10/24/11

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all
 A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute


2) The article is about the Waldorf school in Silicon Valley that teach students without the presence of technology. Instead, the administration seeks to engage student in creative activities and interaction between students.
3) Students and their parents, school administrations
4) People and machines, policies and standards
5) Education
6) I think that if the Waldorf schools aren't that different from the environment that my generation grew up with in elementary school. We were no where near as developed and aware of the technological possibilities that students make use of today.
7) I agree with the Waldorf schools and their belief that if needed, students are able to easily learn and take up technological skills. However, I dont necessarily believe that technology isn't a very useful tool to elementary students. To a certain extent, 
8) Some positives that result with the introduction of technology in elementary school is opportunity for alternative teaching styles, students would learn to be more independent when working, and their creativity would be enhanced. Some negatives to it would be the lack of social interaction, there may be a greater kids may be a greater aptness to plagerism.

10/18/11

Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.html?_r=1

1) Amazon has begun publishing books and is working to compete with well known publishing companies to buy the attention of authors

2) Publishers, authors, amazon, book readers

3) Intellectual Property is an issue related to the article becaus both Publishing companies and Amazon believe that they have the ownnership to the various books that they should be publishing.

4) Art, entertainment, and leisure

5) I think its interesting to see how much a company can grow. The article will affect me in the future when I start purchasing cheaper alternative books online for college.

6) I foresee an increased number of conflicts that may result in lawsuits against Amazon. As Amazon continues to spread its influence and role in society, there probably will be a higher rate in the number of issues relating to the company.

Open Source Alterative

Windows Alternatives

1) BSD

2) BSD is another advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded. It is engineered to find new solutions for overall goals, instead of quick hacks to add new functionality. 

3) A large team (200+) of senior developers called the CVS maintains the open source alternative and coordinate development by reviewing and commiting the best changes of the larger development community.

4) As of June 2011, in a span of six months FreeBSD had 484 hits per day; PC-BSD had 346 hits per day; GhostBSD reached 171 hits, OpenBSD had 164 hits per day, and NetBSD achieved 94 hits per day.

1) Linux

2) Linux is a open source computer operating system software which functions similar to Windows but can be used, freely modified, and redistributed by the public.

3) The GNU?

4) There are around 100 million estimated downloads of various versions of the Linux system.