I went to college in the mid-90s when laptop use was nearly unheard of. I used a Powerbook Duo to take notes in most of my classes. I was often able to type as fast as the speaker was able to talk. I took particularly good notes for an entire semester of European history 1700-1850. At the end of the semester, I handed the professor a floppy disk and a print copy of my notes. He was so delighted by this unexpected "gift", and he was able to critically review his teaching.
I went back and worked at my alma mater as an education technologist after a few years in industry. I supported BlackBoard, deployed Moodle and Wordpress, and encouraged faculty to explore collaborative research and writing wikis. I can only imagine how engaged in the topic a class could become using a tool like iEtherpad.com to modify wikispace.
I remember getting distracted by a neighbors doodles in some classes. Should we ban the spiral-bound notebook?
i've had two mobile phones in my life. the first one got left in a cab a few weeks after i got it. the second i've now had for 4.5 years and it still works (barely). i'm praying for complete 802.11b coverage before it does finally die.
while you are at it, throw in these to stop pop-ups: user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load" , true); user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_close", true);
Reminds me of a (brief) part in Thomas Pynchon's epic WWII novel Gravity's Rainbow where a filmmaker experiments with Emulsion J filmstock. The fictional filmstock, developed for IG Farben by enigmatic scientist-of-all-trades Laszlo Jamf, allows for the skin to appear transparent. Fake science influencing art influencing real science!!! I love it!
Only one label AFAIK has come out publicly in favor of Napster. Palm is a label started two or three years ago by former Island Records head Chris Blackwell - the visionary responsible for bringing us Bob Marley, U2, Traffic, Tom Waits, Cat Stevens, The Cranberries, Tricky, and projects like Manga, Rykodisc, and Sputnik7. At PlugIn last week, Hank Barry (Napster CEO) and Blackwell announced Palm's wholehearted support of peer-to-peer sharing of music. Blackwell has been maintaining the Bob Marley estate since the late 70's, and claims that, after staying level for nearly 20 years, sales of Marley music began climbing 2-3 years ago. Wisely, he said he wasn't sure if there was a direct correlation, though it seemed to him that the mp3 sharing phenomenon (both pre- and post-napster) was hardly hurting sales. Then they went a step further. Blackwell placed the newest single from artist Elwood (personally, not a fan...) on sputnik7. Napster featured the single "Sundown" as the first label-endorsed peer-to-peer share EVER!
i highly recommend you guys check out sputnik7. its the only site i know of that streams feature length anime. and they will be adding more soon, if the responses i've gotten from them mean anything. they also do DVD distribution of all of the things they stream. as far as i know, they have exclusive rights for distribution of ninja scroll, macross plus, ghost in the shell, perfect blue, x, armaggeddon, bounty dog, the list goes on.
check out sputnik7, the only site i've seen that has full-length streaming anime. they were showing the new manga X last week, but only for a few hours. at one point, they had ninja scroll up, and they promise to have it again. ghost in the shell is also going to be there.
the best part? you can buy the dvd! i know the guys who do the manga dvd's, and let me say that they know what 5.1 can really do. they remaster everything. i saw perfect blue in the theater's and the audio was laughable. the dvd, though, rocks!
I saw this in theaters about two years ago, but it was called The Quest at that time and was in test-marketing. I gotta say, I thought it was particularly bad. Give me ghost in the shell in theaters, give me ninja scroll on dvd. I saw it for the right price (free) and walked out wishing i'd seen prince of egypt for $8 instead. I mean, its not a bad movie. I just didn't enjoy it nearly as much as plenty of other anime.
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I went to college in the mid-90s when laptop use was nearly unheard of. I used a Powerbook Duo to take notes in most of my classes. I was often able to type as fast as the speaker was able to talk. I took particularly good notes for an entire semester of European history 1700-1850. At the end of the semester, I handed the professor a floppy disk and a print copy of my notes. He was so delighted by this unexpected "gift", and he was able to critically review his teaching.
I went back and worked at my alma mater as an education technologist after a few years in industry. I supported BlackBoard, deployed Moodle and Wordpress, and encouraged faculty to explore collaborative research and writing wikis. I can only imagine how engaged in the topic a class could become using a tool like iEtherpad.com to modify wikispace.
I remember getting distracted by a neighbors doodles in some classes. Should we ban the spiral-bound notebook?
i've had two mobile phones in my life. the first one got left in a cab a few weeks after i got it. the second i've now had for 4.5 years and it still works (barely). i'm praying for complete 802.11b coverage before it does finally die.
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.onunlo ad", "noAccess");
" , true);, true);
while you are at it, throw in these to stop pop-ups:
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_close"
Reminds me of a (brief) part in Thomas Pynchon's epic WWII novel Gravity's Rainbow where a filmmaker experiments with Emulsion J filmstock. The fictional filmstock, developed for IG Farben by enigmatic scientist-of-all-trades Laszlo Jamf, allows for the skin to appear transparent. Fake science influencing art influencing real science!!! I love it!
Only one label AFAIK has come out publicly in favor of Napster. Palm is a label started two or three years ago by former Island Records head Chris Blackwell - the visionary responsible for bringing us Bob Marley, U2, Traffic, Tom Waits, Cat Stevens, The Cranberries, Tricky, and projects like Manga, Rykodisc, and Sputnik7. At PlugIn last week, Hank Barry (Napster CEO) and Blackwell announced Palm's wholehearted support of peer-to-peer sharing of music. Blackwell has been maintaining the Bob Marley estate since the late 70's, and claims that, after staying level for nearly 20 years, sales of Marley music began climbing 2-3 years ago. Wisely, he said he wasn't sure if there was a direct correlation, though it seemed to him that the mp3 sharing phenomenon (both pre- and post-napster) was hardly hurting sales. Then they went a step further. Blackwell placed the newest single from artist Elwood (personally, not a fan...) on sputnik7. Napster featured the single "Sundown" as the first label-endorsed peer-to-peer share EVER!
i'm sick of this ignorance in the field of anime. some of the best anime is available free streaming at sputnik7.com. peace.
ken
the best part? you can buy the dvd! i know the guys who do the manga dvd's, and let me say that they know what 5.1 can really do. they remaster everything. i saw perfect blue in the theater's and the audio was laughable. the dvd, though, rocks!
ken
USAA is not available to anyone but members of the armed services and their families. but they do rock, on- and off-line.
I saw this in theaters about two years ago, but it was called The Quest at that time and was in test-marketing. I gotta say, I thought it was particularly bad. Give me ghost in the shell in theaters, give me ninja scroll on dvd. I saw it for the right price (free) and walked out wishing i'd seen prince of egypt for $8 instead. I mean, its not a bad movie. I just didn't enjoy it nearly as much as plenty of other anime.