Cool article. I just wrapped up work on my undergrad, music education. I spent the entire fall semester student teaching in my city's public fine arts magnet school (I teach band). These kids all had to audition into the school in specific art areas (band, strings, art, drama, creative writing, dance, ballet, etc) and their minds are all running at about a mile a minute. Even though these kids were all there for the arts, I knew that at least a few of them would end up as programmers for Google, Sun, or whatever in the future. With that in mind, I created a hybrid music/computer programming project with the free, open source program LilyPond (http://lilypond.org). With the teachers' assistance, we had 5th graders composing music by hand onto manuscript, which they then transferred into LilyPond on the computer. They were successful in producing beautiful manuscript in a computer-programming-oriented way. I had a fun, though nerdy semester.
I'm complaining about IT overreach in power. As it stands now, one over-zealous IT guy at the top is preventing the librarians from taking any steps toward rectifying misuse of technology. For example, it would help us out tremendously to switch the computers that are in unsupervised corners of the library to authenticated log-in use only (like WiFi) and allow free public access in areas that can be surveyed by library workers at all times. We want to protect the safety of our real patrons while still welcoming the general public to surf safely on the web for free. The idealistic jerk at the top is preventing us from changing anything.
I am almost finished with my undergrad at a large public university. I worked in several of the branch libraries during my years here, including a full-time stint this summer. The computers in our library allow anyone to use one application: IE7. We have no time limit on computer usage or have any web filtering. The problems that arise from misuse of these computers from non-university community members are astounding. In just one branch library here this year alone, several incidents have been reported of non-university people masturbating to Internet porn. All incidents were reported to staff by young female co-eds, who were visibly traumatized by the experience. These kinds of folks have also brought along other problems for us to deal with: drug use and selling, theft of personal property, theft of library materials (including computer peripherals), etc etc.
With incidents like these in mind, don't let idealism confound your tech policies. Think of the people who are going to interact with the public that are using university technology. It is maddening to have your hands tied by some lofty IT person's idealistic vision of free data access for all when you're trying to deal with serious breaches of public safety.
A lot of stuff in the DoD doesn't really have the need or want to be super scrutinized. Some of the stuff that they do is as boring as public relations and kitchen supplies.
And then the savvy businessman decided to move his profits into an off-shore tax haven. Meanwhile, the local infrastructure that savvy businessman used goes unsupported and the country rots from within. Globalism distorts your simplistic model.
Your post made me shiver.
Narconon? More like New-Path. I wish the dystopian futures our science fictions authors conjured up weren't coming true so devastatingly.
Some posters have expressed confusion as to why this kind of article was even posted on/., but I have my own theory. The editors sometimes like to force memes down the readership's collective throats and this is one of those times, although the meme in question here is a little obscure.
People here in the past have tried to argue that Kentucky in general is stuck a decade or two behind the rest of the country... And pointing out the fact that old-school IBM keyboards are still manufactured here (just a few blocks away from a large and progressive research university, which I currently attend) is trying to stoke that stupid preconception.
How many times do we need to explain to the rest of you that we are wearing shoes and we can read and are using the latest technology at the same time.
AOL, Yahoo! and MSN subscribers will continue to have access to content but will no longer be able to access their e-mail through the third party Web site. Instead, Yahoo! and other third party e-mail will be accessed directly at the MyFairPoint.net portal.
and it's only surviving full books destroyed by those muslims when they burned the library of alexandria, believing it to be competition for the quran.
Basically, the country is insolvent. Not bankrupt: insolvent.
This dictionary defines bankruptcy and insolvency as the same (when liabilities/debts are greater than assets). Do you hold a differing definition? Just curious.
Supposedly. The history of the pitch standards is pretty neat. The pitch has steadily climbed over time. By now in some places A has reached 445 hz (or much worse, depending on what latest, crazy European group is being featured on NPR).
I'm a musician and nerd, so I had to look up Norgard. Those crazy Danish, I found out that his name is fully Nørgard.
Lucky me, I'm sitting working at the library and my search tells me we have recordings of his in the collection. Sweet.
Fractal art is good stuff.
If you played Infantry back in the day, come and play again! Sony made it free again a couple months ago and the population is slowly rebuilding. I haven't stopped playing it since I started in 2001.
As a college student away from home, I wanted to vote for the first time in my life. I called my home county's (duly elected) official clerk's office and requested an absentee voting form. I had to explain that I was in college away from home. Surprise, no form came. And no form came after the following two times I requested one.
I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into watching Idiocracy. I thought it would be another bland, generic comedy full of juvenile humor and low jabs at the government.
Now I tell everyone that they must go and see it. Mike Judge is a genius when it comes to social commentary (see also: Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, King of the Hill). He has really corrected (distorted?) my view of our sinking-ship society.
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Cool article. I just wrapped up work on my undergrad, music education. I spent the entire fall semester student teaching in my city's public fine arts magnet school (I teach band). These kids all had to audition into the school in specific art areas (band, strings, art, drama, creative writing, dance, ballet, etc) and their minds are all running at about a mile a minute. Even though these kids were all there for the arts, I knew that at least a few of them would end up as programmers for Google, Sun, or whatever in the future. With that in mind, I created a hybrid music/computer programming project with the free, open source program LilyPond (http://lilypond.org). With the teachers' assistance, we had 5th graders composing music by hand onto manuscript, which they then transferred into LilyPond on the computer. They were successful in producing beautiful manuscript in a computer-programming-oriented way. I had a fun, though nerdy semester.
I'm complaining about IT overreach in power. As it stands now, one over-zealous IT guy at the top is preventing the librarians from taking any steps toward rectifying misuse of technology. For example, it would help us out tremendously to switch the computers that are in unsupervised corners of the library to authenticated log-in use only (like WiFi) and allow free public access in areas that can be surveyed by library workers at all times. We want to protect the safety of our real patrons while still welcoming the general public to surf safely on the web for free. The idealistic jerk at the top is preventing us from changing anything.
I am almost finished with my undergrad at a large public university. I worked in several of the branch libraries during my years here, including a full-time stint this summer. The computers in our library allow anyone to use one application: IE7. We have no time limit on computer usage or have any web filtering. The problems that arise from misuse of these computers from non-university community members are astounding. In just one branch library here this year alone, several incidents have been reported of non-university people masturbating to Internet porn. All incidents were reported to staff by young female co-eds, who were visibly traumatized by the experience. These kinds of folks have also brought along other problems for us to deal with: drug use and selling, theft of personal property, theft of library materials (including computer peripherals), etc etc.
With incidents like these in mind, don't let idealism confound your tech policies. Think of the people who are going to interact with the public that are using university technology. It is maddening to have your hands tied by some lofty IT person's idealistic vision of free data access for all when you're trying to deal with serious breaches of public safety.
A lot of stuff in the DoD doesn't really have the need or want to be super scrutinized. Some of the stuff that they do is as boring as public relations and kitchen supplies.
That's what they want you to think.
And then the savvy businessman decided to move his profits into an off-shore tax haven. Meanwhile, the local infrastructure that savvy businessman used goes unsupported and the country rots from within. Globalism distorts your simplistic model.
Your post made me shiver. Narconon? More like New-Path. I wish the dystopian futures our science fictions authors conjured up weren't coming true so devastatingly.
Some posters have expressed confusion as to why this kind of article was even posted on /., but I have my own theory. The editors sometimes like to force memes down the readership's collective throats and this is one of those times, although the meme in question here is a little obscure.
People here in the past have tried to argue that Kentucky in general is stuck a decade or two behind the rest of the country... And pointing out the fact that old-school IBM keyboards are still manufactured here (just a few blocks away from a large and progressive research university, which I currently attend) is trying to stoke that stupid preconception.
How many times do we need to explain to the rest of you that we are wearing shoes and we can read and are using the latest technology at the same time.
LEX18 is not a newspaper. The Herald-Leader is, and their news story is here.
these birds cost something in the order of $100 million each
Can we safely blame this accident on bird strikes then?
You can still go to Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, and Hotmail, and read your mail from those pages directly.
Apparently not.
Sixth paragraph of TFA:
AOL, Yahoo! and MSN subscribers will continue to have access to content but will no longer be able to access their e-mail through the third party Web site. Instead, Yahoo! and other third party e-mail will be accessed directly at the MyFairPoint.net portal.
Can anyone who has been to Kentucky and bet on the horse races tell us if they accept credit cards for wagers?
Yes. I live a few hundred yards from the Red Mile track in Lexington. The tellers and machines accept credit cards.
and it's only surviving full books destroyed by those muslims when they burned the library of alexandria, believing it to be competition for the quran.
Mod parent down please.
Basically, the country is insolvent. Not bankrupt: insolvent.
This dictionary defines bankruptcy and insolvency as the same (when liabilities/debts are greater than assets). Do you hold a differing definition? Just curious.
Ass time?
Supposedly. The history of the pitch standards is pretty neat. The pitch has steadily climbed over time. By now in some places A has reached 445 hz (or much worse, depending on what latest, crazy European group is being featured on NPR).
This gave me a good chuckle. Thank you.
it consists of my birthdate in format yyyymmdd followed by a three digit number.
What if there are over 1,000 people with that birth date?
Check out the home page of the WWTelescope.
Is anyone else feeling absolutely creeped out by the "kids react to WWT" video?
Oh Zonk, I'm marking your story as "flamebait". :(
I'm a musician and nerd, so I had to look up Norgard. Those crazy Danish, I found out that his name is fully Nørgard. Lucky me, I'm sitting working at the library and my search tells me we have recordings of his in the collection. Sweet. Fractal art is good stuff.
3) He won 40% of the vote in Clinton's home state. He was polling as low as 15% there just a couple of months ago.
Check your facts. CNN reports Obama claims around 27% of the vote in Arkansas. (source)
If you played Infantry back in the day, come and play again! Sony made it free again a couple months ago and the population is slowly rebuilding. I haven't stopped playing it since I started in 2001.
Absentee voting can be a real sham.
As a college student away from home, I wanted to vote for the first time in my life. I called my home county's (duly elected) official clerk's office and requested an absentee voting form. I had to explain that I was in college away from home. Surprise, no form came. And no form came after the following two times I requested one.
It's enough to completely demoralize me from voting any more.
I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into watching Idiocracy. I thought it would be another bland, generic comedy full of juvenile humor and low jabs at the government.
Now I tell everyone that they must go and see it. Mike Judge is a genius when it comes to social commentary (see also: Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, King of the Hill). He has really corrected (distorted?) my view of our sinking-ship society.