http://www.betterlifeadvice.com/ Articles at BetterLifeAdvice en-us http://www.betterlifeadvice.com/computers-technology/media-devices.html http://www.betterlifeadvice.com/computers-technology/media-devices.html Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:07:57 -0700 During the week under review, I took stock of most of the major activities that I carried out with the aid of one form of electronic gadget or another. Among other things, the devices I used were my cell phone, laptop computer, MP3 media player, an external hard drive, and a DVD player. These devices were all within the domestic certain except a few isolated cases that involved outdoor usage which often was not very extensive. As part of the process of understanding the reasons behind the usage of these devices, the frequency of their usage and the trend in overall usage, a few preliminary questions will be posed in order to reach a somewhat verifiable conclusion.
I will open this section with an attempt to categorize each of the devices named above according to an established subcategory. Besides the cell phone and perhaps the laptop computer which are mainly devices that facilitate the transmission of information from a source to another source, the rest essentially are for the purposes of entertainment. They achieve this end in various ways. The MP3 player and the external hard drive are the devices that enable musical information to be stored in them so that they can be used at any given time. The DVD player also serves the same purpose except that it does store musical information.
It will serve the purpose of this essay to pose prying questions about why I would use any of these devices, or what factors could go into my choice of a particular device or how I would generally live without any of the above mentioned media devices?
The advent of technology has increased the abundance of media devices consequently making them also relatively affordable. In a loose sense they can be said to be objects of luxury since their very presence does not significantly have a bearing on my existence. However, that should be a good reason to discontinue or utterly refuse to use. In yet another conservative outlook, it may sound logical to ask if there are no credible alternatives to the partial or complete usage of any of the media gadgets in question. Certainly, there are but the main point to be emphasized is that they may not necessarily serve my purpose as explicitly as I would expect, therefore my decision to settle for the most desirable alternative.
For instance, the cell phone and the laptop computer
]]> http://www.betterlifeadvice.com/computers-technology/computer-and-culture.html http://www.betterlifeadvice.com/computers-technology/computer-and-culture.html Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:45:45 -0700 The growing number of internet users has made information technology become an integral part in our society. My statement also supported by Postman. According to Postman, technological innovations are synonymously associated with human progress (Postman 117). There are many positive that of the information technology has brought to the world. For example, information technology has made the communications between countries become easier. It also enables me as a student to get as many information that I need for my study.
Not only positive influences, information technology have also brought us negative influences in our society especially for children. For example, as I have mentioned in the first paragraph, Information Technology is the largest source of information that can be accessed easily all over the world. This large source of information not only contains positive information but also negative information or materials such as, drugs, pornography and violent. As we know children are tend to copy what they saw.
Another focus of this paper is whether moral values have improved or destroyed with advent and use of information technology. These moral values do only apply to children who use the information technology but including those who do not use information technology.
Some people are fearful that due to the emergence of the information technology and its resources they are at a risk of losing their jobs. This will affect the lives of their children as will not be able to raise money to pay for necessities. Children brought in such environment will become a problem to society as increase poverty is associated with increase in crime.
The problems that arise with the use of computers are discussed in this paper and the study helps to predict the future at same time allows the present to be forgotten in the present democratic world as suggested by Postman (Postman, 132)
The growing popularity of the Internet has given way to is improving live to our children. Technology’s contributions have indeed increased dramatically over these years. We all have heard about the virtual world. This is the masterpiece in the world of technological innovation. It goes beyond ‘seeing and hearing’. Students are made part of what they learn. Multimedia makes this possible. There are softwares designed to ]]> http://www.betterlifeadvice.com/computers-technology/alternative-fuel.html http://www.betterlifeadvice.com/computers-technology/alternative-fuel.html Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:04:04 -0700 There are some alternative sources of energy. Some of them are described below-
• Bio-fuel is one of the best alternatives of fossil fuel. The use of bio-fuel is increased all over the world. Bio-fuel industries are expanding in Europe, Asia and in USA. Human have used biomass fuel for heating and cooking since the discovery of fire.
• Crops such as grain, vegetable oil and sugar are the main component of bio-fuel. Bio-fuel resources are available in every country. It will reduce the emission of green house gas and it is cheaper to produce. Bio-fuel can be used to generate electricity. It is also able to operate vehicles. We can cook by using bio-fuel.
• Solar energy can also be alternative sources of energy. We can easily obtain electricity from sunlight. There are several kinds of device that are available in market can convert sunlight into electricity. We can use a solar power for various purposes such as –
• Space heating and space cooling system can be operated through solar system (Lof, 1980). It can be used for lighting. Many solar energy driven cars are available in market. Solar energy can be used for cooking. The main advantage of solar energy is, it is cheaper and positive to environment.
Fuel demand is increasing with the increase of population. Natural resources like oil gas are limited and it will be exhausted in course of time. So, alternative source of energy can be the best solution for the future demand of fuel. If we are able to explore alternative renewable energy sources it will reduce our dependency on natural gas.
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