I have to disagree. I've only got experience with Canada's parliament but every MP I've voted for has been the type to not tow the party line. Often these are the types that get elected, at least around here.
I've already emailed my MP to see what his position was and to urge him towards my own. The next time he comes around I'll do so again because his real response is much better then a staffers generic answer.
It makes taking a course easier, I don't believe the course itself is any easier.
Its true, there rarely is a need for an online course with standard university study. Often the format gets in the way of actual study. A static website can accomplish the same goal in a better way, in most cases.
In my opinion, an LMS should be used almost exclusively by online universities and a traditional university should think long and hard about what they actually want it to accomplish.
The course program my company offers through blackboard is a 2 year certificate program in Occupational Health & Safety. We offer this program only online with Blackboard through the University of New Brunswicl. The program consists of 12 courses plus a guided practicum(like a watered down thesis). Students have 2 years to complete this, they can take their courses in whatever order they wish, and they can spend as much or as little time on each course as they want. Some limitations from this model is that you can't realistically have a due date for an assignment, whether that's a bad thing is open for discussion. Also we tend to be flexible with the 2 year completion date as well, its not unheard of to give people extensions if they need it. Now this is obviously not a full time program and comparing this to a traditional university isn't practical.
However we will also be offering, through the University of Fredericton(moodle), a diploma program. In which people can get an MBA with a focus in Occupational Health & Safety. With this program there is semesters and assignments and if the program is popular enough we could run into similar issues with due dates.
Creating a course model is always a balance between practicality and student learning. In the better models student learning gets the edge on that scale, but there are still limitations. If we can find a good way to adjust the way we offer the MBA program to be more like the certificate program we will.
As a supplement tool to a university class, I agree, the benefits of an LMS is quite limited. As a standalone, however, is where they are supposed to shine. My company offers eLearning through a few universities. Our programs are almost totally asynchronous, the program we offer with blackboard is totally so. Meaning that there is no set timelines, or due dates, students start and stop at their leisure.
I've been working with blackboard for the last 2 months, after the university we work with 'upgraded' from webCT. I've found the program slower, occasionally unresponsive, certain settings are difficult to change due to an unintuitive interface, and the migration of grades and content from webCT was a nightmare.
Another university we use has their own platform that is entirely flash based. This has some significant capability restrictions.
A new university we are working with uses Moodle, a program which I've just installed on our own servers. It comes with a decent interface, plenty of instructor tools, and being an open source program it is completely customizable. Personally I don't see how any university can justify the substantial licensing costs of a platform like blackboard when there is other options.
China and India are not in the G8, which is a major reason why climate change shouldn't have such a strong position in the G8. Leave Global warming to the UN or perhaps other international bodies, not an organization that is made up of only 8 nations.
Get some sort of evidence of what they are asking you to do, be it email or whatever. Then simply refuse to do it. Give them the option of either purchasing new licenses or go open source. If they fire you over it(which is unlikely), you now have evidence of wrongful dismissal.
Lets put it another way. Taking a small reference from Gattaca.
Your child is tested for a chance of having disease. The child has a 10% chance of having a heart disease at some point in his/her life. Will you spend 10% of your wealth to treat it then and there?
"The original viewing environment most likely = yahoo or hotmail, in other words a platform-independent webmail application. "
The platform can determine how things are displayed, which is part of the arguement against the 'evidence'. Larry Johnson is maintaining that the images as produced by the plaintiff is likely pieces of an email and not the actual message. Requesting the environment to view the emails is to suggest that the plaintiff produced false evidence.
Precisely. I question whether the guy even read the declaration. Larry Johnson gives the exact reason why he wants the HD as I've highlighted in my post above.
After reading the declaration, it appears that Mr. Johnson does indeed understand that the emails may not be stored on the plaintiffs HD. And it appears he also is aware that the actual email may be located on the mail servers DB:
"An email as original electronic 'document' or file is either a single computer file that can be extracted as an intact electronic file from a recipient's 'mailbox'... or is available to extract from a computer server database that seamlessly has integrated within it the message text, metadata"
"The only way to reliably know what the emails in this case actually look like and what information they in fact contain is to view them in the computer environment which they were generated or received"
So he's not actually requesting the plaintiffs computer but instead the computer that was used to recieve the emails. Perhaps to inspect the cache, who knows. But in the declaration he says he wants the HD to be able to view the email in the environment that the plantiff viewed it. The reason is because the plaintiffs 'evidence' is being called into question and if his declaration is accurate on what the plaintiff is providing as the evidence of the emails then I can hardly blame him.
Seriously if a majority of Americans believe they need to limit their right of privacy to feel more secure than, in a democratic nation, it should be done.
However, when at international events and we all here the star spangled banner we can all giggle at the line "and the land of the free". The majority of Americans can pretend to be free all they want but they will hardly be a model of freedom for any other people to practice.
Publicity Stunt? No question and thats the idea. It gets publicity to the fact that not everyone in the industry agrees with the RIAA. And even though paying for one person isn't a big deal to the RIAA, the reasons behind it is to the rest of the people.
Ummm No, The original statement was correct. Germany believed it needed to stand with Japan and declared war on the US on Dec 11. Hitler thought that Japan would then be able to invade Russia from the East.
However it is likely that eventually the US would have joined the war in Europe after it had dealt a heavy enough blow to Japan.
Topher could play Eddie Brock, he'll definitely be a lot smaller than what we remember him as being but it could work. Venom does add some heavy muscle on Eddie when in the suit and since I'm expecting Venom to be mostly CG anyway I think it will be fine.
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Can't wait to see the video of you watching your video of you watching your video.
I have to disagree. I've only got experience with Canada's parliament but every MP I've voted for has been the type to not tow the party line. Often these are the types that get elected, at least around here. I've already emailed my MP to see what his position was and to urge him towards my own. The next time he comes around I'll do so again because his real response is much better then a staffers generic answer.
It makes taking a course easier, I don't believe the course itself is any easier. Its true, there rarely is a need for an online course with standard university study. Often the format gets in the way of actual study. A static website can accomplish the same goal in a better way, in most cases. In my opinion, an LMS should be used almost exclusively by online universities and a traditional university should think long and hard about what they actually want it to accomplish. The course program my company offers through blackboard is a 2 year certificate program in Occupational Health & Safety. We offer this program only online with Blackboard through the University of New Brunswicl. The program consists of 12 courses plus a guided practicum(like a watered down thesis). Students have 2 years to complete this, they can take their courses in whatever order they wish, and they can spend as much or as little time on each course as they want. Some limitations from this model is that you can't realistically have a due date for an assignment, whether that's a bad thing is open for discussion. Also we tend to be flexible with the 2 year completion date as well, its not unheard of to give people extensions if they need it. Now this is obviously not a full time program and comparing this to a traditional university isn't practical. However we will also be offering, through the University of Fredericton(moodle), a diploma program. In which people can get an MBA with a focus in Occupational Health & Safety. With this program there is semesters and assignments and if the program is popular enough we could run into similar issues with due dates. Creating a course model is always a balance between practicality and student learning. In the better models student learning gets the edge on that scale, but there are still limitations. If we can find a good way to adjust the way we offer the MBA program to be more like the certificate program we will.
As a supplement tool to a university class, I agree, the benefits of an LMS is quite limited. As a standalone, however, is where they are supposed to shine.
My company offers eLearning through a few universities. Our programs are almost totally asynchronous, the program we offer with blackboard is totally so. Meaning that there is no set timelines, or due dates, students start and stop at their leisure.
I've been working with blackboard for the last 2 months, after the university we work with 'upgraded' from webCT. I've found the program slower, occasionally unresponsive, certain settings are difficult to change due to an unintuitive interface, and the migration of grades and content from webCT was a nightmare.
Another university we use has their own platform that is entirely flash based. This has some significant capability restrictions.
A new university we are working with uses Moodle, a program which I've just installed on our own servers. It comes with a decent interface, plenty of instructor tools, and being an open source program it is completely customizable. Personally I don't see how any university can justify the substantial licensing costs of a platform like blackboard when there is other options.
China and India are not in the G8, which is a major reason why climate change shouldn't have such a strong position in the G8. Leave Global warming to the UN or perhaps other international bodies, not an organization that is made up of only 8 nations.
So then you chain it to the screen.
Get some sort of evidence of what they are asking you to do, be it email or whatever. Then simply refuse to do it. Give them the option of either purchasing new licenses or go open source. If they fire you over it(which is unlikely), you now have evidence of wrongful dismissal.
Lets put it another way. Taking a small reference from Gattaca. Your child is tested for a chance of having disease. The child has a 10% chance of having a heart disease at some point in his/her life. Will you spend 10% of your wealth to treat it then and there?
"The original viewing environment most likely = yahoo or hotmail, in other words a platform-independent webmail application. " The platform can determine how things are displayed, which is part of the arguement against the 'evidence'. Larry Johnson is maintaining that the images as produced by the plaintiff is likely pieces of an email and not the actual message. Requesting the environment to view the emails is to suggest that the plaintiff produced false evidence.
Precisely. I question whether the guy even read the declaration. Larry Johnson gives the exact reason why he wants the HD as I've highlighted in my post above.
After reading the declaration, it appears that Mr. Johnson does indeed understand that the emails may not be stored on the plaintiffs HD. And it appears he also is aware that the actual email may be located on the mail servers DB:
... or is available to extract from a computer server database that seamlessly has integrated within it the message text, metadata"
"An email as original electronic 'document' or file is either a single computer file that can be extracted as an intact electronic file from a recipient's 'mailbox'
"The only way to reliably know what the emails in this case actually look like and what information they in fact contain is to view them in the computer environment which they were generated or received"
So he's not actually requesting the plaintiffs computer but instead the computer that was used to recieve the emails. Perhaps to inspect the cache, who knows. But in the declaration he says he wants the HD to be able to view the email in the environment that the plantiff viewed it. The reason is because the plaintiffs 'evidence' is being called into question and if his declaration is accurate on what the plaintiff is providing as the evidence of the emails then I can hardly blame him.
tsk tsk. How soon you forget Super Mario Bros.
This isn't a bad idea either. You could even have the p2p progs on it but only download non-copyrighted material.
What about slaving the drive to another and then wiping the files that way?
Compare yourself to Canada then. what freedoms do you have that Canada doesn't? (With the exception of your right to carry firearms, of course).
Seriously if a majority of Americans believe they need to limit their right of privacy to feel more secure than, in a democratic nation, it should be done. However, when at international events and we all here the star spangled banner we can all giggle at the line "and the land of the free". The majority of Americans can pretend to be free all they want but they will hardly be a model of freedom for any other people to practice.
I agree with you except for that shipping part and also what's with that 'buying' word.
Surrendered? Sounds like they just fired one of the few shots in a losing war.
I think Jeff Goldblum would be a requirement as well.
Publicity Stunt? No question and thats the idea. It gets publicity to the fact that not everyone in the industry agrees with the RIAA. And even though paying for one person isn't a big deal to the RIAA, the reasons behind it is to the rest of the people.
Ummm No, The original statement was correct. Germany believed it needed to stand with Japan and declared war on the US on Dec 11. Hitler thought that Japan would then be able to invade Russia from the East.
However it is likely that eventually the US would have joined the war in Europe after it had dealt a heavy enough blow to Japan.
Topher could play Eddie Brock, he'll definitely be a lot smaller than what we remember him as being but it could work. Venom does add some heavy muscle on Eddie when in the suit and since I'm expecting Venom to be mostly CG anyway I think it will be fine.
Only if Venom could kick his ass onscreen.
well hot coffee wasn't available for a standard PS2. not sure about a modded one though.
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