Netiquette

Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. It affects everyone that uses the internet because you are always in contact with someone else because you aren't the only person on a webpage in any moment in time. Good netiquette includes being nice to others even if you don't think you are in contact with another person, following the rules that you would follow in everyday life, respecting other's property, knowledge, privacy, and reputation. Bad netiquette includes harassment, cyber bullying, "Flaming", giving false information, hacking people's information and computer, and taking other people's bandwidth.

What's Legal?

File sharing can be legal, but most files that are shared are violating copyright laws. MP3 files that are made from CD's and put on the internet without the copyright holder's permission is illegal. You can make a personal copy of a CD for personal use as long as you don't sell it or give it away. The U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits the copying of copyrighted music except if you make a personal copy.

The penalties for breaching the copyright act could result in many years in prison and a large fee.

A&M records vs. Napster

A & M Records created a copyright infringement case against Napster in 2001 for stealing music and distributing it to anyone that wanted it. Napster offered free music downloads through peer to peer file sharing. Napster was guilty and had to pay $26 million to different recording companies and songwriters.

http://www.brighthub.com/office/entrepreneurs/articles/74022.aspx

Ireland Glog

Research Project

I think my presentation was ok, it could have been better because I only used a small amount of information out of the large amount that I had. My favorite part of the research project was the making the brochure because it was easy to get beautiful pictures from Ireland. My least favorite part of the project was the presentation of the PowerPoint because I forgot what i was going to say as i began my PowerPoint. I learned that immigrants from Ireland brought the idea of moonshine and home brewed alcohol to the United States. The tourist attractions were hard to research because I didn’t want to make them too similar, but there are a lot of similarities between the attractions. The only strong point in my presentation was the pictures because so many people visited the attractions that I presented. 

Technology Article

Razer has created a new gaming laptop that will run almost any program, but with the high price you could get a better laptop for less. It is based off of their 2nd generation Razer Blade which had many components that are used in the newer version. One of the major disadvantages other than the price is the fact that it doesn’t have the optical drive (disk reader) like some of the other laptops have built in,  you would have to buy a detached drive and hook it into the laptop. For being $2,500 it is on the high end of the gaming audience. (Low end is the cheap side and high end is the expensive side.) However, this laptop is built for gaming and that's where most of the improvements were made. It has a brand-new quad-core processor (i7-3632QM) developed by Intel, a high-end Nvidia GeForce GXT 660M and 8GB of RAM, the new Blade isn't quite at the top with a small 8GB of RAM it could have 16GB instead, but it suits well for some people.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/tech/gaming-gadgets/razer-gaming-laptop/index.html