In general, I agree with your back to basics approach. I was lucky to be born in a state where tenor doesn't have a hold. I was also partial to education because my mom was one of my teachers. (see below).
We need teachers who LOVE what they teach, not just because it was their major. And we need teachers to get paid more or have a salary that recognized relevant experience in the private sector.
The amount of good that an involved community can to foster the learning process can not be overstated. Often overworked parents can't offer the support their children needs due to demands on thier time beyond their control.
Any way society can reduce the "us versus them" schoolyard mentality might help too . . .
Also, I wrote this post in response to a previous story, but I think it is relevant here as well.
my high-school experience
Well the chances of anyone reading this are pretty far fetched, but after reading comments here all day I feel compelled to share my experience in what was arguably a working school.
I went to a school [u32.org] that serves the communities around montpelier, VT. It was started in the 1970s when the HS in Montpellier was becoming overcrowded. A community planning board came up with numerous "out of the box" ideas.
Students address teachers by their first name. There were no interior walls so adjacent classrooms could be joined together to work on inter-disclipinary lessons. No grades. No penalty for missing classes - you want to learn, you go to class, just like college. No bells - the passing of Bands (bands of time) is marked by music. No study halls - Students spend free bands in the student lounge or in the library or in outside areas of the campus. No homeroom - every morning the first place we went was our Teacher advisor group; a mentor who guided you through your career at u-32 and was your advocate if you ever were in trouble or had a scheduling problem, basically a virtual parent. No prepackaged AP curriculem.
Not all these rules were still in effect when I went there in the 90s. We had grades and penalties for missing classes. And some more permanent walls had been built. But the rest remained, a unique public school.
What is harder to give a sense of is a faculty that generally loved teaching and the classesd they were teaching. Perhaps this is because the original faculty was recruited from all across the USA, not just the local towns. There was no pre-determined plan for what students chose to learn. After freshman year, which was fairly regimented, you got to choose your path. I took Public Speaking, Humanities, Film as Literature, Future literature, Journalism and Advanced Expository Writing. These were not the only options, and the same was true for History, Math and Science depts.
As an artist I also was blessed to have more art electives to choose from than anyone could have time for, and this was not unique to the visual arts department.
It would be easy to write this off as some hippy school in Vermont that would not work anywhere else, but I don't think that's true. Teachers who are passionate about what they teach and are given enough leeway to create exciting curriculums can give a meaningful public school education. Young adults can act like adults if they are treated like them. Teachers who interested in a subject can teach it just as well as they can teach their college major. As many other posters have mentioned, there is more to an education than preparing yourself to work at a corporation, or even to go on to higher education. (For the interest of full disclosure, my mother is an english teacher in middle-school and I had the unique experience of knowing many of my teachers inside and outside the classroom. Believe me I did not get any special treatment in class for this.)
Nope, little things in your blood make you a jedi.
Actually I believe midichlorians give you the option of training to become a jedi. To be a Jedi Knight (TM) you must be certified as such by the jedi order.
The basic principle was used for the hoverboards in Back To the Future, but unforunately the hoverboards were not made avaialable because of safety concerns.
First of all this program hasn't started full time yet. I live near Graham Ave, 3 stops from Manhattan and weekday mornings the city-bound commute can be very crowded. On busy days I have to wait for a 2nd or third train before I can squeeze myself into the last available spot near the door farthest from the turnstile. On these days people at the Bedford stop, the last before Manhattan (yeah, that Bedford) often have to wait for 4 or more cars before they can get on the train. I think its great the MTA thinks it can pack more trains closer together, but I'll believe it when I see it.
This morning I had one of the most peaceful commutes in quite a while. I attribute it fully to the conductor, urging us at every stop to "Step aside, let others off before you get on. If you can't fit on the train there is another train right behind this one."
The new system will not do this.
Even if it works flawlessly, many will still resent it for a long time. The installation phase has been shutting down sections of the line for 3 years every weekend, often for months at a time. It was pretty annoying to have to wait in a station for 35 minutes because only one train is running, only to see an empty car go by you on the" closed" track, carrying a few engineers with 15" powerbooks and some other random equipment.
Yes, that's the joke. It's dismally common among north american* english speakers to [hear|read] "Australia" when someone [says|writes] "Austria", mostly because they've never heard of Austria
Guilty as charged.
But what's sad about this is that I've been to Austria, specifically Vienna. And I still thought the story was about Australia until I started reading comments about Schwarzenegger . . .
Well the chances of anyone reading this are pretty far fetched, but after reading comments here all day I feel compelled to share my experience in what was arguably a working school.
I went to a school that serves the communities around montpelier, VT. It was started in the 1970s when the HS in Montpellier was becoming overcrowded. A community planning board came up with numerous "out of the box" ideas.
Students address teachers by their first name. There were no interior walls so adjacent classrooms could be joined together to work on inter-disclipinary lessons. No grades. No penalty for missing classes - you want to learn, you go to class, just like college. No bells - the passing of Bands (bands of time) is marked by music. No study halls - Students spend free bands in the student lounge or in the library or in outside areas of the campus. No homeroom - every morning the first place we went was our Teacher advisor group; a mentor who guided you through your career at u-32 and was your advocate if you ever were in trouble or had a scheduling problem, basically a virtual parent. No prepackaged AP curriculem.
Not all these rules were still in effect when I went there in the 90s. We had grades and penalties for missing classes. And some more permanent walls had been built. But the rest remained, a unique public school.
What is harder to give a sense of is a faculty that generally loved teaching and the classesd they were teaching. Perhaps this is because the original faculty was recruited from all across the USA, not just the local towns. There was no pre-determined plan for what students chose to learn. After freshman year, which was fairly regimented, you got to choose your path. I took Public Speaking, Humanities, Film as Literature, Future literature, Journalism and Advanced Expository Writing. These were not the only options, and the same was true for History, Math and Science depts.
As an artist I also was blessed to have more art electives to choose from than anyone could have time for, and this was not unique to the visual arts department.
It would be easy to write this off as some hippy school in Vermont that would not work anywhere else, but I don't think that's true. Teachers who are passionate about what they teach and are given enough leeway to create exciting curriculums can give a meaningful public school education. Young adults can act like adults if they are treated like them. Teachers who interested in a subject can teach it just as well as they can teach their college major. As many other posters have mentioned, there is more to an education than preparing yourself to work at a corporation, or even to go on to higher education. (For the interest of full disclosure, my mother is an english teacher in middle-school and I had the unique experience of knowing many of my teachers inside and outside the classroom. Believe me I did not get any special treatment in class for this.)
Hey, I'm PROUD to wear a $6 t-shirt made by slave labor in China...
Oh wait, I'm NOT, but every other sotre is out of business now...
Unfortunately The question is whether people want to pay thrice the competitors' price for clothing made here in the US or any where else with well compensated workers. No I don't work for American Aparel but their ads caught my attention a while back. I was dismayed they did not do online shopping but that has since changed.
As for the topic at hand, the moral disadvantages of buying an especially cheap computer are perhaps counter-balanced by the environmental advantages of buying a small form factor machine?
Rodriguez only got his ok by filming a scene without permission and showing it to him. I think his writing on DKR was fantastic.
Of course I'm a bit partial because I went to the same high-school as him, U-32 jr-sr high in central vermont. As recently as 1996-7 they still had some of his early comic narrative work in the Journalism classroom. Supposedly there was a lack of news writers at the time so he got a whole page for his strip. I believe it was called "The Shadow."(?) The inking was similar to Sin City. I remember a page with a brick wall that had a shadow cast across a diagonal section and the bricks that were covered in shadow were pure black with empty page to represent the cement lines.
[I]was standing outside the Trump building on Madison
Well that's you problem right there!
Had you been anywhere south of 18th street, particularly Astor place, Union Square, or SoHo (Big chunks of Brooklyn and Queens too) you would have seen the herd of pods many others on/. (including me) have noticed. Also, from what I've noticed commuting, many of the people w/ ear-buds don't look like they'd have ear-buds.
Dr Andrew Weil and Winifred Rosen wrote A Book called "From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything you need to know about mind altering drugs" which defines a drug as any substance that has mind altering effects. One of the main points of the book is that the user, not the substance, defines the usefulnes of the substance.
Back on topic, I work as a graphic designer in the New York City sign industry and we've been puhing Light Emitting Diode based illumination systems for our signs for about 18 months now. Why? All the reasons other posters have mentioned: efficency, durability (compared to previous bent glass tubes (neon)) and size.
Finally, I also think that there are plenty of young women who would not be opposed to an up close and personal lightshow. But on slashdot thats an opinion that will get drowned out quicly.
I think this is more likely to be marketed as an iPod plus rather than an iPod.
It's not as true as it once was, but Apple used to have a simple 4 product grid, with the prefix "i" denoting consumer and "Power" denoting professional. It would seem that X is a new prefix for enterprise products.
Could these features be an indication that apple is starting to think about features that might be more useful to a professional whom wants something between a powerbook and a PDA ? (Hook your powerpod up to a projector for a design presentation or to a TV to go over revisions with a client)
Is there a need for an Xpod? (Darwin with a serial port for terminal work?)
It shows a brief survey of the making of all three films, creation of key characters and particularly interesting footage of the creation of ROTJ. I had a VHS from the 1983 TV broadcast that I watched way too many times as a kid.
And yes, as zerocircle pointed out, computer controlled motion technology was THE lynchpin to many of the original trilogy's most innovative sequences and all the outer-space shots. The traveling matte compositing in the original films didn't look like other space films of the time because of the complex camera moves the computer made feasible. And this tech is still used for much of the newer trilogy, the lord of the rings etc. It's still a useful tool. the only difference is that digital compositing allows more elements to be blended together.
"How different is this one from the first edition?"
Brushed Metal pages?
That and if you fold the dogears on the corner of the cover, the book breaks apart into hovering chapters and you can point in midair at the one you wan to read first.
This is a problem, why? They are learning art, not computer science. They are ARTISTS learning about how to create ART, using the computer as a tool (or perhaps toolbox). This art is not some excuse for these students to hone up on their computer skills and become some sort of pseudo computer geek that would appear to be more acceptable to you.
I went to Art School. We did not have specific concentrations within the BFA program, but I spent a large percentage of my time in the electronic arts labs.
While your point is mostly correct, it should be noted that the students who use these tools frequently also learn how computers work in the same way a potter learns how to tweak kiln firings or a musician cares for their instrument. Simply by being forced to use computers to get work don will on a routine basis can help users begin to understand their machines in ways many occasional home users do not need to.
Does anyone need more proof that the Republicans and Dems have become just two sides of the same coin?
I do. The Related Links slashbox has a link (and a previous slashdotter has this one) that portray him as more interested in Technology than the average **AA pawn that chases 12 year old downloaders with reckless abandon.
As the article mentions, this bill is aimed at people sharing 2,500 or more pieces of content," or "distributes content that hasn't been released in wide distribution.
I was also encouraged by the remarks on Leahy's site. Under current law, the Attorney General can only bring criminal copyright cases, which can be difficult to prosecute because, . . . The Leahy-Hatch bill would allow the Attorney General to file civil claims that could include damages and restitution without criminal penalties.
Seems like this is a good thing - taking the jail sentance out of p2p cases that don't warrant them.
I am from Vermont, and thus am biased towards the only Democrat elected by that state ever, but a glance at his Current Legislation doesn't give me reason to change that yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Also there were previous slashdot stories about Pixar's in-house Sketch Review Tool, (a hybrid vector/raster tool) and Microsoft Acryllic.
I believe Studio Artist is primarily vector based.
There are also many vector programs for the sign/graphics industry to control CNC routers and plotters. FlexiSIGN is one of them.
Apple's page about the high end compositing app Shake has some clips and pics ofa car ad that involved a transformer-esque dancing robot.
If the sfx in this movie look anything like that we'll be in for a treat.
In general, I agree with your back to basics approach. I was lucky to be born in a state where tenor doesn't have a hold. I was also partial to education because my mom was one of my teachers. (see below). We need teachers who LOVE what they teach, not just because it was their major. And we need teachers to get paid more or have a salary that recognized relevant experience in the private sector. The amount of good that an involved community can to foster the learning process can not be overstated. Often overworked parents can't offer the support their children needs due to demands on thier time beyond their control. Any way society can reduce the "us versus them" schoolyard mentality might help too . . . Also, I wrote this post in response to a previous story, but I think it is relevant here as well. my high-school experience Well the chances of anyone reading this are pretty far fetched, but after reading comments here all day I feel compelled to share my experience in what was arguably a working school. I went to a school [u32.org] that serves the communities around montpelier, VT. It was started in the 1970s when the HS in Montpellier was becoming overcrowded. A community planning board came up with numerous "out of the box" ideas. Students address teachers by their first name. There were no interior walls so adjacent classrooms could be joined together to work on inter-disclipinary lessons. No grades. No penalty for missing classes - you want to learn, you go to class, just like college. No bells - the passing of Bands (bands of time) is marked by music. No study halls - Students spend free bands in the student lounge or in the library or in outside areas of the campus. No homeroom - every morning the first place we went was our Teacher advisor group; a mentor who guided you through your career at u-32 and was your advocate if you ever were in trouble or had a scheduling problem, basically a virtual parent. No prepackaged AP curriculem. Not all these rules were still in effect when I went there in the 90s. We had grades and penalties for missing classes. And some more permanent walls had been built. But the rest remained, a unique public school. What is harder to give a sense of is a faculty that generally loved teaching and the classesd they were teaching. Perhaps this is because the original faculty was recruited from all across the USA, not just the local towns. There was no pre-determined plan for what students chose to learn. After freshman year, which was fairly regimented, you got to choose your path. I took Public Speaking, Humanities, Film as Literature, Future literature, Journalism and Advanced Expository Writing. These were not the only options, and the same was true for History, Math and Science depts. As an artist I also was blessed to have more art electives to choose from than anyone could have time for, and this was not unique to the visual arts department. It would be easy to write this off as some hippy school in Vermont that would not work anywhere else, but I don't think that's true. Teachers who are passionate about what they teach and are given enough leeway to create exciting curriculums can give a meaningful public school education. Young adults can act like adults if they are treated like them. Teachers who interested in a subject can teach it just as well as they can teach their college major. As many other posters have mentioned, there is more to an education than preparing yourself to work at a corporation, or even to go on to higher education. (For the interest of full disclosure, my mother is an english teacher in middle-school and I had the unique experience of knowing many of my teachers inside and outside the classroom. Believe me I did not get any special treatment in class for this.)
Actually I believe midichlorians give you the option of training to become a jedi. To be a Jedi Knight (TM) you must be certified as such by the jedi order.
Wired did an article about a similar notion back in 1995 which was rather interesting at the time.
Not so much. See here
This morning I had one of the most peaceful commutes in quite a while. I attribute it fully to the conductor, urging us at every stop to "Step aside, let others off before you get on. If you can't fit on the train there is another train right behind this one."
The new system will not do this.
Even if it works flawlessly, many will still resent it for a long time. The installation phase has been shutting down sections of the line for 3 years every weekend, often for months at a time. It was pretty annoying to have to wait in a station for 35 minutes because only one train is running, only to see an empty car go by you on the" closed" track, carrying a few engineers with 15" powerbooks and some other random equipment.
Only on Windows.
Guilty as charged.
But what's sad about this is that I've been to Austria, specifically Vienna. And I still thought the story was about Australia until I started reading comments about Schwarzenegger . . .
I went to a school that serves the communities around montpelier, VT. It was started in the 1970s when the HS in Montpellier was becoming overcrowded. A community planning board came up with numerous "out of the box" ideas.
Students address teachers by their first name. There were no interior walls so adjacent classrooms could be joined together to work on inter-disclipinary lessons. No grades. No penalty for missing classes - you want to learn, you go to class, just like college. No bells - the passing of Bands (bands of time) is marked by music. No study halls - Students spend free bands in the student lounge or in the library or in outside areas of the campus. No homeroom - every morning the first place we went was our Teacher advisor group; a mentor who guided you through your career at u-32 and was your advocate if you ever were in trouble or had a scheduling problem, basically a virtual parent. No prepackaged AP curriculem.
Not all these rules were still in effect when I went there in the 90s. We had grades and penalties for missing classes. And some more permanent walls had been built. But the rest remained, a unique public school.
What is harder to give a sense of is a faculty that generally loved teaching and the classesd they were teaching. Perhaps this is because the original faculty was recruited from all across the USA, not just the local towns. There was no pre-determined plan for what students chose to learn. After freshman year, which was fairly regimented, you got to choose your path. I took Public Speaking, Humanities, Film as Literature, Future literature, Journalism and Advanced Expository Writing. These were not the only options, and the same was true for History, Math and Science depts.
As an artist I also was blessed to have more art electives to choose from than anyone could have time for, and this was not unique to the visual arts department.
It would be easy to write this off as some hippy school in Vermont that would not work anywhere else, but I don't think that's true. Teachers who are passionate about what they teach and are given enough leeway to create exciting curriculums can give a meaningful public school education. Young adults can act like adults if they are treated like them. Teachers who interested in a subject can teach it just as well as they can teach their college major. As many other posters have mentioned, there is more to an education than preparing yourself to work at a corporation, or even to go on to higher education. (For the interest of full disclosure, my mother is an english teacher in middle-school and I had the unique experience of knowing many of my teachers inside and outside the classroom. Believe me I did not get any special treatment in class for this.)
Unfortunately The question is whether people want to pay thrice the competitors' price for clothing made here in the US or any where else with well compensated workers. No I don't work for American Aparel but their ads caught my attention a while back. I was dismayed they did not do online shopping but that has since changed.
As for the topic at hand, the moral disadvantages of buying an especially cheap computer are perhaps counter-balanced by the environmental advantages of buying a small form factor machine?
Actually it's 1394 and they changed the official name to firewire as well.
Rodriguez only got his ok by filming a scene without permission and showing it to him. I think his writing on DKR was fantastic.
Of course I'm a bit partial because I went to the same high-school as him, U-32 jr-sr high in central vermont. As recently as 1996-7 they still had some of his early comic narrative work in the Journalism classroom. Supposedly there was a lack of news writers at the time so he got a whole page for his strip. I believe it was called "The Shadow."(?) The inking was similar to Sin City. I remember a page with a brick wall that had a shadow cast across a diagonal section and the bricks that were covered in shadow were pure black with empty page to represent the cement lines.
Uhmm, how about a Drum Scanner?
[I]was standing outside the Trump building on Madison
Well that's you problem right there!
Had you been anywhere south of 18th street, particularly Astor place, Union Square, or SoHo (Big chunks of Brooklyn and Queens too) you would have seen the herd of pods many others on /. (including me) have noticed. Also, from what I've noticed commuting, many of the people w/ ear-buds don't look like they'd have ear-buds.
Back on topic, I work as a graphic designer in the New York City sign industry and we've been puhing Light Emitting Diode based illumination systems for our signs for about 18 months now. Why? All the reasons other posters have mentioned: efficency, durability (compared to previous bent glass tubes (neon)) and size.
Finally, I also think that there are plenty of young women who would not be opposed to an up close and personal lightshow. But on slashdot thats an opinion that will get drowned out quicly.
It's not as true as it once was, but Apple used to have a simple 4 product grid, with the prefix "i" denoting consumer and "Power" denoting professional. It would seem that X is a new prefix for enterprise products.
Could these features be an indication that apple is starting to think about features that might be more useful to a professional whom wants something between a powerbook and a PDA ? (Hook your powerpod up to a projector for a design presentation or to a TV to go over revisions with a client)
Is there a need for an Xpod? (Darwin with a serial port for terminal work?)
It is important to remember that before Windows 95 (some would say 2000) all of Microsofts' OSes were less than toys . . .
Steve or Bill?
2. Then click "Later" as usual.
3. Set the correct date and bingo, no nagging.
FWIW, at $30 Quicktime Pro is a steal. The most handy motion format converter I've used in 10 years of video work.
It shows a brief survey of the making of all three films, creation of key characters and particularly interesting footage of the creation of ROTJ. I had a VHS from the 1983 TV broadcast that I watched way too many times as a kid.
And yes, as zerocircle pointed out, computer controlled motion technology was THE lynchpin to many of the original trilogy's most innovative sequences and all the outer-space shots. The traveling matte compositing in the original films didn't look like other space films of the time because of the complex camera moves the computer made feasible. And this tech is still used for much of the newer trilogy, the lord of the rings etc. It's still a useful tool. the only difference is that digital compositing allows more elements to be blended together.
That and if you fold the dogears on the corner of the cover, the book breaks apart into hovering chapters and you can point in midair at the one you wan to read first.
I went to Art School. We did not have specific concentrations within the BFA program, but I spent a large percentage of my time in the electronic arts labs.
While your point is mostly correct, it should be noted that the students who use these tools frequently also learn how computers work in the same way a potter learns how to tweak kiln firings or a musician cares for their instrument. Simply by being forced to use computers to get work don will on a routine basis can help users begin to understand their machines in ways many occasional home users do not need to.
Open the artcicle and press Ctrl or cmd f and search for the word gigabyte.
The article mentions maintaing email storage is as cost effective at $2 per gig.
The New York Times was an unwitting accomplice. The CNET article is very explicit in the claim though . . .cool.
I do. The Related Links slashbox has a link (and a previous slashdotter has this one) that portray him as more interested in Technology than the average **AA pawn that chases 12 year old downloaders with reckless abandon.
As the article mentions, this bill is aimed at people sharing 2,500 or more pieces of content," or "distributes content that hasn't been released in wide distribution .
I was also encouraged by the remarks on Leahy's site. Under current law, the Attorney General can only bring criminal copyright cases, which can be difficult to prosecute because, . . . The Leahy-Hatch bill would allow the Attorney General to file civil claims that could include damages and restitution without criminal penalties.
Seems like this is a good thing - taking the jail sentance out of p2p cases that don't warrant them.
I am from Vermont, and thus am biased towards the only Democrat elected by that state ever, but a glance at his Current Legislation doesn't give me reason to change that yet.