Youtube time!

The BUS UNCLE was once the most popular youtube!! Here you go!

Youtube Pros and Cons

Pros:
- spread very quickly and easy to access
- involve interaction between people who post and the viewer (by posting comment)

Cons:
- once pressed the button, no ways to go back (people may have already saved a copy)
- the teenagers or kids will learn some improper words or sentences (like the foul langauge in bus uncle)
- may intervene one's privacy - in the case of bus uncle: do you think that he want to made the video public???

Here another interesting video...

Do you think that it is real??

Open Source

What philosophy is behind the open source movement? Do you agree? Why or why not?

- individual freedom
- sharing possible

Is there any problem with simply using the products that these two companies create for us?
-- Yes.
--When there are some problems, we can't handle it instantly. If we try to send email to these big co. , it may take weeks to reply.
--If you send a file through a mac book to your friend who is using microsoft, he/she will be so sad as the file can't be opened.
-- Some may complain that microsoft products e.g. Vista contain "bloatware" which means unneccessary software that uses a lot of memories.

Why do some people choose to use open-source software such as Linux?
-- Interesting
-- Democratic: having the rights to re-design the software if you are professional enough
-- Inexpensive: at least cheaper than microsoft and apple

Who owns the right to modify your digital tools? Does it matter at all? Why or why not?
-- tricky one, depends on what digital tools
-- if that is my computer, the right is of course of mine
-- if that is in china, it is not enough to own the computer since the govt. can limit your accessibility on internet
-- if that is the mirosoft or mac stuff, only these co. can help

Steve Paul Jobs

- born Feb 24, 1955, America
- grew up in Silicon Valley

- CEO of Apple

- co-founder of Apple

- co-founder and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios (which produced animated films like Toy Story and Monsters)

- late 1970s, he and Steve Wozniak invented one of the first commercially successful personal computers

"Steve Jobs". Wikipedia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs

Testing

Analog Photography VS Digital Photography

Drawing with light
AP:
- film-based
- reflects "reality"
- mechanical

DP:
- memory card-based
- special effect
- electronic

My third home

Myth of encyclopaedias

From Wiki: Most scholarly of encyclopaedias
- general english-language encyclopaedia published by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc
- readers: educated adults
- writers: a staff of about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert contributors
- published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland
"Encyclopædia Britannica".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica


From Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
- the oldest English-language general encyclopaedia
- has been published since 1768
- first edition: Edinburgh, Scotland
- printers: Andrew Bell and Colin Macfarquhar
"Encyclopædia Britannica".http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9032600

According to the short video, how have computer technologies changed the way that knowledge is stored, created and shared?
-extremely easy and quick for getting info.
- instead of hard copy, soft copy can be saved and bring around

Is the picture that this video paints too bright and optimistic? Does it leave anything out?

What are some pros and cons of the internet and new computer technologies?

Pros
- convenient
- easy to share and get info.
- shorten the distance between human beings somehow (through msn, facebook, emails)

Cons
- time consuming (computer games)
- health problems (clicking and typing for too long)
- isolated society (people without face to face communication)
- too easy to find materials (which make people forget the great use of books)
- standardize the output (make the market bored, with no surprises)

hey,man. Here is Hung.