I used to be one too. Anyone on a campus network could access the PDF of the budget, with everyone's name, position, and salary. I rather liked it. I could usually look at a salary and understand where the number was coming from. People in similar positions throughout the university had similar compensation. Basically, since it was very public, there couldn't be a lot of outliers without someone complaining. When your boss tells you there is no money for raises this year, you can verify that it was actually true.
Hire a couple of interns and co-ops to work the help desk, handle printer problems, etc. They are usually cheap and work hard. Give them a programming project to do on the side to make it worth their time and help with their degree, maybe even partnering with someone outside the IT group.
When they graduate, go to the management and try get them hired full-time. Even with a degree, they'll still be relatively cheap and they are already trained.
I don't think that is a good idea. My mother made me take an acting class one year after I had changed schools. I hated it! I'm not a very outgoing person, and making me act for a grade didn't help at all. It probably made things worse.
I did, however, enjoy the part of the class where we made a video. I got to skip most of the acting and work on the editing. This was rather technical (and probably more so today), but you still had to communicate with the actors. This works out well especially if the actors don't like to do the technical stuff.
Actually, the DMCA doesn't apply because you CAN'T remove a watermark, unless you have the original image! If you had the original image, why would you send out the one that has a watermark in it??? You would get caught...that would be stupid.
Watermarking an image is pretty basic signal processing (go talk to your EE friends about it). You add a small amount "noise" to the signal (in this case, an image). This "noisy" image is then sent to people. To prove where a watermarked image came from, you subtract the original image from the watermarked/noisy image and you get the noise that you added. You compare this to your records and see who you you gave that noise pattern to.
The problem with removing the watermark is that you don't know what noise was added, and there isn't a way to find out, unless you have access to the original. Another way of putting it is that A+B=C. If you only know C (the watermarked image), you can't find out what A and B are! (unless you know A (original image) or B (noise you added).
As a Mississippi State student with a laptop, I often use it to take notes in class. This works best when the teacher posts a.pdf of the notes, and I use Acrobat to type notes on theirs. In addition, I have been in class MANY times and a teacher gives out a URL... I can go see that page right then and see what they are talking about rather than waiting until I get home and probably forgetting to go to the site. Another use is to do my labs, as I can never get a computer in the labs. When I do get a lab computer, they are slow and I often can't do what I need to because of the restrictions on it. I have sat in our Student Union many times working on my labs while eating lunch, something that no computer lab on campus would even consider.
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I used to be one too. Anyone on a campus network could access the PDF of the budget, with everyone's name, position, and salary. I rather liked it. I could usually look at a salary and understand where the number was coming from. People in similar positions throughout the university had similar compensation. Basically, since it was very public, there couldn't be a lot of outliers without someone complaining. When your boss tells you there is no money for raises this year, you can verify that it was actually true.
Hire a couple of interns and co-ops to work the help desk, handle printer problems, etc. They are usually cheap and work hard. Give them a programming project to do on the side to make it worth their time and help with their degree, maybe even partnering with someone outside the IT group.
When they graduate, go to the management and try get them hired full-time. Even with a degree, they'll still be relatively cheap and they are already trained.
I don't think that is a good idea. My mother made me take an acting class one year after I had changed schools. I hated it! I'm not a very outgoing person, and making me act for a grade didn't help at all. It probably made things worse.
I did, however, enjoy the part of the class where we made a video. I got to skip most of the acting and work on the editing. This was rather technical (and probably more so today), but you still had to communicate with the actors. This works out well especially if the actors don't like to do the technical stuff.
Wow...I wish I could get Slashdot to do my research for me....that would really reduce my stress levels :-)
Actually, the DMCA doesn't apply because you CAN'T remove a watermark, unless you have the original image! If you had the original image, why would you send out the one that has a watermark in it??? You would get caught...that would be stupid.
Watermarking an image is pretty basic signal processing (go talk to your EE friends about it). You add a small amount "noise" to the signal (in this case, an image). This "noisy" image is then sent to people. To prove where a watermarked image came from, you subtract the original image from the watermarked/noisy image and you get the noise that you added. You compare this to your records and see who you you gave that noise pattern to.
The problem with removing the watermark is that you don't know what noise was added, and there isn't a way to find out, unless you have access to the original. Another way of putting it is that A+B=C. If you only know C (the watermarked image), you can't find out what A and B are! (unless you know A (original image) or B (noise you added).
As a Mississippi State student with a laptop, I often use it to take notes in class. This works best when the teacher posts a .pdf of the notes, and I use Acrobat to type notes on theirs. In addition, I have been in class MANY times and a teacher gives out a URL... I can go see that page right then and see what they are talking about rather than waiting until I get home and probably forgetting to go to the site. Another use is to do my labs, as I can never get a computer in the labs. When I do get a lab computer, they are slow and I often can't do what I need to because of the restrictions on it. I have sat in our Student Union many times working on my labs while eating lunch, something that no computer lab on campus would even consider.