defining", for me, than conception was.
That neither completely goes against what I said, nor does it completely agree with what I said. After Tinker V Des Moines, other cases reduced the amount of free speech that students in public k12 schools have, leaving the only place with complete freedom speech being within classroom discussions. The school can still censor anything they want in any student-run/school-sponsored publications and, presumably, whatever students want to post on boards outside of their classrooms. If we go with the fact that events/publications that are school-sponsored can be censored by the school, then there is a good case that these laptops in question can be restricted and censored as much as the school district wants. However, this begs the question, can the First Amendment even be applied to the laptops in the first place? How does restricting what a student can do on a (school-sponsored) laptop abridge their rights to freedom of speech?
The First Amendment pretty much does not apply to public k12 schools, though how much of those rights are removed is dependent on the state.
Aww, our ECE lab doesn't have a color printer (not that I've ever actually needed to print in color). Our B&W printer does duplex, though. I rarely use it 'cause, I dunno, I don't like how it looks (I can get kinda obsessive about presentation sometimes...).
Pretty sure my school comes out ahead on our printer balance, too. I have $18 or $19 left and classes ended last Friday.
You got 200 pages per week? Nice. My tuition covers $30/semester (at $0.08/B&W page and I hear color is ridiculously expensive, like $0.75/page).
:D
But I just print in the ECE Undergrad Lab, which is not maintained by my school's IT (maintained by the department), so we have access to a generic student account and the lab's (B&W) printer. It's pretty nice, especially because the lab is closer to my dorm than most campus printers.
I don't know if my school would care what I did with it. Clubs aren't allowed to do most mass (e)mailings anymore (students complained about emails and the post office complained about students shoving paper back into the post office). There was one kid two years ago who shoved papers under all of the doors in my dorm. I was kind of surprised that Campus Safety didn't try to track him down, as the papers were about how he was a pothead.
In the case of the MSU student, their email system handles more than 37,000 student accounts. Other than a slight annoyance to the professors, it's not like it would have damaged their email system (and I would think that someone on the student government would have access to contact all professors, regardless of the issue and regardless of whether the school agrees with it).
Another thing I'm kind of interested about with this MSU thing, is someone quoted the email policy and it said that something like up to 20 to 30 people could be emailed at a time. Would she have broken policy if she'd emailed, say, 15 professors at a time?
Now I'm just rambling.
She could have gone somewhere on campus where she could print for free, printed 391 copies of her email and stuck it under every professor's door.
I wonder if that would fall within the school's policies. It's the same thing, but using a bunch more resources.