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Alittle something else to get things going. I know its not this seasons highlights but its one of the best seasons yet.

Dr. Jonna Eagles presentation about Fighting in America’s Army was very interesting from the videos she presented to the actual hard facts about America’s Army and her very intellectual prospective. How she became interested in body and embodiment and also war and video games was through her studies with film. It was influenced by the ideas of how the relationship between the spectators to the screen, as she stated. But that was dissatisfying because it was more focused on looking relation and nothing to do with the body. She talks about cinema of attraction how it addresses situation very directly and very aggressive, it shows you how it feels to feel something like getting run over by a horse carriage.

When talking about first person shooter games I began to think about the first person shooter games I play, Call of Duty and Battlefield 3, and how she states that “you are the impulse”.  So I begin to think, what does that mean? But it was pretty simply your pretty much that avatar you may not be physically there in the war or feeling the blast from exploding cars or even the pain from being shot or worst dying but it gives that sensory feeling. Dr. Eagle then proceeds about America’s Army game, which is a game developed by the military many for recruiting. Users of a certain age would be able to download this game for free the military website and what I found out that was interesting was the two-thirds of the users that downloaded this game also click on the Go Army link which gave information about the Army and about signing up. This was the most successful recruiting technique since Uncle Sam. This type of game gave virtual applications of military training to the civilian’s disposal giving that experience of combat.

Grad students have little chance of employment? 3:05 Romney: increase pell grants, have secured jobs after graduation. 5 point plan. 3:06 Obama: Build manufacture jobs and make sure education system is good. 3:09 R: 40% unemployment and looking for jobs. Will create 12 million jobs in the next 4 years. Have Detroit car manufacturers go bankrupt so they could come back strong. 3:12 O: Detroit car town to not have them bankrupt resulted in 1 millions jobs saved. 3:13 O: Obama shut down Romney. Doesn't have a 5 point plan he just has a 1 point plan. Gas prices 3:12 O: increase oil, renewable energy and car fuel efficiency production 3:15 R: Take advantage of what resources we have. Drilling, coal and piping. To bring jobs back. 3:18 O: Obama to Romney. Said "coal plants kill and now your Mr. Coal champion" 3:18 R: fight to create more energy in USA. Like bring that pipeline of oil from Canada.

Taxes

3:25 R: Reduce tax rate on all brackets. Important for middle class to have a tax break.

3:28 O: Middle class tax relief. $3,600 saved over the past four year.

3:33 O: Obama to Romney. 2 trillion dollars would be spent on military programs when they weren't asking for it.

3:36 R: Knows how to balance budgets

Equal pay for women

3:38 O: Lily Ledbetter Fair pay act.

3:43 O: When Romney was asked about the Lily Ledbetter Act he had no comments. Also that Romney wanted to eliminate funds for planparent hood. This would be an issue not only for women but also for families.

Difference Between Bush and Romney

3:47 R: 5 point plan difference, Start trading with Latin American more trade agreements, Balance budget, Supporting small business lower taxes, help them grow to hire more workers, and to create more jobs

Jenkins refers to collective intelligence as the “ability of virtual communities to leverage the combines expertise of their members.” He then states that “...these new communites are defined through voluntary, temporary, and tactical affliations, reaffirmed throught common intellectual enterprise and emotional investments. Members may shirt from one group to another as their interests and needs change, and they may belong to more than one community…” Pinterest meets what Jenkins definition of collective intelligence is. Users from around the world converse to one website to share and offer insight to the numerous category they offer. When people sign up they are not limited to one category, it is whatever the user is interested in and they can be interested in multiply categories

So what does Pinterest aim for? It is to make the user interface easier to bring together and piece ideas throughout the World Wide Web. Users are able to search for things in the many categories like travel, fashion, cars, art, photography, sports just to name a few and it allows you to create and manage things of your interest in one website. Users use what is called a pinboard to save, like photos of other people’s creations and also to able to construct your own creation, which are called pins. When I first made an account to do this write up I felt that Pinterest does exactly what it set out to accomplish. When people want to search for a do it yourself idea, say for a birthday gift, instead of using Google and finding random ideas that might not strike your interest. Pinterest offers that place to go to, to find those ideas and it offers stability because you may have not been the first one to come up with that idea. So you eliminate that trial and error process because people before you have perfected it. So how can you use Pinterest? Ever felt like you wanted to be spontaneous and surprise your girlfriend with some home cook food but don’t have any ideas. By clicking on the “food & drink” link you are present with an abundant source of ideas.

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The article said that there was a talk titled "how to Hack your school's network," and that the speaker wasn't encouraging kids to break rules. Wouldn't this give kids the idea to do so? How did school's react to this?

How did these students who went to this camp turn out? Did any of them become hackers?

So in this time in life we are facing many crises’ like pollution and depleting of our oil supply. But in a way we are all taking a step to a greener and less fossil fuel dependency by recycling, buying more fuel efficient cars and trying to make inefficient things more efficient and so on. Incipit of going green or being more efficient there are some companies that are somewhat ignoring that. In an article I read entitled Power, Pollution and the Internet it tells us that larger companies that require using buildings full of servers to operate their company are using a lot of electricity as much to power up a medium size city. These computer servers need electric to operate and having a building full of them overheating can occur so what do you do about that? Have a cooling system. When a computer overheats it will crash and you can loses a lot of data including important ones so a cooling system helps but that also takes up a lot of energy to support the load. Google and Facebook’s data center consumes nearly 400 million watts. Now I know we are at fault because as the users for these sites these companies are only trying to compensate for the amount of people using them. With all the in the world technology and intelligence I’m sure they can come up with a better way of producing these kind of consumption because with the way the amount of data and energy being used we all can suffer from it.

This whole iPhone craze has been around since I guess the first time apple had announced its release of the first generation of the iPhone. By the looks of how technology is progressing the popularity of apple products have much booming. I myself am in this bandwagon for iPhones, I think I've had my hands on every iPhone apple has brought out but I don't necessarily have them all I either lost it or broke it. Now I'm sitting here with the 4s waiting for my contract to end to upgrade to the 5.

Around the world thousand of eager fans, enthusiasts, collects and everyday users are waiting in line just to get there hands on this technological advanced devise. I think many people take it way to far just to be the first. A person in Sydney waited in line three days before the release date to get the first spot in line. Now I haven't done something outrageous like that maybe just stand several hours for Black Friday. Now iPhones sales has been down since the release of the 4s but that's mainly because of the iPhone 5. People waited out sticking with the 4, instead of upgrading to the 4s. And there's noting wrong with that apple should've jus waited themselves too. Instead of coming out with something similar to the 4 but just with the addition of Siri it's petty much the same phone. Anyways apple is projected to ship out over 10million iPhones by the this month and it is also expect help boost the US economy  in the forth quarter. And you can count me in that Ill be getting an new iPhone but I won't be stand in the line. I'll just be waiting for my contract to end.

I recently stumbled upon this article on yahoo news and astronomers had discovered a new galaxy. Throughout our years here on earth we, more like the astronomers all over the world, have been studying and searching the timeline of the universe. Trying to understand when things happen and having a better understand of life from the beginning. With the recent confirmed discovery of the earliest known galaxy it is a step forward to our understanding of our universe and how technology has advanced. I feel like with the technology we have now and our further ongoing research we will one day be able to travel to other galaxies. In the article they talked about how they discovered the galaxy and its something I have never heard of. I just thought that they have a computer scan the universe throught a high-powered telescope but its far more advance than that. With that high-powered telescope researchers use this so-called gravitational lens which magnifies the telescope even more. This is because the mass of the galaxy is much larger, the larger the mass the stronger its gravitational pull and with that it bends light around it affecting how telescopes on Earth. So maybe there are extraterrestrial life out there, there just waiting for us to find them.

Here is the link to the article