As a graduate student and college instructor, I would argue that one thing that students will lose from skipping the lecture is the horizontal social connections between students. Even if there's no discussion or opportunity to stop the teacher and ask questions, attending class gives students the opportunity to forge social relationships before and after class that allows them to compare notes and share experiences. Students could time-shift a lecture and discuss it later, but it seems less likely, and there's something to be said for talking when the lecture is still fresh in their minds.
I also wonder how attentive students would be watching a podcast compared to sitting in a lecture hall. Sharing the same physical space demands at least the appearance of attentiveness.
Since I suggested the story, I feel a little defensive and want to respond. The title of the article is "The Hard Disk That Changed the World," so if the language is sloppy, the sloppiness is on the part of Newsweek and not me.
Since you're being picky, I'll point out that it's spelled "ubiquitous," not "ubiguitous."
It's even better than reality TV because it has a longer shelf life. Although, no one's going to want to watch an episode of "Survivor" once the season is over, Sci-Fi or another network can keep these in the can and re-run them down the road.
Additionally, they can probably find an audience in foreign markets. For example, the Discovery Channel started out by showing programming from Australian public TV and other international systems. It could buy this stuff cheap from less savvy content creators and fill up a 24-hour schedule with a minimum investment. Now, cable nets also sell their content overseas, which expands the revenue opportunities.
Doesn't the version number in "J2SE," et al, refer to the runtime, rather than the version of Java itself? In this case, the versioning makes a little sense.
I go to UT-Austin and frequently use wireless at the coffeeshops near campus. Most of the coffeeshops have power outlets available. I suspect customers demanded these even before Wi-Fi, so they could spend hours working on papers or other offline activites. One coffeeshop I frequent, Little City, nearly has a computer lab, with a long counter and enough power outlets for each seat.
I think you need to define what you mean by "pro." Certainly most photojournalists and news photographers are using high-end digital SLRs, but there are plenty of portrait photographers (above the level of a Sears Portrait Studio) still working with film-based medium-format cameras. And art photographers, which you may not regard as "pros," work with a variety of cameras, from crude pinhole cameras to expensive single-plate box cameras. Moreover, much art photography still involves chemical processes in the darkroom.
I'm a teaching assistant for digital media classes in the Radio-TV-Film department, and students in my area are required to buy FireWire hard drives to store their work and transport between computers or home and school. As you probably know, editing digital video or offline film editing uses a lot of disk space, so students generally need drives in the 100GB range. Burning uncompressed DV files onto DVDs is not going to be a practical, let alone cost-effective, option for these kinds of applications. If through some miracle, we got HDTV cameras, I could see how students might need one of these monster drives for carrying around their projects.
I had the [mis]fortune of working for Dell's consumer sales phonebank this summer. This was a constant source of annoyance for customers who wanted to buy at advertised prices. They understood shipping, but did not quite understand why we had to charge sales tax in states where we had a business presence. Unfortunately, Dell has sites in some big states like Texas and Florida, too.
Anyway, the states where Dell has to charge the full sales tax are Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Nevada, North Carolina, and Oregon. If the machine has an on-site service contract, like desktop and some notebook systems, Dell charges tax on the value of the service contract in all states with sales tax. The contracts are handled by a third-party contractor, Banctec, so Dell isn't the company with the business presence in that case.
Yeah, I've always heard flexible phonograph records referred to as "Flexi-Disks." I received one in the past year with a copy of Magnet Magazine, when Matador was promoting Steven Malkmus' solo album. If I remember correctly it was about 6"x6" and played at 45 rpm. It quickly wore out (from abuse, rather than repeat listening) and the sound quality was far from great. Good swag for record geeks, tho. Magnet also distributes bi-monthly music samplers to its subscribers.
That really wasn't the point of the class - it was a lecture, not a production class, so it was focused on how humor reflects social attitudes, and how some films, like ones from Mae West and Howard Hawks, challenged social biases. I'm not sure history plays into CS or EE as much as it does in the arts, but its critical for filmmakers to study film passive in order to gain a sense of context and see what works and what doesn't work.
She worked in the film industry & it was a lecture class, not a writing class. I'm not sure if by comedian you mean like a standup or improv comedian or an comic actor, but in the case of comic actors, the screenwriters are going to be coming up with the gags, not the actors. For that matter, standup or improv comedy are more focused on delivery, while screen comedy is dependent on verbal and non-verbal things written into the screenplay. Anyway, I don't think the fact that she wasn't a comedian made her unqualified to teach comedy and I'm not sure a comedian or a comic actor could do a good job of teaching comedy.
I just thought I'd share that I took a course on comedy in college. (I was a film major) The professor began the lecture, by declaring, "Comedy is the most serious subject on earth."
The BBC story says the Bush adminstration made the decision, not George W. Bush. "The Bush Adminstration" basically means the entire current executive branch in Journalismese.
This Hoover's capsule says TBS is a subsidiary of AOL/TW - I think Time Warner bought it outright. Generally, "Inc." is used for private companies (Although Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a notable exception) and "Corp." is used for public companies. Although Turner did manage the division under Time Warner, This article at Forbes says he lost control with the merger with AOL.
>The feds can come up with a concent decree that >ties MS's hands pretty bad and then a single >judge can oversee that it is imposed properly.
Absolutely. I think this time a consent decree could cripple Microsoft more than a breakup. In a breakup, you would have two or more organizations competing in a marketplace, only constrained by working with each other. A well enforced consent decree could slow down Microsoft's product cycle and entries into new markets because of anti-trust concerns.
Many of IBM's woes in the eighties and early nineties were a result of the consent decree. The organization became increasingly bureaucratic, as managers had to check with corporate lawyers in order to take initiatives. As a result, energetic and creative often became frustrated and left, while people comfortable with rules and regulations thrived in the company. IBM became a company bound by rules and tradition, rather than an innovative company. Lou Gerstner has done a good job of reversing this trend. However, I could see Microsoft similarly descend into a similar regulatory mire.
Bush is the head of the Bush administration, so one can presume that it was him that made the decision.
This MSNBC story cites an anonymous DOJ official saying the president did not make the call: The official also said that the White House was not involved in the decision not to pursue a break up of the company.
I'm not sure where the idea that Bush killed the breakup push came from, but it isn't implied in any of the stories linked on the front page.
That comment is so tacky and racist I can't believe someone modded it up! I know taste may not be a factor in many people's moderating decisions, but it should be. I would like to think comments like this typically get modded below most users' reading level.
Yeah, HP and Intel developed the IA-64 architecture together. Itanium et al has "hooks" that allow HP-UX to run efficiently. I'm not sure if a "hook" is the same as an "undocumented feature," but it was designed for HP-UX, not NT or Linux. I'm sure HP-UX for IA-64 differs in many ways from earlier versions - the chip and the Unix were developed concurrently to be complementary.
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Yeah, Hewlett Packard's ticker symbol is "HWP," not "HP". Helmerich & Payne, a petroleum company, has the symbol "HP." The bad numbers probably arose from this error.
When an Open Source company starts speaking in corporatese, it's time to say goodbye.
Um, yeah, its a German company. They probably have PR people to translate from German to Corporate English, not Hacker English.
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As a graduate student and college instructor, I would argue that one thing that students will lose from skipping the lecture is the horizontal social connections between students. Even if there's no discussion or opportunity to stop the teacher and ask questions, attending class gives students the opportunity to forge social relationships before and after class that allows them to compare notes and share experiences. Students could time-shift a lecture and discuss it later, but it seems less likely, and there's something to be said for talking when the lecture is still fresh in their minds. I also wonder how attentive students would be watching a podcast compared to sitting in a lecture hall. Sharing the same physical space demands at least the appearance of attentiveness.
Since I suggested the story, I feel a little defensive and want to respond. The title of the article is "The Hard Disk That Changed the World," so if the language is sloppy, the sloppiness is on the part of Newsweek and not me. Since you're being picky, I'll point out that it's spelled "ubiquitous," not "ubiguitous."
It's even better than reality TV because it has a longer shelf life. Although, no one's going to want to watch an episode of "Survivor" once the season is over, Sci-Fi or another network can keep these in the can and re-run them down the road.
Additionally, they can probably find an audience in foreign markets. For example, the Discovery Channel started out by showing programming from Australian public TV and other international systems. It could buy this stuff cheap from less savvy content creators and fill up a 24-hour schedule with a minimum investment. Now, cable nets also sell their content overseas, which expands the revenue opportunities.
Doesn't the version number in "J2SE," et al, refer to the runtime, rather than the version of Java itself? In this case, the versioning makes a little sense.
I go to UT-Austin and frequently use wireless at the coffeeshops near campus. Most of the coffeeshops have power outlets available. I suspect customers demanded these even before Wi-Fi, so they could spend hours working on papers or other offline activites. One coffeeshop I frequent, Little City, nearly has a computer lab, with a long counter and enough power outlets for each seat.
I think you need to define what you mean by "pro." Certainly most photojournalists and news photographers are using high-end digital SLRs, but there are plenty of portrait photographers (above the level of a Sears Portrait Studio) still working with film-based medium-format cameras. And art photographers, which you may not regard as "pros," work with a variety of cameras, from crude pinhole cameras to expensive single-plate box cameras. Moreover, much art photography still involves chemical processes in the darkroom.
I'm a teaching assistant for digital media classes in the Radio-TV-Film department, and students in my area are required to buy FireWire hard drives to store their work and transport between computers or home and school. As you probably know, editing digital video or offline film editing uses a lot of disk space, so students generally need drives in the 100GB range. Burning uncompressed DV files onto DVDs is not going to be a practical, let alone cost-effective, option for these kinds of applications. If through some miracle, we got HDTV cameras, I could see how students might need one of these monster drives for carrying around their projects.
I had the [mis]fortune of working for Dell's consumer sales phonebank this summer. This was a constant source of annoyance for customers who wanted to buy at advertised prices. They understood shipping, but did not quite understand why we had to charge sales tax in states where we had a business presence. Unfortunately, Dell has sites in some big states like Texas and Florida, too. Anyway, the states where Dell has to charge the full sales tax are Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Nevada, North Carolina, and Oregon. If the machine has an on-site service contract, like desktop and some notebook systems, Dell charges tax on the value of the service contract in all states with sales tax. The contracts are handled by a third-party contractor, Banctec, so Dell isn't the company with the business presence in that case.
Judging from most of the entries on Disturbing Search Requests, there would be a hearty market for that service.
Yeah, I've always heard flexible phonograph records referred to as "Flexi-Disks." I received one in the past year with a copy of Magnet Magazine, when Matador was promoting Steven Malkmus' solo album. If I remember correctly it was about 6"x6" and played at 45 rpm. It quickly wore out (from abuse, rather than repeat listening) and the sound quality was far from great. Good swag for record geeks, tho. Magnet also distributes bi-monthly music samplers to its subscribers.
Terra Lycos owns wired.com.
Everybody's forgetting the B-52s classic "6060-842"!
That really wasn't the point of the class - it was a lecture, not a production class, so it was focused on how humor reflects social attitudes, and how some films, like ones from Mae West and Howard Hawks, challenged social biases. I'm not sure history plays into CS or EE as much as it does in the arts, but its critical for filmmakers to study film passive in order to gain a sense of context and see what works and what doesn't work.
yup, Red Hat Database is pretty much the same as PostgreSQL
She worked in the film industry & it was a lecture class, not a writing class. I'm not sure if by comedian you mean like a standup or improv comedian or an comic actor, but in the case of comic actors, the screenwriters are going to be coming up with the gags, not the actors. For that matter, standup or improv comedy are more focused on delivery, while screen comedy is dependent on verbal and non-verbal things written into the screenplay. Anyway, I don't think the fact that she wasn't a comedian made her unqualified to teach comedy and I'm not sure a comedian or a comic actor could do a good job of teaching comedy.
I just thought I'd share that I took a course on comedy in college. (I was a film major) The professor began the lecture, by declaring, "Comedy is the most serious subject on earth."
The BBC story says the Bush adminstration made the decision, not George W. Bush. "The Bush Adminstration" basically means the entire current executive branch in Journalismese.
This Hoover's capsule says TBS is a subsidiary of AOL/TW - I think Time Warner bought it outright. Generally, "Inc." is used for private companies (Although Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a notable exception) and "Corp." is used for public companies. Although Turner did manage the division under Time Warner, This article at Forbes says he lost control with the merger with AOL.
>The feds can come up with a concent decree that >ties MS's hands pretty bad and then a single >judge can oversee that it is imposed properly.
Absolutely. I think this time a consent decree could cripple Microsoft more than a breakup. In a breakup, you would have two or more organizations competing in a marketplace, only constrained by working with each other. A well enforced consent decree could slow down Microsoft's product cycle and entries into new markets because of anti-trust concerns.
Many of IBM's woes in the eighties and early nineties were a result of the consent decree. The organization became increasingly bureaucratic, as managers had to check with corporate lawyers in order to take initiatives. As a result, energetic and creative often became frustrated and left, while people comfortable with rules and regulations thrived in the company. IBM became a company bound by rules and tradition, rather than an innovative company. Lou Gerstner has done a good job of reversing this trend. However, I could see Microsoft similarly descend into a similar regulatory mire.
Ummm, Turner Broadcasting is a division of AOL/Time Warner. Its not Ted Turner's money that's going to the RNC and the LNC.
Bush is the head of the Bush administration, so one can presume that it was him that made the decision.
This MSNBC story cites an anonymous DOJ official saying the president did not make the call:
The official also said that the White House was not involved in the decision not to pursue a break up of the company.
I'm not sure where the idea that Bush killed the breakup push came from, but it isn't implied in any of the stories linked on the front page.
That comment is so tacky and racist I can't believe someone modded it up! I know taste may not be a factor in many people's moderating decisions, but it should be. I would like to think comments like this typically get modded below most users' reading level.
Yeah, HP and Intel developed the IA-64 architecture together. Itanium et al has "hooks" that allow HP-UX to run efficiently. I'm not sure if a "hook" is the same as an "undocumented feature," but it was designed for HP-UX, not NT or Linux. I'm sure HP-UX for IA-64 differs in many ways from earlier versions - the chip and the Unix were developed concurrently to be complementary.
Yeah, Hewlett Packard's ticker symbol is "HWP," not "HP". Helmerich & Payne, a petroleum company, has the symbol "HP." The bad numbers probably arose from this error.
When an Open Source company starts speaking in corporatese, it's time to say goodbye.
Um, yeah, its a German company. They probably have PR people to translate from German to Corporate English, not Hacker English.