Word: downloading
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...Download the Seek & Find page to see items whose price may rise as more corn is turned into ethanol. Then check the key to see how you faired...
...education were a mere transfer of information (and a Harvard education the transfer of this information by very accomplished faculty), then we could easily “bottle” a Harvard education and spread it worldwide. Just turn our lectures into flawlessly executed podcasts and let the masses download them. Nothing will be lost in the experience. In fact, everyone will have a front-row seat and an advantage that no one has in a real lecture: the ability to pause and rewind. Of course, you can’t ask questions, but I didn’t observe...
...That's putting it lightly. It's routine these days to use the Internet to call friends, download music, shop and bank; Web-savvy Estonians even vote and settle their taxes online. So, while Denial of Service attacks typically only target pre-selected websites, if they're the ones we're clicking on most, "we're that much more paralyzed," says Jonathan Zittrain, an Internet governance and regulation expert at the University of Oxford...
...easily understand why the RIAA wants help from universities in facilitating its enforcement actions against students who download copyrighted music without paying for it. It is easier to litigate against change than to change with it. If the RIAA saw a better way to protect its existing business, it would not be threatening our students, forcing our librarians and administrators to be copyright police, and flooding our courts with lawsuits against relatively defenseless families without lawyers or ready means to pay. We can even understand the attraction of using lawsuits to shore up an aging business model rather than engaging...
...First weekend, will cover objects that will be on view only through the summer of 2007. The podcast medium itself has drawbacks as well. Because a visitor to the museum must already have the podcast on his or her iPod, visitors must anticipate their trip to the museum and download accordingly, requiring a degree of planning unusual among many student visitors. Moreover, there is the question of whether the podcast restricts its audience to only those who can afford a digital music player. But Hays says the popularity of iPods among students at Harvard is high enough that no student...