Turning Jukeboxes Into Teaching Aids: A Chat With Tracy Futhey

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tracy m lee 's art

tracy m lee 's art 11/02/2003 07:35 AM

tdog-art.com
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We need mix and mtach jukeboxes

We need mix and mtach jukeboxes 04/15/2004 11:35 AM

This is a great insight into the problems of music downloading.......

Glas er bids Jobs for a Real / Apple alliance.

Business is confusing, because negotiating deals to gang up on other competitors is all a matter of position.  When the largest player in the market makes such a negotiation, we frown.  When smaller players in the market join together, we call it good thinking.

It appears Mr Galser has appealed to My Jobs in an email message.  The offer on the table - allow real to use the Fairplay DRM, or else.  The iPod can will only play DRM files if they are wrapped in the Fairplay system (apparently), while it will also handle open MP3 files.  Real wants users of the Rhapsody and RealPlayer services to be able to move their music to iPods - the iPod being the most popular portable player at the moment.  The rumor is, Mr Jobs has said “no.”  The threat - Real will shift to all windows media files.

Is this statement from Mr Glaser really a threat?  Or is Apple in the same situation whether or not they partner with Real?  I have an opinion… but for now, just the facts.

[The Digital Music Weblog]

I love the idea of REAL doing a deal with Microsoft.  But I believe they have lawsuits still pending.

One would have to know Rob Glaser too.  There's no way in hell a REAL-Microsoft deal will happen, just like there's no way in hell Apple is going to relinquish it's exclusively vice locking grip on it's nascent market.

That's all Apple has.  That and a BMW strategy.

But maybe one day the end-users will revolt and say "we want to be able to play files we bought from different doanloding vendors on ANY MP3 player, PC based jukebox or any other kind of music playback device!"

Do you realize how absurd it sounds - if you explained to a music downloading newbie today: "no sorry, you can only play Rhapsody songs on Real jukeboxes, iTunes songs on iTunes jukeboxes and Microsoft songs on Microsoft players?"

The situation now is totall untenable.

If that's the way they think music downloading is going to evolve, well then buy some stock in Kazaa - 'cause they ain't going away.  And Bittorrent/eMule too.

For legal downloading to work we have to be able to mix and match songs with jukeboxes. 

If someone thinks they know how to solve this conundrum - please contact me.

Tracy: a raytracer

Tracy: a raytracer 04/05/2005 11:58 AM
New release

HP to Dick Tracy: Bet your phone can't
do this

HP to Dick Tracy: Bet your phone can't
do this 07/25/2004 08:44 PM
Gadget can switch from cellular networks to Wi-Fi. Also plays and stores MP3s, takes photos.

Catching Up With Dick Tracy

Catching Up With Dick Tracy 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
How watchmaker Fossil teamed up with Microsoft and Palm to create the wearable computer techies have longed for since the dashing cartoon detective flashed his telephone wristwatch. By Josh McHugh from Wired magazine.

Size is all for digital jukeboxes

Size is all for digital jukeboxes 04/23/2004 06:43 AM
The ideal digital music player is one that can hold 1,000 songs, a survey has found.

Boom time for digital jukeboxes

Boom time for digital jukeboxes 07/22/2004 07:51 AM
Music fans will buy more than 10 million portable digital players this year, say analysts.

Mobiles turn into video jukeboxes

Mobiles turn into video jukeboxes 07/30/2004 10:30 AM
A video jukebox service will see full length music videos beamed to mobile phone handsets.

Digital jukeboxes offer internet
database

Digital jukeboxes offer internet
database 01/03/2005 07:57 PM
Big News Network Jan 3 2005 11:12PM GMT

BBC NEWS | Technology | Size is all for
digital jukeboxes

BBC NEWS | Technology | Size is all for
digital jukeboxes 04/24/2004 09:05 AM
This article discusses the most important features .. Size Is All For Digital Jukeboxes .. the latest, greatest research .. that holds about 1,000 songs

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3652487.stm
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Microsoft Chat: Windows XP Smart
Displays Online chat

Microsoft Chat: Windows XP Smart
Displays Online chat 12/04/2003 07:11 PM

Chat Blazer, Cutting a Trail to
Enterprise Chat

Chat Blazer, Cutting a Trail to
Enterprise Chat 04/15/2004 11:36 PM
Internet.com Apr 16 2004 3:07AM GMT

Microsoft Chat: MSN Messenger Chat

Microsoft Chat: MSN Messenger Chat 07/13/2004 05:11 PM

"RYL - Risk Your Life" MMORPG by
Planetwide Games Announces Music on
Demand with WON-G and Paris Hilton,
Carmen Electra, Tracy Bingham and
Giselle D'Cole at CES 2005

"RYL - Risk Your Life" MMORPG by
Planetwide Games Announces Music on
Demand with WON-G and Paris Hilton,
Carmen Electra, Tracy Bingham and
Giselle D'Cole at CES 2005 01/05/2005 03:13 AM
"RYL - Risk Your Life" MMORPG by Planetwide Games Announces Music on Demand with WON-G and Paris Hilton, Carmen Electra, Tracy Bingham and Giselle D'Cole at CES 2005 [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

Microsoft Appoints Tracy Issel to Lead
Its Financial Services Group; Jerry
Reiss Named General Manager of Services

Microsoft Appoints Tracy Issel to Lead
Its Financial Services Group; Jerry
Reiss Named General Manager of Services 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
Microsoft Corp. today announced the appointments of Tracy Issel as general manager of the Financial Services Group (FSG) in the United States and Jerry Reiss as the new general manager of Services within that group. Issel is responsible for driving sales, marketing, services and strategy around Microsoft's financial service solutions. Reiss will work closely with Issel to deliver services that support Microsoft's integrated solutions for the financial services industry.

Unorthodox Teaching Aid

Unorthodox Teaching Aid 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

Blogpoly: From Monopoly to Blogpoly

“It is just a game. It is fun to use the board to lay out the Blogosphere Ecosystem. It helps me to think and learn about blogging culture by transforming the original game into this version. I had to think about which company and enterprise to choose and set up first on the board. The space is limited, so I picked well known names in blogging industry. Besides the private properties, there are two public utilities--the water works and the electric company. Then I thought of ‘Wikipedia’ and ‘Creative Commons’, and then a few more, making ‘criminal’ into ‘spammer’, ‘free parking’ into ‘free hosting’. ‘Chance’ and ‘community chest’ become ‘comment’ and ‘trackback’. Fun -- yes? There is not much difference for me transforming the game than writing a poem, using similes, metaphors and symbols.” [littleoslo, via Boing Boing]

This is a nice, visual representation of bloggy and social sites/services. It could serve as an interesting conversation piece in training classes, especially tech CE events.

Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go

Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go 11/19/2003 01:41 AM

This email to the css-discuss mailing list does a great job of describing the confusion and frustration that still confronts traditional web developers who are only just starting out on the road to mastering CSS. When you've "got it", it's easy to forget how much of a paradigm shift it is away from old school table methods. Here's an extract:

Step Eight.

Just when you think you're settling down into a slow and steady learning curve, this is about when you start getting emails from everyone who uses your site describing all kinds of variations on your layout as it has been interpreted by their varying browsers and platforms. This stage is the most important of all, the one where you realize that CSS support is far, far more random than any HTML workarounds that you've been dealing with for the (insert personal experience here) years you've been making web pages.

(Excerpt from an email from a user of one of my sites: "the new color and stuff on the homepage looks good, except on my computor [sic] some of the pages are cut off at the bottom and have big gaps in them")

Maybe a good analogy to make here is one with Linux: both are great in principle, but if you aren't comfortable with what you are doing you can run in to a whole bunch of problems. I wouldn't recommend anyone who is still on the CSS learning curve to move a big commercial project to pure CSS, just as I wouldn't suggest a Linux newbie start hosting their own internet facing server.

At any rate, it's obvious that we as a community still have a long way to go in creating useful resources for people who want to make the switch to CSS.

A Guide for Teaching Mathematics

A Guide for Teaching Mathematics 11/18/2003 06:59 AM

georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/teachmath.html
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New: Teaching Music with Reason

New: Teaching Music with Reason 05/06/2004 10:07 AM
Propellerhead Software's Teaching Music with Reason combines a specially adapted version of its Reason music application with lesson-based materials for teaching music creation.

Teaching an Old Walkman Some New Steps

Teaching an Old Walkman Some New Steps 04/19/2004 01:29 AM
New York Times Apr 19 2004 5:53AM GMT

Teaching Nanotech to Swim

Teaching Nanotech to Swim 07/24/2004 11:09 PM

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“One of the cultural icons of nanotechnology is the image of the surgical team from the 1966 science fiction movie, Fantastic Voyage, motoring along through the bloodstream of scientist Jan Benes. Everyone knows the image is about as closely related to real-life nanotechnology as Jurassic Park is to genomics-still, it’s hard to shake. The scene, and others like it have inspired a generation of researchers to pursue technologies that may one day deliver cancer-fighting drugs…

'Big improvement' in ICT teaching

'Big improvement' in ICT teaching 05/14/2004 04:50 AM
BBC May 14 2004 9:03AM GMT

Teaching the Test in Texas

Teaching the Test in Texas 12/03/2003 12:14 PM
Teach ing the Test
As a student at Jefferson Davis High here, Rosa Arevelo seemed the "Texas miracle" in motion. After years of classroom drills, she passed the high school exam required for graduation on her first try. A program of college prep courses earned her the designation "Texas scholar." At the University of Houston, though, Ms. Arevelo discovered the distance between what Texas public schools called success and what she needed to know. Trained to write five-paragraph "persuasive essays" for the state exam, she was stumped by her first writing assignment. She failed the college entrance exam in math twice, even with a year of remedial algebra. At 19, she gave up and went to trade school.

This doesn't look good for our new, unfunded, "Leave No Child Behind" education bill. Smells like another bait and switch to me.

Teaching History With Videogames

Teaching History With Videogames 08/08/2004 07:05 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 8 2004 11:07AM GMT

Teaching union gives BNP warning

Teaching union gives BNP warning 04/12/2004 01:03 AM
The largest teaching union is accusing the British National Party of stirring up fear and hatred in schools.

Teaching an old Walkman new steps

Teaching an old Walkman new steps 04/19/2004 09:37 AM
CNET Apr 19 2004 2:15PM GMT

Neural Network Teaching Aid

Neural Network Teaching Aid 05/25/2004 02:44 PM
Initiation

Teaching Kids How to Invest

Teaching Kids How to Invest 06/28/2004 09:44 AM
Your kids have time on their side, so give them a head start in investing.

Teaching Music Traders a Lesson

Teaching Music Traders a Lesson 11/12/2003 01:22 PM
The Berklee College of Music is encouraging anyone to grab and trade clips of the school's music lessons on P2P networks. The school also wants to stimulate debate about the future of the music industry in the digital world. By Katie Dean.

Maria, the Virtual Teaching Assistant?

Maria, the Virtual Teaching Assistant? 02/01/2005 10:05 PM
Maria is an assistant teacher in Statistical Interference at the University of Auckland according to a new press release from the University. It also describes some of the unique attributes of Maria. First of all, it claims she's a virtual, artificial intelligence entity "with a vocabulary of 203,000 words, a repertoire of 106,000 grammatical rules and 118,000 rules of logical interference, Maria is capable of conversation at quite a complex level." Whe she's not teaching, Maria apparently hangs out on the Internet with her other virtual friends phishing for credit card numbers. Feel free to visit them and have a chat. I decided to interview Maria and find out if she's really as smart as the story claims.

Teaching net straddles Pacific islands

Teaching net straddles Pacific islands 07/19/2004 04:27 AM
Lessons via satellite are helping students keep up with their education in the island nations of the South Pacific.

Teaching Robots to Herd Cats

Teaching Robots to Herd Cats 04/21/2004 04:48 AM
Rescue crews would love to have dozens of tiny robots swarm disaster sites to aid in finding survivors. There's just one problem: The robots don't play well with each other. So researchers are programming teamwork into electronics. By Michelle Delio.

Cory teaching Clarion in 2005

Cory teaching Clarion in 2005 07/28/2004 05:48 AM
In 1992, I graduated from the Clarion Writers' Workshop at Michigan State University, the famed six-week "boot-camp for science-fiction writers." It was an amazing experience: my instruction from the likes of Damon Knight, James Patrick Kelly, Lisa Goldstein, Nancy Kress and Kate Wilhelm forever changed me as a writer and a person.

Therefore, it is a stupendous honour to be able to announce that I will be returning to Clarion next year, as part of the 2005 roster of instructors. My co-instructors will be Joan Vinge, Charles Coleman Finlay, Gwyneth Jones, Walter John Williams and Leslie What.

Clarion is in transition this year, as funding cuts at MSU will require a change of venue. Here are some details:

Among the options being considered are moving the workshop to another university or becoming an independent non-profit organization, along the lines of Clarion West. In either event, Clarion is likely to leave its long-time home in East Lansing and is actively soliciting suggestions for new location(s) and offers from organizations or groups willing to host the workshop. “I think it’s past time for Clarion to make a transition to a new venue and a new structure,” said Board Member James Patrick Kelly. The Clarion Board is calling on alumni and friends of the workshop to volunteer to help with the transition. “We need to work on fundraising, communications, and administration,” said Kelly. “We’re encouraging people who believe in Clarion to get involved with everything from putting together our newsletter to helping choose the instructors and lots in between.” To that end, the Clarion Board of Directors, which currently consists of Matheson, Kelly, Kate Wilhelm, Maureen McHugh, Karen Joy Fowler, Tim Powers, and former Clarion director Tess Tavormina will be looking to reconstitute itself and expand its membership.

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Teaching educators about free software

Teaching educators about free software 12/17/2003 10:45 AM
I was shocked when the middle school principal told me he could not accept free software for his journalism program; that all he was allowed to use was fresh-from-the-box commercial software. "It's school district policy," he said. "We can't even bring software from home now. It's because of the licensing. There are big fines for using unlicensed software. We can't risk it." This was an educated man, a fine teacher and administrator, but he knew nothing about the licensing terms under which Linux, OpenOffice, and many other fine programs are distributed. Neither, apparently, did his superiors in the school district administration. We need to teach them.

Women & Macs Part III: Teaching

Women & Macs Part III: Teaching 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
As part of the celebration of International Women's Day, our friends at faq-mac.com have published an interview with Reyyan Ayfer, a teacher of Computer Science at the Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), who talks about teaching, opportunities for women at the university, and the hardware and software used...

Moreh - Jewish Teaching Software

Moreh - Jewish Teaching Software 09/06/2004 01:59 AM
Project team forming

mod_perl 2 summer teaching tour

mod_perl 2 summer teaching tour 04/19/2005 08:48 AM
stas writes "While planning vacation and teaching engagements I've discovered that I'm going to do a trip around the world in about 80 days :) During the trip I'd like to offer free mod_perl tutorials/talks to Perl monger groups in the areas I'll be in....

Teaching union head dies

Teaching union head dies 05/22/2004 02:18 PM
The general secretary of the country's second-largest teaching union, Eamonn O'Kane, dies in London.

Home teaching 'needs more checks'

Home teaching 'needs more checks' 07/29/2004 11:34 AM
Children taught by their parents should be subject to greater scrutiny, a union has heard.
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