There are many different factors that need to be considered when buying a PC for my course, in order to complete all my assignments and be able to study notes that are available on Blackboard.
These are:
• Type of PC: I find that laptops are better for my course as they can be transported around with you so that no matter where you are you can still do your college work. Also the computers in the library in college are usually occupied when I go to use them so if you have a laptop you can bring that to college and work at the tables reserved for laptop users.
• Printer Compatible: With my assignments I need a computer that can easily be connected to any printer without any hassle so that I can print off any notes or assignments quickly and with no problems.
• Price: Due to the fact that I’m a student I can’t afford to pay a lot of money on a PC even if it is crucial to my course. So I’d find myself looking for a PC within a certain budget that still has all the features I require for my course work.
• Warranty: After paying so much money on a PC I want to be sure that if it breaks I have a warranty so I can then either get it fixed or get a new PC without having to pay anymore money which I wouldn’t be able to afford.
• Security Features: My course means that I have to look up certain topics on many different websites. Some of these websites might contain viruses which are damaging to my computer which may cause it to crash and therefore causing me to lose all the material on my PC including important assignments and notes. Some PCs come with security features such as windows defender or McAfee at no extra cost, which would then benefit me.
• Size of memory: If I’m buying a PC for college work I’m going to need a PC that has a good amount of storage space available as I’m going to be saving a lot of notes and materials for my assignments. There is no point on me buying a PC with a small amount of storage space available as I would later on have to purchase extra memory for my PC which can be expensive depending on the amount of memory I require.
• Programmes: Some PCs come complete with certain programmes such as Microsoft office word, Microsoft PowerPoint etc. These programmes are necessary for my course, as for my assignments I will need to either write an essay on Microsoft Word or create a presentation on Microsoft PowerPoint. These programmes are also very expensive to buy individually and manually put on the PC, so if they were not already available on the PC it would not be worth my time and money in purchasing that PC.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Why do almost all public holidays turn out crap?
These would include Halloween,Paddy's Day and New Years. Mostly I think it's because they are overhyped and overplanned. It's like you know when you plan a night out for a really long time and then it turns out to be a complete let down and everyone has a bad night but then some random nights that have no planning at all turn out to be the best nights that everyone remembers. Maybe it's also due to the fact that most people drink more on nights such as Halloween than normal nights out, just because it's Halloween or Paddys day. Which leads to drunken messes on the streets, vomit on the streets and all over club toilets and drunken fights.
It's practically compulsory to go out on these nights however I doubt you'll find many peolpe who will have a night to remember because it was a good night.
It's practically compulsory to go out on these nights however I doubt you'll find many peolpe who will have a night to remember because it was a good night.
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton is probably one of the best musicians of the Century.She has earned 7 Grammy Awards, 10 Country Music Association Awards, 5 Academy of Country Music Awards, 3 American Music Awards and is one of only five female artists to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award. In 1999, Dolly Parton was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and became a member of the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001. Broadcast Music, Inc. honored Dolly with their Icon Award in 2003, and in 2004, the U.S. Library of Congress presented her with their Living Legend Award for her contribution to the cultural heritage of the United States. This was followed in 2005 with the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor given by the U.S. government for excellence in the arts. In December, 2006 Dolly was honored by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for her lifetime of contributions to the arts. In June 2007 Dolly was named the recipient of the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. The Johnny Mercer Award is exclusively reserved for a songwriter who has already been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in a prior year, and whose body of work is of such high quality and impact, that it upholds the gold standard set by the legendary Johnny Mercer. Also in 1988, Dolly founded a group of dinner attractions called Dixie Stampede. In 2001, she built Dollywood's Splash Country, which is Tennessee's largest water park. Dolly Parton's entertainment businesses attract 4.5 million visitors annually and employ more than 3,000 people.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
A Brief History of the IPod from 2001- 2004
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/instant-expert-a-brief-history-of-ipod/
2001
Apple announces the first iPod at a price of $399 and unlike most digital auto players at the time it uses interchangeable CD-ROMs and focuses on keeping the iPod small, easy to use and powerful with the ability to hold up to 1,000 songs. However it works only on Mac computers which use iTunes for music organization and as a CD-to-iPod conversion. By the end of 2001 Apple managed to sell 125,000 iPods.
2002
March: Apple announces that it’s going to update the iPod by changing the memory storage to 10GB, which holds up to 2,000 songs. They also add the ability to hold business card like information. IPods still can only work on Mac computers.
July: Four announcements are made. First of all iPods become compatible to PC computers, Secondly new 20GB iPods are unveiled, Thirdly 10 & 20GB iPods have now got a touch sensitive scroll wheel and Fourthly iPod prices are lowered.
2003
April: Apple unveils the updated ‘third-generation’ IPod for Mac and PC users. These new iPods are thinner, smaller, feature a dock connector port at the bottom and have entirely touch sensitive touch sensitive controls. They become available in 10GB (2,000 songs), 15GB (3,700 songs) and 30GB (7,500 songs).
Apple iTunes Music store launches a 99cent per song and $9.99 per album pricing system for Mac users.
June: Apple sells the one millionth iPod, more than a year and a half after the release of the device. Apple and Belkin jointly announce new feature including voice recording and digital photo storage peripherals for the iPod. Total sales of the iPod reach 13,000,000.
2004
The iPod mini makes its debut. It’s a 4GB version of the iPod available in 5 colours. June : Announced by Apple on July 19, the fourth-generation iPod is thinner than the third-generation iPod but is larger than the iPod mini, improved battery life , iPod mini-style Click Wheel controls, and small software changes e.g a main menu shuffle playback feature. The fourth-generation iPods lack some features, including a 60GB version and a color screen to display digital photographs.
July: Apple adds three top European independent labels to the iTMS catalog. Apple releases the iPod mini worldwide, sell-outs are reported in several countries.
October: Apple debuts the iPod photo, a new version of the fourth-generation iPod that’s capable of displaying digital photographs and album art on its built-in color screen. Sold in 40GB and 60GB capacities, the iPod photo is identical to the fourth-generation iPod, only slightly thicker. It also includes a “photo Dock” and AV cable for displaying digital photos on a television, as well as an evolved, colorized interface for using the iPod’s music playback features.
2001
Apple announces the first iPod at a price of $399 and unlike most digital auto players at the time it uses interchangeable CD-ROMs and focuses on keeping the iPod small, easy to use and powerful with the ability to hold up to 1,000 songs. However it works only on Mac computers which use iTunes for music organization and as a CD-to-iPod conversion. By the end of 2001 Apple managed to sell 125,000 iPods.
2002
March: Apple announces that it’s going to update the iPod by changing the memory storage to 10GB, which holds up to 2,000 songs. They also add the ability to hold business card like information. IPods still can only work on Mac computers.
July: Four announcements are made. First of all iPods become compatible to PC computers, Secondly new 20GB iPods are unveiled, Thirdly 10 & 20GB iPods have now got a touch sensitive scroll wheel and Fourthly iPod prices are lowered.
2003
April: Apple unveils the updated ‘third-generation’ IPod for Mac and PC users. These new iPods are thinner, smaller, feature a dock connector port at the bottom and have entirely touch sensitive touch sensitive controls. They become available in 10GB (2,000 songs), 15GB (3,700 songs) and 30GB (7,500 songs).
Apple iTunes Music store launches a 99cent per song and $9.99 per album pricing system for Mac users.
June: Apple sells the one millionth iPod, more than a year and a half after the release of the device. Apple and Belkin jointly announce new feature including voice recording and digital photo storage peripherals for the iPod. Total sales of the iPod reach 13,000,000.
2004
The iPod mini makes its debut. It’s a 4GB version of the iPod available in 5 colours. June : Announced by Apple on July 19, the fourth-generation iPod is thinner than the third-generation iPod but is larger than the iPod mini, improved battery life , iPod mini-style Click Wheel controls, and small software changes e.g a main menu shuffle playback feature. The fourth-generation iPods lack some features, including a 60GB version and a color screen to display digital photographs.
July: Apple adds three top European independent labels to the iTMS catalog. Apple releases the iPod mini worldwide, sell-outs are reported in several countries.
October: Apple debuts the iPod photo, a new version of the fourth-generation iPod that’s capable of displaying digital photographs and album art on its built-in color screen. Sold in 40GB and 60GB capacities, the iPod photo is identical to the fourth-generation iPod, only slightly thicker. It also includes a “photo Dock” and AV cable for displaying digital photos on a television, as well as an evolved, colorized interface for using the iPod’s music playback features.
Facebook Privacy Trainwreck
http://www.danah.org/papers/FacebookPrivacyTrainwreck.pdf
In September 2006 Facebook launched a new feature called ‘News Feeds’. This allowed people to see every act their friends did, such as new friends, comments they left on other friends walls, relationship statuses, what groups they joined etc. Before this, this information wasn’t private but News Feeds make the material more visible by displaying it in reverse chronological order. This new feature caused outrage and lead to users forming groups such as ‘Students Against Facebook’.
Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg eventually apologised and invited users to listen to him on the ‘Free Flow of Information on the Internet’ group so he could explain why he found News Feeds to be a good idea. He explained that it was a good way of helping people to keep tabs on their friends and that all this information was public anyway.
Before News Feeds if you were a Facebook stalker you would have noticed which friends were becoming friends with other people and who wrote on who’s page and what they were saying but if a friend became a fan of a certain group you might not have realised as you simply didn’t think to look. Now, however you have no choice but to see everything everyone’s doing as it is displayed when you login. By combining all this information and putting it onto everyone’s News Feed Facebook has made everything difficult to miss, meaning that people now had to think about each change they made. Users have to now consider how other people might interpret their actions, most people can’t even remember who they’ve added as a friend let alone knowing how they will interpret information.
Users in certain Facebook groups didn’t want their participation broadcasted on some of their friend’s pages as they wanted to keep some things private e.g. their sexual orientation.
Now individuals are not able to choose what they want to expose they have to choose what they want to hide.
It’s very common to have hundreds of friends on Facebook, however these people are not necessarily close friends and you hardly want to keep up with the lives of all these people. Facebook however assumes that all ‘Friends’ are friends even though most people only have these ‘Friends’ as a handy address book.
News Feeds do not distinguish between your address book friends and the friends you talk to on a daily basis.
News Feeds may even prove to be bad for people as most people want to keep up with the details of interesting people just because they can. Our biological programming makes us believe that people who share personal details are indicating trust while hardly even knowing these people.
Mark Zuckerberg has said though that his goal is to help people to share information more efficiently and News Feeds helps to achieve this without comprising privacy in the process. This is true, but privacy isn’t simply about what people can see it’s a sense of control over information, who can see this information and how people experience their relationship with others and with information. Privacy is a privilege that must be protected in order for it to exist.
‘Information is not private because no one knows it, it is private because the knowing is limited and controlled’.
When visiting someone’s page you could see information in context, when actions and parts of conversations were posted on News Feeds these were taken out of context and made too visible.
With a few adjustments however Facebook managed to convince their users that the advantages of News Feeds outweighed the privacy disadvantages. Users eventually adjusted to News Feeds and began making actions so that they could be broadcast on their friends News Feeds.
Even today News Feeds are still in place and Facebook continues to grow with no sign of slowing down.
In September 2006 Facebook launched a new feature called ‘News Feeds’. This allowed people to see every act their friends did, such as new friends, comments they left on other friends walls, relationship statuses, what groups they joined etc. Before this, this information wasn’t private but News Feeds make the material more visible by displaying it in reverse chronological order. This new feature caused outrage and lead to users forming groups such as ‘Students Against Facebook’.
Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg eventually apologised and invited users to listen to him on the ‘Free Flow of Information on the Internet’ group so he could explain why he found News Feeds to be a good idea. He explained that it was a good way of helping people to keep tabs on their friends and that all this information was public anyway.
Before News Feeds if you were a Facebook stalker you would have noticed which friends were becoming friends with other people and who wrote on who’s page and what they were saying but if a friend became a fan of a certain group you might not have realised as you simply didn’t think to look. Now, however you have no choice but to see everything everyone’s doing as it is displayed when you login. By combining all this information and putting it onto everyone’s News Feed Facebook has made everything difficult to miss, meaning that people now had to think about each change they made. Users have to now consider how other people might interpret their actions, most people can’t even remember who they’ve added as a friend let alone knowing how they will interpret information.
Users in certain Facebook groups didn’t want their participation broadcasted on some of their friend’s pages as they wanted to keep some things private e.g. their sexual orientation.
Now individuals are not able to choose what they want to expose they have to choose what they want to hide.
It’s very common to have hundreds of friends on Facebook, however these people are not necessarily close friends and you hardly want to keep up with the lives of all these people. Facebook however assumes that all ‘Friends’ are friends even though most people only have these ‘Friends’ as a handy address book.
News Feeds do not distinguish between your address book friends and the friends you talk to on a daily basis.
News Feeds may even prove to be bad for people as most people want to keep up with the details of interesting people just because they can. Our biological programming makes us believe that people who share personal details are indicating trust while hardly even knowing these people.
Mark Zuckerberg has said though that his goal is to help people to share information more efficiently and News Feeds helps to achieve this without comprising privacy in the process. This is true, but privacy isn’t simply about what people can see it’s a sense of control over information, who can see this information and how people experience their relationship with others and with information. Privacy is a privilege that must be protected in order for it to exist.
‘Information is not private because no one knows it, it is private because the knowing is limited and controlled’.
When visiting someone’s page you could see information in context, when actions and parts of conversations were posted on News Feeds these were taken out of context and made too visible.
With a few adjustments however Facebook managed to convince their users that the advantages of News Feeds outweighed the privacy disadvantages. Users eventually adjusted to News Feeds and began making actions so that they could be broadcast on their friends News Feeds.
Even today News Feeds are still in place and Facebook continues to grow with no sign of slowing down.
Nigs to working yes to the dole!
Since I got a Christmas job in Debenhams I've realised that working isn't all it's cracked up to be. There are loads of disadvantages to actually having a job, so I'm going to list them all now:
- Only getting paid once a month means I always forget that I don't get paid once a week anymore and I'm now poor for 3weeks out of 4.
- Having to pretend that a certain item isn't in stock to a customer because I can't remember how to use the stockroom computer.
- Small children who run into displays and rails that u just spent 2 hours fixing and then have to fix again.
- Having to work until 12am Thursday, Friday and Saturday on mega weeks meaning there's no way of going out that weekend AND having to spend my wages on a taxi home at after 12am meter rates.
- Rude women who go mental at you because we don't sell 'jeggings' in a size 30.
- Rude women again who pick up an item off a rail your fixing at the moment then just drop it on the floor when they lose interest (they could at least wait until I'm not there).
- Having to work Christmas Eve and Stephens Day.
- The fact the staff canteen shuts at 6pm so when my breaks any later I have to live off water from the locker room dispenser.
- When everyone looks when you drop loads of hangers on the floor and your manager shoots you filthys.
15 best ways to shoplift (a few things I learned in work)
- Dressing up as a pregnant woman and putting items were the bump should be.
- Putting two items of clothing on 1 hanger then taking them into the changing room.
- 'Crotch- walking' is a technique used by woman wearing long dresses or skirts, they place the item between their thighs and walk away. (Thieves who are good at this have been knowing to steal hams, typewriters and other large objects).
- Going in, in pairs then 1 creates a diversion while the other shoplifts.
- For small items putting an umbrella with a handle on one's elbow and then dropping items into it.
- Simply just picking up something and walking out of the shop with it.
- Using a pram, things can be hid under blankets, toys, the baby.
- Grab and run.
- Hiding stuff in large pockets, coat hoods, up sleeves, in shoes and in handbags.
- Using wire cutters on items with an alarm tag.
- Putting stuff on under original clothes.
- Making friends with someone dodgy who works in a shop
- Walking to the exit with an accomplice and when the alarm goes off, throw the item into the hood of their coat and whilst they get away you get searched.
- Going into a shop with a gang of people and one person buys something, the shopkeeper turns his back and everyone else robs stuff before he turns around.
- Putting aluminium foil inside a bag to stop the security alarms going off.
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