graduation speech

In her speech, Barbara tells the graduates that life after graduation will not be at all easy, and that they could quite possibly end up being very unsuccesful in whatever they may choose to do. She explains how her generation failed and her hopes for the future generation to fix it.

I think it is very pessimistic and disscouraging to the graduating class, telling them that the middle class, which most of them belong to, is crumbling, and also telling them that they will most likely be unsuccessful.

First I would like to congratulate all of the graduates sitting here today for making it this far. I am sure that it has been a very difficult and life-changing four years at this school and I applaud you on this milestone. I would like to express the hope that I have for you to lead the next generation for the better. It is now up to you to fix what my generation as well as the generations before mine could not. In this room I see various unfamiliar faces. What I hope, however, is to eventually see all of you succeed in whatever you may choose to do. Yes, you are entering a world and a country with many internal problems. But that dopes not mean that we should simply give up. You went through these four years of college for a reason, and now you have your perfect opportunity to put your four years of hard work to use. And yes, most likely you won’t be automatically successful at first, but that is how life works out sometimes. You just need to pick yourself back up and continue in your endeavors. I am not saying that it is going to be easy, it will be hard and often very frustrating, but keep going. And be brave. Elbert Hubbard once said. “The biggest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid that you will make one.” In order to be successful and make a difference you must take chances and take risks. If you are afraid to even try you will not get anywhere you want to be. So thank you very much for inviting me here to speak to you today, and I very much hope that you will take some of my words to heart. So congratulations and good luck!

google book search article response

What has changed with the book search?
Now when you search you'll get both digitized book results as well as records for millions of other books that still just exist in the analog world.

Do you think people will still be reading books in 10 years? Why or why not?
Yes because reading online is uncomfortable and reading a book is mor enjoyable.

How long do you currently read online per day (in hours)? How long do you currently read offline per day (in hours)?
online- 2
offline- 1

product placement response

What is product placement?
"Product placement advertisements are promotional ads placed by marketers using real commercial products and services in media, where the presence of a particular brand is the result of an economic exchange." -wikipedia

How much does Martha Stewart charge to mention a product on the air?
About $10,000 for a 30 second spot.

Do you think her use of this is hurting her ratings?
No

What do you think of product placement?
I think that it's a good and efficient way of advertising products.

why linux is better

1. The author claims that you should use Microsoft only if there is propretary software you cant live without, you love playing computer games, you work in the book/printing industry, or your hardware is not yet supported.
2. Three Reasons:
No more viruses: Hackers can only get in if they know your password, which is less than likely.
It's free: You can get it for free whereas Windows costs $300
More stable than windows

saving our digital heritage article

Saving Our Digital Heritage
1. The situation today compares with what happened in Alexandria because we are at risk of losing huge amounts of important data, just like all the data that was lost with the destruction of the Ancient Library of Alexandria. Because the average life span of a Web site is only 44 to 75 days, information is being continually lost. Another reason for this loss is the constant upgrade of storage equipment, with computers no longer reading the old kind were valuable data is stored.
2. I think that the governement should invest in this project because if all the memory was lost all the valuable knowledge and money that was invested in research would be lost as well.

final review #2

1. Who edits Wikipedia?
a group of volunteers

2. What is Web 2.0?
a perceived second-generation of Web based communities and hosted services — such as social networking sites and wikis, that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

3. What is a social network?
A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of relations, such as financial exchange, friends, trade, sexual relations, etc.

4. Which corporation owns Myspace.com?
Fox.

5. How do Digg.com and Reddit.com work?
Digg-Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking and bloggingwith a form of non-hierarchical editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system.
Reddit- reddit is also a social bookmarking website where users can post links to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the reddit home page.

6. Why do people visit Monster.com?
To find jobs.

7. What does FTP stand for?
File Transfer Protocol

8. What does HTTP mean?
HyperText Transfer Protocol

9. What is the file extension for Flash media that is available to see online?
swf

10. What is the file extension for Microsoft Word files?
doc

11. What is the file extension for Microsoft Excel files?
xls

12. What is the difference between Excel and Word?
Exvel is a spreadsheetprogram and word is a word processing program.

13. What is the file extension for Microsoft PowerPoint?
ppt

14. How is Google Documents different from Microsoft Word and Excel?
Google Documents is a word processer and a spread sheet and can also upload the documents to the internet while word and excel cannot.

15. What is Linux?
Linux is a computer operating system family. It is one of the most prominent examples of free software and of open source development; its underlying source code is available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely.

16. How does Linux differ from Microsoft Windows?
Linux is used as an operating system for a wider variety of computer hardware than any other operating system.

17. What is Adwords?
Adwords is Google's advertising product, and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution.

final review questions- day 1

1. When were the following companies founded? (a) Google, (b) Microsoft, (c) Yahoo?
a. 1998
b.1975
c. 1994

2. Who were the founders of each of those companies?
a. Larry Page and Sergey Brin
b. Bill Gates
c. David Filor and Jerry Yang

3. Last year (2006), what did the following companies make in revenue (a) Google, (b) Microsoft, (c) Yahoo?
a. 10.604 billion
b. 4.3 billion
c. 6.43 billion

4. What is .NET?
".net (network) is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used on the Internet's Domain Name System." -wikipedia.com

5. What is the Google Page Rank Algorithm? Basically, how are the placements of searches made?
PageRank is one of the methods Google uses to determine a page’s relevance or importance. a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the world wide web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. -wikipedia.com

6. Which company purchased Flickr.com?
Yahoo

7. Which company very recently purchased Chrysler?
Cerberus Capital Management

8. What is the difference between a private equity company and a public corporation?
Private equity is a broad term that commonly refers to any tupe of equity investment in an asset which the equity is not freely tradeable on a public stock market. A public company usually refers to a company which is permitted to offer its securities for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange.

9. What is money coming in to a company?
(d) Revenue.

10. What is a share of stock?
stock is the capital raised by a corporation through the issuance and distribution of shares.

11. What does Alcoa do?
(c) Mine aluminum

12. What does the abbreviation GE stand for?
General Electric

13. What does the CEO do in a company?
A Chief Excutive OFficer (CEO), is the highest-ranking corporate officer, administrator, corporate administrator, executive, or executive officer, who in charge of total management.

14. What does the CFO do in a company?
The CFO primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of the business or agency. This officer is also responsible for financial planning and record-keeping, as well as financial reporting to higher management.

15. What is the NYSE? NASDAQ?
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is a New York City-based stock exchange. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume and the second largest by number of companies listed.
NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system) is an American electronic stock market.

16. What does the board of directors do in a corporation?
In relation to a company a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of its affairs.

17. What is an IPO?
An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a corporation's common shares to investors on a public stock exchange.

links assignment

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google sketch up, 2 items

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house sketch link

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