This professor would have a serious ethics problem at most universities. If he was a part-time lecturer, one could understand his unwillingness to provide such content free. However, if he has used university facilities to make or distribute these lectures, he wouldn't (and shouldn't) be allowed to profit in most cases. He would also be in trouble if he used any copywritten materials in his 'sold' lectures (e.g. illustrations from the text). Also, most profs/lecturers aren't quite paid on an hourly basis. Semester or quarter hours - yes, but this doesn't necessarily translate into real hours. Lecturers are essentially paid by the job, no matter what time they put into it.
I'm a full-time professor, and I offer online content for me students. I also have students that miss lectures, tough rocks. I have decided (for now) not to publish recordings of lectures online. However, all my lectures are on PowerPoint. So I do publish TEXT from my powerpoint lectures on my website. However, I only do so a day or two prior to exams. I feel this is a compromise. This way, students have to push themselves to attend my lectures and use their textbooks in order to survive the quizzes they are given between exam days. And if they haven't followed along during that time, by exam time it will be too late for these notes to help them much. And no, I don't (and can't) charge them a cent for this.
My guess is that this guy will have to change his distribution model if he comes under any real scrutiny from admin.
C'mon - this is old, outdated news by internet standards. At least two months old and not worth posting so late.
Yeah, it's pretty cool software - but we knew about it LONG ago.
This wasn't very impressive visually (or otherwise). I suppose if there was some actual sound from the tech trying to liberate the ROV it would be nice - even if it was just cursing. As they say, "I suppose ya had to be there..."
This non-plussed marine biologist rates it a "thumbs down".:-P
Apple has just blown it, that's all. They need to recognize it and address the problem before they piss anyone else off.
I had my nano for 2 hours before the screen got scratched. I had it in my shirt pocket, which was roomy and there was nothing rubbing it. The headphones were in the pocket, but not rubbing on the screen at all. Nothing except the fabric of my shirt. At first I thought it was a scratch - then after looking more closely it looked more like a few smudges across the screen. That evening, I tried cleaning it with a micro-fiber cloth and it did nothing. I tried another microfiber cloth (thinner weave) and it seemed to streak the smudges or scratch the screen - I'm not sure which. The next day, I bought a small camera LCD cover which sticks by pressure or static. It looks much better with this as the smudges are not so visible.
I'm going to take this unit back to Apple in the coming week and demand a replacement. There is no way in hell a $260 player (here in Japan) should get its screen mucked up so easily. Perhaps the polymer they use is too sticky or didn't set during manufacturing. But they can and will have to solve this problem for all of us.
What a bunch of nonsense.
Reducing sunlight would have other effects we cannot aniticipate - both physically and biologically.
There is a very clear way to reduce our impact on global warming - stop or reduce our usage of fossi fuels. And if we don't do this soon, the polar and highest altitude biomes will drip their icewater all over us. It's already happening.
Yeah, I know how hot current versions of the G5 run. That's supposedly the "mother of all" technical challenges that's used as an excuse.
BUT - it's time that problem gets solved. Actually it's past that time. Enough of two-year old excuses.
Perhaps Apple needs to devote some additional R&D resources to this, or at least subsidize it for the PowerPC chip makers (IBM, Moto) - whatever it takes. Perhaps they need to look more seriously at dual G4 chips as an interim solution.
It's ridiculous that Apple's consumer line of desktops out performs their professional line of laptops. What's it been - one year since iMacs went to G5?
Apple needs to pay some serious attention to its computing hardware line, instead of its entertainment hardware. Otherwise many of the original 'rest of us' are going to become the 'those that left us'.
Cmon... Some of us don't give a rat's butt about IP or this other entertainment fluff.
Some of us are more concerned about seeing a G5 in a PowerBook so we can get some work done (and have time for the fun stuff later).
Sure, I picked up this thread b/c I'm curious about Apple diversifying it's media content.
But frankly, I'm increasingly worried you guys are more focused on that stuff, rather than putting more R&D into your laptops. Geez making a handheld that runs something like OSX and plays a bit of media would be a big help.
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This professor would have a serious ethics problem at most universities. If he was a part-time lecturer, one could understand his unwillingness to provide such content free. However, if he has used university facilities to make or distribute these lectures, he wouldn't (and shouldn't) be allowed to profit in most cases. He would also be in trouble if he used any copywritten materials in his 'sold' lectures (e.g. illustrations from the text). Also, most profs/lecturers aren't quite paid on an hourly basis. Semester or quarter hours - yes, but this doesn't necessarily translate into real hours. Lecturers are essentially paid by the job, no matter what time they put into it.
I'm a full-time professor, and I offer online content for me students. I also have students that miss lectures, tough rocks. I have decided (for now) not to publish recordings of lectures online. However, all my lectures are on PowerPoint. So I do publish TEXT from my powerpoint lectures on my website. However, I only do so a day or two prior to exams. I feel this is a compromise. This way, students have to push themselves to attend my lectures and use their textbooks in order to survive the quizzes they are given between exam days. And if they haven't followed along during that time, by exam time it will be too late for these notes to help them much. And no, I don't (and can't) charge them a cent for this.
My guess is that this guy will have to change his distribution model if he comes under any real scrutiny from admin.
C'mon - this is old, outdated news by internet standards. At least two months old and not worth posting so late. Yeah, it's pretty cool software - but we knew about it LONG ago.
This wasn't very impressive visually (or otherwise). I suppose if there was some actual sound from the tech trying to liberate the ROV it would be nice - even if it was just cursing. As they say, "I suppose ya had to be there..." This non-plussed marine biologist rates it a "thumbs down". :-P
Apple has just blown it, that's all. They need to recognize it and address the problem before they piss anyone else off. I had my nano for 2 hours before the screen got scratched. I had it in my shirt pocket, which was roomy and there was nothing rubbing it. The headphones were in the pocket, but not rubbing on the screen at all. Nothing except the fabric of my shirt. At first I thought it was a scratch - then after looking more closely it looked more like a few smudges across the screen. That evening, I tried cleaning it with a micro-fiber cloth and it did nothing. I tried another microfiber cloth (thinner weave) and it seemed to streak the smudges or scratch the screen - I'm not sure which. The next day, I bought a small camera LCD cover which sticks by pressure or static. It looks much better with this as the smudges are not so visible. I'm going to take this unit back to Apple in the coming week and demand a replacement. There is no way in hell a $260 player (here in Japan) should get its screen mucked up so easily. Perhaps the polymer they use is too sticky or didn't set during manufacturing. But they can and will have to solve this problem for all of us.
This is a lame excuse. Steve was just in a hissy fit, decided to break up with IBM, and now IBM has just made a liar out of him, perhaps for spite.
What a bunch of nonsense. Reducing sunlight would have other effects we cannot aniticipate - both physically and biologically. There is a very clear way to reduce our impact on global warming - stop or reduce our usage of fossi fuels. And if we don't do this soon, the polar and highest altitude biomes will drip their icewater all over us. It's already happening.
Yeah, I know how hot current versions of the G5 run. That's supposedly the "mother of all" technical challenges that's used as an excuse. BUT - it's time that problem gets solved. Actually it's past that time. Enough of two-year old excuses. Perhaps Apple needs to devote some additional R&D resources to this, or at least subsidize it for the PowerPC chip makers (IBM, Moto) - whatever it takes. Perhaps they need to look more seriously at dual G4 chips as an interim solution. It's ridiculous that Apple's consumer line of desktops out performs their professional line of laptops. What's it been - one year since iMacs went to G5? Apple needs to pay some serious attention to its computing hardware line, instead of its entertainment hardware. Otherwise many of the original 'rest of us' are going to become the 'those that left us'.
Cmon... Some of us don't give a rat's butt about IP or this other entertainment fluff. Some of us are more concerned about seeing a G5 in a PowerBook so we can get some work done (and have time for the fun stuff later). Sure, I picked up this thread b/c I'm curious about Apple diversifying it's media content. But frankly, I'm increasingly worried you guys are more focused on that stuff, rather than putting more R&D into your laptops. Geez making a handheld that runs something like OSX and plays a bit of media would be a big help.