Discussion review

1. Typing “window” and press “e” opens “my computer”
2. Typing “window” opens “start”
3. You are stupid if you put anything other than spaces, underscores, letters, or numbers in your file name.
4. Always keep your files organized into folders don’t save them to the H-drive.
5. Gmail is so much better than any other mail thing
6. Gmail has googledoc which is a cool program that helps you do things
7. Saving files to the H-drive messes up the computers and other files
8. Firefox is better than Internet Explorer
9. Internet Explorer is evil!
10. Pirating is alright.
11. Pirating is good. It helps computer revaluation
12. Everyone’s a pirate.
13. Napster is a music downloading mechanism
14. The guy got sued but not by much
15. Guy sold program for millions!
16. Guy most likely broke now due to horrible spending
17. Not illegal to sell parts of a file
18. Can get the entire file in parts from different people
19. This law might change soon
20. Anything on youtube is legal

Email discussion quiz thingy… whatever.

1. You should always have a subject line. This way the recipient knows what the email is about so they can choose not to read it if they know ahead of time that they will not enjoy the material they might potentially read.
2. You shouldn’t leave all of the email addresses in the body of the email when you forward an email because then other people will continue to do this till your email and your friends emails to strangers and spammers and advertisers now have hundreds of good emails to send random crap to, good job!
3. You shouldn’t always reply to everyone who received the same email, because for reason I do not feel like explaining since I am really lazy.
4. You should use the “cc” field to send a copy to someone who doesn’t need to respond to your email. Since I didn’t really read this sentence I’m not sure why I picked should instead of shouldn’t. I think I just guessed but I’m not sure.
5. You shouldn’t reply to all when your email address is in the “bcc” field of an email your receive because the point of putting your email in “bcc” is so no one else can know that you received the email. Replying to all kind of defeats the purpose.
6. You should always include your email address and name in the body of an email in case your friend forwards it to someone else since you don’t have that persons email, so then they have your email and can kind of stalk you or something I don’t know. I don’t do that kind of stupid stuff.
7. You should send an email to everyone in your address book. Some people don’t care. Especially when it doesn’t concern them.
8. You shouldn’t send an email and expect supernatural things to happen because you sent it to many many people. If you honestly believe that then you need some mental help.
9. You shouldn’t send emails with 30 pictures of cute puppies to everyone in your address book, or workplace, because it takes up a lot of memory. Also its really annoying.
10. You should protect other people’s privacy by using the “bcc” field. It’s not as annoying as other things.

Munchy Counter

Wanna be the worst parent ever? Well here’s how you can do just that! Japan came out with yet anouther worthless gadget that you can use to count the amount of bites your child has taken; once they’ve reached 1,000, a little jingle plays in there ear as congratulations. How exciting. Of course it has been proven to cause obesity, but who cares if they can chew till their jaws break!

This does not help anyone! Except to teach kids at an early age to eat a lot. Which is not good. This is a great example of how humans use technology for the stupidest of reasons. It also shows that human knowledge is almost always wasted trying to figure out the stupidest of things. Why do we waste our time…

Theme park? or Soviet Reunion?

You can spend $220 to step back in time to become a real USSR citizen for 2.5 hours! Sound like fun? Wow your crazy! In this package you get your possessions temporarily taken away (with the idea that you don’t get them back after the “ride”). Also, you get herded into a bunk like a animal! FUN! You can also eat real Russian food, and a lot of other cool stuff that aren’t really cool. I’m just bullshitting you right now.

This does not help society in any way but in realizing that the USSR suck really bad. They might try and tell Cash that she is stupid. This is stupid. They might try and stop genocide when witnessed. Or they might still not give a shit like most of the world because the world sucks! The world hates me but I still love the world. Why? I’m not quite sure.

Rockin’ Belt Buckle

This article is talking about how if your the biggest random person ever, then you can get a belt buckle that sings and holds up your pants? Well now you can! Considering that you will most likely be running for your life pretty soon after you walk outside, I geuss it’s a good idea. Apparently it also can be used as a hand held weapon so look out bullies! Your fighting a real live nerd!

This invention will clearly lead to other random objects being turned into MP3 players. Like jewelry, um… and other stupid random stuff like maybe shoes and other accessories so you can probably listen to 500 songs at the same time off of 500 different MP3s because you obviously don’t have enough already.

viruses

Computer viruses are really annoying and cost a lot of money. It then multiplies and stuff and it really sucks and is so annoying you are willing to set your computer on fire and throw shit on it. But many people just throw money at it and pray something good happens without you actually doing anything. People eventually just get a new computer or they just hire some nerd to do it for you. Yeah i don’t know what else to write since i didn’t actually read the article. So yeah.

Change…

The change that will experience once Obama in inaugurated as president will be huge since he’s whole thing was promising change. This is stupid. I’m glad that he’s getting people out of Iraq and he will receive all sort of  crap about it afterwards but he’s not changing his view against it from the start. This is very important in my eyes. Since I didn’t get to learn as much as I wanted to about his views on many different matters. All I know about my new president and I hope that his changes will be for the best.

I plan on paying a lot closer attention to politics now and in the next four years considering that I will be voting in the next election. This is a very scary thought considering that I rarely care enough to watch the news and other adult like actions. So yeah I really hope that Obama won’t screw this up for us too much.

Extra Credit

Wikipedia is a useful tool when you need to the basics of anything. People (mainly teachers) doubt it’s reliability due to the fact that anyone, registered on the site or not, can edit/write anything they want into the article without knowing anything about the topic. Though the creators of Wikipedia try to check for incorrect information on a weekly basis, many people look at each article faster then the problems can be fixed, causing many to receive incorrect information. This can be a problem when writing an essay or doing a project for school because you will get in trouble for writing something that is completely incorrect due to the fact that you got all your information from Wikipedia. Also if the point of the assignment is to learn about a certain subject and you learned all the wrong information, they have to re-teach you everything you learned incorrectly. I am going to let you know that I am very hungry and that I am broke so I can not go somewhere to get something to eat. I’m in the computer room on Thursday afternoon doing this. This reminds me of a story that I wrote last year while waiting for one of my friends to do her homework that she neglected to do the night before. In conclusion, I believe that Wikipedia is unreliable because of the many unreliable people who edit the site.

Wikipedia is believed to be reliable is because of the way they secure the site from writing whatever they want. This means that we only publish the opinions of reliable authors, and not the opinions of Wikipedians who have read and interpreted primary source material for themselves. The following specific examples cover only some of the possible types of reliable sources and source reliability issues, and are not intended to be exhaustive. Proper sourcing always depends on context; common sense and editorial judgment are an indispensable part of the process. Personally I think this is bull. I copied this from the Wikipedia site myself so I know they wont bash their own site on their site! I would much rather be reading these fan fictions that I found on my space that are about the Jonas brothers because the girl who writes them is a really good writer and I want to finish but I can’t because I’m doing this for your class so I won’t fail; like I said before. See my friend she needed a computer so we were in the library and I had a computer in front of me so I decided to write about my surroundings then I had so much fun and was so bored in my student aid/study hall class that I continued writing the story. In conclusion, I believe that Wikipedia is unreliable because of the many unreliable people who edit the site; but I still use the site because it is easy to use and gives you the information you need straight forward with out having to read through a lot of other information to find the information that you need.

Auto-Blog-Green….

Toyota video of the new compact Toyota iQ compared to other small cars like the Smart ForTwo. Later this week it will be available for the people of Japan later this week and will soon be available in Europe.

Photos of the new hybrid BMW X6 are out (spy shots) and I wonder if anyone ever really truely cares about the environment especially since hybrids are better than normal cars but still effect the environment badly.

Some random person is selling a car you can plug in off of eBay. So its probably good for the environment but who knows if anyone will actually buy it.

In 25 years I hope cars will become obsolete. Or, at least, hopefully, every other person in America won’t have a car that they drive to every place they go. But knowing how society is so against change, I doubt that will happen. So instead I believe we will at least have switched out all gas-powered cars to battery-powered cars. Or anything but gas power not even particle gas powered (like hybrids).

Instead I guess we can use that whole plug-in thing. I think that will be the next “fad” like how hybrids are now. If we don’t move away from gas and petroleum power automobiles soon, it might be too late and then we will all die. Also considering that we have only one place to live, destroying it isn’t the smartest idea. Here is my fifth sentence it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic. Just a space filler.

History of Internet

Links:

wiki

ISOC

Computer History Museum

1957 – Russia releases Sputnik and freaks the rest of the world out. But a lot of good came form it. It established US lead in science and technology applicable to the military

1960s – computer researchers pioneered calls for a joined-up global network to address interoperability problems. All of these other companies copied them.

1968 -a Honeywell computer used as base for the switch.

1973 – development began on TCP/IP this would allow computer networks connect with each other.

1976 – experimented with the protocol of TCP/IP. Some guy develops Ethernet, which allowed data to move extremely fast.

1981 – Vinton Cerf proposed a plan for an inter-network connection between CSNET and the ARPANET.

1983 – TCP/IP became the base of the Internet protocol and replaced NCP entirely.

1990 – Merit, IBM and MCI formed a non-profit corporation called ANS which was to conduct research into high speed networking. NSF quickly adopted the new network and by the end of 1991 all of its sites were connected by this new backbone.

1992 – World Wide Web released by CERN.

1993 – Marc Andreessen and NCSA and the University of Illinois creates a graphical user interface to the WWW, called “Mosaic for X”.

1994 – Pizza Hut offers ordering pizza off it’s web page. First cyberbank opens.

1995 – $50 annual fee is introduced on domains, not counting .edu and .gov domains which are still funded by the National Science Foundation.

1996-Now – The Internet Society, the group that controls the INTERNET, is trying to figure out new TCP/IP to be able to have billions of addresses, rather than the limited system we have today. The main problem they are trying to work around is that how both the old and the new addressing systems will be able to work at the same time during a transition period.

1. ASCII White is a super computer. It takes up an entire room, but can solve 12trillion math mathematic calculations per second. It helps scientist model molecule experiments so they have an idea of what might happen during the experiment.
2. Charles Babbage is considered to be the father of the computer. He made a design for the first computer but was too inpatient with its flaws and eventually threw the design away.
3. Herman Hollerith designed a way for counting immigrants coming into the US in the 1900s. It made census a thousand times easier. This machine became the base of the computer.
4. Colossus is a computer like machine whose sole purpose was to break German codes.
5. Mauchley and Eckert created ENIAC which was huge and was considered the first computer. It was going to help stop the Japanese during WWII. It cost $.5 million and they finished 3 months after the Japanese surrendered. Mauchley and Eckert then started there own computer company and started selling computers to compinies.
6. John Von Neuman had a photographic memory and wrote a paper on what the computer needed to have.
7. IBM have been making machines that are getting smaller and smaller. They came up with the PC started personal computer.
8. Kilby and Noyce were engineers. They created one chip called intergrated cercites.
9. Ted Hoff invented the microprocessor. Had designed a calculator on a chip and programed it like a computer.
10. Douglas Engelbart created the mouse and the keyboard.
11. Xerox alto printed on a lazer printer.
12. Steve Worniak and Steve Jobs, in the mid 1970s, created a small computer and called it the Apple 1. In 1977, the created the Apple 2. Altair was the first mini computer kit. Steve Jobs was a collage drop-out but a genius.
13. Bill Gates was the Microsoft President and became the richest man in the world.
14. The cultural events that started the computer ideas were WWI, WWII, and mass immigration.
15. Computer Interface was first used for counting immigration tickets.
16. Today, computer interface is used for personal entertainment.