Differences and Simularities between TV's and computers

Differences and similarities between TV’s and computers
By: Dean Geyer

Have you ever thought that computers and TV’s have a lot alike, and have you ever thought about what stuff about them makes them look alike. Actually there are many ways that make them different too. Some of the stuff that makes them different is stuff that you may not have even thought of.

Some of the similarities between them involve stuff like, being able to change the screen brightness on them, or some channels and websites can be inappropriate for children under 18 years of age. There can be other similarities as well. You can carry them both around, which tells you that they are both portable. They can also affect how much fresh air that people get. The person playing the on the computer or watching TV, will have a big lack of fresh air because they get hook up in playing games on the computer or watch a show on TV. The computers and TVs also have some differences between them too. One of those differences could be that TVs have many different channels, as for the computer has many different links or websites. Also a TV requires a remote to access channels or anything else that you want to view. Then there is a computer which requires a mouse to access what link or website you want to view. They both cost lots of money for different accessories that are require so that you can use them. Some of the accessories that the TV requires is a remote, speakers, and well the TV itself, and other accessories that are required for use of the TV. Now the computer costs money for “again” itself alone, and the hard drive, plus the mouse, and other accessories. There’s one more difference that I should tell you about, that is the computer is used for working purposes and homework, and well the TVs not.

So now when you see a TV or computer in the same room, this time it might be more clearer on why the TV and computer are alike, or even why they are different from each other.

What do you think is different or similar between that I haven’t mentioned?

Music Through the Ages

Music Through The Ages
In our world technology is always changing, that doesn’t stop at music. There have been many changes in the way people listen to music. Technology has been a part of music ever since the early 1900’s.
In the 1900’s people started listening to music using a gramophone. Which looks kind of like a record player except it has a crank of the side which you turn to make the music play. Some of the disadvantages to the gramophone is that you could not play voices or people singing and you can only listen to a couple of songs.
Later in the mid 20th centenary a new music device came out. This was called the record player. A record player was a farley big square machine with a special needle that could be moved to allow different ‘records’ to be put in playing different songs.
The record player dominated the music playing industry but as many things the record player grew old and was over taken by tapes or cassettes. These smaller devises were similar to the VHS except they played music. They were little plastic square containers with wound film. These compact squares are played in a “boom box”. Although they are huge compared to a modern day ipod they were the first portable music player of there time.
Soon the “tape” was becoming too bulky even though it was small and was replaced by a thin disk we know as a c.d. A c.d. was played in a c.d. player and is still used today but, is being threatened by a small thin music device called an mp3 these mp3’s are always changing with more memory thin and better looking.
The mp3 is probably going to be around for a while but who knows? There could be a new device being drawn up every day. Technology is always changing.
Do you think the changes in music will effect how much people communicate with each other?

Video Games - Issues and Potential Solutions

Video games are fun. They are a wonderful pastime, and some games are even educational. However, despite the joy video games have brought to us, they may have detrimental effects on their users.
One major problem is that most video game players may lack enough physical activity. Most video games don’t make you physically active, and if one spends all or most of his/her time playing these games, and seldom does anything to keep himself/herself physically active, they may end up having diseases such as heart disease. There are some solutions to this problem, however. One can limit the time he/she plays on video games. Then they can spend their extra time being physically active. Another solution would be to create more games that either encourages one to be physically active or even makes one physically active. Examples of games that make one physically active are Dance Dance Revolution and Wii Sports. If one utilizes the solutions listed, it will be much less for them to develop diseases like heart disease.
Lack of physical activity isn’t the only major issue of video games. There is also the dreadful dilemma of violence and other bad messages being sent to a video game’s user through video games. Some video games may encourage one to be violent or to break the law in other ways. This is not good, because what the world needs is peaceful, law-abiding citizens, not violent outlaws trying to promote anarchy. However, there are wonderful ways to solve this issue. The best way is an exceedingly simple solution: if a video game is so violent or is often very unconstitutional in other ways, it must be banned. If they were banned, nobody could use them anymore. Maybe the Members of Parliament should consider this.
There are some other problems of video games, but the two I mentioned are probably the vilest of all the issues. However, all of these degrading dilemmas wouldn’t be so puzzling anymore if we all commenced contemplating on all the possible ways to get around these problems.

Question: Do you think banning a video game that encourages one to break the law is a good idea?

The First 7 Years of Humans in Outer Space

The beginning of human space exploration was a mix of accidents, discovery, and technology improvement. On April 12, 1961 Cosmonaut Yuri Garagin became the first human to go into outer space. Just a month latter, Alan Shepperd became the first human to orbit the earth, by going on a fifteen minute sud-orbital flight. But on August 6, 1961, this record was bet when Titov was the first to spend an entire day in space. Then, on May 15, 1963 Copper pilots were in space for the longest time ever, spending 36 hours outside the earth’s atmosphere. Shortly after, on June 14, 1963 an endurance record of spending five days in space was set. Just two days later, the first woman made here entry into space but on October 12, 1924 the first space crew ever, all suffered from space sickness.
Naturally, as time progressed so did technology. On March 18, 1965, Econov became the first astronaut to walk in Outer space. Space technology continued to progress rapidly for on March 23, 1965, the first computer was brought into outer space. This computer was used for guidance. A year latter, even more advancements had been made because on March 16, 1965 the first performance of a spaceship docking with another spaceship, while in space, was carried out. By November 11, 1966 space exploration had expanded to outside the shuttle. Adrian preformed simple tasks directly in outer space on this day.
Consequently it wasn’t until almost a year later, on October 11, 1968 that they were able to receive live television images from Space. By the end
of the first seven years of human’s in space, on December 21, 1968, they put the most powerful rocket ever made into use.
Curiosity and improvement in technology has lead to learning about the outer world and as scientists discover more, the space industry will expand. As a result, the first seven years of humans in outer space was an adventure that was built on each time another person escaped the world’s atmosphere.


Question: Do you think human’s interest in outer space will
continue to expand as we learn more about space? If so, what do you think the next steps to space exploration will be?

how tv's have canged over time (!steph_rox! post)

How TV’s have changed over time

There have been many changes in technology but I am going to talk about how TV’S have changed over time. I am not talking about the shows on TV’S I mean the TV it’s self.

The first big thing was not even a television it was a radio but there was still shows on you just herd you could not see anyone acting out a roll. They were all different sizes the speakers went all around the box you could also listen to music. The radio was not that expensive only in the beginning but they changed the price so the more people would bye them.
Then about a decade latter they came out with something even better then radio at that time it was a small box, there were show’s just like the radio but you could see and hear what was going on. the picture was blurry and the colour was black and white just like pictures. At the time that did not matter people thought this was amazing, the problem was they were also very expensive.
Latter on about 40 years after the first television something bigger happed. There was colour, the newest TV’s hade colour they were medium sized and there was no black and white the picture was still blurry but there was colour the people at the time called it the turn of the century. The change in technology was huge that why they called it the tern of the century.

Now the TV’s are very big and the picture colour and sound is great because there is something called HD TV. HD is on of the biggest technology change of this century a lot of people get a wide screen TV to go with it. So you can see the changes in TV technology are very big.

do you think that if the tv's became more advansted kids would sepend more time on them?

The movement of the i-pod

The Movement of the I-pod
By Michelle Stevenson 7-2

Did you ever wonder what was the very first musical transformation was? Well did you know that it all started with the gramophone?
In its time, almost everyone had one. The gramophone is a machine where you have a pick that goes from the edge of the disk (these disks are 4 xs larger than a regular DVD disk)

to the middle, where in-between the middle and the edge the pick moves very slowly playing music that is on the disk. After the gramophone the “old fashioned” radios came out. These radios were mostly in the houses and then they moved into the car. Now, in some houses, the radios are built into things like coffee makers, microwaves, refrigerators, ect!The radio soon became portable, which is where the CD player comesn. The CD player became a lot more popular because the CDs became more portable and in most CD players, they had the radio combined into it, so people could switch it from/ to whenever they would like. The CD player was mostly called the Boom box because people were so used to the name boom box (big portable CD player) that whenever people in that time would say CD player they preferred to call it the boom box. You are probably wondering “then how did the name CD player catch on?” well it took time, but CD player caught on. A while later, a lot more people were attracted to the internet and instead of buying CDs, they started to download their songs to their mp3 players. Most mp3 players ran on batteries and they also had a radio in it. The portable CD player and the mp3 player lasted awhile, until what we have now, the i-pod came out. The I-Pod became very famous and almost everyone had to have one. People preferred the iPod over most of the other musical things because they were rechargeable and very expensive so if you had one, you would be the “popular” kind of people. Nowadays, the i-Pod company apple made some iPod improvements where there are video, games, the internet and so much more. Through the years, music has changed slowly but a lot of technology has been put into it.

Do you think the i-pod is becoming too technologic?