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Infographic on Obama from the Europe’s point of view

I made a piktochart on how Europe is viewing Obama as his power may come to an end soon. All the information can be found at the following link: http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/06/29/as-obama-years-draw-to-close-president-and-u-s-seen-favorably-in-europe-and-asia/. Since America is considered to be one of the big countries in the world, the change of the government that could happen if the presidents were to change are huge for America and the other countries in the world. By providing what Obama has said that he will do, he has increased the trust in other countries outside of America to ensure that if he can be still voted again, he will help with what he can do and he will be liked by the others. 

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Coding with JavaScript

My experience with using Codeacademy is not new. I have previously used this site before for my previous classes that I took as noted in my badges from the past and it. The languages that I practised previously was HTML. This time, I decided to do Javascript. I mentioned that I had classes that required of using this site before and I have taken coding in high school so it was not much a problem for me, in the beginning stages. Even though it has been awhile I remember what one of my teachers usually said in high school for coding: "Think logically". So when it asks me to do certain codes  I was able to quickly gather the order of what code needs to come by. The only problems that I found are when it comes to coding, in general, is correct spelling and Syntex. Computers are picky objects such that a very small mistake can lead the program to not fully operate correctly and would require either looking over the code multiple times to find the mistake or google the problem that you have.  I had some issues wth that when it came to some of the questions it has asked. Some of them I did exactly what it told me to do but provided my an error still. I skipped it and carried on and went back to it when it was done. Then for some reason when I came back to it, it worked which confused me and I had no idea what happened.  I mean it worked I am just confused why it worked now and it did not previously. To end it this is exactly how it felt for me 

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I created a 1-minute audio track using Audacity and only used the two options available: the "generate" and "filter" menu. No audio was used in the process of making this track. Then again this software alone provided not many options when it came to generating self-sounds from the two options. In the "generate" tab it listed only 8 sounds that can be made and the sound of these are not that great. Out of the 8, only about 6 I say should be used. Then again I do not have a complete understanding of how to use this software and the options that are giving. I believe in the tutorial it mentioned you upload a used soundtrack and edit or modify the music in it to create your own sound. To create a sound with the use of the application alone may prove a challenge for a beginner. But without much variety to choose from sounds may not sound as great as expected or have in mind. The filter option though gives a lot of options on how the sounds would like to be tuned. As I mentioned before about how you upload previous made sounds/ music and is where you able to edit and filters to create your own type of sounds. I have used this application back in Highschool to add voice into a video presentation and was able to modify my voice.  I would recommend other applications to create sounds that have the sound of instruments and have more variety. The sounds that were given sound more robotic.

Overall, I would use this application to modify sounds rather than create one from scratch.

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Learning languages online

The internet, where you can almost find everything that you need and learn almost anything at ease.  Learning a language for free for example is one of the things that the internet can offer. Before learning a language would require a fee and commit to going to class at a certain time on a certain day.  Now with the internet, you can set your own time and learn how much you want to learn each day in the comfort of your own home. With the site "duolingo" it enables you to learn at your own pace, choose your difficulty level of a selected language. The way the website teaches you is that it teaches you the language by providing phases and match it with images (this is coming from the basic level of Spanish that I just learned). After the matching of the images, you have to start typing the words that you just learned from the matching game. It also includes a robotic voice of what the words sounds like. So far you repeat this process until you pass. At the end of the test, it lets you reviewed what you have answered. The esthetics of the websites are pleasing enough for the website to look at and the function of the website is very easy to navigate.

The problem with this website though is that the languages that you get to learn are limited and only selected languages can be chosen. So you are using this site, you may be disappointed. If you have a language you want to learn it may not be on this website. Again it would be really great if the owner of the website were able to put in more languages but that would require a lot of work since they are so many languages out there.  Another problem, in my opinion, is the voice that they use to pronounce the words. It sounds still a bit too robotic and I am not sure if the words are correctly being pronounced.  They could use a Vocaloid nowadays since most voices can remove that robotic, static noise that appears and have a much more natural sounding voice and probably makes it sound more reliable that what it is saying is correct.

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3D printing in medicine

3D printing has been changing over the years and have also been changing the lives of many including wild animals. First off 3D printing has helped print sets of prosthetic legs for a kid. Each set are for every time he grows to a certain point where his current set no longer is able to fit on him. This is pretty good for the family as it allows them to save some extra money since 3D printing is and can be very cheap. Instead of buying the expensive prosthetic legs that may cost ten times more then 3D printing and it would had to be shipped. The family could have bought a printer that allowed them to do 3D printing so it saves money and time if they were in need of making adjustments to the legs. Another situation where 3D printing has helped the lives of people is when a cancer survivor received a new jaw made from 3D printing.

In this story the man was diagnosed with cancer on his tongue. The doctors were able to get rid of the cancer but it costed his lower jaw. But with the help of 3D printing the man was able to have his lower jaw again. The post also reported that this has helped 6 others patients including where one of them had his entire face put back together with 3D printing (Cancer Survivor Receives Jaw Thanks to New 3D Printing Technique, 2016)

Even animals get the same treatment and fairness of 3D Pinting. A penguin received a 3D prosthetic food. This helped the penguin as it enabled him to walk and swim again without having him to do extra movements to help do what the animal needed to do when it was on one leg.  (Bagpipes the penguin stands tall with new 3D printed prosthetic foot) (small rant: what kind of name is bagpipes?)

3D printing has been making its way in to modern medicine that has helped changed and supported  the lives of many. With the coming age it could be possible to afford printers that print limbs for patients that are missing limbs to help them with their everyday needs. For specific prosthetic such as athletes that may requires special materials as the prosthetic needs to be able to resist the intensity that it is going to be received .

Bibliography

https://twitter.com/Berci/status/750132348478451713

Cancer Survivor Receives Jaw Thanks to New 3D Printing Technique

Retrieved on July 4th 2016 from: http://gizmodo.com/cancer-survivor-receives-jaw-thanks-to-new-3d-printing-1783009432?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Bagpipes the penguin stands tall with new 3D printed prosthetic foot

Retrieved on July 4th 2016 from: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160601-bagpipes-the-penguin-stands-tall-with-new-3d-printed-prosthetic-foot.html

https://twitter.com/Britanniacomms/status/749124731526189056

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Feed me the news, kthx

Using Feedly, I was able to see my most recent updates from the 10 websites that I found. The information that I found is what up to date and shows the same information if I were to go on the main website itself and look at the news. The site allows me to organize my websites into my personal collection allowing me to have my gaming news in section and comics in the other and not having to either opening another tab/window to open. It has a simple design where it won’t be a pain to read the information on, quick ease of switching between websites to see what kind of news. This makes RSS work because it allows the use of the service for free without charge, keeping your identity safe (What is RSS?)and has a very design that enables it to make use with the greatest of ease. 

References 

http://www.whatisrss.com/

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light beaaamm away

The Lightbeam add-on kinda resembles the history option that is installed in on the browser. except that, it has a graph that shows what else is being connected to  the website. I only went on a site that like I like to read comics and it showed it had a lot of third party sites all over that place which I have never really noticed (#blessadblockers LOL). In total though I had 160 third party sites that I have connected with only visiting 11 websites within 20mins.  The site that I went on that contained the most amount of third party sites was Batoto. This is add-on pretty interesting to have as it allows how much connections are being made every time you go on a website. Although the graph itself should have the option to be stable and not float around as it for my graph keeps moving around and hiding from the screen. 

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The Digital Storage: Cloud (not the white things in the sky )

The Cloud, it is a service that is starting to appear more in technology and becoming integrated with services and technologies of today. For example, if you were to order a service either online or by phone. Companies can have your information stored on their servers which would be remote and can be only accessed by the company and you. The data that is stored can be about your previous order, such that you would like to order the same thing again, your address to where the product will be delivered. The Cloud stores information in a separate area that can be only be accessed via the internet.

Services that utilize this features are such as Google Drive, and Dropbox (What is cloud computing?, 2016). Dropbox, in my opinion, is an alternative place store files without having the need to use USB or any physical storage device. It helps the ease of transferring files or being able to store files in one secure place. Everything has its positives and negatives such as for the USB. The files can be lost forever if they USB itself were to be broken, lost or having too many USB to store the files. It can make your mind a mess trying to remember which files are in with each USB. Dropbox issues that it can only be accessed via online, if you were in place that had no access to the internet you were not able to retrieve the files. There is also a chance for your account that holds the files, may be hacked and could lose all that data that is stored. Google Drive uses the Word,PowerPoint, Excel and another service to create documents online. Which can be edited on the spot, commented and seen by many people by setting the permissions. It helps with group work that need to work on one document or if a computer were to crash the files will be safe on the Cloud. Again the negatives would be needing the internet to access it and potentially getting hacked. It comes to the user decision and understanding the positives and negatives of the Cloud before they make a choice to use it.

Bibliography

What is Cloud Computing?. Retrieved June 13, 2016, from http://shopap.lenovo.com/in/en/faqs/laptop-faqs/what-is-cloud-computing/

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Terms of Service

Reading Terms and services are generally long and people tend to shy away from reading it. Sometimes having it as short and straight to the point help people understand the service conditions. For example, Google's terms and service vary because they have multiple services that they provide. They do not mention all the conditions that are in their services but they just give a general example of what obstructs the contract.  If they did it would be too long and still is long when they give an example. It would be better if they just said "if any tampering with our product or service occurs... " then insert consequences and not giving a detailed example.

Another really really annoying issues in Google's Terms and Service is their way of issuing very important parts. Having the section written in ALL CAPITALS AND EXPECTING TO PEOPLE READ A PARAGRAPH IN CAPITALS. As much a Google is trying to stress on how important to what they are saying. It is going to be annoying to read and would have people skip reading that part, which would defeat the Terms of Service. They should change the font, underlined or bold the topic which would indicate that underneath this section is very important and should be read without causing stress on the eyes unless they really want people not reading that section. 

Refernces

Googles Terms and Service. (April,12,2014). Retrieved from https://www.google.com/policies/terms/

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Digital Media = Skynet

Digital Media is growing and soon machines will take control of everything. Skynet is coming!

Why do you think I say this? It is because that we are now having our personal information uploaded on the internet. People can go on google and search up a person's name even if that person is a nobody, you may be able to find him/her.

Cause in some way or form, you may be mention at some grand party and if you be in a picture. If someone posts it up and tags your name on it, it is up there forever. If it is an embarrassing picture, you better pray that person who posted it is your friend or else that picture is shaming your forever. There was a movie called "Unfriended" (spoiler alert) where a group of friends is being sent messages from a suppose dead classmate on skype. The dead classmate committed suicide when a video or picture of them being inappropriate was uploaded on the internet ruining their life(Unfriend,2015). (end of spoiler).

Now outside of the fact of the supernatural shenanigans, someone can post something of you that is inappropriate without you knowing and it can ruin your life.("rant"dunno if it will ruin your life that hard to the point where suicide is the option but let us not get any further with that).  Even if the original person that uploaded the photo and were to remove the post, since it was posted on the internet someone else could have saved it. Even the people on Facebook may be able to restore that image that was uploaded. Other then people may know where you can live or where you may work and all that information can be online and someone may have access to it and can do anything with it.  

If robots were to be created and were at the top of the line designed. They may have access to that information and could do something with that.

Be careful on what you do and what you say or else be prepared to see it forever on the internet.

Bibliography 

Unfriended. (April 17th,2015). Retrieved May 22, 2016, from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3713166/